Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Governors, who ranks segregation of the races above all things, was ready to preside over the dissolution of the school system which Jefferson established. For a close study of the motives that led James Lindsay Almond to the point of ending what Thomas Jefferson started and the complex legal strategy he was using, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, "The Gravest Crisis...
...four high schools in Little Rock. The irony is that the court's ruling was brought about by and is the answer to the violence built up a year ago in Faubus' wild bid for political power. This year the South's defense is one of legal stratagems. And though both federal and state governments are pledged to avoid violence, few could doubt that the cause of integration is far worse off than it was last year...
...case on the enforcement of law and order, had overlooked the fact that the U.S. needed moral leadership in fighting segregation. Without it, Southern moderates had no place to go. Without it, some of the most patient, effective integration programs were weakened as Southern die-hards mobilized their own legal resources to fight the battle for segregation in the name of states' rights...
...life intertwines his state's segregation struggle much as the Virginia creeper chokes the mountain forests. As the attorney general who argued Virginia's school cases before the Supreme Court, Lindsay Almond is one of segregation's ablest legal advocates. "Don't you kid yourself," says a longtime Almond adversary, N.A.A.C.P. Special Counsel Thurgood Marshall. "He is a good lawyer." Precisely because he is a good lawyer, Lindsay Almond understands that Virginia, in its "massive resistance" delaying tactics, is merely living from stay to stay. Sighed the Governor last week, "We might have to take...
...flunky or errand boy, but as a man who can be trusted to keep Virginia the way Harry Byrd wants to keep it, Lindsay Almond was in full charge of the explosive political program of using legal stratagems to keep Negro children out of white schools...