Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tough sailor-man. He never knew what his first name was so he took two-Thoroughgood and Thornygood. He drew two sailor's pensions till the day he died-one in each name. I was named Thoroughgood after him but by the time I was in the second grade, I got tired of spelling all that and shortened it." His maternal grandfather, Isaiah O. B. (for Olive Branch, he said) Williams, also went to sea, came home with money and a taste for opera and Shakespeare. He opened a grocery on Baltimore's Den-meade Street, and sired...
...ALABAMA: Grade F. "Not one of the school boards has made any move to try to work out anything," a top Negro attorney correctly reports. The Alabama state legislature recently enacted a "Placement Bill," over the veto of Governor James ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, empowering local school boards to place pupils in schools upon such considerations as "the psychological qualifications of the pupil for the type of teaching and associations involved . . . the possibility of breaches of peace or ill will or economic retaliation within the community...
ARKANSAS: Grade C Plus. "It is a problem that must be left to the people of the local districts to solve," said Governor Orval E. Faubus. Four of the state's 228 interracial school districts are integrating this fall, moving 49 Negro children in, along with about 2,170 whites. Little Rock (pop. 102,213) will integrate its 24% Negro student population in the high schools in 1957, the junior high schools in 1958. The University of Arkansas held its first integrated summer session this year...
DELAWARE: Grade C. In Wilmington (pop. 110,356), 13 city schools will integrate this fall; 900 Negro students will attend formerly all-white schools, while 50 whites will attend all-Negro schools. In New Castle County (Wilmington), 14 out of 20 school boards intend to integrate. But in Kent and Sussex Counties, officials of only one (the city of Dover) out of 27 white school districts intend to heed the Supreme Court...
...FLORIDA: Grade D. State law prohibits the mixing of races in schools, but on three bases of the U.S. Air Force, white and Negro pupils will integrate this fall. Negro parents have filed petitions for integration in four counties...