Harriman urges end to discrimination in democracy
Averell Harriman, Democratic presidential candidate, told NAACP executive Walter White in a radio broadcast from New York that discrimination blocks democracy and hinders aid to free peoples. He praised the Point Four Program, urged federal planning for public welfare, and criticized Congressional Rule 22 as unwise for pressuring essential civil rights legislation.
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Averell Harriman
Walter White
National Association For the Advancement of the Colored People
WLIB
New York
Harriman
Mutual Security Agency
White
Nurses Converge at Atlantic City Convention
Ten thousand graduate nurses, both Negro and White, attend the Seventeenth Biennial Convention of the major nursing groups in Atlantic City June 16 to 20 at Convention Hall. Discussions cover integration, wages, hours, psychiatric nursing, and new occupational sections as the joint session may end with a reorganization into expanded American Nurses Association and a new National League for Nursing.
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New York
Convention Hall
Atlantic City
Park Avenue
National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses
American Nurses’ Asociation
AMA
Estelle Massey Osborne
New York City
American Nurses’ Association
National League of Nursing Education
National Organization For Public Health Nursing
National League For Nursing
Mrs Bass challenges Ike statement on FEPC
Mrs Charlotta Bass vice presidential candidate for the Progressive Party and former California Negro newspaper publisher, vows in Los Angeles that General Eisenhower’s FEPC remark reflects a life in a militarist, Jim Crow army. She says states should handle civil rights policy, noting they already failed on lynching.
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Charlotta Bass
Progressive Party
California
Today
Eisenhower
FEPC
Los Angeles
Bass
Ike
States
Lynch
Du Bois Attacks Mrs Roosevelt Over UN Civil Rights Vote
Dr. W. E. B. DuBois denounces Eleanor Roosevelt for voting against the civil rights clause in the United Nations Covenant. He cites the vote as surrender to colonial imperialist powers and predicts backlash from oppressed peoples. DuBois will keynote the Progressive Party Convention in Chicago July 4 5 and 6.
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W. E. B. DuBois
Eleanor Roosevelt
United Nations
United States
Roosevelt
U. S
Human Rights Commission
Soviet Union
Ukraine
Yugoslavia
China
Sweden
Australia
Belgium
France
Britain
Greece
Truman
Dr. DuBois
Liberia
Progressive Party
Chicago
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West Carver Ranches
Hallandale
C. R
Carver Ranches, Inc
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Miami, Florida
Bethel
18Th Ave
Mrs. Roosevelt
Jackson
2Nd Ave
Robert Jackson
Harry Markowitz
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Christian Science Monitor
ABC
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