© Margaret Bourke-White, 1956, Segregation in South Carolina
LIFE reported that Greenville, South Carolina’s mayor Kenneth Cass (above, in tie) “does not subscribe to the notion that Negroes are inherently inferior. ‘I wouldn’t want to argue it with anybody, but I don’t go along with that. It doesn’t sound quite Christian to me. They’re human beings just like everybody else.’”
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