Negro Sees End To U.S. Race Strife

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30861, 21 September 1965, Page 1

Negro Sees End To U.S. Race Strife

(New Zealand Press Association) INVERCARGILL. Sept. 20. A Negro minister said today the end of the United States’ racial troubles was in sight.

“I have complete faith that I will live to see the end of the hatred and discrimination that have rent the Southern states for so many years,” said Dr. S. Y. Nixon, of Longview, Texas.

Dr. Nixon is visiting New Zealand with a party of American Baptists He said he felt that over the last two years the racial situation has improved at an almost unbelievable rate.

“There are pockets where hate and prejudice will take longer to die out,” said Dr Nixon. Terrible injustices were still done and occasional riots, like that at Los Angeles, hit the headlines.

“But there are just as many good things in the background that do not come to the public notice,” said Dr. Nixon. “For instance, at a recent crusade conducted by

the evangelist Billy Graham at Montgomery, Alabama, one of the most noted trouble spots in the south, a mixed white and Negro choir sang and thousands of people of both races mingled to hear the speaker. “There was not a whisper of trouble. Examples like this strengthen my conviction that where there is Christianity there cannot be racial discrimination.” he said.