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Thursday, June 17, 1976
University Daily Kansan
The truth will out, even on TV
By LARRY FISH Contributing Writer
Simplification is the homage television pays to the deepest currents in the American experience, inscribing the most expansive themes, the highest drama, the widest hopes on the head of an electronic pin, where they can be easily seen.
With All Deliberate Speed," last night's offering in the "American Parade" series, is a program that allows a comprehensible. The program was a dramatization, in a symbolic sort of way, of the struggle against segregated schools, and the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Topeka.
Because the struggle for integration embodies the ideals that are so close to the national heart, it is a natural theme for a Bicentennial special.
The problem any television writer would have, of course, would be trying to bring these intangible concepts to life on a 19-inch screen in the space of 55 minutes.
That's an absurd tall order, and "All Deliberear Speed" suffered from the limitations of any television program. The television writer is a caricaturist, trying to draw a likeness by exaggerating some features and imoring others.
"All Deliberate Speed" was a symbolic sketch, like a newspaper editorial cartoon, without much subtlety, fine shade of meaning or literal adherence to the message. South Carolina, in 1947, and it dramatizes the struggle of a black preacher and teacher to provide basic educational necessities for the black school children, who watch their white counterparts ride a bus to their brick school building. In the same town, bron building, separate and hardy equally. Under the courageous leadership of the preacher (whose life is threatened and whose house is burned) and with the equally courageous (if tacit) support of a white federal judge, the black parents of a small school segregation to court. Eventually, that suit and several others were joined with Brown v. Topeka for the historic decision.
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The epilogue, however, provided a surprising counterpoint to the simplistic story line. The final words were: "Today, only children are taught in schools in Summerton, South Carolina."
It's a rather ominous statement to be
making during this national birthday party, an indication that we aren't yet capable of living up to our ideals. Clarendon County and other places still have de facto segregation, and the President of the United States is taking the easy political route of
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"With All Deliberate Speed" struck just about the right balance—it permitted a little pride in what this country has striven for, and it also reminded that the goal is attained yet.
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