Word: bootheel
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...special schools for handicapped children. White and Negro pupils arrived in the same buses, started the year, without incident. "Similar experiences," said the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "are occurring throughout Missouri ... In Little Dixie [central Missouri], 52 Negroes enrolled for high school at Fulton. In the heart of the Bootheel cotton country, 20 attended classes at formerly white schools in Sikeston . . . Time is running out on race discrimination in this America. Missouri at least can tell time a little better than some states...