St. Paul recorder., 1961-07-21

staged a hotel lobby sleep-in when
the Richmond Hotel John Marsh
field refused to honor his reserva-
tions. E. A. Dawley when refused
stripped down to his underwear
and bedded down on a sofa in the
middle of the lobby! Two hours
later he was awakened and given
a key to a luxurious third floor
suite where he completed his
nights rest!
Directive: The Muskogee city
council has passed a resolution
the city manager to be-
gin to employ qualified Negroes
in city white collar" jobs .
For the first time in the city's
history a Negro was named to the
Boston, Mass, board of
election commissioners Saw
annah, Georgia segregationists
have launched a counter sit-down
to restore lunch-count-
er jimcro.
NAACP CONVENTIONEERS
SCOLDED BY PAPER: The Phil
adelphia TRIBUNE administered
a scolding to delegates to the
NAACP national convention which
met in that city last week. Said
the paper: There is something
incongruous about the fact that
while the Freedom Riders are
sleeping in their own stencil in
Mississippi prisons the delegates
to the convention (NAACP) OF
the foremost advocate of freedom
are housed in the best hotels in
Philadelphia, dining and winine
sumptuously."
NY. Negroes who want the post
vacated by convicted Hulan Jack
as president of the Borough OF
Manhattan may find themselves
outfoxed by a fight between two
Negro camps. There are now three
candidates, two Negro and one
Italian-American leader. Present
president Edward Dudley named
by Mayor Robert Wagner is to be
opposed by Assemblyman Lloyd
Dickens backed by the split vote
of Tammany district leaders. This
will split the Negro vote and help
the chances of Rep. Alfred E
Santangelo to win the race. The
presidency of the Manhattan Dor,
ough is the biggest municipal gov.
eminent plum held by a us. Ne.
gro.
Washington, D. c. expects Johr
B. Duncan, District Recorder OF
Deeds to be confirmed for the
post of District of Columbia com.
missioner the post lost by Frank
D. Reeves, JFK assistant on what
some claim was resistance tt
Reeves militancy-something not
shared by some of the Kennedy
White House advisors . In White
Plains, NY, Mrs. Cab Galloway
was named a member of the West,
chester county Council Of Socia
Agencies board Alabama's
us. Senator Lister Hill is prepar.
ing a protest against the presid.
entail order creating the Presi.
dents Committee on Equal Op,
portunity which has been policing
federal contractors who discrimin,
ate against Negro workers.
DIR. Charles Satchell Morris III
said in an address in Virginia
1--WE must take the Jim Crow
out of the Negro" He crit
icised the refusal of many Ne
grOes to back great causes with
their funds Birmingham,
Alabama Chamber of Com
merce president just back from
tour of the Orient said the
Freedom Rider" violence gave
the us. and particularly his
state "a black-eye" that ''it Is
going to take a longtime for
us to live down."
Named to The National Associ
alton of Fashion and Accessory
Designers Best Dressed Womer
Hall of Fame last week in Wash
ington were: Lena Horne, Marian
Andersen, Bessie Buchanan, Dor
othea Towles, Eta Moten, Chris
tine Ray Davis and Isabel Gibson
Former college president DIR. J
w. Seabrook became the first Ne
gro on the North Carolina EN-
ployment Commission by appoint
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