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Within hours after the violence had erupted, U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. ordered an FBI roundup of Clinton's segregationist leaders. Next day 16 of them (including White Citizens Council Leader W. H. Till and hate-spouting, part-time Preacher Alonzo Bullock) were arrested on contempt-of-court charges. At Clinton high school, shortly after it was closed, about 50 students met with Jerry Shattuck, 17, student-council president and football captain, and called for compliance "with the Federal Court order to provide an education for all the citizens of Anderson County who desire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: The True Face of Clinton | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

More Money. Bullock's report is based on a poll of 1,028 households, out of Houston's burgeoning Negro population of 156,000, and of 127 stores patronized by Negroes. He calculates that Houston Negroes spend $168 million a year; they constitute 21.2% of the city population, account for 15% of its purchases. Furthermore, he figures that this spending power is backed by a property investment of $45 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The Negro Market | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

...Bullock reckons that the median income of the Negro household in Houston has risen from $2,900 in 1940 to $4,016 today. One reason for the relatively high income is that Negro families frequently have more than one wage earner; one family in three has a second paycheck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The Negro Market | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

...quadrupled in the state. They are also getting better jobs. In 1940, only 2.9% of Houston's Negroes were in the professions; today the figure is 5.2%, of which almost half are teachers. Another factor in the fatter paycheck has been the lessening of barriers to better jobs. Bullock checked 736 Texas manufacturing firms, found eight of them now employ Negro chemists, nine have Negro engineers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The Negro Market | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

Houston's Negroes still shy from some specialty products, not from lack of money, but because they have never felt the need for them, e.g., only 15.6% buy baby food. Concludes Pollster Bullock: "Because of its youth, its bettering education, its increasing life span (up to 63 for U.S. Negro males in 1950), the total Negro market has barely been tapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The Negro Market | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

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