June 18, 1959
Describes that the Floyd County School Board would not allow fourteen Black students to transfer to public white high schools in the area and explains that county schools would potentially be shut down if integration occurred.
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Editorial Grist: The True Lesson Of Little Rock
June 19, 1958
Argues that the Little Rock Nine were only successful in demonstrating that integration would be a violent, unnecessary process.
Editorial Grist: The Great Experiment
July 4, 1963
Vaguely examines integration and the perceived consequences that could result on a national level if it were to be enforced by the federal government.
Folsom Gives Stand Gn (typo) Segregation, If It Is A Stand
July 7, 1955
Vaguely describes that Governor Folsom planned to pass a bill that would impact segregation in public schools.
Civil Rights Boomerang
June 3, 1948
Describes the conflicting ideas about segregation and integration in public schools, primarily from the perspective of Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon.
Supreme Court Grants Stay In Integration Order For State Jails
March 23, 1967
Describes the order for Alabama prisons to be integrated as the result of a Supreme Court ruling and explains the push back from Governor Lurleen Wallace and Attorney General Gallion.
Editorial Grist: Onward
April 15, 1965
Describes the perception that race relations were functional within Alabama, specifically in regard to education. Also, presents a statistic that Black teachers were paid more than white teachers.
State May Have To Turn To Private Schools To Avoid Integration, Patterson Says
May 5, 1960
Describes that Alabama Governor Patterson studied the private school system in Prince Edward County, Virginia in case integration was forced onto schools in Alabama.
Editorial Grist: What About The Negroes Themselves?
May 27, 1954
Describes the belief that Black children would not benefit from integrated schools because they would still not be treated as equals.
Editorial Grist: A Negro Looks At Segregation
February 5, 1953
Describes that people within the Black community do not see desegregation as the proper way to improve race relations and create equality because the integration of schools could cause many Black teachers in the south to be without jobs and to lose their salaries.
Integration Makes Slow Progress
February 13, 1964
Explains the perception that the implementation of laws regarding integration by the Supreme Court were unwanted by white Americans across the nation and that Congress needed to focus on other important issues.
Editorial Grist: The Other Way Around
February 14, 1963
Explains the belief that Attorney General Kennedy was unjust toward white Americans in his efforts to desegregate schools and federally fund integrated schools.
A Wallace Ally in Chicago
February 27, 1964
Describes that Governor Wallace went on a tour of the Midwest and explains that he agreed with a Black, Chicago man named S.B Fuller who exhibited his views that civil rights protests were unproductive and that racial justice would not be acquired through integration.
Wallace Resolution Progresses
March 11, 1965
Describes the resolution suggested by Governor Wallace to enable states to choose whether or not to integrate their schools and explains that other southern states began to approve the measure.
Patterson to Ask U.S. Congress To Leave Schools Under Local Control
March 19, 1959
Describes the efforts of Governor Patterson and Senator Talmadge to create an amendment that would allow states to decide whether or not to integrate their schools.
Editorial Grist: Racial Agitation Becomes Widespread
March 19, 1964
Conveys the belief that the migration of Black Americans caused problems for white Americans in those areas, that the effort to integrate schools was unfounded, and that Black leaders within the civil rights movement were uninformed.
Editorial Grist: Brute Force, For Whites Only?
January 10, 1963
Questions the right for Black student James Meredith to leave Ole Miss to attend an NAACP meeting and poses that white students are facing discrimination.
Editorial Grist: Meredith Venture Nears An End
January 24, 1963
Explains the efforts to restrict James Meredith from attending Ole Miss and presents the notion that Meredith was a lowly student and that the excessive funds utilized for the integration of the university were a waste.