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

numbers in subsequent years. The plan submitted by the board on
March 31, <strong>1961</strong>, was accepted by the court (with minor modifications)
over the plaintiffs' objections. 186 The district court held that the plan
fulfilled the requirements of the court of appeals 187 in that it: (a)
allowed Negro students that so desired to transfer immediately to a
white or desegregated school as a matter of right, subject to the "usual
and nondiscriminatory processing of the school system"; and (b) looked
to "ingredients of a wholly integrated system." 188 Thus, considerable
expansion of desegregation in southern Delaware is anticipated in
September <strong>1961</strong>.
Virginia
Four school districts in northern Virginia have exercised the option
granted by State law to take over from the State Pupil Placement Board
the assignment of their own pupils. A considerable increase in the number
of Negroes attending schools with whites is anticipated. Arlington
has announced the assignment of 104 Negroes to white schools, compared
with 44 in 1960-61 ; 189 Fairfax, 76 as compared with 27; 190 Falls Church
has assigned 3 Negro pupils and Newport News 14 to white schools for
the first time. 191
The Virginia Pupil Placement Board, at the date of writing, has approved
137 applications of Negroes for assignment to formerly white
schools in the fall of <strong>1961</strong> and rejected 266. Two Negro elementary
school pupils were assigned to a white school in Stafford, one in King
William and two in Montgomery Counties marking their first desegregation.
All other assignments were to schools in previously desegregated
districts. 191 *
Kentucky
The Knox County School Board, at its March <strong>1961</strong> meeting adopted
a resolution desegregating the Knox County school system in its entirety.
Thereafter, a Federal court ordered the Knox County schools to be
completely desegregated in the fall of <strong>1961</strong>, and struck the cause from the
court's docket. 192
North Carolina
Asheville will become the nth school district in the State to admit
Negroes to previously white schools in September <strong>1961</strong>. The city school
board has granted five applications for admission or transfer to the first
and second grades. Six applications for grades four and above were
denied. 1924
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