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October 20, 1972
Mr. Roland Jones
Board of Education
P. O. Box 149
Charlotte, North Carolina
Dear sin
I have reviewed with great care the school systems
current Suspension and Exclusion from attendance policies and
wish to raise the following points of objection.
The policy fails to provide due process for a student
before a sentence is executed against him. Under your guidelines
due process refers only to a students right to get back into
school once he has been suspended or excluded. It is possible,
currently, for a principal to wrongfully suspend a student for
two or three days; exclude a student from his school bus(as has
happened at Wilson Junior High); put the student on probation or
even use corporal punishment, and later at a conference find that
the student was innocent of the charges against him. Your policy,
therefore, errors too much in favor of the rights of the institution as opposed to those of the individual.
We in the NAACP support, and urge that you adopt, a
policy underwhich no denial of educational opportunity, or abridgment of a students rights takes place until a fair and impartial
hearing on the charges against a student has been held. We
further urge that no sentence be executed until a student has
been informed of his right to appeal and has decided if he will
use it.
Our basic objection is to a system that makes one man,
the principal, both judge, jury and executioner. It is written,
"Power corrupts; Absolute power corrupts absolutely." It is too
much to ask a principal to be both Solomon and an administrator.
Object Description
| Title | Charlotte-Mecklenburg County School System background info |
| Series | Series 2, NAACP, Charlotte |
| Subseries | Subseries 5, Programs |
| Sub-subseries | Sub-subseries 3, Education |
| Digital Collection | Kelly Alexander, Sr. papers concerning the NAACP, 1948-1998 |
| Creator | Alexander, Kelly M. |
| Date Created | 1972-1973, 1993 |
| Series Description | This series contains material related to the work of the NAACP in Charlotte, North Carolina and the Alexander family's involvement in the organization over the course of several decades. There is a wide variety of topics covered in the documents, including voting discrimination; the Freedom Fund; Youth Council activities; and correspondence with notable figures throughout the Charlotte area, including Alfred Alexander and Julius Chambers. |
| Collection Description | This collection documents the activities of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), with an emphasis on the work and correspondence of Kelly Alexander, Sr. and his sons Kelly Alexander, Jr. and Alfred Alexander in Charlotte, North Carolina. The collection contains minutes, correspondence, reports, speeches, press releases, membership records, and a few photographs. Topics covered include school segregation, housing and employment discrimination, police misconduct, and the Charlotte Area Fund. |
| Subjects--Names |
Alexander, Kelly M. Alexander, Kelly M., Jr., 1948- Alexander, Alfred L., 1952- |
| Subjects--Organizations |
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charlotte Branch. |
| Subjects--Topics |
African Americans--North Carolina--Charlotte African Americans--Civil rights--North Carolina African Americans--Political activity--North Carolina--Charlotte Civil rights movements--North Carolina--Charlotte Civil rights workers--North Carolina--Charlotte African Americans--Housing--North Carolina--Charlotte Racism--Political aspects--North Carolina--Charlotte Race discrimination--North Carolina--Charlotte Police brutality--North Carolina--Charlotte Police misconduct--North Carolina--Charlotte |
| Subjects--Locations |
Charlotte (N.C.)--Race relations--History--20th century Charlotte (N.C.)--Politics and government--20th century |
| Coverage--Place |
Charlotte (N.C.) Mecklenburg County (N.C.) |
| Box Number | 10 |
| Folder Number | 52 |
| Language | eng |
| Object Type | Text |
| Digital Format | Displayed as .jp2, uploaded as .tif |
| Genre | manuscripts (document genre) |
| Finding Aid | https://findingaids.uncc.edu/repositories/4/resources/701 |
| Original Collection | Kelly Alexander, Sr. papers concerning the NAACP |
| Digital Collection Home Page | http://digitalcollections.uncc.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/p16033coll20 |
| Repository | J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) |
| Digital Publisher | J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) |
| Rights | These materials are made available for use in research, teaching and private study. The digital reproductions have been made available through an evaluation of public domain status, permissions from the rights' holders, and authorization under the law including fair use as codified in 17 U.S.C. section 107. Although these materials are publicly accessible for these limited purposes, they may not all be in the public domain. Users are responsible for determining if permission for re-use is necessary and for obtaining such permission. Individuals who have concerns about online access to specific content should contact J. Murrey Atkins Library. |
| Location of Original | J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) |
| Grant Information | Digitization made possible by funding from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources. |
| Identifier | naacp-ms508-0210052 |
| Date Digitized | 2016-03-08 |
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| Title | naacp-ms508-0210052-56 |
| OCR Transcript | October 20, 1972 Mr. Roland Jones Board of Education P. O. Box 149 Charlotte, North Carolina Dear sin I have reviewed with great care the school systems current Suspension and Exclusion from attendance policies and wish to raise the following points of objection. The policy fails to provide due process for a student before a sentence is executed against him. Under your guidelines due process refers only to a students right to get back into school once he has been suspended or excluded. It is possible, currently, for a principal to wrongfully suspend a student for two or three days; exclude a student from his school bus(as has happened at Wilson Junior High); put the student on probation or even use corporal punishment, and later at a conference find that the student was innocent of the charges against him. Your policy, therefore, errors too much in favor of the rights of the institution as opposed to those of the individual. We in the NAACP support, and urge that you adopt, a policy underwhich no denial of educational opportunity, or abridgment of a students rights takes place until a fair and impartial hearing on the charges against a student has been held. We further urge that no sentence be executed until a student has been informed of his right to appeal and has decided if he will use it. Our basic objection is to a system that makes one man, the principal, both judge, jury and executioner. It is written, "Power corrupts; Absolute power corrupts absolutely." It is too much to ask a principal to be both Solomon and an administrator. |
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