jan 1, 1956 - Criswell response to Brown decision

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Pastor W.A.Criswell (whose large church was frequented by Billy Graham), stated that "desegregation is a denial of all that we believe in." Calling the Brown v. Board decision "foolishness and an "idiocy", and he called anyone who advocated for racial integration a "bunch of infidels dying from the neck up." (Color, 149-150).

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