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...Washington correspondent for the Atlanta World and National Negro Press Association, Louis Lautier stirred up a storm when he applied for admission to the National Press Club last month. The 911-member club had never admitted a Negro before, and the members split into two sharply divided groups over his application (TIME. Jan. 31). But Lautier's backers confidently expected the members to go along with the national trend toward desegregation and end their color bar. On the eve of the club's referendum vote. Lautier wrote a column for Washington's Negro semiweekly Afro-American, personally...
...Government offices, and have even been elected to Congress itself. But there is still one inner sanctum where Negro newsmen have never been admitted as members: the 911-member National Press Club, to which virtually all capital correspondents (and hundreds of pressagents and lobbyists) belong.* Three weeks ago Louis Lautier, 56. Washington correspondent for the National Negro Press Association and the Atlanta Daily World, decided to put the club's color bar to its first formal test. Lautier, the first Negro reporter on a daily newspaper to be admitted to the congressional press galleries (TIME. March 31, 1947), applied...
...fortnight ago Lautier's application was tentatively approved by the club's board of governors, but the best it could do was a 6-4 vote. The board's action touched off a hot debate, and Lautier's supporters and opponents got ready for a stormy floor fight at the club's annual meeting. But four days before the meeting both factions agreed on a way to keep the fight from flaring into the open. The members agreed to "avoid discussion that might become acrimonious and unseemly" by putting Lautier's application...
...Louis Lautier, Atlantic Daily World Washington correspondent, and Simeon Booker, Jr., of the Cleveland Call-Post, received $250 awards for "distinguished correspondence." Nieman Fellow judges included Alan Barth, Grady E. Clay, David B. Dreiman, and E. L. Holland...
...Senate press corps last week got its second Negro member in two weeks (TIME, March 24)-and the second since 1873. The Senate Rules Committee-whose chairman, Illinois' C. Wayland ("Curly") Brooks, has nearly half a million Negroes in his state-admitted Louis R. Lautier of the Atlanta Daily World, over the objections of the daily correspondents' committee...