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...step toward integrating Atlanta's segregated schools was taken last week by U.S. District Judge Frank A. Hooper. After declaring segregation illegal, he granted an injunction against discrimination in the schools, whose 67,000 white and 46,000 Negro students are 10% of Georgia's school-age children. Carefully, Georgia-born Judge Hooper did not order integration by next September; he ordered the city's board of education to submit a plan within a "reasonable" time. He had reason for caution: arch-segregationist Georgia already has a ticklish law allowing Governor S. Ernest Vandiver to close integrated...
...Judge Hooper's decision, which keeps the schools open, is intended to "clarify the issues"-in effect, to challenge the state law. Said he: "Even the most ardent segregationists in the land, though bitterly opposed to such ruling, now recognize that segregated public schools are not permitted...
...Atlanta, U.S. Judge Frank A. Hooper heard the complaint of two Negro ministers, decided that segregated seating on city buses was unconstitutional in light of the Supreme Court's Montgomery bus decision. Atlanta becomes the third Southern city (with Montgomery and New Orleans) ordered to integrate buses; 26 other cities have desegregated voluntarily...
Paul LeComte 7G described important experiments in the field of high-pressure physical geology under the direction of Francis Birch, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, which are attempting to reveal the nature of unexplained structural discontinuities just below the earth's outer crust...
Henry Adams: The Middle Years, by Ernest Samuels. Boston's testy Brahmin found life pleasant in those charmed years when his Eve-Marian ("Clover") Hooper-was in wifely charge of the education of Henry Adams...