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Broadway lags. Pickets last year paraded outside How to Succeed and Subways Are for Sleeping because there were no Negroes in either cast. Now David Merrick, who produced Subways, is putting token Negroes into his new productions, 110 in the Shade (one Negro in the chorus) and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (three Negro bit parts). There were only 20 shows in all of Broadway and off Broadway last season in which parts were filled by Negroes when whites could have done the job. The number of Negroes in these so-called integrated roles has not significantly...
...Republican Governor of the state of Mississippi? There has been no such thing since 1876, when one Adelbert Ames resigned under fire in his Reconstruction regime. In most elections since then the G.O.P. has either put up no candidate or furnished merely token opposition. About all the winner of a Democratic gubernatorial primary had to do was clear his throat and start polishing his inaugural speech...
...facto school segregation. Chicago's board insisted that something had to be done about the problem. The egotistic Willis refused to admit that there was any problem. He ignored board orders to speed up the transfer of bright students of both races, even though this was only a token move toward a better balance. Parents took Willis to court, and last week the court ruled against him. Willis quit, claiming: "I can no longer discharge my responsibilities since the present practice is counter to all the fundamentals of good board-staff relationships in public education...
...Chief among them is the segregation that still thrives within the church de spite a striking increase in sermons on integration since the January conference in Chicago. Most Southern Protestant churches are rigidly segregated, and dozens of Southern Baptist and Methodist ministers have lost their pulpits for attempting even token integration. In theory, few Northern churches are closed to Negro membership, yet because of segregated housing, most parishes have at best only limited, "back-pew" integration. "Our Sunday schools are about ten years behind the public schools in integration," complains the Rev. Richard Cain, superintendent of Los Angeles' Methodist...
...Speaking the Truth." Four Alabama cities-Tuskegee, Mobile, Birmingham and Huntsville-were scheduled to start token public school integration. Even Birmingham, long a national symbol of diehard segregationist sentiment, now seemed resigned. "Few of us are happy," wrote the Birmingham Post-Herald, "but we trust that the people of Alabama will face up to their court-ordered responsibilities with a good grace and without violence." Said the Birmingham News: "Our school officials have looked at the problem from every angle. They are speaking the truth: there's nothing to do but keep schools open and do what the courts...