Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Braved a possible booing at Little Rock, Ark., instead was warmly applauded for firmly stating that he believed the Supreme Court decision on segregation "to be right; some of you feel strongly to the contrary, but what is more important is that we accept . . . that decision as law-abiding citizens." ¶Proposed increased federal funds for school construction, more and better-paid teachers, and college scholarships-all without more federal "control over the content of the educational process." ¶Charged, without naming him, that the President's brother, Dr. Milton Eisenhower, had "assumed special, if informal, responsibility...
Similarly at the University of North Carolina, the administration was forced to accept three Negro undergraduates for admission last September by court order. Expecting the same reaction from students to this as it felt, the administration tried everything to treat the Negroes as a special case. They even tried segregating them in a special section at the football stadium...
...only through student pressure that the University was forced to accept the realities of the situation. Subsequently, on February 8 of this year an Associated Press reporter could state: "Three negro undergraduates have been absorbed in the 6,500-member student body at the University of North Carolina--with no more violent reaction than raised eyebrows...
...ones by 1970 for every ten presently employed. Finding any teachers--qualified or not--has become a difficult enough task these days. It would hardly seen sensible to start a recruitment campaign for more by discharging a large number of Negro teachers. But it would seem equally foolhardy to accept the unqualified Negro teachers and allow educational standards to sink to the lowest common denominator in integrated schools...
Most Negro teachers view the situation more realistically than Wright. They accept the possibility of job displacement, although this does not stop them from favoring integration of students...