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...evidence, each of D'Andrea's six jurors met the legal requirements: they were local citizens who had no felony convictions and were registered voters. They were also, as it happened, all Negroes, and D'Andrea thereupon wound up with what was reportedly the first all-Negro jury to try a white man in Florida...
...remained for the courts to decide. Reese and others claimed that DCVL's board of directors last spring authorized him to spend the money in the expectation that his civil rights activities would surely get him fired from his job as a math teacher at Selma's all-Negro Hudson High School. Reese was, indeed, fired last month. However, he had neglected to explain the DCVL board's authorization to the organization's steering committee, which has overall responsibility for the DCVL's campaign. Reese said later that he had been "going to" tell...
...Retaliation." Though authorities dispute him, N.A.A.C.P. Counsel Jack Greenberg contends that 500 of North Carolina's 11,792 Negro teachers will lose their jobs this year. Eight Negro teachers in Asheboro, for example, have been dropped with the closing of all-Negro Asheboro Central High School, and no Negro has been hired to teach next fall at the city's other, and now only, high school. Fired Negro Teacher Louis H. Newberry, who holds a master's degree from New York University and has pursued graduate studies at the University of North Carolina, says bitterly: "I think...
...Corner on Incompetence. In Florida, Dr. Gilbert Porter, executive secretary of the all-Negro Florida State Teachers Association, contends that "several hundred" Negro teachers are being dismissed, and says: "Among all of the Negro teachers being let go, one or more must have qualifications equal or superior to those of the white teachers in that county." Elsewhere, 22 Negro teachers in four Arkansas school systems being integrated have been told that they will not be rehired, and ten Negro teachers in Texas claim to have been dismissed because of integration shifts. Since integration is barely getting out of token status...
...accepted the plans of only twelve (out of some 2,000) Southern districts, has actually withheld the distribution of some $200 million in federal aid under previous programs. He is also turning a critical eye on many Northern school districts that seem gerrymandered to create virtually all-Negro or all-white schools...