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Editorial Grist: Kennedy Integration

September 26, 1963

Notes that the Black child (Avery Hatcher) of Associated Press Secretary Andrew Hatcher would attend school with Caroline Kennedy.

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Editorial Grist: The Birmingham Story

October 3, 1963

Describes that a racially-motivated crime (the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing) occurred in Birmingham and critiques the fact that white people were held responsible as well as how people held Governor Wallace as a promoter of racial violence.

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Editorial Grist: Handwriting On The Wall

July 18, 1963

Describes the belief that whites in the north oppose integration as much as those in the south and explains that the Kennedy administration needed to acknowledge the white majority.

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Editorial Grist: A Reasonable Request

June 6, 1963

Expresses anger toward integration, particularly at the request from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for President Kennedy to accompany a young Black woman as she began studying at the University of Alabama.

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Editorial Grist: The Great Experiment

July 4, 1963

Vaguely examines integration and the perceived consequences that could result on a national level if it were to be enforced by the federal government.

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Editorial Grist: The Other Way Around

February 14, 1963

Explains the belief that Attorney General Kennedy was unjust toward white Americans in his efforts to desegregate schools and federally fund integrated schools.

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Editorial Grist: Meredith Venture Nears An End

January 24, 1963

Explains the efforts to restrict James Meredith from attending Ole Miss and presents the notion that Meredith was a lowly student and that the excessive funds utilized for the integration of the university were a waste.

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