Mixed Progress

Seven autumns and scores of lawsuits after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled school segregation unconstitutional, the Southern Education Reporting Service last week issued a mixed progress report. For the first time, in fall 1960, the South opened its public schools without a shred of violence--not a single riot or bombing disturbed the peace. But not one Negro child as yet attends class with whites in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina or Louisiana.* And out of 3,095,345 Negro pupils in all Southern public schools, only 183,104 attend integrated classes in 1960. Compared to last year, the gain is a slim 2,084.

* Token integration for New Orleans' first-grade pupils is scheduled for Nov. 14, but only 135 Negro children have applied. All "integrated" classes will be segregated by sex. Even these minimal plans may yet be killed by Louisiana's guitar-twanging Governor Jimmie Davis, who insists that he will allow no integration at all.

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