Word: almond
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Little Rock's Central High School. Last week the South turned out of the blind alley and down the rocky road toward gradual acceptance of public-school integration with a competent new driver at the wheel. When Integration Day came to Virginia, white-maned Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr., lawyer enough to admit the legal death of his massive-resistance laws (TIME, Feb. 9), deployed elements of his 653-man state police force to prevent the rowdies from taking over and to give muscle to the general respect for law and order. Result: a state of order that made...
...riots respectable. Negro and white pupils solemnly waited for the doors to open, entered in orderly fashion to register for the new term. By week's end white youngsters were cautiously making friends with the newcomers, and all were at work to make up time lost since Governor Almond closed the school in September...
...with deep emotion, spoke Virginia's Governor J. (for James) Lindsay Almond Jr. last week to a special session of the Virginia General Assembly in Richmond. His duty, as he saw it, was a sad one. Faced with U.S. and Virginia Supreme Court orders (TIME, Feb. 2) to integrate four Negroes into white public schools in Arlington County (pop. 277,400) and 17 in Norfolk (pop. 294,300), Almond had either to propose new forms of resistance, which would surely be judged unconstitutional, or to comply. Almond's decision, imposed by his lawyer's mind...
Fire or Token? The impact of Almond's decision spread fast and spread hard through the South. Virginia, the traditional leader, had originally provided in its massive-resistance laws-in its authorization for the Governor and/or assembly to seize control of the schools from local districts, to close schools, to withhold school funds, etc.-a promising pattern of lawful resistance to the Supreme Court's basic 1954-55 decisions. Now Virginia was setting what amounted to a new pattern of limited or token integration, which had already been pioneered in North Carolina. Desperately, the Virginia General Assembly...
...Lindsay Almond, sitting alone and writing in his lawbook-lined study for almost two days, had made his decision, and he stood by it. Almond quietly lined up Byrd-organization moderates and others, quietly defied the Byrd leadership, warned the extremists that he would have to veto any slapdash measures designed to thwart the courts...