Change Comes Hard From the deep fissions and hard fusions of the South, where no leading public figure had yet dared affirm the validity of the Supreme Court's desegregation decrees, Florida's Governor LeRoy Collins last week sounded a clear call for reason and conciliation. Said he at ceremonies marking his reinauguration: "It will do us no good whatever to defy the U.S. Supreme Court ... Its decisions are the law of the land. And this nation's strength and Florida's strength are bottomed on the premise that ours is a land of law."
With that, LeRoy Collins got...
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