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Newspaper
Miami Times
Location
Miami, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1957
Page
1
Bessie Almond, 29, of 2150 Ali Baba Blvd in Opa Locka, was arrested by postal authorities Wednesday and charged with snatching $300 from a post office contract station in the Bunche Park Pharmacy while the clerk was turned away. She is held on $2,500 bond.
The White minister active in the Negro bus boycott and integration campaign. A few months earlier another bomb exploded at his home with no injuries. A three-foot wall section was blown out at Hutchinson Street Baptist Church. Pastor Rev. H. H. Johnson is named as another integration leader.
Six Atlanta ministers defied racial seating norms by occupying front bus seats. Led by Rev. William Borders, they were arrested on Gov. Marvin Griffin's orders and released on bond. Griffin ordered National Guard alert. A January conference in Atlanta was planned to push integrated transportation across the South.
Four year old David Nelson of 7160 NW 14th Place was seriously injured when his right foot was severed by a moving freight train behind his home. He was crawling under a stopped Florida East Coast train at NW 72nd Street and 14th Avenue when his foot became caught in the track.
Florida's pupil assignment law aimed at blocking integration faces federal review. Judge Ernett Choate refused to hear the case alone, requiring a three-judge en banc panel in Miami to address constitutional questions. The suit, brought by William Holland Jr.'s father against the Palm Beach school board, alleges capricious enforcement and a carved attendance area to preserve segregation.
Jackie Robinson rejects a $50,000 plus package from the New York Giants and plans voluntary retirement. He cites not joining the Giants and thanks Horace Stoneham and Chub Feeney while noting his Dodgers peak salary was $42,500. The offer reportedly included a post career role.
Unclaimed bodies of Negro individuals mount at the Dade County medical examiner's office as undertakers protest discriminatory pay. County pays $100 to bury white bodies and $35 for Negro burials. Dr. Stanley Durlacher reports five adults and seven infants awaiting processing, some held since November. County commissioners sworn in this week may change policy.
Three Northwestern students Samu Stewart Robert Thomas and Jeff Nesbitt will appear on the Tee Mack Original Amateur Hour live from Dinner Key Auditorium Sunday evening January 13 at 7 30 pm on WITV channel 17 They will perform Butler s Holiday by Leroy Anderson after training by band director David Paschal Invitations extend to Northwestern and community friends for the 90 minute show Gratitude is noted to Walker s Food Market for support
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