STATEMENT FROM CERTAIN TEENAGERS IN RULEVILLE MISSISSIPPI


Statement from oertain teen-agero in Kulevilie Mississippi
Problems in ^isaiasippi
-(1) Negro Children in Mississippi don't have any recreation.
(2J No joba for the Negro high school graduates©
(3) We are born in Miesiseipii and can't get jobe.
(4) Police protection
(5) White citizens ruls the town.
There is a necessity to communicate with the whites
trv/J
control of the economic etructure
the Constitution
is getting the older peeple to vote,
can put soiceone in oft ice who
people.
a state you are a citisen;
lawe
away your right to vote
The White xr.an is in
Police ehould etudy
Freedom of religion
Freedom of epeech
Freedom of assembly
Freedom of Press
The young people's job in Mississippi
When the old people etart voting they
will provide economic welfare for the
(13) Summare of 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments
Amendment to abolieh slavery
Amendment eaying that if you are born within
no etate can take away the protection of the
Amendment 15 says that no person should take
and no State can take away your right to vote.
Probleae in School
(1) Wee need more activitiee
new books
better library
free lunch program
we aaat to know where the money goee that we raise every year.
we are paying funds for school uses
we raise approximately $2,000 every year axxd don't know where it goee.
If ycu don't bring the money to She class they ask you to go out in the
etreet.
It eeema very clear wr.at the authorities of our school are intereeted in.
(10) When things go wrong at school things that the principal ie aoaa to do
hiaself, he calls the police in.
The teacnera will force ycu to do thinge.
Students tnat work in school should be paid, m Much of the Janitor's
work is done for free. What he does and how aueh he gets paid are aleo
important questions.
We buy and furnish the thinge in the lounge, but we can't use it.
We fataish the Homemaking department with ite gooda.
The teachers a Si ths smaller chaldron sadly.  Then are 70 people in the
high school Aglehrn class.  The 12th grade English claes has not |onw
beyond concentaation on grammar.
16) The teachere will net explain thinge to the etudente.
171 One of the eoiutlone to these problems might be s etudent government.
'18j Why ie the echool run by all white.
,19) If having a good education or good experiences means getting with the
whitee then that is what we want.
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