Word: giarrusso
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Little Rock, did not care to back their last-ditch segregation laws with National 'Guard power, and after flare-ups of violence they began calling for moderation. For another, New Orleans' 1,073-man police force, firmly directed by Mayor Morrison and his youthful (37) Chief Joseph Giarrusso, held the violence in check, gave Davis little justification for moving in with emergency troops. Davis actually had little support among New Orleans' civic leaders. Rather than see schools closed, as Davis wanted, lawyers for the school board and for a committee of white parents worked with the N.A.A.C.P...