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Show Segregation Discussed "The Status and problem of the Negro in America Today" was discussed Tuesday evening at a meeting of the Women's Fellowship Fellow-ship Society of the Holladay Community Church. Dean Daniel Dykstra of the University of Utah Law School moderated the panel the other members of which were history professor Allen W. Bosch of Westminster College and Professor Profes-sor Wallace Reid Bennett of the University of Utah Law School. The expansion of slavery with its attendant increase of colored people was given as the historical j oackground of the racial superior-! superior-! ity doctrine in America. The institution in-stitution of slavery was the basis i of the white supremacy doctrine, ! Professor Bosch pointed out. . When freedom came the negro was unprepared for it and found himself free but with no place m this nation. Now, the problem can only be settled in the hearts of the people and not in the courts of the land, and it is in the hearts of the people where the , church is paramount, he concluded. conclud-ed. j The discussion continued with j Professor Bennett developing the legal status of the Negro in the light of the late Supreme Court desegregation opinion, especially in Utah. The Negro has access to municipal facilities, he said, j but private organizations operating operat-ing public places can and still do discriminate against the colored people although the feeling is softening. Because of the attitude atti-tude of the dominant church in this, state the Negro will be more slowly accepted than elsewhere Professor Bennett explained, j The moderator and speakers I were introduced by Mrs. Louis Miller, president of the society. Despite the cold snowy weather the hall was filled. |