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Comments prepared for broadcast over WLIB Radio in New York City. SCHOOL SEGREGATION - DAISY BATES WLIB Radio June 4, 1964 It has been ten years since the supreme Court decision against segregation in. the schools. . And it has been nearly seven years since that day I remember so clearly -- when I took nine ohildren to school in my home town of Little Rock, Arkansas. Either way you remember, it has been a long time -- too long. The Supreme Court declared that the desegregation of schools should move with "all deliberate speed." Yet today, only 9 per cent of the Negro children attending school in the South have been integrated. Nor can the North be proud of its record, because it, too, is a sorry one. For example, there 112,000 Negro children in Arkansas. Only 366 are enrolled in desegregated schools. There are many reasons that can be offered for the slow progress that has been made. Perhaps "excuses"is the best word. When I think back on the walk that I took with nine children to Little Rock's Central High School in 1957, one thing stands out:

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Land of (Unequal) Opportunity

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