Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What had happened might never have been publicly known except for the fact that Dorothy's father, Noel Frederick Holtz, is the accountant-general of the Jamaican government. When his tearful daughter arrived home, Holtz roused his colleagues to protest to the Canadian government about her treatment in Canada. The Shawnigan authorities, said Holtz, had objected to a "colored woman"* on the school property and suggested that Dorothy should leave. Her husband protested about the school's "ancient, musty policy," but he let Dorothy go home alone because, he explained, he wanted to "face the situation...
Father Holtz's outburst got quick results. The Jamaican House of Representatives unanimously passed a protest resolution. Victoria and Vancouver newspapers took up the case and began raking the school officials. Shawnigan's governors pleaded a misunderstanding; they decided to invite Dorothy and her father to come to British Columbia at the school's expense to smooth over the affair. Canada's retiring Ambassador to Japan, R. W. Mayhew, offered to let the Hewitts live in his home. A Victoria company cabled offering her fare to Victoria...
...Negro high school in Dover, 19 miles away. But in view of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision, the Milford school board decided that it would admit Negro students to the tenth grade. As a result, 1,500 citizens jammed into the American Legion hall to protest. A few, nights later, 1,000 more presented the school board with a petition demanding that the Negroes be dropped. A group even paid a midnight visit to Board President W. Dean Kimmel, warned him that some of their numbers had "gotten out of hand and there might be violence...
...West Virginia, 21 white students went on strike at the Sherman High School in Seth because three Negroes had been admitted, and 300 parents held a protest meeting in Madison over 18 Negro pupils. Meanwhile, Kanawha County, seat of the capital, rescinded its earlier decision, ordered 2,905 Negroes back to segregated schools. But elsewhere in the state, there was progress of another sort. Last week 164 white students were peacefully enrolled at the once all-Negro West Virginia State College...
...getting the freshmen settled in their dorms and showing them around the campus, but it also includes such things as routing them out of bed at 5 a.m. to serenade the women's dorms and making sure they wear beanies for a week. Again, however, there is no serious protest from either the students in general or the harrassed freshmen...