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It is not likely tnat you nave
every heard the true story of
why the South’s opposition to
classroom integration collapsed,
what started the fall of the dom
inoes. You should; it is an in
teresting story and was told to
me by the late Senator Harry
F. Byrd.
See, first, what was the situa
tion in Virginia just before the
collapse, in 1958, four years af
ter the infamous Warren-Court
decision.
J. Lindsay Almond, in Jan
uary of that year and upon tak
ing the oath of office as gover
nor gave a clear reflection of
Virginia’s determination to op
pose the unconstitutional ruling:
“I call upon the General Assem
bly”, the new governor said, “...
to stand firm with unwavering
unity of purpose and high re
solve against every assault upon
the sovereign integrity of this
Commonwealth.”
That was the spirit of Massive
Resistance_ ___
But soon Lindsay Almond was
to slip his self-imposed bonds
of principle, andi, having done
so, once his term ran out, was
to crawl away to the obscurity
of a tax-court bench. Nbbody in
Virginia, today, speaks of Unsay
Almond. His is the picture turn
ed to the wall.
How that happened, what made
a turncoat of this Byrd Organiza
tion stalwart is the story of what
happened to classroom integral
tion. _.» ' • ' ■••••/ : 7*
• • •
The story Senator Byrd told
just sort of slipped out We
were there in his cluttered aerie
DUl. u was laxe m iww, ana me
old senator was tired'. He spoke,
first of Almond’s collapse then,
suddenly and without preamble,
he said: “They paid me a visit,
about 50 of them, mostly from
Richmond; the merchants, the
bankers, the newspaper people,
people who had supported me
all of my political life.
“Now, they said, they would
support me no longer. That
if I continued with Massive Re
sistance they would oppose me
and I said, gentlemen, I can’t do
it-alone. And that was that”.
Andi indeed it was, that. When
the leader toppled, the South’s
phalanx of opposition was de
stroyed. Only Mississipi and Ala
bama — God bless them — re
fused to knuckle under.
* * *
The question comes: Who was
right? Harry Byrd or the mer
chants?
What is the evidence? Are our
public-school systems, today
There’s Barbecue
more nobly serving our young
people or are they serving them
less well? Can the races, with
justice to both, be educated
communally'
Here is a fact that should ans
14 years af
decision,
m *
ran a com
. of the educa
children. The piece
}>y Roger A. Free
■ Staff Member at
Institution of Stan
ford University. Dr. Freeman
wrote: “The fact is that on the
average black children (today)
tend to be several months be
hind white children when they
enter school, and the discrepan
cy widens as the children are
promoted each year until at the
beginning of the 12th grade
the average black child lags
from three to six years behind
national norms.”
That is the fact; the average
black child (IQ—80) is not able
to keep dp with a' curriculum
designed to accomodate the av
erate White child (iQ-100).
And what comes of that? Well,
we know this: When horses are
in harness, the pace must be
set by the slowest.
And that is what is happen
ing to our public-school systems,
as it is what is happening to our
nation — and it is how it hap
pened.
But the Richmond merchants,
as the merchants in Atlanta, Bir
mingham, New Orleans and way
stations; the Richmond bankers
as the bankers in Atlanta; as the
metropolitan dailies from Rich
mond to El Paso, they never
had it so good.
No, hut resistance to their de
sign is not dead; the spirit of
Harry Byrd still lives in the
9,900,000 Americans who, on
November 5, voted for George
C. Wallace.
The fight goes on.
COPLES IN VIETNAM
Private First Class James W.
Copies, son of David L. Copies
of Route 7, Kinston, was assign
ed to the 173rd Airborne Brig
ade in Vietnam, Dec. 1. His wife,
Garetha, also lives on Route 7.
JONES
Friday
Whaley’s Home
Howard
9:30- 9:SV
W. Garner’s Home- 9:55-10:40
Sammy
Turnage Home-10:45-11:05
Manly Foye’s Home_Tl:15-ll:45
Shady Grove
Methodist Church_-12:00-12:30
Wayne 'Haskins
Service Stati^U- 1:45- 2:15
Mrs. Louise.
Stilley*s Home-- 2:20- 2:35
Cedi Adams Farm- 2:40- 3:10
DEATHS
Allen Earl Jones
Funeral services will be held
at 2 Thursday afternoon from
Edwards Funeral Home for Al
len Earl Jones, 67, of Dover
route 2, wno died Tuesday
morning. .
SHIRT THIEF PROBA^IONED
Southport Judge Rudy Mintz
Tuesday put Ezzell Lassiter Jr.
of 616 Harvey Street on proba
tion after he pleaded guilty to
stealing several hundred shirts
from his former employer Kins,
ton Shirt Company. He was
fined $100 also.
EDWARDS
Funeral Home
Ambulance
Service
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Extra clean, extra nice station
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Sporty Convertible Sports
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