Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern) last week proposed one way of replacing talk about racial integration with deeds. Meeting in Philadelphia, the 910 Commissioners (delegates) of the 168th General Assembly overwhelmingly passed a recommendation that all Christian churchgoers with houses for sale should offer them to "all qualified purchasers without regard to race." Studies of the effect on property values of Negroes moving into white communities, according to the Presbyterian Standing Committee on Social Education and Action, show that a decline in value is not inevitable, and that in many cases property values rise. Pastors...
...damn the South's separate and unequal public school facilities for Negroes. In some parts of the North, many schools with Negro student majorities were found to be almost as inferior to neighboring whites' schools as their respective Southern counterparts. Main underlying reason: residential segregation of Northern Negroes...
...Moines Register was taken aback by a colleague's question: Why doesn't the Register run anything about anti-Negro discrimination in Iowa? The questioner: Editor in Chief Grover C. Hall Jr. of Alabama's Montgomery Advertiser (circ. 60,144), who has been campaigning editorially for Northern papers to cover the racial, problem in their areas (TIME, April 23). Des Moines's Soth* replied that the problem simply does not exist. But after he got home, Editor Soth did some digging into the subject, found that there was indeed discrimination in Iowa. In editorials he admitted...
...Register was not the only paper that, prompted by the desegregation story, investigated discrimination in its own backyard. The New York Post devoted twelve articles to the subject; the New York Times ran four solid stories on Negroes in New York and other Northern cities; the Chicago Tribune presented a scholarly, ten-part series by Negro Reporter Roi Ottley; the Newark News ran a series which was the joint work of two staffers who play tennis together-Tennessee-born George Kentera, 33, and Luther Jackson, 31, a Virginia-bred Negro. The Los Angeles Mirror-News told its story...
Through the stories ran common themes; e.g., the Northern Negro is most heavily hit by private-housing barriers imposing geographical segregation that often makes a farce of the North's free dom from segregation in the schools. They also told a story of progress, pointed out that the weight of Northern opinion and law supports the Negro's fight for first-class citizenship-in contrast with the Deep South's defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court's integration decision. Wrote the Chicago Tribune's Reporter Ottley: "There are Negroes who complain that progress...