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This is the concluding part of a series on integration in Chestertown, Maryland. The articles, which recently won the Dana Reed Prize for undergraduate writing, were filed from Chestertown last summer and were originally printed on the dates indicated in the Summer News...
...inflexibility of this attitude makes the integrationist feel that he has scored a major triumph if a member of the white community concedes the most minor point. For instance, Chestertown has a large, new hospital which can comfortably house around 50 patients. In it there are eight beds for Negroes, four to a room. Infectious and non-infectious patients sometimes must breathe the same air; slightly ill babies must lie next to old women; all Negro men and women must share the same bathroom...
...Chestertown NAAPC...
Until the Freedom riders held demonstrations here last February Chestertown did not have an NAACP. Of course, there was no other organization through which they could work for their rights. When the NAACP was finally established last March, and began discussing the procurement of jobs in Chestertown stores, it was branded radical by the more conservative members of the Negro community...
Negroes who have become wealthy in Chestertown know that their fate depends upon the approval of the white community. Most of the worst slums here are owned by a Negro businessman who knows that his property can be condemned whenever white leaders decide to step in. This man is also a member of the Cambell's personnel department. During this month's union campaign he received some sort of payment to go among local Negroes, campaigning for management. Since he wields considerable financial influence within the colored community, he was fairly successful in allowing Cambell's executives to put across...