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These spurious threats could remain unquestioned only because so few Negroes here can even imagine a time when segregation will end. In this sense Chestertown Negroes are unprepared for integration. They are small town Americans who have never received the local benefits which city people usually think of as a...

Author: By Paul S. Cowan, | Title: A Report on Integration In a Maryland Town: IV | 6/3/1963 | See Source »

Conditioned by 100 years of segregation and their prior history of slavery, Negroes here have naturally adapted themselves to the situation by creating their own world. It is a world as time-consuming as that of the white man, containing its own sets of peaks and troughs and daily routines...

Author: By Paul S. Cowan, | Title: A Report on Integration In a Maryland Town: IV | 6/3/1963 | See Source »

Although few Negroes in this town are well off, it would be wrong to formulate a direct equation between segregation and poverty. Many colored people here own nice suburban houses, and almost everyone has a car and a television set. For the past generation, at least concentrated on doing as...

Author: By Paul S. Cowan, | Title: A Report on Integration In a Maryland Town: III | 5/31/1963 | See Source »

As if the other legal decisions against Alabama segregation were not enough, a U.S. district court in Birmingham ruled that the University of Alabama must accept two Negro applicants for the beginning of the summer session starting June 10. One is a girl, Vivian J. Malone, 20, who plans to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: Off the Streets | 5/31/1963 | See Source »

Cash Backing. The United Presbyterian Church, whose membership of 3,277,787 is less than 5% Negro, has traditionally been opposed to racial segregation. This year the commissioners, as one of them said, "put their money where their mouth is." They unanimously voted to set up a commission on religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Presbyterians: Strong Stands | 5/31/1963 | See Source »

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