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...would like to preserve "separate-but-equal" status in at least one area. For years many Dixie newspapers have printed separate Negro and white editions, splitting press runs to drop in pages of news for each community. "Negroes like it because they get more attention," claims Editor Joe Parham of the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph and News, where the practice is still in effect (as in Augusta). "We print their deaths and funeral notices, a hospital report, club meetings, birthdays, lodge notices, social and personal news...
...bitterly segregationist Pine Bluff had learned a lesson from Little Rock, 45 miles away. And lean, responsible Lee Parham, president of the Dollarway school board, had pounded it home. "This is the only thing we can do," said he all over town. "Any violence over it will only hurt us in the future." Even the Citizens' Council agreed. As one Pine Bluffer put it: "It's awful hard to be a brave fighter when your opponent is a six-year-old girl...
When the opponent arrived at Dollar-way's yellow brick buildings one steamy morning last week, carloads of whites lurked near by. Trouble never came: police had the place surrounded. John D. York was met by Board President Parham and the scho.ol superintendent, who escorted Delores to the first-grade class and a second-row seat. She spent the morning coloring clowns, apples and horses, played and lunched with her classmates. She came home happy. "I believe I'm going to like it there," she said gravely. "It's a nice big school and some...
...Specialist. In Memphis, Rubin Parham confessed in court that he had made his living for the past three years by stealing automobile hub caps, selling them for 25? apiece...
...yard freestyle--Berke, Parham (Y), Kinney. Time...