Word: basse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Only twelve carefully chosen little Negro children, first-graders all, would go to five schools that were previously all white. But the air was charged with tension. "We are in the backwash of a thing that's going on too close to us," said School Superintendent W. A. Bass. "The Little Rock situation is giving the impression of possible victory to those people who would defeat the Supreme Court decision...
...went to work, tirelessly washing and ironing the laundry that her two boys hauled home in a wagon. When Jimmy was about ten, the family moved 20 miles northwest to Clinton, on the Wabash River. The boys chopped and sold wood, set out trotlines in the river, caught catfish, bass, suckers; some were sold, the rest were eaten at home. They scraped the bottom of the Wabash for mussels, boiled them in big oil drums, sold the shells to button makers at the rate of $6 a ton. They learned how to take care of themselves and to get what...
...quell any trouble that might break out. At some schools, it seemed at times as if the cops might be needed. Groups of white adults and teenagers wearing "Keep Our White Schools White" buttons passed out racist handbills, and a few people noisily heckled grey-haired School Superintendent William Bass as he toured possible trouble spots ("Why do you let niggers come to our white schools?") But beyond that, 13 little Negroes were allowed, more or less in peace, to register in five of 15 newly desegregated elementary schools. Thus, last week, Nashville became the largest city this year...
...Save the Whites!" and "Save Your Kids! Prevent Race Riots, Murder, Dynamitings and Hangings!" Assistant School Superintendent W. H. Oliver called for police protection after a paper fireball was thrown, burning, on his front porch. Having passed safely through registration day, Nashville is now braced for anything. Says Superintendent Bass: "Our board members are shaking in their boots. There's all sorts of submerged opposition to this." Added a Negro lawyer: "With a lunatic like Kasper around, anything can happen...
Metropolitan Opera Bass Jerome Hines heads a Christian Fellowship group of entertainers organized during the crusade. Several Bible study groups were also formed as a result of Graham's work. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney has gathered about a dozen fellow socialites who meet once a week "in an effort to achieve a broader understanding of the Bible." Says Mrs. Whitney: "I think the after effects of this crusade will be extraordinary-the beginning of a reawakening...