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Atlanta Daily World
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
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Southern educators from Atlanta, Winston-Salem, and Baltimore visited Minneapolis October 9-11, organized by The Minneapolis Star and Tribune and Urban League, to observe integrated schools amid national desegregation tensions.
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NEW YORK - While disturbances and near race riots in Baltimore Washington and Milford, Del. have been capturing front-page attention, a mid-western newspaper the The Minneapolis Star and Tribune, in conjunction with the Minneapolis Urban League and the Minneapolis Superintendent of Public Schools, has quietly brought southern educators to Minneapolis (Oct. 11) to observe and participate in an integrated educational program, in the hope that they will gain an insight as to the possibilities of having children of different racial backgrounds in the same schools.
Putting the newspaper's private plane at the disposal of the Minneapolis branch of the Urban League, the project started Saturday, October 9th, when the pilot put down at Atlanta and picked up Mahlon T. Puryear, the League's national vocational guidance secretary. From Atlanta the Star and Tribune plane flew to Winston-Salem, N. C., where two officials of the Winston-Salem Board of Education, three representatives of the Forsythe County Public Schools and Samuel Harvey, executive of the Winston-Salem Urban League, came aboard. Dr Ralph Brimley, Forsythe superintendent of schools, joined the party in Minneapolis.
The group left yesterday for Baltimore, where two members of the city's Board of Education joined the party and proceeded to Minneapolis.
The project will continue throughout this school week and the southern educators will not only confer with local officials but will, among other things, attend football practice, eat lunch with students in the lunchrooms, and also attend classes
On Friday afternoon they are scheduled to watch the football game between Marshall and South High Schools.
Commenting on this program, Harry L. Alston, director of the League's Southern Field Division, with offices in this city, and which covers the southern states directly affected by the Supreme Court's decision on public school segregation, said: "This unique educational program represents a splendid illustration of how local communities can cooperate effectively with local and national social welfare agencies working together to accomplish socially desirable ends."
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Minneapolis
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October 9 11
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the project will continue throughout this school week with southern educators conferring with local officials, attending football practice, eating lunch with students, attending classes, and watching a football game between marshall and south high schools on friday afternoon.
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While disturbances in Baltimore, Washington, and Milford, Del. captured attention, The Minneapolis Star and Tribune, in conjunction with the Minneapolis Urban League and Superintendent of Public Schools, brought southern educators to Minneapolis on Oct. 11 to observe and participate in an integrated educational program. The project started on Saturday, October 9th, with the newspaper's plane picking up Mahlon T. Puryear in Atlanta, then officials from Winston-Salem Board of Education, Forsythe County Public Schools, and Samuel Harvey in Winston-Salem, N.C. Dr Ralph Brimley joined in Minneapolis. The group left yesterday for Baltimore, where two members of the city's Board of Education joined and proceeded to Minneapolis. Harry L. Alston commented positively on the program as an illustration of community cooperation with social welfare agencies.