"With Communism knocking at the Negro's back door, we cannot afford to let educational segregation barriers stand. It is as plain as the red flag in Russia that continued segregation and suppression can and will cause the death of democracy by the hands of its own leaders."
After writing these words, the editors of the University of Georgia's undergraduate weekly, the Red and Black, calmly put their paper to bed and went on to other things. They had apparently forgotten about the university's powerful regent, Roy V. Harris, political bigwig of Georgia. Last week, in his own paper, the Augusta Courier,...