Students gaily gathered on the campus of the University of Georgia last week, marched up "Ag" Hill shouting "To Hell with Gene," hanged and burned Governor Eugene Talmadge in effigy not once but twice. Women students at Lucy Cobb dormitory had a third private hanging of their own.
Next day, at a mass meeting, students got up a petition demanding that the Talmadge-packed Board of Regents be unpacked. The students rounded up a caravan of 108 cars, rolled out of Athens bound for the Capitol at Atlanta, 70 miles away. At their head was a jalopy flying red and black streamers and...
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