The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1957-09-14
The II Southern and Border States, Plus
District Of Columbia Open School With 74O
Districts Beginning Desegregation Process.
$500 Bi-Racial Districts Still Segregated.

The II Southern and border states plus the District
of Columbia will open the 1888 school year with TAO
school districts having begun accomplished the desegre
cation but with 1900 bracial districts still tightly
segregated, Southern School News survey shows.
According the end of the last school year.
Sc is accounted for by desegregaton plans this fall 81
districts and ardy disclosure of desegregaon already
way in 20 other districts 10 of them in Texas, nine
Oklahoma and one in Kentucky.
Meanwhile the vast majority of districts remain closed
TO Negroes or whites) either matter of policy pend
ing outcome of school entry litigation The only break
in the segregation line running from Virginia to Florida
three announced in July that they would en-
statute.
States where segregation will obtain agn this year
Louisiana Mississippi South Carolina and Virginia Only
Louisiana and Virginia will have Indignation at the public
college level
OF the 74O districts desegregated 10 are in Ar
KANSAS three in North Carolina three Tennessee All
lngton d. c. Preliminary estimates by SSH indicate that
an additional $4,000 white pupils and some $4,000 more
roughly mlio whites and $4,000 Negroes the total in
lower, number are actually in mixed classes.
MOST REMAIN SEGREGATED
Similarly, about Z million white pupils and about
rolled in districts which have members Of only one race
or no policy governing OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
in most there furry of litigation at least
one major school entry effort in of the Deep South
ing attend specific al-white schools in Alabama And in
North Carolina and Arkansas there legal efforts
the Arkansas capital in Charlotte Greensboro and
n-Saen1, North Carolina
In two states where there has been considerable
desegregatlon in certain areasDeaware and Texas-no
material change reported in the situation for this fall
summary OF major developments state-by-state fol-
Alabama
Nine Negro families have petitoned the Birmingham
school board for transfer their children to white schools
the first major challenge of Aabamas tightly segregated
status In two years.
Arkansas
Five communities, headed by Little Rock, were de-
of
threw out stninute state court injunction restraining
registration OF Little Rock Negroes in white school there
move supported by Gov Orva Faubus who said
violence.
Schools opening with little change in the desegre-
cation pattern which finds schools mixed in north Delaware
District of Columbia
Washmgtons school system expects 10000 pupils the
the beginning of the fourth year ntegraon Because of
classroom shortage, 5000 pupils will to school part
Florida
Puplic schools at all levels still segregated as
90OOOO children prepared to enter
entry suits remained active was no reported
sure elsewhere for desegregation
SEGREGATION Sna 9tH Continued to be the pattern es
study of the Atlanta school system showed wide gap in
achievement between white and Negro classes
Six additional school districts planned Indignation pro
grams this fall bringing ntegrated situations" about
lOO dlstrcs and about 80 cent of the states Negro
school population.
Louisiana
The states 67dstrict school system expected 625 OOO
pupils all in segregated classes Only Indignation is in
four state colleges where court rulings supported Negro
registration
Maryland
ST. Marys County for the first time enrolled Negroes
IN previously awhite schools raising to ID the number
OF counties having mixed schools.
Mississippi
AS tight money and high interest rates On bonds slowed
u9Wn the WnteNegro equalization on segregated basis
with no suits or petitions pending
Missouri
Schools opening ntegrated basis in all large
cities and all but few scattered communities with
HO9 out OF Pa districts having Negroes recorded as de-
segregated.