Integration North & South

In the moral drama of school integration, the South last week showed its good side, and the North its bad:

P: In Georgia, the legislature tossed out state laws compelling segregation. New laws permit integrated public schools (probable city pattern) or state-aided, segregated private schools (possible rural pattern). Only Alabama, Mississippi and South Carolina remain pledged to segregation at all costs.

P: In embattled New Orleans, where one school is integrated, a third-grade white boy peacefully broke the total white boycott at another, McDonogh No. 19. To aid many city teachers, who went unpaid because the segregationist state legislature froze school funds, Mayor deLesseps S. Morrison asked people to pay property taxes not due until May, quickly got enough to pay salaries in full for January.

P: In the New York City suburb of New Rochelle, the board of education got a jolt from Federal Judge Irving R. Kaufman, who called it "deliberately" segregationist. He charged that the board gerrymandered district lines to keep New Rochelle's Lincoln School virtually all-Negro. Judge Kaufman ruled in favor of Negro parents who vainly tried to register their children at mixed schools last fall, ordered the board to desegregate Lincoln by next fall. The decision was a sharp blow at the "neighborhood school" concept, which breeds de facto segregation throughout the North.

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