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Opposite the Pawn Shop. While eminent legal minds considered the great issue, Spottswood Thomas Boiling Jr., 14, sat with the all-Negro sophomore class in Washington's new Spingarn High School, quietly tending to his studies. Spottswood Boiling's name will go down in history with the segregation cases, for he is one of the plaintiffs. His case is a resume of the issues involved...
THURGOOD MARSHALL, 45, who ranked No. 1 in his law-school class ('33) at all-Negro Howard University in Washington, D.C., used to cut classes regularly-whenever John W. Davis came to town. Recalls Marshall: "Every time John Davis argued, I'd ask myself, 'Will I ever, ever . . .?' and every time I had to answer, 'No, never.' " Nowadays Marshall, officially special counsel of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and unofficially (to the Negro press) "Mr. Civil Rights," has his own Howard cheering section. But, though he thinks John Davis...
Frenchmen who still pictured the South as a Scarlett O'Hara land of cotton plantations and Negro mammies were put wise: "To tell the truth, we did not see much cotton in the South. What we saw was oil, natural gas, helium, steel, magnesium, atomic energy and chemical plants." The Gossets were impressed with the advance of Negro education; they called all-Negro Howard University (in Washington, D.C.) "more modern than the average European university." To the French reporters, the Vieux Carre of French New Orleans was a fake-with its "pretentious airs of romanticism," its "tourist traps...
...Wyoming, scooped out of the continent's equatorial west. Since last year the Gold Coast has had 1) a written constitution, 2) a Legislative Assembly of 75 elected Negroes and nine whites, 3) a Negro Prime Minister, the first in any British colony, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. Dr. Nkrumah disturbs some people in Downing Street, since he is a Marxian-Socialist who got his schooling at Pennsylvania's all-Negro Lincoln University and had to be let out of a British jail when his fellow Negroes elected him. Nevertheless, last week the British felt that their experiment in native...
Died. Canada Lee, 45, top-ranking Negro actor of screen (Cry, the Beloved Country) and stage (Native Son), who was a jockey, prizefighter and leader of an unsuccessful jazz band before he got his start in the theater in 1934 as Banquo in the WPA all-Negro production of Macbeth; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...