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By ROBERT M. RATCLIFFE rhp Kid was bubbling over with enthusiasm anil excite pnl a he rushed into the Old Man's office. The Old Man packing his bag. He paused a moment, remembering hat, he eame in the same way just twelve months ago. He, tnn lie ard the whistles and guns, the shouting and He was about to go now.

He was ready to fade out of the picture and let the Kid take over. 7ho Kid jumped upon the Old Man's desk and. flipped the a book. I Hi'V Pop." he yelled, "looks like 1946 was pretty bad 'or v. j.

here, a war veteran was blinded by a Dixie rv j' rhased Negroes out of a little town a race ud Hi OM Man. "that part of it was Very bad. It was v. you know. But.

let's look at it this way out of limns ramp some grood. The eyes of the world were 'iTii fvriy. continent there came demands that America iipp orr'a. as wcll as preach it. Even President Truman toll von the truth.

I think that Anti Lynching Bill has i A HO IT VOTKRS A fincoi od i few more pages. "Hey. Pop," he screamed, "I vi. no follows ot boat up because they attempted to vote su'i. ipplird the Old Man.

"But, keep on reading vhio thousands of colored people did vote in I some ntn Stntos. And, mind you, Son, the colored vote it a lm of those race baiters." ntiotit tie'KU mux vian ine ivia bskcq smiled. Son," he' said, "the Klan started spouting 1 i i i a a 5fl(ll; outlaw ed the KKIV, ana nmer oiaies, DacKea Dy me of Jus' ire. made it so hot for the Kluxers that; 'they UiIa. anil hlila i i A rallrd the tried to outdo the Klan AH.

inta. hut lot al police took care of them." TOl.n OK OI KIKK CAMPAIGN nmo sonietliinc to look forward to." said the Kid. Yo i io not kiddinpr," the. OldMan mumbled. "As you read through that wk.voii'U soo where President Truman sent Judge William H.

HaMo the Virgin Islands as Governor, and gave Dr. R. O'Hara lntf a 'irkot to Liberia as U. S.lMinister You'll enjoy reading The ri't hursr Conner's attack on Army "Blue Discharges," that man and secrciration in Washington. i'H "Th Amotiinn Mother 6f 1946" was a colored lady, and Jackie started with those Montreal Royals Clara Luce gave th DAT.

gooil spanking and several Northern universities canceled pitir Sou! hem teams because the Southerners wouldn't think p'vins: ncTns' Negro stars The Washington Post andNew York Hrtald Tiibune came out against jim crow amateur athletic ppr'' WASN'T MTH A nT YEAR Tot'y N'tferoes wore elected or re elected to State and national off pn iMnc the Republican landslide Dr. S. Johnson b.an ho fit! colorec1 president of Fisk UniversTty. Negroes oppn'i bnnU Memphis Joe Loins came back anamQcked Pi'lv Conn" i M' such a y'ear after all," the Kid" agreed. il' yours, row.

See if you can do a better job'. So I i. Yo. Heiald a i crow meet In Pi Hi I.fS'ot and fam 1 t.f i f. i ir n.

arainst Govern r. 'P Kip i of liiui Paull ''m jiuiv AMcrn.y (Jenrral JL. iitf Sacramento. slasu.nt; top NpRTO p.Minli" in Mauila ir.v i :oie.i in Nashville, Tenn. I in Knox Una; ntes lipid in New i'liilvn.

noifd poet and 'nn philati Yi.i Dr. At'tican scientist. Unmh Rall ii.j im crow lt. Pavid ftz "I K.vn:el to staff of si in Nv York 3 LrDan L3pi a Letter io ha it rix.e a.r nee" of per Dr. Waiter.

L. rf I 1100(1 Uni 1 ITT'li Composite j'' pv Mrs. r. 'i I i of pu of the ai.il fi iiiie. dies Yriri vote fraud 01 Canada Nitiet third Infantry Xn i i a.

South FEBRUARY Riva! stpti li.hnoL' ''''Cyl'' "Hays pitcher i (, 1 1 1 1 in as Niw 'tH' John Rnxborough, ms denied parole rll Diti it L'pier South I'umiini run. i vvasn fof nenr Capitol. protesUng 'r 1 tr. Malvin Proctor of staff at YonUers Gen Tuokar oe. N.

Y. Hire 1ners in New York oar in Michigan prison vote ncht to hundreds of TK J'lTTSBURGH aunties vigorous campaign cavr. an discrimination in fi J. Lorke Phlla of rniversity of Wis Af.r.yj Kiue Discharges" rap Mrs. arati Murphy.

larhnoi te: cl.er. named lGoo.1 Neighbor." 1 Ke'iart kills motion to end "rr I. Seven dismissed fol iiije at Livingstone Col r. c. Freedom Day i i Pacific vet vni mess at Fort Dix "'A a'fks 20) 000 damages Itvin McDuffie, valet for twelve years Emporia (Kan i 111.

ntnmff h.l kn Kornvr Magistrate '1'iiry of Philadelphia is l'f hilt killed In fl.n.t. ficn on restrictive eove NIrv Kannis Cook. 8. Louis Carver Awsi.1 I sn M.i!MB, rharclng mistreat i Cnast Guam spoloRy aynt Towell Sr. of New York Naacp compll I HIGHLIGHTS OF JANUARY Chicago's Rhumboogie Cafe swept by $25,000 blaze Knv A A icp addresses Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, makes plea for manor.

I'KPC Cab Calloway, bandleader, freed in Kansas ri'v, j.v df, chatsts resisting arrest andy being drunk, after he a ,1 f'l ii to enter a ballroom President Truman i i. solution making Jan. 5 George Washington aued Overton, Chlcag businessman, collapses. FEB. 23 Negro vote elects Georgia Con eres iweman Fight for FEPC shifts to House NAACP barred from air in Nation Capital; script "too hot" Pfc.

Robert DicKens. Hernando, gets life for killing Japanese in Two broadcasts feature Negro Newspaper Week Cook County Hospital in Chicago appoints Dr. Leonldas H. Berry to staff Mixed couple ordered to leave state of Oklahoma Apartment building blast' In New Orleans kills twenty FEPC Rally packa Madison Square oaraen. MARCH march 2 West Indian Conference.

In session on Virgin Islands, calls ifor BUI of Human Rights and self government Frank B. Adair granted internship at New York's Sydenham Hospital Ll Negro Press praised by President Truman School Lunch Bill bana race bias i.i.ut col. James M. Robinson and Ma). Steve G.

Davis accept position i in War Department Six hundred nee tene. ment fire in Chicago Dr. N.I Calr loway appointed lecturer In Internal medi cine at University of and Dr: lames R. Giggs, Washington, appointed to staff of Hlnes Veterans Hospital. MARCH 9 Race riot In Columbia, leaves colored business section In shambles; wounded during raid on Mink Slide; two colored prisoners klllea xa jan Army backs Gillem Report, rules out ati.Nerro Division Jackie Robinson and Johnny Wright welcomed as Montreal Royals move Into Daytona Beacn, tor spring training M.

I Stuart, insurance executive, dies at deak in Mem rhi 'iRaDhael O'Hara Lanier sworn as Minister to Liberia Property ovenanUin l.os Angeles. upheld by Superior Judge Joseph W. Vickers Tmman K. Gibson, a Chicago attorney and former Civilian Aide to the Secretary of War. loins Courier staff aa Veterans sMiinr Newsosoer publishers visit Piesiden't Truma i 1T.0O0 attend New YorV mass meeting, endorse "March on 'A'athlncthn MARCH .18 FBI probes Columbia (Tenn.l rare riot: U.

8. Attorney General Tom Clark pledges protection of ii ichts. Mrar Bertha Mae watKins 01 bijl calling lor vw vorlc taken from train and Jeled. .1 I n. Ttailwav Com.

urn iibiiii panv Robert C. Weaver narneuVtoj 1'NRRA post Church group anU( YWCA leaders spearhead drive for equality Veterana march on City iHall Jn Atlanta. demand appointment of col ored policemen C. A. HaneDerry, Chlfago businessman, dies suddenly Mexico Milwaukee scnooi Buperiu Leu dent and principal resign following con troversy of hiring colored teacner.

i MARCH 23 French end colonial era, trant citizenshio to West Indies Ku Klux Klan launches all out membership camoairn in fertile sections of Tennessee New York's 8enator Mead denounces racial attitude of American Bowling Con gress Tanner G. Duekrey, assistant superintendent of public schools lir Phila delphia, appointed to summer school faculty of University of Southern cauiornia Arthur G. William named president ot Student Council at Columbia University Law School The Pittsburgh Courier reaches 300.000 circulation mark Elks threaten spilt In New York area. MARCH 30 Maury County Grand jury indicts rhtrty fjve In Tennessee race riot case as U. 8.

Attorney General I calls for Federal investigation Jacksonville (Fla.) city officials close baseball park to keep Jackie Robinson from playing M. Dantea Bellegarde arrives In ton to take charge of Haitian I Embassy War trained pilots Invade New York sretrg airline Jobs School i segregation In California ruled unconstitutional Negro vote In Brunswick, defeats incumbent county commissioners. April APRIL 6 Bishop George E. Curry, Lit tle Pork. suspended as i presiding officer of Oklahoma Arkansas Conference of AVE Church Cumberland W.

Posey, prominent figure In baseball, world, burled In Homestead. Pa. Commercial airlines offer little encouragement' to eager Negro pilots Ku Klux Klan gains "'7. Cnttrell of Los Angeles, ground In Atlanta." Chattanooga, omplete or i itas at p. kiIc i tin Rob (Ifnicri pirmls aM'tmfdt of his Truman a I.Mni.r, to post to Republic of i nominafes lni rnorship CI bail for Manilii Texas or rim Courier i Ixscha probVd Mu an I)eputies ask to hias The to sponsor Jira r'i hoini; tournament Binning 1 'W' ssMpWa ii TJi sv DR.

CHARLES JUDGE WM. H. HASTIE Fisk University President. Virgin Islands Governor. JACKIE ROBINSON 1946 Baseball Star.

ham, Knoxvllle and Miami congressman Adam Clayton Powell and wife. Hazel Scott, purchased $343,000 apartment in New' York City Jackie Robinson. Montreal Royals baseball stsr, barred second time In five days from playing In West Palm Bearh iFla.) park Birmingham (Ala.) city officials bar white baseball player, Eddie Klep, from playing with Cleveland Buckeyea Dr. John W. Law I ah resigns aa dean of Howard University medical school Virginia Jim crow bus law argued before V.

S. Supreme Court MaJ.Kutherford B. Stevens, Washington, D. appointed resident psychiatrist at Winter General Hospital, Topeka. Kan.

i APRIL 13 U. S. House of Representatives defeats move to end segregation in Washington. D. C.

Attorney George M. Johnson succeeds Judge William Has tie aa deaa of law school at Howard University Dr. Lorenzo (Cute) Carter of West Virginia, dies Legislature appointed Assistant Attorney General of Skate of Kentucky Mrs. Minnie Kan soma of Philadelphia, wins second prize in Hedda Hopper's Nationwide hat con test Dr. Glenn T.

Settle ousted as pastor of Gethsemane Baptist Church, Cleveland. Ohio Montreal Royal's Jackie Robinson ordered from baseball diamond at San ford, Fla. South Carolina teachera vote to sue for equal educational opportunities Legion District Division, embracing Soutb and North Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. votes to grant charters to Negro posts. ground for Booker T.

Wasn ington Memorial in Rocky Mcunt, Va. William Scott Ellis elected treasurer of Harvard University Student Council Third political, party, headed by A. Philip Randolpt, sets up organization plans Mrs. Ada F. Jones of Washington, named assistant to Director of Personnel in Com merce Department nr.

josepn u. Johnson of Chicago, succeeds Dr. John Lawlah as dean of Howard University medical school Mrs. Cum Posey suc ceeds late husband as member of Home stead Pa.l School Board. I APRIL 20 William Hastie's Virgjn lands gubernatorial nomination approved, to 2, by Senate subcommittee Attorneys Leon Ransom and Bernard Jefffrson quit Howard University law school faculty as school heads deny revolt exists Attorney General Robert W.

Kenny of California atepa io strip Ku Klux Klan of its Jegal robes Bernard (Ricky) Ross apopinted Race Relations Advisor foe Federal Public Housing Authority In Far West Marian Anderson sings National Anthem at dedica tion of Roosevelt's Hyde Park phi Delta Rho Fraternity fails to drop bias clause: dismissed by Brooklyn College, i APRIL 27 All Cleveland (Ohio) IMCA branches open doors to Negroes Col ored vote in Georgia defeats Speaker of House, Roy V. Harris. In his oampalgn for re election Suits filed In California In move to abolish Ku Klux Klan Ohio Bell Telephone Company in Cleveland hires first Negro repairman, ElwarJ Howell Jr. "Senate Territories, and Insular Affairs Committee approves William Hastie's nomination tor Governor af Virgin Islands Jackie Robinson stars for Montreal Royals In league gams 8. Duke ot Chicago and Washington, appointed assistant district engineer of Federal Works project tn Vir gin Islands.

MAY i MAY 4 Bishop David Hn Sims of the First Episcopal District, AME Church, and fourteen nresiding elders sued for an ac counting of funds Mrs. Tbomasina Johnson appointed Chief of Minority Groups Section. States Employment Service Flight Oincers uyivester it. Hurd Jr. and George A.

Bates, both of Chicago, killed In crash at Tuskegee Crystal Malona. only Negro co ed at Uot verslty of Vermont. Initiated Into campus chapter ot Alpha XI Delta Sorority over protests ot parent oody uoi. m. Bousfield, Chicago physician, awarded Army's Legion of Merit carter, actor, sues California Ku Klux ivlan for I 20.000 Mempbla buahtessmen announce plans for opening of bank iL Teachers win equal salary fight In Cairo, 111.

'I MAY 11 Senate confirms Preside Truman's appointment of WUV H. Hastie as Governor of the Virgin Islands Mrs. Emma Clarissa Clement of Loui U1e. named "American Mother of 1946" Florida Supreme Court outlaws residential zoning Ethiopia's new Minuter to the United States, Ras Intnl. arrives wilh family Army adopts ohe to ten ratio for Negroes.

Arkansas editor snd wife given ten Jairterm for contempt of court WilJs i i ISAAC WOOD ARD Blinded by Policeman. JOE LOUIS Francis. 17, cheats death when elect.lc chair fails in Louisiana rhurgood Marshall, NAACP special counsel, named Bplngarn Medalists Dr. Edward K. Holloway of Philadelphia, appointed assistant Instructor of cardiology at University of Pennsylvania's graduate school of medicine Court retuses to grant Junctton in Biehop David Sims' case State of New York beglna court action to kill Ku Klux Klan Dr.

T. Roosevelt Gathings appointed clinical assistant at Bronx Hospital in New York Dr. Arthur F. Sayers appointed clinic asisslani at Lincoln Hospital. Bronx.

N. Y. The Rev. Clarence M. Long appointed member of New Rochelle (N.

Boaxd of Education. MAY 18 Gangsters Ocldnap Ed Jones, one of Chicago's fabulous and rich Jones brothers Colored 4 Club members barred Charles W. Anderson of Louisville, from national convention In Washington, D. MaJ. Charles West weds Afllta Thomas in Monrovia Juilliard School of Music appoints Jay WrigM.

to faculty Walter F. Anderson of Cleve land. Ohio, appointed director of Department oi' Music at? Antloch College, Yellow Springs. Ohio Five crosses burned by Ku Klux Klan atop Stone Mountain in Atlanta. Ga.

Atty. Nathan K. McGill diea in Chicago Lieut. Col. Theophllus M.

Mann of Chicago, named member of Armv's Special Clemency Board Lemuel G. McDougal appointed construction engineer for Chicago Housing Authority Dr. E. Franklin Frailer of Howard University, named member of executive committee of Eastern Sociological Society. MAY 25 Discrimination and segregation ir.

Washington, D. denounced by National leadera at rally sponsored by The Courier and the Committee for Racial Democracy Addle Robinson, co ed at West Virginia State College, dies in fall from window William H. Hastie inaugurated Governor of Vlrglri Islands at colorful, ceremonies Daughters of American Revol itlon outlaw Representative Clare Booth Luce after she heads drive to ban Jim crow clause Edward 8. Hope becomes first Negro to hold Navy rank of Lieutenant Commander I Alaid Locke of Howard University and visiting professor at Wisconsin University, appointed visiting professor to the graduate faculty of the New School for. BocKl Research in New York Dr.

Alphpnse Heninburg resigns National Urban League post to become director cf staff relations in New York City Department of Welt re Century Fox studio purchases screen rights to Frank Yerby's best seller, "Foxes of Harrow. Xichard Wright, noted author, leaves United States for permanent residence in France Thirty one Ne groes receive Rojenwald fellowships Ten die tn bomber crash at Tuskegee Air Field Joe Louis announces he will sue Ebony magazine for 1100.0O0 Bronze bus of Booker T. Washington un veiled In New York University's Hall of Fame Shift of pastora in New York by Bishop tints marks beginning of new A ME Church fight. JUNE JUNE 1 Quadruplets born to Mr. and Mrs.

James Fults ot Rockingham (N. County House Committee on Un American Activities launches probe of Ku Klux Klan tn "Jeorgla and Alabama Boilermakers grant Negro workers equal union rights Negro doctors win rig.it to practice in (Tenn.) General Hospital NAACP flies suit against University ot Texas, asking that doors of State Law Bchool bo opened to a Negro, Herman M. Sweatt Congressman Harod Earthman, Democrat of Tenn see. in fist fight with Robert H. Jones, veteran and bellhop elevator operator at Fairfax Hotel, Washington.

D. C. Liberals win election in. Haiti Restrictive covenant prevents Nat (Kind) Cole and wife from occupying home a Los Angeles Conscientious objectors on hunger strike Lbs Angeles Jail. JtJNE 8 Jim crow travel Interstate buses through Virginia outlawed by U.

S. Supreme Court Washlngtonians picket DAR owned Constitution Hall as Tuskegee Institute Choir renders benefit program there for Negro College Fund Defense launches drive to have riot In dictments against twenty five defendants quashed In Columbia (Tenn.) court Willie Francis, who cheated death chair in Louisiana when current failed, granted reprieve Alyee Rae Meacham, Red Cross worker, killed in jeep accident in Germany Hotel bars Negroes In Columbia. B. C. CIO TWUA cancels convention Two UPWA delegate charge discrimination, sue Ford Hotel In Mon treal Louis R.

Anderson. Chicago po MRS. EMMA C. CLEMENT 1946 American Mother. THflllW.fei MjVrl Still the Champ.

NVtrritMt WILLIE FRANCIS Just Wouldn't Die. BISHOP GREENE In AM.S Controversy. MaJ. R. Wright Philadelphia banker, wins fourth annual "Pioneer of Industry Award." JUNK 15 Cadet Andrew A.

McCoy of Pittsburgh, wa graduated from West Point Georgia's Governor Arnall ignores Klan pushes drive to smash hooded group Eugene Tajmadge attacks The Pittsburgh Courier in primary fight Jack Johnson, former heavyweight champion of the world, killed in North Carolina automobile accident "Lucky" Willie Francis" second trip to Louisiana electric chair postponed by If. 8. Supreme Court Ten AMIS Bishops reverse pulpit assignments made by Bishop Sims in New York area Two seamen sentenced In Texas for smuggling English girls to America Manhattanville Col lege of The Sacred Heart, awank 'New Joseph Francis Albright IYork institution, graduates two Negroes. nolnted assistant to Gen. Omar Bradley, chairman of the Veterans' Administration JUNE 22 Joe Louis knocks out Billy Conn in eightn' round in New York's Yan kee Stadium Louis sues' Ebony magazine for S100.000 Georgia Governor probes beating by Klan of Clay, pit worker Federal Grand Jury finds no civlls rights violated in Columbia (Tenn.) riot Dr.

Forrest Oran Wiggins of Louisville Municipal College, appointed full time instructor in department of phi losophy at University of Minnesota Governor Hastie reveals U. 3. Senate restores full appropriations to Virgin Islands Samuel F. Coleman, railway marl clerk, appointed patent examiner In U. S.

Patent Office Wllberforce University liquidates (125,000 mortgage. JUNE 29 Joe 1 ouls denies being kayoed by taxes and Bishop R. R. Wright appointed associate Bishop of New York AUK after efforts to move Bishop David Sims fall Suspension hanging over head of AME Bishop George E. Curry lifted by Bishops' Council District Court Judge rules law school of University or Texas must admit Herman Sweatt or es tablish a State law school for Negroes within six months Senator Bilbo urges violence In Mississippi to prevent Negroes from voting in State primary War veteran, Eugene Belt, reported lynched near Liberty, Mies.

Thomas A. Crews. Suwannee County (Live Oak, Fla.) constable, arrested by Federal officers In connection with the death of Samuel Ask ins McFadden Bisnop E. L. Madison of the AMEZ Church, dies In Pittsburgh.

Pa. Governor Dewey appoints Frank Forbes boxing Judge In New York City Oscar Waters. Tammany Hall political figure in Harlem, denies graft charge Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem receives AMITY Award. JULY JULY Job discrimination on upward swing as FEPC folds IT. S.

Senate! urged to probe Senator Bilbo's rsce hate campaign in Mississippi NAACP holds national convention In Cincinnati; considers change of policy Buddy Young, University of Illinois football star before entering the armed servicea, rejects appointment to U. 8. Naftal Academy. Lester B. Granger, executive secretary of of National Urban League, receives ho crary degree of Doctor of Humana Letters from Darmouth College Army put ban on Negro troops seeking service in Euro pean Theatre ot Operation Tnets.

Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity in Chicago initiates; white dental student Tuskegee Army Air graduates last class of pilots Philippa Duke Schuyler' of New York featured as piano LbOlolst with Boston) Symphony Orchestra Chief steward waiter w. koiu is cleared by Navy general court martial of misconduct charge ThUrgood Marsh iU receives thirty first Splngam Award George W. Harris, former alderman of New York, sues Amsterdam News for $100,000 Two I Chicago hotels refuse to rent space to war veterans group Jo Louis testimonial; suit planned. JULY 13 Negroes attacked In attempt to vote' in Mississippi Democratic primary elecUoja: Bilbo returned to U. 8.

Senate National Lawyer Guild condemns Bilbo, urges removal of V. 8. Attorney Gederal Tom Clask Columbia (Tenn.) rae riot trial transferred to Lawrence burg, Tenn. five jailed in Haiti aa armed conspiracy Is uncovered Toby Butler, member of an all girl orchestra, jailed In Mllledgeville. cause State law won't permit whites and colored to appear on same bandstand Tanner G.

Duckery. assistant superintendent of Philadelphia Public Schools, Joins summer school faculty of University of Southern Cslifirnia Anthony Overtan. Chicago businessman, buried Robert S. Abbott trust ruled valid by Chlcaco court Governor William Hastie of the Virgin Islands elected vice president cf National lawyers Guild DR. Ri O'tlARA LANIER Mtyistei' to Liberia.

litical figure, burled at age of 74 jDeressle Dedjenl. only daughter of Em 'ie Theatre 'a 3T i ED JONES Kidnapped in Chicago. vT (' "I i. x.VtJii.i 4 I 3 Ja.T I kku? ym i JACK JOHNSON Killed in Crash. BISHOP SIMS Sparks Church Fight.

peror Haile Selassie, dies tn Geneva. Switzerland Negro veterans denied graves In Philadelphia's National Cemetery Wall Street "ghetto" plot bared. JULY 120 Army halts Negro enlistments c)aims quota filled 1', 3. House votes coinage of 5.000.000 fifty cent coins In memory of Booker T. Washington Jamea H.

Lewis of Florida elected president of (National Negro Insurance Associ ation Bateaburg (S. C. policeman fcbuges but eyes of New York war veteran. Isaac 27 of Pennsylvania memorialises James A. Bland, famous; composer I Gilbert Caret! of Cleveland.

Ohio, Appointed Instructor at Chagrin Harbor Airfield Court de nies Miss Ada Lois Slpuel of Chlckasha. admission to law school of University of Oklahoma Two other Negroes denied admission to. University of South Caro lina J. B. Davis, Fuquay Springs.

N. becomes fourth Negro in U. 8. Marine.) to earn bars of second lieutenant Atty. Silas E.

Garner of St. Louis appointed Special Commissioner to Mis souri State Supreme Court Robert William Green, Oakland. thirty first colored youth admitted to West Point Only thirty one colored officers in U. S. Regular Army Mark A.

Buckley," Pittsburgh Courier foreman, retires after seventeen years of service Poy born to the Adam Clayton Powells of New York Philippa Duke Schuyler, rhild prodigy, featured pianist 'with New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. JULY 27 Radio Commentator Drew Pearson: preacnes democracy from steps of Georgia Capitol in Atlanta, Ga. calls hatred No. 1 problem in U. S.

Gov i ernor Elllst Arnall of Gecrgia calls on Na 1 lion to free America from prejudice Ferdinand Q. Morton named president of New York City Municipal Civil Service Commission Negroes vote in Georgia but white supremacy wins Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company drops interstate jim crow travel. AUGUST AUGUST 3 Mob lynches four Negroes, 1 including' two women, near Monroe. Ga. Macio Snipes, war veteran, shot and killed in after going to polls and voting in State primary Negroes crack Texas primary, capture control of two precincts U.

S. Army at long last decides to commission dentists American Legion units in Florida and Louisiana absorb Negro posts President Truman's selection of native to govern Puerto P.ico hailed nationally Italy agrees to return valuable props ty from Ethiopia State of New York outlaws Ku Klux Klan Bandleader Earl Hlnes injured In automobile accident in Texas Blshcp Reverdy C. Ransom hurls "maladministration" and inefficiency" charges at Dr. Charles Wes ley, president of Wllberforce University. AUGUST 10 Offer S58.00O in reward money for arrest and conviction of Monroe (Ga.) lynchers i.

Father Divine weds Canadian whit woman Seventy ninth Congress called worst in years Fair burn, passes municipal ordinance curbing" mob violence and racial persecution National Association of Colored Women i present Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt "Distinguished Race. Relations service Award." Anne Brown, concert singer, off to Europe for tour American Veterans Committee opens "Miss California" contest: to all races Six held in two Mississippi lyn'enings Bill Willis. Ohio State's AU Anrerican tackle of 1043 44 and former Kentnckv Stat Cnlleee coach' loins Cleveland Brawn's professional football team' IJ South Carolina announces plans for' courses In graduate studies at State colored schools to forestall pending court suits Jerome (Brud) Holland, former Cornell University football star, granted divorce from the former Madeline F. Smalls of Ithaca, N.

T. Mrs. Christine Smith of Washington, elected president of National Association of Colored Wo men 18,000 In Nation's Capital participate in memorial to Georgia lynch victims. i AUGUST 17 Mob chases all Negroes out of Athens. many trampled and beaten Begin selection ot trial Jury in case i' of Tennessee's twenty five race riot defendants Joe.

Louis drops libel Milt brought against Ebony magazine St. Louis voters approve FEPC amendment to City Charter In primary vote Gustav Woemer, wealthy white business executive in Ran Francisco, weds colored woman, Juanita Smith, of Albuquerque, N. M. Durroer. 'noted con ductor snd composer of.

London, returns to United States for appearance in Los Angrles t. Joseph MeLemore. OPA at tnrney In as.hlngton. named to War la scnatttlonal Sr. Rlph C.

WrUrh. 3t, Waibtnctoa (D. tkhyttdan. com mlt ruicldc AUGUST Army MMnpts Kiitom from 8cptmbr draft call THr toort lyacbiasa rperto ta aoutu: johb u. jaritm, 98.

tortured and btttn to tlMth In Mln dM, JaiMtr Walker 28i toot to ietK In Klko, S. C. and J. FmraMT, 20. snot to deatlt Mar Wilson, N.

Wst boats Kut, 4 to 1. boforo In annual baxeba.il came ta Chioafr OumarMia Satime. 4C rear old "Alack Moderate. elected preatdent of Haiti Only eleven Netroea allowed to vote la Soutb Carolina Democratic primary Hewarda ottered In Mooroe tyncnlnga np to 164.000 Ka KJux Klan croaa burn, on campus of Touialoo College. Jack son.

Miss. Complete control New Torlc Conference returned to Blenop D. Sim by A ME Bishops' Council Gen eral 'B. O. Davja denounces Man ttt U.

S. Army fourteen arrested in Mia aiasippi anbotlnc. AUGUST SI Names of twenty lynchers known Sixteen Indicted In Athena (Ala.) riot Btanop John nay of the CUE Church, burled in Sher man, Tezaa Pittsburgh Courier taunches drive ta have Senate reject Sen tor jsilbo af lacinslppl ormer Coa creaaman Oacar DePrlt banned as Re publican leader in Chlcaro Chief Steward Waiter. W. Rolllna Klven two year sentence on adultery charge Vir Washington (D.

Shrinera 'expelled at Philadelphia conclave Tan Tank killed In Italian riot Carson Gulfey ap pointed Instructor for class of chela at university of Wisconsin Dr. J. a. C. Lattimore of Louisville, nemed next presi dent of National Medical Association Quadruplets born to Mr.

and Mrs. D. Tlgner 'of Portland, Ore. Investigation ty FBI clears District Kec order's Office In Washington, t. C.

SEPTEMBER "SEPTEMBER 7 Albert (Sonny man) Harris, beat A by Louisiana mob; gives names of John Jones lynchers to FBI in New York J. Finley Wilson re elected Grand Kxalter Ruler of Elks; Dr. Marcus F. Wheatlend wins Elk Grand Treasurer post In heated election White farmer arreated in Georgia for holding five 'e groes In peonage National Convention, opens sixty sixth annual session in Atlanta, Ga. Clifton Kplihten.

22, 8apulpa. Ok Injured fatally In football practice at Wilberforce University Joe Louis denies he will marry Washington beauty Sentence 500 Indian rsslsters in Africa. SEPTEMBER 14 Baptists re elect Presi dent D. V. Jemison, prsy at graves of Georgia lynch victims Atty.

Maceo Hubbard ot Philadelphia, given special as signment In U. 8. Department ot Justice New accusations hurled at AME Bishops Sims and Fountain Dr. Ira Da A. Reid on leave from Atlanta Uni versity to serve as professor In the Col lege of Education, New York.

University, receives new appointment as visiting professor of sociology at Haverford College, Haverford, "Pa. Prof. Abrara Harris of Howard University, appointed to University of Chlcsco undergraduate (acuity as associate professor in economics Rival Ku Klux Klan organization. The Columbians, granted charter In Atlanta Joe Louis opens swank' cafe in New York Gary (Ind. banishes special schdols for Negroes Ku Klux Klan on, rampage in Knoxvllle, Tenn.

George E. Wlbecan, Brooklyn Republican leader, dies at 81 Chicago doctor. William A. Cosby, kidnapped, shot, beaten, driven to Tennessee Government announces plans to drop 159,788 workers from Federal payroll in Washington. SEPTEMBER 21 Riot Ine Miami after storekeepers beet war Veteran Nine tMK Bishops named ta new charges by, several elders of New York Conference Approve million 'dollar 'project for Virgin Islands Albert W.

Dent, presi dent of Dl'lard University, named member of Federal Hospital Council Actor Canada Lee taks role of white n.an new play NAACP opens drive to prosecute bus companies violatAig S. supreme. Court decision Tr. Francis M. Hammond of New York appointed to faculty of Seton Hall College, South Orange.

N. J. Southern Conference of Human Welfare moves headquarters from Nash ville to New Orleans Joe Louis scores one round knockout over Taml Mauriello In New York's Yankee Stadium Mark X. Parka, former Instructor at Wllberforce University, appointed to faculty of Brooklyn College Lynch mob foiled twice by alert police In North Carolina AMEZ Bishop Cameron C. Alley ne and wife sue Southern Railw System for $15,000.

8EPT3MBER 2S NAACP Defense Attorney Leon Ransom of Washington. D. C. at Tennessee race riot trial by Assistant District Attorney Bumput General Joseph T. McNarney denies slurring Negro soldiers; Trumsn C.

Gibson former Civilian Aide to the Sec letary War, says the General did de Clare troops "unfit" Denied admission to medical school of Louisiana State University, Miss Viola M. Johnsou. New files suit in Federal Court Barnwell (8. grand Jury indicts Wlliutm Craig, lynch suspect Guy University of Detroit football star, pleads not guilty to attsck and robbery charges President Truman. Paul Robeson in word battle at Capitol; Robe son demands quick action on lynrbings policemen quell disturBnnce at New York meeting of AME Bishops' Council.

OCTOBER OCTOBER 5 All white Jury In Law renceburg acquits twenty three of twenty riv Columbia (Tenn.) race riot defend ants at sensational trial that was marked with numerous verbal clashes Lena Home, spikes rumor she Is married Clarence orris, one of the nine Alabama 'Scottsboro Boys." paroled from prison AME Bishops In new row as Bishops Sims and Fountain are called for church president of The Pittsburgh Courier, ad dresses Republicans in West Virginia and urges ousting of 'little men" in Nation's Capital Trenton (N. wipes out jim crow schools. OCTOBER 12 Ten Bishops of the Afri can Methodist Episcopal Church call extra session of the General Conference for Little Rock. Nov. 20 24 Knoxvllle i Tenn.) Law Director rules City Council ran not prohibit Neffroes from purchasing property In any section of the city Mrs Pajl Rooeaon's book, "African Journey," banned by Union of Soutb Africa Joe Louis' manager.

John Rax borough, of Detroit, released from prison Tom A. Crews, ex marshal of Bran ford, fined II, 000 and sentenced to prison for one year, following his convle ilon on a charge of bringing about the death of a farm hand, Sara McFadden Canadians pay great tribute to Jackie Robinson of the Montreal Royals baseball team, after Royals win Litti World series Four Detroit youns women hired a switchboard operators by siicnigan Ken leiepnon company. OCTOBER ie Four hundred students strike In Lumberton, N. pioteat "un fit" school conditions Five men In dieted In Mississippi lynching of a tenant farmer, Leon MeAtte Denied admission to law school of Louisiana S'ate University, claries J. Hatfield of New Orleans, files suit Aurellus Scott, brother of tn editor of the Atlanta Dahv Worid.

enters Coroner's" race in Fulton (Oa.) County, tben withdraws nam after controversy develops Georgia State Democratic Convention starts drive to prevent Negroes from voting 1n 'primaries Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Nuon, mother of Courier's managing editor. Idles at 9 cnaries L. Kawungstof petrolt. receives James J.

Hoey Award for Interracial justice during IMS 8. Supreme Court outlaws union biasSeostract President Truman names Dr. Charles Johnson of Flak University an alternate delegate to educational conference in Parts Oust Ku Klux Klan tn New Jersey Co. rin Sykes of Philadelphia, dies 'n electrie ebalr after long fight to win lighter sentence U. 8.

Supreme Court refuse to bar Bilbo from Senate Ray Yea tee, on of the Southernalres quartet. Injured In plan crash Courier uncovers restrictive covenant plot in Detroit. OCTOBER 38 Federal Grand 'Jury 'n oicts six men in Louisiana lynching decision Kill move, to expel Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Poters from AFL Issue of freedom In Africa laid before General Assembly of United Nations Governor Dewey urges full equality in New York schools Second annual conference on "Negro In Business" held in Nation's Capital 300 Injured in Chicago crash Mississippi jury frees five eonfessH lynchers Court Princess Crimes Commission operating tn the Pacif Injunction halts African Methodist Eplseo iitsDurgn "Frog Week" pal Church trial in Cincinnati. fV. NOYIMBIt Avkuacit a Dr.

Charlee 8. Johnson. elected praslKmt of Flak Utorrarsitr, Nasn ilfv Tan. U. tV.

JUtoracy General Tom carte anBoauew wri erMcnco ready for rbdaral Grand Jury United Nations leaders urge limitation of doctrines of racialism Or. Cnannins; Tobias elected chairman of Hampton Institute card or trustee Dr. Nathan F. Moaeell of Philadelphia, diea at age of 90 Actreas Ingrid Bers maa denounce discrimination In Nation's Capital Louisiana adopts separate school plan to offset ccurt rait Two, convicted defendants la Tennessee not ease granted new trial Dr. Ralph 3.

Bunch of the U. But Department, loaned to United Nations Attorney Charles R. A. Smith of Detroit, sworn in as Assistant C. ,8, District Attorney $12,00 worth of furs and jewelry stolen from singer Adelaide Halt's apartment tn London The Rev.

John A. Valentine, PhUadelpnia, minister, gets lit term for killing wuntn. NOVEMBER William L. Dawson cf Chicago, and 'the Rev. Adam Powell.

New York; re elected to U. 8. Hons of Representatives as thirty eight other Negroes are elected or re elected to jBtaie posts durlrrs Republican sweep The Columbiana. new hat on terror reign in Atlanta Joe Adri ano Trujilllo Seljas. nephew of the President of the Dominican Republican, killed by deputy sheriff in Florida when Seljaa was mistaken for a member of the' Negro race Rumor Nob I Stssle's wife seek tn divorce Florida High Court again hits racial sorting Beulah T.

Wbitby, instructor at Wayne University. wm Qivnnr iciion I CI .1 oi Nevada car.ee football game with Mississippi. S'ate and Penn State calls off game with University of Miami after the two Dixie schools object to colored players ei Nevada and Penn State teams south Carolina police ehieeV wbo blinded a war veteran, Isaac Woodard or New York, acquitted by Federal Jury Cincinnati Bar Association censored after Assistant City Solicitor William McCialn denletl membership because of his color Or. Bdward Holloway. Philadelphia heart specialist, made a Diplomat of 'American Board of Internal Medic'ae.

NOVEMBER 16 Girl quintuplets; born prematurely to 18 year old mother. Mrs. Dorothy Rors, Jacksonville, die thirty. minutes alter Dirtn ur. Forrest o.

Wiggins appointed full time Instructor in philosophy at University of Minnesota Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Bates.

publishers ot the Arkansas state Press, treed of contempt penaltiej by an Arkansas Circu Court Bishops of AME Church ob tain Federal Court restraining order prevent opr.oc.lng faction from Interfering with scheduled' extra session of General Conference In Little Rock, Ark. NOVEMBER 23 Extra Session of AME Genera'. Conference, meeting in Little Rock. expels Bishop David H. Sims and George S.

Curry, and suspends Bishop Monro H. Davis; Bishop Sims calls expulsion Illegal Army Medical Corps announces plan to Integrate doctors Republicans map strategy to prevent. Bilbo from taking Senate seat as two Senate Committees prepare to quiz "The Man" on graft and race baiting charges Marcus H. Ray, Civilian Aide to Secretary of War, on Inspection tour of troops in European and Mediterranean theatres Thre of The Courier's former war correspondents awarded Army Campaign Ribbons at Washington ceremony Court orders four ousted Bhriners (Washington. D.

reinstated Poase kills George Hill In Toomsboro, Ga. On of two defendants in second trial growing out of Tennessee race riot acquitted by Columbia circuit court Jury; Defense Attorney Thur good Marshall intimidated by police on highway out of Columbia Group turned away from theatre In Washington. D. C. as Committee for Racial, nemm rtpv accelerates drive One University of Miami professor resigns and two others register protests after game with Pena State Is cancelled because of colored players on the Northern team White and colored Baptist leaders in Georgia hold mixed session.

NOVEMBER 30 American College Surgeons announces plans to initiate twelve prominent Negro doctors at 1 annual convocation in Cleveland. Dec. 15 llermantide G. Jones, instructor at Harlem Hospital, wins honorable mention in American Nurses Association's national search for typical American nurse bf.1344 i CIO Convention reaffirms position on equal tights; Wlllard Townsend and Ferdinand Smith elected to board fven soldiers in Germany given stjff sentences for rioting last Neve Year's Em Dr. Carroll M.

St. Ciair. appointed company physician f.ir Phillips Packing Company. In Philadelphia Boys' Town officials bow to Dixie prejudice, permit football team to play In Miami afler colored stars are I ar: ed Guy Brown. former star athlete at Wayne University, Detroit convicted of rape charge Bilbo blames Negro organizations for Investigations brought against him Three Columbians, anti Negro group.

Indicted In At, lanta Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia receives annual Wendell WHlkle Award Harry X. Burleigh. 79, resigns ds sololot of St. Oeorge Episcopal Church. New York, after fifty two years of service Will Hunt, West Virginia miner, killed in clash at strike bound coal field Church conventions condemn racialism.

DECEMBER DECEMBER 7 Senator Bilbo defiant Senate Investigating committee opens hearings in Jackscn, Miss. Two Negroes on Federal Grand Jury probing Monro lynchlngs at Athens. Ga. George Meader report slurs colored soldiers In occupied Germany Sixteen: missing after crash of AAF 48 Commando off Iwo JIma Bandleader "Lucky" Mllllnder sued for divorce Tb Rer. David H.

Sims, ousted AME Bishop, organizes new church Thomas j. Hammonds, Detroit Insurance executive, dies; leaves estate valued at gSS.OOO American Red Cross flies nine colored Workers to Tokyo Thre Africaa Chiefs seated nous or Representatives ii. Kiii.n ii, ruuiuciuQia not I us me, Dining Car Employes win JSW.OOO'V Dickson re elected president in court battle U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals rules railroad segregation illegrl American Nurses Association votes to admit qualified Negro nurses as mem bers Marsden W.

Cabell of Charleston. W. appointed special assistant to First Assistant Postmaster General Jesse M. Donaldson Ira F. Lewis, oar Association JM Louis buye Rhumboogie Cafe In Chicago woracrs win pav hike Eight wounded in Chicago as war veterans brave mob in housing project battle National Guard adopts Army polity, re tains jim crow pattern Mate of Texas organizes makeshift school to halt co rt test.

DECEMBER .14 Atty. Jean Muir.il Capers appointed Assistant Police Prose tor in Cleveland. Ohio Atty. W. Rcfb ertttlng.

OPA lawyer of Chicago, appoiit ii ed to faculty of University ot Chlcaco Toronto Whist Club votes to sever connections with American Contract Bridge Leayus unless American omnizatlnna i nuUlfles Its rules barring Negroes in tour nament play Isaac Woodard. blinded I' Dy police officer, unable to use eves offr ed by doomed man in Washington Joe Louis receive! plaaue for civic leadership In New York President Truman creates 15 member committee on civil names Chaining Tobias "and Atty. Sadie L'lij rmM it i i i nreuuuct mrinjBrs ruot case goes i I 1 to Tennesse 8upreme Court after convi. I ed tcan is denied new irail ft i i iiia 1 1 iic ii nana leader Southern Governors propose LT regional school system for Negro grai uate student Four fliers die as bomh er explodes over Ohio near Lockbourne Army Air Base Grand Jury Indicts jj key men In Columbians, Atlanta hate ji group. DECEMBER 21 Trl State rrust company opened in Memphis Uu Klux Klan rides again in California: veteran's home burned Roscoe Young 1, of New York, nominated for appointment to West Tnlnt Stat Court upholds restrictive covenant in St.

Louis Dr. Charles Burks cwuricay win memoer or Allegheny. eral Hospttil, Pittsburgh. Pa. revokes Ku Klux Klan charter l.

i of Wisconsin Bishop Minis ana oii in new court battle in Philadelphia i. Army reported railtbading colored soldiers out of Near lot in Tennes see as man run amuck President Pat lertton of Tuskegee Institute, appointed to Red Cross post Dining Car employes win suit, collect (400,000 from Santa Fe Railroad Company Nine colored doctors admitted to American College of Surgeons at ceremonies In Cleveland. OWtf. William P. Harris, a druggist iiw Chester.

Pa. kills sweetheart and then takes own life Bishop Lorenzo H. King of tne Methodist Church dies la New York. DECEMBER 23 Duquesne University la P1Uabnrtr cancels basketball eam University of Tennessee after Dixie team fh i cruses to piay against Duquesn colored star.f Charles Cooper Perjury chars uuva sijsnop uavia sims Bishop R. C.

Ransom bops Bishop TRidj Radio Commentator. William L. shirer pre rt. sims. in suprem court or new Tork.nicts enn ox raee supremacy Fedora! Grand Jury in Athens.

fails to indlsta Monroe lyncher Another lynching revealed lit; Carolina rr Charles Drew new medical director of Freedmen's Hospital Washington, D. Charles E. Btirbrldge named hospital superintendent Oliver Thornton of 8U Louis sworn In ay Deputy Recorder of. Deeds In Washington. D.

C. Courts extend time in Texas add Louisiana school suits Sentune nine ta MacDflUFiel' riot. la. mmmm i Mi i i i I i 4 i i I Mi I i'. Hi r'4 ICS k0 1 ii 1 i r.

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