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PAGE 10—NOVEMBER, 1964—SOUTHERN SCHOOL NEWS
ALABAMA
Supreme Court Refuses To Hear
Appeal in Mobile School Suit
MONTGOMERY
n appeal by the Mobile
County School Board from
a federal court order to speed up
desegregation of local schools was
rejected by the U.S. Supreme
Court Oct. 12.
Board President Charles E. McNeil
said he had no comment and did not
expect any from the board.
Seven Negro students are now at
tending three previously all-white pub
lic schools in Mobile under an order by
the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
requiring accelerated desegregation.
Under an original plan approved by
U.S. District Judge Daniel H. Thomas
in August, 1963, desegregation began
with the 12th grade in Mobile during
the 1963-64 term and was to have ex
tended downward a grade a year until
the first grade would be reached in 11
years.
However, on appeal, the Court of
Appeals ruled June 18 (SSN, July)
that the 10th and first grades should be
added to the 11th and 12th for desegre
gation this fall. Further, the court di
rected, the accelerated plan should
provide for the desegregation of the
second and ninth grades next year, the
third and eighth grades in 1966-67, the
fourth and seventh grades in 1967-68,
the fifth grade in 1968-69 and the sixth
grade in 1969-70.
Applied Generally
This directive has been applied gen
erally by all the U.S. district judges in
Alabama in their orders to school
boards in eight districts now desegre
gated—Huntsville, Madison County,
Birmingham, Gadsden, Macon County,
Montgomery, Bullock County and Mo
bile. A total of 94 Negro children are
now attending classes, with no reported
incidents, in these districts.
In all cases, school boards have been
Books and The Issue
These hooks recently were ac
quired by the library of Southern
Education Reporting Service:
THE SCHOOL DROPOUT
edited by Daniel Schreiber. National
Education Association, Washington,
1964, 214 pp.
YOUTH IN THE GHETTO
by Harlem Youth Opportunities Un
limited, Inc. HARYOU, New York,
1964, 620 pp.
WHITE ON BLACK
edited by Era Bell Thompson and
Herbert Nipson. Johnson Publishing
Co., Chicago, 1963, 230 pp.
BLACK, WHITE AND GRAY: 21
POINTS OF VIEW ON THE RACE
QUESTION
edited by Bradford Faniel. Sheed and
Ward, New York, 1964, 308 pp.
FREEDOM NOW! THE CIVIL RIGHTS
STRUGGLE IN AMERICA
edited by Alan F. Westin. Basic
Books, Inc., New York, 1964, 346 pp.
FIRE-BELL IN THE NIGHT: THE
CRISIS IN CIVIL RIGHTS
by Oscar Handlin. Little, Brown and
Co., Boston, 1964, 110 pp.
ADAM CLAYTON POWELL
by Claude Lewis. Gold Medal Books,
Greenwich, Conn., 1963, 127 pp.
A TIME TO SPEAK
by Charles Morgan Jr. Harper & Row,
New York, 1964, 177 pp.
MENTAL HEALTH AND
SEGREGATION
edited by Martin M. Grossack.
Springer Publishing Co., Inc., New
York, 1963, 247 pp.
FIRST PERSON RURAL
by Hodding Carter. Doubleday and
Co., Garden City, N.Y., 1963, 249 pp.
LEARNING TOGETHER: A BOOK ON
INTEGRATED EDUCATION
edited by Meyer Weinberg. Integra
tion Education Associates, Chicago,
1964, 222 pp.
THE LEAST DANGEROUS BRANCH
by Alexander M. Bickel. Bobbs-
Merrill Co., Inc., Indianapolis, 1962,
303 pp.
PORTRAIT OF A DECADE: The
Second American Revolution
by Anthony Lewis and the New
York Times. Random House, New
York, 1964, 322 pp.
BROTHERS UNDER THE SKIN
by Carey McWilliams. Little, Brown
and Co., Boston, 1951, Revised Edi
tion, 364 pp.
CHANGE IN THE CONTEMPORARY
SOUTH
edited by Allan P. Sindler. Duke
University Press, Durham, N. C.,
1963, 247 pp.
WHY WE CAN’T WAIT
by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Harper & Row, New York, 1963, 178
pp.
WHEN THE WORD IS GIVEN
by Louis E. Lomax. The World Pub
lishing Co., Cleveland, 1963, 223 pp.
THE SUPREME COURT AND
EDUCATION
edited by David Fellman. Bureau of
Publications, Teachers College, Co
lumbia University, 1960, 131 pp.
RACIAL CRISIS IN AMERICA:
Leadership in Conflict
by Lewis Killian and Charles Grigg.
Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs,
N.J., 1964, 144 pp.
THE SUPREME COURT ON
RACIAL DISCRIMINATION
edited by Joseph Tussman. Oxford
University Press, New York, 1963,
393 pp.
INDIGNANT HEART
by Matthew Ward. New Books, New
York, 1952, 184 pp.
HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
by Egon Schwelb, Quadrangle Books,
Chicago, 1964, 96 pp.
INTEGRATION VS. SEGREGATION
edited by Hubert H. Humphrey.
Thomas Y. Crowell Co., New York,
1964, 314 pp.
THE CATHOLIC VIEWPOINT
ON RACE RELATIONS
by John LaFarge, S.J. Hanover
House, Garden City, N.Y., 1956,190 pp.
THE WASTED AMERICANS:
Cost of Our Welfare Dilemma
by Edgar May. Harper & Row, New
York, 1964, 227 pp.
BLACK MAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE
by E. Frederick Morrow. Coward-
McCann, Inc., New York, 1963, 308 pp.
OPEN OCCUPANCY VS. FORCED
HOUSING UNDER THE
FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT
edited by Alfred Avins. Bookmailer,
New York, 1963, 316 pp.
THE DEMAND FOR HOUSING IN
RACIALLY MIXED AREAS
by Chester Rapkin and William G.
Grigsby. University of California
Press, Berkeley, 1960, 177 pp.
BLACKWAYS OF KENT
by Hylan Lewis. University of North
Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1955, 337
pp.
THE CHRISTIAN FRIGHT
PEDDLERS
by Brooks R. Walker. Doubleday &
Co., New York, 1964, 290 pp.
MY FACE IS BLACK
by C. Eric Lincoln. Beacon Press,
Boston, 1964, 137 pp.
NEGROES WITH GUNS
by Robert F. Williams. Marzani and
Munsell, Inc., New York, 1962, 128 pp.
100 YEARS OF LYNCHINGS
by Ralph Ginzburg. Lancer Books,
New York, 1962, 270 pp.
THE NEW ABOLITIONISTS
by Howard Zinn. Beacon Press, Bos
ton, 1964, 246 pp.
RHETORIC OF RACIAL REVOLT
by Roy L. Hill. Golden Hill Press,
Denver, Colo., 1964, 378 pp.
WHO’S WHO AMONG NEGRO
PRINCIPALS, JEANES
CURRICULUM DIRECTORS, AND
STATE INSTRUCTIONAL
CONSULTANTS IN GEORGIA
by Wesley J. Lyda and Napoleon
Williams. Royal Publishing Co., Dal
las, Tex., 1964, 224 pp.
FAITH AND PREJUDICE: Intergroup
Problems in Protestant Curricula
by Bernhard E. Olson. Yale Univer
sity Press, New Haven, 1963, 451 pp.
WE SHALL OVERCOME
by Michael Dorman. Dial Press, New
York, 1964, 340 pp.
ordered to submit plans for expanded
desegregation in line with the appellate
court’s formula
Dr. C. L. Scarborough, associate
school superintendent in Mobile, said
there would be no immediate effect in
Mobile since the school board already
is complying with the order of the Fifth
Circuit Court of Appeals.
“As I understand it,” he commented,
“that is the final effort that could .be
made legally . . . The implication is
that this is endorsement by the Su
preme Court of the (appellate court’s)
desegregation plan.”
Swifter Pace
In promulgating that plan in June,
the appeals court said “plans for de
segregation must now proceed at a
swifter pace in view of the 10-year
period which has elapsed since the first
(Supreme Court desegregation) de
cision.”
In its appeal, the school board had
asked that the original plan—desegre
gation of the 12th and 11th grades this
year, thence downward a grade a year
—be approved. In August, attorneys for
the school board asked for a stay of the
order but were turned down by Justice
Hugo Black.
The seven Negroes currently attend
ing previously white schools are en
rolled at Murphy High, Toulminville
Junior High and Woodcock.
J. L. Leflore, director of case work
for the Mobile Citizens’ Committee, a
desegregationist group, said that fur
ther action is contemplated to speed up
the acceptance of Negroes in white
schools.
Displeasure Claimed
regro parents, students and others
displeased with the way the school
.rd has implemented federal court
ers, he said.
'wo Negroes attended the senior
is at Murphy High last year but
y seven were accepted under the
v appellate formula this year, he
1. He added that Negroes have ap-
■d to transfer but have been re-
[ed.
.eflore said: “We cannot feel that the
ool board has acted in good faith
>ut compliance with the intent of
xent federal court rulings relative to
desegregation of our public schools.
; school board has continued to
intain separate or dual school dis-
ts.”
i some cases, he said, Negro chil-
n are forced to bypass nearby white
ools and go 10 miles to attend Negro
ools. In one case, Leflore said, stu
ds had to take a round-trip of 34
es daily to attend St. Elmo High
100I when other white schools were
y four miles from their neighbor-
‘Nearest School’
•o students,” he said, “are com-
o adhere strictly to the nearest
policy if it is a Negro school
certain factors which reveal
* educational standards are not
3 those of the school which the
requested to attend.”
-e said the board had rejected
>er of applicants in the summer
dously spurious grounds.”
admission of seven Negroes to
schools out of a population of
Negro students “represents a
poor reflection of compliance
ie federal court order that the
E desegregation should be ac-
d,” he said.
ier action would be handled by
gal Defense Fund of the Na-
★ ★ +
NAACP Resumes Operations
After Eight-Year Ban
Final papers qualifying the NAACP
to resume operations in Alabama were
processed by Alabama officials, effective
Oct. 9.
Since June 1, 1956, the organization
THE NEGRO REVOLUTION IN
AMERICA
by William Brink and Louis Harris.
Simon and Schuster, New York, 1964,
249 pp.
THE NEGRO MOOD
by Lerone Bennett Jr. Johnson Pub
lishing Co., Inc., Chicago, 1964, 104 pp.
EQUALITY IN AMERICA: Religion,
Race and the Urban Majority
by Alan P. Grimes. Oxford Univer
sity Press, New York, 1964, 136 pp.
Alabama Highlights
An appeal by the Mobile County
School Board from orders to speed
up desegregation was denied by the
U.S. Supreme Court.
Since the accelerated order has
been applied by all the U.S. District
judges handling desegregation in the
eight school districts where Negroes
have been admitted to previously all-
white schools, the high court’s order
was interpreted as a general rule.
Two Negro students have been en
rolled at the University of Alabama’s
Montgomery extension center. Ten
Negroes were admitted to the univer
sity’s main campus at the beginning
of the fall term and university
sources said others had been ac
cepted in its extension centers over
the state.
After being banned from operating
in Alabama since June 1, 1956, the
National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People was
officially certified, in compliance
with court orders, by the Alabama
Secretary of State and the Depart
ment of Revenue to resume doing
business in the state effective Oct. 9
has been banned from Alabama, the
only state in the union without a single
local unit, the NAACP announcement
said.
Mrs. Agnes Batte, Alabama Secretary
of State, formally notified NAACP’s
Montgomery attorney that the organ
ization had qualified to operate in the
state. Another letter from the Alabama
Department of Revenue qualified the
NAACP “as a regular foreign corpora
tion in this state.”
The organization was banned from
operating in the state eight years ago
on the grounds that it had not regis
tered as a foreign corporation. The case,
NAACP v. Alabama, had been in state
and federal courts 14 times during the
period, including four times before the
U.S. Supreme Court. The high court
ruled in June that Alabama had no
constitutional basis for outlawing
NAACP. (For background of case, see
SSN, October.)
In the Colleges
Extension Center
Is Desegregated
The first desegregation of the Uni- 1
versity of Alabama’s Montgomery ex
tension center occurred this fall, it was
announced in October.
A spokesman for the center said that
two Negroes—an Air Force enlisted
man and a girl—had been enrolled.
Although declining to give their names,
he said “they are treated just like any |
other student.”
They are attending night classes
along with other white adult students,
he said.
Ten Negroes are enrolled at the uni
versity’s main campus at Tuscaloosa,
where university spokesmen said others
had been accepted by extension centers
over the state—without specifying how
many or where. (SSN, October.)
School Desegregation
At a Glance
The up-to-date facts and figures for each of
the 17 Southern and border states, plus the
District of Columbia, and for the region as a
whole, will be in the latest revision of our
annual
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give the latest information available on
• Public school and college enrollments by race for
each state
• How many Negroes are in public schools and col
leges with whites a
• The number of desegregated school districts
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• State laws passed since 1954 s
• Court decisions and the status of cases still in the
courts i ,
• The effects of desegregation on Public school
teachers and college faculties
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