Julius A Thomas joins President's Contract Compliance panel
Julius A. Thomas, director of the National Urban League’s Department of Industrial Relations, becomes a consultant to the President's Committee on Government Contract Compliance. The committee, created by Executive Order 10308, aims to enforce anti discrimination terms in defense contracts with officials from labor, industry, and government agencies. The Urban League provided a nationwide discrimination survey showing widespread issues and plans for rapid action.
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Julius A. Thomas
Department of Industrial Relations
National Urban League
Lester B. Granger
Thomas
Truman
Dwight R. G. Palmer
General Cable Corporation
James B. Carey
CIO
Dowdal H. Davis
Kansas City Call
Irving M. Engel
American Jewish Committee
Oliver W. Hill
Richmond
Virginia
George Meaney
American Federation of Labor
Russell Forbes
Defense Materials Procurement Agency
Michael J. Galvin
Everett L. Hollis
Atomic Energy Commission
John D
Small
Munitions Board
Department of Defense
Urban League
Powell Takes Top Harriman Committee Post
New York congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. accepted the national vice chairmanship of the Harriman for President Committee. Powell, the first Negro delegate-at-large to a Democratic Convention, praised the District of Columbia victory as a pattern for Chicago and the November polls. Powell’s background includes pastor at Abyssinian Baptist Church and degrees from Colgate, Columbia, Shaw, and Virginia Union.
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New York
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr
Harriman For President Committee
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr
Harriman Group
Powell
District of Columbia
Chicago
United States
Congress
Abyssinian Baptist Church
New Haven, Conn
Colgate University
Columbia
Shaw University
Virginia Union University
Europe
North Africa
Asia Minor
NAACP Forges Civil Rights Presence at Chicago Conventions
NAACP leaders Walter White Roy Wilkins Clarence Mitchell and Henry Lee Moon will run civil rights headquarters in Chicago at Roosevelt College serving as a hub for progress displays literature and public outreach during the Republican and Democratic conventions. A leaflet listing minimum demands seeks to curb filibusters end lynching federalize voting laws and end segregation in interstate travel among other civil rights measures.
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New York
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Chicago
Walter White
Secre
Tary
Roy Wilkins
Clarence Mitchell
Washington
Henry Lee Moon
Naacp Board of Directors
NAACP
Roosevelt College
South Michigan Ave
Rape Case Dropped After Woman Said Yes
Two men Henry Jones and Alvin Bradford were acquitted of common-law rape in Detroit court last week after a parolee testified that leaving with them would not have led to reported relations. The jury of ten women and two men was excused by Recorder's Judge Joseph A Gillis following witness testimony and the prosecution's motion for a directed verdict of not guilty.
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Detroit
ANP
Joseph A
Henry Jones
Alvin Bradford
Jones
Bradford
Gillis
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Mame
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Common Sense Prices
Baker’s Bar
N.W. 20Th Street
Earl Edwards
Cliff Baker
Prop
Agency
Apts
3D Ave
Liberty City
N.W. 73Rd St
L. L. Brooks
Coconut Grove
Grand Ave
Dade County Mortgage CO
Biscayne Bing
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Madam Hunter
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Miami
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