Atlanta Daily World

Says Court Decision To Have Deep Implications

CHICAGO-(ANP)- Several decisions rendered by the U. S. Supreme Court recently will have far reaching effect on race relations in the country.

The high tribunal on May 17 ruled that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. The court followed that up with other decrees on Monday, May 24.

The over-all effect of the series of rulings is to ban race discrimination in public schools, public housing and public places of amusement which receive financial support or are owned by various branches of government.

Already certain local and state school boards have acted to pave the way for integration in schools.

To mention a few, the board of Greensboro, N. C., and Washington, D. C. These boards acted in the wake of the ruling outlawing jim crow schools.

The court rulings which followed said that Negroes must be allowed to live in any public housing project and that colored persons must be allowed to use the Iroquois Amphitheatre in Louisville, a city

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In other rulings, the court returned two school cases to lower courts with the advice that the courts reconsider the cases in light of the recent high court decision outlawing segregation in schools.

Probably the most important of the rulings is that on school segregation. It will mean that in the next few years separate schools will be a thing of the past.

The transition is expected to experience opposition from die-hards in some areas. Also expected to oppose the change are Negro teachers who fear loss of jobs.

Some state officials of Georgia and Mississippi have asserted that the Supreme Court ruling on schools will be ignored.

"We're not going to secede from the Union," Gov. Herman Talmadge of Georgia said. "But the people of Georgia will not comply with the decision of the court.

"It would take several divisions of troops down here to police every school building in Georgia and then they wouldn't be able to enforce it."