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...ghettos and reminded everyone that little parks can be built even with nickels. To date, the ad has brought in $26,000, of which $16,000 will immediately be spent for a minipark in the heart of Harlem. Contributors ranged from a foundation that gave $7,000 to schoolchildren who sent their nickels-and pennies too. "We are a class in Marshfield," read one covering letter, "and we are contributing $1.84 for the park in Harlem...
Only about 70 of Leake County's 2,100 Negro schoolchildren have elected to brave harassment and enroll in white schools under the "freedom of choice" plan that has been in effect since 1965. Most attend all-black schools. The schools and their physical facilities are no longer unequal to those used by white children. But the education is, since segregation denies black children the opportunity to mix with whites. "How can you bring a black child up separately and then put him out there to face the man and expect him to do well?" asks Ferr Smith...
...building has begun. There is a visible push for more education; more blacks than ever before are now in college, and more than 60% of male black students now finish high school. Around the land, Black Panthers have started ghetto clinics and breakfast and lunch programs for schoolchildren-not without criticism from more moderate blacks. Professor Barbara Solomon of the University of Southern California denounces the Panthers' Los Angeles Freedom School as "brainwashing children to hate the white...
...about spending the long, hot summer in school? Few American schoolchildren would be expected to stay away voluntarily from the softball lot, the beach, the fishing hole. Yet, in Atlanta, where few schools are air-conditioned, almost one-third of 38,000 eligible high school pupils have volunteered this year to stick to their books through the sweltering heat of July and August...
LIKE youngsters in many large American cities, Chicago's schoolchildren learn-or fail-in an environment of apartheid. Blacks go to school with blacks, whites with whites. Worse, as far as the Department is concerned, white children study under white teachers, black children under blacks. Last week the Department warned the city that unless it takes steps to break up its "segregated pattern of faculty assignments" within two weeks, it will ask the courts to impose an integrated system...