Word: chattanooga
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When the President ordered paratroopers into Little Rock, it was predictable there would be an angry outcry from Southern newspapers; only half a dozen of them-notably the Nashville Tennessean, the Chattanooga Times and the Louisville Courier-Journal-had endorsed the Supreme Court desegregation ruling. What was not to be expected was the violence or speed with which the South's press turned directly on Ike, the moderate respecter of state sovereignty who has won warmer and more widespread support in Southern newspapers than any other Republican President. Grieved the Birmingham Post-Herald's John Temple Graves, Dixie...
Aaron started to learn his trade as a kid on the sand lots of Mobile, Ala. After high school he joined the barnstorming Indianapolis Clowns, an all-Negro team. "One time in 1952 we made a 900-mile hop," he recalls. "We left Chattanooga right after a night game, rode all night, the next day and part of the next too. Then we played that night in Buffalo. I got ten hits in eleven trips...
...that "for miles across the darkened countryside the glimmer and glitter of these little fires twinkled . . . and the men looked at the strange spectacle they were making and set up a cheer that went from end to end of the army." There is a Union soldier in besieged Chattanooga reflecting that the antagonisms between eastern and western Federal troops often seemed greater than those that separated North and South. And there is Union General George McClellan in the grip of his "numbers" madness, unwilling to attack the inferior forces of Lee because of his persistent conviction that he was faced...
...Milligan College, immediately took a job as teacher-principal of the consolidated elementary and high school in Greene County. By 1935 he was state high-school visitor for east Tennessee. Four years later he became assistant school superintendent in Nashville; in 1942 he got his present post in Chattanooga...
...Derthick supported his school board's resolution declaring that the U.S. Supreme Court's decision against segregation must be obeyed. But as a result of violent opposition in Chattanooga, the board postponed integrating their schools for at least five years. To all but extremists, Derthick should therefore be eminently acceptable in both the North and the South-a moderate who has backed the law of the land, but knows what the nation is up against in trying to enforce...