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...possible cures-for such rioting. But Monsignor John S. Spence, director of education for the archdiocese of Washington, threw up his hands. Noting that "brutal lawlessness" had occurred on Thanksgiving Day, he declared a moratorium on championship football and basketball games between Catholic and public high schools. Washington Correspondent Booker probably had the wisest words of all to say. Wrote he to the newspapers: "Negro leadership in Washington has a responsibility to tackle this problem of rowdyism and juvenile delinquency, not by excuses or statements but by planned community-wide programs. Integration demands responsible citizens, and we must take...
...seven years as Washington bureau chief for Ebony, Tan and Jet magazines, Simeon Booker had never written words that pained him more. Yet the facts were clear, and Booker set them forth in a letter sent last week to three Washington newspapers. "What I saw at the District of Columbia Stadium," he said, "easily could have duplicated what I saw covering the Little Rock school desegregation case, or the bus station mob during the Freedom Rides to Birmingham, or the Emmett Till case in Mississippi. The difference, ironically, was that the predominant number of offenders were Negro. The explosion...
...What Booker saw at the District of Columbia Stadium was Washington's worst race riot since 1910.* It took place the previous week-on Thanksgiving Day-at the city's high school championship football game between Eastern and St. John's. Eastern, the public school champions, has only ten whites among its 2,400 pupils; St. John's, the Catholic League winner, is predominantly white. Of the nearly 50,000 fans who jammed the new stadium, about 80% were Negroes...
Well, anyway, enough of this. Kirkland House's production of Dark of the Moon is not without faults, most of which could, and even may, be corrected. But, chiefly because of the exertions of the multi-talented Booker Bradshaw, they've really got something down there. You ought to go and see what they have done...
First place winners in the Boylston Prize contest last night were Booker T. Bradshaw '62 of Kirkland House and Richmond, Va.; and Virgil Thomas Fryman. Jr. '62 of Quincy House and Washington, Ky. Second prizes went to: Robert W. Gordon '63 of Eliot House and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Lewis B. Kaden '63 of Winthrop House and Perth Amboy, N.J.; and Philip L. Stotter '63 of Winthrop House and South River...