NAACP Urges Little Rock School Board to Make Changes

              February 11, 1966

Dear Board Member:

This letter is directed to you because you are elected
representatives of the people.
The tenor of the time should urge you as board members to
require all persons connected with school system to conduct the
affairs of the system in an impartial and fair manner for the
benefit of the population.
But, rather the contrary is true.  (1) Physical abuse is
wide spread and frequent.  Involving student  and student, an
teacher and student.  And at some school more than others.  This
problem seem to be more prevalent at West Side Junior High.  (2)
The attitudes of many personnedl on the teaching staff is negative
ans such is sensed and taken advantage of by students.  (3) Pro-
per respect and courtesey are not given to the Negro parents.  (4)
Negro students only are detained at Juvenile Hall for any type of
offense.  (5)  Recent issurance of cards for censor carried racial
overtones, in that cards given Negroes were different from those
given whites.  (6)  It was recently published that Junior High
School athletics would be desegregated.  This is an insult to the
community.  Your announced policy should be total integration of
all extracurricular activities in the system.  (7)  Continued prac-
tice of discrimination in your hiring and placement of personnel.


Education Committee
Little Rock Branch N.A.A.C.P.
Jerry D. Jewell
President