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...students attend schools that are practically all black or all white. School segregation is rising in the North because an increasing number of neighborhoods are becoming wholly black. Ironically, integration has progressed far more rapidly in the South. Only 10% of the South's 3,500,000 Negro schoolchildren attend integrated classes, but that is twice as many as a year ago. Federal education officials say that 4,200 of the 4,600 Southern school districts have sent in "acceptable" plans for integration. But the increase is slowing down because Congress-itself reacting to the reaction against Negro demonstrations...
Bussing of schoolchildren to bring about integration is one of the most controversial issues in the civil rights debate. Nevertheless, suburban school districts in several metropolitan areas in the U.S. this fall have accepted Negro students bussed out from their core cities. The results so far add up to a remarkable bridging of the worlds of two kinds of children...
...Grenada, Miss., where Negro schoolchildren were savagely beaten this month for attending previously all-white schools, Dr. Martin Luther King drew applause with an appeal for white-black cooperation rather than racial rivalry. "Even we Negroes must learn," he said, "that whites and blacks in this country are tied together inseparably. Neither of us can make it alone." At one point, he gestured toward a collection plate, declared: "Green power-that's the kind of power we need...
...inferior education, and I.S. 201 never had any real possibility of being integrated. But there the school is-the city's finest, an architectural gem and potentially an academic joy. Common sense might seem to suggest accepting this separate-but-better education. Instead, many parents of I.S. 201 schoolchildren decided (as one sign put it) that HARLEM HAS BEEN BETRAYED, and with stormy picketing kept the showcase school shut for five days...
...Mississippi senate to control all legislation in the state. Ole Miss produced eight of the nine members of the Mississippi Supreme Court and all three of the state's federal district judges, including Claude F. Clayton, who last week firmly ordered do-nothing police to protect Negro schoolchildren from savage white mobs in Grenada...