Ninety per cent of the members of the State Legislature from Brooklyn have pledged their support to legislation which would deprive colleges exercising “quota systems” in their registration from enjoying the benefits of tax exemption, according to Samuel S. Leibowitz, president of the Brooklyn Jewish Democracy, Inc.
At the same time, Leibowitz announced that the organization, at a meeting Tuesday night, had adopted a resolution calling upon the legislative body to amend the tax law so as to take away from non-sectarian educational institutions the privileges of tax exemption if they restrict registration, according to race, color or creed.
TEXT OF RESOLUTION
The resolution follows:
“Resolved that the tax law of the State of New York be amended as follows: “That no educational institution that holds itself out to the public to be non-sectarian shall be entitled to the privilege of tax exemption on its real and personal property if it bars any applicant for admission to such institutions by reason of the said applicant’s race, color or creed.’ “
LISTS BACKERS OF MOVE
Named by Leibowitz as supporters were: Assemblyman Ralph Schwartz,-Julius Helfand, Albert D. Schanzer, William C. McCreery, Charles H. Breitbart, Edward J. Coughlin, Bernard J. Moran, Thomas G. Lore, Irwin Steingut and the following State Senators: Jere F. Twomey, Charles McConnell, Jacob J. Schwartzwald and Joseph A. Esquirol.
Leibowitz described the movement as a “fair, decent, law-abiding and American way” to “once and for all” eliminate racial prejudice from the higher institutions of learning.
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