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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1951
Page
9
In Long Beach California Charles E Hilkey longtime custodian of the downtown clock died after a trip to Kingsbury and Kingsbury near Fresno. The tower clock he tended since 1907 halted Sunday night just before 9 30 P M the same hour he fell ill.
At the NAACP convention in Atlanta a panel and Thurgood Marshall debated segregation in the Army. Clarence Mitchell accused two Georgia lawmakers of blocking integration while James Evans cited progress under a policy of equal treatment. Marshall blamed white officers for harming morale in Korea and said many negro soldiers died from prejudice.
Dr. Frank Horne said Southern cities show better progress on negro housing but Northern cities like Detroit and Chicago avoid facing the issue, turning housing expansion into a political confrontation and fueling tensions including bombings in Birmingham and riots in Detroit.
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