Crisis in College Study of the Negro

Southern white colleges today face a crisis in regard to the study of the Negro, a crisis at once grave and in danger of being overlooked. In the face of today's world upheaval no rational man or woman could doubt the imperative need that people of different cultures and races should learn to live together satisfactorily in their common world. To anyone who has worked in the field of race relations in the United States, it is, therefore, peculiarly heartening to note the marked progress that even a decade has brought in the dispassionate, serious, and open-minded study of the Negro in Southern white colleges. It is peculiarly fortunate, moreover, that so much progress has been made of recent years, since the progress coincides with the rapid increase in printed information about the Negro and race relations available for study and also with the rapid increase in tension in areas of race contact both in the United States and in the rest of the world calling for intensive and immediate study. The more disturbing is the danger that this development will suffer a severe set-back just at this juncture, and the more urgent the need that we understand this danger and take steps to avert it

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