Word: paged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feature on page three relates the short history of intercollegiate boxing at the University...
Throughout the South virtually every front page last week told the news of 26-year-old Autherine Lucy's fight to become the first Negro to enter the University of Alabama (see EDUCATION). Yet, like other desegregation news that has crowded its way increasingly into the Southern press since the Supreme Court decision, it got there almost against the will of most editors. Southern newspapers -with scattered exceptions-are doing a patchy, pussyfooting job of covering the region's biggest running story since the end of slavery...
...Diehards. At its worst, notably in Mississippi, the Southern press is full of slanting, suppression and rabble-rousing against integration. The most violent is the Jackson, Miss. Daily News (circ. 38,813), whose ripsnorting old (78) Editor Fred Sullens incites readers against "mongrelization" under such front-page scare-lines as "YOU ARE FOR US OR AGAINST US." The best that Editor Sullens could say of the Negro was in a sentimental story on the funeral of an 83-year-old onetime janitor at the University of Mississippi; the paper started a scholarship fund in his name, and sang his praises...
...Texas the only major dailies to take a flat stand for integration and the Supreme Court decision are the locally owned and jointly run San Antonio Express and News (circ. 141,734). Tomme Call, editor of the News editorial page, won first place in the 1955 annual editorial awards of the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors Association for a piece urging complete compliance with the Supreme Court decision. The Express and News have run stories with picture strips on the success of interracial policy in the city's Roman Catholic high schools, also campaigned for integration with front-page...
Even where Negro news appears, it is usually lumped together in "Jim Crow" columns, a separate page or edition. Few Southern papers have desegregated their own columns to permit items about Negroes to appear anywhere in the paper...