Document Type
Newsletter
Publication Year
1957
Excerpt
When canvassing for prospects, the principal of a Lutheran day school in Chicago would at times find Negroes who were desirous of enrolling their children. And some Lutheran Negro parents of a neighboring Lutheran parish requested that their children be enrolled. According to the principal, however, all Negro children were refused enrollment. Repeatedly he brought the matter to the throne of God in prayer. He tried with persistency to get the school authorities to change their policy of racial exclusiveness. Finally, toward the close of the past school year, he announced his resignation as effective at the end of the school term. It was contrary to his conscience, he said, to teach the love of Christ for all and then to work in the same school under a policy that was in opposition to such teaching.
Recommended Citation
Lutheran Human Relations Association of America, "The Vanguard (Vol. 4, No. 6), July 1957" (1957). The Vanguard. 18.
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