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Chapter 30. Effects of Social Inequality 663
the part of white Southerners to defend unchanged the patterns of segre-
gation and discrimination. Even some Southern liberals fall in with the
tendency toward a hardened white opinion. Mark Ethridge, former chair-
man of the President’s Committee on Fair Employment Practice and editor
of a liberal Southern newspaper, the Louisville Courier-]ournal^ declared
at the Birmingham hearings of the F.E.P.C. in July, 1942, that:
There is no power in the world—not even in all the mechanized armies of the
earth, Allied and Axis—^which could now force the Southern white people to the
abandonment of the principle of social segregation. It is a cruel disillusionment,
bearing the germs of strife and perhaps tragedy, for any of their [the Negroes’]
’
leaders to tell them that they can expect it, or that they can exact it as the price of
their participation in the war.®®
There has been some friction between Negro soldiers and Southerners,
and the South’s old fear of the armed Negro is rising.
Much the same thing happened during the First World War. But this
time the isolation between the two groups is more complete. White people
in the South know less about Negroes and care less about them. This time
the Negroes, on their side, are firmer in their protest, even in the South.®
And this time the North is likely to be more interested in what happens to
race relations in the South.
‘See Chapter 35, Section 10.
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