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...five Arkansas communities to begin integration, to allow 15 to 20 Negroes into the white Central High School. The injunction had been handed down by Chancellor Murray Reed of the State Chancery Court after a hearing on a petition filed by the secretary of the newly formed pro-segregationist League of Central High Mothers. Reason for the chancellor's decision: witnesses, including Governor Orval Faubus, testified that integration would inevitably mean violence...
...well as governor (1887-91; 1897-99)-in fact, the Taylor brothers ran against each other in 1886 for governor. No politician, Little Bob Taylor is well content to be a federal judge in the Northern Division of the Eastern District of Tennessee (Knoxville). If he is segregationist at heart (which some friends think he is), he keeps his sentiments to himself, deals fairly with Negroes and whites in his court, for, as anybody in Tennessee knows, Little Bob values above all things a respect for law and order...
...sense. Kasper stood alone, abhorred by his fellow defendants, who had rounded up no fewer than eleven lawyers to represent them. As the trial droned on for twelve days, the defense attorneys did little more than rise to object or make wordy points of law, or try to inflame segregationist feelings in the jury. One defense attorney, Ross Barnett, informed the jury that Mississippi's Senator James Eastland had instructed him to "tell that jury what's happened in Washington." Eastland's news: 874 public-school children in Washington. D.C. "have loathsome and contagious diseases...
Over the months Barbara had already received as many as three threatening, anonymous phone calls a week. But it was not until last month that a segregationist legislator named Jerry Sadler blasted the "octopus on the hill" (i.e., the university) for mixing "whites and blacks in an opera." Later another segregationist. Representative Joe Chapman, phoned the university's President Logan Wilson to discuss the matter. Though he denies threatening Wilson, the fact remained that the university's appropriations were about to come up before the legislature. Result: President Wilson suddenly decided that Dido must be white...
Wrote Editor Virginius Dabney of the segregationist Richmond Times-Dispatch: "If any of these invited colored citizens come to the dinner . . . and admission is refused, Virginia and Virginia hospitality will get a black eye from which they may never recover." With all this said and done, the Chamber of Commerce mended its anniversary manners, announced that any invited Negro who showed up at the reception would be "courteously seated...