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One of the cruel results arising out of this “about-face” of the Supreme Court is that the South- ~ ern States, accepting the validity of the previous decision in recent, years have expended hundreds of millions of dollars for construction of new Negro school facilities to conform with the policy preViously laid down by the Court.
Great progress has been made at tremendous cost throughout the Southern States to carry out that which our Southern State Governments had the right to believe was the law of the land. This reversal by -the Supreme Court from its • “separate but equal” policy to complete abolition of segregation will create problems such as have never confronted us before. _ '
The decision will be deplored by millions of Americans, and, instead of promoting the education of our children, it is my belief that it will have the opposite~effecTin many areas of The country. Jn Vir~ ginia we are. facing now-a crisis o£— the first magnitude.
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