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NOW TI INTEGRATE’! THE JUSTICES Huge L. Black. Chief Justice Earl Warren (leaning (erward tu question Butler). Felix Frankfurter. Harolil H. Burton. Jahn Vo Ularlae and Ghacles EL Wiivaher, STAND FIRM Out of the lofty. columoed chamber of the Uheu Sup Lae) eine a terse and forceful statement, Desegregation of public schol bal. sinner the Courts 1954 ruling. herome the gravest. moet divisive tsar le ern front the nation in a century. Now the Court. in spretal session. was deciding whether integration of Lith: Riek’. Gertral High Sehesok beat continue al ence or whether. after last sears Vielsnee apd the threat of more le come. integration should be delaved fer SO month-. The verdiel war densely awaited notanh io Litth Rock but over the entire South. for it would reveal whether or not Use Court had sielded ia the face of the mounting resistance to inlegration that has deve Lopes i in four wears. ok The verdict took | jut four minutes to read: by unanimens vote, wait Chic ustice Ex mare erated the plea Tura Take av. Pntegratiin must 1 “So the Court ruled. Thus battle was Jetned an The mamenteur under lying conflict exposed by the school question: states’ rights rs. federal sovereignty. Invoking swreping powers just soted him hy the Arkan-a- Jogistature, Governor Orval Fauhus proclaimed the closing of all four L il- tle Rock high schools to preveat “impending vielenes and disorder, Virginia, too, counterattacked, There. immediately after the Court deei- arren. the sion, Governor J. Lindsay Almani Jr, uscd his powers under a proprani of legal “massive resistance’ to thwart an integration order (ext pageesy, The Supreme Court, by its unwavering stand for equal educational rights under the Constitution. and the Iwo states. by their hold defianer, had now struck a grim impa--e. The question was. what nest? Phere were small, new signs in Arkansa~ of resentment again-t sepregalionist-" in- transigence (pp. 26-27). The issue woukl, hopefully. be fought out in the federal courts. But the due process of law «ilk take a long. long time. PAWNS IN BATTLE. 12 Negroes hoping to enter while school. visit Mire. Dai-s fee (eek, Wrbansa- SAAC LE feadlee. Aiindew wie broke bs haters, 23