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Thomas F. Pettigrew, assistant professor of Social Psychology, a White House conference Tuesday that segregated becoming more entrenched in both the North and the South. In a paper prepared for President Johnson's Conference on Pettigrew charged that "many Southern cities are openly striving to emulate the Northern de facto segregation...
...increasingly segregated housing patterns have combined with policy of neighborhood schools to foster segregated education on centers throughout the country, Pettigrew declared. "As segregation of schools slow- de facto segregation by increasing," he said...
...Pettigrew pointed out yesterday that members of the Harvard administration have "strained themselves to go out and get Negroes for the faculty." But before a Negro reaches the level of the Harvard faculty, there are so many places where discrimination could have cut him down already, he explained...
Faculty members of Negro universities must teach five or six courses a term, Pettigrew observed, and have no time to publish, and thereby advance in their profession...
...committee for which Pettigrew works plans to try "all various ways of intervention" to break this cycle. Next summer, it hopes to send integrated teams of psychologists to southern Negro schools to explain to the students how to get into a northern university. It also hopes to bring faculty members of the southern Negro schools north during their sabbaticals, to give them time to write and to think...