The law, which is a great teacher, seven years ago wrote a hard lesson for the U.S. South: its white schools must accept Negroes and, by extension, its white people in their daily lives must accept this as a moral right. Negro students—who. as it turned out, can also be effective teachers—added to the law's lesson by exploding, with sit-ins, the comfortable white belief that the Negro was content with segregation. Now the lesson is sinking in deeply.
"Things are changing in the South'" writes James Jackson Kilpatrick. the Richmond News Leader editor who...
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