Richmond attorney warns racial ills at home harm other nations
Cornelius Richardson of Richmond Indiana told the Richmond Lions Club that the United States cannot settle problems in India or Poland while racial issues persist at home. He cited segregation in theaters and a missing eating place for Negroes, and linked British exploitation in North Africa to democracy delays. He urged a Christmas spirit large enough to cross racial barriers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Poland
C. R. Richardson
Richmond
Ind
Enquirer Bureau Special Dispatch
United States
Cornelius Richardson
Richmond Lions Club
Leland Hotel
Richardson
North Africa
Supreme Court opinions on fair representation for minority railway workers
Washington December 21 1944 publicized Supreme Court rulings issued December 18 1944 in Tunstall v Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen and Steele v Louisville and Nashville. The rulings, tied to the Federal Railway Labor Act and echoed by labor groups, condemn the Southeastern Carriers Agreement of 1941 and push for a permanent federal agency to enforce fair representation in collective bargaining.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Supreme Court
Tunstall
Brotherhood of Locomotive
Steele
Louisville and Nashville: Railroad Company
Association of Colored Railway Trainmen and Locomotive, Firemen, Inc
International Association of Railway Employees
Supreme Court
Southeastern Carriers
E.P.C
Brotherhoods
F.E.P.C
Charles H. Houston
Bedroom Approach to Racism by Borgese
University of Chicago professor G A Borgese argues in Negro Digest that the bedroom is the key to ending the color line. He asserts all progress comes when racial mixing occurs freely in marriages and claims Brotherhood is found in the bedroom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
University of Chicago
G. A. Borgese
Negro Digest
Borgese
Washingtons Adamless Eden Girls Town near Pentagon
Washington's Arlington Farms, called Girls Town, is a 109 acre city within a city in the Capitol. Run by the Public Buildings Administration, it houses over 11,000 residents including 4,000 Waves, all civil service workers earning up to 1800 a year and aged 16 to 72, with a single resident male manager living in the penthouse atop City Hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pentagon Building
Arlington Farms
Civil Service
Public Buildings Administration
Federal Works Agency
William J. Bissell
PBA
Girls Town
Washington
Pentagon
Segregation in the Armed Forces Interview Highlights Discharged Seabees
Isaac G. McNatt described his discharge from the Seabees as undeserving and unjust. He led a fight for justice via the Lynn Committee to Abolish Segregation in the Armed Forces, claiming 18 Negro Seabees were discharged without trial due to discrimination. He said Negro service members paid for being Black and were penalized during his Navy tenure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WEVD
New York City
Isaac G. McNatt
Seabees
Lynn Committee
McNatt
Navy
Seabee
Churches urge fair employment laws at NY hearing
Dr George E Haynes of the Federal Council of Churches backs proposed non discrimination legislation before the NY State Commission Against Discrimination in Employment. He warns that job denial harms social life and recalls postwar riots rooted in economic discrimination against Negro workers. The federation SI supports a permanent Fair Employment Practice Committee, echoed by Home Missions Council and multiple denominations including the Presbyterian Church USA the Methodist Church and the Northern Baptist Convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
New York State Commission Against
Bar Association
George E. Haynes
Department of Race Relations
Federal Council of Churches
Haynes
Home Missions Council of North America
Presbyterian Church In the USA
Methodist Church
Northern Baptist Convention
Riots in Johannesburg Spark U.S. Protest Letter
The Council of African Affairs rebukes the South African Government in a letter to Dr F W Gie. The November 6 riots left one African dead six seriously injured and fifty needing medical care. The Bantu World offices and a $40,000 building were burned by European hoodlums.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Council of African Affairs
F. W. Gie
United States
Johannesburg
Bantu World
Des Moines Interracial Commission picks 1945 officers
At North High cafeteria Des Moines Interracial Commission elected 1945 officers led by Rev C Lopez McAllister as chairman with Cornell Hewson vice chairman and Mrs Lillian Scales secretary treasurer. Committee members include Rev Walter Briggs Dr A T DeGroot John S Coleman W Lawrence Oliver Miss Marjorie McCoy Miss Clara Webb and Frank Dillon ex officio. The program featured Rev Lester Suzuki urging equality among all races.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Lopez McAllister
Cornell Hewson
Lillian Scales
Walter M. Briggs
A. T. DeGroot
John S. Coleman
Lawrence Oliver
Marjorie McCoy
Clara Webb
Frank J. Dillon
Stella Scurlock
A. A. Alexander
Lester Suzuki
Pearl Harbor
Des Moines
Methodist Church
Hawaii
Atty. S. Joe Brown
Ruth Lumbard
Atty
Jas. B. Morris
Atty. Brown
Dr. DeGroot
Anniversary ends at Maple Street Baptist Church
The Maple Street Baptist Church marked the third anniversary of Rev. C. Lopez McAllister as pastor with a Monday night service. A large church banquet followed, featuring gifts of money groceries and household utilities to the pastor and wife. Several pastors and churches participated during anniversary week with Dr. Clement Richardson of Western Seminary Kansas City delivering three messages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Lopez McAllister
Maple Street Baptist Church
Clement Richardson
Western Seminary of
Kansas City
A M E Zion Sesqui Centenary Banquet Planned in Knoxville
The A M E Zion Sesqui Centennial Commission announces a January 10 banquet at Logan Temple Knoxville to launch the 150th anniversary of Zion Methodism. More than five hundred leaders from the church will attend as committees are formed to execute a year by year program culminating at Mother Zion Church in New York City in August 1946. The goal includes evangelizing five hundred thousand more members and raising two million dollars for education home missions and church extension and missions in the fatherland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
A. Huntingdon Harwood
A.M.E. Zion
Commission
Knoxville
Tennessee
William Jacob Walls
Chicago
Sesqui-Centennial Commission
Mother Zion Church
New York City
Logan Temple
Solomon Snowden Seay
AME Zion Church
Continental United States
Evening Schools Open Registration for Second Semester
More than 100 subjects will be offered at 12 centers in Cincinnati's free public evening schools for adults. Registration on Tuesday evening January 2 from 7 to 9 30. Special emphasis on subjects requested by wartime workers and those preparing to enter the armed services. Tuition is free to Cincinnati school district residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Earl T. Gold
Gold
A Christmas Prayer for Mercy and Courage
A Christmas Day prayer asks for the spirit to descend, humility and courage for future days, strength to endure testing, and acts of justice, truth, mercy, and love toward all. It asks guidance to follow divine will and bring peace and righteousness to earth.
British War Child Adopted by New York Theatre Group
The cast of Anna Lucasta and the American Negro Theatre group have adopted two year old Alexandra Hope Villiers, a British War Child, through the Foster Parents Plan for War ChildREN. Mrs Edna Blue, plan executive chairman, announced yesterday. Alexandra is the child of a coloured African couple whose airman father was killed in action just before her birth, leaving the mother to face the world alone with her baby after a bombing raid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Anna Lucasta
Alexandra Hope Villiers
Edna Blue
Plan
Alexandra
Labor unions rise with Roosevelts era promise
Labor organizations grow stronger as CIO backed Roosevelt in the last election and supporters predicted doom. The outcome benefited Roosevelt and the nation. If labor chooses wise and capable leaders, the country may soon enjoy unprecedented prosperity financially, mentally, and physically.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CIO
Roosevelt
Labor
Europe Devastated by War Food Shortages and Hunger
A Dabney quote warns that Europe is near starvation due to wartime disruption of imports and farming. If the conflict extends another year, the United States must take primary responsibility for feeding Europe, or famine and its harsher consequences will spread, reflecting humanity’s wartime cruelty and folly.
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Europe
United States
Dabney
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D. C
General Counsel
Nation’ Capitol
Mars
Pop
McAllister
North High School
Des Moines Interracial Commission
Ike Smalls
Racial Justice Committee
Ft. Des Moines
Blanche Smith
State Traveling Library
A. J Irvine
St. Paul A.M.E
J. T. Johnson
C.M E
Maple Street
Sesqui-Centennial
Ruth Taylor
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