University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Dec. 1, 1960
Page 3
Segregation Harmful
Editor:
You batted one-thousand in your editorial "In Violence, a Lesson." I agree with you one-hundred per cent when you state that the race problem is injuring our nation grievously. I feel that racial segregation and discrimination is this nation's number one problem and America will continue to be injured, both at home and abroad, until this problem is eradicated.
RACIAL SEGREGATION and discrimination is a problem not only in the South, but throughout the nation. It is true that in the South, cretely, but in the North one is not always so fortunate and sometimes comes to the conclusion that we, in the so-called North, don't have racial problems. Many of us are not so blind and come to realize that the problem does exist, only in a more subtle form. Because it sometimes exists in subtle form, it is very difficult to fight but each of us can speak out and act against racial segregation whenever we see it.
I am glad that you brought the problem closer to us; that is, the city of Lawrence. Many people don't know it, but Negroes, both students and citizens, who live in Lawrence are segregated and discriminated against because of race or color. One has only to talk to me or to some of the other Negro students, including married couples, one can see the problem more conon campus to get concrete examples of this. A Negro couple told me, last week, that in one day they went to twenty different apartments which were for rent, but they were not able to rent any of them. During a three week period, this same couple went to over seventy-five apart-
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nesday night at 8:30 in the Student Union. This group's purpose is to try to eradicate segregation and discrimination through legal and non-violent methods.
ments looking for a place to live, but they were not successful in renting any of them; not because they were rowdy or undesirable, but because they were Negroes and many landlords told them this There are two public places downtown, The Huddle and The Downbeat, which will not serve Negroes. I have given only two examples because of lack of space but one can find similar examples right here in Lawrence.
I DISAGREE with your statement that "few" wish to disturb these problems. There is a group of students on campus, both Negro and white, called the Civil Rights Council, which meets every Wed-
It is not only up to the students and faculty members to try and make democracy work, but it is time for the University to take a forthright stand against housing and other forms of discrimination which exist on campus and in the city of Lawrence.
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