Evening star., 1954-10-01
Milford Pupil Boycott
Ends After Board
Halls Infeurafion
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high school, who had boycotted
classes for four days. returned
in normal number today as the
new Board of Education voted
to remove IL Negroes assigned
to the school.
The action brought at least q
temporary solution to the prob
lem which forced closing Of the
school for q week as dissension
mounted. and the resignation Of
the old school board.
But new problems arose at
nearby Dover, the State capital.
and at Baltimore. where demon
strations against integration Of
the races spread to at least
seven schools.
Plan "vigilante" Group.
At Dover j. Leon Tarburton, q
school board member, called
meeting for tonight to organize
"vigilante committee" to pre-
vent terrorism by lawless forces"
He said businessmen fearing
reprisals could come masked but
must identify themselves at the
door. He said the meeting was
q private one for residents in
terested in protecting themselves
and not knuckling under to rab-
ble.rollserS.
Dover High School has 10 Ne
groes attending because the
course they elected is not avail
able at the all-Negro high school.
At Milford police were inves-
tigating a fiery cross burning
across from the all-Negro ele-
mentary school, the second such
incident of the week.
The Milford Board Of Educa-
ton resigned last week after the
State Board of Education had
criticized it for admitting Ne
groes without receiving prior ap-
proval from the State. New
board members were sworn in
yesterday and their first action
was In voting to remove Negroes
from the high school.
The president Of the Delaware
chapter of the National Associa-
ton for the Advancement Of
Colored People. Wagner p. Jack
son. denounced the action as a
shameful, degrading spectacle
of our duly constituted authority
ANONYMOUSLY surrendering to
the illegal actions of a lawless
mob. He said the NAACP "re-
fuses to accept defeat by mob
rule and we have already
begun planning our next legal
action" He declined to elab-
crate.
Segregationists Meet.
Last night, the pro-segrega-
tionists held their eighth meet
ing in as many days and cele-
brated what was termed "a
point won" by Bryant Bowles of
Arlington, Va, president of the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of White People, the
spearhead Of the drive against
integration.
Mr.. Bowles was asked what the
groups stand would be after the
United States Supreme Court
hands down its decision and he
said:
I'VE won't adhere to that.
They would be telling us how to
do it and it is unconstitutional
for the Supreme Court to make
laws"
Asked if his organization
planned to take any steps, in
Wilmington in the segregation
issue there, Mr.. Bowles said: eff
they ask us for advice-and I
understand we have been invited
to attend meeting there-then
we will offer our help"
Baltimore Demonstrations.
Meanwhile, at Baltimore DEM
onStrationSz against integration
spread to at least seven more
public schools despite a state
ment by the Board of School
Commissioners decrying such be-
havior.
Picketing continued at School
No. "a, where only about % per
cent Of the youngsters were in
classes. Yesterday q number. of
>pickets, mostly women, paraded
before the school. causing the
commissioners to issue a state
ment upholding the integration
policy.
Today there were demonstra-
tions at Southern High School,
the Southern High annex, School
No. 48 in the western part of
the city. No. IS in the north
east; No. 10, west of the down.
town business area, and No. %
at the southwest edge of the
business district.
Teachers Seize Placards.
At Southern, teachers snatched
from youngsters crude placards
which read: Negroes not al
lowed" and "On strike" The 80
Negroes attending that school
walked to their classes in a
group. About a third of the
schools students were absent.
A disturbance occurred at
Southern High when 10 Negro
pupils left the building under
police escort at request Of their
parents.
AS the colored children re-
manned on the sidewalk across
from the school, about 200 young
white demonstrators jeered at
them, and once moved menac-
ingly toward them. AS the 10
Negroes moved down the street,
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