Virgil Blossom
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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.
