Dallas Morning News, "Bayonets Won't Solve It"
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Dallas Morning News, "Bayonets Won't Solve It"
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An opinion piece by Lynn Landrum indicated a need for a “friendlier way” in dealing with the school integration issue. The article noted the crowd response to integration was in reaction to being “pushed around” by the Supreme Court.
Segregated schools existed in Mansfield. African American high school students attended I.M. Terrell in Fort Worth. Various improvement requests for the Mansfield Colored School were denied by the school board. As a result the NAACP filed a class action suit the year prior for admittance of all African American students in Mansfield. A federal court ordered desegregation on August 27, 1956, which led to protestors gathering on school grounds on Thursday, August 30 and Friday, August 31.
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Dallas Morning News
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1956-09-01
