Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evidence poured in. Newsman Kilpatrick peppered Virginia's Governor John S. Battle with some 50 letters - so many that, when he had occasion to write the governor on other matters, he wo'tild preface his letters with the phrase, "Not about Silas Rogers." Kilpatrick wrote a series of cold, factual editorials on the case, deliberately avoided sensationalism for fear that Red-front groups would leap into the fray for propaganda purposes...
...scholarship, likely to endure as a classical work on its subject. What keeps it from being a great book is Author Ward's self-imposed narrowness of perspective. Had he occasionally fitted the military events into the larger political story, and shown the dependence of battles in Virginia on diplomacy in Paris, his book would have been greatly improved. And he could thereby have suggested that all the marches and musketry added up to the one revolution in modern history which ended not in tyranny but freedom...
...days of argument on the U.S.'s sharpest social issue: segregation of Negroes and whites in public schools. Segregation is mandatory under the laws of 17 states, and is legal, if local districts want it, in four others.* Before the court were cases from four states (South Carolina, Virginia, Delaware and Kansas) and the District of Columbia. The cases varied in detail, but they added up to a carefully coordinated effort by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and other Negro groups to force the court into a far-reaching decision. The court chamber was packed...
...voted (2-1) for a state amendment authorizing the end of the public-school system (which the legislature presumably would ratify if the Supreme Court rules against segregation). The schools would be turned over to churches or other private groups. Not all Southern states intend to be so drastic: Virginia and Alabama have rejected the Georgia-South Carolina plan, but they and the others are prepared to fight a long legal delaying battle to hang on to segregation...
...Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi. Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina. Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia. The four "permissive" states: Arizona, Kansas, New Mexico and Wyoming. The District of Columbia falls somewhere in between: the schools have always been segregated and Congress has officially recognized the fact without actually ordering segregation. For other news of Attorney Davis, see EDUCATION. British magazines and newspapers, in reporting last week's Supreme Court hearings, missed an interesting statistic: the percentage of U.S. Negroes attending college (.5%) is higher than the percentage of the entire British population attending college...