Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1910-06-18
SEGREGATION
IS OPPOSED
Co|ored Residents viii Test
School Boards Order +.
ASKED FOR
Hearing Next Wednesday
to See Whether Colored
Pupils Are to Be Sepa-
rated From Whites, Mex
leans, Japanese, Indians
INJUNCTION ASKED FOR

The right of school trustees to Sc
parate. colored pupils from those of
other races is to be tested. An in
junction suit was begun yesterday by
Samuel F. Bayless. a colored man,
against the board of this district ask
ing that the hoard be enjoined from
segregating the colored school chill
dren from those of other races and
requiring them all TO attend a school
for colored children north of Jackson
and between Fifth and Sixth streets.
The application for a temporary order
will be heard next Wednesday.
The order of segregation was made
by the board after a second mass
meeting on that subject. at previous
mass meeting there having been an
expression of sentiment against Sc
gregation. The plaintiff in this case
is said to be acting for other colored
residents as well as himself.
The plaintiff lives on Grant street
between Ninth and Eleventh avenues.
He has two children of school age. II
is recled that there are 1904 children
of school age In district No. /: that
66 of them are colored children and
that the rest are of various races,
American. Mexican. Chinese. Japanese
and Indian. uniformly scattered
throughout the district. The colored
children are also we'll distributed
Accompanying the petition there is
a map of the school district showing
the location of the existing school
houses and a description of the lOca-
ton of others contemplated.
One objection to the proposed Sc
gregation is that if the sixty-six col
ored children were congregated into
one school they would be deprived OF
the advantages OF grading an espe-
cially advantageous feature of the
school system from the fact that the
teachers OF the various grades are
peculiarly fitted. each for the work
of q particular grade.
Furthermore, ten children of the Sc
gregated school would not have access
to the departments of manual train
ing and domestic science which are
now open to the pupils of all races.
Objection is made TO the incon-
yenience of the proposed arrange
nfent. The plaintiff resides within a
quarter OF a mile of a proposed school
on Grant street whereas if he should
be compelled to send his children to
the proposed colored school they
would have to travel a mile and half
each way.
Many of the colored children. it is
shown. live south OF the growing net
work of railroad tracks There is al
ready one school south of the tracks
which many of them attend and IL is
proposed to build another. If they
should be compelled TO. cross these
tracks they would be imperiled as TO
life and limb.
After reciting all the disadvantages
to the colored pupils of the proposed
segregation. the complaint says:
THAT TO compel all school children of
the African race residing in said
school district to attend school in the
school building proposed TO be erected
on the north side of Jackson street
between Fifth and Sixth streets and
to refuse admission of said children to
any of the other school buildings
within said school district is to deny
to said school children OF the African
race the equal protection Of the law"
Messrs. Kibbey. Bennett and Ben
nett are the attorneys for the plain
tiff