Photo from the May 1960 edition of The Call

In 1960, the Georgia State Legislature established the Sibley School Study Commission to gauge public feeling towards public school integration. 

Irving Gordon, representing the Workers Circle branches in Atlanta,  presented a statement to the Sibley School Study Commission opposing segregation in schooling and any abolishment of public schools to try and get around the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision that required public schools be desegregated. 

The Workers Circle’s statement called for “all people of good will, who believe in the brotherhood of man and the principles of democracy, to join in keeping the public schools open for all children.” 

Today, the Workers Circle continues to push for racial justice as a part of all our social justice efforts. Check out our new racial justice page.