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...means of resistance, Kilpatrick proposed the decrepit doctrine of interposition, by which recalcitrant states attempt to block federal authority with their own. His 1955-56 editorial series on interposition has inspired segregationist leaders ever since-from Virginia's former Governor Almond to Mississippi's Ross Barnett. When interposition failed in Virginia, Kilpatrick had another suggestion: close the public schools. And as the state began to do just that, establishing private "academies" from which Negro pupils could be legally barred, Kilpatrick cheered. "Let it stay that way," he wrote, after a high school in Front Royal, Va., shut...
...Vincent MacDowell Barnett Jr., 47, was named Colgate University's tenth president, stepping up from the chairmanship of the political science department he has held at Williams since 1946. An expert on economic aid, Barnett served the U.S. foreign aid program in Italy from 1948 to 1953, and was counselor for economic affairs at the U.S. embassy in Rome in 1958 and 1959. At Williams, Barnett is chairman of Williams' Center for Development Economics, which each year trains a group of graduate students from developing nations...
Whatever its motives, in fact, the company has shown that there remain areas where people continue to hold the old and good belief that integration is the South's problem and that the South should settle it. A few weeks ago Governor Barnett--like the "Reverse Freedom Ride" supporters before him--abandoned that belief by leaving the responsibility for integration to the government. Happily, Reynolds, and Winston-Salem are still willing to live with...
...following morning, Barnett called the White House again. He now seemed to be willing to cooperate. He urged the President to bring Meredith in that day, Sunday; there were, he said, indications that segregationist gangs were planning to converge on Oxford on Monday. As White House officials tell it, Barnett promised that if U.S. marshals escorted Meredith onto the campus on Sunday, the state police would help maintain order. Accepting these assurances, the White House decided to put Meredith onto the campus that afternoon, even before the President delivered his speech...
...Barnett was going to keep his promises. When the President finally did go on camera, he was unsure about what was happening in Mississippi, and his uncertainty showed in his speech. But even if Kennedy had been at his most eloquent, it was too late to do any good. In a note of self-congratulation, he told his audience that "thus far" the Government had not used military force. But down in Mississippi, a long night's violence had already erupted...