Word: manne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nigger." Monday morning in Little Rock came bright and crisp. At 6 a.m., on the day that Judge Davies had ordered integration to begin at Central High School, about 70 cops stood idly swinging billy clubs behind sawhorse barricades. These were the men that Mayor Woodrow Wilson Mann, former insurance agent turned well-meaning-but sometimes ineffectual-public servant, had said could preserve the peace in Little Rock. (Police Chief Marvin Potts apparently was not so sure: he judiciously stayed in his office.) But right at the beginning the Little Rock cops made their first and greatest mistake: they...
...result was inevitable. The mob grew from 300 to 500 to 900; it had tasted blood and liked it. It churned madly around and, in the absence of Negroes to maul, turned on Northern newsmen, beating three LIFE staffers. At noon Little Rock's Mayor Woodrow Wilson Mann ordered the Negro children withdrawn from the school...
...maximum-security telephone in his personal quarters. The news was all bad. A mob ruled at Central High. School Superintendent Virgil Blossom (voted the city's Man of the Year in 1955, now vilified for backing a gradual integration plan) had excitedly called the Justice Department: "Mayor Mann wants to know who to call to get federal help...
They included Little Rock's Mayor Woodrow Wilson Mann, School Superintendent Blossom and Police Chief Marvin Potts. All testified that they had neither heard nor seen any signs of violence before the opening of integrated schools in Little Rock. Between them, they could think of only one exception to a remarkable two-decade record of racial peace in their city. The exception: asked if he could recall any violent incidents during his 22 years on the police force, Chief Potts replied: "Just the usual thing. They'd get into rock fights once in a while after school hours...
...relentless glimpse of the Korean war, directed with restraint by Anthony Mann, but hitting every theater seat with the shock of a grenade in a foxhole; with Robert Ryan and Aldo Ray (TIME, April...