Word: segregationist
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...grimly real: a segregationist mob had ruled Little Rock for an ugly moment in U.S. history. Now the face of the law was that of a young U.S. Army paratrooper in battle gear outside Central High School. Little Rock was a name known wherever men could read newspapers and listen to radios, a symbol to be distorted in Moscow, misinterpreted in New Delhi, painfully explained in London. A great issue had been joined between law and anarchy-and as always, it was the innocents, the moderates, who suffered most...
...League of Central High Mothers, a segregationist groups, conducted the campaign. The plan was to reach every home with children in school, but there was no indication how many had actually been called...
...only new development came in the form of a story in the Arkansas Democrat, a moderate paper veering toward a segregationist position. In a copyrighted story, the Democrat said that Governor Faubus would call a special session of the Arkansas legislature "in a matter of hours" to deal with the use of federal troops in Little Rock...
That was the whole point. To set himself up as a segregationist hero, Orval Faubus had chosen to manufacture violence in Little Rock and make a dramatic issue of integration in a city long untroubled by major racial difficulties. His refusal to back down put the matter squarely up to Judge Davies (see box) and the U.S. district court where Faubus had been summoned to show cause why a temporary injunction should not be issued against...
...only two candidates have declared themselves--the Attorney General of Arkansas, who is a leading segregationist, and a local meat packer, who is running on a businessman's platform...