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RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE Lucius Holsey Pitts, president of all-Negro Miles College, Birmingham (TIME. Nov. g)-LL.D. As one who struggled long and hard to gain an education, and who is now struggling equally hard to bring the benefits of education to those who need it most, you have indeed earned Chaucer's encomium: "And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche...
...all-Negro Central Jurisdiction was voted out of existence-on a gradual, voluntary basis. The delegates went on to pass a resolution that said: "All persons, without regard to race, color, national origin or economic condition, shall be eligible to attend worship services, and be admitted into membership anywhere in this connection." But some Southern clergy argued that the resolution did not really bind white churches to accept Negroes, and the delegates shelved a proposal to make refusing anyone admission to worship an ecclesiastical crime...
Plans call for the project to be expanded next year to include 400 Negroes. In addition, classes in all-Negro Harlem schools will be paired with the integrated classes...
...Little Rock, Ark., it isn't enlarging the neighborhood that's called for; it's letting Negro children go to neighborhood schools. As it is, some of the city's 7,000 Negro students must pay their way on city buses and ride past white schools to get to the nearest all-Negro schools. Although all grades in Little Rock schools will be tokenly desegregated in September, so far less than 2% of Negroes go to previously all-white schools...
...University of Georgia in January, 1961. Students stone Charlayne's dormitory her first night on campus, they deface her car, and insults and abuse greet both Negroes throughout the university. But Trillin, a Yale graduate who writes for the New Yorker, does not dwell on these incidents. Instead he chooses to report the disillusionment and sense of loss that two Negroes experience when they leave the comfort of high-school success in an all-Negro environment to enter Georgia as symbols of The Cause...