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White "blacklash," the reaction by Northern whites against the demands of American Negroes, does not really exist in America, Thomas F. Pettigrew, associate professor of Social Relations, said yesterday...
...term, Pettigrew said, is the product of false interpretation by journalists of certain election results and public opinion polls. He said the confusion is caused by the failure of newsmen to use adequate control situations in interpreting the data. As a result, unwarranted importance is ascribed to such events as the political showing of Alabama Governor George Wallace in Northern primaries this year or the Boston school committee elections of November...
What really happened in these and other situations, Pettigrew maintained, can better be described as an "our-from-under-the-rocks" phenomenon. Anti-Negro candidates for political office in the North often succeed, at least for a time, is attracting to the polls many otherwise "apathetic, alienated, authoritarian, or uninformed" citizens who ordinarily do not vote. This phenomenon is a polarization of existing attitudes, rather than a sudden change as is implied by the term "backlash...
Before the march CRCC held a rally in the Common, attended by a disappointingly small crowd of about 250. Thomas Pettigrew, associate professor of Social Relations and honorary chairman of the march (introduced as "the Harvard civil rights professor"), attacked the "delay and deceit" in enforcing the 1954 Court decision...
Thomas F. Pettigrew, associate professor of Social Relations, and honorary chairman of the program, will deliver a short address. Also at the rally will be Martin L. Kilson, Jr., lecturer on Government; Richard D. Mann, assistant professor of Social Psychology; and Nadav Safran, assistant professor of Government...