Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1952-06-13
STATE PRESS Fri, June 10, 1852
Segregation In Education"
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in education to appear in college newspaper The
was sponsored by the Southern Conference Educational Fund
which has its headquarters in New Orleans.
For her editorial entitled Democracy Challenges Supre
macy Myth" she has received 500 first prize.
Second prize of sos Henry B. Daniel of West Vir-
gnla State College, Institute West Virginia for Segregation
in Education"
Honorable mention awards of IS were given Alice Wilde
OF Appalachian State Teachers College Boone NJ c.; Jora
Hawkins Phillips University Enid Okla James K Traughber,
Tennessee Polytechnic Institute, Cookevile Tenn Virginia
suarez, Wesley Junior College, Dover Dell Nancie
cooke central College, Fatette, Missouri.
Judges for the contest Tareton Collier editorial
writer for the Louisville Couer-Jounal; Murphy presi-
den OF the Afro-Amecan newspaper Ralph Coghan former
editorial page editor for the St Louis PostDspatc Al
fred Maund former editorial writer for the New Orleans
Miss Jacques wrote in "The Phoenix March 49, Sepa-
rate but equal facilities battle cry of the advocates of
segregation in education Such supporters of white supremacy
somehow miss the point that by the very any segega
ton, education becomes unequal
Court after has exploded the theory of
separate but equal"
How could any state claim that the facilities were equal
in law school conveniently up overnight nulify
request of Negro student seeking admance the the
versy of Texas (swea Painer? The absurdy of such
claim can be when considers how makeshift law
school would with big university faci
ties faculty prestige and experience and school promn
How Mississippi hope to defend any equality
case when it pays S1224 per white pupil compared with
S26ol per coored pupil, annually for education?
Even if facilities equal the very idea of creating
artificial society in education is only against the funda
mental right of man to associate with his felowman but also
peposerous In everyday e the coored man does not take
separate side of the road buy his clothes different
store Why then must he get his knowledge different
building?
Today we are trying to prove to the of the world
exactly what Democracy MEANS yet what argument can We
possibly use to support of life when in II 4S
states 3S50000 Negro citizens considered not good
enough to sit in the eassrooms with white students?
When comes time to pass the guns that will defend
all Americans there is white supremacy The colored G.
wears the same uniform, fights the battles sheds the
same red blood as his white buddes He risks his life to
protect those who may day tell he is not equal
enough to enjoy identical educational facilities.
One of the most amazing examples of irony in way
of life is the fact that of the very institutions which daily
expound the doctrine of I'VE hold these be se-ev
dent that all men created equal deny the right
OF these linen created equal to learn the meaning of the
phrase beside the white citizen.
With the entry of Negroes into the graduate schools
some of our southern states, and the very fine example
forth by the Armed Forces during the past years
line that marks America hypocica nation beginning
be erased When the legislatures of Texas other egrega
states look beyond the BROWNIES skin to see the
dignity of human soul and the intelligence of human mind
the word DEMOCRACY then-and only then-wll have true
meaning.
Mr. Daniel unsafe these DAYS to voice GER
tain democratic principles and ideals especially when those
principles and ideals propose fair minority
groups Anyone reminding his felowczens certain
enabe rights guaranteed all Americans considerable
risk Of being doomed to gnomnous oblivion by the poisonous
tongue OF characterassassn But be that 1t may
must admit that segregated pattern of education within
democracy is strange kette-ofh and equally odious
The u s. Supreme Court has readed cautiously If not
wisely in its decisions affecting the segregated pattern
education in southern the District
of Columbia State tribunals have been admonised by the
Federal Court to make good their separate but equal
dates in effort to que the growing among Negro
citizens The Clarendon (Souh Carona) decision is in
point Only the of higher education have
judciaries felt the full force of the Federal Court ruling In
the long months of legislative wrangng in the Sweat
Texas University case point was made Enthusiastically
clear that books and buildings do make unversitythat
there certain intangible aspects this business of educa
ton that oriCh Texas could not purchase outright
The American conscience is being prcked never be-
fore Mere psece to the dubious separate but equal
date regarded sufficient before black and white youths
stained the beaches of Bataan with their blood oze ogeh
the trenches of Korea Several Southern states
aboring feverSy make educational opportunities and IA
ciles substantially equal for both in effort to
keep and tradition intact Such efforts however
mendae they appear the surface must give us pause
Equaizing and maintaining two separate educational
systems-one for whites another for Negroesin the most
impoverished sections Of this country is an ambitious under
taking be But suppose the State legislatures in ques
ton should through means, to make good on
their rash commitments? What then? win guilty conscences
be permanently assuaged? viii imposing study halls costly