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...been so quiet that I'm afraid to say anything," commented a Chicago school-board member, foreseeing that schools would open without racial clashes. Knock-on-wood optimism was the prevailing mood among local officials last week, as the first of 41.2 million American public-school children bustled into classrooms for the 1964-65 term. Having obstreperously demanded more integration and better schools in boycotts and demonstrations over the past year, responsible Negroes are now mostly satisfied with quiet but significant improvements all over the country-and they do not want to stir up more white resentment before...
...Providence with the right to perform one solitary, spectacular miracle, most school boards in Northern U.S. cities would use it to solves the deadlocked problems of de facto segregation. The Gary, Ind., board for example, concluded that it would not take any responsibility for desegregating its schools, and made its decision stick in the courts; the U.S. Supreme Court a fortnight ago turned down a chacne to hear the case. Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia are bogged down for reasons that range from white backlash to a school-board inertia. New York City's Board of Education hesitantly advanced...
Cleveland School Superintendent William Levenson recently resigned in anger after the school-board president took a policy squabble to the newspapers. Chicago's strong-minded Benjamin Willis quit when the city board insisted on a broader, faster student-transfer plan than he wanted, returned to the job only after he got his own way. For months, New York City's able Calvin Gross has been forced to conduct a running battle with his board...
...thousands of school-board presidents throughout the country, the President sent letters asking "your help in solving the grave civil rights problems faced by this nation." Kennedy's letters urged the use of biracial committees to work out local problems, with an emphasis on stemming the school drop-out rate, which affects the employment prospects of both white and Negro youngsters. "It is of particular significance," wrote the President, "because of a lack of job opportunities for inadequately trained youth and the explosive situation in many of our great cities...
Unlike his other activities, Billie Sol's adventure in journalism was no get-rich-quick scheme for skinning the big-city rubes. Billie Sol was out to get even with some local types. He had been beaten in a school-board election last spring, and it was the Independent that had helped to beat him. Billie Sol was sore; he had wanted to get on that board to keep the boys and girls in Pecos High from swimming in the same pool or dancing on the premises. He retaliated by buying his own printing press. The first thing anybody...