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Thus, to qualify for the $764 million that Congress is expected to make available to Southern public schools this year, about 1,700 of the region's 1,950 districts submitted integration plans that were acceptable to U.S. Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel. Roughly half of these districts took the easy way by adopting "freedom of choice" plans, under which Negroes are to designate the school they wish to attend. These plans have been attacked by civil rights groups because "freedom of choice" places the burden of initiative upon local Negroes-who have to buck intense white pressure-rather...
...Keppel's office agrees, may reconsider these plans next year. Of all districts that submitted acceptable plans, however, almost 90% gulped hard and prepared to integrate all twelve grades this fall, while the rest accepted the four-grades-a-year minimum policy set by Keppel...
...Just Do Nothin'." That still left plenty of areas of resistance. More than 100 districts made no effort to qualify for federal aid, and 120 others submitted plans that will have to be upgraded to satisfy Keppel...
There will be other places that will try, as Amite School Board Chairman Colville Jackson puts it, to "just do nothin'." But integration is moving at a stepped-up pace. Late this month, Commissioner Keppel expects to have a head count on just how many Negroes are in previously all-white Southern classrooms this year. He optimistically predicts that the number will be ten times that of last year-in all, perhaps as much as a fourth of the South's Negro schoolchildren...
...library volumes for communities with fewer than 2,500 people, figures that 69% of the 7,260 public libraries in the U.S. are substandard. Of the 8,000 elementary schools in the country, fully 60% have no central libraries, a state of affairs that U.S. Education Commissioner Francis Keppel calls "a national disgrace...