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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the fretful summer of uninspiring battles with Congress over the budget probably entered into the decline, it was not the major reason. What was: the Administration's long battle for a strong civil rights bill, culminating in the Little Rock crisis. While Ike held to 65% in the East, 63% in the Midwest and 62% in the West, his rating in the South plunged from its 72% of last January, and its 51% of last July, to an all-time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLLS: Fretful Fall | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

Required by a new Little Rock city ordinance to file reports on membership and finances, three segregationist organizations did. But the real target of the ordinance, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, fearing to bring its members and contributors under increased pressure in emotion-torn Little Rock, refused. Last week the city council ordered the arrest of N.A.A.C.P. Leaders Joseph C. Crenchaw and Daisy Bates. Crenchaw, 74, a Baptist preacher who is president of the local N.A.A.C.P. chapter, gave himself up, was booked and released on $300 bond. Daisy Bates, president of the N.A.A.C.P.'s Arkansas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: No Place Like Home | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

...start of the uproar over Little Rock one night last September, six hooded men grabbed a Negro named Judge Aaron on a lonely road in Alabama, took him to a deserted shack, castrated him with a razor blade, poured turpentine into the wound (TIME, Sept. 16). Six members of the Ku Klux Klan were arrested by Alabama police and charged with mayhem. One of the men explained: "We just wanted some nigger at random...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: One of the Worst Things | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

...their father's wishes. Even the most progressive Moslem men seldom invite even close friends to meet their wives, particularly non-Moslem friends. At the American University of Beirut and Beirut College for Women, modern young Moslem girl students wear blue jeans, go water skiing, do the rock 'n' roll, and behave just like U.S. coeds. But the past is still with them. Their fellow male students complain that they cannot get dates. "I just want somebody to take to the movies," said one student last week. "Would you marry a woman who had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MOSLEM WORLD: Beyond the Veil | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

...survey is investigating what techniques were used in the integration of students in the Little Rock system, and is also examining the individual opinions of leaders on both sides of the dispute, and the opinions of candidates in a city election that took place after the integration dispute...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soc. Rel. Research Team Conducts Special Survey On Little Rock Integration | 11/9/1957 | See Source »

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