Small Steps in N. Carolina

CHARLOTTE (pop. 163,000), WINSTON-SALEM (pop. 120,200), GREENSBORO (pop. 120,100), prospering, industrialized, diversified--tobacco, steel structures, chemicals, textiles, electronics, insurance offices, etc.--stately, segregated, forward-looking prototype cities of the New South, Great Southeast Empire, etc.

For the second straight year in North Carolina, a handful of handpicked (for top grades, social graces) Negro schoolchildren went to classes with whites--two in Charlotte, four in Winston-Salem. five in Greensboro--in Governor Luther Hartwell Hodges' plan to permit a little integration in order to stave off a lot. Last week, unlike last year, there was little violence. In Winston-Salem a couple of Ku Klux crosses were burned on a high school lawn, 200 out of 600 white students were transferred out of an integrated elementary school at parents' requests. One measure of North Carolina's small steps: Rabble-Rouser John Kasper of New Jersey got booed and heckled in Charlotte, saw his audience of 200 dwindle by boredom to 25 in Greensboro, got drowned out by a man operating a power saw (on Labor Day) in nearby Monroe, did not go to Winston-Salem at all.

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