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Our Negro Problem Complicated

Item

Title

Our Negro Problem Complicated

Issue Date

23 September 1952

Issue

Vol. 58, No. 1

Issue Editor

Charles Wilson

Description

Written as commentary on the possible entrance of Black students to the University of Alabama and the attitude of white Southerners to Black people.

It argues that white Southerners do not want to be forced into such changes, but that contrary to hating Black people, they want to "provide special places and buildings for Negroes" as a means of protecting their rights. In the event that Black students are admitted, it calls for rational, measured behavior.