Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LITTLE ROCK, Ark.--Little Rock's high schools were still closed Tuesday but the leader of the group that sought to operate them on a private basis said new plans are being drawn to continue the fight for segregation...
Chief Justice Earl Warren read the 17-page opinion word for word in a quiet proceeding, while in Little Rock the lease plan blessed by Gov. Orval E. Faubus was being put into effect...
...unanimous opinion pointed straight toward just such things as the lease of Little Rock's four high schools for private, segregated operation...
Each year approximately 100 students from below the line of Mason and Dixon enter the Harvard freshman class. They arrive in Cambridge as eager and awed as any. Some, of course, arrive with a chip on their shoulder and with a few choice words concerning Little Rock. These few have ample--indeed, abundant--opportunity to express their defense of segregation, Faubus, and States Rights, for they will find roommates equally eager to argue...
...film is spotted with a succession of little horrors. We see the two convicts with nooses around their necks, surrounded by an angry mob; a woman's voice pipes up, "What you menfolks goin' t' do?" The pursuing posse includes a little man who plays rock and roll on a portable radio--so that, with each flashback, the audience will remember who these people...