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...Winfield Eschelman of the Emerson senior class, glib talker, good swimmer, got together with Jack Keener, sleek cheerleader, and Sam Chase, smart debater, and some of the athletically "big men" of Emerson, to talk things over. Result: on Monday morning, instead of attending classes, some 800 Emersonians in floppy trousers, sporty sweaters, trim skirts and fetching blouses, went shouting and laughing through Gary's business section. Police disbanded them for "obstructing traffic" but many of them later stood around outside Emerson High School, hissing, gibing, catcalling at nonstriking students when school let out. Policemen saw to it that...
...talkative Winfield Eschelman, the strikers formulated their demands at a mass meeting which the school officials attended: 1) Let all Negroes be segregated in corners of Emerson classrooms and in the school cafeteria. 2) Let no disciplinary reprisals be made upon the strikers when they should return. 3) Let the strikers not have to "make up" school work missed during the strike. 4) Let the Emerson Negroes be transferred to other schools as soon as possible. 5) Let an all-Negro high school be built in Gary as soon as possible...
...school authorities were helpless. President Ralph Snyder of the Board of Safety, representing Mayor Floyd E. Williams, arbitrated the situation and the strikers won all their demands. Magnanimous, Winfield Eschelman and friends permitted three Negro seniors to finish out the year at Emerson because they had been there all along, but the rest were transferred temporarily to an all-Negro junior high school elsewhere in town. The strikers returned to classes...
...from slave stock, some of which has been in the U. S. even longer than genuine Mayflower stock. They also reflected that, whereas U. S. Negroes form 14% of Gary's population, U. S. whites form 36%, foreign born whites form 50%. Thus a large majority of Winfield Eschelman & friends were-if representative of Gary's population-descended 14% from Slavs, 10% from Poles, 4% from Hungarians, 3% from Austrians, 3% from Croats, 3% from Italians, 2% from Germans, 1% from Greeks, 1% from Mexicans, 8% from miscellaneous white races, 1% from races of other colors...
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