1961 US Commission on Civil Rights Report Book 2 - University of ...

having only a few Negro pupils have voted to admit them to the white
schools in September <strong>1961</strong>, 178
Tennessee
Initial desegregation is expected in the fall of <strong>1961</strong> in Knox and Washington
Counties, Elizabethton, Kingsport, and Johnson City, all of
which have announced grade-a-year plans. 179 At the behest of the
Federal district court, Knoxville has announced that Negro high school
pupils will be admitted to a white high school for vocational and technical
courses not offered at the Negro schools. 180
Florida
The Volusia County School Board has granted the application for reassignment
of two Negro girls to a previously all-white school and denied
a third. These were the first applications under the Florida pupil assignment
law of 1956.
Another Orchard Villa situation 182 is expected in Dade County. A
change in school zoning has placed 200 Negro families in the area of a
white school. White parents in the neighborhood have been notified that
their children may apply for transfer. 183
Arkansas
In response to the order of the United States Court of Appeals, the
Little Rock School Board has announced expansion of its desegregation
program to four of its five junior high schools in September <strong>1961</strong>. This
is to be accomplished by assignment of 25 Negroes. As a result of new
assignments, the number of Negro students in the city's 3 formerly white
high schools will jump from 11 to 24. One of the three, Technical High
School, will have Negro students for the first time. 184
Dollarway School District which, under prodding of Federal courts,
is putting its grade-a-year desegregation plan into effect in the fall of
<strong>1961</strong>, will have one additional Negro pupil. On the day set for registration
in May <strong>1961</strong>, only one Negro appeared. 185
Delaware
The prospects in Delaware have completely changed as a result of the
disapproval of the State's grade-a-year plan by the United States Court
of Appeals for the Third Circuit. The Federal district court was instructed
to require the State Board of Education to submit a new program
to accommodate all Negro pupils seeking nondiscriminatory admission
to any grade beginning in the fall of <strong>1961</strong> and to provide for increasing
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