Speech #900270937

Many school systems are still in the process of change. and most of them are making desegregation progress. The language of sections 409 and 410 would. in the opinion of allwho are familiar with the provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. cripple a program which has shown promise of ending discriminatory practices bearing a major share of the blame for the social ills which beset this country today. For out of the shabby and oppressive educational systems afforded the minority citizen of the South have come the generations of migrants to the Nations major cities. many of whom today are unemployed and unemployable. Todaydespite numerous Supreme Court rulings and the continuing effort toward enforcement of the Civil Rights Act of 1964--only 14 of every 100 Negro students in the South are In schools which have at least 50 percent white enrollment. In some 345 school districts which are under Federal court order to desegregate. fewer than 10 of every hundred Negro students are in desegregrated schools. in 1.100 school districts which are desegregating under voluntary plans developed pursuant to title VI designed to end racial discrimination. apProximately 20 of every hundred Negro students can be considered in desegregated schools.