Word: ark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Sept. 29--What direction the Arkansas integration crisis would take after five days of Army-enforced calm was the subject of speculation here today. Little Rock was quiet, and tired newsmen took advantage of the morning to sleep, while others attended local churches in hope of finding interesting reactions from the pulpits...
...governor was absent from Little Rock today, having attended a football game yesterday in Fayetteville, Ark. There was no indication when he might return, but there is hope that he will issue a direct statement on the possibility of a special session when he returns...
This attitude was reflected in Representative Brooks Hays' (D-Ark.) appeal to President Eisenhower yesterday to replace the 101st with federalized National Guardsmen. Hays said that while the people of Arkansas would "prefer the old pattern" of segregation, they would obey the law and that the paratroopers were an unnecessary irritation...
Where were "the best people" of Little Rock, Ark? We know the mayor was in his office. Why wasn't he out there in the street giving safe-conduct to women and children? Where were all the heaven-hollering preachers? Where were the priests of the "one true Church?" Where were the officers of the Y.M.C.A.? Where were the Boy Scout leaders? As a Southerner, I can understand the social issues. I am tolerant of a normal degree of cowardice. But the cowardice of "the best people" of Little Rock was an unnatural cowardice that ought to be explained...
...take any other judge in the state if I were in court and guilty.") Then on Aug. 22, 1957, the Fargo Forum carried a brief notice tucked away on an inside page: "U.S. District Judge Ronald N. Davies of Fargo will leave Saturday for Little Rock, Ark. to preside at a term of the Eastern District of the U.S. Court of Arkansas. He will replace the presiding judge...