Herblock on Private Schools to Avoid Integration

"If the government doesn't support separate-but-equal schools for our children, it's guilty of discrimination!"
February 12, 1963

Commenting on white parents who sent their children to private school to avoid integration, Herb Block wrote in Straight Herblock, "I'll get in there and pitch for any child who is being denied schooling, whatever his race, color or religion. But when a public school is open and parents choose to send their children to a private school instead, I don't see how those children are being denied an education or denied any rights. And it seems ironic indeed that some people in effect feel discriminated against for lack of government-supported separate-but-equal religious schools, when real victims of discrimination have finally won recognition of the fact that schools which are separate are not equal."

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