Loeb supported segregation, declaring support for "separate but equal facilities" and describing court-ordered integration as "anarchy".
The "cataclysmic" explosion occurred the next year at Little Rock, when the Arkansas governor, Orval Faubus, tried to block the court-ordered integration of an all-white high school.
With the advent of court-ordered racial integration in Nashville's public school system, Harpeth Hall decided to add sixth grade in 1971 and later added a fifth grade in 1993.
It was an all-white school until its court-ordered integration in 1959.
The academies claimed they were created simply in response to parents deciding to form private schools; it had nothing to do with court-ordered integration of the public schools.
After court-ordered integration of the nation's public-school systems in 1954, a few blacks - very few according to Scott, now the athletic director at Johns Hopkins - began to play the game.
The star-studded St. Andrew's cross had been added to the flag by the 1956 Georgia Legislature in a defiant gesture at a time of court-ordered integration.
The march was called after schools in several Virginia communities were closed to avoid court-ordered integration.
For example, it is possible to find references to "court-ordered integration" from sources such as the Detroit News, PBS, or even Encarta.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Bibb County's schools faced a court-ordered integration.