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EEPOBT 0? SPECIE COiMMITIEE ON IOTEflBATION IN QUE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM
In its annual meeting of 1955 the North Carolina Council of Churches adopted
a resolution in which the closing sentence declared: ,!Now that the Supreme Court
has spoken (regarding segregation in the public schools) we urge that the churches as represented in the Council accept the decision of the Court as the law of
the land and endeavor as fully as possible, in the spirit of Christ, to realize an
integrated public school system." The Council reaffirms this action. Recent
events and tendencies move the Council to express itself further as follows:
1. The maintenance of our state public school system is a paramount obligation of the people of North Carolina, and any attempt to transform this system
into any so-called private scheme of schools, regardless of the motivating considerations, would inject tragic cleavages into our social structure and deprive
our children of their rightful educational heritage.
2. In oux effort to maintain our public schools and at the same time comply with the decision of the Supreme Court in declaring segregation in public education unconstitutional, we may expect to encounter difficult problems. Unless
we of both races manifest patience, forbearance, and goodwill, we cannot solve
our problems constructively. In the nature of the case, implementation of the
Court's decision must take account of the nature of local conditions and must proceed at varying rates of speed. The more complex situations will require careful
study and cautious procedure, and cannot be transformed overnight. On the other
hand, where racial ratios and other factors render local situations less complicated, more rapid progress may be expected. But whether the locgl situation be
simple or complex, we as law-abiding citizens should begin, in good faith, the
implementation of the Supreme Court-s decision. Tactics of evasion are in effect disloyalty to- the supreme law of the land.
— continued
Object Description
| Title | Report of special committee on integration in our public school system |
| Date | 1956-01-25 |
| Creator | National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA |
| Biographical/historical note | 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 | This January 25, 1956 report makes recommendations as to how member churches of the National Council on Churches should work to support school desegregation in their communities. The recommendations reaffirm and advance a 1955 resolution adopted by the National Council of Churches which states: "Now that the Supreme Court has spoken (regarding segregation in the public schools) we urge that churches as represented in the Council accept the decision of the Court as the law of the land and endeavor as fully as possible, in the spirit of Christ, to realize an integrated public school system." |
| Type | text |
| Original format | reports |
| Original dimensions | 8.5" x 11" |
| Original publisher | [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] |
| Language | en |
| Contributing institution | Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University |
| Source collection | RL.01210 Benjamin Lee Smith Papers |
| Finding aid link | http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/smithbenjaminlee/ |
| Rights statement | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/ |
| Additional rights information | COPYRIGHT NOT EVALUATED. The copyright status of this item has not been fully evaluated and may vary for different parts of the item. The user is responsible for determining actual copyright status for any reuse of the material. |
| Object ID | Duke_RL.01210.0996 |
| 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/ |
| Sponsor | LSTA grant administered by the North Carolina State Library -- http://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/ld/grants/lsta.html |
| OCLC number | 884367444 |
Page/Item Description
| Title | 4.1.996-01 |
| Full text | EEPOBT 0? SPECIE COiMMITIEE ON IOTEflBATION IN QUE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM In its annual meeting of 1955 the North Carolina Council of Churches adopted a resolution in which the closing sentence declared: ,!Now that the Supreme Court has spoken (regarding segregation in the public schools) we urge that the churches as represented in the Council accept the decision of the Court as the law of the land and endeavor as fully as possible, in the spirit of Christ, to realize an integrated public school system." The Council reaffirms this action. Recent events and tendencies move the Council to express itself further as follows: 1. The maintenance of our state public school system is a paramount obligation of the people of North Carolina, and any attempt to transform this system into any so-called private scheme of schools, regardless of the motivating considerations, would inject tragic cleavages into our social structure and deprive our children of their rightful educational heritage. 2. In oux effort to maintain our public schools and at the same time comply with the decision of the Supreme Court in declaring segregation in public education unconstitutional, we may expect to encounter difficult problems. Unless we of both races manifest patience, forbearance, and goodwill, we cannot solve our problems constructively. In the nature of the case, implementation of the Court's decision must take account of the nature of local conditions and must proceed at varying rates of speed. The more complex situations will require careful study and cautious procedure, and cannot be transformed overnight. On the other hand, where racial ratios and other factors render local situations less complicated, more rapid progress may be expected. But whether the locgl situation be simple or complex, we as law-abiding citizens should begin, in good faith, the implementation of the Supreme Court-s decision. Tactics of evasion are in effect disloyalty to- the supreme law of the land. — continued |
