Word: attendants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ninety-four thousand of the Negroes attend schools in which 90 per cent or more of the students are Negroes. 27 schools have no white students; on the other hand, three schools have no Negroes and 1 others are more than 90 per cent white. The well-balanced school racially is rare indeed...
...even greater opportunity exists on the secondary and elementary school levels. In many Southern states and in too many Northern cities, Negroes attend public schools in which poor morale, inadequate staffing, and the low socio-economic level of their students often cause education to fail completely. The widespread protests against "defacto segregation" by Negro parents this summer and fall attest to the urgency of this problem...
Applications may also be increased by a long range plan which is now being considered by participating colleges. Students with potentially adequate qualifications for Ivy League and Seven Sister colleges may be given aid to attend boarding schools in the North...
Last week Democratic leaders organized a rare postprimary rally-a $25-a-plate dinner in Jackson featuring top Democratic brass, including the seven-man congressional delegation from Washington. Party publicists hoped that 7,500 would attend. But no more than 3,500 gathered in the half-empty hall...
...that school district boundaries be redrawn and new schools located so that no more than fifty per cent of any school's pupils would be Negroes. They claim that even after such action, no child would live more than half a mile from the elementary school he would attend. Second, they have asked the School Committee to make it easier for a student to transfer from school to school...