Fulbright, J. William

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-13- In the period of nearly a century between the Generals — Grant to Elsenhower — the North gave its implied acquiescence to the modes of Southern society which evolved in the vacuum of the post-war times. Now, pricked by the righteous zeal of the new Negro of the mid-Twentieth Century, Northern preachments of righteousness are heard again. Writing in the December 1962 issue of The Progressive, Dr. Woodward, a member of the faculty at Yale University, made this observation: "The true perspective on the South's contemporary reaction, however, is not revealed by the entire century since emancipation. The significant period is rather the half century after the nation repudiated or abandoned its Civil War promises of Negro rights and racial equality.

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J. William Fulbright Speaks

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University of Arkansas