Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1956-03-09
BRIEF
NEWS
SCENE
High and Lowdowu"
BY BAILEE THOMAS

Hats orr: To Phillip Gelb OF
University radio station KUOM
who has done more than any
single individual in Minnesota TO
help the Negroes OF Montgomery.
Ala. in their fight against intoler-
able treatment on the city's bus
lines. His pleas for financial as
sistance has caused many Mime
sotsns To send money down south.
show Your Card: Tanner
Crockett has suggested a worthy
successor to Bailee's Put Your
Money Where Your Mouth Is"
campaign. Tanner says that when
ever any of the brethren start a
talkfest about Autherine Lucy,
Emmett Till or the Montgomery
bus strike. he asks them TO show
him their card. What card p"
they usually ask him Your
NAACP card" Is his reply
The number OF those brethren
who either change the subject or
slither away from further CONVEX
sation or foresenics Is amazing.
he reports. Tanner suggests that
every NAACP member insist that
the brethren show their card II
they want TO join in the current
debate on civil rights.
In other words. he wants some
Of the takers to Put Your Money
Where Your Mouth Is" Not very
grammatical. but Il makes a
strong point
The u. s. Supreme Court ruled
Monday. that the contention Of
southern state colleges and uni
versities that the May 1854 de-
cision did not affect them, was
without merit" The court took
only a few words Ia send the petit
tioning states packing.
CON DENTAL, Americas
favorite smear" magazine does a
job on Father Divine in its May
edition, II also smears up Joan
Russell who II claims was turned
down for a date by a young West
Indian Negro waiter In Paris. II
strikes at Lucky Strikes Dorothy
Collins and Raymond Scott. The
also replays the fact
that l4-year old Emmett Tiu's
father was hung for assault while
serving in the y. 8, Army in Italy
so were too many other u. 8.
soldiers but the idea Ia TO show
some connection with young Tilrs
wolf whistle which cost him his
life and his father.
For The Record: There were s5
such soldier hangings in the Euro
pean Theatre, In that group were
light Negroes, the rest were mem
bers Of the American ma jority
group
SepiA lads again dominate the
LOOK All-Americs cage squad.
Four Negro players led by Bill
Russell Of the San Francisco Dons !
snded berths on the 10 man |
Fam.
Others named were X. c.
Jones, San Francisco. sihugo |
Green. Duqussne. VILLA SauIIs.
JCLA. II was only a few year, |
IEo that college basketball |
coaches did not want Negro Gag
III 10 come out for the team.
Michigan was the FIRST Big
Zen team 10 have a Negro player.
Minnesota has never had a single
ne The old excuse was that bas-
,etball was q contact sport" and
u s1ch white players objected 70
,lAyinR with Negroes Today. ~
'on1e first class college coach
.ane up with story like that.
,s'd b. laughed out Of basketball |
CozsIle Breedlove would have
zen a natural for the Minnesota
u" team but the "unwrittsn law
vas stin in effect when he enter
4 the u" and he was not en-
outraged 10 participate
POLITICS: Southern daily
.ewErnsn have been riding herd on
Isnstor Estes KefaUver since the
wing Of Negro voters In the
iorth and south n his side.
Flying into race sesthinR Ala
ANA Las, week TIME Magazine
sports Estes was posInosd on by
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