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Article describing Arkansas Citizens Council attempts to return segregation to U.S. Army. Arkansas Council Seeks Re-Segregation in Army LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - The Arkansas Citizens Council has passes a resolution urging the Army to "return to segregation" in order to attract more white enlist- ments. Col. John Norman Warnock of Camden, legal counsel for the organization, said about 25 mem- bers from 14 chapters across the state met in Little Rock to approve the resolution. It states that more whites should be encouraged to join because the Army "has failed to reach its recruiting goals and that 35 percent of those who sign up are black." If the rate at which whites are leaving and blacks are joining the Army remains stable, "this could lead to a change of color of the Army to an all-black military force," the resolution stated. The group called for a re- turn to segregation in order to at- tract white enlistees who would serve under white sergeants and white officers. 31

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