Fulbright, J. William

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-8- have now righted this racial imbalance in our national demography. From 1940 to i960, the Negro population more than doubled in Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio; increased three-fold in Connecticut and Illinois, and multiplied six times in the State of California. According to the i960 Census, the Negro population was almost equally divided between the traditionally Southern States and those of other sections of the country. The late President Kennedy last summer described this as "a problem which faces us all — in every city of the North as well as the South." Unless it is considered in this larger context it is sure to be distorted. Senators must bear in mind that the problem cannot be divorced from the historical developments from which it sprang.

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J. William Fulbright Speaks

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University of Arkansas