Word: wright
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...black veils, their sons in neat dark suits. The adults were New Orleans parents; the children, pupils assigned to the city's newly integrated public schools. And in their coffin was the blackened, singed effigy of a man they have little reason to love: J. (for James) Skelly Wright, the tough-minded U.S. District judge who had ordered New Orleans schools to begin integration (TIME...
...Orleans-born Judge Wright, who has been forced to accept round-the-clock police protection and to take an unlisted telephone number, is the latest addition to an honor roll without precedent in U.S. legal annals. In the wake of its desegregation decision of 1954, the Supreme Court empowered Federal District judges to set the timing of "all deliberate speed," to approve or veto school-board desegregation plans, and to use every court power to see that integration was carried out. Many of the federal judges saddled with civil rights burdens were Southerners whose personal emotions ran contrary...
Dave Morse, a shortstop, was awarded the Wright Memorial Cup last night as the best all-around performer on the 1960 varsity baseball team. Morse, a junior, received the award at the annual baseball banquet at the Varsity Club...
...check, gave Davis little justification for moving in with emergency troops. Davis actually had little support among New Orleans' civic leaders. Rather than see schools closed, as Davis wanted, lawyers for the school board and for a committee of white parents worked with the N.A.A.C.P. and Judge Wright in the court war against the legislature...
...panel of federal judges agreed to rule on the constitutionality of the Louisiana legislature's surge of segregation laws. In addition, the school board asked for a temporary suspension of integration while the court ruled on the state's effort to interpose its authority between Judge Wright and the board. But until the motions are ruled on, the judges decreed, integration will continue...