Word: segregationist
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Eleven weeks after court-decreed integration began at two New Orleans elementary schools, the court order was still being treated with legalized contempt. At the William Frantz school, where as many as 23 white students had once defied a howling segregationist mob, only seven whites were left in school with a solitary six-year-old Negro youngster. At McDonogh 19 the white boycott was complete; the only students were three little Negro first-graders. Then one day the boycott seemed to crack. Gregory Thompson, 10, reported to McDonogh 19. A couple of days later, Greg's brother Michael...
...embattled New Orleans, where one school is integrated, a third-grade white boy peacefully broke the total white boycott at another, McDonogh No. 19. To aid many city teachers, who went unpaid because the segregationist state legislature froze school funds, Mayor deLesseps S. Morrison asked people to pay property taxes not due until May, quickly got enough to pay salaries in full for January...
...York City suburb of New Rochelle, the board of education got a jolt from Federal Judge Irving R. Kaufman, who called it "deliberately" segregationist. He charged that the board gerrymandered district lines to keep New Rochelle's Lincoln School virtually all-Negro. Judge Kaufman ruled in favor of Negro parents who vainly tried to register their children at mixed schools last fall, ordered the board to desegregate Lincoln by next fall. The decision was a sharp blow at the "neighborhood school" concept, which breeds de facto segregation throughout the North...
...Committee last week and passed, as everyone expected, with high honors. Before the fact, though, there had been some promise of drama. Across the committee table. Rusk had to face Chairman William Fulbright-a man who could have had Rusk's job had he not been an Arkansas segregationist-and a squad of Republicans intent on making sure that the next State Secretary is not "soft" on Communism...
...forces of reason seemed to be winning handily at first. Federal Judge William A. Bootle found the two young Atlantans qualified for the university, ordered them admitted immediately. As Charlayne arrived from Detroit's Wayne State University and Holmes from Atlanta's Morehouse College, Georgia's Segregationist Governor Ernest Vandiver pointed out that a 1956 Georgia law would force him to cut off state funds for any desegregated school. Judge Bootle restrained him temporarily from doing that, and good will ruled the campus...