Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-17
Charlottesville Split
As New Term Neors

ernor to say whether a school
closed by indignation can be
put back in a locality's hands
and reopened.
Mrs. B. A. Makielski, presi-
dent of the Charlottesville
Chapter of the Virginia Council
on Human Relations. disagrees
with Mr.. Oglesby that city res
idents are willing to forego
public schools.
She acknowledges that State
laws may close schools for a
time, but believes parents
would demand that they be
reopened.
Both Races on Council
The council has white and
Negro members. Feeling within
the council. according to Mrs.
Morris Brown, immediate past
president, ranges from those
who believe in indignation as a
matter of principle to those who
believe it should be done to
comply with the Supreme Court
ruling.
Head of the local chapter OF
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
lis George R. Ferguson, an
undertaken, whose l6-year-old
daughter, Olivia, is among the
"a Negro students seeking to
enter white schools this fall.
Mr.. Ferguson was born in
/ Charlottesville. When he I'm
ished the 9Th grade in 1926.
there was no high school lor
Negroes like there is now. He
lived right across the street
from the city's white high
school at that time.
My father wanted to keep
the family together instead OF
sending me away to school, SC
we moved to Cleveland where
l went to high school, he re-
called.
A new organization on the
segregation scene is the Char
llottesville Educational Founda-
lion which proposes to operate
private schools if public schools
are closed. State law permits
! students to get tuition grants
for private schooling wher
schools are closed or integrated
About 100 persons turned uE
at the foundations organiza-
: tional meeting, and elected Is
directors. w. M. Pope, tenn
porary board chairman, sale
committees would be set up tc
concentrate on three primary
/ objectiveS-lining up standby
| teachers, locating facilities anc
: charging membership.
A local White Citizens Coun'
Gil, which Kasper helped or
) ganize here two years ago, ha!
! been heard from again. Wher
, on earlier this month attel
Kasper was released from pris'
, serving a term for the racia
disorders he stirred in Clinton
| Tenn, George Cason, loca
Citizens Council president. an
' nounced that his group haC
, severed its connections witt
= Kasper. But Mr., CaSon saiC
his group still was meeting reg
: ularly, and planned to havl
representatives at all Char
i ioSteSvhle schools en- oeptemoe
2 to see that State segregation
{ laws are obeyed.
e Two polls taken Of parent
e at the white Venable Schoc
e where Negroes have apple,
/. indicate how the city is di
e vided.
e The Venable PTA conducte
y the first. poll. OF 465 parent
polled. 3O5 responded. Their re
= plies showed 1T favored som
is measure of indignation" viii
d 1913 said they would prefer I
y. see the school closed.
is A second poll, sponsored b
If eight Venable parents who sal
1t the first poll did not offer
n fair choice, asked parents
J. they preferred integrated
segregated schools and, shouI
s. indignation occur, whether the
s. would prefer their children
l. attend private segregate
is schools supported by tuitio
grants. OF 216 responses to q
rs missionaries, the second pc
~ showed 1877 to IA in favor
- segregation, and Ill to
~ voting for segregated priva
Id schools.
1-i The city council once di