The Press: Shift at the Gazette

Harry Ashmore, the Arkansas editor who last year believed Little Rock could and should comply with the Supreme Court decision for school desegregation, saw the conflict in a different light last week. "There is no way, for the time being at least," wrote the executive editor of the Arkansas Gazette, "to obtain such compliance."

Never an integrationist. Editor Ashmore won a 1958 Pulitzer Prize for his protests against the Little Rock mob and the way it was goaded into lawlessness by Governor Orval Faubus. "The people of Little Rock," he wrote a year ago,...

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