Civil Rights: An Ax for the South

The Federal Government gives no signs of relenting in its drive to desegregate Southern schools and hospitals.

Last week, in a show of strength that can only worsen Lyndon Johnson's al ready battered popularity in the South, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare decided to cut off all fed eral funds from six segregated school districts in Arkansas, Mississippi and South Carolina, bringing to 37 the number deprived of financial assistance in Old Confederacy states. It also is terminating aid, mostly student-loan and construction funds, to South Carolina's Baptist-run Anderson College, making it the first institution of higher learning...

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