Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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South Carolina is proud to find you have assigned it a grade of "F" on desegregation. North Carolina! How she must be humiliated at receiving only "C minus...
...taking care of the birds moved him, and he decided he would like to raise canaries. He painstakingly built a cage out of a soap box, using a razor blade and pieces of bottle glass as tools. Although he had gone to school only as far as the third grade, he now absorbed all that prison libraries could teach him about chemistry, biology, ornithology. Displaying heroic patience, he carried out thousands of experiments with homemade apparatus, found remedies for major bird diseases that had baffled pathologists. His 500-page Digest of the Diseases of Birds, published in 1943, is still...
...GEORGIA: Grade F. No desegregation anywhere...
KENTUCKY: Grade B Plus. Governor Lawrence Wetherby and his education officials promise to enact the Supreme Court mandate. Out of 224 school districts, including that of Lexington, 20 or 25 will integrate this fall. Louisville (pop. 369,129), where Jim Crow barriers are fast crumbling, will integrate in 1956. Segregation bars are down at all the state colleges and most private colleges and universities...
LOUISIANA: Grade F. State schools will not be integrated this fall, or in the foreseeable future. New Orleans Catholic authorities will not integrate their parochial schools "this year." The Louisiana state legislature voted $100,000 to hire attorneys to contest integration lawsuits at every level...