Evening star., 1947-12-06
School Boycott
Due 10 Continue
|ntoNext Week
Ruling Against Suit
On Segregation Is
Requested by D. c.

Junior High School and its two new
anneXes, Blow and Webb Schools,
which has kept virtually all stu
dents away from the schools for the
last three days, was due to continue
next week, with several new develop
ments added.
School Supt. Hobart M. Corning
said Commissioner Guy Mason had
informed him that bid for the
construction of the Miller Junior
High School, Forty-ninth and Blaine
streets NE, would be accepted at
the Commissioners meeting Tues
day. This school has been in the
planning stage for some time to
relieve crowded conditions at
On the legal front, motion for
a summary judgment which, if
granted, would be tantamount to
dismissing suit filed by Browne
student challenging segregation in
the District schools, was filed late
yesterday in District Court.
Boycott Followed Transfer.
School officials said the school
attendance department would not
take legal action against the par
ents who have kept their children
out of the schools. 1t is hoped, they
said, that parents would "see the
logic and reasonableness" of the
Board of Education's position and
send the boys and girls back to
school.
The boycott followed transfer of
Blow, Webb and three other ele-
mentary schools last Monday from
white to colored pupils. The walk
out by the children began on We'd
nesday as their parents picketed the
schools and the Franklin Admins
tration Building at Thirteenth and
K streets NV.
Construction of the Miller Junior
High School can get under way
within 80 days, it was believed, and
could be finished early in 1949.
Congress already has appropriated
$990,427 for the school and the total
cost will be $1,808,000
oul1tS NduCu 1cIupOIdEy.
II. When Dr. Corning recommended
the transfers which have caused all
the squabbling, he emphasized that
1t was temporary thing and would
not interfere with the long-range
building program. BY the transfers,
$500 colored school children were
placed on full instead of part-time
instruction. Still attending part
time classes over the city are another
$500 pupils, of which about 900 are
white.
The motion in District Court
was presented in connection with
the suit filed last October in be-
half of Marguerite Daisy Carr,
13, of 1888 Clay street NE, who
is student at Browne Junior High
School. Milton D. Norman, as
sistant corporation counsel, asked
for summary judgment in favor
Of the District school authorities.
The girl in the suit asked the
court to rule that she may trans
fer to the Eliot junior High School,
white school, in order to obtain
full-time instruction.
600 Still Part Time.
At the time the suit was filed, /
all of the 1900 students at Browne
were on part-time classes. Since
Blow and Webb have been turned
over as anneXeS, all but about 600
boys and girls are going full time.
Brought by her father, James C.
Carr, sr., the suit says that it is in
behalf of his daughter and other
colored students. It tells of crowded
conditions at the Browne School
and part time classes.
In an affidavit in support of the
motion for a summary judgment in
behalf of the school authorities, it
was pointed out that double shifts
at the Browne School are not dis
criminatory because they have been
in effect in both white and colored
schools here since 1920.
The affidavit, bearing the sigma
ture of DR.. Corning, points out
that 877 white children are on
double shifts as compared with $500
colored children, but asserted that
the colored enrolment has in
creased 1873 per cent as against a
drop of 1879 per cent in the white
school enrolment in the last 10
years.
1t also was pointed out that segre-
cation in the District schools was
through mandate of Congress and