Word: jeffersonism
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...Jefferson County, banned demonstrations near the 165 public schools and gatherings of more than three persons along the school bus routes...
...been no complicity between the city and its suburbs to segregate schools, the suburbs could not be forced to help remedy the city's problem. In contrast, a federal appellate court last year found that Louisville and its suburbs had deliberately segregated students and for that reason ordered the Jefferson County schools to exchange white pupils for blacks from the city's schools...
Next morning, the boys got up at 5:45 a.m. to have breakfast before their father drove them ten blocks to catch a school bus at 6:50 a.m. Then they rode for 40 minutes to cover 16 miles to their new school, Stuart High, in suburban Jefferson County. The bus was pelted with rocks; passing motorists honked horns as a sign of antibusing protest and hurled racial insults. But there was no serious trouble at school, and the Woodses, a black middle-class family with an income of $20,000, felt the ordeal was well worthwhile...
...school opening in Louisville, the three children of Al and Mildred McCauley-David, 15, Danny, 14, and Debbie, 10-remained in their brick home in Highview, a white middle-class suburb in Jefferson County. Debbie, who was not scheduled for busing and could have attended her old school a few blocks away, asked, "Mommy, when can I go? If I don't pretty soon, I'm going to be far behind." Mrs. McCauley shook her head and looked away...
...week's end many of Louisville's whites remained adamant in their opposition to busing. But officials seemed even more determined that the law would be carried out. Jefferson County School Superintendent Ernest Grayson announced that on Monday buses would roll as scheduled, and Judge Gordon backed him up. Declaring that the rioters had "violated the tolerant attitude of the court and insulted the dignity of the community," he banned demonstrations in or near public schools and barred gatherings of more than three persons along school bus routes while the buses were operating...