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The gap in dollar income between whites and blacks has continued since 1959, even when the South was excluded from the data. Again excluding the south, the relative median income position of blacks as compared to whites has remained unchanged since 1953. In fact, the only improvement in relative income position has been in the South.

As a woman in Atlanta once said, "The food Ralph Bunche eats doesn't fill my stomach."

Racism has indeed in simple terms set man against man, nation against nation, insisting that one group subordinate their wishes and desires to that of another, on gathering material wealth at the expense of his fellows and his environment.

W. E. B. DuBois in 1953 reflecting upon half a century of experience and thought, correctly summed up the crisis that currently occupies our struggle at home and abraod. He said, "I still think today as yesterday that the color line is a great problem of this

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