I WffiTE govemm nt int ntionally
negJ cted Black education for d des, and
though it i now committed in principle to
equal education for all ra ,it till pends
almo t four tim more to educa a white
tudent.
Blac leaders, realizing they could be in
power soon, are trying to temper the expecta-
now provid 15
funding for the chool, enough
to pay th t h $95 month. The t i
rai ed from annual tud nt f of $9 O.
There ar fewer than 100 teachers for the
1 ,000 tudents, but the chool p or­
d rly, a r ul t of the di cipline Khumalo
preach . When the opening bell rin at 8
a.m., th front gat . locked for the d y.
"No on i allowed in after that, not even
me," said Khumalo, who ignored the pi of
everal tardy tudents outside the ga .' 'I
guarantee they' 11 be here tomorrow at 7 a.m."
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in Detroit
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Authentic
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ClN 'I A'n (AP)-The Ohio u-
prcrn 'Court h: rtified th 'legal!
f letting all city voters help elect
City Council. Cincinnati official
y.
But oppon nt argue that the at­
large y tem of ting vot not
only i unfair but i unconstitutional
and violates the federal Voting
Right Act.
The two ides arc be ore U.S. Di -
trier ourt Jud e Herman Weber.
who i hearing the trial of a law uit
filed by 15 Black voters challenging
the "9X" method. The trial began
Monday.
The uit ontends that white.
who make up 66 percent of the city's
voting-age population are abl to
deny Bla ks fair repr entation on
the nine-member coun il.
orne opponents of at-large v t-
10 -10 which all voters citywide
cast ballots for up to nine candi­
date - want nine voting di triets t
he draw n to ere ure that Blac will
be the majority in at least three di -
tn ·t\.
was elected to one t rm of City
Co uneil in 1 ti led
-the·l 5 Me"tftd'lJ'lft'_lh!I!ltIeI .. ht:'��!:::
ity ide
able to whit ears about her po rn-
cal mentor, Theodore Berry.
Berry. who i BI k, was el ted
to council five times tarting in 1949.
In 1955, he was the econd-leadi ng
vote-getter.
"He was een as the primary role
model ... for Bla k! in thi commu­
nity," Mrs. Spen er aid.
In proportional repre entation,
voters rank ni ne choices in rder of
preference. Referenda to do away
with it failed in 1936. 1939, 1947 and
1954,
But by 1957 a U.S. Supreme
Court deci ion forcing hool i nte­
ration and rumors that Berry WC:iS
moving Blacks into white nei hbor­
hoods tum d the tide, MIS. S ncer
aid,
"The 9X (at-large) y tem was
adopted to maintai n and as ure a di -
criminatory y tern.' said Robert
Montgomery Jr., an attorney for the
plai ntiff. .
OTHE eumula-
tiv votin y.tem in which 'each
voter get ni n vote, which may all
be l.:' t for one candidate if the voter
wi h . The pu lic rejected that pro­
po al 4-to-1 in the May election.
Weber i hearing the e without
a jury, If he rule in favor of the
challengers, he w uld ehedule a
econd ph e t come up with a le-
gally acceptable plan. .
One longtime political activi t
testifi d Monday that the propor­
tional rcprc cntauun ,y tern that
mcmnan used from 1 (2 t 1 ( 57
was wcpt out by tearful. ra e- 'on­
, i u, voters.
"It was the gener I atmo pherc f
the country at the time," Marian
p nee: t Id We er. "Race b came
a f .tor, and It became a maj r fa '­
tor. ..
MR., PE ER, wh I BI k,
North Carolina, 1918
Mob leaders
go to prison
R Iizin l that If a lyncher i per­
mitted to remain unpuni h d in th
de .cncy f the ommunity is really
cndan ered Judge B.F, Long f th
up rior Court enten ed fifteen
white men indi ted for participation
in a ri tin Winston- alern, Nov. 17,
to erve from fourt n months to ix
JAM ARTIlY, an i-
tant ity. Ii itor repre enti ng Cin­
ci nnati, aid the 1957 referendum
followed a 1 55 general electi n in
which a record 11,717 ballots had
been d larcd invalid.
The at-large sy tern was upheld
y the Ohio Supreme C urt when it
wa adopted and .. vidcn e will
.h w that 9, IS Ic zal," M arthy
. ald.
He dl, putcd Mrs. Spen r' con­
tention that .c was an i ue Citing
new, paper account 10 which 10 I
pouticiaru p iinted tv other facto
f r the d feat of proporti nal repre­
sent tion.
M " Spencer aid politician of
that ra wen hesitant to di cuss ra­
cial i u .
"We didn't put that In pnnt in
th (day," he aid,
Blac make up 38 percent of the
city' 3 r rc id nt..
Two member or the curr nt
years in pri n. The men were found
uilty of auernpung to lynch R� �II
High. prisoner in the city jail.
The fifte n men were a part 0 a
m b that for a night nd m min'
t rronz d Wiru ton-Sal m, and m
their cf on to lynch a Bla k man,
Inn . nt f the crime of a . ault for
" hi 11 h had b n arr ted on u PI­
cion. put life and property in p nl and
In ndentally kiJl d four people, n a
Iittl "hi t
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