¶ To get a firsthand view of what a nonsegregated school is like, ten white boys and girls from Washington and Baltimore paid a visit to the New Rochelle (N.Y.) High School, where about one-fifth of the 1,610 pupils are Negroes. Their conclusion from the trip, according to one girl: "If ever there was any doubt within me that integration would work, it has been completely dissolved." But the visitors also wanted New Rochelle to know just who was causing all the trouble back home. Said Robert Rodgers of Baltimore's Southern High School: "Don't...
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