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...Citizens' Councils distributed Black Monday to white Mississippi schoolchildren and awarded $50 prizes for essays blasting the Supreme Court. So eminent was Judge Brady that in 1960 he was selected to nominate Governor Ross Barnett for President at the Democratic National Convention. So pleased was Barnett that in 1963 he appointed Brady to Mississippi's highest court, calling him "widely known as a student of constitutional...
...next day 400 children boarded buses for four white schools which had had vacancies last spring. At two of the schools, the principals refused to let the Negro children into the classrooms since they did not have transfer slips from their Roxbury principals. At one of these, all the schoolchildren, white and black alike, were locked out until an unsuspecting janitor opened a door and the Exodus children streamed inside...
...nation's public schools and some parochial schoolchildren for the first time will get direct federal aid. About $775 million will go this year to finance improvement projects that the schools themselves develop...
...Keppel expects to have a head count on just how many Negroes are in previously all-white Southern classrooms this year. He optimistically predicts that the number will be ten times that of last year-in all, perhaps as much as a fourth of the South's Negro schoolchildren...
Such a flood tide of plenty is enough to feed and clothe half the world-and, under the Food for Peace Program, $1.7 billion worth will, in fact, find its way to some 100 million people, provide school lunches for 40 million schoolchildren, help stave off famine and political unrest the world over. The residue, added to the nation's vast stockpile of surplus commodities, will merely compound what urban Americans have long accepted as "the farm mess...