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...little (pop. 1,849) town of Fruita, in a valley of Colorado's Rocky Mountains, had always been an all-white town. Because no Negro had ever lived there, few townspeople even knew of their Jim Crow ordinance forbidding Negroes to remain in town after sundown. Then the Minters came to Fruita...
Then someone remembered the town's Jim Crow ordinance. No one seemed to know who had passed it, or when or why. Snorted Judge Harris: "We just won't enforce the bill. It's unconstitutional." But there it was on the law books. Finally, Mayor Lewis Moore called an emergency meeting of the city council, which voted unanimously to abolish...
...editors do not stop with their snipe at Conant: "The administration at Harvard and the big businessmen and generals who compose the Board of Over-seas (Overseers) helped to prepare the way for the cross burning by maintaining a quota system ... and by following jim crow hiring practices which permit only two Negro teachers on Harvard's immense faculty...
...whether the laws passed by Parliament are or are not constitutional. Malan called the bill a democratic measure to establish the supremacy of Parliament. But its real purpose was more sinister. Six weeks ago, South Africa's Supreme Court declared unconstitutional one of Malan's Jim Crow laws which disfranchised 50,000 half-caste voters. (It had been passed without the necessary two-thirds majority.) Instead of obeying the court, Malan decided to change the rules...
...averaged four speeches a day). Indians followed him on trains, begging him to stay longer. Japanese Buddhist priests brought their friends to hear him. In Berlin, during the 1951 Youth Rally, he argued into the small hours with young Communists. Wherever he went in Asia he ran into Jim Crow in reverse-his color got him places where white Americans are scarcely tolerated...