Garland Gift Fuels NAACP's Long Battle for Equality
In the late 1920s Charles Garland funded NAACP efforts with $106,000 in securities, later helping the group hire its first fulltime lawyer and plan long term legal strategy. Walter White recalls the pivotal shift after the 1929 crash, culminating in the Supreme Court ruling that racial school segregation is unconstitutional, ending the separate but equal doctrine in education.
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Washington
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Garland
National Assny For
NAACP
Walter White
Supreme Court
White
America
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Harvard
WAACP
Thurgood Marshall
Houston
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Reception Honors State Officers at Middletown Event
Loyalty Chapter of the Maryland Order of Eastern Star in Middletown hosted a reception at Middletown High School for the newly created Worthy Grand Patron Harry Schroeder and Worthy Grand Matron Mrs. Margaret Bond. About 400 guests attended as grand officers arrived in a decorated auditorium, with gifts presented and a toast furnished by James Ewing.
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Maryland Order of Eastern Star
Middletown
Middletown High School
Harry 0. Schroeder
Margaret E. Bond
Towson
Schroeder
Bond
Schol
Schroder
Eddington Bond
Barbara Ann Ewing
Suzanne Webster
Ellen
Elsie Wolfe
Maryland
Loyalty
Catherine Dinterman
Vanthe Crutchley
Kremlin power struggle flares as Khrushchev rises
Satellite reports from Geneva credit Nikita Khrushchev with strengthening bid for Stalin's throne, eclipsing Georgi Malenkov. Molotov wanes, while Khrushchev gains backing of Red Army leaders and the Russifier faction. The coup against Beria unfolds through Moscow military chief Moskalenko’s actions, amid factional deadly rivalries behind the Iron Curtain.
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NEA
Geneva
Stalin
Georgi Malenkov
Nikitai Khrushchev
Russia
Communist Party
Vyacheslav Molotayv
China
Chou En-lai
Red
Molotov
Berlin
Lenin
Kremlin
Khrushchev
Mikita Khrushchev
Party
Red Army
Malenkov
Soviet Empire
Kalinovka
Stalin Khrushchev
Lavrenti Beria
Secret Police
Gregory Zhukov
Bera
Moskalenko
Moscow
Ukraine
Nehru urges Geneva cease fire for Indochina
In New Delhi on May 18 Prime Minister Nehru called for a quick Geneva cease-fire in Indochina during a parliamentary debate on foreign policy. Both houses endorsed his plea by voice vote as progress signs appeared at Geneva, with the main aim a cease-fire. Collections of state taxes on sales motor fuels and alcohol rose in 1953 while cigarette taxes fell.
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