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PAGE 16—Jan. 6, 1955—SOUTHERN SCHOOL NEWS
Analysis
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ers, American Association of Univer
sity Women, National Conference of
Christians and Jews, American
Coucil on Human Rights, American
Veterans Committee, American Fed
eration of Labor, Federated Women’s
Clubs, Business and Professional
Women’s Clubs, Junior Chambers of
Commerce, and scores of like organi
zations.
It seems significant that among
organized groups the widest distribu
tion of requests for southern school
news occurred in professional and
general women’s organizations. These
organizations, distributed throughout
the country requested Southern
School News as follows: Federated
Women’s Clubs, 102; League of
Women Voters, 42; American Asso
ciation of University Women, 28. In
more than half of the cities and states
where the League of Women Voters
and the American Association of Uni
versity Women requested Southern
School News, there were active study
groups on “segregation” or “deseg
regation” with the news as their
major source of reference.
The extent to which Southern
School News is used might be seen
through an examination of the re
quests themselves.
NATIONAL GROUPS
Chapters of the American Associa
tion of University Women have re
sponded as follows:
In Alabama:
It is terribly exciting that you are get
ting out a factual, objective paper on the
complex problem confronting us here in
the South. The first copy of Southern
School News is intensely interesting and
helpful. A friend has shown me hers.
Please add my name to the list of those
receiving it. On October 25, our Social
Studies Committee is starting a study
group on "Human Personality and Human
Relationships.” We expect to cover group
tensions, minority problems and the like.
Southern School News would be a won
derful aid to us in our discussion of race
relationships. We are trying to limit our
group to thirty. Would it be possible to
get that many of each issue?
In Arlington, Virginia:
As chairman of the Education Commit
tee of the Virginia State Division of
AAUW, we are interested in obtaining ac
curate information about the activities of
the various states concerning desegrega
tion. Please put us on your mailing list.
In Tennessee:
As moderator of an AAUW panel con
cerning the desegregation problem which
will be discussed at our meeting on Oc
tober fifth, we would like very much to
receive copies of Southern School News.
I am also teacher of an adult Bible class
and feel that accurate information is often
a great benefit in overcoming prejudices.
Chapters of the League of Women
Voters have written in this vein:
In Dalton, Georgia:
Would you please send copies of the
School News Report to the list of 40 peo
ple circled in red on the clipping "School
Amendment Group Named”? They would
appreciate receiving back numbers if pos
sible.
The state league office could use several
copies of each issue, if you have them to
spare. We greatly appreciate the copies
sent to the local library. They have been
used and quoted some fifteen or twenty
times at public meetings.
In Virginia:
The matter of schools and segregation
is to be one of the main items of discus
sion at our state program of September
23rd, and the receipt of Southern School
News would be most helpful and would
thereby receive distribution in a group
covering the whole state.
In Missouri:
As Human Rights Chairman for the
League of Women Voters, your material
should prove invaluable to us in our study
of this action on our state program.
Would it be possible for our subscription
to start with the September issue?
From the National Civil Liberties
Clearing House:
Thank you very much again for sending
the Clearing House the sixty copies of the
first issue of Southern School News. We
distributed them at this month’s meeting
of the Clearing House and they aroused
a great deal of interest.
I think the Southern School News is
providing and will continue to provide
an extremely helpful and informative
service.
From the Anti-Defamation League
of B’nai B’rith:
We have greeted enthusiastically the
first issue of Southern School News. I
wonder if you could check your mailing
list for those in this agency who would
like to receive the publication. We would
greatly appreciate it if you could ac
commodate us in this respect.
The National Catholic Welfare
Conference:
Since our office has been working with
the Catholic educational systems on their
programs of integration, and Catholic So
cial Action organizations on educational
programs for furthering the Supreme
Court decision, your material would be
of the utmost importance to us.
The National Conference of Chris
tians and Jews:
We are working with the schools, PTA’s,
churches and synagogues in the District
and in the surrounding Virginia and
Maryland counties. I believe the informa
tion which Southern School News pro
vides will be very helpful in utilizing ex
periences of others for future action.
The National Council of Negro
Women:
We are preparing a project for South
ern communities to develop a climate of
acceptance for the recent Supreme Court
decision desegregating schools, and hope
to find your material very valuable. If
possible, we would like 200 copies of your
publication for distribution at our an
nual national conference.
RELIGIOUS GROUPS
Religious groups, both formal and
informal are using Southern School
News as a basis for their various
study groups and church programs.
The following comments are typical:
A Presbyterian Church in Mem
phis:
We are directed by the General Assem
bly of our denomination this summer to
prepare and disseminate to our ministers
such informational materials as would be
helpful to them in guiding their congre
gations during the process of desegrega
tion. We would appreciate receiving your
publication.
Raleigh, North Carolina:
A study group here, the Open Forum
Class is to concentrate on this subject for
the coming year with the hope of gaining
understanding along with information and
of having some contribution to make
toward an intelligent solution of the
many human problems involved.
A church group in Norfolk, Vir
ginia which “is studying the prob
lem”:
Naturally the Supreme Court decision
of May 17 will have a far-reaching effect
on the social structure of our own city.
We would welcome any information or
literature you might make available to
our church class.
From High Point, North Carolina:
Please advise me if I can have your
publication dealing with integration in
the public schools. I want to place the
members of a group representing the
Episcopal Church in the Diocese of North
Carolina on your mailing list and am
enclosing a typed list of these persons.
The president of a woman’s church
group:
Would it be possible for me to receive
Southern School News? I am president
of the women’s group called “The Al
liance” in the Unitarian Church and I
am to be moderator in January of a panel
discussion on desegregation. I want to
hold the discussion to facts and far as
possible keep out prejudice and emotion.
I am sure that access to the information
which the Reporting Service gathers and
puts out would help.
A Presbyterian minister in South
Carolina:
We have organized here a “Christian
Council on Human Relations” in order to
make some constructive contribution to
race relations in this period. We have a
bi-racial group of about 75 persons and
meet monthly. I am sure your publication
will be a great resource material for pro
grams, etc.
National Council of the Churches
of Christ in the USA:
It would seem to me that this service
would be of great value to leaders of the
various denominational social education
and social action agencies. If you concur
in this judgment, I would be pleased to
have the attached list of names of lead
ers receive Southern School News.
OTHER ORGANIZATIONS
Responses from organizations
working either directly or indirectly
in the field of education and/or hu
man relations are typical of the re
quests received:
National Education Association:
Your organization appears to be doing
a good job. Keep up the good work of
presenting factual and objective data on
the developing educational situation in
the southern and border states.
National Committee for Rural
Schools, Inc.:
I wish to thank you for sending us the
Southern School News. It is the most
valuable and clear thinking evalution of
the school activities in the south at pres
ent.
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States:
One of the several items on the agenda
of our National Chamber’s Education
Committee meeting to be held in San
Francisco, September 30 to October 2, is
that of segregation in the public schools.
I feel that the information contained in
the report is very much needed by the
business leaders who comprise our com
mittee, several of whom are from the
South.
American Council on Human
Rights:
The National Board of Directors of the
American Council on Human Rights wi
hold its semi-annual meeting in Wash
ington in October. It will be extremely
helpful to us if you could send me 25
copies of Southern School News. We have
received your first issue and find it ex
tremely valuable. I believe the Southern
Education Reporting Service will be a
great help in this period of transition.
The Department of State:
As an officer in the Department of State
with assignments relating to discrimina
tion issues in the UN, I am therefore
anxious to have at hand any news which
may be useful in answering questions
which may be raised by other countries
in the General Assembly on the progress
made in giving support to the Supreme
Court decision on school desegregation.
Department of Health, Education,
and Welfare:
Please accept my thanks for your
prompt reply to my recent telegram. I
have received copies of Southern School
News and wish to commend you and your
associates for what seems to me to be
an excellent job. I believe the News will
make a significant contribution toward
the solution of the problems that com
munities face, and toward the orderly
and constructive compliance with the de
cision and the forthcoming decrees. One
of the important things it will help pro
vide is perspective. And certainly this is
one of the great needs in considering the
issues involved in desegregation and in
tegration.
United States Information Agen
cy:
I want to thank you for the ten copies
of Southern School News transmitted
with your letter of September 2.
We have circulated the publication to
our various regional desks and they were
unanimous in the belief that we should
find it extremely useful. We would, there
fore, appreciate receiving it regularly in
this quantity.
Kansas City Commission on Hu
man Relations:
Since Kansas City is in the process of
integrating its public schools by the fall
of 1955, we feel that this publication
would be of great value in meeting this
situation.
Council for Civic Unity of San
Francisco:
The Council for Civic Unity, in coopera
tion with the KCBS Department of Public
Affairs, presents a weekly radio program
“Dateline Freedom” which is a summary
and analysis of the week’s news in inter
group relations with special reference to
the rights and opportunities of racial and
religious minorities. Your publication
would greatly facilitate our effort to re
port accurately and fairly significant
trends in the South on matters within
your purview.
Mayor’s Friendly Relations Com
mittee, Cincinnati:
I have seen the first issue of Southern
School News and do congratulate you on
the vital and unique service which it will
render.
We of this official intergroup relations
agency of a border city would be appre
ciative if you could put us on your mail
ing list. If so, might we receive the first
issue for a full file?
Mayor’s Commission on Human
Rights, Milwaukee:
At the last meeting of the Commission
on Human Rights, copies of the South
ern School News were reviewed, and so
impressed were the members of the Com
mission with the issues that this office
was asked to request enough copies for
distribution among members of the Com
mission.
Would you be good enough to place
this office on your permanent mailing list
to receive Southern School News? These
will be distributed among our Commis
sioners who have shown much interest
in this publication. There is no doubt that
SSN will prove of great value to us in
the work we are doing in the local com
munity.
American Friends Service Com
mittee:
As the matter of integration of public
schools, particularly on the teaching level,
is a live issue in our area, any insights
into developments in other areas would
be very helpful.
It is expected that PTA groups
would be interested in Southern
School News. The following requests
are typical:
In Virginia:
The Alexandria Parent-Teacher Asso
ciation has directed a committee to study
the problem of integration. I feel your re
search will be of invaluable help to us.
From Austin, Texas:
As legislative chairman for the Austin
City Council of Parents and Teachers, I
am sure I will receive many inquiries con
cerning segregation during the school
year. Your publication as a factual and
objective source would be most helpful.
Bodies established specifically to
work in connection with the Supreme
Court Devision have requested
Southern School News as follows:
Arlington, Virginia:
On behalf of the integration committee
appointed by the Arlington County School
Board, I would like to subscribe to
Southern School News. I am enclosing
$3.00. If you want more holler.
A southern attorney general:
Please send us all future copies of your
fine publication. Some time ago you noti
fied the governor that we could secure
this publication by request, and we have
found it most helpful in our research.
The chairman of a Governor’s Spe
cial Advisory Committee on Educa
tion:
As chairman of our state’s Advisory
Committee on Education, a friend has
passed on to me the first issue of your
Southern School News which I have read
with great profit. I have enough copies
of this original issue to mail to the
eighteen members of the Governor’s Spe-
ciay Advisory Committee. I would like
to request that you place each member of
our committee on your mailing list in
order that we might receive all additional
copies of Southern School News direct
from you.
INFORMATION MEDIA
Librarians, publishers, educational
service bureaus, radio correspond
ents, national syndicated columnists,
representatives of the foreign press,
press associations, Program Service
Branch, U.S. Information Agency,
public relations consultants, consult
ants of the Foreign Policy Associa
tion, editors of publications such as
The Reporter, Scholastic, American
Unity, National Catholic Weekly,
Social Order, Commentary, Jet, a
magazine directed primarily to Ne
gro readers, and many others
evinced an interest in and responsi
bility for disseminating information
such as is carried in southern school
News.
A London correspondent for The
Economist:
As the very greatest interest is being
displayed in Britain in this subject, I
should like to receive two copies of
Southern School News, one to be retained
here for research purposes, the other to
be sent by me to London as guidance to
their writing.
Editor, IPI Report, Switzerland:
I have just finished studying the first
issue of Southern School News, and
would like to express my appreciation of
the solid background information it con
tains. It is an admirable starting point for
future issues.
A Maryland journalist:
As a member of the press, I have been
attending the local PTA and worksho?
meetings and am much interested in tb
future of integration. I would like ven
much to be put on the mailing list $
Southern School News and would ly^
to know if there is any objection to quot.
ing from the paper from time to timi
providing I state the source.
News Bureau Director:
Yesterday I received the first three is.
sues of your publication, and the entii*
University here seems to have the sarin
opinion. Nothing has presented a mo*
comprehensive picture of the problem!
facing the Southern States with regard tr
the Supreme Court’s ruling with regain
to segregatinon in the school system.
A magazine writer:
The first two issues of Southern Schooi
News I got from the Fund for the Ad
vancement of Education were most help,
ful in preparation of an article on de
segregation. Since I have at least twr
more articles to do on this subject, woulc
you put me on your mailing list for No.
vember and subsequent issues
A South Carolina Editor:
This is a project of particular interes
and should be of inestimable value tc
educators and publishers, as well as tht
general public.
A commentator in North Carolina:
As a radio and TV newsman, I am de
sirous of having a complete file of you:
news publication, beginning with the
first issue.
Librarians throughout the country
have shown considerable interest a=
the following requests will indicate
An official of the American Libra
ry Association writes as follows:
Southern School News sems to us a
valuable publication and one which we
would like our southern libraries to re
ceive. It was suggested that the publica
tion might be mailed out to all libraries
in towns of 2,500 and up. This would mear.
a total of nearly 1,200 libraries and we
realize that it is hardly possible for you
to assume such a burden. However, there
are in the states most closely affected by
the recent Supreme Court decision 86 li
braries in cities of 35,000 and over; 2$
libraries in cities over 100,000 population
and 13 libraries in cities over 200,(XX
population. Would it be possible for the
SERS to send copies of SSN to the li
braries in one or all of these populatior.
groupings? I am sure they would find this
a valuable addittion to the materials on
this question of such vital importance to
their readers.
The Oklahoma Library Association
comments:
With the present focus of interest on
education in the South, objective report
ing on conditions in other southern areas
will be most valuable to Oklahoma libra
ries.
Joint University Libraries, Nash
ville, Tennessee:
We believe that it is quite important
that our faculty members and students
have access to the facts reported in your
News.
The librarian at Durham, North
Carolina:
We have prepared a series of discus
sions on “The Supreme Court Decision at
the Community Level” and we would lik*
to use Southern School News as one or
our basic studies.
The Patrick Henry Memorial Li'
brary, Brookneal, Virginia:
I have seen sample copies and am very
much pleased with Southern Scho#
News. We will be delighted to get it anc
feel very much in ned of such a public*'
tion at this time.
The director of libraries, the Um*
versity of Georgia:
I have just finished examining the fir*
two issues of SSN and want to congratu
late you on the thoroughness of the cov
erage and the high quality of reporting
It is an extremely valuable publication
You have kindly placed the library ®
the mailing list but I want to obtain 3
copy for my personal use.
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University of Georgia Libraries
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Athens, Ga.