Word: merediths
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...from the Chief Executive down to his law enforcement officers, has done little more than offering gestures to integration. They are harder to enforce. Many people felt that the Administration's actual attitude about integration was reflected in the President's speech during the Oxford Mississippi riots. Although James Meredith succeeded in enrolling at the University of Mississippi, the President's speech did not mention the word "integration" at all. Nor did it mention the word "Negro." To many who heard Kennedy, especially Negroes, the talk appeared to be an apology to Mississippi white people for the Government's need...
...years at Baylor University. Drama Professor Paul Baker turned the Texas Baptist school into a renowned center of experimental theater. The Waco wizard's 1953 Othello split the tortured Moor into three separate characters; later he got Actor Burgess Meredith to be anchor prince in a three-faceted Hamlet. To train graduate students, in 1959 he opened a stunning repertory theater in Dallas, the only theater designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. In baffled admiration, the late Charles Laughton once called Baker "crude, irritating, arrogant, nuts and a genius...
Considering the cases of James Meredith at Ole Miss and Harvey Gantt at Clemson, Friendly said that "what might be a simple and quiet entrance of one Negro to one university could be transformed into a Roman circus, or indeed a riot, merely because we provided such an inviting audience and such a brilliant means for obtaining publicity." Friendly noted complaints that "the very presence of masses of reporters and photographers make what is already a difficult task close to impossible...
Blind Alley. Then there was James Meredith, still at the University of Mississippi at a cost of two lives, dozens of injuries and a U.S. Government investment of $4,500,000. Last week-three weeks after saying that he would not return to Ole Miss if conditions did not improve-Meredith announced that he would return for the second semester...
...Meredith's press conference statement, as usual, was couched in the bitter, self-conscious terms of a crusader de scribed by Federal Judge John Minor Wisdom as "a man with a mission and a nervous stomach.'' Said Meredith: "After listening to all arguments, evaluations and positions and weighing all this against my personal possibilities and circumstances, I have concluded that the 'Negro' should not return to the University of Mississippi. The prospects for him are too unpromising." A white radio newsman from Jackson applauded. But Meredith kept on reading: "However, I have decided that...