Negroes in Segregated VA Schools Up by 35,000 (The Richmond News Leader)

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J. G6, BLOUNT JR. 
'Hard to Believe’ 

RICHMOND: VA., 23213, TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1967 10 CENTS 

  

ROBERT P. HILLDRUP fall, 1966, grew almost 5 per 
Education Editor cent — while the percentage 

of Negro enrollment for the 
South as a whole was drop- 
ping. : 

Here is how some of the 
statistics compare: . 

In 1952-53, the last full year 
of public school operation be- 
fore the court’s ruling, Vir- 
ginia’s public schools en- 
rolled 435,269 white children 

More than 13 years have 

passed since the Supreme 

Court’s famous desegrega- 
tion decision, yet 35,000 more 
Negroes are attending segre- 
gated public schools in Vir- 
ginia than did so before the 
court ruled. 

This dramatic and ironic 
finding appears in a com- 

~ parison of enrollment statis- 
tics. ; 

The statistics also show 
that the Negro enrollment in 
Virginia public schools be- 
tween the fall of 1965 and 

  

House 

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To Surtax 
Johnson Team 

Told of Doubts 
WASHINGTON (&) — 

Members of the House 
Ways and Means Commit- 
tee told administration of- 
ficials today they still have 
not made a case for the 10 
per cent income tax sur- 

Nude Paintings 

Bared in London 
LONDON (P—A bevy of 138 | 

nude paintings went on display | 
today in London’s Grosvenor | 
Galleries. | 

“It’s a very, very rare thing | 
| to see such a big exhibition of | 

i nudes,” said a spokesman for |” 
| the galleries. “Actually, none | 
|of us remember such a big | 
| nude show before.” | 

| Why so many nude paint- | 

  

| ings? | 
| “Some years back we held a | 
| small show of nudes,” ex- 

| plained the spokesman. “It was | 
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‘a larger show of nudes would | 

| be a great success.” 

Court Decision--13 Years Later 
  

and 143,751 Negroes, with 
each race restricted by law 
to its own school system. 

By last fall, the number of 
white children had grown to 
765,400; the number of Ne- 
groes to 237,700. 

Of this latter figure, how- 
ever, 178,700 — or 35,000 
more than in 1952-53 — were 
still in all Negro schools, ac- 
cording to this month’s re- 

port of the U. S. Commission 
on Civil Rights. 
‘Thus, in spite of all the ef- 

forts for integration by the 
federal courts and the U. S. 
Office of Education, more 
Negroes are receiving a seg- 
regated education. 

The figures show that the 
growth of Negro enrollment 
has outstripped the pace of 
desegregation. 

Negroes in Segregated Va. Schools 
In fact; the commission re- 

ported, a substantial number 

of the 59,000 Negroes who at- 

tended desegregated schools 

in Virginia last fall were in 
schools with only a handful 
of whites. 

The growth in Negro en- 
rollment was pointed up by 
the commission’s compara- 
tive statistics for 1965 and 
1966. 

In 1965, the state’s public 
schools enrolled 982100, of 
whom 187,000, or 19 per cent, 
were Negro. 

But last fall, when total en- 
rollment reached 1,003,100, 

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p by 35,000 
the number of Negroes had 
increased almost 50,000, to 
237,700, or 23.7 per cent, the 
commission reported. 

This increase in one year 
was described as ‘hard to 
believe” by J. G. Blount Jr., 
assistant superintendent for 
the state Department of Edu- 
cation. 

Blount said the commis- 
sion’s figures did not come 
from the department ‘‘be- 
cause we do not keep enroll- 
ment figures on the basis of 
race.” 

Blount said the total enroll- 
ment of about one million 
listed for the state’s public 

schools last fall by the com- 
mission would be ‘‘substan- 
tially correct.” 

The fact that so many Ne- 
groes still attend all-Negro 

  

schools in Virginia is attrib- 
uted to the exodus of whites 
from urban areas and the en- 
rollment of some whites 
from rural areas in private 
schools. 

The over-all enrollment in- 

crease of 50,000 reported for 

Virginia was achieved, the 
commission said, at a time 
when Negro enrollment in 
Texas was dropping by 38,000 
and declining in North Caro- 
lina by almost 30,000. 

  

Navy Plane Lost 
Close to China 
  

Can Vote Twice, 

Hints Candidate 

SAIGON (A) — The U.S. 
Command announced to- 
day that the North Viet- 
namese shot down a U.S. 
Navy reconaissance plane 
Sunday, apparently while 
it was photographing dam- 
age from a raid only 10 
miles from Red China's 

      

    

    

SAIGON @® Tran Van 

Huong, considered the leading 

civilian candidate for president 

of South Vietnam, implied to- 

| day that soldiers would-be able 

to vote twice for his military 
opponents—once at their bases 
and once at home. 

At a .news conference, the 
former premier charged that 
soldiers had been issued voting 
cards from both their home 
district and their base district. 

He also charged the current 
military regime with intimi- 

: x dating his representatives in 
9 deal with 0 a -, A he province 

- charge President Johnson 
seeks. 

During their second day of 
testimony before the tax-writ- 
ing committee, Secretary of 

the Treasury Henry H. Fowler, 
Budget Director Charles L. 
Schultze and Chairman Gard- 
ner Ackley of the Council of 
Economic Advisers were 

pressed for an explanation that 
would make sense to the 
voters. 

“We're going to have to sat- 

Record $2,824,262 

isfy the people on to counts,” 

; ™ ; ® 

UGF Chairman 
Rep. Al Ullman, D-Ore!, said. 
He said taxpayers will have to | &° of 

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border. 
The RA5C Vigilant’s two- 

man crew was listed as miss- 
ing. The plane was the 642nd 
U.S. warplane announced as 
lost over the North so far in 
the war. 
Navy planes raided the Lang 

Son railroad and highway 
bridge Sunday in what were 
the closest raids to Red China 
in the Vietnam war. They fol- 
lowed up with raids on nearby 
targets Monday. 

U.S. B52 bombers raided the 
southern half of the demilita- 
rized zone today, for the sec- 
ond time in three days and 

Today's Chuckle 
When a woman meets a 

man who looks her straight in | 
the eye, she’d better do some- | 
thing about her figure.’ | 

  
          

        
     
       

      
        
    

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NEGRO PUPILS IN VA. SCHOOLS HAVE INCREASED BY 93,949 IN 13 YEARS 
Number of Negroes in State Sc hools Last Fall Was 237,700 

    

  

  

  
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