Word: ark
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such racial tinderboxes as Birmingham, Baton Rouge and Pine Bluff, Ark.-and in all these, violence is possible. Still, much of the Negro's attention has shifted to protest against de facto segregation in the North, where segregation created by neighborhood housing patterns presents a far more complex problem. Negro leaders in New York, Boston, Oakland, Calif., Detroit, St. Louis and Chicago (see EDUCATION) threaten a mass "stay-out" by Negro students this fall from schools that are mostly Negro if only by reason of residence. In New Rochelle, N.Y., and several other cities, some Negro children during...
...most of the 77,000 citizens of New Rochelle, N.Y., viewed school segregation as a disease confined to the distant likes of Little Rock, Ark. The town's ethnic mix-14% Negro, 30% Jewish, 45% Irish and Italian Catholic -was so faithfully reflected in the high school that the Voice of America once touted it as a shining example of integrated education. Only a year later, New Rochelle became the "Little Rock of the North," convicted in a federal court of gerrymandering to promote segregation. Case in point: Lincoln Elementary School, 94% Negro...
...that was meant Beckwith's segregationist obsessions. He attended Greenwood's Episcopal Church of the Nativity. But, says a member, "He tried to inject racism into everything. If you talked about Noah and the Ark, he'd want to know if there were any Negroes in the Ark." In pursuit of his obsessions, Beckwith passed out racist pamphlets that he wrote himself, launched such an aggressive recruiting drive for the local white Citizens Council that its officers finally asked him to desist. He also stood in the doorway of Greenwood's bus terminal to block Negroes...
LITTLE ROCK, ARK. The city school board voted to extend desegregation to the first and fourth grades this fall, and assigned nine Negroes to formerly all-white schools. The action completes Little Rock's court-approved desegregation plan a year earlier than had been required, or expected...
...into overcrowded detention centers. When they raided meeting halls, they sometimes did not bother to find out who was meeting; in one instance, they jailed 39 people who were meeting to form a bakery cooperative. Since the Sedition Act of 1918 allowed alien "anarchists" to be deported, a "Soviet Ark" sailed for Russia in December 1919 with 249 Russian aliens aboard, only a handful of them dangerous criminals. Most of the nation's press ecstatically hailed its departure and called for many more deportations by Palmer...