The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1957-01-11

with school segregation. said South
ern School News. published in
Memphis. Tenn.
| Meanwhile, said Southern School
News, one additional school district
| Norman. Okla has been descgre-
gated, bringing to 672 the number OF
districts which have begun or &C
complished the desegregation proc
less, Some 1000 more remain segre-
Igated.
| The types Of legislation to be in
troduced and the affected states
Include:
Il Pupil assignment Tennessee,
Texas and Arkansas.
H Compulsory attendance law re-
vision Georgia, Texas and possibly
Maryland
Tuition grants for private educa
ftion Texas.
Il Restrictions on or investigation OF
the National Assn. for the Advance
ment OF Colored People-Georgia.
Texas and Florida.
| Reference requirement for college
admission-Ala
| Free choice" Of schools Tennes-
see.
I Legislators in Missouri, Maryland
and Delaware. where desegrega-
ton is under way, were expected
to get bills designed to hasten the
process,
| Southern School N eW is pub
lished under direction OF a group Of
Southern newspaper editors n d
educators as nonpartisan, fact
finding agency
The publication noted that. despite
the u S Supreme Court decisions
againts school segregation. eight
Southern legislatures had adopted
lot measures ,84 Of them last year
since 1854 in an effort to retain
( segregation
Calling attention to the increase
in legal activity over the school
issue. Southern School News noted
that higher courts have affirmed
/ for the first time desegregation or
ders against two school districts in
Virginia and said that observers
Of the region saw major legal
i issue growing out OF the arrest of
4 l6 ro-segregationists at Clinton,
4 Tenn, on charges of contempt Of
court as federal officials moved to
back up an Injunction.
A state-by-stat summary of ma
ior developments follows:
Y Acknowledgements of Alabama
/ trustees. facing contempt proceed
ings for the expulsion of Autherine
| Lucy last year, continued their
search for a successor to DR.. o. c.
Carmichael as president of the uni
yersity. a task apparently compli
Gated by the Lucy case Meanwhile
violence flared as buses were de-
segregated in Montgomery and
leader in the bus boycott broadened
the scope of Negroes efforts to in
clude voting. parks and education
Arkansas-The General Assembly
prepared for Its second session
since the 1854 desegregation deci-
sion with apparently little to
to consider in the school segrega-
tion-desegregation matter except to
implement the notification and pu-
pill assignment measures adopted
by referendum in November Eco
monte. factors were described as
the main consideration in desegre-
eating the Bentonville schools, dis
| closed for the first time last month
and attorneys for the Little Rock
school board said the plan to de-
segregate there in 1857 was not af-
| fected by the referendum adopted
! measures.
DeIaware-School district reor-
ganization. possibly means OF
facilitating desegregation, will be an
issue in the 1857 General Assembly
An attorney for the NAACP in the
eight desegregation cases pending in
| federal district court asked that sec
tons OF the defense pleadings pre-
dieting violence if segregation is
ended be stricken as insufficient
in law"
| District of acknowledgements
were renewed over the congression-
| al subcommittee investigation of
District schools after the subcom-
mittee majority issued its report
| and recommended return to
| segregated schools. The report was
attacked by the two minority mem
bers as dealing with sordid head
line items almost entirely
| FIorida-A desegregation suit in
Dade County tMiami) was dismiss
ed from federal court for the second
time because Of a lack of factual,
controversial situation Another suit
attacking the new state segregation
laws still is pending Meanwhile the
new Pupil Placement Law, adopted
/ in July, was described as bene-
fetal in that it has required teach
ers and principals to learn more
about the home background of the
/ students.
Georgia-Dr. Harmon W. Cald-
well, chancellor or of the Georgia
university system, testified in case
! hrought To win admlttance of q Ne.