St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1960-03-25
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their race are not admitted to
the University of Georgia or to
Georgia Tech.
They declared that Negroes are
Disseminated against in obtaining
city. state, or federal jobs except
in the most mental capacities"
They noted that although, &C
cording to their figures, 80 per
cent of Atlanta's population is
Negro, they are allowed to oc-
cupy only 16 per cent of the resi-
Dental area of the city.
Voting opportunities are denied
the statement said, charging that
in Georgia and other Southern
states Negro college students are
declared unqualified to vote and
are not permitted to register"
Hospital facilities for Negroes in
Atlanta and throughout Georgia
are unequal and totally made
quate," the statement said.
The students protested the fact
that they are barred from movies,
concerts, and restaurants, and must
sit in a segregated section of the
Atlanta Municipal Auditorium.
If a Negro is hungry. the stu
dents observed, his hunger must
wait until he comes to a Negro
restaurant, and even his thirst
must await it's quenching at a Ne
gro water fountain.
IS Negro Policemen
Unequal opportunities are given
Negroes by law enforcement agen-
cies, the students said, pointing
out that of Atlantas $50 police
officers only 35 are Negroes.
The students hit at segregation
in the churches, declaring:
Our churches, which are or
dained by God and claim to be the
houses Of all people, foster segre-
cation Of the races to the point
of making Sunday the most seq
regated day Of all the week"
The time has come, the students
said in summary, for the people
of Atlanta and Georgia to take a
good look at what is really hap
pening in this country and to stop
believing those who tell us that
everything is fine and equal and
that the Negro is happy and salts
fled.
1t is to be regretted that there
are those who still refuse to recog-
nize the overriding supremacy of
federal law.
The students called on white
citizens in all walks of life to as
sert themselves and abolish these
injustices."
Six Colleges Included
Included in the Atlanta Uni
versity system are six separate in
sututions: the university itself, a
theological seminary, Morris Brown
College, SpeIman College, More
house College, and Clark College,
Total enrolment is around 1000.
Officials Of the Atlanta Con-
sitution said that copy for the
advertisement was brought to the
office by DR.. Rufus E. Clement,
and chairman of the council of
presidents Of Atlanta University
Center. He also is a member Of the
Atlanta Board Of Education.
Judge Probbed
The newspaper quoted DR.. Glenn
ent as saying that he was merely
acting as a business agent Of the
students and expressed no opinion
on their manifest.
Meanwhile, on another sector
Of the racial front, the Atlanta
Board of Education on March 8 re-
quested Judge Frank A. Hooper of
the United States district court to
reject an appeal by attorneys OF
the National Association for the
Advancement Of Colored People to
integrate Atlanta schools by May
l.
They are now fighting to bring
about enforcement" Of the various
decisions and rulings, he said.
| Lewis w. Jones, a sociologist
at Tuskegee University, asserts
that an important influence on
Negro youth Is the presence Of ex.
change students from Africa on
the campus of almost every Negro
} deeply concerned will have a way
of re ting themselves