In 1969 , Arnow ordered the Escambia County School District desegregated . In 1972 he presided over the trial of the Gainesville Eight anti-Vietnam War activists who were indicted on charges of conspiracy to disrupt the 1972 Republican National Convention in Miami Beach , Florida . All eight were acquitted . In 1978 he drew up a special district to assure that the county commission would have at least one black member . In 1981 he sealed a settlement in a discrimination case , requiring the United States Air Force to establish a $ 2 million fund and Eglin Air Force Base to hire 100 black workers for its civilian labor force and promote others already on the payroll
1972 Republican National Convention
1972 Republican National Convention
Winston E. Arnow