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...civil rights bill--a "Northern Force Bill" directed against de facto segregation--is urgently needed, Thomas F. Pettigrew, associate professor of Social Psychology, said in an interview Wednesday...
...Pettigrew suggested that a new civil rights act should carry "not just a stick, but a carrot," in the form of rewards for integration. He mentioned "balanced schools" as an example. If balanced schools offered special courses that students could not take at other schools, parents would recognize the advantages of the system, and the stability of balanced schools might increase, he predicted...
...There is a point at which pastoral norms of saving the flock must be abandoned," Pettigrew concluded. "The Church must be prepared to lose money and members, and to be ridiculed by the press...
...Pettigrew, himself an Episcopalian, noted his Church was going to an extreme in promoting "the counter ideology" of moderation. "There are not many racists in the Episcopal Church," he said. "That is not its problem. The problem is the prevailing assumption that the Church should be a bastion between dangerous extremists--racists and impatient integrationists." What the Church needs, Pettigrew suggested, is direct social action. Interracial barriers can be broken down only if Negro families are invited into all-white parishes, he maintained. The Episcopal and other churches should not wait until a consensus of opinion favors variations from...
Most Episcopalians, Pettigrew said, are white, middle-class, and suburban. Therefore they tend to separate themselves from people of different race and background...