Education: Report Card

¶ The Oklahoma Association of Negro Teachers reported that some of its members may have to pay a heavy price for desegregation. Since the state started integrating its schools, 68 out of 1,600 Negro teachers have already found themselves without jobs, and the association estimates that the number may reach 300. Reason: though white schools will take in Negro pupils, they will not always have room for those pupils' former teachers.

¶Georgia made its usual desperate noises. First, the State Board of Education voted to revoke "forever" the licenses of any teacher, Negro or white, who "supports, encourages, condones or agrees to...

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