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Night Out. In The Bronx, a beer-drinking crow named Deacon, whose small vocabulary includes "bow-wow," flew out of the zoo, was discovered in a fight with a cat two blocks away, was returned to the zoo minus some feathers and smelling of beer from an unknown donor...
...believe that the Negro 20 years hence will be far more powerful and will get far more respect from the white man. There will be a change made. With the help of God and the liberal-minded Americans, the problem of. "Jim Crow" will be banished...
...group, Southerners insisted that Negroes in uniform keep strictly to the Jim Crow laws. Crowded buses, where the races were forced to mingle, became the scene of ugly flare-ups. In some sections bus drivers toted guns. The South was prepared to back up its Jim Crow laws with force. On at least one occasion an "uppity" Negro soldier bus-rider was shot dead...
...Crow Army. What rankled most with the Negro soldier was the discovery that he was also in a Jim Crow Army. He was segregated in PXs, barracks, mess halls...
Mississippi, proud of its pleasant way of life-which has depended for more than a century on Negro labor-fretted and fumed at doing the hard work. But Mississippians continued to tack up bigger & bolder Jim Crow signs. There was no pause in the steady run of "incidents" between white civilians and Negro soldiers at the state's 36 military establishments. Politicians, bitter at the New Deal for "pampering" the colored folks, went right on orating in favor of white supremacy. The Grenada County Weekly editorialized: "The good darkies of the South should remember that, at the best, Eleanor...