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Article: RECALLING LITTLE ROCK AN INJUSTICE DONE BY AN EDITOR'S PEN IS CAUSE FOR REGRET.(LOCAL)
- Article from:
- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- October 14, 1997
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Byline: Perry Morgan
Fair warning: This windy, rambling piece is personal. It's about my own tiny part in the shame of Little Rock. How nine black children at the precipice helped save my career and thus helped open Harvard's and other doors to a plowboy from Sharpsburg, Ga., Shakerag, sweet Senoia and other towns of no renown that are falling down in long shadows. Though, praise be, rust is slow.
Why do this now, 40 years after, in my own small way, I failed those nine children? Because these are days of craving forgiveness for words not said.
In Drancy, France, Archbishop Olivier de Barrenger says ``the Catholic Church knows that conscience ...