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Little Rock, Ark., muddling along in its 15th month of school segregation crisis, last week elected a new board of education to replace five members who resigned Nov. 14, plus a sixth, Segregationist Dale Alford, who opposed and beat Congressman Brooks Hays in the general elections. The big surprise: three...
The Alabama law sets up 17 separate standards for assigning pupils to public schools. Nowhere is the question of race or color mentioned, but school boards obviously had a wide-open chance to preserve the segregation status quo in several placement qualifications, including: 1) "the psychological qualification of the pupil...
"There's a new law of the land today on the integration problems of public schools," proclaimed Columnist David Lawrence, a Virginia Democrat. "Token integration now has become possible on a constitutional basis everywhere." Alabama's Lieutenant Governor-elect Albert Boutwell, one of the leading advocates of the...
A single-rent system would help eliminate "social segregation" and a "terrible administrative snarl in the Houses," a high official in the Administration said yesterday. But such a plan, he added, would have to overcome "the wide spectrum of room desirability," a built-in feature of our housing."
On the other hand, although a single-rent plan would have "many advantages," the official pointed to arguments against it. First, there is the range in room desirability. Whereas the proposed rent system would help eliminate "social segregation," it might bring forth "complaints of unfairness." If everybody pays the same...