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Civil rights and race relations materials, 1957-1964

What You Can Do About Racial Prejudice In Housing Page 16

reading "This House NOT For Sale" have been used in several communities to ward off the onslaught of speculators, and to provide visible assurance that community stability was no threatened.
Negroes in the North make up only about five percent of the total population.[9] If there were no such thing as housing segregation, they would be free to disperse themselves generally throughout the country. No single community would then have to fear an inundation. The greater the number of fully integrated residential communities there are, the more probable it becomes that Negro and white families will attain a proportionate balance in housing.
Only a relatively few Negro families can afford housing in today's suburbia, so the fears of inundation so often expressed by suburban home owners are without much foundation. Despite the Negro's improved financial standing in recent years, only a fraction possess that combination of affluence and daring required to "break into" an area where Negroes risk both investment and family happiness in perhaps hostile surroundings.
Thus the fear that the arrival of a few Negro families signals the rapid transition of an all-white area to one that is all-Negro is greatly exaggerated--provided that the white residents of that neighborhood do not allow themselves to be stampeded out of their good senses.
Q: Doesn't the arrival of Negro families lower educational standards in our schools?
This often-asked question is based on two assumptions. One is dead wrong. The other is only partly true--and then only for a limited time.
The first assumption is that Negro children have lower basic intelligence than white children. This is hogwash. There is absolutely no measurable difference in innate intelligence or basic ability between whites and Negroes. This has been amply tested and proved many times by many scientists.
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reading "This House NOT For Sale" have been used in several communities to ward off the onslaught of speculators, and to provide visible assurance that community stability was no threatened. Negroes in the North make up only about five percent of the total population.[9] If there were no such thing as housing segregation, they would be free to disperse themselves generally throughout the country. No single community would then have to fear an inundation. The greater the number of fully integrated residential communities there are, the more probable it becomes that Negro and white families will attain a proportionate balance in housing. Only a relatively few Negro families can afford housing in today's suburbia, so the fears of inundation so often expressed by suburban home owners are without much foundation. Despite the Negro's improved financial standing in recent years, only a fraction possess that combination of affluence and daring required to "break into" an area where Negroes risk both investment and family happiness in perhaps hostile surroundings. Thus the fear that the arrival of a few Negro families signals the rapid transition of an all-white area to one that is all-Negro is greatly exaggerated--provided that the white residents of that neighborhood do not allow themselves to be stampeded out of their good senses. Q: Doesn't the arrival of Negro families lower educational standards in our schools? This often-asked question is based on two assumptions. One is dead wrong. The other is only partly true--and then only for a limited time. The first assumption is that Negro children have lower basic intelligence than white children. This is hogwash. There is absolutely no measurable difference in innate intelligence or basic ability between whites and Negroes. This has been amply tested and proved many times by many scientists. 16