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Supreme Court — Part 24

55 pages · May 11, 2026 · Document date: Aug 1, 1957 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Supreme Court · 55 pages OCR'd
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Gy" (Rev. §-7-56} ‘ wee Tolagtp serena 5 en So he ee Ae ee gr Pars “- ~ Rosen me t.7 Tamm -——-——____ al , Trotter _______. ce } f Nease 4 Tele, Room —— ‘ Holloman ___—__ 4 By JOHN O'DONNELL | 3= : * * Washington, Sept.. 23.—-Quietly, always. in'a moat F rev o , Gandy wnat tone of voice, Chief Justice Ear ey arren and hia } “hgh aa eight black-robed associates on the VU. mpremea Court’ 2 we oe Ba antnn t Peadis ase elete ? canning FOG VETISTS ae jmight well be-asked the simple question: —~ “sone should sit down and write himself a book entitle “Gentlemen, do you think you were intelligent or wise if your | “The Education of Eari Warren and his Associate Justices of t "S4 segregation decision regarding public schodls? You reversed a jj Supreme Court.” There must be tragedy in this volama: The traged decision by an earlier Supreme Court. Do you think now you are of robably well-meaning men who made an utter mess of a Boci : wiser than it wast Are you i Facial situation they didn’t understand and then, smugly -a “G1 watching what's happening b 7 politicaliy, handed down s decree which imposed terror and arons: J Little Rock? ; "Zury in children of both racea in Little Rock. > “Tt is the duty of She sov- ' "We hope the disti shed nine jurists read carefully. the nev ereign, individual state to edu- reports sent back from Little Rock. Then if they want to say that | ‘eate its children, That's the law; ir great wisdom they were corréct in reversing a pevious deci none of the business of Washing- by the same Supeme Court, and that the resulta of their new d - _ ton, D. C. Have you worthies e shown they were correct and that now all is better for _ Sided the state education in Ar: rapes this reporter aska only one privilege, That is to be mitted to «it in the first row and express his contempt of the worthies who plously defend their d ect reign of terror—white children screaming through phones fot ', kansas of its children by creating f Pa on 2 _ d os fi taothers to come and take “"j ~them home and Negro children oar "{ slipped into school rooms through ' , the side door? If that’s the way to tell the child mind, white of ‘ black that this is high. school al- gebra and here is the way to »uls 7 vi / e ' , Study your first year Latin, then cof 27 times have ch ed.” a BYSSS SB” The reporter puts the blame on | 1G a7 —— NOT RECORDED rt, They just forgot their 141 oCcT 8 1957, . Fen Chief t Justice Warren ' down to the pa or member, the. De = hina members of the Supreme Cour Eisenhower Democratic appoine | - Chief Justice Warren <a _—— Wash. Post and : tee, Justice William J. Brennan . Watching Little Roch? *’ wm ag | ar, the Justices have forgotten one vital issue in their deliberations Times Herald 4 on "the admixture of theraces in public achools. -. Wash. News at it is this: not one of them ever been permitted by their a fete to go & a mixed school. Not | one has dn permitted his Wash. Star ildren a public school wi egroes, and none re mits his children to attend private achoole which in recent ay Pere N. Y. Herald “here in Washington have been pressured to bow to the political Tribune . demand for desegregation, This delicate issue has stready touched N.Y. Journal- sensitively on the diplomatic question of acceptance into swanky. captial achools of the offspring of the diplomatic family from Ghana, American _ Inost definitely West African, ° <, . foe, 2 ae t 4 ; N. Y. Mirror ————7f-— Me mee The justice cad the “Ambassador © ee EAL N.Y. Daily News J Problem ae the most expensive prep and ¢ ? finishing N. Y. Times —___ 'achoole. Protestan Catholic, And these are coatly. 32 important. Daily Work point is shat the pffspring a the Supreme Court Justices, Senators, aily Worker Ns ct of the q liticlams who beat their breasts in potile The Worker @,'54 pu school désegregation won’ - their own childrem-to « public school here tn Washington unless they New Leader ate Pyivately agapred that it is definitely all white, - « we tie nist to the latent | Washington resident of the Supresas uo Associiive ustica m rentan and, arriving a EP 2 REY, Ishry Amante or of Japan and Mma. Asskal. Did they send ‘he Daté 2 dang. ters ts the newly desegregated schools in the for of the ’ nited States? The children of both Mra. Brennan and Mime. Asakat Fs 6 now at the Stone Ridge Country. Day School of the pores a oe ee mandatory. dese d etegregation a order of %
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