Word: atlantae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unsegregated plane and Pullman, in segregated buses and in Jim Crow railroad coaches, delegates of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People descended on Atlanta, capital of the Deep South. They met in the Deep South for the first time since an earlier convention in Atlanta in 1920. Thirty-one years had made startling changes in both the N.A.A.C.P. and Atlanta...
...Trouble. The 1920 convention had taken a defensive stand by deploring lynchings (65 that year, against 2 in 1950) and pleading for more civil rights. Last week such speakers as Author Lillian Smith, Dr. Ralph Bunche and N.A.A.C.P. Secretary Walter White, the son of an Atlanta mailman, hammered away at the convention's main theme: End Segregation Now! They had met in Atlanta to dramatize their fight against segregation, but, unlike Communist groups, did not defy it in practice just to stir up trouble. Only French Singer Josephine Baker tried to get into one of the city...
Police Escort. Atlanta's largest nonsegregated audience since Reconstruction days jammed the municipal auditorium to hear a speech by Nobel Prizewinner Bunche, which closed the six-day convention. He lashed the Senate for failing to pass Civil Rights legislation, said bluntly: "I can never be fully relaxed in Atlanta, fine city that it is ... since I abhorracial prejudice and its evil end products, discrimination and segregation. I can find more than enough of that far to the north . . . Among those heroic men fighting for the freedom of all of us in Korea are many American Negroes...
...North Georgia Methodist Conference in Atlanta, Vice President Alben W. Berkley explained how he happened to become a Methodist himself. "My ancestors were Presbyterians for six generations," said the Veep, "but I was at a Methodist college-old Emory at Oxford, Ga. I decided to become a Methodist when I was 17. I decided I could be just as good a man in the Methodist Church as in the Presbyterian Church, if I wanted...
Edward T. Folliard, 52, has been the Washington Post's crack all-round reporter for years. For his series exposing the anti-Catholic, anti-Negro Columbians in Atlanta, he won a Pulitzer Prize...