Civil rights have come so far in Atlanta that no one bats an eye any more when Negroes are served side by side with whites at Krystal restaurants, a chain that sells 100 hamburgers all over town. Yet only 17 months ago, Connecticut College Coed Mardon Walker, 18, was considered such a menace when she joined a sit-in at a Krystal counter that she was arrested for trespass and hauled before Fulton County's terrible-tempered Judge Durward T. Pye.
For Mardon, the white daughter of a U.S. Navy captain, Pye meted out the absolute maximum sentenceĀa $1,000 fine, six months in jail and...
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