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3rd Lead Schools
By BRYCE MILLER
United Press Staff Correspondent
Little Rock, Ark., Sept. 25 -- (UPI) -- Nine Negro children attended classes in Central High School today behind the bare-bayonets of 500 tough paratroopers who bashed one man in the head, stabbed another in the army, and hustled dozens off to jail.
Integration became a fact at Central High at 9:22 A.M. At that hour, three Army vehicles rolled down the street, past small crowds of white segregationists, and into the school yard to deliver the nine negro students.
A total of perhaps 500 white adults and teen-agers stood on sidewalks a block or more from the school throughout the morning. A few tested the determination of the troops -- and were wounded or arrested for their efforts. Most watched in silent hostility. None got anywhere near the school grounds. A solid cordon of paratroopers, standing with bayonetted rifles ready, saw to that. |