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Fears & Illusions. All these changes stir deep fears and emotions. Negroes, demanding more than token integration, have lately attacked de facto segregation by street-marching protests in Los Angeles and Philadelphia, "study-ins" at the white schools of Englewood, N.J., sit-ins at the boards of education of New York and Chicago. Whites envision their neighborhood schools being flooded with poorly prepared Negro pupils, or their own children being forced to "integrate" Negro slum schools. A feeling of "discrimination against the majority" has sparked reactions like that of white parents in Montclair, N.J., who filed a federal suit under...
...Constitution provides that during a session of Congress neither house may "adjourn for more than three days." Last week, accordingly, both houses went through the motion of meeting a couple of times. One token meeting of the Senate, with two members present, lasted just three seconds - a speed rec ord of sorts. The week's performance, which included a July 4th holiday, might stand as a symbol of the 88th Congress - the do-nothingest of modern times...
...local police were warned by a story in a Baltimore newspaper of the integration attempt, the demonstrators attempted to outflank the police by sending a token party to the front gate and deploying the main force to side and rear entrances...
...seven years, no Negro followed Autherine Lucy to the University of Alabama. One by one, the states of the South submitted to at least token school integration-until Alabama stood as the only state in the nation without a single Negro attending a state-supported school with white students...
...said, "but law alone cannot make men see right. We are confronted primarily with a moral issue ... a moral crisis as a country and a people. It cannot be met by repressive police action. It cannot be left to increased demonstrations in the streets. It cannot be quieted by token moves or talk. It is a time to act in the Congress, in your state and local legislative body, and, above all, in all of our daily lives...