Atlanta Daily World

Governors Hear Need For Schools

NEW ORLEANS, La., (SNS)

Southern Governors discussed the need of higher education for Negroes in the South Saturday, and as a result there may be better educational facilities for white students as well as Negroes.

The discussion resulted from a report submitted to the governors late Friday by Governors Chauncey Sparks, of Alabama; Thomas Bailey, of Mississippi, and C. W. Darden of Virginia, constituting the conference committee on regional education.

Gov. Sparks, in making the report, pointed out that the United States Supreme Court has ruled that equal educational opportunities must be afforded members of all races within the borders of any state.

He said the present plan of equalizing the tuition costs of Negroes who want to attend Northern colleges does not comply with the requirements of the law, and it will become necessary for the Southern states to establish professional colleges and vocational schools for Negroes within their own borders.

The committee's suggestion was that each state provide a specialized

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college and that students be exchanged, so that no single state would have to establish law medical, dental and other schools for Negroes.
Gov. Caldwell, of Florida, suggested that the same sort of co-operation might improve the white colleges too. A suggestion that students in white colleges as well as Negro schools might be exchanged by the various Southern states, with additional fee charged non-residents being waived by mutual agreement, struck a responsive chord.