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Carmen Jones. An all-Negro musical, with Dorothy Dandridge, Pearl Bailey and Harry Belafonte burning up Bizet's sound track; directed by Otto Preminger (TIME...
...dated version is the addition of a blowsy friend for Carmen, a part which Pearl Bailey puffs out to her own talents. Miss Bailey "Beats Out That Rhythm On a Drum" and rolls out the film's few comic lines. She is the only member of the all-Negro cast to use her own voice, which is as it should...
...West Virginia, 21 white students went on strike at the Sherman High School in Seth because three Negroes had been admitted, and 300 parents held a protest meeting in Madison over 18 Negro pupils. Meanwhile, Kanawha County, seat of the capital, rescinded its earlier decision, ordered 2,905 Negroes back to segregated schools. But elsewhere in the state, there was progress of another sort. Last week 164 white students were peacefully enrolled at the once all-Negro West Virginia State College...
Such anguished pleas were suddenly commonplace in June 1949, a month after the U.S. Air Force set out to abolish its all-Negro units. The integration of whites and Negroes, everyone agreed, would take many years, perhaps decades. Yet within a few months, the Air Force had broken through its color barrier. And by 1954, in the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines, white and colored men worked together, marched together and learned to fight side by side. Not all of them liked it; but everyone accepted...
Nichols found only about 10,000 persons still serving in the Army's all-Negro units, with some 190,000 absorbed in regular outfits. The Air Force, with about 66,000 Negroes, has no segregated groups. Neither has the Marine Corps. Only the Navy trails in the wake: its stewards' branch (ships' servants) has one white enlisted man and more than 11,000 Negroes, about 48% of the service's Negroes. Instead of breaking up the stewards' branch, the Navy is recruiting Filipinos to dilute the Negro concentration of the stewards, a solution that...