Holmes County herald., 1963-07-04
Fred Ross report

In Philadelphia Wv a'o
1860 the centraI-city population was
down 3.3 percent, while the suburbs
w up 4o.3 percent" This is in the
city of brotherIy love-" he said.
in Detroit, home Of Negro Con-
gresham Charles C.. Digs, between
1850 and 1860 the central-city PoPu-
Iation dropped 81 percent, while the
suburbs population was up 1913 per-
cent. The whites were escaping to n
suburbs to avoid racial amalgamation
from contacts in school," he charged.
In Washington, D. c. the central
city population between 1850 and
1860 was down 4.8 percent, while
the suburbs population was up 81 per-
cent. The whites escaped to the sub
urbs from the "Warren Courts model
integrated school system which has
become a JUNGLE" he said.
in Baltimore the centrakcity poPu-
Iation was down IL percent, but the
suburb population was up 72.9 per-
cent, because the whites were escap-
ing to the suburbs because birds Of a
feather will flock together, he said.
'In Cleveland the centraEcity Popu-
Iation was down AZ percent while
the suburbs population was up 67.2
percent" Why? Birds Of a feather
flock together.
in St. Louis the centraI-city poPu-
Iation was down rs percent, while
the suburbs population was up SIG
percent" Why? Birds Of a feather
flock together.
"In San Francisco, the state that
produced the great social architect,
Earl Warren, the oentraI-city Popula-
ton was down 4.5 percent, while the
suburbs population was up s. percent,
because whites wanted to escape from
Warren's racial a~maIgamation pro-
gram" he said.
in Boston, the home state of Bobby
and John, the centraI-oity population
went down l3 percent, while the sub
urbs population went up l7.6 per-
cent" Neither the Kennedys nor the
people in Boston practice what they
preach.
"Segregation is natural. both in the
North and in the South. Indignation
and amaEgamation is unnatural both in
the North and in the South" the COM
missioner charged.
School segregation in the North is
increasing as Negro population grows.
In the North, school segregation is
caused primarily by housing patterns
which keep Negroes restricted to GER
tain residential areas, and by the nei-
ghborhood school system which as
signs children to schools near their
homes. This so-called de facto segre-
cation is increasing as the Negro popu-
lation increases in the North.
Four big northern cities show the
pattern that results in all cities affect
ed:
NEW YORK CITY : 40 percent Of
all public school pupils are Negro or
Puerto Rican. In the 1925 school
year, III elementary schools had en-
roIEments that we're 80 percent or
more Negro and Puerto Rican : COM
pared with IA such schools in 1858.
WASHINGTON, D. c. IS per-
cent of all public school pupils are
Negroes. Three-fourths of all public
SCIIOOiS III uNS IldtIOII (dpItOI dIC pie.
dominateIy of n race: II schools are
all Negro; SO schools 80 to 80 percent
Negro; II schools 90 to 80 percent
white; 3 schools all white.
"CHlCACO : 40 percent Of all pup
lis in the public elementary schools
are Negroes. Nearly one-fourth of the
elementary schools are all Negro or
almost all Negro. Nearly two-thirds Of
the elementary schools are either all
white or virtually all white.
PHILADELPHIA : About half Of
all public school pupils are Negroes.
One-fourth of the elementary schools
are 81 percent or more Negro in en-
rollment. Nearly one-third Of the eIe-
mentary schools are 80 percent or
more white"
The racial crisis is Of Kennedy's
WI manufacture. He now seeks to
dump the so-caIIed crisis in the lap of
congress and the nations Mayors. His
sole purpose and Bobby's sole purpose
is to get reelected in 1854" Ross