Virgil Blossom - Revision history

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Phil: New page: '''Virgil Blossom''' was a 1950s-era superintendent to advocated a gradual desegregation plan for the Little Rock School District. ==References== ==External links==

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New page: '''Virgil Blossom''' was a 1950s-era superintendent to advocated a gradual desegregation plan for the Little Rock School District. ==References== ==External links==

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'''Virgil Blossom''' was a 1950s-era superintendent to advocated a gradual desegregation plan for the Little Rock School District.

==References==

==External links==

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		+	[[Image:Blossom.jpg\|thumb\|Superintendent Blossom in August 1958. Photo by LIFE photographer Ed Clark.]]
	'''Virgil Blossom''' was a 1950s-era superintendent who advocated a gradual desegregation plan for the Little Rock School District. He noted that "uncontrolled integration would lower the quality of schools." Blossom was criticized by [[Daisy Bates]] and [[L.C. Bates]] for placing schools and personnel in a way that preserved the status quo of segregated facilities and staff.		'''Virgil Blossom''' was a 1950s-era superintendent who advocated a gradual desegregation plan for the Little Rock School District. He noted that "uncontrolled integration would lower the quality of schools." Blossom was criticized by [[Daisy Bates]] and [[L.C. Bates]] for placing schools and personnel in a way that preserved the status quo of segregated facilities and staff.

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 '''Virgil Blossom''' was a 1950s-era superintendent who advocated a gradual desegregation plan for the Little Rock School District. He noted that "uncontrolled integration would lower the quality of schools." Blossom was criticized by [[Daisy Bates]] and [[L.C. Bates]] for placing schools and personnel in a way that preserved the status quo of segregated facilities and staff.
-In February 1956 thirty-three African-American students filed suit against the school district, which refused to admit them to four white high schools, in the case of ''Aaron v. Cooper.'' The case was dismissed by federal judge John E. Miller, who found Blossom's plan for gradualism acceptable.
+In February 1956 thirty-three African-American students filed suit against the school district, which refused to admit them to four white high schools, in the case of ''[[Aaron v. Cooper]].'' The case was dismissed by federal judge John E. Miller, who found Blossom's plan for gradualism acceptable.
 ==References==
 ==External links==

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-'''Virgil Blossom''' was a 1950s-era superintendent who advocated a gradual desegregation plan for the Little Rock School District. Blossom was criticized by [[Daisy Bates]] and [[L.C. Bates]] for placing schools and personnel in a way that preserved the status quo of segregated facilities and staff.
+'''Virgil Blossom''' was a 1950s-era superintendent who advocated a gradual desegregation plan for the Little Rock School District. He noted that "uncontrolled integration would lower the quality of schools." Blossom was criticized by [[Daisy Bates]] and [[L.C. Bates]] for placing schools and personnel in a way that preserved the status quo of segregated facilities and staff.
 ==References==
 ==External links==