Cleveland Officials Fight Public Release of Subversive List
Cleveland police continue subversive in civil rights probes. Safety Director John McCormick refuses to publish 38 names despite calls from NAACP leader Clarence Homes and Councilman Henry Sinkiewicz. FBI review cited before any release. Legislators push for a federal probe. HA resolutions stalled.
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Cleveland
City Safety
John N. McCormick
Clarences Homes
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
United Freedom Movement
UFM
Henry Sinkiewicz
McCormick
FBI
Legislation
Arthur N. Kruczyk
House Committee On Un-American Activities
Education board awards contract for Glenville elementary school
The Board of Education awarded construction contracts for a controversial Glenville area elementary school on Woorsxe Avenue. The United Front Movement opposed the project and a $1 million taxpayers suit was filed to block construction.
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Board of Education
Woorsxe Avenue
Glenville
Cleveland
Esat
UFM
Oberlin Choir Returns After Soviet Tour
Oberlin College choir returns to New York after a two month Soviet Union tour. The group gave 33 concerts in 12 Russian cities and 3 in Romania. Tass News praised its fine style, faultless intonation, and perfect phrasing. The ensemble planned a Town Hall concert on Thursday.
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New York
Oberlin
Ohio
Soviet Union
Chow
Kennedy Almort
Rossen
Romania
Tass
Town Hall
Demonstrations Promised After Nashville Street Sit-Ins
Civil rights leaders pledged more demonstrations in Nashville after violent clashes that halted traffic near a segregated cafeteria. Ten demonstrators, including three white students, were jailed as police arrested participants after about 1,000 negros and whites lay down in the street to protest arrests and police brutality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville
Tenn
White College
Nashville Chuwuen Leadership Council
Ith
H. O. Kemp
Bell Gets 5 Years In Hotta Case
Henry F Bell, vice president of the International Longshoremen's Association, was sentenced in Nashville to five years in prison and fined $5,000 for jury tampering. He offered $30,000 to bribe two jurors in the 1982 trial of James R. Hollie, Teamsters Union president. The judge denied a new trial. Bell plans appeal.
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Nashville
Teamsters Union
Hoffa
Leader Of Stall In Gets 13: Months
Arnold Goldwag, chief spokesman for the Brooklyn chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality, was sentenced to 13 months in jail by Manhattan Criminal Court for persistent disorderly civil rights demonstrations while on probation. He shouted Ku Klux Klan as he was led away, earning an extra 3 days for contempt. Goldwag, son of a Jewish garment worker, helped plan an auto stall in for the New York World's Fair opening.
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New York
Arnold Goldwag
Brooklyn
The
Congress of Racial Equality
Manhattan
Goldwag
Goldway
Benjamin Gassman
Brooklyn College
Gassman
Methodist Conference faces racial integration push in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh AP The 194 General Conference opened to debate abolishing the Central Jurisdiction, a 375000 strong Negro division. The Rev Robert A Raines urged eradicating racial segregation from top to local churches as delegates consider uniting white and Negro conferences. Dr W Astor Kirk pressed for full desegregation nationwide. The Board of Missions noted nationalism affects missions, with reduced contact in China, Cuba and North Korea.
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Robert A. Raines
First Methodist Church of
Germantown
Methodist Church
W. Astor Kir
General Board of
Christian Social Concerns
Washington
China
Cuba
North Korea
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Oberlin’s Choir
Tennessees
Braxton Duke
Lewter McKennie
McKennie
Duke Polce
Bell
Middletown Federal Savings and Loan Association
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Church of the Central Jurisdiction
the Methodist Board of Mis
Sions
Butler County
Raymond
Ray) Reiff
Milford
Shell Dealers of
Middletown
Genter
Shell
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