Word: journals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pearce, an associate editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, spoke on the topic "How Louisville Desegregated its Schools without Violence...
...live coverage on the day the 101st Airborne took over at Central High, TV also scored a kind of integration feat-between the two major networks. For that morning, CBS's alert News Director John Day, an ex-managing editor (Dayton Daily News, Louisville Courier-Journal), had reserved the only circuit that can carry a telecast out of Little Rock. When NBC's News Director Bill McAndrew learned this, he telephoned Day and said hopefully: "This is bigger than both of us." Day agreed, and arranged to share CBS pickups with NBC. The CBS gesture proved...
When the President ordered paratroopers into Little Rock, it was predictable there would be an angry outcry from Southern newspapers; only half a dozen of them-notably the Nashville Tennessean, the Chattanooga Times and the Louisville Courier-Journal-had endorsed the Supreme Court desegregation ruling. What was not to be expected was the violence or speed with which the South's press turned directly on Ike, the moderate respecter of state sovereignty who has won warmer and more widespread support in Southern newspapers than any other Republican President. Grieved the Birmingham Post-Herald's John Temple Graves, Dixie...
...street crowds. In Mississippi the Jackson Daily News's fire-breathing editor, Major Fred Sullens, addressed a one-word editorial to the President: "Nuts." (New York's Daily News picked up the editorial and flung it back under the headline: MISSISSIPPI MUD.) In Louisiana the Shreveport Journal added its jeer: "Heil Eisenhower! Heil to der great Fuehrer!" A more flattering comparison was made, however, by Mississippi's famed Hodding Carter, who telephoned his Delta Democrat-Times from a Maine vacation spot to dictate his state's only editorial endorsing President Eisenhower's constitutional position...
...papers that applauded the President's action, opinions varied widely on its timing and effectiveness. Some agreed with the Minneapolis Tribune that the impact was sharpened by Ike's "almost inexhaustible patience." Others, like the Cleveland Press, complained of his "inexcusable delays." Said the Republican-bent Providence Journal: "His final drastic response to the challenge, welcome as it is, must be called a belated and faulty assertion of leadership...