It Happens in New York

It’s more fun knocking Dixie, but shouldn’t someone report on New York P.S. 163, where (Shhh) segregationists are at work!

As everyone knows who reads the New York Times or its network papers about the country, New York is an “integrated” city. Until recently, doubters were admonished hourly over the city’s radio station that here is a place “where eight million people live in peace and harmony and share the benefits of democracy.” Indeed, were the visitor to happen thoughtlessly into my neighborhood on the colorful West Side, he might be convinced. The scene might even jog back from memory the words of that old Sunday School song: “Black and yellow, brown and white,/ They are precious in His sight;/ Jesus loves the little children of the world!”

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It’s more fun knocking Dixie, but shouldn’t someone report on New York P.S. 163, where (Shhh) segregationists are at work!

As everyone knows who reads the New York Times or its network papers about the country, New York is an “integrated” city. Until recently, doubters were admonished hourly over the city’s radio station that here is a place “where eight million people live in peace and harmony and share the benefits of democracy.” Indeed, were the visitor to happen thoughtlessly into my neighborhood on the colorful West Side, he might be convinced. The scene might even jog back from memory the words of that old Sunday School song: “Black and yellow, brown and white,/ They are precious in His sight;/ Jesus loves the little children of the world!”