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)L 0U TH J H~~V F a Y~911 !S Nnl.L EWS 6S.T.T-H-19 3 Nr Index to Volume VI Begins on Page 13 r--~~~~~~~-~·~~~~~~~~~- Factual NN1.i '£ 1i11AHsv., Objective NOISIAIO AYY~ Ii 3!V!S )L 0u TH J H~~V f A Y~911 !S NNl.l EWS 6S.t.t-H-19 3 nr $2 PER YEAR JULY, 1960 isiANA Three New Suits Filed rleans School Board • • alls for Interposition Seeking Desegregation; NEW ORLEANS, La. clergymen urging that schools be kept open. Orleans Appeals to State ORLEANS PARISH (COUNTY) school board, operating a One of them was from Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel of New Or­ endorsed the state's four-year-old ap­ I system with 50,000 Negro leans, who himself is head of the large proach to school desegregation. (Page n,ooo white children, asked parochial school system, which houses A labama's Placement Law 2) gavemor to use the doctrine some 35 per cent of all school-age chil­ Oklahoma mterposition to prevent the dren in New Orleans. Integration of a rural school district Catholic schools are, like public Is A ttacked in Birmingham during the past year was revealed and 6 integration of New Or­ schools, segregated. The Archbishop has another district reported steps leading public schools. not declared what his policy on inte­ to integration next year, (Page 11) EGROES FILED THREE new law ly created Commission on Public Edu­ gration will be in September. Previous­ cation. (Page 13) Gov. Jinunie H. Davis gave no ly he has said that Catholic schools N suits in federal courts in South Carolina reply to the request or to would integrate no later than public June, seeking to desegregate pub­ Louisiana South Carolina Democrats re-nom­ conference questions as to schools but during June he said no The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Ap­ inated U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond for lic schools in Birmingham, Ala., another term by a margin of more than he will use his power to definite plans have been formulated. Volusia County, Fla., and Caswell peals turned down the Orleans Parish school board's request for a stay of a eight to one. (Page 10) the schools rather than have SCHOOLS CROWDED County, N.C. lower court's desegregation order. (Page Tennessee desegregated under the Both public and Catholic schools of The Alabama action represents 1) The Chattanooga Board of Education New Orleans are crowded. Should one order of the federal dis­ the only litigation attacking seg­ Maryland cited the possibility of the public's "in­ system integrate and the other main­ White and Negro teacher associa­ tense resistance" in its answer to a court. tain segregation there is likely to be a regated schools in the state. It tions in Anne Arundel County merged school desegregation suit. (Page 7) itb but two months remaining pupil shift that would create massive leaves Mississippi as the only state as plans were set for desegregation to housing problems. that maintains complete segrega­ advance another grade there and in Texas ~'- the scheduled opening of "Why not accept the moderate fonn . no definite action on the tion in its school system and that four other Maryland counties. (Page Attorneys for Negro applicants gave of gradual integration proposed by does not have a suit seeking to 11) notice of appeal from U.S. District of school or Louisiana gov­ Judge Wright as a sound, temperate change the situation, Mississippi Judge T. Whitfield Davidson's ruling ent officials has been taken. interpretation of the American way of Fourteen new laws stemming from that Dallas should begin school de­ "School Boards and School- life, and, incidentally, of the Christian The Orleans Parish (county) the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 school segregation in 1961 on a "salt-and­ way of life?" the archbishop asked the ") school board, facing a federal decision were placed on the Mississippi pepper" plan. (Page 1) board. statute books during the recent Legis­ court order to desegregate the Virginia In discussing the interposition re­ lature. (Page 7) E::H;l~ro·us group.s in New Or­ New Orleans public schools be­ The NAACP moved to force the re­ e forward with declara­ solution, the school board met opposi­ tion from Emile A. Wagner Jr., most ginning Sept. 6, appealed to Louis­ Missouri opening of Prince Edward County's the Orleans Parish school iana Gov. Jimmie H. Davis to use The Sl Louis Board of Education in­ public schools but further hearing was (See "Community Ac- (See LOUISIANA, Page 12) the doctrine of interposition to augurated a crash program in remedial delayed. (Page 8) reading and spelling for 2,000 elemen­ keep the schools open on a segre­ tary school children. (Page 9) West Virginia U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of gated basis. Former State School Supt. W. W. North Carolina Trent, who help chart desegregation of turned down the Orleans The Birmingham suit entered on ALABAMA June 17 charges that the Alabama North Carolina Democrats nominated the state's public schools, died at the on its request for a stay of school placement law, previously up­ Terry Sanford for governor and thus age of 82. (Page 10) # # # crder that it must integrate the held by the U.S. Supreme Court, is grade beginning when the new Suit Challenges "inadequate to provide relief." opens. (See "Legal Action.") A suit in federal court at Jack­ TEXAS sonville, Fla., was filed in behalf of 39 Abloc of segregation bills were Negro students from Volusia County into law. Another measure, Placement Law (Daytona Beach). NAACP attorneys ering the governor to close said it was the most extensive school Dallas Decision Appealed; state public schools in the event suit ever filed in the nation. In Birmingham Forty-four Negro students seek de­ mtegration of any one of them, segregation of Caswell County, N.C., to the Senate with unani- schools in a federal court suil Since Houston For Segregation House approval. (See "Leg­ BIRMINGHAM, Ala. the suit was filed, seven of the stu­ IRMINGHAM NEGROES filed suit Action.") dents have requested transfers to the Bin U.S. District Court there county's white schools. DALLAS, Tex. Brownsboro, near Dallas, in a dis­ June 17 demanding an end to State by state, the major school de­ TrORNEYS FOR NEGRO applicants pute involving conditions at a velopments in June were: school and park segregation. Agave notice of appeal from Negro school among other things, The school suit, alleging that Alabama U. S. District Judge T. W. David­ broke up in a fight that left one The State Board of Education or­ son's ruling that Dallas should be­ person dead and several injured. the previously upheld school gin desegregation in 1961 on a placement law is "inadequate to dered Dr. Lawrence D. Reddick ex­ (See "School Boards and School­ pelled as a faculty member at Ala­ "salt-and-pepper" plan. (See men. ") provide relief,'' asked that the bama State College for Negroes after "Legal Action.") Board of Education be enjoined Gov. John Patterson branded him an Houston residents voted two to from "operating a bi-racial school agitator and communist sympathizer. one against authorizing integra­ ACTION (Page 1) ;:: ~.;,,,:';-:LEG.AL system" in Birmingham. (See tion. A district judge studied the ,, ~;:t /,':'~~·<#.'~ ,,, , "Legal Action.") Arkansas school board's plan to begin volun­ At Little Rock, 39 junior high and Lawyers for the National Assn. for the The State Board of Education 35 senior high Negro students asked tary desegregation next year. (See Advancement of Colored People gave ordered Dr. Lawrence D. Reddick assignment to white or integrated "School Boards and Schoolmen.") notice of appeal from the ruling of U. S. expelled as a faculty member at schools next fall (Page 5) A school board meeting at District Judge T. Whitfield Davidson Alabama State College for Ne­ that Dallas should start integration in Delaware September 1961 on a "salt and pepper" groes after Gov. John Patterson The Delaware House of Representa­ plan. (Borders t•. Rippy, SouTHERN branded the professor an agitator tives approved a bill providing three S<:HooL NEWS, June 1960 and previous.) and communist sympathizer . Pat­ million dollars for construction at 15 SSNBegins The appeal went to the U. S. Fifth terson also suggested replacing Negro schools. (Page 4) Circuit Court at New Orleans. NAACP the college president, Dr. H . attorneys W. J. Durham and C. B. District of Columbia 7th Volume; Bunkley Jr. seek complete integration Councill Trenholm. (See "In The Southern Democrats and conserva­ starting this fall. tive Republicans on the House Rules Colleges.") . The Dallas school board's desegrega­ Committee joined to block efforts to Index Inside The civil rights issue dommated the tion plan, tailored to fit Judge David­ send a federal school construction aid thinking of convention del~ates. elected son's recommendations, calls for open­ bill to a Senate-House conference. the state's Democratic pnmanes May SOUTHERN ScHOOL NEWS turns an­ ing certain schools for voluntary inte­ ~and May 31. Final official .tabulations (Page 6) other comer with this issue. gration while maintaining segregation from the May 31 run-ofT pnm~ ga;'e Florida Volume 7, number one begins an­ in others. Legal action continued to dominate States Rights candidates. fo: presidential other year for SSN and Southern The 83-year-old jurist expressed the the school segregation picture in Flor­ elector a six to five maJonty over ~­ Education Reporting Setvice. opinion that the voluntary, partial inte­ ida as developments were reported in didates pledged to supP?rt pa:tY nonu- The index for Volume &-cover­ gration system would satisfy the re­ Volusia County, Palm Beach and ing the issues from July 1959 regardless of their racial stand.
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