Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with deep emotion, spoke Virginia's Governor J. (for James) Lindsay Almond Jr. last week to a special session of the Virginia General Assembly in Richmond. His duty, as he saw it, was a sad one. Faced with U.S. and Virginia Supreme Court orders (TIME, Feb. 2) to integrate four Negroes into white public schools in Arlington County (pop. 277,400) and 17 in Norfolk (pop. 294,300), Almond had either to propose new forms of resistance, which would surely be judged unconstitutional, or to comply. Almond's decision, imposed by his lawyer's mind...
Fire or Token? The impact of Almond's decision spread fast and spread hard through the South. Virginia, the traditional leader, had originally provided in its massive-resistance laws-in its authorization for the Governor and/or assembly to seize control of the schools from local districts, to close schools, to withhold school funds, etc.-a promising pattern of lawful resistance to the Supreme Court's basic 1954-55 decisions. Now Virginia was setting what amounted to a new pattern of limited or token integration, which had already been pioneered in North Carolina. Desperately, the Virginia General Assembly...
...scheduled in 1959: Mississippi, Kentucky and Virginia, where a special session convened last week to consider only court-ordered integration...
...evenings, while their instructor darned his socks, Hokkaido's students heard uplifting tales of the Civil War. Clark, who ended the war as a colonel with the 21st Massachusetts Volunteers, would tell his awed audience: "At the battle of Chantilly, Virginia, on Sept. 1, 1862, I was surrounded by Confederates and was called on to surrender. Bullets whistled overhead; my uniform was torn to pieces. Gentlemen, an American never surrenders. But I managed to retire, and returned to the Union forces unharmed." When the fiery Clark left for Massachusetts, he gave his students a ringing injunction: "Boys, be ambitious...
...litany of lust and degradation. Eight years before, Temple had been kidnaped by a spiderish hoodlum named Popeye, kept six weeks in a Memphis brothel, and ''loved it." ("Nun" is a 19th century word for whore.) A year later Temple married the slack-spined Virginia gentleman, Gowan Stevens, who had been too drunk at the time of the kidnaping to protect her. It is only when Temple proposes to relive the bad old days with an ex-lover's younger brother that Nancy pleads with her to break the cycle of evil for the sake...