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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mugged, brutally beaten and robbed by Negroes in New York City. I must say that this experience and some of the appalling statistics that leak out from time to time have opened my eyes. I now have a little more appreciation of the problems in the South. Certainly with equal rights go equal responsibilities? I'd like to see the N.A.A.C.P. do a little more to face up to this problem...
...floor sweeping. Disgruntled, some 25,000 Negroes a year are leaving for opportunities elsewhere. Yet the bulk of an estimated $100 million to be spent on schools in the next five years will be used to bring Negro schools up to white levels. The state grants Negro teachers salaries equal to their white counterparts (but local school boards frequently add discriminatory differentials). Unlike governors in Louisiana. Alabama and Texas, Coleman disapproved of banning the N.A.A.C.P. Says a Mississippi N.A.A.C.P. official grudgingly: "For Mississippi. Coleman's an exceptional...
Pressures Across 5,600 miles, the world's most powerful nation and one of the smallest engaged in a testing of pressure. The contest was more equal than any comparative statistics of wealth or population would suggest; even the outcome of the contest for world favor, between a nation that had committed aggression and one that was asking it to desist, was not foregone conclusion...
...appealing, and although there are only occasional moments when the more serious emotions communicate, the lack of pretention both in the work itself and in the production make A Tree on the Plains a welcome relief from the usual round of Gilbert and Sullivan. Let's hope for equal imagination in the programs of some of the other local music groups...
Strijdom's ostensible policy of "separate but equal" holds no water. Educational facilities are not equal; the disparity is obvious. Even if they were, however, Chief Justice Warren's dictum of May 1954, that "separate facilities are inherently unequal," applies even more to South Africa than it does to the American South. While Strijdom's right hand extends the ostensible goal of improved and racial interdependency, his left hand increasingly forces African blacks into a cultural and economic grave...