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In Atlanta Placements SOUTHERN SCHOOL NEWS-AUGUST, 1962-PAGE 7 GEORGIA in Atlanta Placements MACON zation's annual convention in Atlanta. Community Action S. DISTRICT Judge Frank A. Southern Negroes were urged to U• Hooper withheld ruling im­ break down pupil placement laws by mediately on the motion to speed aiding students and parents to apply in Catholic School massive numbers for school transfers. up Atlanta's desegregation pro­ Carter urged a "door-to-door" cam­ gram, but he did remark after a paign to boost applications. Policy Arouses two-hour hearing July 31 that Such a campaign was launched in there was "not a scintilla of testi­ Durham, N.C., by NAACP college stu­ Slight Response mony" to indicate discrimination dents, and some 960 students applied, according to attorney Floyd B. Mc­ against Negroes under the pupil Only slight response was reported to placement plan. Kissick. Another lawyer, S. W. Tucker of Em­ lowering of racial bars in Roman Cath­ "I don't see that you have proved olic schools in the Archdiocese of At­ there are any standards applied to Ne­ poria, Va., said pupil assignment laws are being used as "roadblocks" to lanta (SSN, July). Archbishop Paul J. groes and not to whites," the judge Hallinan said only five Negro Catholic told the plaintiffs. Judge Hooper also genuine integration. Tucker agreed that application drives might be tactically studen ts had registe1·ed to attend pre­ stated during the hearing that h e viously white elementary schools and thought it "significant" that no Negroes useful, but said the U.S. Supreme Court desegregation decision places a positive six to attend white high schools. rejected under the plan had appeared Some 4,700 pupils in 18 elementary at the hearing. duty on school boards to eliminate seg­ regation, and that the burden should and five high schools in the 71-county The district judge delayed his ruling diocese are involved. But the arch­ until he could read a recent federal not have to be on the pupils. Tucker said courts have been "whit­ bishop said the success of desegregation appellate court's decision, which was does not depend on the number of cited as precedent by an NAACP law­ tling down" the scope of pupil place­ l ment criteria and insisting that both transfers. t yer, Mrs. Constance Bakc1· Motley of New York. white and Negro students be subjected In addition to the request to increase to the same standards. Atlanta's school desegregation, the The Newsletter* of* t he* Greater Atlanta NAACP asked desegregation of teach­ Political Activity Council on Human Relations listed ing staffs, citing the U.S. Fifth Circuit schools and colleges in the area which Court of Appeals decision in the Es­ "have accepted or indicated willingness cambia County, Fla., case. Judge Hoop­ Race Relations to accept applications from all." The er expressed surprise that the Negroes list includes: were asking for teacher desegregation, Become an Issue Certain Atlanta public schools (11 of as the plaintiffs originally had brought 21 will be desegregated as of this fall). class action on behalf of pupils. Catholic schools. Mrs. Motley cited the circuit court In Governor's Race Georgia Tech (two Negroes attended opinion as precedent for her request. last term; others have applied for ad­ Politics heated up with the official mission in September). The school board's atlorney. Newell opening of the gubernatorial campaign, Edenfield, replied that this decision had Georgia State College (one Negro has Dixieland Jazz for Sanders and the handling of racial relations be­ attended). said that desegregation of students came an issue in the contest between should be settled first. At candidate's campaign opener in Americus the tunes were foot-tappers. Oglethorpe University. State Senator Carl Sanders of Augusta Agnes Scott College (beginning 1963- Current Plan 15 and a1·e appealable; the informal and former Gov. Marvin Griffin of 64 term.) The NAACP proposal asked that the transfers are allowed at other times for Bainbridge. Westminster School (Presbyterian­ current pupil placement plan be thrown such reasons as educational programs Georgia Highlights Griffin charged Sanders was being related). out and Atlanta's public schools com­ backed by Dr. Martin Luther King and and change of residence. Segregation in the schools was Trinity Presbyterian School. pletely desegregated by 1965. Under the Dr. Letson said "some" of the pupil others h e described as integrationists. Columbia Theological Seminary. suggested plan, all high school grades placement plan criteria were used in discussed by both major candidates Opening his campaign in Americus, for the Georgia governorship, but would be desegregated by 1963, the judging informal transfer requests, but Griffin said he wanted to join hands In tlte Colleges fourth through the seventh grades by that Negroes wanting to change to Ne­ both promised to keep the public with Governor-nominate George Wal­ September, 1964, and the remaining gro schools are treated in the same school1:. open. lace of Alabama (who was on the plat­ grades by 1965. manner. Special tests given to transfer Federal Judge Frank A. Hooper form and made a brief speech in sup­ High Court Hears Atlanta desegregated its 11th and 12th applicants last year have been aban­ on July 31 heard arguments on an port of Griffin) and the segregationist grades under court order last year and doned, and all students take the same NAACP motion to throw out the governors of South Carolina and Mis­ is adrung the 10th grade this year un­ tests now, he testified. existing pupil placement plan and sissippi to form a solid Deep South Arguments in Suit der the grade-a-year plan. Forty-four new pupils have been ap­ completely desegregate Atlanta's front against integration. In arguing against the pupil place­ proved for transfer when school opens, Sanders said h e was not going to ment plan, Mrs. Motley said "this plan and various athletic events, clubs and public school system by 1965. stand with George Wallace or with On Tax Exemption is operated to put a burden on Negroes other school activities have been de­ Oral arguments were heard in an Martin Luther King. "I'm going to stand Oral arguments in the case of wheth­ not applied to whites" and is "dis­ segregated, the superintendent reported. appeal case over whether Emory with the people of my state," he said. er Emory University can admit a Negro criminatory on its face." The NAACP University would lose its tax-exempt He called for a halt of racial disturb­ student without losing its tax exemp­ attorney cited testimony that white stu­ Answering Questions status i£ it admits a Negro student. ances at Albany and said that, as gov­ tion were heard by the Georgia Su­ dents were allowed to transfer "infor­ In answering Mrs. Motley's questions The president of Mercer University ernor, he would not tolerate agitators, preme Court. Attorneys for Emory, a mally" to other white schools through­ about the conversion of Key Elementary in Macon said he favors desegrega­ whether it be King or Marvin Griffin. private school near Atlanta, appealed out the school year. School from an all-white to an all-Ne­ tion or hi s school. Sanders accused Griffin of bringing in an adverse decision by Judge Frank "It is known," she said, "that May Alabama Klansmen to create violence gro enrollment, Dr. Letson said the Changing over of a fo rmer all­ Guess of DeKalk Superior Court (SSN, 1-15 is the time when Negroes apply to change resulted from "changing com­ in Georgia. Griffin denied it. July). attend white schools" and that white munity patterns." He said the pupils white to an all-Negro school in At­ Griffin said there is "insidious propa­ Chief Justice W. H. Duckworth re­ students are allowed to make applica­ were sent to white schools because the lanta brought protests to the board ganda" making the rounds in Georgia marked from the bench that he did not tions at other times. "I don't think the pupil placement plan's grade-a-year of education from whites and Ne- that "if we are going to make progress think state law could be construed to court can close its eyes to what every­ provision had not yet reached down groes. we can't maintain our institutions and bar Emory from admitting a Negro body else knows," she told Judge Hoop­ into the elementary level. Slight response was reported to de­ traditions" and that "we must take the student. er. "We are and have been in the process segregation plans of Catholic schools bitter medicine offered us by the fed­ A Negro has not yet been admitted of moving from a segregated system to eral courts." to Emory but the school sought judicial Mass Transfers in the Atlanta Archdiocese. a desegregated system. We make no He contended that during his admin­ interpretation of the laws after an­ Mrs. Motley also attacked what she contention we have moved all the way," istration there was no school desegre­ nouncing it wanted to admit a Negro described as the dual white-Negro he said. gation, and no acts of violence either. to the dentistry school this fall. school system. And she argued that mass Judge Hooper said no attack on the He said the people of Alabama have The superintendent conceded that Sees Possible Conflict transfers, such as those from Key Ele­ segregated Negro elementary schools present plan had been made in the "taken the word 'inevitable' out of their mentary School, were in fact "contro­ "feed" Negro high schools and white higher courts, and no Negro pupil had vocabulary" and that Georgia can do George Dillard, attorney for DeKalb ''ersial." elementaries feed white high schools.
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