Word: segregationism
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The battle of New Orleans last week was fought both on the streets and in the courts. Methodically, relentlessly, the courts tore down segregation's façade. A three-judge federal panel denied the legality of interposition-the odd notion that a state government may interpose itself between...
Ronald Norwood Davies, 55, U.S. District Court for North Dakota. One of the few Northerners to play a key role in any local segregation issue, sober-minded, Minnesota-born Ronald Davies was virtually unknown until Aug. 26, 1957, when he reported to preside in Little Rock for a session of...
Richard Taylor Rives, 65, presiding judge on the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Rives (rhymes with Eaves) is a conservative, tradition-minded Democrat who passed the bar exam at 19 after "reading law" in the office of a family friend, won his court appointment in 1951. In his...
Frank Minis Johnson Jr., 42, U.S. District Court for Middle Alabama. Born in Republican north Alabama hill country, which never had slaves or plantations, "Straight Edge" Johnson (a nickname inherited from Grandfather James Johnson, an oldtime Republican sheriff of rural Fayette County) was nominated for the federal bench at the...
Vaught flatly refuses to give a scholarship to a married man ("They're too much trouble, and they're bad for discipline"). He has equally firm notions about regulating the lives of his players. None may have a car during the season. The entire football team is housed...