Word: segregationism
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* In Boston there is no de facto segregation and thus no racial issue.
* Even if there were segregation, it would not be the responsibility of the School Committee to fight it.
These assumptions and the facts disagree. De facto segregation does exist in Boston. Many elementary schools are over 80 per cent Negro. Several exceed 95 per cent.
James Farmer, national director of the Congress of Racial Equality, was integrationists' spokesman in the debate, held at Haverford College as part of a three-day civil rights conference sponsored by Bryan Mawr and Haverford. James J. Kilpatrick, editor of the Richmond Newsleader, argued the case of segregation.
Kilpatrick held that Negroes are inherently inferior to whites, and have contributed nothing to Western culture. "Integration is wrong and should be actively opposed in situations that would lead to marriage." Author of The Southern Case for School Segregation, Kilpatrick said that there should be integrated schools only for especially...