Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like nine other states since the Supreme Court's 1954 school-desegregation decision, Alabama enacted a pupil-placement law which by common agreement was designed to thwart integration. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Alabama's law-on its face-and provoked hopeful Southern punditry about having finally found a legal way around integration. The punditry was premature...
...Alabama law sets up 17 separate standards for assigning pupils to public schools. Nowhere is the question of race or color mentioned, but school boards obviously had a wide-open chance to preserve the segregation status quo in several placement qualifications, including: 1) "the psychological qualification of the pupil for the type of teaching and associates involved," 2) "the possibility of threat of friction or disorder," 3) "the possibility of breaches of the peace or ill will or economic retaliation within the community," and 4) "the maintenance or severance of established social and psychological relationships with other pupils and with...
Letting out the first growl of its life, the year-old federal Civil Rights Commission announced last week that it will use its subpoena powers to gather in witnesses and records for public hearings on denial of voting rights to Alabama Negroes. Place and time of hearings: Montgomery, Ala., starting in early December. In a strained attempt to prove its fair-mindedness, the commission added that it was pursuing an investigation north of the Mason-Dixon line, too. Some Puerto Ricans, the commission explained, have charged that New York City's literacy test denies voting rights to citizens...
...licking that dimmed its Cotton Bowl hopes. Southern Methodist, another Cotton Bowl candidate, lost to anemic (2-6) Arkansas 13-6. Pittsburgh fell out of the postseason picture by losing 14-6 to a Nebraska team that had dropped five straight. Georgia Tech's prospects were punctured by Alabama 17-8. Overrated Mississippi blew an 18-16 decision to punchless Tennessee. Holy Cross, rated tops in New England, took a fearsome 32-0 shellacking from Penn State, and Rutgers (with Bill Austin injured) had its hopes for its first unbeaten season in history smashed by the Quantico Marines...
...investigators left quietly. But in Washington, the CRC met and unanimously voted to hold hearings in Montgomery next month on voting discrimination in various Alabama counties, not just Macon. Since CRC's six members include a Virginian, a Texan and a Floridian, the unanimity was striking. Between the lines of its announcement, CRC hinted that it might, if necessary, use its statutory subpoena power to make balky registrars open up their files...