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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.