Jury trials and Gerrymanders: the legal effort to maintain segregation in July of 1957.

From: The Historian | Date: June 22, 2006| Author: Klinetobe, Charles | Copyright information

IN THE FINAL DAYS of summer 1957, the battle for civil rights dramatically entered the consciousness of many Americans. Roughly three years earlier the U.S. Supreme Court had handed down the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, and in 1957, it would be implemented in Little Rock, Arkansas. It was not thought that integration in Arkansas would be particularly difficult. Arkansas, a border state, was not given to the sorts of wild excesses seen in the Deep South, and Governor Orval Fau...

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