Word: sousa
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...hero. He went into a 1,500-man compound dominated by Communists, and brought out 300 anti-Communists." A middle-aged P.W. thanked a young lieutenant, then broke down. "One thousand days behind the wire," he sobbed, "one thousand days . . ." A band rataplanned a Sousa march, and the P.W.s, loaded into trucks, were driven off towards Seoul. Korean farmers lined the road to cheer them. The Chinese P.W.s waved their flags and chanted, "Resist Russia-Down with the Reds." Then they sang songs of what they would do to the women when they got to the Nationalist island of Taiwan...
...history began one day in 1950, when Spottswood and eleven other Negro children, with a police escort and a battery of lawyers, went to Washington's shining new John Philip Sousa Junior High School. The spacious brick-and-glass school, facing a carefully groomed golf course in southeast Washington, is in a solid residential district. It has 42 bright classrooms, a fine 600-seat auditorium, a completely equipped double gymnasium, a playground with room enough for seven basketball courts and a softball diamond...
...contrast between the two schools was clear, but even if Shaw had been just as good a school as Sousa, the parents of Spottswood Boiling and his friends would not have been satisfied. They were attacking something deeper than disparity of facilities. Their target was the principle of segregation. Said Spottswood's widowed mother, Mrs. Sarah Boiling, a $57.60-3-week bookbinder for the Federal Government's General Services Administration: "I think that to know how to deal with all people you've got to start as a child in school. In school you learn...
...Negro children's attempt to enter Sousa Junior High School was a maneuver carefully planned by the Consolidated Parent Group, an organization of Negro parents headed by a barbershop owner who once paid a $10 fine for taking his three-year-old daughter into a white playground in Washington. The other four cases before the court, from South Carolina, Virginia, Delaware and Kansas, were brought about in much the same manner by the N.A.A.C.P. The legal technicalities in the lawsuits differ somewhat from case to case,* but the aim is the same: mixed schools...
...album, which contains eight numbers, varying from Sousa to French marches, will cost 24.95 and will be sold before the Band's Dartmouth concert on October...