Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-01

which was important 70 US IN the
transitional period"
Mr.. Hobson In Charlotte con-
ceded that the admission Of the
four Negroes was designed to prove
to the Federal Court that the pu-
Dill placement plan was working
In Charlotte about $50 Negroes
applied for admission to white
schools. "Ninety-nine per cent"
said Mr.. Hobson, were turned
down on the basis Of geography
and we turned down just as many
white as Negro"
NAACP Protest
Kelly Alexander. local head Of
the National Association for. the
Advancement Of Colored People.
is not happy with the Charlotte
plan. This was not intended. :"
he said, las E move to desegre.
gate. The proof Is the assign
ments."
In Nashville Coyness L. Ennix.
a Negro attorney and member Of
the school board. is not altogether
satisfied with limited indignation
but accepts it as "a trial and
error proposition"
Even though the extent Of COM
pliance may not always be great.
and the editors, bankers, mer-
chants, churchmen and industrial
lists who are behind the movement
counsel a go-slow attitude. some
bitterness still has resulted.
Amis Guthridge of Little Rock,
attorney and member Of the AS
ISOLATION of Citizens Councils of
Arkansas. complained that the
rich and well-to-do were going TO
see to 1t that the only race mix
ing that is going to be done is
in the districts where the so-called
red-necks live"
Red neck" Is the Southerner's
term for the lower-income white
working man.
z. S. Dollar. a Nashville railway
inspector who Identifies himself
as president Of the knights Of
the Ku Klux Klan." said Of the
school board. They don't live
near any Of the places where
there are Negroes"
In most Southern cities, the
well-to-do tend to occupy areas
in which there are none or very
few Negroes. Those with lower
incomes live in areas which often
are separated only by a street
from the Negro districts.
New Bitterness
But in the years have been
surveying the South and its racial
problems. these are the FIRST times
/ can recall that Southerners have
criticized other Southerners along
such lines.
And as more communities move
towards compliance. this type Of
bitterness among Southerners may
we'll increase.
1t would seem natural that those
whose businesses are founded upon
community peace and law would
be chary Of outright defiance of
the Supreme Court and the adj
vocacy Of open violence.
Throughout the South the
White Citizens Councils and their
local equivalents have consistently
advocated nonviolence and AL
legal means Of preventing inte-
grafton"
BY and large in the Deep South
these councils have drawn their
leadership from the so-called best
elements, who have believed they
could maintain segregation legally
despite the court decision and
without violence. They have ex-
pressed scorn for the Ku Klux
Khan.
In the 10 months to two years
after the court decision much was
heard about the councils and very
little about the Khan. Now the
reverse is true. The Khan. which
believes in direct intimidation of
Negroes. is night riding the come
back trail in Alabama. South
Carolina. Georgia and parts Of
Florida.
Summing UP, 1t appears that the
barriers to some form of token
indignation are cracking much
more rapidly in the South than
extreme prosegregationists will ac-
knowledge. But there probably
will also be some type Of last
ditch resort to violence by the Ku
Klux Khan in efforts to stave of
any indignation.
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