Word: atlantae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public parks, playgrounds and golf courses desegregated. It required fewer than 70 words for the Supreme Court to make two separate rulings, one affirming an appeals court decision against segregation in Maryland parks and playgrounds (including swimming pools), the other reversing lower-court decisions that had upheld segregation on Atlanta golf courses...
...book will serve Talmadge as a very handy campaign tool. After one week it had sold out its first printing of 10,000 copies in Atlanta (it will be published nationally this week), and a second printing of 50,000 copies was on the presses. Asked what he thought of the book's reception, Talmadge beamed: "I think it's just fine...
...survive, Negro publications may have to follow the example of Ebony and Atlanta's Daily World, the only Negro daily in the U.S. The World has prospered by consistently giving its 17,000 weekday readers full, even-tempered news coverage. This year it has a 45% advertising gain over 1954. Says the World's Managing Editor William Gordon, 36, a 1952 Harvard Nieman fellow: "We aren't in business just to fight for racial equality. The Negro today wants to be well and accurately informed. With desegregation. I can see no decline in the need...
...taken prisoner. In Southern camps, 15 of every 100 Federals died; in the North, twelve out of every 100 Confederates died. But even in a day when most camps were shocking, the name of Andersonville most specifically spelled horror. Within this Georgia stockade, 100 miles south of Atlanta, as many as 127 men died in a single day, and during one three-month period, the total of dead exceeded the whole number of those on both sides who were killed at Gettysburg...
Appointed Rounds. In Atlanta, Postman Walter A. Smith entered the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, tiptoed up to the Rev. Charles Anders and handed him a special-delivery letter in the middle of a sermon, later explained when reprimanded: "I looked in and saw he wasn't praying...