Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-07-29
ASociety For The Preservation
OF Negro Schools

The National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People at its recent National Convention,
among other things, announced renewed, about
paign against token integration and stepped up
paign for full and complete Indignation of southern
public schools. j .
In the light of recent developments in the matter
of public school Indignation in the SOUTH aside from the
fact that it the school Indignation issue which is at
the bottom of the continuing and growing tension and
constantly deterioratng relations in the SOUTH
think the time has for southern Negro leaders to
take real good, intelligent and International look at
the campaign to abolish Negro schools and to make
about effort to have Negro schools entirely removed
from the segregation indignation issue.
In the most recent developments up in Virginia. it
has already been announced in number of counties,
that number of schools will be ntegrated this fall with
all of the Negro students going to former alwhite
schools and that most of the Negro school teachers will
lose their jobs.
The population of this country aside from Negroes,
is made up of other peoples of many racial cultural,
and national origins, who, while preserving their his
torca and cultural traditions look upon themselves,
first, American citizens
In recent article in the New York Times, one of
the nations greatest newspapers the neghborhood pat
terms formed by many of the racial national and cul
tural groups, with their own neighborhood schools,
churches and other institutions noted Among such
groups being Italians Greeks, Chinese Japanese not to
mention neghborhoods and communities made up of
people of French, German, and Dutch extraction to
be found in many sections of the country In such neigh
borhoods there numerous manifestations of the de-
sire of these people to remain separate in preserving
their racial and cultural traditions and identity while at
the time moving in the mainstream of American
life.
We believe that it is easy to recognize economics
and finance the strongest currents in the manstream
of American life.
In the South the salaries paid Negro teachers al
ready amounts into hundreds of millions of dollars per
year, and more OF which should be and could be
put into the establishment of and Negro
owned businesses, offering and more better jobs
to Negroes, which is exactly the pattern followed by
other racial and national groups in this country The
pattern by which they able to exhibit measure
of economic and financial independence, and self re-
spect, which is the best ticket to the manstream of
American life.
It should be pointed out here that in all the school
Indignation to date white students have been put in
Negro schools in the SOUTH but all Negro students have
been put in white schools this includes the celebrated
Little Rock where the Horace Mann Negro High
School was admittedly far better and more modern
school than the white school to which the Negro stu
dents sought entry.
In the Indignation of Negro schools in Oklahoma
400 Negro teachers lost their jobs many others stand
to lose their jobs this fall in Virginia This form
ing pattern if half of the Negro teachers in the south
who represents the souths best employed group lose
their jobs in the drive for full and complete school in
tegraton it will styme Negro economic progress for
many generations.
What the Negroes in the south need is society for
the preservation of Negro Schools