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Jackson Advocate
Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi
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In New York, Board of Education President Charles H. Silver denied defeatism on school integration, affirming the goal of racially balanced schools. This followed criticism from Urban League President Sophia Yarnall Jacobs and NAACP over stalled efforts at all-Negro Junior High School 258 in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant.
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New York, N. Y., Nov. 2.-
(Special)--Charles H. Silver, president of the Board of Education,
denied last week that school officials were "defeatist" on integration.
In a letter to Mrs. Sophia Yarnall Jacobs, president of the Urban
League of Greater New York, he said that the board's stated objective
was "the more racially balanced school" and that the next step was implementation.
Mrs. Jacobs had written Mr. Silver an open letter in which she said
that Dr. William Jansen, Superintendent of Schools, "has apparently given up all efforts to
achieve integration at Junior High School 258 either at the present
time or after the new Junior High School 61 is completed."
Last Thursday a spokesman for the Brooklyn branch of the National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People had rebuked the board for not moving fast enough in integrating 258, which
is at Halsey Street and Marcy Avenue, in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section, and other all-Negro
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Domestic News Details
Primary Location
New York, N. Y.
Event Date
Nov. 2
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Charles H. Silver denied that school officials were defeatist on integration in a letter to Sophia Yarnall Jacobs, stating the board's objective was more racially balanced schools and next step implementation. Jacobs criticized Superintendent William Jansen for giving up on integrating Junior High School 258 now or after new Junior High School 61 completion. NAACP Brooklyn branch rebuked the board for slow progress on integrating JHS 258 in Bedford-Stuyvesant and other all-Negro schools.