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Sensory Impact. Enthusiasm is just as high at Washington's all-Negro Scott Montgomery School, where three-fourths of the students' families earn less than $3,000 a year, and half have only one parent at home. The films, say's Negro Principal Nathaniel Dixon, let the school "take these children to places where they have never been-to distant lands, to the outer limits of space, to the world beneath the sea, to farm and factories." He finds that "the sensory impact of motion, sound and color" stimulates slow learners. Besides that, first-graders are proud...
...game, I fell asleep listening to him talk about stopping the fast break. He hit me with an eraser. If I missed anything then, it'll surely show up here." Haskins, it turned out, did not miss much. While he yelled encouragement from the sidelines, Western's all-Negro five effectively buried Kentucky's fast break with pinpoint control of their own backboard, inspired hustling and just plain scrappy play. The final score...
...SEGREGATED FACULTIES. Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina have only token integration, while teaching staffs in Louisiana and Mississippi are completely segregated. Howe suggested that Southern school officials might assign one white teacher to every all-Negro faculty and vice versa-or risk losing federal...
...INADEQUATE BUILDINGS. Throughout the South, Howe noted, dilapidated one-or two-room shacks serve as all-Negro schools. These must be closed and their students transferred to other schools...
...prominent Washington clergymen who refused to sign a pledge to open membership of their churches to anyone regardless of race. National City is only nominally integrated: out of 1,025 members of the church, which is in a predominantly Negro neighborhood, four are Negro. His critics charge that Davis has quietly encouraged potential applicants to try the nearby all-Negro Twelfth Street Christian Church...