Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...used the occasion to set down the legal principles that are the keynote of his conduct in the Little Rock crisis, and that would apply to integration crises to come. Reading from a paper that he and Attorney General Brownell had drawn up, the President noted that: 1) local, not federal, authorities have the responsibility for drawing up school integration plans; 2) local authorities and federal courts-not the President-have the job of setting the desegregation timetable to suit the Supreme Court dictum of desegregation "with all deliberate speed," but 3) a desegregation order from a federal court "must...
...orders of the federal courts will not be obstructed by me." wrote Orval Faubus, "and ... I am prepared, as I have always been, to assume full responsibility for maintaining law and order in Little Rock." The words "by me" would give Faubus an out to let someone else do the obstructing, and everybody knew how he had "maintained law and order" before. Burned once by the conference with Faubus at Newport (TIME, Sept. 23), Ike declared the whole statement unsatisfactory, called off the negotiations...
...Little Rock's Clergy Leads...
DURING the darkest moments of mob rule at Little Rock, the Right Rev. Robert Raymond Brown, Episcopal Bishop of Arkansas, picked up his phone and put in a long-distance call to Washington. Bishop Brown was calling Assistant Secretary of State Walter Robertson, once a member of his parish in Richmond, to offer his good offices in any sort of effort to be helpful in what he called "the school situation." Assistant Secretary Robertson called Attorney General Herbert Brownell, who called the President, who sat down almost immediately and wrote the Bishop a letter. "I deeply believe," said the President...
Early last week Bishop Brown called an evening meeting of several leading clergymen at his home. Little Rock's ministers, like ministers elsewhere in the U.S., had been successful in building up their church memberships to new highs (103,224,954 nationwide). But no one knew whether this new strength could be translated into Christian action when it might be most needed and most uncomfortable. Crisis-torn Little Rock, thought Bishop Brown, might well be the turning point. Said he: "The church feels itself in a paradoxical position. It stands in judgment on whatever is amiss in the temper...