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...widespread support for Boston School Committeewoman Mrs. Louise Day Hicks is the result of a vague popular resentment toward "unsettling change," not of outright racial bigotry, according to a study conducted by Thomas F. Pettigrew, professor of Social Psychology...
Thomas F. Pettigrew, associate professor of Social Psychology, has been appointed Social Science Consultant to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights...
...Pettigrew will be chief advisor for a study begun by the Commission in January in answer to the President's call for "a study of racial isolation. its causes and effects." The study will survey problems in de facto school desegregation throughout the country...
...Pettigrew, author of Profile of the Negro American, is particularly concerned with the role of suburbia in desegregation, which he termed "the white noose about the Negro neck...
...Pettigrew was invited in January to head the study. He declined, however, because this meant that he would have to leave Harvard. While Pettigrew will have to spend a good part of the summer in Washington working on the study, and currently commutes to the Capital once or twice a week, he will still teach three courses here next year...