The nation . leave the is-land and to begin causing little flur-ries of alarm in the segregated worldoutside. Even before bus segregation inthe city was declared illegal, someSpelman girls rode up front andwithstood the glares and threats offellow passengers and the abuse ofthe bus driver. Once, a white manpulled a knife from his pocket andwaved it at a Spelman sophomore 72 sitting opposite him in a front continued to sit there until shecame to her stop, and then got students, along with others,showed up in the main Atlanta li-brary in sufficient numbers last yearto worry
The nation . leave the is-land and to begin causing little flur-ries of alarm in the segregated worldoutside. Even before bus segregation inthe city was declared illegal, someSpelman girls rode up front andwithstood the glares and threats offellow passengers and the abuse ofthe bus driver. Once, a white manpulled a knife from his pocket andwaved it at a Spelman sophomore 72 sitting opposite him in a front continued to sit there until shecame to her stop, and then got students, along with others,showed up in the main Atlanta li-brary in sufficient numbers last yearto worry the city administrationinto a decision to admit Negroesthere. The girls spent hours betweenclasses at the county courthouse,urging Negroes to register for vot-ing. They made a survey of theAtlanta airport in connection witha suit to desegregate the airportrestaurant, and a Spelman studenttook the witness stand at the trialto help win the case. Such activities may bring bewil-derment to the conservative matri-. archy which has played a dominantrole in the colleges history, butthey are nothing short of infuriatingto the officialdom of the State ofGeorgia, ensconced inside the gold-domed Capitol just a few minutesdrive from the Negro colleges of theAtlanta University Center. Georgiasbespectacled but still near-sight-ed Governor Vandiver, who re-sembles a pleasant and studiousjunior executive until he begins tospeak, began his current burst ofhysteria when student leaders at thesix Negro colleges put their headstogether and produced a remarkable document which was placed .is .1full-page ad in the Atlanta news-papers on March 9 (ami reprintedby The Notion on April 2). Thedocument, entitled An Appeal forHuman Rights, catalogued Negrogrievances with irritating specificityand promised to use every legal and non-violent means at our dis-posal to end segregation. Vandiversreaction was immediate: the appealwas anti-American and obvious-ly not written by students. Further-more, the Governo
Size: 1466px × 1704px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1860, bookidnation191jul, bookyear1865
