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...Christian churches are failing in race relations, but none so enormously as our Episcopal Church," Thomas F. Pettigrew, associate professor of Social Psychology, told 120 Episcopalians last night...
Speaking at Christ Church's midwinter dinner, Pettigrew stressed the dilemma within the Church. Rectors who support the Church integrationist idelogy, he said, risk losing money and members. If they moderate their positiins, however, they sacrifice ideals, he added...
Studies in social psychology have shown. Pettigrew said, that work performance is at its maximum when the learning situation is as nearly similar to the performing situation as possible. With the enactment of the Civil Rights Act and the Employment Act, both Negroes and whites will have to perform well in an interracial situation...
This means, Pettigrew said, that it is in the best interests of both racial groups to educate students in a balanced school system--one in which 20-45 per cent of the student body consists of Negroes...
Although the Springfield decision may be appealed to a higher court, "odds are that it will stand," Pettigrew said. "So far, the Supreme Court has refused to hear any cases concerning do facto segregation--no matter which way they have gone. I think they are waiting for the case to settle itself in the lower courts...