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...minor items have been voted upon and approved. The unhappy history and uncertain future of the other reforms testify to fimn resistance from some quarter Whether the resistance originates with the Establishment described by Clark is uncertain. Opinions and pressure on a particular issue are especially difficult to trace when no major vote has been taken; and Clark's definition of the Establishment was ambiguous to begin with...
...Hicks' second assumption, that school authorities are not responsible for social integration, clearly contradicts the spirit of the 1954 Supreme Court decision. Further, most sociologists trace the origins of prejudice to the early school years, and the integration of elementary schools should be a first step for any city sincerely interested in inter-racial harmony and cooperation...
...Webster's says fossilized means "converted into a fossil," which is "any trace of an animal or plant preserved in the earth's crust...
...anyone who had a grandparent who was a Negro. The laws generally define such a person as "having one-eighth or more Negro blood" or as an "octoroon." The other definition of Negro is used in at least six states: a Negro is any person who has "any trace of Negro blood." The circularity of these statements does not seem to trouble the opponents of miscegenation...
...yearned for the moon and there we are, suddenly, left all alone, with life yawning ahead like a great black chasm . . . So we weep for two or three years more, very quietly, and then one day, too sick at heart, we die, with no fuss, leaving as little trace on earth as a bird's flight across...