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Interview with Dr. R. O. Nelson, Newport News School Superintendent
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According to Newport News Schools Superintendent R. O. Nelson, one black family
submitted three applications for admission into a white elementary school. Because of
this, Nelson believed the Newport News school board was "under no action of the federal
court" to mandate school integration. Nelson confirmed that Newport News had made "no
special planning" for the coming school year; schools, in other words, would operate
just as they had in previous years--on a segregated basis. Without a federal court order
to integrate but with black applicants to white schools, Newport News school board
decided to change nothing and in essence to wait and see what the outcome of the massive
resistance program would be. Many other localities were in the same position.
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