Candidates Promise Changes In KNEA
SEEK RETURN OF OLD KNEA POLICY
WANT CENTRALIZED LOCALE; PAGEANT; RECOMMENDATION OF SALARY MINIMUM
Rumors that William H. Perry, Jr., principle of Madison Junior High School, will not run again this year for secretary-treasurer of the K. N. E. A. have resulted in a wide-open race for this office at the teachers' annual convention to be held here shortly.
Literature Being Circulated
Two candidates, Mrs. Anita Wilson Robinson, daughter of Atwood S. Wilson, principal of the Central High School here, and William L. Spearman, President of the Fifth District K. N. E. A., already have filed their intention to run. Both advocate a wide-sweeping revision of the Association's present procedure.
Mrs. Robinson Has Ten-Point Program
Mrs. Robinson who is a teacher in the Louisville Public School system advocates the following points:
1. Recommendation of a legislative program calling for a $34,000,000 annual appropriation for the public schools.
2. Proposal to have no less than three K. N. E. A. Journals annually--the October Journal to give full report on all funds paid in or out and proceedings of the previous annual session--the January Journal to give educational articles of value to the administrative officers and classroom teachers--the March issue to outline program of April convention.
3. Scaled membership fee from three dollars to one dollar.
4. Centering of K. N. E. A. activities in central portion of city to provide outlet for recreational and professional enjoyment. (Around Y. M. C. A. and Young Women's Christian Association.)
5. Have main sessions of meet at Central High and Quin Chapel Church and transfer all sessions to the new high school at 12th and Chestnut as soon as it is built.
6. Put more emphasis on State Annual Spelling Bee and award prizes to all contestants representing their county or independent district in contest.
7. Conduct a State-wide Musicale.
8. Revive Annual Pageant of School Children.
9. Bring outstanding speakers
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$2,000,000 Goal in N. C. Drive
United Negro College Fund Campaign Opens; David Sarnoff of RCA Speaks; Hayes to Sing
SEMINAR SCHOLARSHIPS OFFERED BY CONFERENCE OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS
Five full scholarships including transportation and living expense for study at the Fourth Seminar in Intergroup Relations to be held at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, from July 21 to August 29 will be available to qualified and interested people in Kentucky, according to Richard Van Hoose, Director of Instruction for the Jefferson County Schools. Van Hoose is chairman for the Scholarship Committee of the Louisville Chapter of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, which sponsors the Seminar and provides the Scholarships.
The North Carolina Seminar, which draws its students from Southern States, is conducted by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University.
The program will enroll a varied group of lay and professional community leaders, including especially public school and college teachers, ministers, health educators, social workers, and law enforcement officers.
Attention will be focused on the particular needs and problems of participants in applying social science principles to the understanding and adjustment of intergroup problems within their own occupational and community situations. Special assistance will be given to teachers on curriculum, teaching methods, and other school problems. Those interested in research methods in the field of intergroup relations will also be given special attention.
Under the Seminar procedure individual and group exploration, will be supplemented by lectures by the directors and consultants. The Seminar will be scheduled for two hours each morning with the remainder of the day available for individual and group work. Seminar participants may, if they wish, register in addition for any half course which does not conflict with the time of the Seminar. Possibilities for a half course include the following: Race and Culture Contacts, Regional Sociology of the South, Educational Sociology, Folk Sociology, Experimental Sociology, Philosophy of Education, Mental Hygiene, Guidance in the School, and Curriculum Construction.
One Free in Killing of Negro Farmer
House Bill Would Help Girl Vets' Dependents
He Is Risen As He Said
ALL-OUT FIGHT" SAY EDUCATORS
An agenda of Negro educators which read like a "Who's Who" of Negro America will meet in Atlanta, Ga., Saturday, April 8th to plan an all-out fight against discrimination in [higher?] education.
The group under the chairmanship of Dr. Ludd M. Spivey will convene at Atlanta University to map out effective means to meet the challenge of the Southerns who are apparently determined that equal educational opportunities are not to [be?] granted to American Negroes, it has been reported.
Heading the list of prominent educators are: Dr. Rufus Clement, President of Atlanta [University?] and former Dean of Louisville Municipal College; Dr. Ludd M. Spivey, of Florida Southern College; E. Franklin Frazier, Sociology professor at Howard University; Dr. L D. Reddick, Atlanta University, Library Director and Dr. John T. Kenna, Director Kentucky Division National Conference of Christians and Jews, Louisville.
Champion Farmer Grosses $12,000 Per Annum By Reducing Cotton Acreage Into Pasturage
San Francisco To Host Nurses Convention; 8,000 Expected to Convene in "Gate-City"
54-YEAR-OLD SUPREME COURT RULING ATTACKED BY RACE LAWYERS
A distinguished battery of lawyers sought to end a 54-year-old ruling that the States may provide "separate but equal" facilities for white and Negro citizens in the United States Supreme Court in Washington last Thursday.
The highest tribunal in the land heard these men argue to admit Herman Marion Sweatt to the University of Texas's Law School from which he was [barred?] solely because of race, and to ask that it order the University of Oklahoma to cease segregating G. W. McLaurin in the use of the school facilities. Both cases have won nation-wide attention because of the important of the rulings.
Associate Justice Clark Steps Down
Associate Justice Tom Clark of Texas excused himself from the bench when Attorney General J. Howard McGrath presented the case of Elmer Henderson against the Southern Railroad. This case which has been a long drawn-out affair started several years ago when Henderson was a member of the President's Fair Employment Committee. He instituted [suit?] against the railroad after being forced to eat behind a curtain in the railroad's dining car.
The basis for these court scenes were three cases of discrimination, docketed as the Sweatt, Henderson and the McLaurin cases. Although the facts of each of these cases are different, they raise the same question of law, namely, whether segregation based on race or color is a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution.
Jim Crow Arrangements Stop Louis Exhibition In Georgia
1 Dead 2 Hurt in Franklin Crash
Franklin, Ky., April 7 - One man was killed and two others injured in a two-vehicle collision near here early today.
Vertner Bell, 31, Adairville Negro, was pronounced dead on arrival at Carter Moore Community Hospital here shortly after the accident.
Norvell Flowers and Ernest Ray Nolen, Franklin Negroes, were taken to the hospital for treatment. Neither was believed injured seriously.
State Policeman James E. Smith, said Bell's northbound automobile sideswiped a southbound tractor-trailer, one and one-half miles north of Franklin.
D. T. Lockhart, Nashville, driver of the truck, escaped injury.
For whosover will save his life shall lost it and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. - Matt. 16:25.
BEREA TO WELCOME NEGRO STUDENTS
MAY REVERT TO FORMER POLICY
Closely following an amendment to the Day-Law preventing whites and Negroes from using the same educational facilities together, Berea College in the hills of Eastern Kentucky, made its bid to return to its policy of offering education to all, regardless of race, color, or creed.
Negro students are no strangers to Berea which was founded to offer educational opportunities to the fabled hill people of Kentucky and expanded to include Negroes prior to enactment of the Day Law. A huge number of Negroes matriculated and [graduate?] two generations ago.
The school jumped the gun on state institutions which may accept Negro applicants under the amended law when it advised that the Kentucky Legislature has made it possible for Negro students once again to enter Berea. School authorities there expressed no doubt that the Board of Trustees would approve the move.
No Jim Crow for Hazel Scott
Doctors Plan Layman Education in Scheduled Fight on Heart Disease
18 Negroes With Alternates Sworn in As Census Takers