Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Sept. 30--Attendance continued to climb at Central High School today despite a week-end telephone campaign urging parents to keep their children at home...
...Associated Press last night reported that one of the season's big football games for Little Rock was scheduled for yesterday evening at the 5,000-seat Central Stadium. By tradition, Negroes do not attend the high school's games and it was not anticipated that any would attempt...
...Little Rock, such a moderate plan was developed. The local school board decided to admit a small number of selected Negroes into a metropolitan high school of 2000 students. Local courts approved the plan, and the wisdom of the Supreme Court seemed vindicated...
...difficult to see that the Administration could have acted otherwise. With a different combination of circumstances, the necessity for force might have been averted, but without the 101st Airborne Division in Little Rock, integration would not be a fact today. Even more important, a mob would have succeeded in mocking the highest law of the United States...
...larger question is, however, what the experience of Little Rock means for the whole South, especially the crucial states of Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi. The government's action could deter active resistance, or it could spur segregationists to even more uncompromising positions...