Trials & Triumphs

Trials and triumphs on the rocky racial road in the South last week:

P: In New Orleans, City Park Manager Ellis Laborde obeyed a U.S. Supreme Court mandate, announced that park facilities will be open to Negroes without restriction.

P: In Little Rock, the Arkansas Supreme Court upheld city ordinances requiring the state branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, as a corporation, to produce its records of membership and contributions. The 5-2 decision ignored a U.S. Supreme Court finding that protected the N.A.A.C.P. in a similar case in Alabama, and slapped down as unwarranted the N.A.A.C.P.'s contention that public disclosure of records might lead to "harassment, economic reprisals and even bodily harm."

P: In Florida. U.S. Judge Joseph Lieb ruled that a clutch of state school-segregation laws were unconstitutional. But instead of ordering schools directly to accept Negro applicants, Minnesota-born Judge Lieb called attention to the state pupil-placement laws, which give assignment authority to local school boards. Until pupil-placement laws are challenged and declared unconstitutional, said he, Negro applicants will have to abide by school-board assignments.

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