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University Daily Kansas
Friday, May 15, 1964
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Negro leaders argue that the negro child's continuing lag behind white pupils, and resultant inability to compete for jobs, is due largely to the segregated pattern of education.
In Atlanta, which will enter its fifth year of desegregation in the fall, school authorities acknowledge that negro children who will graduate this spring from segregated elementary schools to integrated high schools will be from one to three years behind their white classmates.
THE FEDERAL COURTS and local authorities currently are being hit from all sides with the demand from racial groups that all restrictions be taken off interracial public school attendance immediately.
The attack hits at the heart of a long-standing concept that local school boards should have the right to assign punis as they see fit.
The racial groups make these complaints about the school situation:
- Segregated classes still prevail through most of the deep south.
- A number of states have enmeshed court orders in a web of subfurtery or tokenism, making school integration a window dressing that involves only a few negroes in white schools.
- Court-approved stairstep plans for desegregation by which school boards have been allowed to ease into the transition one grade per year have evaded the Supreme Court's order that desegregation must be done with "deliberate speed."
- Pupil assignment methods
have served to perpetuate negro ghettos, north and south, with predominantly negro schools still located in predominantly negro neighborhoods.
In recent months, the school integration battle has spread from southern classrooms to school yards in states that were not even involved in the 1954 Supreme Court decision.
The word "de facto segregation" has become a part of the language of the social revolution. Cities like Cleveland and New York have had bitter racial battles over efforts by negroes to eliminate the neighborhood school practices.
BUSING SCHOOL CHILDREN from one part of towns to others has embittered non-southern whites, while in Dixie, school boards are under increasing attack for alleged foot-dragging on integration.
"If we could put as much emphasis on education as we have to put on integration, we would be much further along," said a school administrator in Atlanta.
The transition that has come about since May 17, 1954, date of the public school decision, can be divided into stages.
IN THE SPRING of 1955 the court handed down its directive of "deliberate speed." It served as a sort of speedometer for future decisions.
In the spring of 1964, the court argued and prepared a decision of how fast deliberate speed should be.
In the years between, all branches of the federal court almost became the administrators of school admission policies. Decisions steadily broadened acceptable desegregation rules and increased the
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tow of negro pupils into formerly all-white schools.
The Virginia plan of "massive resistance" to integration fell, but a "freedom of choice" law took its place and a private school plan has prospered in Prince Edward County until this day. It has served as a go-ahead signal for other southern areas to use similar programs, but that whole concept is now under legal attack again
Some states, like South Carolina and Georgia, made the first steps toward desegregated schools with surprising ease. Arkansas, which had started the transition even before the supreme court acted, had some of the worst trouble at Central High School in Little Rock.
International Club To Elect Officers
Spring elections for the International Club will be at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
Candidates for president are Javed Chak, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, senior, and Ali Hassan, Hyderabad, India, sophomore; for vice-president: George Tannous, Beshmezeen El Koura, Lebanon, junior; for treasurer: Luis Wacheng, San Jose, Costa Rica, freshman, and for secretary: Janet Evans, Wichita junior.
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