21 Sep 1946
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Newspaper
Hartford Chronicle
Location
Hartford, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1946
Page
1
The Connecticut Company agrees to provide bus service to the Long River Village housing project in Middletown aiding transit for residents including those without cars. The piece also discusses minority participation, price controls, charter reform, veteran housing, and calls for legislative reform on tobacco farms.
The Hartford Branch of the NAACP met on September 11 at the Women's League Community House on Avon Street. Attendees discussed George Hope’s New Britain motor vehicle case and requested NAACP help to retrieve prints. Dr. James E. Gladstone urged civic participation and voting rights, proposing a candidate questionnaire on FEPC, anti-Lynch, and anti-Poll Tax issues. A $25 pledge supported the Sterling Committee for Connecticut FEPC Bill. Treasury totaled $2,204.19 with $1,680.47 disbursed and $523.70 on hand.
At the State Convention in Grand Rapids on August 19 Michigan Legion members adopted three resolutions. They urge Attorney General Tom Clark and President Truman to curb anti Negro crime in the South and protect democratic rights, call for Senate cloture on the poll tax bill, and support FEPC and fair employment laws highlighting wartime minority contributions.
NAACP adopts a nonpartisan political action program from the 37th annual conference. The six member committee, including Rainey and Tobies, recommends nonendorsement of parties, targeted issue ratings, and broad member awareness via CRISIS and THE BULLETIN. Proposals urge voter registration drives and coordinated intra state action.
New York reports Noel W. Greenidge, once condemned by a prejudiced court martial to fifty years at hard labor, is freed after NAACP Legal Staff intervention. His confinement is remitted, and he may reenlist. Greenidge thanks NAACP attorney Franklin H. Williams for sustaining faith in the country and its ideals.
New York September 12 NAACP reports 35 new branches chartered by the National Board of Directors boosting active NAACP branches to 1149 and total units to 1476. Names include Chilli cothe Milton Montgomery County Imperial Paris George town Washington County Nesmith Wellington Sampson Hearne Clewiston Amityville Curritue Lima South Bound Brook Triadelphia Brunswick County Shelton Kennedy Brinkley Washington Marion Covington Sulpher Springs Blader County Jim Wood Montgomery and Toombs County Lutcher Hattiesburg
The bulletin urges registration and voting efforts and the use of staff assistants to aid local branches in registration drives. It cites a post analysis of Roger Slaughter's defeat by Black voters over FEPC and predicts further minority reaction to lawmakers on civil rights. The NAACP plans a far‑reaching political action program to boost registrations in newly empowered voting areas.
Saint Benedicts Center announces fall offerings for all ages with recreational and educational programs. Adults and teens can attend Tue Wed Fri evenings, with youth classes in drawing leather work sewing and dancing. A Story Hour and music hour cater to children, piano lessons for six teens, and a possible debating society.
James W. Anderson of Cleveland won second prize in the 11th Annual National High School drawing and painting competition by the Kansas City Art Institute. He was awarded a half year scholarship but was later told as a Negro he could not enroll in Missouri, a border state with strong southern tendencies. The school offered cash equivalent to be used at another art school, and the NAACP intervened leading to a dispensation of $112.50 for legal enrollment elsewhere where race would not limit admission.
Miss Estelle Mae McCoy daughter of Mr and Mrs Caldwell Mc Coy of 140 Cleveland Avenue Hartford will enter Hillyer College this semester. She graduated in 1946 from Weaver High and was elected to the Tucker National Honor Society and served on the school paper staff.
The Greater Hartford Citizens Committee backs the Wagner-Ellender-Taft housing bill, arguing private builders produce only high cost rents and veterans and minorities suffer most. It urges prompt congressional passage to provide low rent public housing for veterans, replacing city slums and aiding decent homes at low rates.
A September 22 mass meeting at Symphony Hall led by Rabbi Joseph Shalom Shubow and Fr Earley will spotlight the Georgia Lynchings case. Attorney Reid chairs as Neil Scott says Isaac Woodard will attend to recount the Batesburg incident. Speakers include Clark Foreman, Rev Borders, Rev Bucke, with music by Carol Brice and Kenneth Spencer.
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