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_ Full integration of races is lagging because of the | pathy of the “so-called middie group of Americans whd : re neither of the far right or far left,” Federal Judge} hurgood Marshall said at Little Rock Saturday. 4 Judge Marshall, the former chief counsel for the Na‘: tional Association for the Advancement of Colored People = whose name before his appointment to the federal judiciary | had become synonymous with the civil rights struggle, was © at Little Rock to speak at a dinner commemorating the 80th * anniversary of St. Philip’s Church, an Episcopal mission at : 919 Gaines Street. Arriving at mid-afternoon, he . same end, so that all three arms met newsmen briefly at the of gove raiment are moving — Phyllis Wheatley YWCA, across! 4° stin we don't have it,” the street from St. Phitip’s, then Jud ‘ } ge Marshall said. moved on fo the Sam Peck Ho-] ,, . The middle group has not tel where he was guest of honor a h . ” at a reception given by mem-|29¢ a8 much as it could do, bers of the Pulaski County Bar|e said. Association. Several of his ad-| The majority of the people of ' versaries in the 1957 Little Rock|the South, ke said, are “a reli- : sehoci crisis, in which helgious, God-fearing people. I. figured prominently, were|don’t see how they can conceive among those who went fo the|that God made people differ- Sam Peck to greet him. ent.” Within the moderate group of] He thought churches should Americans, Judge Marshall!‘‘go out into the community to said, is the church, which hel|see what they could do to bring said had a particular responsi-jahbout complete equality for all bility in the civil rights field ~-| Americans.” a responsibility he said they; Marshall said his elevation to had, by and large, failed tojthe Second United States Court carry out, of Appeals at New York had “All of this has been brought|removed him from the civil about by the fact that the fed-|rights struggle. He declined eral courts over a period of/comment on several questions years have decreed over and|that dealt with court cases or over that the Constitution|Potential cases that eventually means what it says, that recent|May appear 10 his court. He presidents — Presidents Tru-|Said the court had two cases man, Kennedy and Johnson —|now that dealt with the so- on behalf of the executive/called “freedom of choicd’ byanch of government, have|school assignment plan, whi ade it clear that these rights|Little Rock and numerous othgr/ ust be recognized and Con-|cities have adopted. | gyess is now meving toward the| As for Little Rock, Marshali sad he was sure that ‘“progress|inio it more closely to see whe-' hds been made but if we looked ther there was as much as we: would want, the answer, jI’mr sure, would be no.”