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The Augusta Courier
Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia
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In 1960, the Georgia legislature resisted integration efforts in Atlanta public schools, following Governor Ernest Vandiver's stance against token integration. They passed bills to prevent protests and strengthen anti-barratry laws targeting NAACP, and created a commission to protect segregated schools amid campaigns by HOPE Inc. and others.
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Fanatics Now Seek
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Study Commission
The 1960 session of the Georgia legislature will go down in history for the manner and the firmness with which it resisted every effort of the integrationists to force them to yield to "token"
integration in the Atlanta public school system.
In taking this position, they followed the lead of Governor Ernest Vandiver who asked for no compromise and no "token" integration anywhere in Georgia.
For more than a year HOPE, Inc., "Rastus McGill and their cohorts in Atlanta have conducted through every means of mass communication available to them a campaign to force the governor and the legislature to give over and to yield.
Steady Bombardment
Beginning with October, 1958, there has been a steady bombardment of the people of the state.
The theme song has been either accept integration or have no schools at all.
The legislature and the governor showed their common sense when they did not panic and did not fall for such fraudulent propaganda.
Instead of yielding, the legislature took a firmer position in behalf of the segregated schools.
Two Notable Bills
There were two notable bills passed to aid in the fight:
1. One was the bill to prevent sit down strikes, or protest strikes, similar to the incidences where Negro college students in various towns in North Carolina occupied the seats at lunch counters in five and ten and department stores. These incidences in North Carolina forced the closing of many lunch counters and the closing of some stores.
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The legislature passed a bill to strengthen the law on barratry. It is
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designed to put the NAACP lawyer and their leaders in jail for stirring up promoting and encouraging lawsuits.
The newspapers have tried to make a lot out of a study commission created by the Georgia legislature.
Purpose of Commission
This commission was not created for the purpose of finding ways to implement integration in the public schools in Atlanta, or anywhere else.
The object and purpose of this committee is to devise further and additional means for protecting the segregated way of life.
This committee will hold hearings throughout the state to determine the wishes of the people and to get the views of various and sundry segments of the population.
Radicals In Atlanta
Already the radicals in Atlanta are demanding to be heard on their integration measures and are planning to attempt to stampede this committee into following their advice.
They attempted the same stampede with the legislature and they got nowhere.
A good many members of this study commission are also members of the legislature.
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1960
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The Georgia legislature resisted integrationist efforts for token integration in Atlanta schools, following Governor Vandiver's lead. They passed bills against sit-down strikes and to strengthen barratry laws targeting NAACP. A study commission was created to protect segregation, despite campaigns by HOPE and radicals.