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It to to be feared that when the history of these times to written in the light of subsequent developments, the statesmanship of our present political leaders of Virginia will not look good.
The 'May, ’64 decision of the U. S. Supreme Court was distressing but it caught few of us really by surprise. Largely, the nature of the decision had been feared and expected. The trend of thinking had warned us. Our first reaction was d i s a p pointment — we had hoped against hope—but there was a general if reluctant admission that that was that and we would have to make the best of it.
A possible way out whoch at - least had the laudable vistue of fending off immediate action towards statewide integration was opened up by the proposals of the Gray Commission. The people endorsed these proposals, which did not prohibit integration in areas where integration would be acceptable to the local people bat did seem to offer relief for those sections of the State where the idea of integration was in sharp conflict with local sentiment.
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