Word: schoolings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Little Rock's school board ordered a small but significant advance in the integration of the city's schools. In addition to assigning three Negro pupils again to Central High, scene of the 1957 riots, the board admitted the first three Negro youngsters for classes at Hall High School...
...making the assignments, the board ignored the "solution" to Little Rock's school problem that Governor Orval Faubus offered earlier in the week. Faubus suggested that the board 1) designate two of Little Rock's four high schools (Hall and the all-Negro Horace Mann) for integration; 2) "ask all parents who wish their children to attend integrated schools to come forward and so state"; 3) assign half these children to each of the two integrated schools, though segregating them by sex-all boys, white and Negro, in one, all girls, white and Negro, in the other...
Last Train from Gun Hill (Hal Wallis; Paramount) is a slick saddle-soap opera of TV's "adult'' school, with enough shallow currents of sociology, Greek tragedy and child psychology to titillate horse-opera highbrows...
...believe that the American free-public-school system is a bulwark of American democracy, or do you stand for a religiously segregated school system...
...daughters (his two sons prefer other sports). Reiner likes to battle constituted authority, from the Defense Department to the Los Angeles city fathers. He employs a full staff of lawyers to aid him in his causes. His pet project: because he deplores the state of education in public schools, he recently spent $300,000 to build a private elementary school for his own and his neighbors' children...