Word: pettigrew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thomas F. Pettigrew, associate professor of Social Relations, pointed out in addition that the court's action does not involve a "pure case." The Gary Complainants did not challenge the lower court's findings that racial imbalance in the schools did not result from any official policy of the school board...
Appearing with Gregory will be the Freedom Singers, made up of five SNCC field secretaries. Thomas F. Pettigrew, as associate professor of Social Relations, and Noel Day, chairman of the Boston School Stay-Out, are scheduled to make introductory remarks...
...Pettigrew is one of those people for whom interests, beliefs, and career dovetailed perfectly. He describes his decision to major in psychology quite simply: "I've always been interested in race relations, but I never realized that you could study them." Graduating in 1952, he came to Harvard to study under Gordon W. Allport, and earned his doctorate in 1956. After teaching for a year at the University of North Carolina, he returned to Cambridge, where he has remained ever since...
...medium height with a graying crewcut, Pettigrew could easily pass for a junior executive--that is, until he opens his mouth. He speaks in slang, spiced with psychological and sociological jargon. (Someone is "scared as shatters;" de facto segregation is the "functional equivalent" of legal segregation.) His Southern drawl, clipped short after 12 years in the North, can be turned on and off at will, but generally a distinct trace of it clings to his words...
Although he plans to remain in the North for the rest of his life, Pettigrew retains an almost organic closeness to the South. "It's a stigma I can't get rid of" he says, "but then again I don't really want to. I love the damned South. That's why I spend my life studying it, writing about it and speaking on it. I feel responsible for it--that's the reason I can dislike Wallace with a kind of feeling that I can't work up for Mrs. Hicks. I share the blame for Wallace...