At reservations all across Arizona last week, Navaho, Zuñi, Hopi, Apache and Hualapai Indian children bade farewell to impassive parents, hopped up out of the fiery sun into chartered buses, and rolled off to spend the coming school year with white Mormon families in Utah. Mormons themselves, and ranging in age from seven to 18, the 360 young travelers were the raw material of a signally successful experiment in interracial living and education run by the Relief Society of the Mormon Church.
Hailed by Mormons as living rebuttal of the charge that they...
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