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October 5, 1957

Edition of the Guide

Pupils Return To School In Three Virginia Districts NORFOLK

Most of the ten pupils who were barred from (all White) schools in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Nansemond County (now Chesapeake) because their parents refused to sign the placement form, were back in school Monday. This follows the granting of a temporary restraining order by Federal Judge Walter E. Hoffman prohibiting enforcement of the Virginia Pupil Placement Acts (VPPA) in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Nansemond County.

Three of the four pupils in Norfolk returned to their schools. They were Margot D. Jordan, daughter of Joseph A. Jordan Sr.; and Samuel Merritt II, son of S.C. Merritt Jr., returned to Booker T. Washington High School. Harritt Bullock, daughter of Minnie J. Bullock, returned to Laura E. Titus School. Judith Isler’s daughter Lila S. Isler enrolled at St. Joseph High School after being barred from Jacox Junior High School and not returning to school on Monday.

County, and Richmond. Several White and Negro parents have refused to sign placement forms contending that Virginia’s act is unconstitutional and was adopted to avoid compliance with the Brown Decision. The defendant school districts say that Chapter 70 of the Placement Act was not illegal. But Judge Hoffman said there is still no ruling to the contrary by any state or federal court and that considering the ruling of other federal courts, the validity of the act was “shaken.”

Chapter 70 of the Legislature in 1956, enacts a “pupil placement act” to be administered by a Pupil Placement Board that provides criteria to guide the placement of pupils and provides that no pupil may transfer to a new school in his area without the approval of the Board.

Little Rock Not Ready For Graham

NEW YORK

Little Rock church leaders have urged Evangelist Billy Graham to postpone any planned visit to the district “if local churchmen believed it would help lessen racist tensions.” said, “is ready to explode throughout the world. And unless man repents and turns back to God ready to follow Him, those tensions will explode into the annihilation of the earth as we know it today.”

Flag Raised By Boys of Four Races

UVALDE, TEXAS advocate for stringent gun control measures after the ban’s expiration in 2004. As chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Feinstein spearheaded a comprehensive investigation into the CIA’s post-9/11 detention and interrogation program, culminating in legislation prohibiting such torture methods.

A little town way down in the heart of Texas boasts of having the most unique system of interrogations to the found anywhere in the country. Each morning four little boys of different racial origins raised the American flag over Uvalde’s integrated schools. They are Marvin Stone, a Negro; Eugene Hanamachi of Japanese ancestry; Antonio Santos, a Latin American; and Gary Soring, an Anglo American.

And all during the school day, the children study together and play together under the giant Oaks that don the school grounds.

The city school’s officials said, “Integration of all races as we have it would bring joy to any school administrator,” said Supt. M. B. Morris last Saturday.

Positioned as a centrist Democrat, Feinstein won recognition for her efforts to bridge divides with Republicans, a stance that occasionally drew criticism from progressive party members. She diverged from them on several significant issues, including her opposition to single-payer, government-run healthcare and her reservations about the ambitious Green New Deal.

Feinstein was an advocate for preserving Senate traditions. Yet, in 2021, she expressed a willingness to consider adjustments to filibuster rules if Democrats encountered obstacles in passing critical components of their legislative agenda, such as voting rights reforms, gun control, and the reauthorization of the landmark Violence Against Women Act.

She is survived by her daughter, Katherine Feinstein, a San Francisco County Superior Court judge, her son-in-law, Rick Mariano, and her granddaughter, Eileen Feinstein Mariano.

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Counsel for the plaintiffs asserted the Placement Act and other laws enacted by the recent special session of the Virginia Legislature were “schemes” to maintain racially segregated schools and the act has already been held unconstitutional on its face. Lawyers for the plaintiffs insist that the act in which the pupils were barred from schools conflicted with the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and deprived the plaintiffs of the equal protections of the law.

Other localities in Virginia where the Pupil Placement Act was challenged were Newport News, Charlottesville, Arlington County, Fairfax

The churchmen recently said in part ... “After oratorical consideration, it is our belief that you can help more later. Why you’re coming will help later, you will help heal the wounds and restore Christian unity to our community.”

The Telegram signers included Rev. Brooks Hayes who is also president of the Southern Baptist Convention.

Rev. Graham Sunday told a crowd of some 7,000 at Boyle Stadium in Stamford, Connecticut that racial “tensions are neither the exclusive prerogatives of the South, nor the United States. “Racial tension, he

(NJG Update: On May 22, 2022, in Uvalde Texas, 19 children and two adults were killed in a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School.)

Mr. Almond Campaigns

NORFOLK

“Democrat” J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., (running for governor) is quoted by a newspaper reporter in Norfolk as saying the night they “Used federal troops at Little Rock shows that the Republican party has returned to its extreme actions during the reconstruction period.”

He distorted events of the so-called “reconstruction” period painting an imaginary picture of post-civil war actions that did not take place as indicated and is brushed off as a political demagogue slogan based on falsehoods not in fact used by the Democrats to win elections ever since the Populist republicans coalitions gained some headways in the South in the 1890s.

Candidate Almond did not say that Arkansas literally “fired on Fort Sumpter.” Some explanation is needed with regard to the use of the troops but almost gave none.

Almond did not tell the audience that Governor Faubus of Arkansas called out the National Guard which used rifles and bayonets to keep the Little Rock School plan of mere token integration worked out over a two-year period from being put into effect.

He did not say that Governor Faubus used the state militia to prevent a United States court at Little Rock from functioning and to nullify a decision of the court, and a decree of the United States Supreme Court.”

He did not say that national guardsmen called out by Faubus 350 strong used their bayonets at the throats of one Negro youth to keep them out of school to which they had been assigned by the Little Rock school board, under its own plan at the own leisure.

He did not say that Faubus mobs beat severely four Negro and two white Newsmen.

Florida Kills Bill Resisting Integration TALLAHASSEE, FL.

The Florida House of Representatives has killed a last resort a bill that was aimed as the ultimate maneuver in preventing integration of Florida Public Schools.

The defeated measure would have allowed residents of any school district to suspend the operation of their schools by local options and would have provided public funds for the operations of the institution’s private schools.

Showdown Near Over “Y” Dispute NORFOLK

Widespread speculations about the status of Horace G. Christopher, 17 years executive director of the Hunton Branch YMCA, was expected to reach the clearing upstage early next week.

Christopher whose services were determined at midnight on Sept. 30 by the Central Association rectors has demanded hearings before the branch’s community of management and the Central Association directors.

He has claimed, according to published reports, he has been given an opportunity to explain the items of controversy in the report. The report referred to was made to a special joint committee of Hunton and Central Board by the firm of Waller and Woolhouse certified public accountants.

The firm audited the books and records of the Hunton. It submitted a detailed 20-page report to the joint committee in September. The report was referred to the Hunton Branch member committee. The group recommended that Christopher resign.

The committee of management, after a five-hour meeting, approved the committee’s recommendation effective October 1.

William E. Hyman, program secretary of the Hunton, has been designated an acting executive director.

A group of Hunton members are calling for a meeting to allow Christopher to explain his side in the matter. He has received a copy of the audit report.