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The Omaha Guide
Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska
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In New York on April 15, Walter White of the NAACP urged 75 senators to oppose a southern segregation plan for regional educational institutions, condemned after Senate Judiciary subcommittee's 6-2 approval last week.
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BAN REGIONAL COLLEGE PLAN
New York, N. Y., April 15-
Continuing the fight against
congressional approval of the
southern plan for segregation
regional educational institutions, Walter White, secretary
of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People, today dispatched communications to 75 members of
the Senate urging them "to oppose this measure if and when
it reaches the floor of the Senate."
Action of the Senate Judiciary
sub-committee last week
favoring the Jim Crow plan
was condemned by the NAACP
board of directors as "complicity in the plot of the southern
governors to circumvent
the Supreme Court decisions in
the Gaines and Sipuel cases."
The committee approved the
plan by a 6 to 2 vote. Voting
for were Senators E. H. Moore,
Oklahoma. Pat McCarran, Nev.
J. Wm. Fulbright, Ark., Forrest C. Donnell. Mo.. James O.
Eastland, Miss., and Alexander
Wiley. Wisc. Senators Homer
Ferguson, Mich.. and William
Langer, N. D. voted against approval. Senator J. Howard McGrath. R. I.. abstained from
voting.
In his letter which went to
all Senators except those from
the deep South. Mr. White expressed "shock" that the committee has approved the plan
"in the face of the unanimous
opposition to the measure by
all responsible Negro educational, church. professional business and civic organizations."
He asked the Senators to withhold approval of the plan because it was designed to extend
segregated education to the regional level and because it contravened the Supreme Court
decisions"which require states
to furnish to Negro students
educational opportunities equal to that furnished white students within the state boundaries."
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New York, N. Y.
Event Date
April 15
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senate judiciary sub-committee approved the plan 6-2 last week; naacp condemned it and urged opposition.
Event Details
Walter White, NAACP secretary, dispatched communications to 75 senators opposing congressional approval of southern segregation plan for regional educational institutions, following sub-committee's favorable vote condemned as circumventing Supreme Court decisions in Gaines and Sipuel cases.