INTEGRATED SCHOOLS

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27962, 8 May 1956, Page 13

INTEGRATED SCHOOLS

Warning Given By Senator

(Rec. 11 p.m.) WASHINGTON, May 6. Senator Allen Ellender (Democrat, Louisiana), said today that bloodshed would result if school integration was forced on the South within the next five to 10 years. Discussing the civil rights issue on a television show. Senator Ellender said white and negro leaders in the South could solve the integration problem if they were not agitated by the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People and other “intruders from the north.’’

But he warned that there would be bloodshed in all of the Southern States if any attempt was made “overnight” to enforce the Supreme Court’s school integration decision.

In Pittsburg a negro church leader said that the negro church must retain its separate identity and not die through religious integration.

Speaking at the African Methodist Episcopal conference, Bishop H. B. Shaw, of Wilmington, North Carolina, said social integration was logical in the practice of Christianity, but the negro must maintain his individuality as a Christian.

“The church is too essential to the negro, particularly in this age of civil rights, to be lost in the shuffle of integration.” Bishop Shaw said. “Developed by the negro in slavery, the church has always given him political guidance, entertainment, cultural development. and self expression.” Bishop Shaw said his remarks expressed the sentiment not only of the board of bishops, but the entire membership of his church.