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Stratford Junior High in Arlington will open its doors at 8:45 a.m. to four Negro pupils along with 1,076 white youngsters. At 9 a.m. six secondary schools in Norfolk, closed by state order since last September, will reopen and enroll 17 Negroes and nearly 10,000 white students...
RICHMOND, Va. Feb. 1--The first public school integration in Virginia history starts today at Norfolk and Arlington, where city and school officials say they expect no violence. However, a segregationist group at Arlington has announced plans for a demonstration...
...effect of Virginia's "massive resist ance" to school integration on the 13,000 Norfolk students who now have no schooling at all, as seen through the camera eye of Edward R. Murrow...
Segregation's signposts last week: In Norfolk, the city council voted 6-1 to cut off operational funds in all school classes above the sixth grade, beginning Feb. 2. Affected: 7,173 junior and senior high school students (1,914 white, 5,259 Negro) in 36 schools-boosting to more than 17,000 the number of Norfolk children who have been denied public school education since last September, when six white secondary schools were closed by Virginia's massive-resistance to Federal District Court integration orders. ¶ In Little Rock, Governor Orval Faubus, beginning his third term, called...
...admissions policy makers in northern colleges did not have enough problems, the shut-down of high schools in Charlottsville, Norfolk, and Little Rock has raised an issue in higher education circles which will not be easily solved. In brief, the policy makers must decide if they will continue to admit or reject applicants from these schools on their individual merits, or, in the interests of supporting the Supreme Court, reject them all on the grounds of inadequate preparation. Such rejection, it it felt, would underscore the need for reopening the schools and integrating them...