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VOL. ONE
The Inquirer Speaks
By M. Carl Holman
THE SOUND APPLES
They may not always be
spotlessly clean and they are
not always at the very top of
their classes in school, but they
are youngsters who bear watch
ing if you have any eye at all
for the future. Bombarded as
we are with talk about the
‘young hoods,’ the juvenile de
linquents, the ‘anti-social mis
fits’ who are supposedly
doomed from the moment they
come into the world by the
neighborhoods they grow up in
or the low horizons of their
parents, it’s sometimes a little
hard for us to notice these
gritty, tough-minded battlers
who refuse to be fenced in by
any prescribed pattern of law
lessness or failure.
Stop by the corner hangout
where the others are playing
hooky or loafing the weekend
hours away and you won’t find
them there. Drop in at a juve
nile court session as the de
pressing records of breaking
and entering, assault and all
too-early excursions into crimes
of sex and violence are recited
and again you won’t make their
acquaintance.
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EARLY RISERS
For one thing, they tend to
be early risers. While luckier
or lazier boys sleep they are
padding out into the pre-dawn
chill to deliver the papers you
find on your doorstep, to hustle
soft drinks or bread or produce
from fne delivery trucks before
that first class in the morning,
to greet the first man who steps
off the early-morning bus or
train with offer: “How ’bout
that shine there, Mister?” They
have learned to dress in the
dark and step lightly as they
leave so as to give brother,
sister, or mother an extra help
ing of sleep.
Even when they are making
good money,’ considering their
age level, they aren’t often
singled out as the ‘best-dressed’
and they may not eat as well
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TEL. 523-6087
Citizens Express Uncertainty on Atlanta Placement Plan
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PRES. JAMES A. COLSTON
of Knoxville College
Atlanta University Charter
Day Speaker
New Faculty Members
Charter Day Guests
Six new faculty members will
be honor guests at the tradi
tional Atlanta University Char
ter Day Dinner on Sunday, Oc
tober 16. Dr. Edward K. Wea
ver of the School of Education
will introduce the new faculty
and President Clement will act
as master of ceremonies.
There are two additions to
the School of Education, Dr.
Mildred White Barksdale and
Dr. Huey Charlton. Dr. Barks
dale, from 1952-60 assistant
professor of education at North
Carolina College, Durham,
holds the B. S. degree from
Jackson College and the M. S.
guidance.
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Lutheran Church of the Atonement
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THE LUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE ATONEMENT, 1875 Simpson
Road. N. W.. will celebrate its first anniversary on Sunday, October
IG. 1960 with a special service at 7 p. m. Pastor Raymond Buck of
the Ascension Lutheran Church of Atlanta will be the speaker for
the occasion. Pastor of the Church of the Atonement is Rev. William
H. Jones.
Pictured above is Dr. Mozell
Hill, former A.U. Sociology pro
fessor and Phylon editor, who has
arrived in Lagos, Nigeria to as
sume duties as a special adviser
in the social sciences and humani
ties for two years at the new Uni
versity of Nigeria.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1960
ÜBONY FASHION FAIR MODEL Ann Porter shows this Charles
Kleibacker creation to advantage. This stunning black gown has a
full silk over skirt with a sheath underneath. The waistline and front
of the sheath are heavily beaded with jet beads. The Fantastic Fash
ion Extravaganza will be at the Morehouse College Physical Educa
tion Building on Sunday, October 16, at 5 p. m.
MYBOYA S BROTHER, KING JR., ADDRESS
SIT-IN CONFERENCE HERE
The Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee finalized
plans early this week for their conference on “Non-violence
and the Achievement of Desegregation” to be held on the camp
uses of the Atlanta University Center Friday, Saturday, and
Sunday. Alphonse Okuku, brother of Kenya labor leader and
nationalist Tom Myboya, is slated to address the group in a
public mass meeting Sunday afternoon at 4:00 p.m. The mass
meeting will be held at Mt. Moriah Institutional Baptist Church,
200 Ashby Street, Reverend R. Julian Smith, pastor.
INSIDE THE INQUIRER
Atlanta University
95th Anniversary
Pen's Cartoons
Jumpin' With Joi
Let Freedom Ring
The Jazz Kingdom
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
internationally known for his
part in the Montgomery bus
boycott, is listed to speak to
the assembly on Friday even
ing. Dr. King, president of the
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference and Assistant Pas
tor of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Bap
tist Church, will speak on “The
Philosophy of Non-violence.”
Other featured speakers at
Sunday’s mass rally will be
Lonnie C. King, Chairman of
Atlanta’s Committee on Appeal
for Human Rights; Lillian
Smith, author of Strange Fruit,
Killers of the Dream, and One
Hour; and Timothy Jenkins,
newly elected National Affairs
Vice-President of the National
Student Association. King will
address himself primarily to the
adult community, bringing to
light the equal responsibilities
of adults and students while
Jenkins will speak on the ques
tion of the national coordina
tion of the movement. Okuku
will duscuss the relationship of
the African struggle for free
dom to the student protest
movement.
SNCC grew' out of a nation
wide conference of southern
sit-in protest and northern
sympathy group leaders which
met in Raleigh, North Carolina,
last April. Composed of student
representatives from each of
the southern states, the group
maintains an office in Atlanta.
Acting as a clearing house for
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With the school year 1960 well under way and 1961 just
around the corner, several parents and community leaders
expressed the feeling last week that most Negro parents do
not have any clear idea of the technicalities facing them if
they should wish to have their children transfer to a nearby
school under the grade-a-year Atlanta pupil placement plan.
Adopted by the Atlanta Board of Education in November
of 1959 and amended twice during this past January, the
Atlanta placement plan is similar in many respects to the
Alabama and New Orleans plans. It gives the City Superin
tendent of Schools and th? Board sweeping power to decide
on admission, assignment, transfer and placement of pupils.
While stating that race or color will not affect the assign
ment of pupils, the plan bristles with possible hurdles which
must still be surmounted even after application has been made
in writing on forms made available by the Superintendent of
Schools only to the student, or his parent or guardian.
Included on the list of “factors and the effects or results
thereof” and “other relevant matters” which may decide whe
ther or not a child may transfer or be admitted are questions
of available room and teaching capacity in the various schools,
transportation facilities available, the effect of the admission
of new pupils upon estabilshed or proposed academic programs.
Potential Barriers
Some Negro citizens who have analyzed the plan have
described it as loaded with possible obstacles for Negro students.
As drawn up, these observers say, the plan could bar admission
of a Negro student who applies for admission to a less crowded
school with a better educational program on the grounds that
the pupil’s academic preparation for admission to the better
school was inadequate. Or he could be ruled out on the basis
of scholastic aptitude, relative intelligence or “mental energy.”
Even more difficult to prove or disprove, in the opinion
of certain Negro educators, would be what is referred to in
the plan as “the psychological qualification of the pupil for
the type of teaching and associations involved.” It is possible,
they say, that this might easily be used to block any child from
going to a school where he would come in contact with new
teachers or students with whom he had not gone to school
before. Equally open to negative interpretation, in their opinion,
could be the weighing of home environments, “established
social and psychological relationships with other pupils and
with teachers,” and “Ability to accept or conform to new and
different educational environment” and “the morals, conduct,
health and personal standards of the pupil.”
Complicated Procedures
One parent noted that even the original parental request
or consent and “the reasons assigned therefor” could be used
to block the transfer or assignment of a child. It was further
pointed out that few parents were aware that applications,
according to the plan, must be filed between May Ist and May
15th and that the forms must not only be filled in completely
in ink or typewriter and signed by both parents, but that the
application must be notarized at the time it is filed. Following
the filing of the application the Superintendent is also entitled
to require interviews with the child, the parents or guardian,
or other persons and to have examinations, tests and other
investigations conducted. A child or parent who missed such
an interview or examination for a reason not considered satis
factory by the Superintendent or the Board would be judged
to have withdrawn the application.
Local Democrats
Invited to Party
Sponsored Conference
Four Atlantans are among the
leaders from all over the nation
who have been invited to attend
the National Conference on Con
stitutional Rights and American
Freedom sponsored by the Demo
cratic Party Tuesday, October 11
through Saturday, October 15 at
the Hotel Park-Sheraton in New
York City. Atty. A. T. Walden,
W. R. Cochrane, W. H. Aiken and
Atty. Leroy Johnson are to join
Democrats from every region of
the United States in the 5-day
confab.
Senator Hubert Humphrey of
Minnesota is Chairman of the Con
ference. Among the leaders who
will be playing prominent roles
in the conference are Mrs. Frank-
TEN CENTS
Persons not satisfied with a
ruling of the Board or Super
intendent on assignment of a
pupil are entitled to a hearing,
after objections are stated in
writing. Parents or pupils dis
satisfied with the final decision
of the school board would have
the right to appeal to the State
Board of Education.
“Friction or Disorder”
A section of the placement
plan which one feels could be
in itself an invitation to fail
ure is that which deals with
actual possible friction. This
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lin D. Roosevelt, former Governor
Herbert H. Lehman, Gov. G. Men
nen Williams, Senators Joseph S.
Clark and Philip A. Hart, Con
gressmen William L. Dawson,
Charles C. Diggs. Emanuel Celler
and Adam Clayton Powell, Mayor
Robert F. Wagner and author
columnist Harry Golden.
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