Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Memphis, Mayor James J. Pleasants Jr. bent a dutiful ear toward Boss Crump, announced that the Negro and white races would have to see the Freedom Train separately. Freedom Train officials canceled the stop. But Atlanta's Mayor William Hartsfield refused to sanction such segregation: "I do not see how anybody can draw a color line through freedom and justice...
...line's end in the city of New York, the 266 boxcars of the "Friendship Train were unloaded last week. With the contributions of New York, the cross-country haul of food donated for Europe's hungry added up to more than 12,120 tons...
Wartime Premier Hideld Tojo's 48-year-old brother, Kikuro, was jugged for 18 months for lifting odds & ends from Tokyo train passengers...
...Chester, Pa., an interested visitor to the Freedom Train was Colin Kelly III, son of a hero father, now a redheaded seven-year-old. He stared at the historical document which most concerned him: Franklin Roosevelt's recommendation that he be appointed to West Point...
Scrimmages are scheduled for every afternoon but Thursday, as the Freshman team aspirants train in coordinated defense and offense groups...