based on Meonomist report (11/1/64)
It is not enly in the Ibep South that segrogation is desply rocted
the United Strtes as Lashewn the follwoings
"In Cotoher nearly «2 quarter of o million childron, out cf a totol of 536,000 in Chicago's tax-supported schools, observed c "Freedom Day" from their classos to protest against a colour baree.This is the biggest racial demonstration which has evor takon ploce...Chicago . one of the largest ~ if not the largest ~ "egro ghattoes" in tho country 3 a quarter of its population and over half ofits children of school age aro Negro evendthoug *h the mingling of white and black childron is not unknown, 87% of tho Negro eclomentary pupils go to s¢hools in which there are no whites or where they enoun to fower than 10% of the total enrolnent.
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The Negroos. riaintain that the...quality cf cducaticn in Negro Clotriots is far lowor then in white arcass and that thor: enn ty svats in the white schocls whils overcrowding is so sever. in the Negro onas that mobile caravan schools have to be used... oir, Willis, Superintendent of Schools, insists that his job is education, not the abolition of segregation, and that the Noyro schools aro not inforsor. Te is an able manand, with ». salary of $48,500, one cf the most } paid public officials in th» country. Us L © deturnrinud tho show. In August, when th Joard of Gauseticn adepted a transfor plan for clover ro 7 Sy, paronts of childron white sehcol objected. Mr. Wi iis “sustainod thoir pi when he was ovar-ruled by tho courts. Jut the -" sar’ back, and within o week ho head withdvawn his resis precipitated the "Fresdom Day" in Cotolor.
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