Education: How to Integrate

While unmarked police cars stood inconspicuously by, more than 2,000 Negro students filed into 54 previously segregated elementary and secondary schools in Louisville, Ky. last week. They were received without protest or excitement. ''The Negro and white youngsters sat down together and started studying together, and that was that,'' said one school official.

Louisville's quiet achievement in integration drew admiring comment from editorial writers the country over and from President Eisenhower at his weekly press conference. Said the President, of Louisville School Superintendent Omer Carmichael, 63: "[He] must be a very wise man...

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