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Opposite the Pawn Shop. While eminent legal minds considered the great issue, Spottswood Thomas Boiling Jr., 14, sat with the all-Negro sophomore class in Washington's new Spingarn High School, quietly tending to his studies. Spottswood Boiling's name will go down in history with the segregation cases, for he is one of the plaintiffs. His case is a resume of the issues involved...
...history began one day in 1950, when Spottswood and eleven other Negro children, with a police escort and a battery of lawyers, went to Washington's shining new John Philip Sousa Junior High School. The spacious brick-and-glass school, facing a carefully groomed golf course in southeast Washington, is in a solid residential district. It has 42 bright classrooms, a fine 600-seat auditorium, a completely equipped double gymnasium, a playground with room enough for seven basketball courts and a softball diamond...
...Spottswood Boiling went, instead, to Shaw Junior High School for Negroes. It is an old, dingy, unsanitary, ill-equipped building across the street from The Lucky Pawnbroker's Exchange. Built in 1902, and used as a white school until 1928, Shaw has an L-shaped playground too small for a ball diamond, a welding shop turned into a makeshift gymnasium, a science laboratory fitted out with a Bunsen burner and a bowl of goldfish...
...three acts by Viva Tatterstall and Sidney Toler, now playing at the Wilbur, with the following cast: Edgar Smith Richard Taber Nancy Smith Edna Hibbard Tillie Muriel Owen Mr. Peabody Bennett R. Finn Louella McKenzie Ivy Merton Maude Mooney Henriette Farley Oscar Mooney Lloyd Nolan Charlie McKenzie James Spottswood...
...cult must have a shrine or citadel. Bernarr Macfadden built his at Spottswood, N. J., "The Physical Culture City." Pilgrims groaned when they found they must pay board and yet fast for two weeks. But the city flourished, perhaps on compensations which the New York World misunderstood when it attacked the city as a nest of impropriety and license. These attacks put the city out of business, nor could its Sultan retrieve damages from the World in court. The times were narrow, oppressive. Even a chain of Macfadden lunchrooms failed, all save three, after "revolutionizing the restaurant business" so that...