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John D. York, 31, father of six, is a quiet Negro who quit school after the fourth grade to work as a laborer in Pine Bluff, Ark. "Good education is important," says he. "My kids are going to graduate from high school." Last spring he heard incredible news: Dollarway School would accept Negro first-graders this fall under a complex placement test. John D. marched Delores, 6, straight to Dollarway. "Nigger," jeered a white crowd surrounding the pair, "why do you want to register her in a white school?" John D. answered quietly: "Because it is a public school." Then...
...bitterly segregationist Pine Bluff had learned a lesson from Little Rock, 45 miles away. And lean, responsible Lee Parham, president of the Dollarway school board, had pounded it home. "This is the only thing we can do," said he all over town. "Any violence over it will only hurt us in the future." Even the Citizens' Council agreed. As one Pine Bluffer put it: "It's awful hard to be a brave fighter when your opponent is a six-year-old girl...
...Arkansas, still be clouded by the storms that Faubus stirred up in Little Rock three years ago, it is a big and scary decision for a school board to assign a Negro pupil to an all-white school. Last week, after a long spell of foot dragging, the Dollarway school board at the segregationist stronghold of Pine Bluff (pop. 40,000) got up its nerve, and in minimum compliance with a 1959 federal court order, hand-picked six-year-old Delores Jean York, daughter of a Negro mill hand, to enter the first grade of the all-white Dollarway public...
...specific case at issue occurred in the rabidly segregationist Dollarway district near Pine Bluff (pop. 37,000), where three Negro students applied for immediate entrance to the all-white Dollarway High School. School officials refused, and a U.S. district court ordered the children admitted at once. The Dollarway school board countered by invoking the placement law, assigned the youngsters to a Negro school and appealed the case to the Circuit Court. The Negroes' next move: to prove, if they can, that the school board acted in bad faith...
...Supreme Court has not heard any arguments on the Dollarway case and similar cases. It is faced with the uncomfortable alternatives of denying school boards the right to approach desegregation in their own fashion (The NAACP is currently trying to force a North Carolina town into producing an overall desegregation plan), or allowing a skillful legal device to sabotage the spirit of its 1954 ruling. The question of whether assignment by race is justified when accompanied by the right to appeal for transfer is central in the case. If it is justified, Southern schools will have their "pioneers," Jackie Robinsons...