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The most vehement charge leveled against Willis is that he is stubbornly unresponsive to Chicago Negroes' demands for desegregation of the public schools. In Chicago, even more than in most U.S. cities, whites and Negroes live apart, in separate neighborhoods. That has been the pattern for generations. Since each...
Willis meets the Negroes' complaints with what a federal judge last year labeled "benign indifference." Confronted with Negro demands for a loosening of the neighborhood-school pattern, Willis put forward a token transfer plan under which a total of only 32 children switched to other schools. Willis argues that...
Wheeled Classrooms. Two weeks ago impatience with Willis pushed Chicago Negroes to violence. From sit-ins at the school board headquarters, demonstrators went on to lie-downs in front of "Willis Wagons," mobile classrooms that are sent into neighborhoods with crowded schools. Negroes regard the wheeled classrooms as devices for...
Last week the school board took under consideration a proposal to bring in a panel of outside educators to draw up a plan for eliminating segregation in the city's schools. Willis has already begun to yield.
Pressured by the school board, he has agreed to broaden his transfer plan. By a vote of 10 to 1, the school board has directed him to take a racial census of the schools, a step that he had previously resisted. Acting under a new state law, the board plans...