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There are other harbingers. In the eleven states of the Old Confederacy, there are 665 black elected officials?state legislators, mayors, sheriffs and judges, county commissioners, city councilmen and school-board members. Last November, 110 blacks won political office, for a net gain of 75. Everywhere, the South's 3,350,000 black voters are a powerful new factor in the region's electoral equation. In some areas, black officials have taken control of the columned county courthouses that were the symbols of white domination; elsewhere, the impact of newly registered blacks has forced white politicians into accommodations that seemed...
...spoke quietly and candidly of the need for prison reform, better roads, higher teacher salaries, more vocational training and better programs for the poor. He countered Faubus' attempts to stir racial fears by saying that he too was against busing to achieve racial balance in schools. Yet when he was a school-board member in Charleston, the district was desegregated without difficulty. Arkansas Democrats seemed charmed by Bumpers' high-minded approach. "My father taught me that politics is a noble profession and I wanted to prove it," he said...
...will not allow my children to be bused and treated like cattle," insisted Louisiana Governor John McKeithen in a speech before the state school-board association. Thousands of white parents agree-except when it comes to busing that promotes school segregation...
...continuing rise in the number of Negroes holding elective public offices at local levels. A new survey by the Metropolitan Applied Research Center shows that there are now 1,469 black officials in the U.S. Among these are 168 state legislators, 48 mayors, 575 other elected city officials, 362 school-board members and 99 law-enforcement officials...
...reinstated pending final disposition of their cases. On the other hand, Doyle upheld the suspension of riotous students at the state university's Whitewater branch. The difference was that at Whitewater the militants had received an adequate preliminary hearing. - When a high school junior with long hair was sent home for violating a school-board dress code in Williams Bay, Wis., Doyle ordered him back to class without benefit of scissors. On the assumption that a school board would not make the same demands of an adult night student with long hair, Doyle suggested that "it is time...