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H ig h la n d C o m m u n ity C e n te r
Racial Injustice at Jackson High School
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the door and chat hewasn'tgo-
Ing to pay fo r her glasses.
Frank Montgomery, friend
to Debbie, appeared on the
scene to ask what had hap
pened. The incident could not
be settled in the hall, so, ac
cording to Cumley, he asked
Montgomery to come to the ot-
fice with him. Montgomery
refused. Cumley then asked
fo r his name and received no
answer. He asked Montgomery
once again to accompany him
to the office, ami Montgomery
replied, "N o chance."
M iss Balsh, another teach
e r, overheard the conversa
tion and told Frank to go to the
office or he would be in wo i se
trouble. Meanwhile, no one
had checked to see if Debbie
Smith was injured in any way.
Montgomery proceeded to
the west unit office with many
of the brothers and s is te rfo l
lowing him. Cumley beckoned
Frank to follow him into the
electronics room because, he
said, he wanted " to avoid fr ic
tio n " in the halls. Montgom
ery feared he would be at
tacked by Cumley and would
not follow, but proceeded to
the office.
When questioned about this,
Cumley said, "T h e thing that
bothers me most is that people
implied there was some devil
ish reason to go to th e elec
tronics room.”
When both fin a lly reached
the office, Montgomery was
accused of swearing by Cum
ley. M r . Hildreth then sus
pended F rank on cha rges of in
subordination fo r not follow ing
Cumley into the electronics
room.
Montgomery went home and
returned to school with his
mother. A conference w a s
held discussing and resolving
some of the day’ s events. H il
dreth concluded that he had to
take the teacher’ s side in such
m atters.
Cumley said he would pay
fo r Debbie Smith’ s "lousy
glasses.*' He later defended
himself by saying that the ten
sion was present all d a y in tf»
halls, and that he was begin
ning to feel it, too. He said,
" I t was an unwise thing to say
about the'lousyglasses',’ ’ but
he wanted to end the troubles.
Of the incident, he said, " I
wasn't even given a chance, I
was just attacked right away."
The black students’ com
ments were:
"W e can’ t get a f a ir shake
here.”
"T hey always take the white
people’ s side.”
During the conference, the
whites involved were allowed
to call witnesses and dis
cuss in groups; the blacks
were asked to appear one by
one with no witnesses, only
participants allowed.
Black students at Jackson
feel that the administration is
giving preferential treatment,
not only in discipline prob
lems, hut in academics too.
Some students are appar
ently unaware that they lack
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blacks fo r nearly all white
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