The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-29
negro PARENTS
FIGHT AGAINST
Jim CROW PLAN
School Board Attempts
Race Segregation
Especial to The DAILY worker)


PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Sept. FL
Jim Crowism has been allowed to
creep into the public schools OF
Philadelphia Shortly after the re-
opening of the public schools. after
the summer vacations, an edict of the
school board set aside school on
18th and Wharton streets to be used
by Negro children.
Children were forced to go many
blocks across dangerous crossings
where speeding autos were a danger
to be met at every step. The children
were not allowed any longer to attend
the schools nearest their homes, but
had to attend a school set aside for
Negro children only. This act Of jim
Crowism aroused the Indignation of
the parents whose children were thus
Disseminated against,
At a mass meeting held at the
John Simmons Memorial M. f.
Church, the parents, discussed a
course of action. A committee was
appointed to confer with the school
authorities.
Supt Edwin G., Broome aad Associ-
ate Supt. Louis Nusbaum Of the school
board told the parents committee,
Mrs. Robert Smith and Edward Ramie
that they we're wasting their time
protesting against the introduction OF
the Jim Crow school into the city OF
Philadelphia. They said that the
school had been set aside for Negro
children and the plans would not be
changed.
The second meeting OF the parents
decided to hire law counsel to fight
this attempt of segregating the
children. At this meeting represent
atives Of the Mutual Association oil
Postal Employees and the HoteI
Brotherhood expressed their deter
mination to battle with the parents
Of the children for the right OF Negro
children to go to any school in the
city of Philadelphia that the parents
saw fit to send their children. Other
organizations also sent delegates.
The school board, tho it insisted on
its determination to segregate the
Negro children, let down the bars al
the Landreth school when they saw
the parents had organized for rea
struggle with the city administration
The parents were not fooled by this
move and continue their efforts tC
bring the issue into the courts.
Jim Crowism is a grave menace to
the Negro workers of America, and
must be combatted.
If the school board in Philadelphia
is allowed to follow out its policy, not
only will segregation OF Negro child
rem take place but the segregation of
the Negro workers as to residence
will be gradually accomplished.
As Negro children will have to
travel long distances to school, the
parents will move closer to the Jim
Crow schools. The white workers on
the other hand will move closer to
the schools, their children attend.
Then in Philadelphia race segregation
will be accomplished.
The attendant evils that go with
race segregation are: poorer schools,
few repairs are made; the course of
study is poorer; the teachers are the
poorest paid; homes of workers are
allowed to deteriorate, the landlords
charging exorbitant rates for shacks;
streets are not kept in repair; sani-
tary provisions ON the part of the
city administration are neglected !;
and the police infiict shameful de-
gradations on the workers forced to
reside in the district because of the
color of their skins.
There can be but one answer to
the school board administration: a
/ strike Of every Negro school child in
the city of Philadelphia. Let the
parents keep their children at home
and refuse to let them enter the Jim
Crow schools and we will see the
| khan inspired school board change
their melodies.