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...Court handed down its decision. At first white high-school students boycotted classes and booed Negro newcomers, but these protests soon ended when school authorities sternly threatened to ban troublemakers from athletic teams and other extracurricular activities. Washington, D.C. schools are now fully integrated (but 20% of the Negro schoolchildren, living in Negro neighborhoods, go to all-Negro schools), and 58,500 Negroes attend classes along with white children in what one school official called a "miracle of social adjustment." The rapid march to total integration is all the more noteworthy because Negroes make up a 68% majority among District...
Texas. After a promising start, the pace of integration has slowed down. Of 800-odd school districts with both white and Negro children, 122 have at least partly integrated, and so have several state-supported colleges. But in eastern Texas, where 90% of the Negro schoolchildren live, segregation fences are as high and unscalable as ever. The segregationist camp showed its power this year when the state legislature passed a law under which any school district that integrates without first holding a local referendum loses its share of state school funds. With that law on the books, no more white...
Twice before, cantankerous old (88) U.S. District Judge William H. Atwell had refused to order school integration in Dallas-and twice before he had been reversed by higher courts. Last week the suit brought by parents of 23 Negro schoolchildren came before Judge Atwell again. This time the judge had little choice. "It is difficult for me to approve this order," said he, "but this is a land of law and it is my duty to do what I have been ordered to do by a higher court." Result: the Dallas public schools, with 86,000 white and 17.000 Negro...
Patriotism In. Last week conservative old (70) Education Minister To Matsunaga was in the midst of an all-out campaign to correct the faults of the occupation-planted system. Said he: "Twenty million schoolchildren taking the compulsory education course in primary and junior high schools know no Japanese history and are taught no morals. My primary aim is to implant patriotic sentiments in schoolchildren's hearts." The J.T.U. promptly protested that "Matsunaga wants to march the children back to the dark, feudal past." Even the anti-Communist Japan Federation of Teachers' Unions (20,000 members) warned against "reactionary...
...statement which the Senator has just made ... I should think he would be utterly ashamed of himself, being over 21 years of age, and a capable man who has made a great success in business-I do not know how many millions-to say publicly, in the presence of schoolchildren and others in the galleries, that the President of the U.S. has no brains...