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Atlanta Daily World
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
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Dr. John O. Gross, Methodist education leader, opines that integration won't close Negro church schools, which are being strengthened; highlights human relations challenges but optimism from successful integrations in Southern graduate schools; Methodist groups endorse it. (Nashville, Tenn.)
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NASHVILLE. Tenn. -(ANP)- Dr. John O. Gross, executive secretary of the Division of Educational Institutions of the Methodist Church Board of Education, last week offered the opinion that the abolishment of segregation will cause no (Methodist?) church school for Negroes to close. He also stated that integration involves human relations problems.
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Dr. Gross explained that his opinion regarding the Negro schools is based on the fact that the colleges, working in cooperation with the United Negro College Fund have set in motion plans to strengthen the schools to meet the higher standard required of them as a result of integration. He says the Christian Service and students from 13 Southern states attending a Southwide leadership training conference at Junaluska, N. C., have come in favor of integration.
Dr. Gross is also chairman of the Commission on Higher Education of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U. S. A., and a member of the board of trustees of 10 Negro colleges.
Dr. Gross also stated that despite his awareness of human relations problems which integration brings, he is optimistic over the harmonious way in which some 2,000 Negro students already have been integrated in Southern institutions of learning, largely in the graduate schools.
Meanwhile, various Methodist conferences and groups have gone on record as endorsing integration. Methodist conferences in Tennessee, Arkansas, and Texas. In addition, the Methodist Woman's Society of Christian Service and students from
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Nashville, Tenn.; Junaluska, N.C.; Southern States
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Last Week
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Dr. John O. Gross states that abolishing segregation will not close Negro Methodist church schools, as they are strengthening via the United Negro College Fund. Integration involves human relations problems but he is optimistic, noting 2,000 Negro students already integrated in Southern graduate schools. Methodist groups endorse integration.