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Other Editors SavMORE EVIDENCE OF RACEGROWTHA little more than a decade, , . *Ago the Swedish sociologist Gun-1 nis t°urnamenh where she also* M A a ^ ^ _ _ _nis star, is representing the United States at the Wimbledon ten-nar Myrdal said with considerable truth:“Negroes cannot get into big league baseball (in the U. S.) and rarely have been allowed Into competitive tennis and golf.' They are generally kept out of competitive sports which require teams.played in 1951. She also is beingsent on a world tour by the statedepartment. In the last two yearsthe U. S. has sent such top Negro track and field stars as Jesse Owens. Harris Dilliard, Gil Cru-ter, Mai Whitfield and Bill Miller to Asia, Africa and the Middle East. They had notable successThat statement of some 10..m creating goodupon progress we have made to overcome this fault. Jackie Robinson, Willie Mays, and a host of others are proof that the race barrier has been removed in big league baseball.Negro players have performed on the top football teams of the nation. Yale, typical of the Ivycountry.factosomthyrttreat(theandshouladvisto foQ-amou to fo resul A-eausc is no too 1 takeleague conegiaie circle, nas naa | Americana Negro football captainBy such demonstrations whila still admitting our lack of complete equality between races, we show our appreciation of the problem and our success in coping with it. The evidence we are able to produce frustrate* those who prefer to believe that thecess.Q-gerydroojthatlid. 1 to mA-di.se amy a?plastOneteneffotMiss Althea Gibson, Negro ten- —Bloomington Pantagraph,geon
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Fort Madison Evening Democrat
Fort Madison, Iowa, US
Thu, Sep 20, 1956
Page 4
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