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...stood at the head of the opposing forces. In the state capital of Baton Rouge, segregationist Governor Jimmie Davis-a smudged, folk-singing carbon of Arkansas' Orval Faubus-guided his legislature through a stormy special session, signing into law a paroxysm of sweeping resolutions aimed at tearing apart the New Orleans school system and whooping up segregationist emotion. In New Orleans' federal courtroom, U.S. District Court Judge J. (for James) Skelly Wright, who had ordered the school integration, countered every new law with a restraining order. New Orleans-born Judge Wright, in an unprecedented display of judicial power...
Next morning a mob of some 350 teenagers from nearby Nicholls High School cut classes and charged toward McDonogh 19, roaring out a football-styled chant: "Two-Four-Six-Eight, We Don't Want to Integrate." Police steered the students away from their target, but segregationist tempers started to flare. That night 6,000 whites jammed into a White Citizen's Council rally at the municipal auditorium. They stamped and shouted as former State Senator Willie Rainach ranted warnings of the "conspiracy for the destruction of the white race," and Leander Perez, the notorious political boss of Plaquemines...
...McDonough and William Frantz elementary schools last Monday was the forseeable culmination of action begun last May. At that time U.S. District Court Judge J. Skelly Wright ordered the New Orleans school board to desegregate public schools this fall. When it became evident recently that the board, including its segregationist president Lloyd Rittinger, was going to comply with the order, the state legislature met in special session and passed resolutions resisting the court decree...
...executive editor of Little Rock's Arkansas Gazette, Ashmore won fame for courage and reason during the city's 1957 segregationist riots. Two years later Ashmore went to work for the Fund for the Republic, was commissioned by the Ford Foundation to study how to make the press more self-responsible. Last week he took the $50,000-a-year job as editor in chief of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. As EB's 19th-editor, Ashmore replaces Walter Yust, who died last February after 22 years...
...patiently signed autographs by the dozen as Italian fans threw their books down on the field. The home-town Clarksville Leaf-Chronicle ran a laudatory editorial ("an inspiration to the world in general"), and Tennessee's Governor Buford Ellington, who had run for office as an "oldfashioned segregationist," made plans to head the welcome-home party. When the Olympics were done. Coach Temple could find only one fault with the record of the world's fastest woman: "Wilma's never been tested since she came into her form. We don't know how fast she really...