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Governors to meet on segregation keep plan for Dixie schools
A delegation of Southern governors and aides gathers in Richmond to discuss ways to sustain segregation despite a Supreme Court ruling. Attendees include Stanley of Virginia and six other governors plus representatives from Maryland Louisiana Florida Arkansas Tennessee Kentucky Texas. Options range from private schooling funding to segregated assignment, with NAACP urging desegregation and only three states planning fall integration in 1954 55.
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Richmond
Dixie
Virginia
Thomas B. Stanley
Supreme Court
Gov. Stanley
William C. Marland
West Virginia
William B. Umstead
North Carolina
James F. Byrnes
South Carolina
Herman Talmadge
Georgia
Gordon Persons
Alabama
Hugh White
Mississippi
Johnston Murray
Oklahoma
Jon Hand
Maryland
Louisiana
Florida
Arkansas
Tennessee
Kentucky
Texas
Delaware
Stanley
Talmadge
Byrnes
White
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
District of Columbia
Washington Board of Education
Hobart M. Corning
W W. Trent
Fayetteville
Fort Smith
Baltimore