Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...College of William and Mary in Virginia, the guests included Chief Justice Earl Warren and his British counterpart, Lord Chief Justice Goddard. Members of the Virginia judiciary were there, as well as such celebrities as Arthur Lehman Goodhart, master of University College, Oxford, and Judge Harold Medina. The notables had come to honor three great jurists: Sir William Blackstone, John Marshall, and George Wythe, who 175 years ago was appointed by William and Mary to the first chair of law in the U.S. But though the tributes to these three were the purpose of the ceremony, the center of attraction...
Some of the invited Virginia officials seemed determined to show their disapproval. Representative Edward Robeson Jr., whose district includes the college, said he would be out of the state. Former Governor William Tuck announced that "I just don't feel like going," and Governor Thomas B. Stanley excused himself on the grounds that he was having a cattle sale on his farm. At the last moment, Lieutenant Governor A.E.S. Stephens did accept at the governor's request, but only for the morning session. In the afternoon, it seemed, he was due at the Tobacco Festival in Richmond...
...West Virginia, 21 white students went on strike at the Sherman High School in Seth because three Negroes had been admitted, and 300 parents held a protest meeting in Madison over 18 Negro pupils. Meanwhile, Kanawha County, seat of the capital, rescinded its earlier decision, ordered 2,905 Negroes back to segregated schools. But elsewhere in the state, there was progress of another sort. Last week 164 white students were peacefully enrolled at the once all-Negro West Virginia State College...
...Virginia, Governor Thomas B. Stanley once again announced: "I shall use every legal means at my command to preserve segregated public schools...
...North Carolina's Davidson College, James Southall Wilson, 73, retired dean of the University of Virginia's Department of Graduate Studies, had such a good time teaching Shakespeare ("The happiest academic experience I've had") that he immediately accepted another job at Hollins College, Virginia...