Education: One Road, Two Buses

In King George County, Virginia, flat, poor and sparsely settled, whites outnumber Negroes 2 to 1. As Virginia's constitution requires, education is "separate"; despite the U.S. Constitution, it is also unequal. King George High School (for whites only) is a modern, red brick building with central heating and inside toilets. King George Training School (for Negroes) is a frame building with stoves and outhouses. The white school taught chemistry, physics, biology, geometry and intermediate algebra; the Negro school had none of these subjects.

Negro Attorney Martin A. Martin (and the National Association for...

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