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Newspaper
Miami Times
Location
Miami, Florida, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1952
Page
4
Delegates to the Fourth Annual Convention of the Florida State Negro Business League convened at Florida A and M College on April 2 and 3. Jones and others attended.
Washington ANP reports nine senators press Senate bill 1736 to end Jim Crow on interstate travel including railroads and transit in the south. The ICC, seen as enforcing court rulings, recently upheld a semi Jim Crow dining car seating rule by Southern Railway in a 7-4 vote over Elmer Henderson’s protest.
The 8900 member North Carolina Teachers Association backed school equalization suits, the United Forces for Education agenda, and resolutions at its 71st annual meeting in Raleigh. They urged cuts in teacher loads, salary scales for A certificate teachers, funds for attendance officers, and bonds for school building and supplies. They supported equitable use of escheats funds, elimination of segregated Negro education divisions, Negro board representation, and salary parity with the Southern Association standards. A lengthy discussion followed with approval of a gift.
Delegates from most of the 40 chapters of the seventh district of Omega Psi Phi met in Tampa Florida and passed resolutions urging Negroes to vote and pushing for colored persons to hold civil jobs. The gathering featured a joint public meeting with Kappa Alpha Psi and panel discussions led by J H Calhoun with speakers J Q Jefferson Wiley E Daniels Sr and William R Campbell. Officers were elected including J T Brooks as district representative and C L Lake as president. The seventh district covers Alabama Florida Georgia and Mississippi.
The Detroit NAACP appeals to Ford, General Motors and Chrysler presidents to end discrimination against Negroes and minorities. Letters urge hiring across all employment areas and cite bias in industrial relations, public relations, and trades, noting Ford as the only major firm making a token start.
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