The small printed circular was certainly sedate enough to come from such a blue-blooded prep school as Massachusetts' Groton. But to the hundreds of alumni who received it in the mail last week it was, to say the least, something of a shock. "As desegregation is clearly the prime social duty facing the country today," said the circular, "Groton wishes to do all a school can towards complete eradication of the evil of segregation ... In consistence with Christian doctrine and the teachings of the Bible and in consistence with the human beliefs of two of Groton's most eminent graduates, New...
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