The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1960-02-06
DETROIT TRIBUNE. SATURDAY, FEB 6 1866
e EDITORIAL. :
Race Relation In South 1860
Continued from Last Week.

legislative OF much civil rights legislation proposed
and Introduced the Congress the only enactment h'o
la was the extension wears Of the Commission on
civil Rights
The REPORT or THE UNITED STATES COMMlS
SION OK CIVIL RIGHTS called for the extension OF equal
protection OF the LAWS regardless OF age color Greco OF
rational oren commended legislation 10 correct ABUSES
and TO assure voting ghts 10 all qualified citizens nal
Gated 10 the that the alternative Is reasonable WdNs
of ending compulsory segregation ~ their schooN y
abandoning their systems Ct free public educac urged
the promotion Of equal opporturity 10 secure decent
housing proposed that blraclal COMMISSION be estaD-
hed n every city ard state with substantial nCn"hle
population to studs racial problems receive ana nNeSli'
gate complaints and attempt 10 solve problems through
mediation and cancellations and suggested that the Presl-
dent Of the United States issue Executive ORDER stat
ing the constitutional objective Of equal opportunity IN
housing
The Commissions conclusion was Voting education.
and housing are 80 fundamentally inerrelated that il is
impossible for iac prot ems be solved by Improvement
OF any iatCr ao
Executive n his state Of the Union Message the
President Of sne u''e States asked Congress to JOIN nm
in supporting the Unicd States Supreme Court rulings
against segregation and called for legislation to achieve
freedom from determination in voting and access TO JOBS
The Secretary Of the Department Of Health, Education,
and Welfare announced that public schools converted INTO
"pfivae schools 70 avoid Indignation would get none OF
the Federal funds designed primarily 10 improve saclueS
for teaching science mathematics and foreign languages
The Department Of justice flfthcfed the cause Of civil
nights b. securing court orders filing suits IN Federal
ton 70 continue legal action on heha.i q citizens whose
rights are denied TIE Secretary q the Department Of
Labor warned that segregation vas waste Of vast
Of human talent and a critical factor IN the
nations economic future
The Presidents Committee on Government Contracts
called agencies eliminate discrimination on re-
development projects and was asked to give more publicity
TO its program Important specific accomplishments have
been recorded in several southern communities
The Presidents Committee Government Employ
thp Of
ployed in clerical stonographic and tipping positions in
Federal agencies AcN Orleans had increased nearly
times l05l The United States Employment
Service reported that three departments stores in Wash
ngon DC had broken the color barrier in hiring sales
STATS but indicated the building trades to be the outstand
ing example Of discrimination in employment
Judicial The United States Supreme Court refused to
review circuit court decision declaring conviction void
because the county had no eligible Negro voters hence no
Negro jurors turned down the eevenhhour appeals for
postponcmen Of desegregaton in Arlington and Prince
Edward County Virginia and remanded conviction of
contempt for refusing to answer questions asked by a
Nrgiga lcpl lavc committee about desegregation.
The United States Circuit Court in Virginia upheld
an order admitting four Negro children to Arlington
high chool granted stay Of desegregaon order to
two Charlottesville schools and ordered Arlington County
70 reconsider applications Of twenty-six Negro pupils
denied admission TO white schools.
The court upheld the plan of the Board OF Education
Of Nashville Tennessee, to spread indignation II
year period found racial discrimination in the refusal
seven
colored teachers dropped when Indignation in 1855
upheld the constituonality of the Arkansas pupil place
ment laws and the right of Negroes to attend Louisiana
Safe University in New Orleans
II was ruled that an integraed local of United Steel
Workers in Houston Texas did not discriminate against
Negroes by rchng tests not previously required of white
applicants Two unfavorable rulings upheld relating
to registration and voting in Alabama: 81 the Government
had grounds TO bring suit against the Board of Regis
rarS Of Macon County and the State of Alabama because
OF denial of suffrage rights to Negroes as the Civil Rights
Act OF 1857 applied only to individuals and 2 the
may not the legislative act gerymandeng Negroes
outside the city limits of Tuskegee because the power of
increase and elimination of municipal territory is in the
legislature"
CONTINUED Next Week.