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Thurgood Marshall — Part 4
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“The interesting thing sbout:
Little Rock is that each time there
is @ move, we have to sit down
and discuss it for a day or two to
be sure we're making the right
move oursieves.”’
Asked if it were something like |
a pgeme of chess, be replied:
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As ‘Consultant’ tees
The noted New York lawyers=—==ZEACEFUL SOLUTION mane ine atteagt we a hs!
Marshall, whose name| "I can see no reason why i
is eT with the Negro{las can't peacefully solve
fight for desegregation. says the problem of school desegregation,"
ae “just a consultant” in the Dal-jhe said simply and quietly.
schools case Pacing a battery of news report “That so-call voluntary plan.”
lam here just to assist thelers and photographers, the co: he said, his voice tinged with sad-
pat attorneys any way I can,"'|per-skinned Negro with silver-|ness and some bitterness,” does
he declared on his arrival at Love|flecked black hair and musts
school desegregation in Little
Rock. |
al court Thursday. , “But I can't comment directly/does not call for desegregation 9/
The fiftyish, 6-foot-2,“200-paund/on the Dallas case pprcamse it is[Central High School.”*
attorney has a record ax a fighter|still in litigation,” he apologized.
for his people. As general counsel/Pressed for his view on the de-
lor the National Association for|segregation fight generally across
the Advancement of Colored Peo-|the country,” he replied:
Ple, he is leading 100 desegregd-| “TI believe I can say the picture |
tion fights scross the Southland. [is improving. I think it is unques-|
But if this man is the “20th tionably getting better each year.| {
‘Century Moses” come to lead his}@ &Te moving progressively for-! '
people out of the wilderness of
segregated schools, he lacks one The point is not so much!
trademark of the traditional fiery|(Whether integration is moving
leader. There is no burning zeal|fast or slow, but that at each
in his eyes, point there is progress."
Instead of the righteous LITTLE BOCK?
thon of the firebrand, Atty, me Asked whether there will be any
all is affable, urbane and witty. repetition of the trouble at Little
instead of a Heaven-sent faith |Rock at fall achool opening, he
his cause, he displays only a replied:
confidence in eventual vic-' ‘I just can't say about Little
‘ "Rock. There are’ just too many
"Dallas Times Herald"
Dalias, Texas,
Felix R. McKnight.
Executive Editor
Submitted by Dallas Office
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