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Atlanta Daily World
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
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Georgia State Board of Education rejects integration discussion at Kellogg Foundation meeting, affirms segregation interest; approves $130,000 for Augusta junior high school completion.
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The State Board of Education Monday ordered Superintendent M. D. Collins and Board Secretary Claude Purcell to inform the Kellogg Foundation that Georgia is "interested in segregation of the races in schools and not in discussion of integration."
The Kellogg Foundation had invited State Education officials of 11 states to attend a meeting at Atlanta on Sept. 4-7.
Dr. Collins and Purcell were selected as delegates to the session. Board Chairman George Whitman, Jr., said that no agenda had been outlined for the Kellogg meeting.
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nothing but that it is presumed that the segregation question will be on tap for debate.
The board, meanwhile, approved a request by the city of Augusta to use $130,000 of its allotted state funds to complete a junior high school building.
The money will be used to finish the financing of the school for which the Federal Government had granted $70,500.
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georgia informed kellogg foundation of interest in segregation, not integration; approved $130,000 state funds for augusta junior high school, supplementing $70,500 federal grant.
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The State Board of Education ordered Superintendent M. D. Collins and Secretary Claude Purcell to inform the Kellogg Foundation that Georgia is interested in segregation of the races in schools and not in discussion of integration. The foundation had invited officials from 11 states to a meeting in Atlanta on Sept. 4-7, with Collins and Purcell as delegates. Chairman George Whitman, Jr., noted no agenda outlined but presumed segregation would be debated. Meanwhile, the board approved Augusta's request to use $130,000 of state funds to complete a junior high school building, financed partly by a $70,500 federal grant.