Context for the non-American reader: "It's too bad about Life's reporters. If only they knew what it was like to live with so many Negroes. In November 1953 my husband, our four children and I moved 2,500 miles away from our beloved South Carolina so our children wouldn't have to go to schools with Negroes! Mrs. J.H.Wilkes Salt Lake City Utah" See: U.S. Troops Take Over in Arkansas; A Historic Week of Civil Strife &c., Life, 7 October 1957 re: The "Little Rock Nine" & Little Rock Central High School. Wiki: Little Rock Nine In fairness to a "broad minded" South, Boston and Philly ain't no walk-around. RIP.at.last. Sylvia.
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