Word: redmond
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...center of all the excitement in New Orleans last week, School Superintendent James F. Redmond appeared in court to face a lawsuit. He had refused to release the names of children in integrated schools. Why? Redmond's answers were polite, professional. His lawyer was not satisfied. Said he: "Isn't it a fact, Dr. Redmond, that you told me you'd be hanged and quartered before you would hand over the names of those little girls?", Answered Redmond with a smile: "Yes, I suppose...
...itself the sole authority to reclassify the state's white and Negro schools, and empowering the Governor to seize schools to prevent any court-directed integration. Under those provisions, Davis last week, by executive order, took personal control of Orleans Parish schools and authorized Su perintendent James F. Redmond, as the Governor's "agent," to open schools...