Word: segregationism
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The Supreme Court did not intend to end racial segregation by soldiers brandishing bayonets in the face of the South. The May 1954 decision was "moderate" leaving implementation of the Court's order to local courts which were to approve timetables for gradual, peaceful, and orderly integration.
This attitude was reflected in Representative Brooks Hays' (D-Ark.) appeal to President Eisenhower yesterday to replace the 101st with federalized National Guardsmen. Hays said that while the people of Arkansas would "prefer the old pattern" of segregation, they would obey the law and that the paratroopers were an unnecessary...
Most practical segregationists hope only to delay integration as long as possible, by legal tactics and by convincing Negroes that they are better off in their own schools. Faubus, on the contrary, played his entire hand in about three weeks and the result is not segregation.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Sept. 25--Citizens of this border state capital proved today that racial segregation is not worth the price of active resistance. They demonstrated, at least, that when faced with the armed might of 400 federal troops, discretion is the better part of valor.
Texas. After a promising start, the pace of integration has slowed down. Of 800-odd school districts with both white and Negro children, 122 have at least partly integrated, and so have several state-supported colleges. But in eastern Texas, where 90% of the Negro schoolchildren live, segregation fences are...