Original sentence: The NOPD stood by and allowed the mobs to continue, while at the same time, police arrested civil rights activists holding lunch counter sit-ins in the city.The improvements he did create in black neighborhoods remained segregated and received inferior funding compared to projects in white neighborhoods
Edited sentence: Arguably, Morrison's leadership failures on civil rights did much to compromise his earlier achievements and resulted in New Orleans being more poorly positioned socially and economically for the post-Civil Rights era than its (at that time) peer cities like Atlanta, Houston and Dallas.The NOPD stood by and allowed the mobs to continue, while at the same time police arrested civil rights activists holding lunch counter sit-ins in the city.The facilities he did create in black neighborhoods remained segregated and received inferior funding compared to civic projects in white neighborhoods.Ultimately, his fence-straddling on civil rights was a significant contribution to the fatigue and disenchantment with which the citizenry received his administration's actions in its final years - a sharp contrast with the comparatively ebullient 1950s