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...Crimson's editorial of October fourteenth is valuable for the light which it throws on the difficult situation of the 150-1b. crews. But it leaves the reader with a mistaken impression. The present confusion is not due to the HAA's "not seeing its way clear to end a clearly makeshift situation...
...Course. "The Constitution created a government dedicated to equal justice under law. The Fourteenth Amendment embodied and emphasised that ideal. State support of segregated schools through any arrangement, management, funds, or property cannot be squared with the Amendment's command that no state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws...
However, Mr. Whiteside observed, there have been great changes in American society since then, making such a turn against precedents desirable. Also, the fourteenth amendment now makes the Bill of Rights applicable on the state level. In 1954, in the Brown vs. Topeka School Board case, the Court ruled that segregation "materially impedes education" and in order to belie its precedent legislation gave testimony from sociologists which backed the Court's decision...
...fourteenth amendment says no inequality shall be based on race...
What Chance? And when his American Volunteer Group was absorbed into the U.S. Army as the Fourteenth Air Force, he continued to punish the Japs in the same old way. The bag was rich -928 planes, 345 probables, 482 damaged, 20,000 Nips strafed dead. But it wasn't the same. This wasn't a fight any more, but a rout...