Which Schools in Montgomery Were Involved in Integration
2 More Alabama Cities Quietly Integrate Schools
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MONTGOMERY, Ala., Sept. 8—With Gov. George C. Wallace under a Federal court injunction, two more Alabama cities, Montgomery and Gadsden, yielded peacefully today to school desegregation.
Union Springs, a small town in the Alabama "black belt," is expected to enroll three Negroes in Bullock County High School tomorrow without any significant loss of white students.
This will bring to 24 the number of formerly all‐white public schools below the college level in the state to accept Negro students for the 1964‐65 academic year. Tuskegee Birmingham, Huntsville, Madison County and Mobile carried out desegregation in the last few days without incident.
The University of Alabama and Auburn University, both state‐supported institutions, are expected to have several Negro students when they open later this month.
Although less than 100 Negroes are involved, the peaceful acceptance of integration this year is seen as a significant step in a state that has become the symbol of white resistance.
Last year, after making an unsuccessful school‐door stand at the University of Alabama, Governor Wallace used state troopers and the power of his office to delay court‐ordered integregation in Tuskegee, Birmingham, Huntsville and Mobile.
Disorder and violence erupted in Birmingham and, on Sept. 16, a Negro church was bombed, killing four young Negro girls.
In Tuskegee, all whites left the integrated high school and attended a private school or public schools in other towns. Last January Governor Wallace and the State Board of Education closed Tuskegee High because it was empty except for 16 Negroes.
A Federal judge ordered the Negroes admitted to white schools near Tuskegee in Shorter and Notasulga. Whites abandoned both those schools, and in the spring the Notasulga school was destroyed by fire.
During the summer, Governor Wallace and other state officials were ordered by a Federal court not to interfere with public school desegregation anywhere in the state.
The Governor has remained quiet during the opening of schools, and in every district ordered to desegregate local officials have insisted on peaceful compliance.
Montgomery, the cradle of the Old Confederacy, enrolled eight Negroes in three schools. The only protest came at the Robert E. Lee High School, where J.B. Stoner of Atlanta, an attorney for the Ku Klux Klan, and four other persons picketed with signs and a Confederate flag.
After three Negro students had entered the building, Mr. Stoner and his small entourage packed up their equipment and left.
Gadsden, an industrial city northeast of Birmingham, accepted 20 Negroesin three whit schools. School Superintendent I. J. Browder said, "People are taking it soberly; they want to abide with the law."
In none of the communities that are desegregating this year has there been a successful effort to establish private schools.
Which Schools in Montgomery Were Involved in Integration
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