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OCR Page 1 of 18I. SCHOOLS UNDER COURT ORDER TO DESEGREGATE AND
COMPLYING WITH ORDER
ARKANSAS
PLACE
LEVELS
COURT ACTION
COMMENTS
Little Rock
High School
Aaron v. Cooper. August
State resistance and
27, 1956, District Court
violence necessitated
approved school board grad-
calling forth of federal
ual integration plan. Af-
troops to permit en-
firmed April 1957 C A 8
forcement of court order.
(243 F. 2d 361) District
Federal troops still
Court ordered immediate
on duty.
integration September 3,
1957 after defendants
petitioned for instruction
regarding a proposed delay.
Van Buren
High School
Banks v. Iszard. January
24 Negroes entered the
1956 District Court or-
high school which has
dered "prompt and reason-
about 550 white students.
able start" to desegregate
One Negro is in the 12th
and accepted plan submitted
grade. No incidents of
July 1956.
any kind have been
reported.
KENTUCKY
Adair County High School Willis V. Walker. 136
No difficulty reported.
F. Supp. 177. Ordered
admission of high school
students February 1956,
elementary in September
1956.
Hopkins
All
Mitchell v. Pollock. School
Population 6,800 white,
County
board originally submitted
545 Negro. Only one
plan for gradual integration
Negro transferred from
which was not accepted by the
ll-Negro schools which
court. January 25, 1957,
are still maintained
the school officials sub-
on free-choice basis.
mitted an amended plan to
the court, providing for
the completion of integra-
tion over a period of four
years. At a hearing on
this plan the court, BROOKS,
District Judge, disapproved
the submitted plan and
directed that integration
of the schools be completed
by the beginnins of the
September, 1957, school term.
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