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Tennessee's chicken-necked Boss Ed Crump once found it convenient to play ball with Memphis' Republican Negro boss. That was when there was a Republican in the White House and the Negro boss had Federal patronage to dispose of. Since Roosevelt, there has not even been a Negro boss...
With the candidacy of Wendell Willkie, Negro political hopes revived. Big, coffee-colored Dr. J. B. Martin, a Memphis druggist for 30 years, president of a Negro baseball league and owner of the Memphis Red Sox, took over the leadership, organized Republican Negroes for a campaign. The Crump machine took one quick look and went into high...
...declared that they were looking for dope. Negroes who protested were arrested, fined. Hundreds were searched and at least one hundred were run in for carrying knives with blades longer than the six-inch maximum allowed by law. Twenty colored kindergartners were lined up, pawed over by the Crump cops. Frisked in front of Atkinson's was Father Bertrand Kock, white pastor of Mrs. Atkinson's church. Police patted his Franciscan robe, made him take off his shoes...
...Negro politicians meanwhile went anonymous threatening letters. Crump cops spread through Beale Avenue, raided poolrooms, restaurants, hustled vanloads of Negroes off to the clink...
Down there early one morning last week, while the crump of bombs and report of Flak roared above ground in the R. A. F.'s longest attack of the war, two little future soldiers were brought squalling into the world. Next morning Adolf Hitler tenderly blessed the infants, and declared that for every baby born in his underground hospital during a raid he would be godfather...