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Massive Resistance. In Richmond, Governor Almond, 60, able lawyer, onetime Commonwealth attorney general, big wheel in the machine of U.S. Senator Harry Byrd, was the man who struck the South's first blow. He sent state troopers out of the capital to Norfolk, Charlottesville, Arlington, Prince Edward County, with a tough message warning the school boards not to assign Negroes to white schools under current pressure from federal courts. Was his message a warning, above all, to the Norfolk school board not to carry out its announced intention of assigning 17 Negroes to white schools? Said Almond: "Precisely that...
...ARLINGTON, VA. (pop. 178,500), historic site of Robert E. Lee's mansion, National Cemetery with graves of Civil War generals, and of 3,802 Negro refugees from Confederacy, Tomb of Unknown Soldier World Wars I and II; a pleasant bedroom suburb of Washington, D.C.; many Federal Government workers from North, many new white refugees from Washington's integrated school system, now 73% Negro...
Federal Judge Albert V. Bryan last year ordered five Negroes into all-white schools, later stayed his order pending appeals, last week heard out lawyers of the N.A.A.C.P. and the Arlington County school board. The school board's defense: the board had turned down all 30 Negro students now seeking admission to white schools not on grounds of race-presumably because that hardly sits with the Supreme Court's 1954-55 decisions-but on one or more of five wholly nonracial criteria that varied from the barely reasonable to the ridiculous...
That left five Negroes to go, and these, said the school board, failed to meet the last criterion-"adaptability to new situations." Straightfaced, Arlington School Board Superintendent Ray E. Reid testified that the five Negroes sure had "outstanding qualities" to get through the first four criteria, but that was just why they ought not to be admitted to white schools. Reid's reasoning: in white schools these young Negro leaders "would get feelings of inferiority" and would not be such good leaders. At last, under questioning, Reid admitted that the five criteria had not been applied to Arlington...
Situation at week's end: 1) Judge Bryan deferred his ruling, let Arlington's schools reopen segregated, pending the Supreme Court's decision; 2) the N.A.A.C.P. was able, in effect, to rest its own case on the school board's farce...