Word: davises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Two men stood at the head of the opposing forces. In the state capital of Baton Rouge, segregationist Governor Jimmie Davis-a smudged, folk-singing carbon of Arkansas' Orval Faubus-guided his legislature through a stormy special session, signing into law a paroxysm of sweeping resolutions aimed at tearing...
Hip Deep. By week's end it was apparent that New Orleans would be no Little Rock. For one thing, Jimmie Davis and his legislature, perhaps mindful of Little Rock, did not care to back their last-ditch segregation laws with National 'Guard power, and after flare-ups...
However, school officials ignored an attempt of the legislators to take over control of the city's educational system and proclam a school holiday. In defiance of Judge Wright's restraining orders, the legislature has issued written demands to the school principals not to integrate and had voted to remove...
Amidst violent demonstrations of popular support, Louisiana Governor Jimmie H. Davis is leading the resistance to the first attempt in the Deep South to effectuate the 1954 Supreme Court decision voiding the "separate but equal" doctrine.
While the public demonstrations and frenzied bills have been ineffective, they have caused sparks bright enough to catch federal executive departments in their glow. Attorney General William P. Roger's telegram to Governor Davis warning that he would "use the full power of my office" against further obstruction to the...