Word: galphin
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...remaining two articles, Bruce M. Galphin's discussion of how Georgia desegregated peacefully, and Susan B. Schwartz '64's analysis of Negro voter registration in Raleigh, N.C., restore the generally high level. Galphin is a Nieman Fellow from the Atlanta Constitution, and devotes himself to a presentation and analysis of the concrete facts which he, as a journalist, had occasion to know rather well. Unlike Stone's piece, Galphin's article has more than local significance; Georgia stands almost alone among Deep Southern states in having accepted, however unwillingly, the principle of school integration without violence: perhaps it will...
...addition, the state this year reapportioned its Senate districts. As a result, a Negro was elected as one of seven Senators from Atlanta's Fulton County, the first Negro since 1908 to be elected to the state legislature. "It is interesting," noted Galphin, "that the Senate floor will be desegregated before the galleries...
...Galphin declared that the segregationist's cry that "legal decrees and court orders do not change the minds and hearts of men" is slowly being proven untrue, with such forces as the sit-ins stimulating a growing "social conscience" on the part of whites...
Although young Negroes have sometimes regarded the sit-ins as a panacea. Galphin said that the "sit-ins have had their effect in that the Negro will never again let segregation go unchallenged." The sit-ins have proved the bankruptcy of that white myth that "good Negroes really don't want integration," he stated...
Describing the experience of seeing the terrified expressions of the Negro children who attempted to enter a New Orleans school in the face of a hateful mob, Galphin said that he is convinced that such conscience-provoking incidents are having their effect in the "changing attitudes and behavior of the South...