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...refusing to allow James Meredith into the university, Barnett is pitting his state's powers against the 1954 Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation in public education. He argues that the decision, based on the 14th Amendment, exceeds the powers of the national government; and so, he says, he has the right to interpose state authority...
Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black ruled that the University of Mississippi must admit Negro Air Force Veteran James Meredith. But Democratic Governor Ross Barnett has no intention of complying. He demanded that all state officials "uphold and enforce the laws duly and legally enacted by the legislature . . . and interpose state sovereignty and themselves between the people of the state and any body politically seeking to usurp such power." In invoking the doctrine of "interposition," which has been held unconstitutional, Barnett declaimed that "there is no case in history where the Caucasian race has survived social integration," promised that "we will...
...film is as faithful as a slave to Meredith Willson's Broadway hit musical. Indeed, at one point a theater spotlight is used to light up the hero and his girl, with the rest of the screen in darkness. The hero is Professor Harold Hill (Robert Preston), a 1912 conman in the corn-belt town of River City, Iowa. Preston's tactic is to whip up enthusiasm in small towns for starting a brass band, sucker parents into buying the instruments and uniforms, and then skip out without teaching the young Sousaphiles a note. Preston is a musical...
...Hope, Pa., Bucks County Playhouse: Burgess Meredith directs A Ton of Bricks, a Navy comedy by Max Wilk and W. J. Gordon...
...month legal battle, university officials presented almost every conceivable reason except his color for rejecting Meredith. They pointed, for example, to the lack of accreditation of the school from which Meredith is transferring-their own Jackson State College. U.S. District Judge Sidney Mize duly ruled that Meredith had been turned down on nonracial grounds. But Circuit Judge John Minor Wisdom called the Ole Miss burlesque "a carefully calculated campaign of delay, harassment and masterly inactivity." He ordered Judge Mize to issue an injunction forcing Meredith's admission. If Meredith enters Ole Miss next fall as planned, Alabama and South...