Districting Questioned On Washington School
by Stanley Meisler
Commentary by Stanley Meisler
October 9, 1953
October 1953
Middletown, Ohio
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The problem of Negro segregation at Booker T. Washington School took up most of the Board of Education's discussion time last night when two representatives of the National Association for the Advance of Colored People asked that a districting case in the Taft - Washington school area be reconsidered. James Lewis and Mrs. William Ferguson, the NAACP delegates, admitted that the issue of "segregation and discrimination" was not involved in the specific districting case. Nevertheless, while discussing the problem, Lewis and Mrs. Ferguson asked that Washington School be made a "mixed" school. The districting problem involved a child who had spent her first year in Taft School after her parents reportedly gave school officials a false address in the Taft area...
The problem of Negro segregation at Booker T. Washington School took up most of the Board of Education's discussion time last night when two representatives of the National Association for the Advance of Colored People asked that a districting case in the Taft - Washington school area be reconsidered. James Lewis and Mrs. William Ferguson, the NAACP delegates, admitted that the issue of "segregation and discrimination" was not involved in the specific districting case. Nevertheless, while discussing the problem, Lewis and Mrs. Ferguson asked that Washington School be made a "mixed" school. The districting problem involved a child who had spent her first year in Taft School after her parents reportedly gave school officials a false address in the Taft area...
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