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Segregation's signposts last week: In Norfolk, the city council voted 6-1 to cut off operational funds in all school classes above the sixth grade, beginning Feb. 2. Affected: 7,173 junior and senior high school students (1,914 white, 5,259 Negro) in 36 schools-boosting to...
The Board also published a study of "racial inclusiveness," a term defined as the presence of at least one member in a congregation "other than the dominant racial group." Of 1,054 Congregational Christian churches (some 70% of the denomination's churches in U.S. metropolitan areas), nearly 27% turned...
¶ In Florida. U.S. Judge Joseph Lieb ruled that a clutch of state school-segregation laws were unconstitutional. But instead of ordering schools directly to accept Negro applicants, Minnesota-born Judge Lieb called attention to the state pupil-placement laws, which give assignment authority to local school boards. Until pupil...
But after a parade of helpful Negroes and hostile whites into the paneled appeals courtroom on the fourth floor of Montgomery's Federal Building last week, even Southern members seemed discomfited by the reach and callousness of Alabama's discrimination. Said Commissioner John S. Battle, onetime (1950-54...
Silence of Fear. In this situation Birmingham's moderates mostly prefer to keep their thoughts to themselves. Result: a vacuum of leadership. Those businessmen who profess moderation run the risk, if not of dynamite, of economic reprisals such as loss of jobs, promotions, trouble with city licenses, city contracts...