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Deepening Crisis as Racial Tensions Rise Across North and South
A Charleston NAACP official and other leaders describe growing animosity between Black and white communities from Savannah to Charlotte. They discuss anger, pride, and calls for immediate equal rights, noting intra-racial tensions and a split between militant and moderate factions amid Jim Crow barriers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Junius Griffin
Porgy
Bess
Herbert Fielding
Charleston
S.C
NAACP
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Fielding
Harlem
Washington
Savannah
Columbia
N.C
Charlotte
North
South
Hosea Williams
Chattam County Voters League
Williams
Georgia
Deeping
J. Dequincey Newman
South Carolina
Newman
E. Cedric Hart
Hart
Reginald A. Hawkins
America
Summer Stone Jr