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Specifically, the department asked Federal Judge Oren R. Lewis to: 1) prohibit the State of Virginia from making public funds available to public schools anywhere in the state until Prince Edward County complies with the court order; 2) forbid the use of public funds for the maintenance of "private" schools in the county; and 3) force state and county officials to maintain a public-school system in Prince Edward. The suit, marking the first time the U.S. Government has sought to enter a desegregation case as a plaintiff, was a sharp reminder of the Kennedy Administration's determination...
...recruit youths aged 18 to 24 for one year's service in underdeveloped countries, and he has been astonishingly successful. Though they get only subsistence pay and hard living, they stick: only two volunteers out of 165 have quit so far. In 25 countries, VSO currently has 87 public-school boys, factory apprentices, girls and university men-all working at everything from repairing bicycles in Kenya to aiding sick Eskimos in Labrador. Wrote one Southeast Asian official: "Send us the best you have, as many as possible, and as quickly as you can." The stripling volunteers have shouldered responsibilities...
While Southern cities were firing legal smoke shells at school integration last week, New York City announced a historic breach of de facto segregation. A growing problem in every big Northern city, de facto segregation results from slum housing, racial ghettos and rigid school zoning laws. In New York City, where three-quarters of Manhattan's public-school pupils are now Negro and Puerto Rican, the concentration of them in some schools is as high as 100%. Negro parents complain that such schools are educationally inferior. Demanding a chance to send their children to more racially mixed schools, many...
...inclination to copy the Press's boldness. The Chronicle generally temporizes, the Post-run by onetime WAC commander Oveta Gulp Hobby-usually maintains editorial silence. This month, when Federal District Judge Ben C. Connally ordered the city's laggard school board to step up the rate of public-school integration, only the Chronicle and the Press editorialized on his decision. The Chronicle was mild and vague: "It is hoped that all citizens will cooperate." The Press said: "Judge Connally's order is one with which we all can-and must-learn to live...
...time now to get down to the serious business of integration," said Federal District Court Judge Caleb Layton III last year to school officials in Delaware. He ordered grade-a-year desegregation over the next twelve years. Some 46% of Delaware's 77,000 public-school children now attend integrated schools (mainly around Northern-oriented Wilmington). But last week Negro parents, who contend that the pace is still painfully slow in the rest of Delaware, won a significant ruling from the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia. By a 2-to-1 vote, the court struck down...