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Essay by Reverend Colbert C. Cartwright condemning the Little Rock School Board for not better preparing for integration. "from Little Rock" page 2 ured the cooperation of radio stations and disseminated literature relations. As the whole Louisville community became involved in talking about race relations, the problem was seen not only from the legal om the moral, social, and psychological points of view. It is significant that the hindsight of the people of Clinton to the wisdom of the Louisville approach. Looking backward, Mayor Lewallen said: "We thought we had done enough when we set up a committee and talked the situation over with some of the civic and leaders. We were wrong." He observed that events have scuttled southern maxim that the less said about race relations the better. Consultation on the Proposal In relationship to the community, the Little Rock School Board has intently taken an autocratic approach. Carefully avoiding consulta- tion with either Negro or white patrons, the board on May 24, 1955, an- d to the public a plan for gradual integration under which high-school- grades qould be desegregated probably in September 1957. If all all, integration would follow in the other grades over a period of approximately 6 years. Since no one had been consulted, many persons oned the plan. Many Negroes wanted a faster plan; many white per- anted no plan at all. Interested citizens, both Negro and white, o Dr. Blossom with questions. When any point of the plan was ques- tioned, there...

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