INTEGRATION IN U.S.

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27473, 6 October 1954, Page 11

INTEGRATION IN U.S.

High Schools Demonstrate

(Rec. 9.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 4. Demonstrations against the integration of whites and negroes in public schools extended to Washington, the United States capital, today. Demonstrations continued in Baltimore, where two bands of parading students, numbering several hundred, marched through the streets. Demonstrations occurred in at least nine schools in Baltimore.

In Washington about 400'of the 1250 students enrolled at Anacostia High School gathered across the street from the school and jeered their principal’s pleas that they return to classes. The demonstrators booed 43 negro students as they entered the building. A similar demonstration was staged at McKinley High School, in Washington, by about 150 boys and girls, but they were persuaded to transfer their protest meeting to a classroom. The meeting broke up in confusion. Several students criticised the admittance of negroes to McKinley High School. One girl said she was “afraid to walk down the hall. They walk right up behind me and say things I wouldn’t repeat.” The shouting crowds of students in Baltimore made stops at the City Hall and called for the Majtor. Both crowds were scattered by police, but they formed later and continued their marching. One c-f the groups covered a dozen miles by noon.