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Newspaper
The Union
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1947
Page
3
National Urban League calls on Negro citizens groups nationwide to seek audiences before on the spot congressional housing hearings set in more than thirty locations. The aim is to address vital housing problems facing their communities.
The Mississippi election color line is praised as the people persevere through tests of fate. A tribute to George Kersey Edward Wright and others highlights the era’s political leadership while noting a dedication ceremony with Gov Len Small. Also reported are Senegalese railway workers in Dakar striking for equal wages with Europeans, led by Fal Ayruna, detailing discriminatory pay gaps.
A Mississippi political scene note recalls John E Rankin leading a fifth place finish to fill Bilbo’s term. John Cornelius Stennis, a circuit judge, wins easily while avoiding race rhetoric. References to Armistice Day’s 1938 nationalization and a monument effort for WWI fallen soldiers with Col Otis B Duncan as a commanding figure.
Twenty one Negro locomotive firemen filed suit in the Federal Court of the District of Columbia. They seek to compel Southeastern Railroads and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen to obey 1944 Supreme Court decisions banning discrimination. Plaintiffs represent over a thousand Black firemen on Eastern carrier lines and belong to the Provisional Committee of Colored Locomotive Firemen, formed by the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
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