Excerpt from
Reflections on a Convinced Friend:
Carroll Spurgeon Feagins2
By
Mary E. B. Feagins
When the Supreme Court made the decision of May 1954, to
require the public schools to integrate with all deliberate speed,
Carroll and two other Guilford faculty members, Hiram Hilty, and
Whitfield Cobb, felt led to encourage this movement. Late in August
1955, while their wives visited together downstairs, no doubt thinking
about how their husbands upstairs were implementing their plan,
these three fathers of public school children were writing a letter to
the local school committee. They chose this method because North
Carolina had decided on the Pearsall Plan, leaving it to local authorities to devise their own method of dealing with the Supreme Court
decision. The letter reads:
Mary E. B. Feagins, Greensboro, North Carolina, member of New Garden
Meeting.
2 Mary E. B. Feagins, Reflections on a Convincd Friend: Carroll Spurgeon Feagins (Burnsville, North Carolina: 2003) 21-25. Used with
permission.
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Excerpt from
Reflections on a Convinced Friend:
Carroll Spurgeon Feagins2
By
Mary E. B. Feagins
When the Supreme Court made the decision of May 1954, to
require the public schools to integrate with all deliberate speed,
Carroll and two other Guilford faculty members, Hiram Hilty, and
Whitfield Cobb, felt led to encourage this movement. Late in August
1955, while their wives visited together downstairs, no doubt thinking
about how their husbands upstairs were implementing their plan,
these three fathers of public school children were writing a letter to
the local school committee. They chose this method because North
Carolina had decided on the Pearsall Plan, leaving it to local authorities to devise their own method of dealing with the Supreme Court
decision. The letter reads:
Mary E. B. Feagins, Greensboro, North Carolina, member of New Garden
Meeting.
2 Mary E. B. Feagins, Reflections on a Convincd Friend: Carroll Spurgeon Feagins (Burnsville, North Carolina: 2003) 21-25. Used with
permission.
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