The Phoenix index., 1941-02-15
Race Relations HonorRoU
Is Announced By Reddick'
Names Broadcast
Over "Wings
Over Jordan"

PID1c Library over the WINGS
Over Jordan" program of the
Columbia Broadcasting System.
Each year a nationwide poll
is conducted by the Schomburg
Collection of Negro Literature Of
the New York Library to determine
the dozen Negroes individuals
organizations or institutions), over
the same period, who have done
the half dozen whites individuals
the most for the improvement OF
race relations sin terms of real
democracy. This is a feature OF
Negro History Week. No attempt
was made to rank the names.
DR.. Reddick, who is Curator OF
the Schomburg Collection, salo
in, the course of the announce
n1ent that the efforts of those
named demonstrate that democra-
cy is indeed worth saying at home
as well as abroad. The citations
were as follows:
NEGROES
LEO HANSBERRY, who with his
staff Of lawyers, won a victory
before the United States Supreme
Court which outlawed the resi-
Dental restrictive covenants of
Chicago property owners. These
covenants would raise color
bar against Negro citizens liv-
ing in certain areas of that ci-
ty.
DOROTHY MAYNOR for her
beautiful voice and personal gra-
ciouSneSS.
WILLIAM Dolly KING of Long
Island University Brooklyn New
York. The football basketball
and baseball star who is general
ly considered to be the greatest
athlete in the history of that
university.
KENNY WASHINGTON of the
University of Southern Califor-
mia at Los Angeles former "all-
American" who made good in his
first season as coach at his alma
mater. He IS the only Negro
holding such a position in lead
ing American University.
HENRY ARMSTRONG boxing his
tory's only triple crown-holder.
When he lost his last title in
1910, he vent down like a cham
pion. Armstrong has consistently
stood against the segregation OF
Negro pugilists.
EDDIE ANDERSON, better known
as Rochester" for his Harlem
premier of Buck Benny Rides
Again and for his Sunday even
ing performances with his fellow
come dian, Jack Benny.
WILLIAM GRANT STILL for his
theme music for the New York
Worlds Fair and for the score to
Katherine Garrison Chapin'S
poem "And They Lynched Him
on a Tree"
THE BENJAMIN MASON FAMI-
LY of Philadelphia, who invest
ed the $150,OO0 won on sweep
stakes ticket in a block of low
rent cooperative homes.
PHTLIPPA DUKE SCHUYLER,
unspoiled child prodigy, who ad-
ded to her prizes from the New
York Philharmonic Symphony
Society Carnegie Hall and Town
Hall, ''Philippa Schuyler Day at
the New York Worlds Fair-ano-
ther example that genius knows
no boundaries of color.
BRIGADIER GENERAL BENJA-
MIN o. DAVIS, who rose from
the ranks to the highest position
attained by a Negro in the
United States army. Brigadier-
General Davis demonstrates the
possibilities of the democratic
principle in all phases of national
defense.
THE AMERICAN NEGRO EXPO
SITION AT CHICAGO, conceiv-
ed by James w. Washington
and directed by Truman Glib
son, Jr., this was a magnificent
display of the cultural contri-
buttons of the Negro to Ameri-
can life.
COUNTEE CULLEN, for his book
THE LOST ZOO, high quality
work of the imagination, written
for children and others.
HUGO L. BLACK in de-
ivering two notable decisions of
the United States Supreme
Court, freed Negroes who had un-
der torture confessed crimes, de-
nomced exclusion Of Negroes
from trial jury panels and de-
clared that the Constitution of
the United States requires that
protection to all must be given
not merely promised"
THE RIER-JOURNAL, OF
Louisville, Kentucky, which has
been conspicuous for its fair
treatment of the Negro in both
it's news and editorial columns.
Also, it is the only Southern
daily which carries (each Tues
day) q column of opinion written
by Negroes.
THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS,
under the direction Of Archibald