Passive resistance hardened in the South last week. Some 4,000 students at segregated Southern University (all Negro) in Baton Rouge, La. threatened to withdraw because 18 students had been suspended for sitdowns. Students in Greensboro, N.C. went back to picketing after Woolworth's and Kress's refused to integrate their lunch counters. In Marshall, Texas police broke up a crowd of Negro demonstrators by training a fire hose on them. But while police clamped down on demonstrations in the South, sympathy demonstrations by white students spread over campuses in the North:
ΒΆ At Yale, a group called Challenge, which debates the burning issues...
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