Word: howe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Noting that scarcely 180,000 of the Old South's 2,900,000 Negro pupils attend classes with whites a dozen years after the Supreme Court's desegregation ruling, Education Commissioner Harold Howe II declared that the day of "paper compliance" is over. He demanded action to correct...
...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...
...CHOICE" PLANS. Under such plans, Negro children are theoretically entitled to attend any white school they wish. In practice, they rarely do so. Reason: countless parents who have elected to send their children to white schools have been evicted from their homes, fired from their jobs, even shot at. Howe demanded evidence that there is genuine freedom in the desegregation plans...
...Subversive Activities Control Act, serves only to confuse and excite. Mark DeWolfe Howe '28, professor of Law, an executive committee member of the National Commission for the Repeal of the McCarran Act, calls the law "a terrible old act which has done nothing but harm." Even though the clause for individual registration has been thrown out by the Supreme Court, the law is still powerful enough to cause unwarranted injury. For this reason the McCarran Act must finally be repealed...