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Editorials
September 15, 1956 issue

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The article focuses on the upsurge of subversion in the southern U.S. states over desegregation in education. Mob action feeds on lawlessness. It seldom gets out of hand unless law enforcement officials either fail to act or, as often happens in the South, connive at mob violence. Segregation and apartheid schemes are not established because a dominant social group simply cannot bring itself to tolerate a subversive group. Segregation is a device to prevent an association which is imminent. In the course of human affairs when the threat of force may be the only means to prevent bloodshed. To urge its use in such circumstances is not to provoke violence but to prevent it.

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VIOLENCE; SEGREGATION in education; SABOTAGE; LAW enforcement; SOUTHERN States; UNITED States
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