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...Louis is a Northern town with Southern accents, where Jim Crow walks a tightrope. Negroes are not segregated on streetcars and buses, in the ballparks, or at the Municipal Opera. But in restaurants, the public schools and movie houses, they are. Last week the delicate balance, a matter of timing and tradition, was snapped. A reporter casually asked the city's new welfare director, John J. O' Toole, whether Negroes could be allowed to swim in all the city's public pools. There was no law saying they couldn't, so O' Toole answered...
...engages all of the stadium's stars herself, carries on a private little war with the weather, and sometimes the weatherman, trying to determine whether to call a concert off or take a chance. She cheerfully admits: "It's too much of a job for an old crow like me." And then cheerfully adds that she has not the faintest notion of giving...
...Crow. Some Negro leaders resented the very steps, small and often grudging, that were making the South a more tolerable place for the Negro to live. They argued that every attempt to build better segregated parks and schools was only perpetuating what they were fighting to end: Jim Crowism. It was probably a valid conclusion. Many white Southerners were working unselfishly to reduce the Negro's squalor, illiteracy and ill-health, to end his disenfranchisement and ease his fear of violence. Perhaps a majority of these same Southerners still insisted that segregation was an institution that must...
...Betrayal." After the Fair Deal's high promises at election time, Leader Lucas' sunny discourse was actually an abject confession of defeat. Cried the leftrwing Americans for Democratic Action: "A flat betrayal of the Democratic platform." Anti-Truman editorialists leaped to their typewriters to crow, and to praise Harry Truman's new-found wisdom ("The President has at last seen fit to acknowledge that politics is the art of the possible," said the Washington Post...
Before he was offered the new job, able Ralph Bunche told a friend how he felt about Washington. "Frankly," he said, "it's a Jim Crow town and I wouldn't relish exposing my family to it again...