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...refuse to allow the impression that to remain that the Negro-American assents to inferiority, is submissive under oppression and apologetic before insults," Trotter wrote with W.B. DuBois in the Declaration of Principles for the Niagara Movement...
...mother, and later from a black Methodist minister who befriended him in his troubled adolescence, Jackie imbibed the belief that God had plans for him. Sure enough, an implausible design took shape. Branch Rickey, general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, plucked Robinson out of the obscurity of the Negro league Kansas City Monarchs in 1945 and asked him if he could accept the terms of making history, with all the abuse that would ensue. "I'm looking," Rickey famously said, "for a ball player with guts enough not to fight back...
BILL GRAY III $26 for 1.7 oz. For the American man who likes to take charge, Sincerely Lola Cosmetics is launching Bill Gray III--after the president of the United Negro College Fund. Says Gray: "I have nothing to do with this. I don't want to be like Mike...
...combat-ready paratroopers lined the two blocks of Park Avenue in front of the school, stood with fixed bayonets on corners a block away in each direction... A jeep rolled through the barricade at 16th Street and Park Avenue, followed by an Army station wagon and another jeep. The Negroes piled out of the station wagon. Three platoons came on the double across the school grounds, deployed in strategic positions. Another platoon lined up on either side of the Negroes, escorted them inside the building... [Once there the] Negro children reported that they were well treated... During the noon hour...
DIED. CARLTON MOSS, 88, pioneering independent filmmaker; in Los Angeles. When blacks were excluded from moviedom, he charted his own course, making little-known industrial films. His potent 1944 Army documentary, The Negro Soldier, attracted wide attention, inspiring future generations of black actors, writers and directors...