Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1950-09-22

was packed, and history was made
worthy of climaxing the year-old
fight the Moshier Valley people
have waged against their school
board on behalf of education ia
cilities for their children.
II will be recalled that a year
ago these same parents, upon be-
ing ordered by their school board
10 send their children to school
I'm Fort Worth, fifteen miles away,
rebelled and did a number OF
things very quickly They organiz-
ed a branch of NAACP, hired a
teacher to tutor their children in
abe community church. raised $500
md filed a lawsuit to compel the
: rbool board to furnish school ia
81 tiles for their children within
ne district the same as were fur
nished whites.
In April of this year the case
went to trial before Federal Dis
trict Judge Dooley. who handed
down the revolutionary decision
that the Euless school board must
give Negro children school faeili-
ties equal to those accorded the
white children in the district. APP
peal of this decision by the school
board is now pending, but mean
time the board did little to inn
prove the Negro school which two
years before had been condemned.
When September came, it was in
little better condition than il was
tie September before.
Consequently, as school time APP
preached the parents determined
what they would do, and request
90 Dr. George D. Flemmings. presi-
dent of the Fort Worth NAACP,
Richard Hill, also Of the Fort
Worth Branch. and Donald Jones
NAACP regional secretary, to ae-
company them and their children
20 The white school September )
and act as their spokesman.
The appearance Of the Negroes at
the Euless school at 9 a. m. Sep
TENDER ) was not without incident.
About $50 whites gathered around
the school auditorium. where the
Negroes conferred with the super
iniendent and with S. w. Mills,
president Of the school board. Some
of these whites We're in ugly mood,
They beat a young white photo
grapher from a Fort Worth dali
ly paper, and took his camera as
well as that of r. c. Hickman,
Negro photographer from Dallas.
The cameras were later returned
unframed. although the film they
contained was destroyed. However
whatever further violence they
contemplated was thwarted by the
sudden appearance Of nearly a
score of other photographers,
newspapermen. and movie and
television cameramen. who liter
ally awed thoughts Of violence out
OF existence with flashing bulbs
and floodligh,s.
Queried as to the real meaning
of the try TO enroll at the Euless
school. Donald Jones stated TO the
press:
The determined people OF Mosh-
fer Valley brought their children
here today prepared TO leave their
youngsters II accepted. and now
they are equally prepared to file
another lawsuit seeking the adj
mission they were today denied.
They are thoroughly convinced, as
1yone must be who compares the
ulesS and Moshier Valley schools.
vat equality Of opportunity will
rot come for their children with
tn the pattern Of segregation. and
they have made up their minds
that II they can manage II. their
children will enjoy the same ia
cilities being used by the whites.
The NAACp Is ready to back them
up. A lawsuit will result in two
weeks"
Jones went on TO state that such
n lawsuit had been expected and
prepared for several weeks ago.
after II became evident that the
school board at Euless was either
unable or unwilling to make the
Moshier Valley school equal to
fhe one in Euless used by whites.
Those of the public acquainted
with the detectives Of the current
Sweat Victory Fund Drive for
$50. 900. will know that this new
Euless case is already set up in
the Fund budget for $4,000. esti-
mated cost through the appeals
,ourt Also In the budget was the
Tyler Park Case for $500 This
,ase went on trial Monday in
Houston before a 3-judge Federal
curt. Other items In the Sweat
Fund budget are a grad
ate level case, still be decided
upon, $4,000; a collegiate
evel case in the same situation,