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...Senate Armed Services Committee, Randolph declared bluntly: if a draft like that of World War II was enacted, it would result in "mass civil disobedience" on the part of U.S. Negroes. Said he: "Negroes have reached the limit of their endurance when it comes to going into another Jim Crow Army to fight another war for democracy-a democracy they have never gotten." Grant Reynolds, chairman of the Committee against Jim Crow in Military Service and Training, soberly agreed...
Randolph demanded abolition of all racial discrimination in the armed services and under U.M.T. He minced no words: "To the rank-&-file Negro in World War II, Hitler's racism posed a sufficient threat for him to submit to the Jim Crow Army abuses. But this factor ... is not present in the power struggle between Stalin and the U.S. . . . Since we cannot obtain an adequate congressional forum for our grievances, we have no other recourse...
...Wallace offered his own estimate of the proper size of the Army: "Perhaps a million men." Reminded that Defense Secretary James Forrestal had asked for only 782,000, Wallace ate crow-without choking on any feathers. "That was a figure I pulled out of the air," he said...
...yesterday's letter to the editor column I was presented with the rather unpleasant alternative of either "eating crow," as our verbose Law School intellectual, Mr. Bracken, puts it, or else answering some of his emotional "reasoning." I choose the latter alternative...
...Delaware, one of 17 states with Jim Crow laws, announced that it would admit Negro students to the University of Delaware to any course not offered by the Delaware State College for Negroes. The trustees said they had taken the hint from the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in the Ada Sipuel case (TIME...