CIO Demands Action Over Florida Violence Case
The CIO urged immediate federal and state probes into a wave of violence against minority groups in Florida culminating in the murder of Harry T. Moore of Mims. Jas. B. Carey pressed President Truman and Governor Fuller Warren, asking Congress to strengthen civil rights laws and the Attorney General to act to restore law and order in Florida.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida
Harry T. Moore
Mims
Fla
CIO
Jas. B. Carey
Carey
Harry S. Truman
Fuller Warren
Congress
Ernest W. McFarland
D. Ariz
Robert A. Taft
R. O
John W. McCormack
D. Mass
Joseph W. Martin
R. Mass
Carl
Fllrida
Mr. Carey
Warren
Mystic famed in Miami settles at home address
The best known mystic in the U S A who spent fifteen years in Miami is now permanently located in his own home at 2118 NW 62nd Street Miami Florida.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
62Nd Street
Florida
CRC Head Ordered Back to America
The U S embassy in Paris was told to make William L. Patterson surrender his passport. Patterson, executive secretary of the Civil Rights Congress, waits in Paris for the U N General Assembly to reconvene possibly to seek a hearing on a Christmas Eve statement accusing the United States of genocide against Negroes, tied to his new book.
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Washington
ANP
United States
Paris
Department of State
William L. Patterson
Civil Rights Congress
Patterson
United Nations General Assembly
S. C. Youth Wins Public Speaking Contest
Reginald La Vong, 18, a Harbison Junior College freshman, won first prize in Columbia area Voice of Democracy contest among 11 white and five Negro students. His winning address will advance to a statewide contest for a national competition. Judges selected winners by contest content delivery and originality without seeing contestants.
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Columbia, S. C
ANP
Reginald la Vong
Harbison
Voice of Democracy
la Vong
Newsman revisits South finds Jim Crow dies hard
Carl T. Rowan recalls 1942 departure from Tennessee and nine years later return to discover limited gains for African Americans. In Look magazine he argues the New South remains far from equality, noting housing and employment gaps, segregated libraries, and persistent Jim Crow conditions.
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Jim Crow
New York
Carl T. Rowan
Tennessee
U. S. Navy
Oberlin College
Minneapolis Morning Tribune
Rowan
Federal
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
False Numbers Arrest Brings $300,000 Suit
Brooklyn notices a claim filed December 26, 1951, seeking 300000 from the City of New York for the death of Betty Lawthorne after a Sept 29 arrest. John Lawthorne of 671 Jefferson Ave. accuses a city policeman of causing her fall from a station-house window, leading to hospitalization and death.
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Brooklyn
City Comptroller
City of
New York
John Lawthorne
Jefferson Ave
N.Y
Lawthorne
Betty Lawthorne
79Th Precinct
Lawthorn
Kings County Hospital
Italy
Freeing the South’s doors to learning and unity
In Look magazine Mr Rowan describes observing Arkansas and Oklahoma universities admitting Black students and fostering harmony. He found many White Southerners opposing segregation yet afraid to speak, concluding that freedom requires hard work and that Black and White Americans share a single destiny and hope for democracy.
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South
Arkansas
Oklahoma
New South
Mr. Rowan
Look
America
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Samuel Shepherd
Prof. Homes
N.W
CRC
S. C
Oan
Ares
Moses
Madam Hunter
N. W. 73Rd Street
Miami, Fla
Nightingale College
5Th St
54Th St
Miami, Florida
Magic City Driving School
6Th Ave
John H. Braynon
Benny L. O’berry
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