May 2, 1963: 10

‘What ever became of the white man?’

Kenneth Allsop article about racism in the US and the Nation of Islam: ‘Maybe 300 years of slavery and repression have so destroyed the inner fibre that negroes are spiritually incapable of becoming first-class citizens. NP: Yet when will they get the chance to see? JB, negro novelist, said bleakly during lunch-counter sittings: “At the rate things are going all of Africa will be free before we can get a lousy cup of coffee”.