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Brave figures rise to meet democracy’s school crisis
Washington praises Little Rock and Clinton leaders who stood firm on integration. Judge Ronald Davies enforces immediate school desegregation under the 10 year plan, while Mayor Woodrow Wilson Mann challenges the governor’s National Guard move, embodying courage in a defining constitutional clash.
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Clinton
Tenn
Paul Turner
Frederick John Kasper
Clinton High School
Arkansas
Little Rock
Ronald N. Davies
Fargo
N.D
Davies
Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals
America
Orval Faubus
National Guard
Woodrow Wilson Mann
Congress
Judge Davies
Crookston
N.C
University of North Dakota
Yale
Wisconsin
William Proxmire
National Capital
Georgetown University
Capitol
Grand Forks
Eisenhower
Mann
Woodrow Wilson
Central High School
University of Illinois
Abraham Lincoln