1961 US Commission on Civil Rights Report Book 2 - University of ...
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Notes: Educati<strong>on</strong>, Chapter 6—C<strong>on</strong>tinued<br />
support from the City and County, the amount <strong>of</strong> which the<br />
record before us does not reveal. Any doubt <strong>on</strong> this point<br />
vanished in 1952 and 1953, when annual appropriati<strong>on</strong>s came<br />
to an end as the result <strong>of</strong> the decisi<strong>on</strong> <strong>of</strong> the Supreme Court <strong>of</strong><br />
the State, and patients sent to the hospital by the local governments<br />
were treated and paid for under c<strong>on</strong>tract <strong>on</strong> a per diem<br />
basis.<br />
122. Williamsburg Transcript 115-16.<br />
123. Id. at 109.<br />
124. Id. at 74, 77, 78. [Emphasis added.]<br />
125. Id. at 75. In the case <strong>of</strong> Hall v. St. Helena Parish School Board,<br />
supra, note 41, the court said: "Grants-in-aid, no matter how<br />
generous, are not an adequate substitute for public schools. If<br />
a private school system could be established . . . there would still<br />
be lacking the organizati<strong>on</strong>al and administrative advantages, as<br />
well as ec<strong>on</strong>omies, <strong>of</strong> operating as a member <strong>of</strong> a state system."<br />
126. Id. at 76.<br />
127. Id. at 74.<br />
128. Id. at 76.<br />
129. Id. at 77.<br />
130. Gatlinburg Transcript 78-80 (Testim<strong>on</strong>y <strong>of</strong> J. Gast<strong>on</strong> Williams<strong>on</strong><br />
from Little Rock, Ark., chairman, Arkansas State Advisory<br />
Committee.).<br />
131. 1959 <strong>Report</strong> 199.<br />
132. Williamsburg Transcript 51-62 (Testim<strong>on</strong>y <strong>of</strong> Mrs. N. H.<br />
Sand, president <strong>of</strong> Save Our Schools Inc., New Orleans, La.).<br />
133. Williamsburg Transcript 42-50 (Testim<strong>on</strong>y <strong>of</strong> Mrs. Mary Reese<br />
Green, member <strong>of</strong> Executive Committee <strong>of</strong> Help Our Public<br />
Educati<strong>on</strong>, Inc., Atlanta, Ga.).<br />
134. See notes 91 to 94, supra, and app. IV, table 3.<br />
135. Williamsburg Transcript 77 (Dr. Green's statement).<br />
136. Williamsburg Transcript 113.<br />
137. Washingt<strong>on</strong> (B.C.) Post, Feb. 26, <str<strong>on</strong>g>1961</str<strong>on</strong>g>, p. 8A. Since the Virginia<br />
statute permits grants to parents <strong>of</strong> pupils who were already attending<br />
private schools, complaints are heard that the tuiti<strong>on</strong><br />
grants are being used to help parents send their children to private<br />
schools without respect to the desegregati<strong>on</strong> issue, and that this<br />
violates the spirit <strong>of</strong> the law. So. School News, Jan. <str<strong>on</strong>g>1961</str<strong>on</strong>g>, p. 11.<br />
138. Washingt<strong>on</strong> (D.C.) Post, Aug. 3, <str<strong>on</strong>g>1961</str<strong>on</strong>g>, p. nD.<br />
I38a. For decisi<strong>on</strong> <strong>on</strong> this issue see: Hall v. St. Helena Parish School<br />
Board, supra, note 41.<br />
i38b. For decisi<strong>on</strong> <strong>on</strong> this issue see: Allen v. County School Board <strong>of</strong><br />
Prince Edward County, Va., supra, note 113.<br />
139. Gomilli<strong>on</strong> v. Lightfoot, 364 U.S. 339, 347 (1960).<br />
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