Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1956-08-24

sojourn Chicago a political convention
hard the constitution especially tries to combine the duties
delegate gathering One job is than
enough
delegation hardly Chicago
before a nationally esed NBc program The
Tv people literally carried off the train and then rushed US to the
typical delegation the
Sunday convention prevew The
Minnesota delegation became the first state group to even get peek
at the inside Of the amphtheater
We told how thrilling nd at through
Chicago streets under escort Of siren screaming motorcycle ponce
Chicago We let down little
Congress Hotel because we had no motorcycle escort on e return
about luggage which had
been taken from the station to the hotel.
fun to Rodney Jacobson the
fiery. delegate and Willard Jones
with stood in line and filled us in on the pre-convenon
happenings Minneapolis attorney who
went o Humphrey greeted
the Democrats
which active and Rodney had in touch with the labor union
the
strong civil rights plank.
We hardly o. change clOthe. before
pile Of telephone calls
waited of them from other delegations and
Of them invitations TO conceivable type Of affair
groups
OF them concerned about how th Minnesota was going
Humphrey dilemma what delegation
going a strong civil rights plank,
found time to relax bit
About a. m. the a
the Of James C. "slim" Ellis
early morning dinner" In
the and hustle had completely forgotten to eat anything
Teddy Wilson famed and his combo entertaining
at the London House The decor and the cuisine as Henry Thomas
would she excenene slim Minneapolis native
doing right Chicago. reveals
nostalgia for the old home town
pleasant lady telephone
supervisor Washington
and Virginia way Slim drove us back to the hotel about m We
promised other the town before
closing the convention
slept most Of Saturday and Sunday.
We did time Saturday, however to visit with Era Ben
Thompson a managing EBONY Magazine Bell 4
North Dakota girl who lived St Paul briefly and worked for
edited the old City HERALD lives the New York
built which overlook Lake Michigan
saith and Cottage Grove.
Thompson is o
University Chicago Pressl written In s47 and later
Fathers doubleday She's retiring
quiet hide tough disciplined
mind tremendous of humor which
the whms the udcos the inconguous the ndd
including friends the world She's
the
thing as the American race problem
quick tour Of the fabulous Of
Publishing empire
built old John Johnson who has erected hen
publishing empire and greatly affected the American
Negroes reading white OF
what the American Negro is really like
tour bu interesting Betng Saturday
which the offices noted missing. except
Young. assistant librarian who Buddy
footba players
suggestion any Chicago
Johnson plant viii pride the heart whether
a Negro
take his proper place in the U s scheme of life
Era Bell the dminutve girl woman who did
tipping older with
the have been good to her
professional claims
whipped up chicken including
which quickly into discard the old idea that
writers can't cook
growing long wen have
Chicago subsequent columns report
policemen life the number who
the hotels in the Loop where
convention goers congregated
professional southerners the hotels the the
subdued
ed Never heard OF them the insulting hated ethet
what which they freely in Dixie be that the
handsome Negro place the Loop
to convention deterrent the rambuncous southern
difficult the word Negro and the
cpthe Maybe the southners little
different despite the White Citizens Councils Anyhoo found
the Of
Newman