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Vote To Continue Ban On NegroLawyersCongressProposal to Admit All Races andWomen Precipitates Long DebateIWASHINGTON — (A N P —iHVIicn the District Bar Association met on Friday night to dis*•cuss the tentative plans for theadmission of colored lawyers to to the library established in the court building’, bitter arguments flasting long- into the night ended with the majority voting to continue to refuse admission of Negroes to this library.Although one faction was infavor of making provisions foiV the colored lawyers, a larger faction was against this and so voted. vbat* women, negroesThe association’s by-laws prohibit lawyers not eligible foi membership from using the libra #ry. Ineligibles include womenand Negroe. When a suit was instituted against the library and the association to compel them tc admit Negroes to the library, s compromise was sought which would give these Negro lawyers, willing to pay a fee of $8.00 pei annum, the right to use a separate reading room in the library. and at the same time grantthe same privilege to women.It was the proposal for separate reading rooms that raised the.greater part of the controversy |and Henry I. Quinn, past presi- \ dent, offered an amendment to strike out that provision.“I stand against any proposal,”he declared, -‘that is againstfAmerican principles and gives thethe slightest indorsement to raeia]prejudices.” He called upon the association to “meet this problem as American men who refuseto be parties to a hypocrit:cal move of this sort.”RAP JIM CROWISM“Don’t give your sanction toanything so un-Amerrcan as JimCrowism is in that old courthouseof ours,” he concluded.One of the members of the association said he felt the Quinnargument would go all the wayand admit Negroes to membership in the association which he said he did not believe they were prepared to do so. and neither was he.Charging the whole thing a political move by certain members of the association, one of the members brought a vociferous answer from his opponent.73-45 AGAINSTAfter a lengthy debate, theQuinn amendment was approved by a vocal vote, however \vhena count was demanded, the vote was 73 foi- and 54 against, lacking the necessary two-thirds vote required for passage. When aftercontinued debate, the demand* foi a vote was taken, the final was 63 for and 45 against.No decision has been reached by the association and it finds itself faced with the suit insti-Librarytuted by A tty. Huvcr I. Brown some months ago demand’ng Hie ouster of tin* group from the government owned build ng from which Negroes are barred.
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Phoenix Index
Phoenix, Arizona, US
Sat, Dec 28, 1940
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