Hartford chronicle., 1946-07-13
School Refuses
 Girl On Color
BOSTON, MASS. (special)

| BOSION, MASS. (Speclal) - Democracy hasn't come to Mas sachusetts yet.
 This was the sad truth learned this week by pretty, brilliant lit the Girls Latin School senior Anne Murray, when she was told by the head of a local business and fnishin gschool that they just wouldn't take a colored student.
 Sixteen-year-old Anne, along with a couple of her classmates, white, asked Latin School teach CT for information concerning summer courses in secretarial work, and was referred to the Stratford School at 128 Common wealth Avenue. First her teacher, then her mother, then Anne her self telephoned the school, and she was told to report last Monday morning.
 When Anne reported at the school she sat with the others to wait registration. The others were registered; Ann was not. When she asked the women apparently in charge of registration the req son, she was told that "We don't take colored."
 Anne then asked to see the head of the school, and eventually saw MT. Malloy. Admitting that he was in charge, Malloy began an hour-long run-around that left Anne virtually with a headache. Malloy's first claim was that "There are only five girls anyway, so we might discontinue the class" Anne asked permission to study with the others until such a dis continuance.
 This, too, was refused, with pro- fused explanations which had lit tie to do with Anne's entering the classes. When Malloy saw that Anne was determined not to leave, he finally let her go up to the classroom with the others, al- though she had to ask him to give her the book and materials with which the others had been readily supplied.
 | When Anne returned the second morning the secretary met her with the flat statement that q told you we don't accept colored students" Anne continued her ar gument of the day before with the secretary, asking the simple tWhy?"
 Because they aren't happy here," she was told. Malloy came out at this point and admitted the same thing. When the stnot hap py" reason appeared to have car ried no weight with Anne, Malloy grouped about for other explana- tions. Flatly asked for the exact reason for the race-exclusion poli- cy, he finally admitted that 'sThere is no reason; it's just the policy , Of the institution"
 "We don't take Jews or Jap anese," Malloy said; ttwe don't even take some Gentiles." The sec retary added that "We don't take girls who are extremely homely, or handicapped, either." Anne as- sured them she was neither.
 Anne then referred to the night school offer made to her by Nal Toy. "If you feel that I am unem- ployable, and you don't want me for the same reasons you don't take other undesirables, why do you accept me at night, then? Am I easier to employ if I went to school at night?"
 Mal1oy explained that Sour peo- pie are very ricn, and they are careful about these things.' His secretary brightly added that "This school can take who it wants to-"
 Anne was eventually forced to leave without securing ad1nittance to the school; she did not leave the case there, however. She has turned over a complete affidavit to te NAACP and is preparing an- other for the Civil Liberties Union, while her parents are seek ing a ruling from the Attorney Generals office on the right of an educational institution to bar Mas sachusetts citizens on a basis of race or religion.