Word: wright
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...Arkansas' Orval Faubus-guided his legislature through a stormy special session, signing into law a paroxysm of sweeping resolutions aimed at tearing apart the New Orleans school system and whooping up segregationist emotion. In New Orleans' federal courtroom, U.S. District Court Judge J. (for James) Skelly Wright, who had ordered the school integration, countered every new law with a restraining order. New Orleans-born Judge Wright, in an unprecedented display of judicial power, eventually enjoined the Governor, the state attorney general, a whole host of city officials and the entire legislature from interfering with integration...
...rally at the municipal auditorium. They stamped and shouted as former State Senator Willie Rainach ranted warnings of the "conspiracy for the destruction of the white race," and Leander Perez, the notorious political boss of Plaquemines Parish in the Mississippi Delta, foamed at Jews, Catholics, Negroes, "Judge J. Scallywag Wright," and at Mayor de Lesseps Morrison as "weasel, snakehead Morrison...
However, school officials ignored an attempt of the legislators to take over control of the city's educational system and proclam a school holiday. In defiance of Judge Wright's restraining orders, the legislature has issued written demands to the school principals not to integrate and had voted to remove those members of the school board who had moved to obey the federal action. Another resolution prohibited inter-school transfers without legislative consent. In an appeal to the public, the House urged white parents to boycott the two integrated schools. At present, with these and other measures rescinded by Judge...
...eruption of rioting which accompanied the entrance of four Negro first graders into New Orleans' McDonough and William Frantz elementary schools last Monday was the forseeable culmination of action begun last May. At that time U.S. District Court Judge J. Skelly Wright ordered the New Orleans school board to desegregate public schools this fall. When it became evident recently that the board, including its segregationist president Lloyd Rittinger, was going to comply with the order, the state legislature met in special session and passed resolutions resisting the court decree...
...position has become "completely untenable." "From a practical point of view, the board is reaching a point where it will, regardless of the orders of the court, be unable to operate the schools," Rosenberg said. He has asked the three judge commission now deciding whether to maintain Judge Wright's restraining order to nullify the flood of legislation against the actions of the board or keep the schools segregated until the litigation is completed...