Word: unpreparedness
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The Civil War brought the Negro his "emancipation," and Reconstruction gave him an intoxicating power in Southern state legislatures that he was totally unprepared to exercise responsibly (Negroes outnumbered whites in the South Carolina legislature in 1868). Easily led by the Northern white carpetbagger, the Negro lawmakers, like those in...
Schroder handed the witness some of Burnett's notes. The very first entry referred to "Bear" Bryant. "Butts never called me Bear," said Bear scornfully."He always called me Paul." As for the notation that Butts had reported Georgia to be "a well-disciplined ball club," Bryant was equally...
Spineless leadership left Ole Miss students unprepared for an orderly transition to integration. As early as last November, the Alabama board of trustees went firmly on record: "This board will not condone, and will take such measures as it may deem necessary to prevent, violence, riot and disorder." Similar no...
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...
"We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God," he said. "Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over life and death of the whole world of all living things. Having taken God-like power, we must seek in ourselves for the responsibility and the wisdom we...