Word: milford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seems impossible that Bryant Bowles, his followers, and the people of Milford could call themselves "democratic," but they undoubtedly do. What do they think they are accomplishing by starting these race fights? . . . Perhaps they are deliberately passing the plum of prejudice to Russia for her to present to the Communists as proof of American idiocy...
...Hand." In Delaware, candidates of both parties have been dragged into the segregation fight almost despite themselves. Republicans generally have been blamed for an inept performance by G.O.P. Governor J. Caleb Boggs in dealing with the Milford school riots (see EDUCATION). The chief victim is Senate Candidate Herbert Warburton. He has lost ground to Democratic Senator J. Allen Frear, who consistently votes with the Senate's Southern bloc...
Last week Delaware's Republican Attorney General H. Albert Young went into court to argue on behalf of the ten Negro children who were turned out of a Milford school. Cried he, in what later turned out to be a flight of purest fancy: "If it becomes necessary for the governor of this state and its U.S. Senators, as they have expressed it to me, to lead these Negro children by the hand, after a decree of this court, into the school, they will do so." Within a few hours, both Frear and Republican Senator John Williams denied that...
Last week in Milford, some 3,000 citizens showed up at a mass meeting to hear him. He assured them that he was against violence and that he was not anti-Negro but just prowhite. Then he called for volunteers to start a local N.A.A.W.P. chapter in Milford. The first to step forward was Mrs. Mildred Sharp. After her came Farmer Charles West ("If God had intended us to associate with the colored race, He wouldn'ta made niggers. He woulda made us all white"), and Evangelist Manaen Warrington. Bryant Bowles promptly made these "three red-blooded Americans" directors...
Next day, when Milford's schools reopened after having been temporarily closed, only 456 out of 1,562 students attended. Later the boycott spread to nearby Lincoln, where 116 out of 146 pupils refused to go to the elementary school. That night a motorcade cruised through the county with such banners as "Stay Out of School:", "Kick 'Em Out;" and in a field opposite the Milford high school, a wooden cross was set on fire. Finally the Milford school board decided to give in, ordered the eleven Negroes dropped from the rolls. Crowed Bryant Bowles: "The only thing...