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