Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-12
Supreme Court Orders
Little Rock Indignation
{ DELAY Is also Cancelled out

That delay is also Cancelled out
by today's ruling.
History Of Base
Here is the history of the
Little Rock case:
On August is. 1856, United
States District Judge James
E. Miller approved a plan
of the Little Rock School
Of the schools to begin at Gen.
trail High in the fall Of 1857.
That order of Judge Miller is
reinstated by today's decision.
After Gov. Faubus, declaring
he feared disorders, had used
National Guardsmen to prevent
the entry Of the Negroes into
the school, United States Dis
trict Judge Ronald Davies
issued an injunction against
him and officers of the National
Guard forbidding them from
interfering With orderly inte-
grafton. That injunction also
is reinstated.
Meanwhile, Regular troops
sent by President Eisenhower
restored order and the children
attended their classes at Gen.
trail High virtually under guard.
But a series of incidents of
pushing, showing, name-calling
and similar displays of opposi-
ton occurred within the school
structure. Bomb threats were
phoned to individuals and to
members of the school board.
Gov. Faubus and other high
State officials took an adamant
stand against indignation.
| Ask "COOIing-off"
Pleading that the educational
process in Little Rock could not
be maintained under the cir
cumstances, the school board
petitioned Judge Lemley for the
delay, saying that a cooling-off
period was necessary before
there could be any possibility
of successful indignation.
Virtually the same plea was
made by the school board to
the Supreme Court last month
and yesterday.
In other parts of the South,
particularly Virginia, various
Federal judges have held up
action in school migration
cases until they can get new
guidance from the Supreme
Court ruling in the Little Rock
case.
1t is far from certain that
Central High will reopen on an
integrated basis.
The Arkansas Legislature has
armed Gov. Faubus with
powers to close the schools
rather than permit indignation.
Gov. Faubus declined yesterday
TO say whether he would use
those powers. But, he said,
1.-The legislature did not pass
that legislation eff it were not
intended to be used"
In Little Rock the mood of
the people was reported even
more firmly against integra-
ton that it was a year ago
when mob violence resulted in
the use of Federal troops to-
enforce court-ordered integra-
ton at Central High.
Little Rock Asks Respite
The stage was set for to-
days ruling yesterday when
counsel for the school board
pleaded with the high court
for a delay Of indignation
while counsel for a group of
Negro children demanded inte-
grafton in the Arkansas Capital
be reinStated Immediately. So
licitor General Rankin. appear
ing for the Government, also
adopted the latter view.
All the children of Little
Rock would suffer through de-
Istruction, of the public school
system If indignation is or
dered, argued Mr.. Butler, at
torney for the school board.
He asked time in which, he
said, public opinion might |
change and some workable plan |
might be devised by the board
absent the current atmosphere
of "hysteria."
But, Mr.. Marshall, of the
National Association for the
Advancement Of Colored Peo-
pie, special counsel for seven
Negro children. commended that
much more serious damage to
the education of youth would
be done through postponement
of indignation.
Il am worried about white
children and their future when
they are told that the way to
get your rights is to defy the
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