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Article in U.S. News and World Report based on excerpts from Hays' book A Southern Moderate Speaks U.S. News & World Report BROOKS HAYS TELLS INSIDE STORY OF LITTLE ROCK What went on behind the scenes in those tense weeks of 1957 before federal troops marched into Little Rock, Ark.? Could that situation have been handled without the use of armed paratroopers? One man who knows both sides of the story is a former Representative in Congress, Brooks Hays, who acted as a mediator between the White House and Governor Orval E. Faubus. Now Mr. Hays has told the story in a book, "A Southern Moderate Speaks." Excerpts from that book are presented here. In it, Mr. Hays describes the growth of tension as the hour of integration approached, and tells about the negotiations that sought a peaceable solution-and why they failed. Mr. Hays also suggests some things that might have been done to avoid violence. by Brooks Hays In September, 1956, Little Rock was heralded as a city whose plan for slow, gradual and voluntary integration could serve as a model for many cities in the South. In an article in "U. S. News & World Report" on September 28 of that year, entitled "How One Southern City Plans to Integrate," the pattern adopted by the Little Rock school board was presented as a "workable compromise" likely to be accepted by both sides in the school-integration dispute. Virgil T. Blossom, superintendent of schools, had joined his board in trying...
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Magazine Paper, 11.25 Long X 8.25 Wide
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March 23, 1959
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