RACES: Give Take

Few aspects of U.S. life are so sensationally distorted by headlines as race relations; some foreigners get the impression that the whole problem is a struggle between Southern lynchers and Northern liberals. In fact, race relations in the U.S. are changing through thousands of half triumphs, ugly little setbacks, unrecorded concessions and tentative changes in attitude which seem slowly to be spelling advancement. Last week:

ΒΆ The Richmond Academy of Medicine voted to delete the word "white" from the membership provisions of the Medical Society of Virginia. The poll was part of a five-year...

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