Teen Shooting Sparks Chicago Race Violence
A 19-year-old White youth admitted firing a shotgun that killed 17-year-old Curtis Bevins as he walked with two friends on a Chicago South Side street. The car fled with two Dreid youths and a 1-year-old girl. Bevins died in hospital. Police say the shooter claimed it was to frighten them after his car was stoned earlier. The case marks a fresh burst of teenage violence in Chicago.
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Chicago
Curtis
Bevins
William Touhy
Uniform Police
Vandersteeg
Touhy
Bill to Close Florida Schools Faces Senate Hurdle
The controversial bill to let public schools be closed instead of integrating White and Negro students is stalled in the Senate Education Committee. Led by Sen. L. K. Edwards, the panel appears set to almost certainly kill the measure, which would empower county boards to close schools as an emergency measure subject to local referendum.
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Tallahassee
Senate
Education Committee
Sen
L. K. Edwards
Irvine
Joe Eaton
Miami
E. Wiliam Gautier
New Smyrna
Ted Cabot
Fort Lauderdale
Fred Dickinson Jr
West Palm Beach
Certa
Negro Burglary Convict Sentenced To Electric Chair
A Birmingham Circuit Court jury sentenced 26 year old Charles C. Hamilton to die in the electric chair for first degree burglary. An all white jury deliberated under an hour after Hamilton was found in a white family home last October with gun point, trousers and shoes removed. Hamilton claimed an elderly woman invited him in. Judge Wallace Gibson noted first degree burglary is capital and a lawyer must be provided.
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Birmingham
Charles C. Hamilton
Hamilton
Wallace Gibson
Southern Christians Face Choice Christ or Jim Crow
Nashville Tenn An Episcopal seminary professor urged conference delegates to decide between Christ and Jim Crow saying church people must choose faith over segregation. Dr James K Bernett of Aus- is cited as presenting the argument during the Christian faith and human relations gathering.
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Nashville, Tenn
Episcopal Seminary
Christ
Im Crow
James K. Bernett
Aus
Yale man charged with assault linked to 1924 Yale ties
Dr Nelson, with a B D from Yale in 1924, studied at Union Theological Seminary in 1920-21 and at Sorbonne and Protestant Theological in Paris in 1921-22. He then studied at Berlin and Marburg in 1922-23 and spring-summer 1925-26, accused of assaulting a 40-year-old white divorcee in her northwest home. Streets, living at 1929 NW 55th St, surrendered to two white officers after a neighbor reported screams. He entered the house about 5:30 pm under pretense of buying it, and the woman said he attacked her in the living room. A preliminary hearing is set before Peace Justice Hugh DeVal.
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Yale University
Nelson
Union Theological Seminary
Sorbonne
Protestant Theological
Paris
Berlin
Marburg
Northwest Section
Streets
55Th St
Hugh DeVal
Second Annual Christian Calling Conference Held Near Homestead
More than 50 youths attended at Owaissa Bauer Youth Camp near Homestead for the conference. Rev. Robert Johnson gave the keynote on a call to full time service, with Rev. Edward T. Graham closing. Speakers included Rev. Thedford Johnson, Rev. Caxton Doggett, and Mrs. Pauline Dunn among others. Vocations discussed covered ministry, education, missions, church music, and Christian associations. Recreation was led by Paula Williams, Phil Dixon, and Mr. Turner. A Sea Council was formed to unite Greater Miami youth across churches for cooperative planning and fellowship, inviting five teen reps from each Miami church to join the Y Inter-Church Youth Council.
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Owaissa-Bauer
Homestead
Robert Johnson
White Temple Church
Edward T. Graham
Mt. Zion Baptist Church
Thedford Johnon
St. John’s Baptist Church
Caxton Doggett
Rader Memorial Methodist Church
Pauline Dunn
Ethel Graham
Ina
United Christian Front of
Greater Miami
Miami
Y-Inter-Church Youth Council
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David Vandersteeg
Dennis Moffitt
Eunice Miller
Opa Locka
Miami News
Herb Rau
State Attorney’s Office
Richard J. Bennie
Richard Gerstein
Gerstein
Ray
Miami Beach
Roo
Bill
Florida
Jin
Texas
William Stuart Nelson
Howard University
Florida A and M University
Howard
New York
Crekont M
Randolph
Thomas Kilgore
Washington
Connecticut
Alpha Alpha
Alpha Gamma Chi Sorority
Carleton Finleys
Juanita Matthews
Claudia Jasper
Basileus
Sorors
Vivian Caldwell
Luella
Paula Williams
Phil Dixon
Mr. Turner
Sea Council
Cooperative Christian
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