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Mississippi also elected a governor but segregationist lawyer Ross Barnett was unopposed. He won the run-off Democratic primary in August...
...have been branded, an integrationist," said South Carolina-born Harry Scott Ashmore, executive editor of Little Rock's Arkansas Gazette, during the city's 1957 segregationist riots. "I call myself an upholder of law and order." While Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus worked tirelessly against both law and order in his campaign to keep the city's schools lily-white, Editor Ashmore became a rallying point for Southern moderates, won a Pulitzer Prize for his calm editorial voice. Last week, surveying Little Rock's now-peaceful school scene, Harry Ashmore, 43, announced that he is leaving...
...specific case at issue occurred in the rabidly segregationist Dollarway district near Pine Bluff (pop. 37,000), where three Negro students applied for immediate entrance to the all-white Dollarway High School. School officials refused, and a U.S. district court ordered the children admitted at once. The Dollarway school board countered by invoking the placement law, assigned the youngsters to a Negro school and appealed the case to the Circuit Court. The Negroes' next move: to prove, if they can, that the school board acted in bad faith...
This was the period when Jimmy belonged to the segregationist high command, but early this year his daughter Mary Ann, 16, invited him to attend a meeting at her Immanuel Baptist Church, whose minister is intelligent, reasonable, nonsegregationist Dr. W. O. Vaught Jr. "I never asked her about it," says Jimmy, "but I imagine Mary Ann went to him and said, 'Dr. Vaught, you've never talked to my daddy about coming to church,' and he probably said, 'Mary Ann, your daddy is an evil man.' If he did (she's a sweet child...
Last April Dr. Vaught called at Jimmy's store, gave him a Bible ("The first New Testament I ever saw," says Jimmy), read him some verses of Scripture. After a revival meeting, Jimmy was converted, joined Immanuel Baptist Church and broke with his segregationist cronies-but refuses to say whether or not he himself is still a segregationist. "I haven't seen one of those men," he says, "since I accepted Jesus as my Saviour." He also gave up smoking, drinking and joyrides in Cadillacs...