5: Deep District Duplicity Over Brown, 1954-1964

Probably aware of the White community’s disposition regarding racial issues, in an address to a local St. Louis organization of professional and businesspersons (Frontiers Chapter), Professor Robert A. Sedler of St. Louis University’s School of Law honed in on the issues of resegregation in the SLPS district. “The Negro children are being taught only by Negro teachers, which condition clearly can cause feelings of inferiority. He [the Negro] is in the minority and is being told by the state that he can be taught only by people of his own race.” This action does not prepare him to live in an integrated society. “In St. Louis [the SLPS district], the superintendent admits that, in part at least, teachers are making their choices on racial grounds” (Staff Writer, 1963a, p. 5). Professor/Attorney Sedler posited,