School Superintendent Virgil Blossom, who sold integration plan for years, now asked courts to suspend integration. President Eisenhower (Ike) asked Faubus to cooperate with Supreme Court. Saturday, Melba planned to see Vince at wrestling match and see what put white people in charge, but she was forbidden to go. Dangerous to be in public.
Sunday. Ad posted in paper by white man who was ashamed of the bigotry and violence of mob against Elizabeth. Before church, Vince asked Melba to be his girlfriend. Integration postponed, 9 forced to look to each other for company, excluded from their friend’s social activities because it wasn’t safe to have them around. People offered books and tutoring; Dr. Lorch & Grace (protected Elizabeth from mob) tutored. Before court hearing of Faubus, meeting at Mrs. Bates. NAACP state attorney Wiley Branton and Thurgood Marshall (lawyer in Brown case, Chief Counsel of NAACP) present. Faubus’ argument against integration was its accompanying violence. Melba intrigued by reporters, they respected her, made her feel important, answered her questions about the profession. "If I could be a news reporter, I could be in charge of a few things."
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