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SEGREGATION: The Positions Harden
From: The Christian Science Monitor

The South is having to come to grips with the
implications of the Supreme Courts epocha decision
removing constitutional sanctions from legally required
racial segregation in the nations public schools
Developments have followed pretty closely the fac
tua logic of the situation The of desegregaon
has progressed in the border states especially where the
Negro population is relatively small and in a notable
number of large cities. There has been little no
change from the old pattern in the states of the Deep
South and in rural of the border where the
proportion of Negroes is large.
Now hitherto segregated states and districts face
not merely abstract declaration of unconstutonality
The Supreme Court has directed federal district courts
to take and retain jurisdiction to take account of local
problems to require desegregaton fast practicable
but require evidence of good faith in intentions
than that This part of the South, therefore, is up
against the necessity for action in that direction And
the positions hardening both sides of the issue.
1t is most unfortunate but hardly surprising that
there should be extreme actions and words both
the side of white resistance and Negro pressure. Re-
sisance has taken the form of voting to close down
public schools las did Prince Edward County, Vrgnia)
of economic pressures Negroes who in desegrega
ton efforts particularly in Mississippi), and of
surgence of the Khan and similar organizations in sew
eral
And on the other side quite famboyant reporting
has appeared in Negro publications Chiefly about
the tragic Emmett Till murder), and spokesman of the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People have made declarations calculated more to rally
Indifferent Negroes than to calm troubled waters
But behind outbursts of emotions sober voices for
both the segregated South and the Negro give evidence
of facing facts and seeking rational solutions. The
Greenvle IS. c. News denounced the Khan and its k.
1t calls citizens "of substance and proven integrity
to assume leadership.
The Ashvle IN. CO. Time strongly endorses Gov
Hodges appeal for children of both to
attend separate schools voluntarily through good will
and pride in the integrity of respective racial cu
lures" The Greensboro IN. c. Daily News would say
to the whites: Preserve your public schools The
Roanoke (Va) World-News believes that 'the knowl-
edge that legally they enter white schools prob
ably will be sufficient for the vast majority (of Ne
groes)"
The large Negro-published Pittsburgh Courier ad-
monshes it's readers to face the possibility that desegre
cation in many will be matter of long legal
battles, school district by school district And it
the Negro for his apathy toward the struggle and
sowness to give financial aid to the NAACP certainly
no sign of Negro fanaticsm.
What both the embattled Deep South and over
jealous Negro leaders must to realize is that the
bulk of the nation is not interested in any VICTORIES
of side the other but yearns that the greatest
social adjustment in century be worked out intelligent
ly without hatreds, and without imparments of the
unity of the American people.