Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 September 1959 — Page 3

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Spot Check Around South Shows Picture of School Integration

By DARCY DeMILLE

^ CHICAGO (ANP) — With the ^ sixth school opening since the Supreme Court’s school desegregation decision of 1954, let’s look at the changing integration-desegregation picture. By far the most significant development has been the collapse of efforts to keep Little Rock’s public schools segregated — or closed. While true integration has not yet come, the way has been paved by the return of Negroes, though in small numbers, to Central high school. On the other side of the coin, Alabama’s Gov. John Patterson had announced he would “sacrifice the whole public school system before permitting racial integration.” The state’s pupil placement plan has been upheld by the U. S:

Supreme Court. The system leaves admission of all children and placement in the hands of local authorities — provided race is not the qualifier. Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Alabama — a quartet of the old Confederacy—are even further away from the court’s directive this year. INSTEAD OF COMPLIANCE, or even taking "token” steps, these states have passed new laws and constitutional amendments to strengthen segregation statutes already on the books. However, the main focus is on Virginia, now that Little Rock has capitulated in a small way. The big change in this state occurred with the re-opening of Warren County high school on an

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integrated basis. Last year white students boycotted the school, leaving it to the 21 Negro students who bridged the chasm between segregration and desegregation. The boycotting students enrolled in a private school established for white only. About 780 pupils attended the school, .but when only 530 signed up for fall classes, it was decided that Warren should re-open on an integrated basis. In Prince Edward County 21 public schools, shut down to halt mixing, remained closed pending further Federal Court action. In Manning, S. C., 34 Negro pupils asked for transfers to white schools, in addition to those seeking transfers in the Summeiton ;jrea. These request will not be acted upon until the next meeting of the school board. But that’s the rub — no date has been set for the meeting, and it is believed that the school board will attempt to stall off the meeting for some time in the hope that “something new” favorable to segregation will turn up. In Havelock, N. C., however, 11 Negroes began classes at two elementary schools without demonstrations or mob scenes. Seventeen youngsters, children of Negro personnel at Cherry Point Marine Air Base, have been accepted intqjvhite schools. Six began classes last week. IN TENNESSEE there were 32

Negroes integrating at Nashville. However, children of Negro airmen at Stewart Air Force Base near Smyrna were turned down during pupil registration at the all-white Coleman elementary school. There were eight applicants. At Knoxville, St. Mery’s parochial school accepted one Negro pupil, thus becoming the first regular day school in the county to lower the race barrier. In Georgia, Atlanta is planning to comply with court instructions to produce a desegregation plan by Dec. 1. Also ordered to come up with a mixing plan are New Orleans schools. There the deadline, however, is March 1. 1960. Four Negro students have been assigned to the all-white Orchard Villa school in Miami, and the third year of token integration has begun in North Carolina, with nine Negroes being admitted to previously all-white schools. Back to Tennessee again, the grade-at at-a-time integration plan at Nashville has now reached the third grade level. And in Memphis the state university has agreed to admit “qualified” Negroes. Thus, while encouraging, there remains much more ground to cover before integration becomes a reality and as commonplace as the airplane, television or even the juke box.

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Fla. Mothers Ban 'Portable' School PORT TAMPA, Fla. (ANP) — Although four teachers last week crossed the picket lines of Negro mothers protesting the erection of a “portable classroom” school, none of the scheduled pupils did. The mothers remained firm in their refusal to send their children to a school created a week earlier by the county school board. The maneuver was interpreted as a “penny-pinching” effort. In the past, Negro pupils from Port Tampa were transported to Tampa to receive schooling. The caliber of teaching is being questioned. R o ug h 1 y 80 students were scheduled to attend the “portable” four-classroom school, hastily called the Port Tampa Elementary School for Negroes.

School Integration Try Fails in Tenn. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (ANP) — Knoxville’s city schools begin their fall term with complete segregation. Two Austin high school students attempted to enroll last week in the all-white Technical Fulton high school for a course in electronics, which is not taught in the all-Negro Austin high. They were not accepted. An effort to contact school board officials for comment failed.

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NAACP Praises 'Displaced Persons' Housing Decision MONTCLAIR, N. J. — The NAACP has hailed a decision by the federal government to utop relocating Negro families displaced by federally-assisted urban renewal programs according to race. The scrapping of the racial reservation stipulation in Section 221 was called a “giant step toward establishing full equality under federal’y assited housing” by Jack E: Wood, NAACP special assistant ior housing. Addressing the Montclair Clergymen’s club here, Wood said the government’s former policy of reserving portions of 221 housing by race wu planned, according to federal housing officials, “to meet the needs” of displaced tenants. “However,” the speaker charged, “prejudiced builders and local city governments across the nation mis*

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