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L8~O of School Districts in Region Desegregated Factual ~ uooL EWS Objective NASHVILLE, TENN. $2 PER YEAR JUNE, 1957 SERS to Continue 'Grant of $234,916Made l8~o of School Districts For Next 2 Years' Work In Region Desegregated otJTHERN EoucATLON REPOR1"tNG Service has received a grant of A PPROXIMATELY' 18 PER CENT OF THE SOME 3,700 BIRACIAL SCHOOL DIS­ 1 4,916 from the Fund Cor the TRICTS in 17 souLhem and border states have begun desegregation dvancemenl of Education to ex­ since the U.S. Supreme Cour·t decision of 1954, according to a SouTH­ d its activities from July 1 of ERN ScHOOL NEws school year-end survey. ·r to June 30. 195~). according tl) There are 684 districts which have begun or accomplished the de­ announcement from SERS segregation process. All but seven of these are in the border states. Of an Frank Ahlgren. the seven, two are in Tennessee and five are in Arkansas. The states The Fund. an ind('pencll'n t agcn- of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, .· established by the Ford Foun­ South Carolina and Virginia have no public school integration. (One district in Texns-Fiatonia in lion, provided the original g1·ant Fayette County-long assumed to be Louisiana · SERS in 1954 for a pc1·iod of desegregated and so listed in last In lhe first such forecast !rom a po­ year. In 1955 it apprnprhtcd month's SSN map, was disclosed to litical figure, Louisiana's Democratic 3.884 to extend SERS fM two have taken no action.) national committeeman predicted his state and other states would eventually . At that lime it was sllpulat- LEGISLATURES 1\fEETING desegregate their schools. Meanwhile, . that a modest charge be made Six state legislatures were in session the state was seeking new trials in subscriptions to SouTHF.RN as the school year neared its end. suits which have produced federal Among significant pieces of legislation ooL NEws-a policy which has court desegregation orders in four col­ were: leges. in effect since the July (Vol­ Repeal in Missouri of old statutes !\fa ryland e II) issue of 1955. authorizing segregation and failure of The state cou•·t of appeals upheld similar efforts in desegregating Okla­ Fll'St chairman of SERS wns Vil·­ LUTHER H . FOSTER BERT STRUBY the legality of school desegregation as ius Dabney, editor of the Ridtmond homa. several counties prepared to extend 1 ttt•-Dispairlt . Dabney wus succcoed­ New Members of SERS Board Passage of a pupil assignment law their integration programs. 1 &:t this year by Ahl~ren, who is editor in the Texas legislature-the eighth Mississippi the Tlfempltis Commercial A m>enl. law-making body in the region to Some 1,000 local taxing districts are 1 1 ~ I execullve dit·cctor wns C. A. adopt such legislation. completing consolidation into about 150 Ill: . night, now c:'ditot• or lht• c Ita rlotte Consideration of school-closing laws such districts in 82 counties as the first er. McKnight was succeeded in SERS Board Picks Editor, and similar "last resort" measures in phase of a physical equalization plan. by Don Shoemake•·. edttor of Tltl' Alabama and Florida. Missouri 'lle Citizen. No court decisions dealing with At the end of the school year, only Educator As New Members school entry cases were announced five hlgh school dic;tricts in the state 1JTER FROl\t WEISS during the month but litigation con­ remained segregated, with fewer than 'fication of approval of the SERS T wo NEW MEMBERS have been resentative on lhe Commission to Study tinued in several states. A Texas court 7,500 out of 68,000 Negro pupils in all ,......,.... ,....li on Cor nn extension of its Rural Higher Education in India. He put operations of the National Asso­ Missouri schools still in segregated added to the Board of Directors ciation for the Advancement of Col­ was received by Chairman Ahl­ of the Southern Education Re­ is a director of the United Negro Col­ systems. Old statutes authorizing seg­ ~ May 2. In n letter to Ahl~·<'n. lege Fund and a trustee of the George ored People under a modified perma­ regation were repealed by the legisla­ IIQk ikt K. Wei~. as.c;islant vice-pr<'sidc:'nl porting Service. Washington Carver Foundation. He is nent injunction. ture in a little-noticed action . ::r • the Fund for the Advancement of a member of Phi Delta Kappa and SSN correspondents report that ad­ North Carolina They are: Dr. Luther H. F oster, ditional desegregation steps are ex­ ~~·1uc:ation. wrote as follows: president of Tuskegee I nstitute, Alpha Phi Alpha !rateroities and is Legislators were studying proposed ·~ .l,t its meeting earlier this week married and has two children. pected this fall in Arkansas (Little new laws to open NAACP fi nancial r..-r.: Board of Directors of the Fund Tuskegee, Ala., and Bert Struby, Struby, a native o( Macon. became Rock), Tennessee (Nashville), Missouri records and to make "barratry" a ~::~ unanimoush· to grant George editor of the Macon Telegraph, edito1· of the Telegraph after a career (nine more districts) and Delaware (a crime. School officials of the three ..::t=bbocJy College $23·1,916 for the sup- Macon, Ga. with the Macon papers which led him "general" movement., affecting some largest cities disclosed they had been from reporter through executive editor. south Delaware districts). Additional­ meeting privately !or several years to =~J-t of SERS from July 1, 1957 The two were nominated by a com­ c'!',~h June 30, 1959. He is a journalism graduate of Mercer ly, four districts in Virginia (Arling­ discuss mutual problems-including mtttee of SERS board members con­ ~- As I am sure you know, this om­ University, a former trustee and presi­ ton, Charlottesville, Newport News segrega lion -desegregation. sisling of Coleman A. Harwell, chair­ action is only one measur<' of dent of the Mcree•· Alumni Association. and Norfolk) arc under court order to OklaJtoma enthusiasm nnd suppot·t which man, George N. Redd and Thomas R. In 1941-46 he served wth the U.S. Navy desegregate at specified times. Two The legislature failed to remove seg­ Board and officers of the Fund Waring. Election was by mail ballot in the P acific theater and was released school entry suits, described as "key" regation sections from its school code (or this important program. It and was unanimous. to inactive duty with rank of lieutenant cases, were pending in Florida. though state school districts generally come as no surpris<' to you, I Foster has been president of Tuskegee commander. St.ruby is a member of the A state-by-stale summary of major are complying with the U.S. Supreme w, to tell you that l'nch member since 1953. A native of Lawrenceville, American Society of Newspaper Edi­ developments follows: Court decision. our Board has indlviclunllv hnd Va., he received his B.S. from Virginia tors and of Sigma Delta Chi profes­ Alabama South Carolina ~ .,.. ght to his attention hy p·N·sons State College and Hampton Instilute; ~iona l journalistic fraternity. He is the The legislature began its 1957 session The end of the school year found r!-:1- I connected with the Fund lhe his M.B.A. from Harvard and hls M.A. recipient of a citizenship award given May 7 with a large number of pro­ public schools tightly segregated, with rtancc and merit of this pro­ and Ph.D. degrees from the University by the Macon Young People's League segregation bills-most of them con­ the state legislature in session and . There can be no question that of Chicago. He was budget officer o( for Belter Government and a citation cerned with school-closing-before it adding more laws aimed at continued and your colleagu<'s on the Howard University in 1936-40 and came from lhc Anti-Defamation League of for action. Contrary to p1·edictions, segregation. d as well as Mr. Shoemnk<'r and to Tuskegee first as business manager. B'nai B'rith in recognition of contri­ Gov. James E. Folsom did not men­ Tennessee staff have done an outslancling Foster is a member of the board of the butions toward "good human rela­ lion the issue in his address to the Trial of segregationist John Kasper in a difficult nnd sensitivt> nrea. Southern Regional Council and of the tions.·· A member of the Macon Rotary legislature. and 15 other persons charged with The terms of this ~rant wtll bt• the Biracial Commission of the Episcopal Club and of the American Legion, he Arkansas contempt of court in the Clinton dis­ e as those of our previous sup­ Church. In 1954 he served as U.S. rep- is married and has two children. Pro-segregation laws were under fire turbances was set for July as Clinton for this program. from a church group. The white Citi­ High School graduated its first Negro. We are lookinl! forward to our zens Council asked Gov. Orval Faubus Texas tinued associntton with vou and Regular reports, written in a depart­ to "order" whites and Negroes to at­ Legislators adopted a pupil assign­ colleagues with both ple<Jsure tend separate schools at Little Rock, ment law and a measure requiring mentalized news fashion, are received elections before other school districts anticipation. from the 19 SSN correspondents in the S pedal Su1nmary where high school desegregation is to George Peabody College of Nash­ begin this fall. desegregate (more than 100 have done nr<'a directly affected by the U. S. Su­ so). while a state court issued a modi­ Je has served since the beginning preme Cou~t decisions on school segre­ Delaware SERS as fiscal agent of the project.
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