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...years, Illinois has had a law against segregation in public schools, but the city of Cairo (rhymes with faro) has never paid much attention. Cairo (pop. 12,400) happens to sit well below the Mason-Dixon line at the point where the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers meet. To all intents and purposes, it is a Southern town, and its 4,000 Negroes and 8,000 whites live out their carefully segregated lives accordingly...
...chairmen Thaddeus S. Rudzik 2L and John J. Serton, Jr. 2L are recruiting help wherever they can get it and plan to hold an organizational meeting during the first week of the new term. The group, the first north of the Mason-Dixon Line, intends eventually to extend its drive throughout Greater Boston...
Scores were higher above the Mason-Dixon Line. While well over half the Northerners passed, less than 40% of the Southerners did. The middle Atlantic states led with 60%. Low spot in the U.S.: the east south central states, with...
Baseball's color line is still firmly unbroken in the major leagues' southernmost cities (Washington, Cincinnati, St. Louis), and several clubs far above the Mason-Dixon line-notably the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees-still have a tacit exclusion policy. But this season, as never before, the Negro has found his place in major league baseball...
...isolated South Pacific (Home of the Brave), or with the specialized problem of the Negro trying to pass as white (Lost Boundaries). The story comes directly to grips with racial prejudice in what is presumably an enlightened area of the U.S.: a big city north of the Mason-Dixon line...