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Hays, Brooks

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Speech reflecting on recent Congressional election defeat -6- (the Plessy vs. Ferguson separate-but-equal decision was based on this amendment, as was the 1954 school desegregation decision repealing that concept); (b) a commitment to use only lawful processes to obtain any desired revision of the 1954 court ruling OR the 1955 implementation decision, regardless of whether one approves or disapproves of the detailed provision involved in specific instances; (c) the search for alternative methods of desegregation that do least violence to the South’s traditions and attitudes, such as segregation of schools by sex; (d) the desire to help the Negro improve his economic condition and generally achieve a status more in keeping with human dignity and self-respect; and finally (e) the continued expression of devotion to country by the denunciation of acts of violence and racial hatred and repudiation of those who urge defiance of the law. While many people would word this approach differently and perhaps disagree with certain aspects of it, I hope that some version of this definition will ultimately meet with widespread approval in the South. It does not require the spelling out of any detailed plans, but rather emphasizes an attitude of cooperation and a spirit of reconciliation. It is, I believe, the function of church organizations to spread this spirit of reconciliation. Without going into detail about the activities
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1958
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