Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-01-14
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Civil Rights Inventory" Re-
pubhcan-S Southern Democrat Goa
lition successfully blocks Taft
Hartley repeal :. Joe Louis, re-
tired heavyweight champion, hon
ored at Morris Brown college
where the Joe Louis gymnasium
was named for him Duke Ell
lington, internationally famous
composer-conductor, receives Doc
tor of Music degree from Wilber-
force University Nations first
regional education program as
conceived by southern governors
gets underway with 40 universe
ties and colleges in 13 states reg
istered At Langston Univers-
ity in Oklahoma, the jimcroW
law school closed up with only
one student enrolled y Alabama
Senators vote 1913 to unmask Khan
:. Ezzard Charles defeated aging
Jersey Joe Walcott to claim heavy
weight title vacated by Joe Louis,
who dominated the ring for II
years as champ +. Dowall Davis
of the Kansas City Call elected
president of the National Negro
Newspaper Publishers Association
at the 10th annual meeting. c.
A. Scott, editor and general man
ager of the Atlanta Daily World,
elected to two-year term of the
eight-man board of directors at
the ccnfab.
DR.. Howard Gregg is suspended
at Delaware State :. Jackie flags
communism before House imam
erican committee Mob burns
home, run wild in Groveland, Fla.
-, Police quell disturbance at
Capitol swimming pool Court
rules new trial for Trenton six
Alabama Legislature votes to nm
mask Khan NAACP reveals
100000 Negroes voted in the
South during '48 election
Bunche flags Washington jim
Crow After much controversy
Ohio sends Joan Rankin, "Girl
Governor" to Washington
Texas passes Anti-Lynch bill
President Gray resigns at Florida
A.. and NJ. -. :. Georgia Supreme
Court rules counties must put
Negroes in jury lists Police
chief, IA others arrested in Biz
mingham Ku Klux Khan probe.
August
Atlanta policeman suspended
after kicking Negro prisoner
:. Chicago mob attacks home
of Negroes who moved into So
called white neighborhood."
Masked mob beats woman in Ala
mo, Ga. Imperial Wizard
Green orders Klansmen to unmask
Irwin countians sue for equal
schools Homes of two Bir-
mingham Mob beats youth in
cambridge, Ga. >. Grand Dragon
Greene dies suddenly Atlanta
censor bans Lost Boundaries"
;. !. President Colson resigns al
Georgia State University OF
Texas accepts first Negro stu
dent.
September
Paul Robson returns to Peeks-
kill where state troopers and po-
licemen join veterans and young.
sters in second riot !. President
F. ID. Patterson, of Tuskegee, raps
white Birmingham editor for in
jecting his name in housing
troubles Hollywood is charged
with bias for by passing Negroes
-. ;. Prisoners escapes lynchinf
in Atlanta court room Negr,
vote is decisive in Atlanta cleo
ton Senator Graham, o
North Carolina appoints Negr'
to West Point :. $5OOO,OOO gran
insures new Grady colored hos
pital Ingram brief is present
ed UN officials Ezzard Charlie
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returns to Georgia Southern
churchWomen blast Talmadg
| Voter. law Mrs. FDR says il
Atlanta that Civil Rights are need
ed today Prominent Winston
Howard shot and killed in Perish
ing hotel, of which he was par
owner, by his partner, Charlie
Cole.
October
Moron is inaugurated at Hamp
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