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Word: ottley (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 of a heavy Negro influx (1,700 a month) and the attendant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Negro in the North | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

...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 in the North is slow. Some even drape themselves in crepe and wail. Actually, the pace is breakneck, sometimes even too swift for the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Negro in the North | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

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