When Coosa County, Ala., began to desegregate its schools this fall, it promptly closed its all-black high school, though a new gym, science lab, workshop and other facilities had been added to it only eight years ago. It then had to add classrooms to the formerly all-white schools to make room for the black students. In Smith County, Miss., another black high school in good condition was closed, and the overcrowding that has resulted in one of the formerly all-white schools is being alleviated by buying mobile classrooms.
In all the backing and filling going on in the South in...
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