As the South Sees It

As the South Sees It RICHARD WHALEN

Immediately following the Supreme Court’s decision in the school segregation cases in May of 1954, the jubilant evangels of integration were supremely confident. The South, they asserted, would submit quietly to the New Sociology. A month after the decision, Thurgood Marshall, chief counsel of the NAACP, set September of 1955 as the target date for abolishing segregation in all public schools throughout the United States.