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...pairing of sophomores Eva Wang and Melissa Anderson went on to defeat Michelle Pautler and Victoria Beck 8-4 to clinch the point. In No. 3 doubles, freshmen Preethi Mukandan and Cindy Chu finished off Amanda Saiontz and Daisey Ames...
...Lloyd A. Foreman, 34, a Methodist minister. Walking his small daughter into the school, Foreman was shoved by the mob. "Don't touch me," he snapped. "You can talk to me-but don't touch me." Next to brave the mob were James and Daisey Gabrielle with their daughter Yolanda, 6. Gabrielle, a worker in the New Orleans sewerage and water commission, guided Yolanda to safety while Daisey Gabrielle, swinging a big pocketbook, cleared a path through the crowd. "No mob's going to tell me what to do," said she. "If you give in to this...
...native of Costa Rica and mother of six, Daisey had kept her daughter home when the school reopened after the Thanksgiving holiday: "I was so scared. Who am I to fight the whole state of Louisiana and the Governor, I asked myself." But later, she had second thoughts. "My conscience tore at me. I knew if I gave up, the minister would give up too, and there'd be no white child left...
...obscene telephone calls, moved to the home of friends. Lloyd Foreman hesitated about bringing his little girl to school again. "Frankly," he said, "at this point, I don't know what they might try." Jim Gabrielle's boss told him-mistakenly-that his daughter had been shot. Daisey Gabrielle, ostracized by her neighbors, stood fast. "Neighbors change," she said. "Principles...
Then, almost overnight, a reaction seemed to set in. Both the Foremans and the Gabrielles began getting sympathetic letters. Daisey Gabrielle and Yolanda were driven home from school by members of a housewives' volunteer committee. "We're gathering the people who want to send their children to school but need help," explained one of the volunteers. "We're going to help them. We might have to run a kind of Berlin airlift during the next week or two." The slowly growing number of white pupils at Frantz was still another evidence that the power...