Word: watsons
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...This wasn’t something we were concerned about, it just wasn’t in the forefront of our thinking,” said then-Crimson Managing Editor George H. Watson ’58, who journeyed to Arkansas and eventually wrote a five-part series for The Crimson documenting the historic desegregation of the school...
...Watson wrote of the “outbreaks of violence and destruction” that accompanied the entrance of the black students into the school...
...Reporting on the first day of integration, Watson noted in his article, “The only person who resisted actively this morning, trying to seize a paratrooper’s rifle, found himself quickly knocked to the ground, covered with blood, and at the mercy of four soldiers with drawn bayonets...
...years after Brown v. Board of Education this is the beginning of people thinking about it, but hardly,” Watson said...
...same time, Watson said he believed the importance of this significant event was underscored by the fact that The Crimson decided to cover it in such depth, as staff members did not usually travel to cover national events...