Word: attendant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the morning at least ten students walked out of the school, refusing to attend integrated classes. The striking teenagers found consolation from tearful women, who wept and cried "There are niggers in our school...
...good reason to be suffering from, as he put it, a "sore stomach." Arkansas National Guardsmen were deployed around his salmon-pink executive mansion, warding off all. Other militiamen surrounded Little Rock's Central High School, ready to defend it to the death against Negro children trying to attend classes. And even as Governor Faubus defied his doctor's orders, the shock waves of his defiance of the U.S. Government crashed through the South, the nation and the world...
...booed Negro newcomers, but these protests soon ended when school authorities sternly threatened to ban troublemakers from athletic teams and other extracurricular activities. Washington, D.C. schools are now fully integrated (but 20% of the Negro schoolchildren, living in Negro neighborhoods, go to all-Negro schools), and 58,500 Negroes attend classes along with white children in what one school official called a "miracle of social adjustment." The rapid march to total integration is all the more noteworthy because Negroes make up a 68% majority among District of Columbia public school children...
Alabama. Negroes and whites attend classes together only in two small private colleges. When an ill-advised Negro preacher in Birmingham tried to enroll Negro children at a white school last week amid growing tension fanned by the recent emasculation of a Negro and the news from Arkansas, rowdies beat him and drove him away...
...discussion at last week's conference, the people in the shed eyed one another mistrustfully throughout. Before the conference began, Colonel Sumual carefully disguised himself as a Chinese merchant and made a secret trip from Celebes to Sumatra to confer with his fellow rebel colonels. They decided to attend the conference only if Premier Djuanda and Mohammed Hatta would guarantee their personal safety. This the two statesmen agreed...