Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-12-17
EDIT0RI Al s -.
Fiqht On Racial Inequalities Begins

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Ten Negroes of Fort Smith filed suit charging that
Fort Smith Negro boys and girls attend unsafe unsamta
and inferior schools and thus deprived OF rights guaran
teed by Fourteenth Amendment states an Associated fres
article The schools attack in public school system
which model of educational equaties in Arkansas says
by-ne in local paper The expenditure per Negro pupil
1857 $3.50, $40 than the S8679 per
white pupil Equal salaries paid and Lincoln High School,
Hike High School, is member of the North Central AS
ISOLATION.
It is interesting that in system presenting all OF
these advantages Negroes suit is brought against the a
hores inequalities. The meaning to Little Rock is plain
Evidently Negroes of Fort Smith consider the Negro schools
behind the white that equal expenditures per pupil al
point enough make the Negro schools equal to
the white expenditure of equal cannot make dung
hill equal to diamond whole lot more must be spent on the
dmghin.
The Fort Smith experiment successful will most prob
ably repeated here We have often wondered that has not
begun for believe that the conditions in the Ne
gro schools here somewhat than those existing in
Fort Smith,
is true that here in Fort Smith, Negro teachers are
paid for the part equal salaries 1t is also true that Lit
tie possesses North Central Accredited High School, al
though North Central standards exempified in this
school bit low. There the resemblance The
mount per capita spent Negro pupils in Little Rock not
equal to the amount capita spent on white pupils the last
time the writer checked White pupils had the privilege of study
ing tipping the ninth grade while Dunbar pupils could not
study below twelfth White pupils studied shorthand
for and half and began about the tenth grade while
Dunbar pupils studied for and began in the twelfth
The number of Negro pupils studying the subject gdy
junior high school principals senior high school principal
junior college dean and veterans school head with
host of assistants do in the white schools There be
only one cafeteria in the Negro schools and several in the
white and the Negro cafeteria lacks furnishings
the white.
The spending of 100000 popularity daily
papers equaze these conditions especially if money
spent the way stated the daes Negro
of 10 each will not Negroes anything like good
sufficient classrooms
The junior high school grades just about nuner
tn
be moved out location which will get crowdng
and afford location suitable for high school
or physical education program.
Ii technical function is to be added it should
tanly be done in another building and another site.
III DIRECTORS say Such is too expensive then
answer Is segregation is expensive The Negro
pected to agree with policy which schools
but equal in THEORY and then refuses make the theory
quail because it is too EXPENSIVE If the policy COM
muny is to have Schools then the community should
not put howl of TOO EXPENSIVE" when it is asked to
make the separate schools EQUAL For beyond shadow Of
doubt making Negro schools equal white but Just reas
onably sanitary and efficient will staggering cost
Little Rock.
To make the expenditure of insufficient acceptable
IT must therefore be spent wisely Replacing
with schools OF fewer unwise expenditure
departments to Dunbar unwise expenditure
en mob of pupils hodge podge buildings Dunbar and
surrounding site most certainly unwise All things will
later develop Fort situation So will the
amusement situation Right now little is to be spenand
$600000 little for needst should spent adding one
good school 10 the situation.
From Fort Smith, learn three lessons "a all Negroes