The Augusta Courier

New York City's Schools Paying Price Of Race Mixing

Teachers Assaulted In Classrooms Rapes, Pose Serious Problems For Police

New York City is paying the price of race mixing.

What a price it is, The results are so intolerable until the Police Commissioner and the Superintendent of Schools have been forced to organize a united campaign against rape, coercion and oppression in the public schools.

Now, you don't have to take our word for it. We get this story from the New York Daily News of Saturday, October 27, 1956, on Page C-5.

The headline of the story, appearing over a picture of the Police Commissioner and the Superintendent of Schools, says: "Police, Schools Join for Battle On Youth Crime."

They brought together 129 Board of Education officials and police for the purpose of organizing this campaign.

Police Commissioner Kennedy said: "When teachers are assaulted in classrooms, when children defy authority, assault each other, oppress, coerce and extort—and we have rapes—all this is so shocking that it is our principal reason for meeting here."

Commissioner Kennedy stated that in some schools policemen had to be on duty during the school hours.

The Augusta Courier is informed that those conditions come about as a result of race mixing in the public schools of the City of New York and this is but a sample of what they would have the people of the South endure.

This story as it appeared in the New York Daily News was written by Edward Kirkman and is as follows:

"Police Commissioner Kennedy and Superintendent of Schools William Jansen brought 129 of their top assistants together yesterday to map a united campaign against rape, coercion and oppression in the public schools.

"At the lineup room in Police Headquarters 69 Board of Education officials and 60 police officials sat in groups, formed according to the city areas in which they work, and got acquainted.

"In the future, the educators and the cops will cooperate in the prompt reporting of school crime and in the immediate investigation of such cases. In some schools a policeman will be on duty during the hours.

Shocking, Says Commissioner

"We would like and intend to have a cooperation which will be the full utilization of those in charge of the classroom and the policemen on post," said Kennedy. He added:

"'When teachers are assaulted in classrooms, when children defy authority, assault each other, oppress, coerce and extort—and we have rapes—all this so shocking that it is our principal reason for meeting here.'

"An over-all high-level committee was formed to set up channels of information and cooperation.

Police Members

"The Board of Education members were George Lent, assistant administrative director; Clare C. Baldwin, assistant superintendent of schools; Diedrich Lehnart, assistant superintendent of land operations and maintenance, and Arthur Clinton, director of attendance.

"The Police Department members were Deputy Commissioner Robert J. Mangum, head of the Juvenile Aid Bureau; Inspectors Joseph Coyle, chief of the narcotics squad, and Raymond Martin, in charge of Queens detectives, and Capt. Frederick Ludwig, commander of the JAB.

"The committee will report directly to Kennedy and Jansen."