Word: boyd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defense and security forces, Prince Abdul Rahman asked the British for full independence. The urgency of the Malayan situation led the British to take the risk. In a cream and-gilt room of London's Lancaster House, Chief Minister Rahman sat down with British Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd and signed an agreement which will give Malaya complete internal self-government, including control of the police and defense forces, in 18 months...
Said Lennox-Boyd: "It is not a victory for either side. It is a recognition both of Malaya's new status and of our common interests." As a next step to further the common interest, the British plan to remove rubber and tin, chief exports of Malaya, from the list of strategic materials barred to Communist countries. By trading with Red China, the British argument goes, Malaya can become prosperous enough to resist Communism...
...Boyd decreed that Memphis State University--and thus other state schools--would have to admit Negroes on a gradual basis by grade levels. He delivered a stair-step ruling which will enable Negroes to attend the graduate school in this coming half term; to enter as seniors in the fall of 1956; and to enroll as juniors, sophomores, and freshmen in successive years...
...case was protested. But to the surprise of almost everyone it was not criticized by angry Southerners but by NAACP lawyers. This was the first official gradual- desegregation order, and the NAACP said it would protest because it feared Boyd's ruling might be used as a precedent throughout the South. Yet the order struck most observers here as completely in keeping with the Supreme Court's idea for implementation of its decree-- a ruling tempered and fitted to the particular circumstances of the area...
...contrast to the NAACP's handling of both the Till case and Boyd's decision was the reaction of two social workers, Dr. David Minter and Gene Cox, in another case widely publicized here. Minter and Cox were ordered to leave Holmes County by a mass meeting of the Citizens' Council because they worked for integration. The first action the two men took, however, was to call up every New York and Washington religious and political group which might protest and tell it not to say anything for the present...