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Newspaper
Miami Times
Location
Miami, Florida, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1957
Page
8
In New Orleans the color line is blurred by passing and mixed heritage. White power and pride clash with rising pride and fear as light skinned individuals navigate hotels, schools, and public spaces while rumors of blacks passing for white swirl through neighborhoods and institutions.
The public is invited to a Civil Defense program at J. R. E. Lee Elementary School on Monday Sept 16 at 8 p.m. featuring Dr. I P Davis and speakers Col H W Tarkington County Commissioner Faris Cowart and J N Lummus Jr. Five mobile Civil Defense units will be displayed including a hospital bus and a 200 bed field hospital. the event coincides with National Civil Defense Week Sept 15-21.
The NAACP renewed its request dated Oct 31 to cancel the Army versus Tulane football game in New Orleans on Nov 16. Roy Wilkins said the Army should not embarrass Negro cadets and officers, despite no Black soldiers on the Army team.
Congressman Charles C. Diggs Jr of Michigan urged Secretary Wilber M. Brucker to deny reports that the Army would transfer Negro soldiers married to German women out of Fort Hood bound Second Armored Division to avoid alleged embarrassment. Diggs warned such moves could revive discriminatory practices and called for immediate substantiation or rescission of the order.
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