Dade School Suit Hearing Set for August 21
The NAACP and fathers of a student petitioners seek a speedy trial before a three judge panel in a Florida case to end segregated schooling. The suit, filed June 12, is the first of its kind in Florida. Bus service recently resumed on a segregated basis after a boycott cut company income.
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Fathers of Si- School Board
Pope Florida
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Florida
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Moore
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Don Meiklejohn
Tallahassee
Nero
Train Kills Man At Crossing Amid Missing Identity
A man found dead near a railway crossing weighed 170 pounds and had two fingers missing. Police ruled out foul play but the victim’s identity remained undetermined as residents could not recognize him. Monies were found on the body and funeral arrangements are handled by Bethell Williams Funeral Home Coconut Grove.
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Seaboard
Jackson Memorial Hospital
Orone
Bethell-Williams Funeral Home
Coconut Grove
Alpha Phi Alpha Convention Opens with Noted Leaders
At the 50th anniversary convention in Buffalo New York Aug 6 to 11 Atty Arthur resented the NAACP leads the program against Alabama bid to suspend NAACP Alabama operations John D Leary Chrysler labor relations director Yale Law King Montgomery bus boycott leader pastor Dexter Ave Baptist Church will give the principal banquet address Shores and King are fraternity members A $25000 scholarship fund will be awarded to Cornell University where the fraternity began in 1906
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Arthur
NAACP
Alabama
John D. Leary
Chrysler Corporation
Leary
Yale University
Martin Luther King Jr
Atlanta
Gomery
Dexter Ave
17 Year Old Boy Given Death Sentence in Georgia Robbery Case
Don Mitchell Colman, 17, was found guilty of murdering Mrs. Charles E. Johnson during a June 1 payroll robbery and was sentenced to die in the electric chair. The jury, after 35 minutes, did not recommend mercy and set a September 14 execution. his attorney planned a new trial.
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Atlanta
Atanta
Georgia Electric
Don Mitchell Colman
Charles E. Johnson
Mitchell
Cross Burns on Lamar Campus in Beaumont
Hooded figures burned a 12 foot cross on Lamar State College of Technology campus. Witnesses say four to six hooded people planted it with gasoline soaked papers and cloth, set it afire and fled in a car. Lamar Tech ordered to admit Negroes this fall following a federal suit by two Beaumont residents.
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Beaumont
Tex
Lamar State College of Technology
Lamar Tech
U. S
Kamar Cecil
Alley Shacks Razed For Dixie Park Expansion
The Good Bread Alley area is set for demolition to expand Dixie Park. George Stranz won the bid to clear 53 aging shacks between Fourth Fifth and 12th 13th streets, offering to salvage materials for profit. Williams, acting city manager, says the block will host football baseball track and other sports.
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Good Bread Alley
Dixie Park
George Stranz
20Th St
Fourth and Fifth
Sitranz
Ray A. Williams
Pioneer Ford dies. funeral held at Mt Tabor Baptist
Maxie Charles Ford, Miami pioneer since 1902 from San Mateo, died recently. Funeral services were conducted Tuesday at Mt. Tabor Baptist Church by Rev. J. N. Byrd. Ford contributed to religious, educational, fraternal, and cultural life in the Greater Miami area, living first at Bay Front, then Lemon City, and finally at 6000 NW.
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Maxie Charles Ford
Mt. Tabor Baptist Church
J. N. Byrd
Ford
Miami
San Mateo
Greater
Miam
Bay Front
Lemon City
Homestead Bar Owner Faces License Revocation
Thurston Cleveland Turston, 55, convicted in city court on two counts related to operating a beer and wine establishment beyond license scope at 215 SW 4th St. Fined 75 dollars by Judge Jack Turner. Police chief said record will go to state for license reconsideration. noted prior tax convictions and possible back taxes totaling 30 000 in 1948 49 and 40 000 more.
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Cleveland
Turston
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Beer Garden
4Th St
Jack Turner
C. L. Tracy
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