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...talkative Winfield Eschelman, the strikers formulated their demands at a mass meeting which the school officials attended: 1) Let all Negroes be segregated in corners of Emerson classrooms and in the school cafeteria. 2) Let no disciplinary reprisals be made upon the strikers when they should return. 3) Let the strikers not have to "make up" school work missed during the strike. 4) Let the Emerson Negroes be transferred to other schools as soon as possible. 5) Let an all-Negro high school be built in Gary as soon as possible...
...Board of Safety, representing Mayor Floyd E. Williams, arbitrated the situation and the strikers won all their demands. Magnanimous, Winfield Eschelman and friends permitted three Negro seniors to finish out the year at Emerson because they had been there all along, but the rest were transferred temporarily to an all-Negro junior high school elsewhere in town. The strikers returned to classes...
Three weeks ago white inhabitants of Tuskegee, Ala., protested (to the Veterans' Bureau) the installation of an all-Negro staff at the Government's hospital for Negro veterans at Tuskegee. Sheeted Ku Kluxers paraded in the streets; General Frank T. Hines, Director of the Veterans' Bureau, suspended the installation of Negroes...