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...unsegregated plane and Pullman, in segregated buses and in Jim Crow railroad coaches, delegates of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People descended on Atlanta, capital of the Deep South. They met in the Deep South for the first time since an earlier convention in Atlanta in 1920. Thirty-one years had made startling changes in both the N.A.A.C.P. and Atlanta...
...million New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (which had kicked him off its board of directors in 1947), before its management knew what was happening. In taking over, Citizen Dumaine rode from Boston to New Haven in a day coach. But Railroad Baron Dumaine rode home in a Pullman compartment. Working up until the end, he spent a busy day on the telephone, collapsed, was put to bed, died during the night. His last words: "It wasn't worth...
...Arrow rumbling toward him, he stood between the rails in the bright morning sunshine and waved desperately. He had to jump for his life. As the Red Arrow rounded the curve, its horn blasted. Then, with a roar and a blinding electric flash, its locomotive sliced through the rear Pullman of the express, derailed the car ahead, reared like a wounded beast, and toppled sideways in a blizzard of dust, broken glass and feathers from burst pillows...
Wherever he goes, it is the association with laymen - often almost pathetically brief - that he savors most. His rather sad face lights up when he talks about the Pullman porter who came back three cars "to shake hands with my presiding bishop." As a chairman of the General Commission on Army and Navy Chaplains during World War II, he repeatedly went out of his way to make personal visits to the families of men he had met overseas...
...five years ago Ensign Rowan, U.S.N.R. had to eat at a curtain-rigged table, Newsman Rowan ate in an open diner-thanks to the Supreme Court decision outlawing Jim Crow in dining cars on interstate trains. In New Orleans, by showing his Naval Reserve card, he even got a Pullman berth...