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Blacks have been steadily moving into Mount Vernon since the end of World War II. They formed 11% of the population in 1950 and now account for 35%. Since the city has only one high school, it is integrated. But the white community has persistently and bitterly opposed integration of its eleven elementary schools. School-board candidates routinely campaign on the pitch "Preserve Your Neighborhood Schools," which black critics understandably interpret as "Keep Your Schools White...
...court ordered the districts to desegregate according to the plans drawn up last summer by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The plans assign students to schools under a variety of systems, without regard to race. The court will maintain its jurisdiction over the districts, and no changes in the plans will be allowed until at least next September. Bell also encouraged school-board integration, stating that the court would be more sympathetic to changes requested by bi-racial groups than by white-controlled school boards alone...
...chicken king said: "Some things have been added that should be burned-and you know it." One item that particularly inflamed him was a textbook that called Patrick Henry an "agitator." Maddox said he had been raised to think of Henry as a hero. The audience of educators and school-board members replied with scattered applause. Cross burning may be a dying art in the South, but if Maddox has his way, book burning will replace...
...education has become the most hotly debated topic in American elementary education. In recent months, a carefully orchestrated campaign led by political conservatives has embroiled one school district after another across the nation in angry argument over sex courses. State legislatures have argued the subject; school-board and P.T.A. meetings have been disrupted by angry opponents of sex education, who have sometimes labeled its advocates Communist sympathizers and proponents of "psychological VD." The nationwide offensive against sex education was a major topic at this month's annual convention of the National Education Association, which passed a resolution strongly reaffirming...
What he and other Negro integrationists saw was a strong backlash by anti-bussing whites. Last week the whites got a chance to express their feelings when a record 50% of Denver's registered voters turned out for the school-board election. At issue were two six-year seats on the seven-member board. In seeking those seats, Lawyer James C. Perrill and Frank K. Southworth, a real estate man, ran primarily "against forced bussing and for neighborhood schools." They won by a landslide, switching the board majority to 4 to 3 against integration...