Edwin Washington Project

EWP 1 Negro Opportunity 001

Item

Title

EWP 1 Negro Opportunity 001

Place

Virginia

Identifier

1000493

Is Version Of

1000493_EWP_Negro_Opportunity_001.jpg

Is Part Of

Uncategorized

Date Created

2024-01-07

Format

Jpeg Image

Number

72b8b23ae8233f87a2349ac0805d9809703ad1e823b1a1408385aa06d201fb4d

Source

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Publisher

Digitized by Edwin Washington Project

Rights

Loudoun County Public Schools

Language

English

Replaces

/Volumes/T7 Shield/EWP/Elements/EWP_Files/source/Ingest One/1 Civil Rights/integration_folder/Constitutional_Convention/EWP_Negro_Opportunity_001.jpg

extracted text

The argument that Negroes receive services out of all

proportion to their tax contribution has been a useful
argument for years for those property owners of means

who have wanted to see no money, or hardly any money,

spent for public school improvement.

Now the argument is being used by sudden friends of
®equal facilities" against integration.

Any cormunity leader charged with the great responsibility
of school administration should examine carefully

the social and economic background of the community which
he serves. If he does that, he will be forced to agree
that with less than a century of freedom from chattel
slavery, the Negro--since he has been forced to remain

in mena;l menial occupations with incomes far less than
that commanded by the white population--has not had an
equal opportunity to acquire property, taxable property.

The school administrator's attention should be directed

to broadening the opportunity for learning of the Negro

and to helping the community in which the Negro lives

find work opportunities which will improve the Negro's
economic condition and so enable him to stand shoulder

to shoulder with his white associates in tax responsibilitye.

To keep the Negro from opportunities of economic gain, ‘
and then charge him with not bearing his share of the tax
burden, is the tactic of the demagogue.


Item sets

EWP 01 Civil Rights