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(MORNINGSIDE SCHOOL)
THE FORT WORTH SCHOOL BOARD HELD A SPECIAL MEETING LAST NIGHT IN AN ATTEMPT TO GET SONE ANSWERS ABOUT THE PROPOSED NEW HIGH SCHOOL IN THE PREDOMINATELY NEGRO MORNINGSIDE AREA. AND THINGS ARE JUST ABOUT AS THEY WERE BEFORE THE MEETING. AN ESTIMATED 35 PERSONS SHOWED UP, ABOUT HALF WERE FOR THE SCHOOL, ABOUT HALF AGAINST IT. THE SQUABBLE BEGAN WHEN THE BOARD ANNOUNCED PLANS FOR THE SCHOOL ND THE FORT WORTH CHAPTER OF THE N.A.A.C.P. SAID IT WOULD SUE THE BOARD CHARGING DEFACTO SEGREATION. Dr. Marion Brooks, speaking for the Neighborhood A ction, Inc., and the Tarrant County Precinct Workers Council said thi NAACP is out of step with the goals and thrusts of the black man. He said the school is needed and on the other side of
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