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...Ridge, Tenn., the town council formally approved a resolution to the Atomic Energy Commission. No matter what the Supreme Court does, the council wanted the AEC to abolish segregation in the Oak Ridge public schools anyway...
Last spring, after reading the briefs, the high court asked the attorneys to study and discuss whether the framers and ratifiesr of the 14th Amendment meant to abolish segregation in the schools. The court got three answers. Thurgood Marshall, for the N.A.A.C.P., said that was clearly the intention. John W. Davis, for South Carolina, said that was clearly not the intention. Assistant U.S. Attorney General J. Lee Rankin said that the evidence was inconclusive, but that on other grounds, the U.S. Government favored an end of segregation...
...South, some states have threatened to take drastic steps if the court bans segregation. South Carolina's Governor James Byrnes and his legislature already have on the books a "preparedness law" ready to abolish the public-school system. In Georgia, Governor Herman Talmadge and his legislature are also ready to turn the schools over to private organizations...
Members of the Athenaeum last night defeated a resolution that the United States Supreme Court abolish segregation in the schools. Mark DoWolfe Howe '28, professor of Law, spoke against the resolution, which was supported by Professor Arthur E. Sutherland, also of the Law School...
...deny that there is authority in the United States to abolish segregation," Howe explained. He said that he felt a Court edict would only give rise to political delaying tactics and possible social upheaval in the South, however...