Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-21
LITTLE ROCK

school on the eve Of school
opening and ordered the troops
to prevent Negroes from en-
tering despite q Federal Court
order directing the beginning
of racial desegregation.
Nine Negro students were
turned away.
Under the school boards
court-approved plan. integra-
ton was to begin at the high
school level. then junior high
level and finally In elementary
schools.
Gov. Faubus withdrew the
troops after United States Dis
trict Judge Ronald N. Davies
Of Fargo. N. OAK, enjoined him
and other State officials from
interfering with indignation.
Rioting broke out when the
nine Negroes tried to enter
Central under protection Of
city policemen.
ParatrOopers Assigned
President Eisenhower Sep
TENDER "a ordered elements of
the l01st Airborne Division
here from Fort Campbell, KY,
and federalized the Arkansas
National Guard, thus removing
the Guard from the command
Of the Arkansas Governor.
The Federal troops dispersed
the anti-integration crowds
which filled the street in front
of Central and enforced Judge
Davies order that migration
proceed forthwith. Federalized
Guardsmen remained on duty
at Central High throughout the
school year.
Both Judge Davies and
Judge Lemley were assigned
here temporarily to I'LL a va
cany on the bench Of the Dis
ltrict Of Eastern Arkansas.
OF the nine Negroes enrolled
at Central last September,
seven would have been eligible
to return this fall. One Of the
Negroes, Minnijean Brown. was
expelled earlier this year and
transferred under scholarship
to a private inter-racial school
in New York. Ernest Green
became the first Negro to
graduate from Central High
School May 20.
Violation Charged
Wiley Branton Of Pine Bluff,
an attorney for the NAACP,
was assisted in defending
against the school boards sus-
pension petition by Thurgood
Marshall of New York. chief
NAACP counsel and U. Simp-
son Tate Of Dallas, Tex.
The NAACP attorneys con-
tended that a breakdown in in
tegration at Central High
School would be a violation Of
the Negroes rights. They
sought to show that school au-
thorities had failed to enforce
discipline during the first year
of indignation.
Mrs. L. c. Bates Of Little
Rock, president Of the Ar
kansas branch Of the NAACP
could not be reached for i'm.
mediate comment on Judge
Lemley's ruling. Her husband
said she was in Pennsylvania
on a business trip.
Judge Lemley found thai
J racial incidents plus thu
presence Of troops, which wal
in and of itself O distracting In
fluence, created throughout thu
year a situation Of tension anC
unrest among the schoo
administrators, the classroom
teachers. the pupils. and thu
latter's parents, which newt
ably had an adverse affect upor
the educational program. :"
School impaired. He Says
The school program wal
seriously impaired. administra'
ton practically disrupted ant
educational standards suffered
he said.
THE source Of the trouble
was the deep seated populal
Opposition In Little Rock to tn,
principle Of integration," tn,
Judge wrote In his 35-pagl
opinion.
I'VE further find" Judg,
Lemley said. that IL the attend
ance of Negro students at Cen
trail High school is TO be main
tanned during the next schoe
year. the board win have h
have military assistance or IL
equivalent. :"