St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-03-06

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by the University of Minnesota to
a prejudiced and discriminatory
home builder.
The NAACP notably Minneapolis
president Douglas Hall, has partic-
ipated in the drawing of the open
Occupancy" bill being sponsored by
the Minnesota Human and Civil
Rights Council.
Both Phyllis Wheatley and Hal
lie Q. Brown settlements continue
to serve large groups of children
and adults. Elliot Park now called
the Edward Waite House on Park
Av., in Minneapolis continues to
increase its enrolment of Negro
youngsters in its program.
The Minneapolis YWCA recent
ly elected Mrs. Charles NJ. Sexton
to its board of directors and the
st. Paul YWCA has a long history
of full Negro participation in its
affairs which continues.
The Minneapolis main YMCA
is a home for a number Of Ne
gro men students and residents.
One branch has Negro as pro-
gram director.
One additional professional man,
dentist set up offices in Mime
apolis in the past IL months. He
is DR.. James Baxter. This brings
the total of dentists of Negro an
cestry in the Twin Cities to four
In sports the WheatIey Golden
Glove boxing team composed
predOminantly of Negro lads
won another city championship
and went on to win four of the
eight Upper Midwest champion
ships.
Three Negro lads are members
of the Minneapolis Lakers basket
ball game. One of them Elgin Bay
lor Seattle ~" star is almost sure
to be named the MIA Rookie of
the Year. His seemingly effortless
playing and scoring has the Twin
City pro basketball fans agog
and has apparently got the team
out of the red financially.
A team player Baylor is noted
for feeding the ball to other Lakers
sometimes under the basket to help
them raise their scoring. Modest
and unassuming, some writers
think the all-around player may
become the greatest basketball
player of all-time.
During the past II months Ne
gro cab drivers have been on the
payroll of two of the three cab
companies in Minneapolis. All of
the drivers are apparently making
good, and are popular with the
firms and the passengers. The "fly
in the ointment" however is that
Negro drivers are Disseminated
against by their firms by not being
allowed to drive cabs on the night
shift! OF course this is an obvious
ly unfair and is a direct violation
of the Minneapolis FEPC ordin-
ance, and the policy should be
corrected. There is one Negro taxi
cab driver in st. Paul who is not
easily identified as a member of
the Negro-American group.
In the other field of public
transportation the Twin City
lines who before l945 did not
employ Negroes as operators
now have a number Of good bus
operators who are hired today
without regard to their race.
In this connection, and indica-
ton of the progress Negro Twin
City Lines employees have made,
the two Twin City Operators of
the month of February are both
Negro operators.
One of the accomplishments of
the Negro community was the cree
ton of a new building and plant
by the Spokesman and Recorder
Publishing Co.. publishers Of the
Minneapolis Spokesman and st.
Paul Recorder, Is year old Negro
weeklies.
Over 1900 persons have inspect
ed the plant and offices since their
formal opening. The new building
is one of the few built by the
112 Negro papers in the country
in the history of the Negro press
and the first in Minnesota.
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