Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-12-15
Parents Attend
Browne School
To Back Protest
Group Asks Truman
To intervene in Plan
To Divide Glasses

sNsAS Sb0SSSS
About fifty parents of Browne
Junior High School pupils who start
their school day in the schools two
annexes accompanied their children
to Browne School this morning in
furtherance Of their protest against
the division Of classes.
About 125 pupils who were sched-
uled to be in the annexes-the Blow
and Webb Schools-reported instead
with the parents at the auditorium
Of Browne. =
After an auditorium assembly the
pupils scheduled for classes in ths
Browne School went to their rooms.
A show Of hands then indicated
that about IS Blow pupils and so
Webb pupils remained.
At the principals office it was
announced that A pupils had re.
ported directly to their classrooms
In Blow and "a in Webb.
Children Told to Go Home.
Mrs. Hannah P. Harris. 4233
Grant street NE, vice president Of
the Browne Parent-Teacher Asso-
clatlon. announced she had instruct.
ed her children to 60 home after
the meeting and not to the arnexes,
She said at meeting of the PTA
Friday night it was decided tha
parents had no intention of accept.
ing the Blow and Webb School.
which had been transferred from use
BY white pupils to colored pupils.
Parents Called to Conference.
The parents we're asked to 70 to
the school cafeteria after the audi.
torium meeting for a conference
with the principal.
The Browne School is at Twenty.
fourth street and Benning road NE.
Blow is at Nineteenth and Benninx
road and Webb at Fifteenth and
Rosedale streets NE.
On another front of the school
dispute telegram was sent to the
President today as the result Of q
mass meeting yesterday at the Met
ropolitan Baptist Church, Twelfth
and r streets NV. The message
asked the President to intervene on
behalf of colored parents and their
children of junior high school Age.
Edward G. Brown, president of the
National Negro Council, said the
telegram sent the President today
read:
THE National Negro Council re-
spectfully asks the President to
intervene on behalf of the 5000
Negro parents and their children of
junior high school age after as1o-day
boycott of the dictatorial and high
handed disregard of the constitu-
tional rights equal educational rights
and equal educational prerosatives
OF their sons and daughters.
Original Demand Reiterated.
On yesterday Saturday. more
than 200 Of these same mothers and
fathers and their children marched
to the White House and renewed
their demands for conference with
the President and were refused
admittance to the Presidents ofiices
or an opportunity to present their
tragic plight and Misunderstanding
experiences to secure equal Justice
for themselves as patriotic, loyal
citizens and taxpayers.
Again respectfully asking for q
conference with the President, We
reiterate OUR original demand for
the augmentation and guarantee
Of equal rights and the abolition Of
discrimination against Negro chill
dren in the District school system
on account Of their race and color,
and in keeping with the recornmen-
dations Of your own committee, So
called Presidents Committee on
Civil Rights, which is now gathering
dust in the White House files"
1T Is our firm conviction that the
best way to stop the spread Of COM
munism on the home front, and
particularly in the Nations Capital.
is for the President to call upon
Congress now for immediate action
AMI necessary legislation from the
special session of Congress Just as
the President so successfully has
done In securing more than $780,
000,0o0 in the foreign relief and aid
bill now on your desk to help the
innocent and suffering fathers and
mothers of children of the helpless
peoples of Europe and China to
stem the wave Of communism
abroad" -+...
Step Ahead Of Congress.
The meeting which authorized
this message was a step ahead OF
Congress. The stopgap foreign aid
bill is still In Congress and has not
yet reached the President.
Yesterdays meeting also adopted
a resolution commencing Chairman
Dirksen of the House District Com
mittee, who promised a full inves-
tigation Of the school building Sit
uation and other school problems.
Mr.. Brown said he would recon-
mend the appointment of John
Morning as special investigator. Mr.:
Morning, colored, was a member Of
the Cleveland Board of Education
for four years.
Mr.. Brown also announced there
will be a mass meeting of parents OF
Browne School pupils at 8 o'clock
tonight at the Jones Memorial
Church, 400 Benning road NE.
Another speaker at yesterdays
meeting was E. B. Henderson, head
OF the health and physical educa-
ton department In the colored
schools. He replied to the attack on
the Civil Rights Committee report
made by Clifford H. Newell, former
president Of the Federation Of Cit
liens Associations. 49,.
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