A Summary of Arkansas Laws Dealing with Integration 3

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Collection:: Land of (Unequal) Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas
Title:: A Summary of Arkansas Laws Dealing with Integration 3
Publisher:: Fayetteville, Ark. : University of Arkansas Libraries
Date of Original:: 1959
Subject:: African Americans--Arkansas
Civil rights--Arkansas
Race discrimination--Arkansas
Segregation--Arkansas
Location:: United States, Arkansas, 34.75037, -92.50044
Medium:: summaries
Type:: Text
Format:: application/pdf
Description:: Summary of Arkansas laws that impact public education integration in the state through 1960.
Integration -- Desegregation -- Civil Rights -- African-Americans -- Blacks -- Little Rock (Ark.) -- Laws -- Little Rock -- Pulaski
- 3 - ACT 275 of 1959 Authorizes the school districts to cbnt^act' for gone or more years with another district establishing basis for reImbursement by one district to the other for services to pupils who live in the paying district but attend school In the other; paying district may borrow or propose millage to pay for services; funds may be used for facilities, services, supplies, and equipment by servicing district. State Education Board required to approve contracts before funds transferred. ACT 358 of 1959 Appropriates $100,000 from the Public School Fund for use of State Board of Education to assist school districts in defraying costs of litigation. ACT 4 of Extraordinary Session of 1958 Empowers the Governor to close public schools under specified conditions. This was ruled constitutional by the Arkansas Supreme Court; but was ruled unconsitutional by the U. S. District Court. No appeal to the U. S, Supreme Court has been filed. (7-1-59) ACT 466 of 1959 Provides for returning to school district wherein schools were closed by Governor funds withheld under ACT 5 of 1958 which have not been paid over to other schools. ACT 337 of 1959 Appropriates from the Public School Fund $65,000 to the Pulaski County Rural School District and $5,000 to the Hazen School District. ACT 300 of 1959 Prohibits anyon e communicating a threat or a warning of a bomb scare to any person or institution, unless there are reasonable grounds for believing real danger exists. Fine $1,000 to $5,000 or imprisonment for five years or both. ACT 10 of 1958 Teacher affidavit law. This v/as ruled constitutional by the U. S. District Court in a case filed by a Negro teacher". On June 30, 1959 the Arkansas Supreme Court refused to grant a temporary injunction against enforcement of ACT 10; - The ruling being issued in a case filed for an instructor at the University of Arkansas and an instructor at Central High School. Provides every teacher, superintendent and principal employed by schools supported even in part by public funds must file an affidavit as to membership in or contributions to every organization within last five years. ACT 115 of 1959 Made it unlawful for any school district to employ any member of the NAACP. This was ruled unconstitut1onal by the U. S. District Court.
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