Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were the raucous curses of a fat Kentucky harridan and the horrid spit of a North Carolina fanatic. But there was the fine, quiet dignity of a pretty, besieged Negro girl in Charlotte, and the warm and courageous heart of a gentle, white-haired woman in Little Rock. Where men and women of good will and good sense prevailed, the difficult, tradition-shattering, inevitable change moved...
...shaded, peaceful residential district near Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., nine Negro children quietly laid out their best clothes for the next morning. It was the eve of school integration in Little Rock. City police, who had checked carefully and found no hint of trouble, followed routine patrols through the quiet streets. Then, at 9 p.m.. Little Rock came awake with a shock: a National Guard unit, 150 strong, with MIS, carbines and billies, churned up to the darkened high school in trucks, halftracks and jeeps. They unloaded tear-gas bombs, fixed bayonets, sealed off all doors...
...here," said a Central sophomore. "They are supposed to keep the peace, but they push us around too much. If you want to stand on the sidewalk and look at somebody, the guards push us back." Cried a grey-haired woman: "Hey, kid, why don't you keep quiet?" Replied the boy: "Because I don't want to. It's a free country, lady...
...muttering about "police brutality." That night-under the watchful eyes of a detail of troopers-the local White Citizens League rallied, heard prayerful thanks because "God did not cross us with a sea gull or a crow." It was all just so much noise. Next morning Sturgis was as quiet as if it had always had an integrated school...
...photographers and reporters under the noes of White House Press Secretary James Hagerty and the eyes of Secret Service men. In their starkly furnished, rented three-bedroom brick house in Alexandria, Va., just ten minutes by car from the Pentagon, John and Barbara Eisenhower live, by deliberate design, a quiet life. With the customary occasional helping hand from the in-laws, they get along on John's Army pay and allowances (monthly total: roughly $670). There are four youngsters to feed and clothe: rambunctious, outgoing David, 9; lively, pigtailed Barbara Anne, 8; Susan Elaine, 6; and Mary Jean...