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Thurgood Marshall — Part 5
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My idea of not approving the colored folks ‘plan is based largely
apon the experience that integration has undergone in ‘the dise
‘trict of columbia. ihen that was put into effect some four or
ive years ago, many schools showed almost equal in munber. .«
Cn wiite and black. now ti{oge sane schools,
like the Renson school has only six wnites.and some 3 or + mds
hundred negroas. the roosevelt high school tht had hundreds of
colored people and hundreds of white has dwindled down now
to where it has onlg 12 whites and the Davis schocl has
Gescended from aout 900 whites down to 12. And they take ©
58 schools and group then toggther anf anong thet you'll find
36,000 negroestuendets and only about 500 whites. As tho colored
people have moved in, ths whites have transferred out until the
thites have been moved into one corfner of the district and they
have immigrated ‘to Maryland and to virginia. A total of ein
242,000 people between the ages of 18 and 45have mored out
Trist co a
of the disti of Soéounbla within the past 5 or 6 years, and
that doesn't include the children of these families nor does 1t
include the oid ones.
It is safe to say that the movement has reached at least 200,000
oe A Bane ornn are: &ROo avors = mn oe
90/50. Now they are (7). this. The colored schools reached 70% ,
and the schools in grade one reuch 85% colored as against 15%
White. T:.1s transfer...tnis evolution of the numbers and a change, —
a constant changeover nust of necessity have a demoralizing |
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