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J.B. Stoner, the nastiest racist I ever met, died last week without ever learning about the joke that Miami news media and the school board played on him in 1959.

He was a classic out-of-town agitator, and he came to Miami to organize a protest against the school board's action to be the first in the state to break the pattern of segregated schools These were the years of massive and violent resistance. Elected officials across the South vowed that white and black faces would never be seen in the same public schools. And, five years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, the federal courts in Florida were growing impatient.

School Superintendent Joe Hall had a strategy. Since I covered schools for The Miami Herald, he let me in on it. Coping with population growth, the board had built a new school in the southern part of the county and planned to open it to all races. But to throw off the agitators, it chose an unusual name: Air Base Elementary.

The deal was to let the public think it was affiliated with Homestead Air Force Base. As a diversion from the serious integration at the new school, the board was focusing attention on a trivial effort in northwest Miami at Orchard Villa Elementary School. It was trivial because a board decision to admit four black pupils had focused attention there, and its neighborhood was rapidly tipping anyway from white to black. Panic-driven "For Sale" signs lined the streets. Admitting blacks there would soon be a moot issue. But the school board could still comply with the law by integrating the new school and hoping that agitators wouldn't notice.

The protesters fell for it. After consulting with my editors, I wrote a three-part series in August, explaining the historic events that were going to happen in September.

We reported the facts about Air Base Elementary, but our disclosure was very, very careful. The news of impending integration was in the second of the series, in the left-hand column of the local page, carefully postponed until the last few paragraphs below the fold.

Because it was attended primarily by children of airmen, its status as a public school was a technicality, I wrote. But it could be used by the school board as evidence of good faith in delaying court pressure for further integration.

Other news media bought into our misdirection. On the first day of school, Sept. 8, the TV crews, Stoner and his local backers gathered at the entrance to Orchard Villa. Only 12 children, eight whites and the four board-selected blacks, appeared. Stoner was in denial about even this token bit of integration. He scrutinized the features of the white kids. "They don't look white to me," he said. At that moment, Air Base Elementary was integrating without incident, 21 blacks joining 732 whites in the new school. By the end of the year, it was still integrated, while Orchard Villa had an all-minority student body.

Today, telling this story to working newsmen in seminars on journalism ethics, I am always denounced. A newspaper should give all sides of every story, I am told.

You had to be there. From law enforcement sources, we knew that Stoner was an unindicted suspect in several church bombings. Our memory of Little Rock, where federal troops had to be summoned to protect the children, was still fresh.

Stoner caused no harm in Miami that day, but he remained an unrepentant hate monger for the rest of his life. In 1980, he was convicted in the 1958 bombing of Bethel Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. He served 3½ years, having inflicted only property damage in that incident.

Hurricane Andrew destroyed the air base in 1992, and the military left. The school was made a magnet school to draw pupils from the rest of the county. Its name is still Air Base Elementary, and few people remember its history.

Stoner, too, is mostly forgotten. His death, at a nursing home in La Fayette, Ga., was from

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