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Closing down the schools, Editor Jonathan Daniels of the Raleigh, N.C. News & Observer once told fellow Southerners, is "something beyond secession from the Union; [it] is secession from civilization." Last week Virginia's Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. and Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus ordered certain public schools closed in answer to a Supreme Court ruling that Little Rock's Central High School must proceed immediately with its program of integration...
...essence of the Supreme Court ruling (see The Supreme Court) was that the law does not retreat from violence. Yet it was through fully arrayed state laws that Virginia's Almond closed the Warren County High School at Front Royal and Arkansas' Faubus closed all four high schools in Little Rock. The irony is that the court's ruling was brought about by and is the answer to the violence built up a year ago in Faubus' wild bid for political power. This year the South's defense is one of legal stratagems. And though...
...bond that held most Southerners together. "We live in a federated system," said Virginia's courtly Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. in Richmond, "in which the Federal Government has no powers other than those delegated by the states." "It must be remembered," said Arkansas' rabblerousing Governor Orval Faubus in Little Rock, "that the Federal Government is the creature of the states . . We must either choose to defend our rights or else surrender...
Thirteen Negro youngsters went back to Van Buren High School along with 600 whites in Van Buren's second year of court-ordered integration. They expected little if any trouble. Last year even Governor Faubus boasted in his progressive moments about how successful integration had been in other places than Little Rock Central High School. Arkansas communities integrated last year: Fort Smith. Fayetteville, Bentonville, Charleston, Hoxie, Ozark. Hot Springs, Van Buren. But this year the Negroes were welcomed back to Van Buren High by a band of 40 to 50 white boys, mostly duck-tailed types, jeering, catcalling, howling...
Allowing as how he might not sign a bill moving Little Rock's Central High School opening back from Sept. 8 to Sept. 15, Faubus jockeyed against the Supreme Court's anticipated Sept. 11 ruling. If he could get the school open on Sept. 8, he would, by his lights, have accomplished at least one thing: three lily white days at Central High...