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In interesting contrast to Southern progress was a spate of segregation cases in Northern schools. They stemmed, not from defiance of the law, but from the ghetto housing in big cities that creates de facto segregation.
In Highland Park. Mich. (pop. 43,000), all ten of the city's schools were closed temporarily due to a suit charging segregation at one all-Negro school. In New Rochelle. N.Y.. where Negro parents recently won a similar case involving predominantly Negro Lincoln Elementary School, the school...
Under sharpest attack on the Northern segregation front last week was Chicago's General Superintendent of Schools Benjamin C. Willis. Negroes charge that Chicago's school boundaries are "manipulated to perpetuate segregated schools." When 107 Negro children sought transfers to predominantly white schools, Willis refused to grant them...
Atlanta's story was the outcome of exhaustive preparation for peace (TIME, Aug. 25) by a city that in five years has integrated its libraries, public buses, golf courses and taxicabs, with department- and variety-store lunch counters to follow school integration. Negro pressure triggered these changes, just as...
In New Orleans this week, 60 U.S. marshals stand by as perhaps 14 Negro children enter six desegregated grade schools. Peace or violence may hinge on segregationist reaction to another Southern milestone. Last week a three-judge federal court in New Orleans ruled unconstitutional the school-closing law that Louisiana...