ARLINGTON, VA. (pop. 178,500), historic site of Robert E. Lee's mansion, National Cemetery with graves of Civil War generals, and of 3,802 Negro refugees from Confederacy, Tomb of Unknown Soldier World Wars I and II; a pleasant bedroom suburb of Washington, D.C.; many Federal Government workers from North, many new white refugees from Washington's integrated school system, now 73% Negro.
Federal Judge Albert V. Bryan last year ordered five Negroes into all-white schools, later stayed his order pending appeals, last week heard out lawyers of the N.A.A.C.P. and the Arlington County school board. The school board's defense: the board had turned down...
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