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January 10 - January 23, 2021
James Hicks and his brother Jimmy Maxwell.
Why does one have the mom's maiden name?
what the authorities suspected was a country mile from what they could prove.
Vulcan
Life Insurance Company,
teenage surliness of their adopted daughter, Shirley Ann.
Tell you what, NOT the house to be surly in. 😳
Who could kill a child at all, much less a child of his own?
Burpo
I know I'm 5, but excuse me,?! Burpo?!
Ophelia Maxwell was so overwhelmed after looking in the casket
Was she, tho?
I said what I said.”
The orig?
The Reverend tried raising his handkerchief to wipe the blood from his face but died before the white cotton touched his skin.
Poetic, but odd gesture
staring blankly up toward the ceiling of the funeral home.
What a creepy image
Along the way, he earned the admiration of black lawyers, who saw him as one of Alabama’s more liberal judges and one of the few who addressed both whites and blacks in his courtroom as “mister.”
I'M sorry, WHAT??
“I was outniggered.”
First, gross. Second, THIS is how it happens, blaming an entire race for your shortcomings. Third, WHAT is he evenngoing on about?? HE presumably got the Black vote.
at the expense of African Americans they were assured never would.
HAHA! What NOW?! 😏
Also, how GROSS. They are not mutually exclusive aims.
Lurleen.
Honest to God. 🤦
by the mid-1960s that party was Wallace.
What a miserable time & place for Black people & to a lesser extent, liberal whites.
Yet all that spoiling made Tom sweet, not rotten.
There's still hope for my kid!
when the boy’s father lost his right arm to a cotton gin, Jim refused to help the family, then forced them off the Quarters.
JEEZ.US.
Runt and Mutt
Well all right then.
(He would ultimately win Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas, plus a faithless elector from North Carolina, for a total of forty-six electoral votes,
What was old is new again. These racist bastards never went anywhere.
They threatened his wife. They threatened his daughters.
WTF is WRONG with people??
I do not believe that the hope of popularity should be the criteria by which a public official expresses his convictions.
the Simca, in the middle of the road, upside down. He told them the wind must have blown it over and laughed with them, then tried to do the same thing when he discovered later that their cabin had been vandalized, and then again when their boat sank because someone had punched a hole in the hull.
Wallace and the vitriol he had stirred in so many Alabamians.
Trump? 😠
apathetic Alabama citizenry that casually shrugs off the loss of precisely the kind of man needed to guide the state’s politics out of the dark ages into the light.”
Like Trumpsters, don't even know what's good for them.
Jefferson,
Good or evil? 🤔
yield to no man in the state of Alabama the love I have for the past,” he’d say from the stump, “but we can’t live in it.”
Nice.
I honor the Confederate flag as a symbol of something noble and good.”
Ugh, no. Ick.
“They are going to be scared, but you be nice, and make sure they know you are their friend.”
“the politics of reason, not race; of unity, not division; of concern for all citizens, not callous disregard of some for the sake of others.”
He conceded the election before all the votes were even tallied,
This is what a gentleman does.
those he sentenced to jail did their time in a hollow log along the Tallapoosa River.
I'M sorry, what?!
shape-note concerts,
???
Klan meetings,
In government buildings. How quaint. 🙄😡
didn’t make regular wages; they were paid according to what they produced,
Why are the über wealthy so damn greedy??
dope wagon
company town.
Just line Pullman in Chicago.
He wasn’t above raising rates on those he knew could afford it; for those who couldn’t, he would work cases on contingency,
My husband does this. -Sliding scale
yellow dog
Still a little confused about what this means
they bought a duplex next to the St. James Episcopal Church, remodeled it, hired a cooking staff, and incorporated themselves as “The Lunch Bunch.” The dues were modest, and there were only two rules: every lunch started with a round of “Strike the Jury” to determine who would cover that day’s tab (guests played, but never paid; last man standing got the check, second to last man got the tip); and every lunch ended with a few hands of blackjack.
Sounds like living the dream!
“I hope to hell not.”
Bahahahaha 😂
Tom Radney then pointed out that William had been allowed to remove his brother’s handcuffs, something no one who wasn’t an officer of the law would have been permitted to do.
Big Tom, who thought of jury trials like stage plays, wanted to make sure the scene changed when he thought it should,
he didn’t want the jury spending all night wondering exactly what his client had said in the squad car on the way to the police station.
in a capitulation itself worthy of a psychologist’s explanation, even Tom Young was calling the witness “Dr. Woodhouse.”
strangely, not about the obvious conflict of interest.
“In essence, that’s all you are, is that true?”
Ick, you asshole.
“truly reflects conditions in blacks as well as whites”
Theirs was a society that not so long ago had written theft into legal treaties with Native Americans and bondage into legal deeds on the lives of African Americans; a society that until recently had believed the law elastic enough to bend without breaking, exempting lynching from the category of homicide.
“We are bound by a common anguish.”
