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"There has actually been little tangible progress in race relations in the United States in the past 25 years," Whitney Young, Executive Director of the National Urban League, said last night in a forum at the International Student Center.
Thomas F. Pettigrew, assistant professor of Social Psychology, contended that there has been significant intangible progress, however. He mentioned the anti-discrimination planks in the platforms of both political parties as evidence for this view.
Both noted the "racial inferiority complex" of the Negro and white adherence to outmoded "myths" as reasons for the lag in transforming the intangible into the tangible.
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