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...Governor George C. Wallace had Tuskegee High closed down as uneconomical-there were 13 teachers for twelve pupils. Judge Johnson promptly assigned the Negro students to the county's other two white high schools-six to each. One school capitulated, but at Macon County High in Notasulga, the mayor forbade the entry of the reassigned Negroes on the grounds that the school was overcrowded and the admission of more pupils would violate a newly enacted fire ordinance. Last week Judge Johnson issued an injunction prohibiting the mayor from interfering with the Negro pupils. The new fire ordinance, said Judge...
Whenever race trouble erupts in the South, newsmen are about as welcome as segregated schools. Tempers can flare at the mere presence of reporters, who are there to record an example of Southern inhospitality. Last week in the little Alabama farm town of Notasulga, local hostility turned into violence-with an ironic twist. The victim was a Southern er: Vernon Merritt III, 23, a freelance photographer from Birmingham. His attackers were officers...
What earned Merritt his beating in Notasulga might in another locale have come under the heading of journalistic enterprise. He simply slipped aboard the school bus bearing the first Negro students to try to enter Macon County High School. He figured he could photograph the story from the youngsters' point of view. But law authorities had already gathered in force to prevent the token integration, and some of them had been tipped that a photographer...
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