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greyl

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5. How in the world could that article NOT have a photo of
Wed Jan 30, 2019, 02:18 AM
Jan 2019

the snow in Florida that day? Argggh.

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The couple snapped a photograph that shows Joan sitting in the family car, the windshield half covered with snow. On the dashboard is that day's newspaper.

Snow fell on an eventful week in Miami-Dade -- and the United States.

Newly elected President Jimmy Carter's inauguration was scheduled the following day; Miami-Dade commissioners had passed the controversial county ordinance banning discrimination against gays the day before, setting the stage for a bitter battle between singer Anita Bryant and homosexuals.

And on television, a highly anticipated mini-series was about to air. In Miami, Dorothy Jenkins Fields, 64, founder of the Black Archives and then a school librarian, said the snow is a blur to her. That's because the mini-series Roots, based on Alex Haley's book, was about to premiere.

Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/article1931272.html#storylink=cpy


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