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Notes: Education, Chapter 7—Continued
60. Taylor v. Board of Education., supra, note 25, at 190. The board
has announced that building plans will be held in abeyance. N.Y.
Times, July 4, <strong>1961</strong>, p. 21.
61. Id. at 193. [Emphasis added.]
62. Id. at 197.
63. Recently a charge was made by a member of the Arlington County
school board that a decision to enlarge an elementary school in
the center of the Negro community, rather than build a new school
on the periphery thereof, was based on "racial considerations—not
education, costs, or site considerations." If established, such action
would appear to fall within the rules above stated and constitute
a denial of equal protection of the laws. Washington (D.C.)
Post, Jan. 29, <strong>1961</strong>, p. iB.
64. Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896).
65. In the Matter of Skipwith, 180 N.Y.S. 2d 852 (Dom. Rel. Ct.
N.Y.C. 1958).
66. Id. at 863.
67. Id. at 868.
68. Id. at 869.
69. 339 U.S. 629 (^S 0 )-
70. In the Matter of Skipwith, supra, note 65, at 871.
71. Ibid.
71 a. Cf. Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority, 365 U.S. 715
(<strong>1961</strong>) where the United States Supreme Court stated: "But no
State may effectively abdicate its responsibilities by either ignoring
them or by merely failing to discharge them whatever the motive
may be."
72. 96 S.E. 2d 154 (Va. 1957).
73. Detroit Hearings 141-49.
74. Id. at 145.
75. California Hearings 94-95, 824, 858.
76. Detroit Hearings 161-64.
77. Philadelphia Board of Public Education, For Every Child, the Story
of Integration in the Philadelphia Public Schools, October 1960
at 4.
78. 7rf.at2.
79. Chisholm v. Board of Public Education, supra, note 37.
7ga. The 111. Senate in the <strong>1961</strong> session rejected an appropriation for
$15,000 for a State administrator to investigate charges of unfair
education practices. The measure was aimed primarily at racial
gerrymandering of school district boundaries. From the State
Capitals, July 11, <strong>1961</strong>, p. i.
80. "De Facto Segregation in the Chicago Public Schools," The Crisis,
February 1958 at 89-90. The <strong>Commission</strong>'s Illinois State Ad-
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