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Thomas F. Pettigrew, associate professor of Social Psychology, called the literacy system "a serious handicap" to the would-be Negro voter. He predicted that "if the bill goes through, and is strictly enforced, we can expect a rise from 1.5 million to 3 million registered Negro voters in the South...
...Negro education was much lower. In 1950, Mississippi had a median of five years; at present the figure is between six and seven years, with the elderly Negro group holding the median down. Not greatly affected by the bill, this elderly group is an unimportant target anyway, explained Pettigrew, because "it is a product of the lynching period and not very disposed to vote...
...following appointments have been recently announced: Dr. Benjamin Castleman, professor of Pathology; John Dearden, C. Wickham Skinner, Arthur N. Turner, and Paul A. Vatter, associate professors of Business Administration; Walter Mischel and Thomas F. Pettigrew, lecturers in Psychology; John D. Baldeachwieler and Richard H. Holm, assistant professors of Chemistry. Also, William H. Bond, lecturer on Bibliography; Howard Ulfedler, Joe Vincent Meigs Professor of Gynecology; James Vorenberg '48, professor of Law; Philip J. McNiff, Archibald Cary Coolidge Biographer; and Eric G. Ball, Edward S. Wood Professor of Biological Chemistry...
Thomas F. Pettigrew, assistant professor of Social Psychology, contended that there has been significant intangible progress, however. He mentioned the anti-discrimination planks in the platforms of both political parties as evidence for this view...
...wall of hatred between children from the town and the mill villages. Scripture-quoting West Virginia-born Boyd Payton, 51, Textile Workers' director for the Carolinas, keeps his remarkably loyal Bible-belt flock together with reminders of the old Confederate heritage, likens the strikers to "those who followed Pettigrew, Fender and Pickett to the heights of Gettysburg...