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North Carolina. In a token appeasement of the Federal Courts, Charlotte, Greensboro and Winston-Salem this semester admitted a total of 13 carefully screened Negroes to white schools. The lone Negro pupil at Charlotte's Harding High School withdrew last week in the face of continuing harassment. The Greensboro and Winston-Salem pioneers were still holding...
Wedged between fire-snorting South Carolina and adamant Virginia, North Carolina offered a rare chance for school integration to break into the Solid South -or to blow off the roof. Last week Negro and white children began attending school together in Greensboro (pop. 87,100), Charlotte (pop. 158,800) and Winston-Salem (pop. 115,800). And, thanks to careful advance planning, a strong governor and purposeful law enforcement, the roof stayed...
...Hodges was actually designed to minimize integration while appearing to satisfy the Supreme Court's desegregation order. It gave the state's 172 local boards complete authority over assigning individual students to the public schools. Many a segregationist who had supported the plan was shocked when the Greensboro, Charlotte and Winston-Salem boards decided last July to integrate-on a highly selective basis. With some Negro leaders helping screen applicants, strict standards were set up, e.g., to be accepted in white schools, Negro pupils must live nearer to them than to their old schools, have top grades...
...Upset. No sooner had the three school boards acted than the pressures began building toward a blowoff. Fiery crosses burned at night near Charlotte. A hooded Klansman promised to "muster 50,000 men by the time schools begin to open." Fanatic John Kasper of New Jersey roared into Greensboro, Charlotte and Winston-Salem, harangued his followers to drive school-board members to "nervous breakdowns, heart attacks and suicide...
...first morning they entered a white school, Greensboro Negroes were jeered; there were no hecklers the second day. The abusive "Damn Nigger" scrawlings on the asphalt driveway outside Reynolds High School in Winston-Salem were predictable. What was not predictable was the group of white students who scrubbed the drive clean. Said one: "This reflects on the name of the school, and we don't want that." Winston-Salem's only integrated Negro student entered, passed about 100 white students. Not one offered insult. A few smiled hello. Gwendolyn Yvonne Bailey, 15, walked into the school auditorium...