Stuyvesant Town Drops Ban on Negro Tenants
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co says Stuyvesant Town has leased some apartments to qualified Negro families on a trial basis. The move ends a long de facto ban, though the company claims no policy change and retains tenant selection rights. 35 tenants linked to a local anti-discrimination group face eviction.
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U. S. Supreme Court
Sharecroppers Turn South Georgia Farm Into $100000 Plantation
Eight Negro families formerly sharecroppers on a dilapidated Georgia farm near Newton transformed it into a thriving plantation called Wellington. Under Chicago ad man Hill Blackett, they adopted modern farming methods, received $5,000 homes and 53 hour workweeks, and produce about $10,000 cash monthly. Blackett says profit, not charity, drives success and favors merit over race.
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Award Upheld In Fatal Seaman Fall Case
Federal Judge Ernest Gibson denied a motion to set aside a $115000 verdict in the death of James E Naylor a 35 year old seaman who died after a fall from the forecastle of the freighter Allegheny Victory The jury awarded Mrs Naylor 40000 for suffering 15000 to each of Mrs Naylor and her daughter Tanya 15000 and 45000 to her son James 14 The judge said pain from another's wrongdoing is not less to the poor than the rich
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