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...local boards responsible for assigning pupils to schools as a subterfuge for maintaining segregation. Moreover, state schoolmen felt that North Carolinians would accept do-it-yourself integration more readily than the inevitable court-ordered kind. Nevertheless, in making the first break in the hardcore South's stand against public-school integration, the Tarheel State had shown its neighbors a way toward "enlarged understanding," had done it quietly, thoughtfully-and, above all, voluntarily...
...object or make wordy points of law, or try to inflame segregationist feelings in the jury. One defense attorney, Ross Barnett, informed the jury that Mississippi's Senator James Eastland had instructed him to "tell that jury what's happened in Washington." Eastland's news: 874 public-school children in Washington. D.C. "have loathsome and contagious diseases, and 97% among them are colored...
...efforts to dislodge him. Nominated for governor a second time at last week's Republican convention in Roanoke, he found the campaign's blazing segregation issue already forced on him. As a hedge against integration, the Byrdmen -ardent states'-righters on the national scene-centralized all public-school pupil placements in Richmond, withheld state funds from any school district that defies the state by mixing races. Like other moderate segregationists, Lawyer Dalton believes in district-by-district supervision, a plan that would inevitably admit some Negro students to white schools (e.g., in the Washington suburbs of Arlington...
...Under mild-mannered, capable Clarence Faust, the Fund for the Advancement of Education has made its most important contributions in two fields: the training and recruitment of teachers, and improving the intellectual lot of the gifted student. In 1951 it launched its famous statewide Arkansas Plan to attract more public-school teachers by giving liberal-arts graduates one year of training and internship instead of the tedious mishmash of courses usually doled out by schools of education. Though Arkansas is perhaps too poor a state to carry on such an experiment successfully, the fifth-year idea has spread to more...
...fund has experimented with putting master teachers on TV for the benefit of a whole school system. It has persuaded some colleges to take in bright high-school students before graduation and to give others advance standing after high-school graduation. It has also been a major catalyst in beefing up the standards of the public-school curriculum...