The Republican Party and Negro Inequality
A 1951 American Party release criticizes Republican leadership for supporting racial discrimination while contrasting 1863 emancipation with 1951 policies. It cites Senator Taft defending separate schools and calls for federal action to end discrimination, educational equality, and universal human rights, linking segregation to broader freedom struggles.
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American Party
Gilman
Wisconsin
Republican
Senator Taft
Republican Party
America
North Carolina College
Durham
N. C
South
Taft
Warfield Returns to Bergen and McCarthy Show
William Warfield the great colored baritone returns for another visit with Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy. The Coca Cola Company sponsored his prior appearance and praised his performance. Once unknown, he rose to fame after Town Hall debut in March 1950 and the Show Boat film.
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William Warfield
Charlie McCarthy
Coca-Cola Company
Warfield
Bergen
New York
Town Hall
McCarthy
Husband Sues City for 300000 Over Wife's Death
John Lawhorne of Brooklyn filed a claim with New York City's comptroller seeking 300000 in damages after his wife Betty Lawhorne died from injuries after an alleged Sept 29 1951 arrest and fall from a police station window. The case cites the arrest at a luncheonette and an ensuing death weeks later at Kings County Hospital. Lawrence and their 8 year old son are named in the filing.
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New York
City Comptroller
City of
John Lawhorne
Jefferson Avenue
Brooklyn
N. Y
Lawhorne
Betty Lawhorne
Italy
Lawrence
Missionary service for foreign students urged by church leaders
Leaders of American churches urge members to host foreign students studying in U.S. colleges from 60 nations. About 35,000 students, including Germany and Japan figures, should experience genuine American home life during holidays and at school. They warn that overseas views of America are shaped by Hollywood images and can distort faith and life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S.A
Germany
Japan
RCA Instilled Liberal Program Highlighted by Ebony Award
The RCA Victor Division earned Ebony Magazine's 1951 award for outstanding industrial race relations at a Chicago roundtable dinner. John H. Johnson praised RCA for unbiased racial integration and creating skilled Negro job opportunities. Walter A. Buck accepted the citation as RCA held regional discussions with Negro press and community leaders to build closer ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Radio Corporation of America
RCA Victor
Ebony Magazine
RCA
Chicago
Ebony
John H. Johnson
Johnson
Walter A. Buck
Four Million Koreans Homeless Amid War
Missionary Rev Edward Adams reports from Pusan that about four million Koreans have been driven from their homes by fighting, including around two hundred thousand Christians and four hundred ordained pastors with families. He cites UN Civil Assistance and notes church relief in the US is needed to supplement aid, praising One Great Hour of Sharing and church gifts as lifelines.
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Korea
Edward Adams
Pusan
United Nations Command
Adams
U.N
U.S.A
Christ Jesus
Black Nationalist Letter Demands Fair Jobs Policy
James R. Lawson, president of the United African Nationalist Movement, writes to CIO leaders urging enforcement of fair employment in brewing and warning of a national campaign against perceived white worker dominance. He claims black workers and veterans will be driven to action if denied fair jobs and accuses Communist influence of blocking Black inclusion.
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CIO
United States
Asia
Africa
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
West Indies
South
Central America
National Urban League
United African Nationalist Movement
Caribbean
James R. Lawson
Pittsburgh urban league hires Mason after study tour
Louis Mason of Pittsburgh returned to his post January 2 1952 as industrial relations secretary of the Pittsburgh Urban League. He spent seven months with the National Urban League visiting twenty communities under a Field Foundation grant to study the utilization of Negro workers in defense industries. Mason visited East Coast locales and as far west as St. Louis consulting with officials in chambers of commerce industry labor public employment services and civic life.
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Louis Mason
Pittsburgh
National Urban League
Field Foundation, Inc
Pittsburgh Urban League
Lester B. Granger
Mr. Mason
St. Louis
Chambers of Commerce
Screen Star Heads Drive For Interracial Hospital
Los Angeles screen star George Murphy becomes chairman of a campaign to raise 650000 dollars for a new St Augustine Westview Hospital in the city. The facility will be interracial and managed by Catholic nuns. Murphy succeeds Postmaster Michael D Fanning, who resigned.
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Los Angeles
George Murphy
St. Augustine-Westview Hospital
New Year Edition Honors Freedom Torchbearers
COUNT A. J. GARY OF NEW YORK WRITES THE NEWS salutes John Brown Whittier Garrison and Du Bois as 1952 figures who upheld liberty. It honors Joseph C. Manning of Alabama and others who faced Ku Klux Klan hostility, urging prayers for those serving abroad and a hopeful New Year.
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New York
John Brown
New York rally frees Willie Thomas from Alabama chain gang
Progressive Negro and white New Yorkers formed a statewide coalition to stop Gov. Gordon Persons from extraditing Willie Thomas, a 33 year old Black father of five, to an Alabama chain gang. After protests, Thomas was freed as Dewey’s extradition papers were withdrawn and officials denounced Jim Crow justice.
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New York
N. Y
Willie Thomas
Thomas E. Dewey
Thomas
Alabama
Civil Rights Congress
Albany Negro Labor Council
New York Civil Rights Congress
Citizen's Committee
Gordon Persons
Dewey
United Action
N. Y. Civil Rights Congress
Gov. Dewey
Pius XI Students Stage Interracial Justice Play
Milwaukee seniors at Pius XI staged a dynamic plea for interracial justice with City of Kings. The play by Father Urban Nagle O P portrays Blessed Martin de Porres, a Negro lay brother, whose sainthood is under consideration by the Catholic Church.
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Milwaukee
Pius XI High School
Cty of Kings
Urban Nagle
O.P
Martin de Porres
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Jack
Screen
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John Greenleaf Whittier
William Lloyd Garrison
Newburyport
Mass
Boston
Frederick Douglas
William Burghardt DuBois
Benjamin Davis
Joseph C. Manning
Kings
Dabne
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