Word: mcfarland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Confederacy's onetime capital. In Houston, the nation's biggest segregated school district, six-year-old Tyronne Day was the first Negro to enter a white school. Houston could hardly believe how easy it was. "This is a real achievement," said School Superintendent John W. McFarland. "I don't believe anybody in the United States expected us to integrate our schools without incident, including ourselves." Added one white mother: "God put us all here. We all live here, all help one another. Why shouldn't we go to school together...
Ideological leader of the new Republican group was popular Department Store Owner Barry Goldwater, a 40-year-old in 1949 when he led a Good Government reform slate to take over a rickety Phoenix city government. Three years later he upset Senate Majority Leader Ernest McFarland in a Senate race, beat him again in 1958. Kansas-born John Rhodes, who learned about Phoenix as a World War II pilot, became in 1952 the first Republican to win an Arizona seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. By 1958, Republican Paul Fannin, backed by such businesslike young Republicans as Dave Murdock...