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...Ole Miss...
Your story "Ole Miss: Echoes of a Civil War's Last Battle" [Oct. 4] reflected the feelings of many Southerners. We are proud of our heritage. While prejudice may still pervade our society, hard-core hatred is rare. Today, young blacks and whites play together oblivious of skin differences. With the next generation, perhaps even more of our problems will be solved...
...Water Valley, Miss., attracted attention before the first football game of this season when he announced he would not carry the Confederate flag on the field. His wishes were understood by both the administration and many of the students. Hawkins, as well as Steve Sloan, the fine young Ole Miss football coach, favors a modified Rebel flag with "Ole Miss" or "U.M." superimposed on the venerable Stars and Bars. This proposal is gaining wide favor. As for Dixie, the Ole Miss band, which has many black performers, has perfected a number, called From Dixie with Love, that is a stirring...
...takes place here, for Mississippi has always been the crucible of the national guilt. Much remains to be accomplished, although there is a tolerance of independent expression in Mississippi now that does its own deepest traditions proud. With the flourishing of that tolerance, the young whites and blacks of Ole Miss have more in common than they may for the moment think. They spring mutually from a traditional order and, more than any other young Americans, they know how to make a story and spin a tale. Public high school graduating classes last spring were the first in which whites...
Allison Brown, daughter of an old white Mississippi family, honor student, campus beauty and editor of the Meredith issue of the Ole Miss magazine, has written for her editorial: "We are of a generation in Mississippi who knows firsthand that blacks and whites can actually work together, grow up together, and share common experiences. Even at Ole Miss, where tradition hangs on until the very last thread, much progress has been made . . . Our generation can do something about it. We can work toward the inevitable changes that will make Ole Miss a better place for people of all races...