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...Thomas Pettigrew, assistant professor of Social Psychology, stated last night that violence over integration was a rational...
...meeting of the Social Relations Society, Pettigrew said that the findings of his three week field trip to Little Rock indicated that violence arose only when the possibility of definite action to prevent integration might be taken. He asserted that Governor Faubus had given the people hope that such definite steps could be taken. Violence based upon definite expectation is a rational...
...Pettigrew recognized two active types of segregationists--the "violence if necessary" and the "business as usual". He found that the first group, composed of the lower class, would resort to violence because they had neither reputation nor property to lose. The second group would not resort to violence because coming from the upper class, they could lose both...
...Pettigrew, working under the auspices of the Laboratory of Social Relations, has been directing a socio-psychological survey in Little Rock for three weeks...
Something sensational may develop from certain aspects of the Little Rock problem not covered by the news agencies," according to Thomas F. Pettigrew, teaching fellow in Social Relations...