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Here, briefly, is the Pearsall Committee plan to preserve
North Carolina's public school system. It is the result of a
hard, conscientious study conducted since the U. S. Supreme
Court decision of May 17, 1954. This pamphlet does not
attempt to answer every question. It is designed to give
basic information. Full information may be obtained by
writing the North Carolina Advisory Committee on Education, Room 357, Revenue Building, Raleigh.
Benjamin Lee Smith was born February 6, 1893 in, Caldwell County, N.C. He received his A.B. from Duke University in 1916, and his M.A. from Duke in 1937. He served as superintendent of schools in the western North Carolina cities of Forest City, Rutherford-Spindale, and Shelby before assuming the same position in Greensboro, N.C., in 1935. His twenty-three year tenure in Greensboro included the years immediately following the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision ordering desegregation of public schools. In 1959, he participated in the National Civil Rights hearing on school integration. Smith died in 1961. Ben L. Smith High School in Greensboro is named for him.
Subject headings
Segregation in education--United States;Race relations
Topics
School desegregation, 1954-1958
Place
Greensboro (N.C.)
Description
In response to the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), which declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional, North Carolina enacted legislation, known as the Pearsall Plan allowing students to be excused from attending an integrated public school. This eight-page voter recruitment booklet, published in 1956, outlines the items in the Pearsall Plan and includes a question and answer section, as well as an example of how the local option in the plan would work.
Type
text
Original format
pamphlets
Original dimensions
5" x 7"
Original publisher
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Language
en
Contributing institution
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University
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Object ID
Duke_RL.01210.0986
Digital publisher
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5305 -- http://library.uncg.edu/
THE PEARSALL PLAN
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SoHJOoii
Here, briefly, is the Pearsall Committee plan to preserve
North Carolina's public school system. It is the result of a
hard, conscientious study conducted since the U. S. Supreme
Court decision of May 17, 1954. This pamphlet does not
attempt to answer every question. It is designed to give
basic information. Full information may be obtained by
writing the North Carolina Advisory Committee on Education, Room 357, Revenue Building, Raleigh.
