Word: ark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lowincome" families drive up to food distributing centers in taxis or new cars. Said one: "When I saw one man stuffing that food into the trunk of his brand-new automobile. I figured that something was wrong with the system." W. A. Moore, who oversees distribution in Pulaski County. Ark., says that about half of the people on the county's free-food rolls would be removed if they were investigated, but there are not enough county workers to check on them. Taxpayers-and politicians-have learned that opposition to the program is extremely unpopular. The program has other...
Early in the summer of 1955 the school board in the little (pop. 1,855) cow-and-cotton town of Hoxie, Ark. made a big decision: the community's 25 Negro students were to be integrated with the 1,000 white youngsters in the school system at the start of the next semester. All went well until the White Citizens' Council of Arkansas and White America, Inc. moved into town and with local segregationists began a pressure and terror campaign against parents and school-board members. But the school board held firm; following the procedure laid down...
...pointed out that baseball stadiums and theaters have long violated the Sabbath with impunity. In many cities where Sunday-closing ordinances are enforced, merchants sidestep the law by selling from branches outside city limits. Rather than turn away customers, businessmen in such cities as Newark and Little Rock, Ark. have repeatedly paid fines and continued to cater to Sunday trade...
Fort Chaffee, Ark...
...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...