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j E Backer cond in the face af any community crisis, when stramg civic leadership fallz, violence and disorder are ths inevitable consequences. Extremists op each side take control, seise the publics imagination and, in mary cases, receive active public support. Qne of the ragponsibilities of civic leadership, ae conceived by the Dalios Citisens Council, is public conditioning. Me anew bhde we escons atk 14+ ee ee eee ae ee lh oS GeSimee Vis Teed ov tha Council sver a your a40 €)4-V4.0 seu & seven-ean committee to atuay” the prebles of 2ssegregaticn in all ite aspects, with particular eaphasis on the puolis schools. ‘This cotanttee aag met often, and fruitfully, with a sevan-man committee representing the hegro coomunity of Dallas. Out of these meetings has come two coterminations: lL. Racial violence, and situations which might provide the setting for such violence, met be avoided at all costs in Dallas, 2. While the Citisensa Council formulates and outs into effect a program designed to condition the citizens af Dellas to accept school desegregation peacefully, both whites and Negross mst refrain from actions which would tend to agitate or inflame members cf either race. Program sim The prircital aim of this conditioning pregram ie simply stated: To persuades the citisene cf Dallas to conduct themselves peacefully, in accordance with the law. The nreagreas Anee nat swaseta dasnmrecatia am. 4¢ danse nat aber ono wesr Pewee Ss ares we Stet al we oe a! Wee ac = Gwe ceste "St segregation. The right of every citizen to hold whatever personal opini hea chocees c- this sub ject is not disputed. The program confines iteelf to the fact that feceral Law decrees that the Dallas schools will desegregate, and that the good citizen obeys the law. By way of contrast, through ths program the pullic ia sande aware of the severe sociai and economic effecta on the commity that resorta to violence to nest ite problems. A particular theme stressed ls the lasting haraful effecte on the city's children when exposed to violence and disordar.