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...South Africa, Eric Rowan is as heroic a figure as Joe DiMaggio or Babe Ruth is in the U.S. Playing cricket against England last summer, Rowan, vice captain of his team and opening batsman, scored 236 runs, highest individual score any South African player ever made in a test match. But later, at Old Trafford, the Manchester cricket ground, Rowan made a different kind of sensation. When the crowd decided, he was "stonewalling" (i.e., batting a wholly defensive game), it gave him cricket's equivalent of a Bronx cheer-slow, rhythmic handclaps. Infuriated, Rowan sat down on the "pitch...
...Rowan met white Southerners who were fighting race bias. An editor told him: "White supremacists are not thinking people." A businessman, whose parents had taught him race prejudice, said: "My children won't be that...
Chipping the Barrier. Although he found the old race barriers still in existence, Reporter Rowan also found that they are being chipped away. On Atlantic Coast Line's Palmetto, between Washington and Charleston, where 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...
Often, Southerners, wary of offending a dark-skinned man who might turn out to be a United Nations diplomat, would ask: "Are you colored?" Angrily, Rowan would retort: "Can't you see I'm colored? What you mean is, am I an American? Yes, I am an American." Thus assured, they would make him keep to the color line...
...Kentucky, Rowan found Negroes attending universities with whites, and though some students protested, their professors approved. Concluded Rowan: "A dying generation of the Old South will not give [segregation] up without bitterness. A misled portion of the new generation will not relinquish segregation without a battle . . . But it is evident that soon-very soon-segregation will vanish...