An uneasy quiet lay over the University of Alabama, as if the campus had, for the present at least, been shocked into some semblance of sanity. The safety-first suspension of Negro Autherine Lucy still stood, but a good segment of 'Bama seemed to have decided that violence is not the answer to the problems raised by her admission (TIME, Feb.20).
Had things been otherwise, there might well have been another eruption of rioting. One evening last week two Negro brothers beat up a university sophomore in the street because they wanted "to get even for the way they treated Miss Lucy." The...
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