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Reached for comment last night, Thomas F. Pettigrew, associate professor of Social Relations and honorary chairman of the demonstration, said "I certainly hope we'll be allowed to assemble like good American citizens this Sunday...
...Pettigrew also doubted the decision would have much effect on the actions of either civil rights workers or their opponents. "They're going to be swinging at each other anyway," he said...
Thomas F. Pettigrew, associate professor of Social Relations, pointed out in addition that the court's action does not involve a "pure case." The Gary Complainants did not challenge the lower court's findings that racial imbalance in the schools did not result from any official policy of the school board...
Appearing with Gregory will be the Freedom Singers, made up of five SNCC field secretaries. Thomas F. Pettigrew, as associate professor of Social Relations, and Noel Day, chairman of the Boston School Stay-Out, are scheduled to make introductory remarks...
Although he plans to remain in the North for the rest of his life, Pettigrew retains an almost organic closeness to the South. "It's a stigma I can't get rid of" he says, "but then again I don't really want to. I love the damned South. That's why I spend my life studying it, writing about it and speaking on it. I feel responsible for it--that's the reason I can dislike Wallace with a kind of feeling that I can't work up for Mrs. Hicks. I share the blame for Wallace...