SR_DPI_DNE_Special_Subject_File_B1F15_Equalization_Education_Opportunities_043

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In addition to the major undertaking of this Committee of the State Board of
Education and members of the staff of the State Department of Public Instruction,
viz: an effort to secrure wise and proper consolidation of the fourteen hundred
small Negro schools, and busses to provide adequate transportation, the proposed
study will include all other phases of the public school program in which there
are now differentials, pointing out specifically the improvements needed to
bring the Negro program up to equal standards. The Report and Recommendations
of the Study will be presented to the Governor and the next Legislature which
convense in January 1945.

As I said at first, North Carolina is justly proud of its beginnings in this
necessary phase of its educational program. But none of us can afford to adopt
and air of complancency. This is truly only a beginning and we much not stop
until there is complete equality in educational opportunities for all children,
regardless of race, creed, or color.