Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-13
Whites in South CoroIino Still Insist on Separating the Races

month. depending on training and
experience.
AS far as this observer could tell,
the Negro school appears as good
and, in some respects, better than
the white elementary and high
schools quarter of mile up the
road. But the Negro children have
had their modern facilities far less
time than the whites.
Together. the two white schools
have nine classrooms and Is teach
ers for 800 students. The Negro
school averages q greater number
Of enrolled students per classroom
and teacher. but. white officials
point out, their average daily at
tendance is less.
If, then, school facilities are rela-
lively equal, or shortly will be equal.
what do people like the Hiltons
want?
They want segregation ended in
all forms because, as Mr.. Hilton
says, the whole idea of separation
of the races gives you an inferior
feeling"
"After ALL" says Mrs. Sue Esther
Hilton, a tall, grazing woman of
Al. "out of one blood all flesh is
made. The Lord says that. We just
want to be treated the same"
I'D like to go to school with white
children" said Henrietta Hilton. a
solemn. pretty girl of IA, with chest
nut-colored skin. II just don't like
to segregate myself because Of my
color. I'd like to be able to pick
friends on another basis"
II never wished I was white" said
Morgan Hilton. Is. II just wished
many times I was treated like the
whites"
I'm the movies" said lie Roy Hill
ton. 10, I'VE got to go up to Buzz
yards RooSt' (the Jim Crow balcony
Of Summerton's one movie theater).
When there's a good picture, we'll
be standing up there even though
there's empty seats downstairs.
MY feeling is we pay as much,
we ought to be able to sit anywhere.
Every time I go, get mad, but
I don't say anything"
II feel insulted every time I got
to sit in the back of a Jim Crow
bus" said Henrietta. II feel insulted
every time go into the drugstore
Tor ice cream or soda. All the
booths are for whites. We got to
have our ice cream out on the hot
street."
Why" asked Morgan, when I'm
first in the store does white man
come in and take my turn? Why
can't I be waited on firSt?"
In this manner, in the stores or
the doctors Office, Mrs. Hilton said,
her children first learned that they
would be treated differently because
Of their color.
Toxic Core of Itself
What about the fears Of so many
white people that the end of Segre-
cation would lead to intermarriage?
That don't cross my mind" Mr..
Hilton said slowly, squirting out at
the cotton fields. "ThatIl take care
of itself. Colored people aren't 'spe-
cially anxious to start marrying
whites.
IF a daughter of mine wanted to
marry q white man, it'd be I'D to
her. didn't want any dictation
along that line. I married who
wanted to marry"
Mrs. Hilton's grandfather, WASH
ington George, was q slave until he
was freed at the age Of 10. He lived
to be 100. AS small girl. Mrs. Hill
ton was frightened by his stories
Of the slave days but we always got
after him to tell US more"
On May II, 1854, when the SUI
preme Court Of the United States
announced its decision outlawing
segregation in the schools, William
Hilton was out in a pasture string
ing wire. He happened to come into
the house shortly after Mrs. Hilton
heard the news on the radio.
Both, they said, sank to their
knees to thank the Lord. Mr.. Hilton
recalled that he offered thanks for
the mine fathers of the country"
(the nine justices).
Mrs. Hilton said that as she
prayed she thought of Richard
Allen, the first slave to buy his free
dom, and she thought of Abe Lin
coin.
ASSOCIATED Press.)