University of Virginia Library

Dignified Respect

The use of racially segregated
facilities by organizations approved
by the Student Council
attests to the black view that even
the most highly educated whites
readily compromise with segregation
when personal inconvenience,
no matter how small, is asked of
them. Who can deny the hopelessness
of the quest for acceptance
as a human by a Negro when
the future generation of leaders
of Virginia can suspend their
principles as has been done so
readily this past week.

I hope that this University community,
including the Student
Council and the Nurses Association
will see this issue as one in
which an evening's entertainment,
which the nurses most certainly
deserve, must be weighed against
a commitment to dignified respect
for human rights.