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Library Home » Find Information » Find Databases » San Antonio Register Index Index to San Antonio RegisterThe current index covers issues from May 29, 1931 through May 29, 1959. You may browse any part of the index by choosing a letter from the list below. Please read the introduction to learn about some of the peculiarities in the microfilm and how to use the structure of the index to find names. Note: The following pages are quite large and—depending on your browser—may take several minutes to fully load. Thank you for your patience. A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z U
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farmers dance at Recreation Center is delightful affair, 1932/05/20: 6 meetings in 1931, 1931/05/29: 8, 1931/09/04: 6, 1931/09/25: 7, 1931/10/02: 6, 1931/10/09: 7, 1931/10/30: 6, 1931/11/06: 7, 1931/11/13: 6 meetings in 1932, 1932/04/15: 5, 1932/05/27: 6 meetings in 1933, 1933/05/26: 6, 1933/12/29: 6 meetings in 1934, 1934/02/09: 5 meetings in 1936, 1936/04/03: 6, 1936/05/01: 6, 1936/07/17: 6 will host shower for Eleanor Lucille Freeman, 1934/03/09: 7
husband of SA woman killed in action in Germany, 1945/06/01: 1
man who slipped on oil at Eason's Service Station wins $3,000, 1953/04/10: 1 Union Baptist Bible Band
entertains pastor and guests, 1934/03/09: 1 news in 1932, 1932/04/22: 8 (filmed in 04/29 issue), 1932/04/29: 8 (filmed in 05/06 issue), 1932/05/06: 8 (filmed in 05/13 issue), 1932/05/13: 8 (filmed in 05/20 issue), 1932/05/20: 8 (filmed in 05/27 issue), 1932/05/27: 5, 1932/06/03: 5, 1932/08/05: 8 (filmed in 08/12 issue), 1932/08/19: 5, 1932/08/26: 7, 1932/10/21: 8 (filmed in 10/28 issue), 1932/11/18: 8 (filmed in 11/25 issue) news in 1933, 1933/02/17: 6
Alexander, Rev. B. Tyree, to be featured speaker (photo), 1951/07/20: 8 (filmed in 07/27 issue) anniversaries
30th anniversary celebrated, 1946/11/15: 8 37th anniversary celebrated (photo), 1953/10/16: 8 38th anniversary with Rev. Shelly Edward Steward giving sermon (photo), 1954/11/26: 8 (filmed in 12/03 issue) 41st anniversary observed with Rev. H. Duncan preaching anniversary sermon (photo), 1957/11/22: 4 benefit tea held Sunday, 1956/05/18: 8 (filmed in 05/25 issue) Circle No. 2 meets, 1940/11/01: 8 (filmed in 11/08 issue), 1941/10/31: 8 (filmed in 11/07 issue), 1941/11/14: 7 debate to be staged, 1932/10/28: 6 District Baptists to meet at Union, 1932/07/22: 8 (filmed in 07/29 issue) Easter services, 1933/04/14: 8 (filmed in 04/21 issue), 1933/04/21: 8 (filmed in 04/28 issue)
Holland, Rev. W. L., is guest speaker for early Easter service (photo), 1945/03/30: 2 program features David Ellis and Charles Dixon (photo), 1947/04/04: 8 (filmed in 04/11 issue) week of Easter services starts Monday night (photo), 1957/04/12: 8 (filmed in 04/19 issue) Fuller, Mrs. M. A. B., to speak, 1939/11/17: 8 (filmed in 11/24 issue) Girls Auxiliary No. 2 meets, 1940/02/23: 4 Glee Club/Quartet on 'Glorified Voices' program Graham, Rev. Major P. speaks on Laymen's League of America at close of 10-day meeting, 1942/06/12: 5 Guadalupe Baptist Association meets here, next week, 1940/07/26: 1 Guild club serves dinner at 'Y,' 1934/02/09: 7 Men's Day, Baker, Rev. J. Francis, to speak (photo), 1956/05/25: 8 (filmed in 06/01 issue) Missionary Circle meets, 1940/01/12: 8 (filmed in 01/19 issue) Missionary Society Circle No. 2
meetings in 1941, 1941/10/24: 8 (filmed in 10/31 issue) will hold silver tea, 1941/02/21: 8 (filmed in 01/03 issue)
and dedication service held December 15, with Rev. B. Tyree Alexander as guest speaker (photo), 1957/12/13: 8 (filmed in 12/20 issue) program held (photo), 1944/07/14: 8 (filmed in 07/21 issue)
"Jubilee" set for May 11, 1958/05/09: 8 (filmed in 05/16 issue) observance of, 1936/05/15: 8 (filmed in 05/22 issue)
Benson-Hines Choraliers heard Sunday, 1950/11/03: 8 (filmed in 11/10 issue) Ellis and Dixon
featured in Easter program (photo), 1947/04/04: 8 (filmed in 04/11 issue) in special program, church and pastor thank friends, patrons, 1956/02/03: 8 (filmed in 02/10 issue) performances, 1947/04/25: 6, 1947/07/11: 8 (filmed in 07/18 issue) Evangelistic Gospel Singers to perform, 1954/09/17: 8 (filmed in 09/24 issue) Glosson, Mrs. V., presented in recital, 1954/08/06: 8 (filmed in 08/13 issue) "grand musicale and singing bird contest," 1947/07/11: 8 (filmed in 07/18 issue) musical program on July 29, 1945/07/27: 8 (filmed in 08/03 issue) senior choir to host musical, 1955/10/21: 7 Taylor, Mrs. J. L., presented in recital (photo), 1948/04/02: 8 Taylor Singers presented in program Oct. 21, 1956/10/19: 8 (filmed in 10/26 issue) Thanksgiving song festival at Union Baptist, 1945/11/16: 8 (filmed in 11/23 issue) United Gospel Messengers to appear, 1945/07/06: 8 (filmed in 6/13 issue), 1947/01/24: 8 Unity Sisters to perform Sunday, 1947/10/24: 6 Ushers to present musicale staged by Luther L. Jackson (photo), 1943/07/09: 5
entering service held for new building with Rev. B. Tyree Alexander delivering a special sermon (photo), 1959/01/16: 8 (filmed in 01/23 issue) entering services close with guest speaker, Rev. G. C. Coleman, Friendship Baptist Church (photo), 1959/01/23: 8 (filmed in 01/30 issue) news in 1933, 1933/01/13: 8 (filmed in 01/20 issue), 1933/02/03: 8 (filmed in 02/10 issue), 1933/03/10: 8 (filmed in 03/17 issue), 1933/03/17: 8 (filmed in 03/24 issue), 1933/03/31: 8 (filmed in 04/07 issue), 1933/04/07: 8 (filmed in 04/14 issue), 1933/04/28: 8 (filmed in 05/05 issue), 1933/05/05: 8 (filmed in 05/12 issue), 1933/05/12: 8 (filmed in 05/19 issue), 1933/05/12: 8 (filmed in 05/26 issue), 1933/05/26: 8 (filmed in 06/09 issue), 1933/06/09: 8 (filmed in 06/16 issue), 1933/06/16: 8 (filmed in 06/23 issue), 1933/06/23: 8 (filmed in 06/30 issue), 1933/06/30: 8 (filmed in 07/07 issue), 1933/08/18: 8 (filmed in 08/25 issue), 1933/09/01: 8 (filmed in 09/08 issue), 1933/09/15: 8 (filmed in 09/22 issue), 1933/09/22: 8 (filmed in 09/29 issue), 1933/09/29: 8 (filmed in 10/06 issue), 1933/10/27: 8 (filmed in 11/03 issue), 1933/11/10: 8 (filmed in 11/17 issue) news in 1934, 1934/01/12: 8 (filmed in 01/19 issue), 1934/02/02: 8 (filmed in 02/09 issue), 1934/02/09: 8 (filmed in 02/16 issue), 1934/02/16: 8 (filmed in 02/23 issue), 1934/04/20: 8 (filmed in 04/27 issue), 1934/05/11: 8 (filmed in 05/18 issue), 1934/11/02: 8 (filmed in 11/09 issue), 1934/11/09: 8 (filmed in 11/16 issue), 1934/11/16: 8 (filmed in 1935/04/05 issue) news in 1935, 1935/05/17: 8 (filmed in 06/07 issue), 1935/07/05: 8 (filmed in 07/12 issue), 1935/08/09: 8 (filmed in 09/13 issue), 1935/09/27: 8 (filmed in 10/18 issue) news in 1936, 1936/03/06: 8 (filmed in 03/13 issue), 1936/03/13: 8 (filmed in 03/20 issue), 1936/03/20: 7, 1936/03/27: 8 (filmed in 04/03 issue), 1936/04/03: 8 (filmed in 04/10 issue), 1936/04/24: 8 (filmed in 05/01 issue), 1936/05/01: 8 (filmed in 05/08 issue), 1936/07/03: 8 (filmed in 07/10 issue), 1936/07/31: 8 (filmed in 08/07 issue) news in 1937, 1937/12/03: 8 (filmed in 12/10 issue), 1937/12/24: 8 (filmed in 12/31 issue), 1937/12/31: 8 (filmed in 1938/01/07 issue) news in 1938, 1937/12/31: 8 (filmed in 1938/01/07 issue), 1938/01/28: 8 (filmed in 04/01 issue), 1938/04/01: 8 (filmed in 04/15 issue), 1938/04/29: 8 (filmed in 05/06 issue), 1938/05/6: 8 (filmed in 05/13 issue), 1938/05/20: 8 (filmed in 05/27 issue), 1938/05/27: 8 (filmed in 06/03 issue), 1938/06/03: 8 (filmed in 06/10 issue), 1938/06/10: 8 (filmed in 06/17 issue), 1938/07/15: 8 (filmed in 07/22 issue), 1938/07/29: 8 (filmed in 09/23 issue), 1938/11/18: 8 (filmed in 11/25 issue) news in 1939, 1939/03/10: 8 (filmed in 03/24 issue), 1939/04/07: 8 (filmed in 04/14 issue), 1939/04/28: 8 (filmed in 05/05 issue), 1939/05/05: 8 (filmed in 05/12 issue), 1939/05/12: 8 (filmed in 05/19 issue), 1939/05/19: 8 (filmed in 06/02 issue), 1939/06/16: 8 (filmed in 06/23 issue), 1939/08/04: 8 (filmed in 08/18 issue), 1939/08/18: 8 (filmed in 08/25 issue), 1939/09/08: 8 (filmed in 09/15 issue), 1939/11/03: 8 (filmed in 11/10 issue), 1939/11/17: 8 (filmed in 11/24 issue), 1939/12/08: 8 (filmed in 12/15 issue), 1939/12/15: 8 (filmed in 12/29 issue) news in 1940, 1940/01/05: 8 (filmed in 01/12 issue), 1940/01/12: 8 (filmed in 01/19 issue), 1940/01/26: 8 (filmed in 02/02 issue), 1940/02/02: 8 (filmed in 02/09 issue), 1940/02/16: 8 (filmed in 02/23 issue), 1940/02/23: 8 (filmed in 04/05 issue), 1940/04/05: 8 (filmed in 04/19 issue), 1940/04/19: 8 (filmed in 04/26 issue), 1940/04/26: 8 (filmed in 05/17 issue), 1940/05/17: 8 (filmed in 05/24 issue), 1940/05/24: 8 (filmed in 05/31 issue), 1940/05/31: 8 (filmed in 06/07 issue), 1940/06/28: 8 (filmed in 07/05 issue), 1940/07/05: 8 (filmed in 07/12 issue), 1940/08/23: 8 (filmed in 08/30 issue), 1940/08/30: 8 (filmed in 09/06 issue), 1940/09/20: 8 (filmed in 09/27 issue), 1940/10/04: 8 (filmed in 10/11 issue), 1940/10/11: 8 (filmed in 10/18 issue), 1940/11/01: 8 (filmed in 11/08 issue), 1940/11/15: 8 (filmed in 11/22 issue), 1940/12/13: 8 (filmed in 12/20 issue), 1940/12/20: 8 (filmed in 12/27 issue) news in 1941, 1941/01/10: 8 (filmed in 01/17 issue), 1941/01/17: 8 (filmed in 01/31 issue), 1941/01/24: 8 (filmed in 02/21 issue), 1941/01/31: 8 (filmed in 02/07 issue), 1941/03/28: 8 (filmed in 04/04 issue), 1941/09/19: 8 (filmed in 09/26 issue), 1941/10/03: 8 (filmed in 10/10 issue), 1941/10/17: 8 (filmed in 11/07 issue), 1941/12/12: 8 (filmed in 12/19 issue) news in 1942, 1942/02/13: 8 (filmed in 04/10 issue), 1942/07/17: 8 (filmed in 07/24 issue), 1942/07/24: 8 (filmed in 07/31 issue), 1942/07/31: 8 (filmed in 08/07 issue), 1942/08/07: 8 (filmed in 08/14 issue) news in 1943, 1943/01/08: 8 (filmed in 01/15 issue), 1943/06/25: 8 (filmed in 07/02 issue), 1943/07/16: 4, 1943/07/23: 8 (filmed in 07/30 issue) news in 1944, 1944/10/13: 8 (filmed in 10/20 issue) news in 1945, 1945/01/12: 8, 1945/11/16: 8 (filmed in 11/23 issue) news in 1946, 1946/01/18: 8, 1946/04/19: 8 (filmed in 04/26 issue), 1946/05/31: 8, 1946/06/07: 8 (filmed in 06/14 issue), 1946/06/14: 8, 1946/06/21: 8, 1946/07/12: 8 (filmed in 07/19 issue), 1946/07/19: 8, 1946/07/26: 5, 1946/08/02: 8, 1946/08/09: 8, 1946/10/11: 8, 1946/10/18: 8, 1946/11/08: 2 (Section 2), 1946/11/15: 8, 1946/11/22: 8, 1946/11/29: 8 (filmed in 12/06 issue), 1946/12/06: 8 (filmed in 12/13 issue), 1946/12/20: 8 news in 1947, 1947/01/03: 8 (filmed in 01/10 issue), 1947/01/10: 8, 1947/01/17: 8 (filmed in 01/24 issue), 1947/01/24: 8, 1947/02/07: 8 (filmed in 02/14 issue), 1947/02/14: 8 (filmed in 02/21 issue), 1947/02/21: 8 (filmed in 02/28 issue), 1947/03/07: 8, 1947/03/14: 8 (filmed in 03/21 issue), 1947/03/21: 8 (filmed in 03/28 issue), 1947/07/11: 8 (filmed in 07/18 issue), 1947/10/03: 8 (filmed in 10/10 issue), 1947/10/31: 8 (filmed in 11/07 issue), 1947/12/05: 8 (filmed in 12/12 issue), 1947/12/26: 8 (filmed in 1948/01/02 issue) news in 1948, 1948/02/27: 8, 1948/03/26: 8, 1948/04/09: 8, 1948/06/04: 8, 1948/07/16: 8, 1948/08/20: 8 (filmed in 08/27 issue), 1948/08/27: 8 (filmed in 09/03 issue), 1948/11/19: 8 (filmed in 11/26 issue) news in 1949, 1949/01/21: 8, 1949/02/11: 8, 1949/02/18: 8, 1949/02/25: 8, 1949/03/04: 8, 1949/03/11: 8, 1949/03/18: 8, 1949/03/25: 8, 1949/04/15: 4, 1949/04/29: 4, 1949/05/06: 8, 1949/05/13: 8, 1949/05/20: 8, 1949/05/27: 8, 1949/06/17: 8, 1949/06/24: 8, 1949/09/16: 8, 1949/10/07: 8, 1949/11/11 Supp: 1 news in 1950, 1950/04/28: 8 (filmed in 05/05 issue), 1950/06/09: 8 (filmed in 06/16 issue), 1950/07/28: 8 (filmed in 08/04 issue), 1950/10/27: 8 (filmed in 11/03 issue) news in 1951, 1951/06/08: 8 (filmed in 06/15 issue), 1951/06/15: 8 (filmed in 06/22 issue), 1951/06/29: 8 (filmed in 07/06 issue), 1951/07/06: 8 (filmed in 07/13 issue), 1951/07/13: 8 (filmed in 07/20 issue), 1951/07/20: 8 (filmed in 07/27 issue), 1951/08/10: 8 (filmed in 08/17 issue), 1951/08/17: 8 (filmed in 08/24 issue), 1951/08/24: 8 (filmed in 08/31 issue), 1951/11/16: 8 (filmed in 11/23 issue), 1951/12/21: 8 (filmed in 12/28 issue) news in 1952, 1952/02/15: 8 (filmed in 02/22 issue), 1952/04/04: 8 (filmed in 04/11 issue) news in 1953, 1953/02/20: 8 (filmed in 02/27 issue), 1953/03/20: 8 (filmed in 03/27 issue), 1953/10/09: 8, 1953/12/18: 8 news in 1954, 1954/01/29: 8, 1954/05/07: 8 (filmed on 05/14 issue) news in 1955, 1955/01/07: 8, 1955/04/01: 8 news in 1956, 1956/05/18: 8 (filmed in 05/25 issue), 1956/06/08: 8 (filmed in 06/15 issue), 1956/07/13: 8 (filmed in 07/20 issue) news in 1958, 1958/02/14: 8 (filmed in 02/21 issue) Painter (Pointer), Rev. A. H., Bay City
preaches at Sunday night service (photo), 1959/02/13: 8 (filmed in 02/20 issue) speaker for "Week of Religion" (photo), 1952/04/11: 4 Pastor's Aid
meetings in 1942, 1942/08/28: 8 (filmed in 09/04 issue), 1942/10/02: 8 (filmed in 10/09 issue) meetings in 1943, 1943/06/25: 8 (filmed in 07/02 issue), 1943/07/23: 5 to sponsor organdy wedding, 1942/06/19: 8 (filmed in 06/26 issue) religious plays, pageants, and movies
"Heaven Bound" pageant presented, 1953/05/01: 6, 1955/03/04: 8, 1956/03/09: 8 (filmed in 03/16 issue), 1957/03/01: 8 (filmed in 03/08 issue), 1958/03/07: 8 (filmed in 03/14 issue) religious film (picture) to be shown, 1947/02/07: 4
annual revival meetings (photo), 1933/01/06: 8 (filmed in 01/13 issue), 1943/01/01: 8 (filmed in 01/08 issue), 1953/01/02: 8 (filmed in 01/09 issue), 1954/12/31: 8 (filmed in 1955/01/07 issue), 1957/12/27: 8 (filmed in 1958/01/03 issue) big revival meeting held, 1931/11/20: 5, 1939/09/22: 8 (filmed in 09/29 issue), 1940/07/12: 8 (filmed in 07/26 issue) Branch, Dr. E. H., conducts revival (photo), 1942/09/25: 8 (filmed in 10/02 issue), 1942/10/02: 8 (filmed in 10/09 issue) Brent, Rev. W. S.
closes revival Sunday, Oct. 29, 1950/10/27: 8 (filmed in 11/03 issue) leads revival, 1948/10/15: 8 (filmed in 10/22 issue), 1948/10/22: 8 (filmed in 10/29 issue)
with Rev. J. L. Taylor (photo), 1950/10/20: 8 (filmed in 10/27 issue), 1951/03/16: 8 (filmed in 03/23 issue) Cunningham, Rev. L. C., guest speaker (photo), 1954/12/31: 8 (filmed in 1955/01/07 issue) Duncan, Rev. L. R., 9-year-old boy preacher to give sermons (photo), 1954/09/17: 8 (filmed in 09/24 issue) Evans, Dr. W. M., begins revival December 31 (photo), 1956/12/28: 8 (filmed in 1957/01/04 issue) Green, Rev. I. C., Houston, guest speaker (photo), 1959/03/20: 4 Johnson, Rev. E. J., guest preacher for spring revival (photo), 1958/04/04: 8 (filmed in 04/11 issue) Phillips, Rev. L. P., Houston, serves as revivalist (photo), 1954/01/01: 8 Price, Rev. M. L., visiting revival conductor, honored with dinner party (photo), 1951/01/26: 4 revival closes, 1953/04/03: 4 revival meeting is spiritual feast, 1933/03/03: 8 (filmed in 03/10 issue) revival starts Nov. 25, 1941/11/21: 8 (filmed in 11/28 issue) Smith, Rev. Clarence B. T., to be guest speaker at fall revival (photo), 1952/10/17: 8 (filmed in 10/24 issue) women ministers in revival (photo), 1949/04/22: 4
anniversaries
Bailey, Rev. V. M., to preach sermon (photo), 1954/10/15: 8 (filmed in 10/22 issue) Wilkinson, Rev. Dr. P. S., New Light Baptist, speaker (photo), 1956/10/12: 4 special services held, Sunday, Dec. 5, 1937/12/03: 8 (filmed in 12/10 issue) Taylor, Mrs. J. L.
Alexander, Rev. B. Tyree, Greater Corinth Baptist, is speaker for annual anniversary celebration (photo), 1954/08/20: 6 celebrates 4th anniversary, 1934/03/23: 6 Watkins, Elder Charles, pastor of Lincoln Park Church of Christ to be guest speake (photo), 1955/07/15: 4 Williams, Mrs. Katherine, and others, host banquet for Dr. J. A. Sharp, 1936/04/24: 7 womanless wedding held, 1953/02/20: 4 Women's Day
Hicks, Jessie Mae, guest speaker for fourth observance (photo), 1954/05/28: 2 observance of, 1952/07/04: 8 (filmed in 07/11 issue), 1953/05/29: 4
photo, 1949/05/20: 4 Wilkinson, Mrs. P. S., speaker (photo), 1956/05/25: 8 (filmed in 06/01 issue) Youth Day
Hall, Rev. John A., is speaker (photo), 1956/02/17: 4 observed with special music by the Youth Choir, 1958/01/24: 8 (filmed in 01/31 issue)
Third Party [comment on formation of Union Party] (editorial), 1936/07/17: 4
first Negro president, Hilliard Ellis, heads Chicago local, 1946/04/26: 1
signs anti-bias agreement with Urban League, 1957/07/19: 1
10th national convention
Bethune, Dr. Mary McLeod, and Marjorie Stewart Joyner here for convention (photo), 1955/04/15 Supp: 1 delegates pour into San Antonio for beauty meet, 1955/04/15: 1 Jones, Maggie, is chairman for host organization for convention (photo), 1955/04/15 Supp: 3 members return from post-convention activities in Mexico City (Jo's Jottings), 1955/05/06 Supp: 4 tenth national convention in San Antonio adjourns (photo), 1955/04/22: 1 to be held in San Antonio (Jo's Jottings), 1955/04/08 Supp: 1 three distinguished women in education and youth work honored (photo), 1955/04/29 Supp: 2
Big Shots at UBF (The Echo by V.C.B.), 1932/07/29: 1 Davis, Grand Master W. L.
A Distinguished Fraternalist [Grand Master;s leadership worthy of emulation] (editorial), 1932/07/15: 4 expresses deep gratitude, 1932/08/05: 1 second annual address, 1932/07/29: 7 to preside over session (photo), 1932/07/22: 11 hundreds gather for 4-day meet; Davis re-elected, 1932/07/29: 1 McGruder, C. H.
elected grand secretary (photo), 1932/08/12: 1 grand secretary of UBF and SM of Texas visits city (photo), 1931/09/04: 1 to be speaker at Victoria High commencement, 1933/04/21: 3 A Straightforward Program (editorial), 1932/07/29: 4 to hold Grand Lodge session at 2nd Baptist Church, 1932/07/15: 1 UBF band plays for SA Register, 1932/07/29: 3
Bunche, Dr. Ralph Johnson, leads 1954 United Cerebral Palsy campaign, 1954/04/23: 1 more volunteers needed for Golden Deed patrol, 1957/05/03: 1 victims of cerebral palsy receive therapy treatments in Bexar County, 1957/04/26: 1 Volunteer for Golden Deed Crusade (editorial), 1957/04/26: 4 volunteers needed for cerebral palsy fund drive, 1957/04/26: 1
meetings in 1941, 1941/09/05: 6, 1941/11/28: 5, 1941/12/05: 6 meetings in 1948, 1948/11/26: 6 meetings in 1951, 1951/07/27: 7, 1951/08/24: 6 meetings in 1952, 1952/03/28: 3 meetings in 1953, 1953/07/24 Supp: 2, 1953/09/25 Supp: 3 meetings in 1954, 1954/11/26: 7 meetings in 1957, 1957/05/24: 6, 1957/09/27: 8 (filmed in 10/04 issue), 1957/11/29: 6 meetings in 1958, 1958/02/28: 6, 1958/07/25: 6, 1958/08/29: 6, 1959/01/09: 6 meetings in 1959, 1959/01/30: 6, 1959/02/27: 8 (filmed in 03/06 issue)
meetings in 1952, 1952/02/29: 6
Evangelist Women preachers with worship with Missionary Society at King Solomon Baptist Church, 1955/10/14: 6 meetings in 1955, 1955/08/19: 8 organizational meeting, 1955/07/29: 8 Texas women evangelists headquarters set up in San Antonio, 1954/10/08: 8 (filmed in 10/15 issue)
meetings in 1956, 1956/06/01: 8 (filmed in 06/08 issue), 1956/06/22: 8 (filmed in 06/29 issue)
Jim Crow charge against capitol USES sustained, 1946/04/12: 5 UFW union to make loans to FEPC employees, 1945/07/13: 5 union blocks wholesale firing of Race by War Production Board (WPB), 1942/12/25: 1
Davis, S. J., appointed "major" for Metropolitan Division E in 1956 fund drive (photo), 1956/10/05: 3 Division E over top in United Fund drive, 1956/11/09: 6 drive for 1956 closes Tuesday, Oct. 30, 1956/10/19: 1 drive for $1,575,957 gets under way, 1957/10/04: 3 needs $1,506,519 for local agencies, 1956/09/14: 3 Smith, D. M., employee of Southern Pacific, visited Holmgreen Shelter of Children's Service Bureau (photo), 1956/09/21: 1 Whittier, Dr. C. A., awarded Distinguished Service key for reporting 100% of his quota, 1955/12/02: 1 workers given "victory dinner," 1956/11/02: 6 workers need $500 to reach goal, 1956/10/26: 1
See Golf
moves toward desegregation, 1956/12/28: 7 United Nations
7th anniversary of UN Charter to be observed, 1952/10/17: 1 adopts "World Bill of Rights" as charges hurled, 1948/12/17: 1 Bunche, Dr. Ralph
See Byrnes, James F. eight American Negroes listed in UN "Who's Who," 1951/07/13: 6 first Dixie-wide interracial UN workshop held, 1954/09/03: 8 (filmed in 09/10 issue) human rights
See Human Rights lynchers might be tried under UN genocide pact, 1950/02/03: 1 Race leaders cynical but broad view shows United Nations meeting is no failure, 1945/06/08: 2 Sampson, Edith S.
is goodwill delegate to Austria, 1951/08/03: 1 makes first UN Assembly speech asking continuance of social welfare advisory work, especially for rehabilitation of Korea, 1950/10/06: 3 named to US National Commission for UNESCO (photo), 1952/06/06: 1 of Washington, DC, named alternate UN delegate, 1950/09/01: 1 UNESCO "Race Equality" book ordered banned by United States, 1952/06/20: 6 Washington is objected to as "world capital," 1945/08/10: 1
new national interracial body set by World War II vets, 1946/04/12 Sect. 2: 1 San Antonio interracial chapter established, 1946/04/26: 4 UNAVA protests Atty. Gen. Clark's "Red" labeling, 1947/12/12: 1 veterans group hears report on national meeting, 1946/05/03: 1
31 prexies attend annual convention; Patterson stays as President of United group, 1953/10/16: 1 33 Negro college prexies converge on Minneapolis for the United Negro College convocation, 1958/04/11: 2 announces April broadcasts of college choirs aided by the fund, 1952/04/18: 4 annual campaign opens, 1945/04/27: 1, 1956/04/13: 3 Beatty, W. Barton, named Campaign Director, 1958/08/15: 3 Bell, Georgia Ann, Sam Huston co-ed, wins UNCF award, 1949/05/27: 1 Board meeting set for Jan. 10-12 in San Francisco, 1953/01/09: 1 broadcasts May 22; in fifth annual campaign, 1948/05/21: 7 Carroll, Edward M., Bishop College faculty member, accepts United Negro College Fund position, 1957/02/22: 8 (filmed in 03/01 issue) celebrities participate in fund drive (photo), 1953/08/07: 2 decides to drop race tag from its title to become United College Fund, 1954/06/25: 2 Eisenhower, President Dwight David
delegation invites Ike to address luncheon (photo), 1953/05/15: 7 Ike addresses luncheon, 1953/05/29: 7 Mays, Dr. Benjamin E., new UNCF prexy (photo), 1958/10/10: 1 Odom, Dr. Connie R. Y., Austin, heads College Fund alumni, 1952/03/14: 1 raises record $1,336,310 in '52, with largest amount in nine-year history of Fund, 1953/01/16: 1 Roberts, Stanley, appointed director of public relations (photo), 1945/03/16: 1 Rockefeller, J. D., Jr.
gives fund $5,000,000, 1951/03/16: 3 to head National Council, 1949/02/04: 8, 1951/01/19: 3 Seagram and Sons, Inc. opens 1957 fund drive with a contribution (photo), 1957/08/16: 1 Taylor, Hobart, Houston, and Hobart C. Jackson, Philadelphia, appointed to UNCF board (photos), 1956/12/28: 3 Trabue, Dr. M. R., University of Kentucky, and James W. Bryant, Texas College, serve as consultants (photo), 1956/12/28: 2 Tuskegee choir in DAR Hall, but college fund scorns J. Crow 'compromise' cash, 1945/04/27: 1946/06/07: 1 two cities pass fund quotas, 1949/07/15: 4 uneducated leaders hold back Dixie Negro says fund member, 1949/02/04: 2
annual food show to begin Oct. 5th, 1931/09/25: 1 food show ready for opening, 1931/10/02: 8 (filmed in 10/09 issue) H&H Coffee Co. has booth at food show, 1931/10/02: 8 (filmed in 10/09 issue) Stowers to have display at food show, 1931/10/02: 8 (filmed in 10/09 issue)
Armour and Company to hire Negro 'white collar' workers, 1955/03/18: 1 move on to oust Dixie unionist who reneges on integration policy, 1953/08/14: 1 Negro, Ralph J. Helstein, is elected vice president, 1948/07/09: 5 terrorists shoot five at Florida union meeting, 1955/10/28: 1 union financial secretary, $43,000, reported missing, 1947/07/18: 1
retirement pay contract from Continental Paper Company makes history (photo), 1947/10/24: 1
See Prayer Bands
asks public hearing on US job Jim Crow as bias runs wild, 1947/10/03: 4 union sues for arrests following J. Crow protests, 1946/05/10: 4
warns against going into business now, 1947/07/18: 6
youth march for integrated schools endorsed by association, 1959/03/20: 1
Frazier, Eugene, elected new Red Cap Union prexy, 1957/03/01: 3 Red Caps call for nation-wide strike vote, 1941/08/15: 4 'Red Caps' no longer, take more "dignified" name'; United Transport Service Employees of America is new tag, 1940/01/26: 5 refuses offer to merge with United Transport Workers Union of America, 1954/05/14: 1 Townsend, Willard S. (president). See Townsend, Willard S.
meetings in 1949, 1949/04/01: 4
news in 1943, 1943/02/05: 8 (filmed in 02/26 issue) news in 1949, 1949/06/17: 8
See also Prairie View Interscholastic League (PVIL) Brackenridge High School, SA, ties national record for 440-yard relay (photo), 1958/05/09: 5
Alabama U. ponders what next? to keep out Negroes, 1955/10/21: 4 Autherine Lucy admission case
admission ruling upheld by Supreme Court, 1956/05/25: 1 Alabama asks Supreme Court to rehear Lucy case, 1956/05/04: 5 Alabama U. has last word; expels Autherine, 1956/03/09: 1 Alabama U. told to admit Negroes by US District judge, 1955/10/21: 4 Alabamans sue Miss Lucy, NAACP for $4,000,000, 1956/03/09: 1 Autherine's case back in court, 1956/03/16: 1 'Bama U. trustees cited in contempt in Lucy case, 1956/11/23: 1 co-ed's suit to reenter U of A set for Feb. 29, 1956/02/17: 1 Lucy mobster (one of white men who filed suit against her) arrested for theft from farmer, 1956/03/30: 6 Miss Lucy to continue AU fight--reveals romance, scores Reds, 1956/04/27: 1 riots related to
co-ed won't bow to 'Bama mob rule, 1956/02/10: 1 flood of protests follows riot, 1956/02/17: 1 governor blames NAACP for riots, 1956/02/24: 1 President Eisenhower deplores riots at Alabama Univ., 1956/02/24: 4 students for admitting Lucy; officials await legal action, 1956/02/24: 1 Klan flips when race discussed at U. of Alabama, 1957/03/29: 1 Myers, Polly Ann
Alabama U. told to admit Negroes by US District judge, 1955/10/21: 4 Hudson, Edward, denies "guinea pig" allegation about his wife, Polly Ann, in her attempt to gain admission, 1956/04/06: 2 university gets delay on ruling to admit Negroes, 1955/09/16: 1
Hunt, Silas, first Negro student, intent on law studies, 1948/03/12: 1 life goes on as first Negro enters Ark. Univ., 1948/02/13: 1 railing around Negro student removed; policy unchanged, 1948/10/15: 1 six awarded MA degrees by Arkansas U., 1952/07/04: 4
Shropshire, Jack Lamond, first Negro graduate of the law school, tells of campus stay, 1951/07/13: 1
governor angry at admission of Negro girl, 1948/09/03: 4 no segregation for girl student, Edith Mae Irby, 1948/09/03: 1 second Negro enters medical school, 1949/07/29: 5
Curtiss, Dr. Merrell H., makes fine record in ophthalmology at Univ. of Chicago, 1934/02/23: 1 Kimpton, Dr. Lawrence A., chancellor, denounces Jim Crow at Kappa conclave, 1954/01/01: 1 Ming, W. Robert, named to faculty, 1946/12/20: 1 (Section 2) nine receive high graduate degrees, 1931/09/18: 3
college head said to be softening integration stand, 1956/03/02: 1 prexy's vote kills proposal to end Greek letter bias, 1954/11/12: 1
court opens Delaware U. to Negroes, 1950/08/18: 1 ten students sue for admittance, 1950/06/23: 1
three San Antonians graduate, 1953/09/04: 1
accepts its first Negro student, George Starke, Jr., 1958/09/26: 1 Negroes to attend Florida schools under 'conditions,' 1950/08/11: 1
Hawkins, Virgil
Constitution be damned, says Florida court in denying right for Negro to attend law school, 1957/05/10: 2 Florida court fouls integration in law school; denies admission to Virgil Hawkins, 1955/10/28: 1 Florida officials map plans to defy Supreme Court ruling on admission of Virgil D. Hawkins, 1956/03/23: 1 Negro loses again in 8-year fight to enter Florida U., 1957/10/25: 1
campus newspaper editors resign over anti-segregation censorship, 1953/12/11: 1 campus newspaper ordered to stop attacking Jim Crow, 1953/11/27: 3 Georgia U loses board's support because of purge, 1941/08/01: 4 race hating Georgia governor fires liberal dean, Walter D. Cocking, 1941/07/25: 1
Army greetings stall Georgia U. Law School suit, 1953/10/02: 1 defies threat of suit, won't admit Negro to law school, 1951/06/22: 1 US judge tells Georgia U. to answer Negro applicant, 1952/12/26: 1 wins "moral victory' in case of Horace Ward seeking entry as a student, 1957/02/01: 3
Abbott Foundation buys building for girls, 1946/07/26: 2 Negro coed reigns as "Miss Homecoming" at U. of Illinois, 1951/11/16: 1 students join colored in Jim Crow fight, 1938/04/15: 2 to produce Negro plays, 1933/05/19: 1
"Big Six" continues color bar [for athletes], 1943/03/12: 4 cross burned near Kansas U. fraternity house, 1953/11/06: 1
See also University of Louisville (Louisville, KY) Eubanks, Charles Lamont, student's law suit to enter Kentucky U finally dropped, 1945/01/19: 5 Johnson, Lyman T., twice-barred applicant sues to declare race-segregation policy unconstitutional, 1948/07/02: 1 Kentucky Senate amends Day Law to permit Negroes in white institutes of higher learning, 1950/03/17: 1 NAACP wins suit to ban Jim Crow at U. of Kentucky, 1949/04/08: 1 twelve Negroes register for summer session, 1949/07/01: 1
Hatch, John W., lone law student loses seven profs, gets four lawyers, 1948/11/26: 1
See also Louisville, KY, colleges See also University of Kentucky (Lexington, KY) all Louisville colleges accept Negro students, 1950/08/04: 1 gets its first Negro medical student, 1951/03/16: 3 Louisville U. bars Negroes, Kentucky U. opens doors, 1949/05/27: 1 nearly 300 Negro students enrolled at Louisville U., 1951/12/07: 1
gets its first Negro coed, 1953/10/02: 6 names two Negroes to faculty of medical school, 1953/12/25: 1
accepts Negro graduate student of sociology, 1950/09/08: 7 admits Negroes to all branches; Negro teachers doing undergrad work for first time, 1954/07/02: 1 finally admits Negro to main campus, 1951/02/09: 3 Maryland uses "regional plan" to bar nursing aspirant, 1949/10/21: 5 must admit Negro student to main college campus by city court order, 1950/10/13: 1 must admit Negroes, its prexy says, 1948/11/26: 1 opens varsity athletic teams to Negroes, 1954/07/09: 5
admits third Race law student, 1939/09/29: 5 Alpha Phi Alpha pays Maryland U. fees for Gaines [admitted to law school after court ruling], 1936/02/28: 2 law student admitted to Maryland University Law School, 1936/01/31: 2 Maryland's highest court rules state law school must admit Race student; NAACP victory; state must provide equal educational facilities, 1936/01/24: 1 A Significant Victory [University of Maryland ordered to admit Negro to law school] (editorial), 1936/01/24: 4
bars Negro cage star, 1934/01/12: 3 Thomas, Lucia, SA girl, Xavier's leading student, enters Mich. U., will study law, 1936/09/18: 1
refuses to rehire Negro professor, "no reconsideration" policy supported by Regents, 1952/01/25: 1
cross burns when Mississippi U. editor favors admitting Negroes, 1950/11/10: 1 Ole Miss students want to hear integration pastor, Rev. Alvin Kershaw, 1955/11/25: 1
board of curators open Missouri to Negro students, 1950/07/21: 4 ends all segregation at all branches, 1954/07/23: 1 enrolls its first Negro woman, 1950/09/22: 3 must admit Negroes, state court rules, 1950/07/07: 1 nine Negroes studying on U. of Missouri campus, 1950/10/06: 3 students vote to admit Negroes, 1949/02/25: 1
color bar upheld by judge [denying Lloyd L. Gaines admission to Law School], 1936/07/31: 1 Gaines, Lloyd, missing for 10 months; famed suit [to enter University of Missouri Law School] dismissed, 1940/01/12: 1 Gaines case before Missouri Supreme Court again, 1939/06/02: 5 law school case goes to Supreme Court, 1938/06/10: 7 Must Admit Lloyd Gaines to Law School (Tid Bits from the Week's News), 1938/12/16: 4 petition for reconsideration denied, 1939/01/06: 1 school of law to be opened at Lincoln University as result of Gaines case, 1939/07/07: 7 university to petition for reconsideration of recent decision, 1939/01/06: 1
hires full-time Negro staff member, 1948/09/24: 1
first Negro woman enters N. Carolina U. 'conditionally,' 1951/07/27: 1 integrates quietly, without incident, 1956/02/17: 1 must admit Negroes, three-judge federal court has ruled, 1955/09/23: 1 Negro undergraduates barred, 1955/06/03: 1 Negroes seek admission to North Carolina Univ., 1939/01/20: 5 no flood of undergrads following court ruling, 1956/03/16: 1 three 'first' Negroes drop out of school, 1959/06/05: 1 trustees vote to admit Negroes, 1951/04/13: 3
admits Negro to Medical School, 1951/05/04: 1
admits 3 Negroes to law school, 1951/06/15: 1 federal court denies Negroes admission to North Carolina law school, 1950/10/20: 1 judge gets case of Negroes seeking to enter N. Carolina Law School, 1950/09/08: 1 law student denies racialism at N. Carolina U., 1952/04/18: 1 Negro graduates from law school, another to get degree in summer, and three fail to make grade, 1952/06/13: 1 Negro students may force abandonment of annual traditional law school dance, 1952/01/25: 1 ordered to admit Negroes, 1951/04/06: 1 two graduates pass state bar examinations, 1952/09/19: 3 two Negroes sue to enter law school, 1949/11/11: 5
Gautt, Prentice, Negro soph makes Oklahoma varsity football team, 1957/09/13: 5 McLaurin, Prof. G. W.
admit Negro or stop grad work, attorney general issues ultimatum, 1948/10/15: 1 court rules OU segregated classes okeh, 1948/12/03: 1 first Negro student starts work, 1948/10/22: 1 "separate but equal" myth ruled out by Supreme Court, 1950/06/09: 1 Sweatt, McLaurin cases filed in Supreme Court, 1950/02/24: 1 no more Jim Crow at Oklahoma U., 1950/09/29: 1 Nursing School admits Negroes, 1950/12/22: 6 Oklahoma House lets down bars at state colleges, 1949/05/13: 1 Oklahoma legislators warned "inaction" on education means end of Jim Crow, 1949/04/22: 1 rail to separate Negro students at Oklahoma University, 1949/07/01: 4 Wilson, Mrs. Mauderie Hancock
another Negro has applied for enrollment, 1948/10/22: 1 OU refuses to admit second Negro, 1948/10/29: 5
Sipuel, Ada Lois
court orders that OU admit Negro or nobody, 1948/01/30: 1 'Gaines case' looms as state university bars girl, 1946/01/25: 1 law school case heads for Oklahoma Supreme Court, 1948/08/13: 1 Missouri bias also hit by court in OU case, says St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1948/01/23: 1 NAACP to continue fight in case, 1948/02/27: 1 Okies think US Court decision can be dodged, 1948/01/23: 1 Oklahoma court rules against girl seeking admission, 1946/07/19: 1 Oklahoma Supreme Court upholds university ban, 1947/05/09: 1 Oklahoma University turned her away (photo), 1946/02/01: 1 Supreme Court orders Oklahoma to provide law school training for Negroes, 1948/01/16: 1
accepts first Negro woman, Forsita Jones, 1953/06/12: 1 Negro named to pediatrics faculty, 1956/11/30: 7
Oregon coed in sorority spat, to wed Negro beau, 1951/07/13: 1 soror from Gamma Phi Beta ousted from chapter house for dating Negro, 1951/06/01: 1
Munger, George, coach resigns when athletic director, Francis Murray, "dismissed," 1953/06/05: 2
equal educational facilities basis of SC law suit instead of civil rights, 1947/06/20: 1
first Negro gets Doctor of Theology degree from USC, 1952/07/04: 1 USC has first Negro grid player in 20 odd years, 1952/05/23: 5
admits Negroes as latest Southern school to have Negro students, 1952/01/18: 1 has first Negro summer students, 1952/07/11: 1 students give opinions on Negroes attending University, 1951/06/15: 1 Tennessee to use State constitution in 'Crow' defense denying four Negroes admission to U. Tennessee, 1951/02/09: 3 trustees deny admittance to five Negroes, 1950/12/15: 1 university bars student group interracial discussion, 1948/03/19: 4
admissions test to be held in SA May 12, 1956/04/27: 1 Allen, George, dropped from University of Texas after enrollment accepted, 1938/10/28: 1 first Negro gridder plays in TU stadium, 1954/10/08: 5 Givens, Dr. Everett H., seeks, denied admission to Texas University, 5, 1947/12/12: 1 Kirk, W. Astor
off-campus TU class rejected by Austinite, 1950/02/10: 1 Tillotson professor denied admission, 1947/12/12: 1 Regents ponder erection of university to beat court action, 1946/07/05: 1 Texas U. hears racism blasted by Negro speaker, Melvin B. Tolson, 1946/11/15: 1 Wilson, Ray Floyd, becomes first Negro granted doctorate at Univ. of Texas, 1953/06/12: 1
attorney general rules on Negroes in Texas U., 1946/03/22: 1 Heman Marion Sweatt lawsuit
appeal filed in effort to gain admission, 1947/02/14: 1 appeals court rules against Heman Sweatt, 1948/03/05: 1 court rules Texas must admit Negro applicant, 1946/06/21: 1 enrolls in Texas University School of Law, 1950/09/22: 1 files appeal in TU Law School case, 1947/10/10: 1 loses last state court appeal, 1948/11/05: 1 Negro's application to enter is refused; opinion by attorney general asked, 1946/03/01: 1 says Texas State University for Negroes not equal to Texas U., won't enroll, 1947/09/26: 1 "separate but equal" myth ruled out by Supreme Court, 1950/06/09: 1 suit filed to admit Negro to Texas U., 1946/05/17: 1 Supreme Court petitioned for hearing, 1949/04/01: 1 Supreme Court to hear Sweatt case in January, 1949/11/18: 1 Sweatt, McLaurin cases filed in Supreme Court, 1950/02/24: 1 Sweatt case legal battle renews in Austin court, 1947/05/16: 1 Sweatt case to go to trial court, 1947/03/28: 1 Sweatt denied admission; case heads to US Supreme Court, 1947/05/23: 1 Sweatt thrills SA on eve of entering Texas U., 1950/09/15: 1 Sweatt to go to northern law school if suit is lost, 1950/04/14: 4 Texas attorney general criticizes Federal Council of Churches of Christ for interference, 1950/01/13: 1 Texas Council of Negro Organizations files brief in Sweatt case, 1950/03/17: 1 Texas postal employees give $3,000 toward Sweatt's education, 1950/08/04: 6 Texas U. tells Sweatt to register Sept. 18, 1950/08/11: 1 to be principal speaker at Postal Alliance observance, Sept. 10, 1950/09/01: 5 to speak at "Church Day" observance of National Postal Alliance (photo), 1950/09/08: 1 US Supreme Court to hear Sweatt case week of Jan. 30, 1950/01/06: 1 Texas Conference of NAACP Branches committee confers with UT officials seeking educational equality (photo), 1946/03/08: 1
Barnett, Herman Albert, III
now regular student in TU Med. school, 1950/11/03: 1 SA high school graduate to be first Negro enrolled (photo), 1949/08/26: 1 second Negro, James Pendleton of Houston, enters Texas U. Medical School, 1950/10/06: 1
color bar down at Texas Western College, El Paso, and all other branches, 1955/07/15: 1
divinity faculty quits as Negro students are barred, 1952/11/14: 1 music festival canceled in protest of University of South Negro ban, 1952/06/27: 1
Alpha Iota Zeta chapter of Zeta Phi Beta honors woman who made Tulsa U. history, 1953/03/06: 1 first Negro graduate of Tulsa Univ. is woman, Anita Hairston, 1952/06/13: 1
another Negro student enters U. of Virginia, 1950/10/06: 1 suit filed to break Jim Crow at U. of Virginia to break University's defiance of Supreme Court rulings, 1950/08/18: 1 University of Virginia School of Law (Charlottesville, VA)
attorney barred by Virginia Law School to sue, 1950/08/18: 5 ordered to admit Negro, Gregory Swanson, to Law School, 1950/09/15: 1 Virginia U. refuses to admit law school applicant, 1950/07/21: 4
Negroes accepted for first time, 1953/03/13: 6
University of Wisconsin to cancel LSU football game because of racism in pro-segregation bill in Louisiana, 1956/07/27: 5
funeral rites held, 1952/02/08: 6
dies suddenly and dining room she presided over 20 years, closes permanently, 1944/11/03: 1 Urban League of Chicago
executive, Sidney Williams, and staff, fired in reorganization, 1955/07/22: 1 reasons for shakeup revealed after month's silence, 1955/08/12: 4 sponsors statewide conference on Negro problems, 1934/10/19: 4
citizens councils cause fund ban on N.O. Urban League, 1956/06/22: 1
See also National Urban League NY chief justice accepts leadership of committee to help Negroes in labor unions, 1934/03/16: 1 Urban League refuses to use Negroes to break strike, 1934/11/16: 7
asks union exclusion halt on public works projects, 1934/02/23: 1 Urban League Secretary called to national office to organize labor union program, 1934/03/30: 1
Ft. Worth may get first Texas Urban League branch, 1944/04/21: 5
advisory mission to serve in Haiti, 1949/01/21: 5 Aerial Firepower Demonstration Gives Assurance Air Force Works Day and Night, by U. J. Andrews, 1956/10/19: 4 Civil Air Patrol, Texas Wing, Lt. Victoria Rodriguez and Lt. Barbara Kline, attend state-wide communications conference (photo), 1958/03/07: 7 fraud charges against chaplain dropped, 1953/05/22: 1 Frost, AM Alvin, Jr, called as first witness in trial of A2C William Roberts, Jr. for violence against basic trainees (photo), 1957/06/07: 1 Guam rape-murder case
clemency sought for two doomed Air Force men, sentenced to death for rape in Guam, 1953/10/23: 1 Ike [President Eisenhower] refuses to save Airmen from execution, servicemen lose last hope, 1953/12/25: 1 two GIs hanged, but innocence claimed to end, 1954/02/05: 1
Alexander, Warren D. Dawson, Willis R., Louisiana, MFSS instructor, gets promotion to first lieutenant, 1951/12/07: 6 five Negroes get commission at Lackland AFB, 1949/01/14: 1 Hardin, Warren G.
assigned to Lackland, 1948/07/23: 7 commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant at Lackland Air Force Base, 1948/07/02: 7 McDonald, Lt. Calvin, gets gold bars at Lackland (photo), 1949/01/14: 1 McFatridge, Lt. Col. James M., former San Antonian assigned to Ohio Air Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson AFB, 1957/11/22: 3 McGill, Benjamin, commissioned as second lieutenant (photo), 1953/05/29: 6 Platte, Lt. Claude R., first Negro in new pilot training program at Randolph (photo), 1948/10/01: 1 Rodgers, Capt. Marion A., expected to return from overseas duty (photo), 1952/02/22: 6 Tuskegee graduates nominated for commissions (photo), 1949/06/03: 3 segregation/integration
See also US Armed Forces, segregation/integration Air Force integration policy working well, 1950/04/07: 1 Air Force says editors didn't see what they saw in Europe, 1948/06/04: 1 airmen protest racial bias in Newfoundland, 1958/08/22: 1 governor of Michigan to probe racial bar against airmen in Sault Sainte Marie, 1953/09/11: 1 inactivation of Lockbourne in keeping with non-segregation policy, 1949/05/20: 1 integration becoming fact in Air Forces, 1953/08/21: 1 J. Crow banned at Turner Air Force Base in Albany, Georgia, 1953/02/06: 1 Jim Crow Air Force banned, 1949/05/13: 1 Jim Crow Air Force favored by Rickenbacker, 1943/03/26: 1 Jim Crow being ended in Air Force, group told, 1949/04/01: 1 Jim Crow said strangling air group overseas, 1944/12/22: 1 Lackland assignments made without regard to race, 1949/06/10: 1 Lackland testing unit returns from Lockbourne AFB, 1949/05/27: 1 Navy, Air Force integration complete; Army 95 per cent, 1953/10/23: 1 Negro airmen at Alabama field press for rights, 1949/07/08: 4 protection promised Negro Airmen traveling interstate, 1954/02/05: 1
See also Korean War, service personnel See also US Air Force, officers Ards, MSgt. Cleon, honored as Soldier of the Month (photo), 1953/05/15: 6 Austin, Claude Ray, discharged from service (photo), 1952/09/26: 7 Barnes, Pfc. Leroy, stationed in New Mexico (photo), 1952/02/22: 7 Bonnett, TSgt. Frank W., Jr., with Air Force in Japan, 1951/12/28: 7 Brown, Johnny Moss
air corps enlistee stationed at Lackland (photo), 1948/08/27: 7 Technical Sergeant joined by family in Germany (photo), 1955/09/09 Supp: 3 Calvin, A2C Lee, III, his squadron, 420th Fighter Bomber, named squadron of the month (photo), 1956/11/16: 7 Campbell, SSgt. Calvin K., hero of Alaska crash credited with saving lives of three other survivors, 1957/11/22: 1 Carter, Robert L., enlists in Air Force (photo), 1948/07/30: 4 Culberson, TSgt. Raymond O., signs up for his third stint, 1958/11/07: 7 Davis, Earl L., now at Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, 1954/03/26: 7 Ellison, John, gets another stripe, promoted to Corporal (photo), 1951/03/30: 7 Evans, Pfc. Phillip J., Lackland airman sent to U. Alabama for 12-week training course, only to disappear after a day, 1951/06/29: 1 Ford, Pfc. Andrew, serving on Guam, 1948/10/22: 7 Gable, George, en route to Korea, 1954/05/14: 3 Gardner, Pfc. Ernest C.
home on furlough (photo), 1952/02/08: 7 wins tennis award in Japan (photo), 1952/08/22: 5 Gordley, SSgt. Louis C., Sweet Home, en route to Philippines, 1954/02/26: 2 Grambling, George D., body to be shipped to Pennsylvania after death at Lackland, 1954/09/17: 1 Green, MSgt. William T., assigned to air base in Germany, 1952/03/28: 2 Greene, Pfc. Wilson, ex-Lion grid ace at new Air Force station, 1950/02/24: 7 Hardeman, Matthew, Jr., is home on leave (photo), 1952/08/08: 6 Haywood, William C., promoted to Technical Sergeant (photo), 1949/01/07: 6 Henderson, George W., leaves Morocco for home on July 5, 1956/06/29: 7 Hill, SSgt. Charles W., SA airman gets decoration from UN Commission, 1955/04/29: 1 Hornsby, TSgt. Frank E., Jr., San Antonio, assigned to Tennessee State Cadet Unit (photo), 1958/10/17: 1 Hughes, Harold
on furlough from overseas base in French Morocco (photo), 1958/05/23: 6 recent enlistee in Air Force to be sent to North Africa (photo), 1956/10/05: 6 Hutson, Floyd W., San Marcos, named outstanding Air Policeman, 1951/02/09: 7 Jackson, Andrew James, Air Force enlistee is in band at Lackland (photo), 1948/08/13: 7 Jackson, Charles W., Airman of the Month (photo), 1959/06/12: 6 Marshall, Sgt. Cornelius C., home from Okinawa (photo), 1951/08/10: 2 McKinney, A3C Laurence H., completes course in electronics, 1955/07/15: 6 Neal, SSgt Malcolm, former AAA great, assigned to French Morocco, 1957/03/01: 5 Peachy, MSgt. Leo, on tour of duty at Lackland AFB (photo), 1957/02/01: 6 Price, Sgt. Charles R., husband of June E. Price, serves with AF in Bavaria, 1951/12/28: 7 Reden, Marvin H., volunteers for service in Air Force (photo), 1948/08/06: 7 Remming, SSgt. Walter H, recalled to active duty (photo), 1951/04/20: 7 Richard, Sgt. Lloyd D. ("Boober"), body of GI killed in air crash returned to SA (photo), 1951/03/16: 1 Rogers, Airman Barbara J., Boston, MA, stationed at Brooke AFB,is a four-time blood donor (photo), 1952/08/22: 1 Russell, A2C Raymond, Jr., commended for team effort (photo), 1957/12/27: 6 Shaw, TSgt. Allen E., his 31st Fighter Interceptor Squadron wins coveted Hughes Achievement Award, 1958/10/03: 7 Shelton, Airman Lonnie C., promoted in October (photo), 1952/12/05: 7 Speed, Pfc. George W., stationed in Okinawa (photo), 1949/03/25: 6 Stewart, Margie, recreational director for USAF, leaves for Guam for tour of duty (photo), 1954/05/21Supp: 2 Taylor, MSgt. Nehemiah, Jr., Air Force recruiter honored for 20 years of service, 1958/02/07: 7 Taylor, A3C Robert T., musician has "methods" job at Lackland, 1955/11/25: 7 Tippen, SSgt. L. J., now serves in Japan (photo), 1952/04/04: 4 Waiters, Rufus Lee, from cap and gown to Air Force khaki (photo), 1948/08/20: 6 Wallace, Robert H., San Antonian named "Airman of Month" on Okinawa, 1954/12/03: 7 Washington, 1st Sgt. James P., completes personnel management course at Kelly, 1948/03/19: 7 Webb, Lewis, and family, return from Japan (photo), 1955/04/08 Supp: 1 Whittaker, Delmar, CC youth enlists in US Air Force at Ft. Sam Houston, 1948/01/16: 4 Williams, MSgt. Lee Roy, and family return from duty in France, 1955/04/08 Supp: 2 Wilson, Bennie J., former master sergeant becomes warrant officer (photo), 1955/06/24: 1 Wilson, Cpl. Everett T., completes airplane engine mechanics course at Kelly Field, 1947/08/22: 7 WAFs
students urged to apply for Air Force Academy opening in 1955, 1954/07/02: 1 Tennessee's first Negro named to academy, 1954/09/17: 8 (filmed in 09/24 issue)
See also specific service branch, i.e., US Marine Corps Bronze Star
Brown, Sgt. Eluster, 1945/10/26: 4 Bruce 1st Lt. Thomas Edward, 1945/07/06: 1 Hockley, Sgt. Isaiah, 1951/08/10: 1 Johnson, Sgt. Harry, Jr., Texan receives Bronze Star (photo), 1953/08/07: 1 Jones, Pvt. Jimmie, 1945/06/01: 1 Linton, Maj. Walter L., 1951/08/10: 1 McGee, 1st Lt. James E., Jr., 1945/10/19: 1 Nash, 1Sgt. Nathaniel, San Antonio GI gets cluster to Bronze Star medal, 1953/01/30: 1 Phillips, Dr. Burton E., SA, serving in Medical Corps in Japan, awarded Bronze Star (photo), 1954/02/26: 3 Pulliam, TSgt. Charles A. (photo), 1945/03/23: 1 Smith, 1st Sgt. Clarence B. T. (photo), 1945/03/23: 5 Stain, Pvt Stanley, 1945/07/06: 1 Thomas, TSgt. Dessallines Charles, 1946/01/18: 1 Walker, Cpl. Lester, 1945/06/01: 1 Williams, Cpl. David, Seguin non-com gets Bronze Star in Korea, 1951/04/27: 1 Williams, 1Lt. Winston A., decorated with Bronze Star for service in Korea (photo), 1952/04/04: 1 captured German officer praises bravery, fiery determination and ingenuity of Negro tank crew, 1944/12/15: 1 chaplain shortage reasons revealed, 1945/06/01: 2 college correspondence courses
Alabama U. mail course is not for Negro GIs, 1944/11/03: 4 compulsory training, Negro opinion against peace-time training, 1946/04/12 Sect. 2: 4 Congressional Medal of Honor
Charlton, Sgt. Cornelius H., New York, posthumously awarded Medal of Honor, 1952/02/22: 1 Thompson, Pfc. William, New York, first Negro to receive the medal since Spanish-American War, 1951/06/22: 1
Davis, Gen. Benjamin O. (photo), 1945/02/16: 1 Johnson, Cpl. Charles L., posthumously honored with Distinguished Service Cross (photo), 1954/10/22: 1 Kollock, Pfc. Lorenzo, DSC posthumously awarded to South Carolinian, 1952/07/04: 1 Thomas, Capt. Charles L. (photo), 1945/03/23: 1
praises Negro GIs in address to writers, 1945/06/22: 1 praises troops in North Africa, 1943/01/01: 1
Bradley, Gen. Omar, defiance points up weakness of Tuman's order, 1948/08/06: 1 doings of Committee on Equality of Treatment in Army is dark secret, 1949/05/06: 1 President Truman orders armed forces equality, 1948/07/30: 1 integration
Army reports 90 per cent of Negro troops integrated, 1953/09/11: 1 integration in armed forces ahead of schedule, 1955/04/29: 2 Navy, Air Force integration complete; Army 95 per cent, 1953/10/23: 1 no all-Negro units now exist in military service, 1954/11/12: 1 photo exhibit attests to armed forces integration, 1950/05/05: 1 many Negro GI's to go to Pacific despite peace, 1945/08/24: 1 military academies, only "handful" of Negro youths interested in cadet appointments, 1956/03/09: 3 Navy, Army tests for college training to be given here, 1943/03/19: 1 Negro GI's prefer foreign duty because of mistreatment in US, 1952/01/04: 1 Negro soldiers serve on all fronts (photos), 1944/12/08 Second Section: 4 Negro's status in new war, secret report being studied by President Truman, entire cabinet, 1947/11/14: 1 number of Negroes in service
Negro Texans number 81,242 in uniform from 1940 to 1946, 1947/03/21: 1 Race troops scattered throughout world, number to be increased, says Secretary Stimson, 1942/06/26: 1 Texas second in number of men in armed services, 1947/03/28: 1 Our Men and Women in Uniform (1945), 1945/01/05: 7, 1945/01/12: 6, 1945/01/19: 7, 1945/01/26: 7, 1945/02/09: 7, 1945/02/16: 7, 1945/03/02: 7, 1945/03/09: 7, 1945/03/16: 7, 1945/03/23: 7, 1945/03/30: 7, 1945/04/13: 7, 1945/04/27: 7, 1945/05/11: 7, 1945/05/18: 7, 1945/06/01: 7, 1945/06/15: 7, 1945/06/29: 7, 1945/07/13: 7, 1945/07/20: 7, 1945/07/27: 7, 1945/08/03: 7, 1945/08/10: 7, 1945/08/17: 7, 1945/08/31: 7, 1945/09/07: 7, 1945/09/14: 7, 1945/09/21: 7, 1945/10/05: 7, 1945/10/19: 7, 1945/11/02: 7, 1945/11/09: 7, 1945/11/16: 7, 1945/12/28: 7 Our Men and Women in Uniform (1946), 1946/01/04: 7, 1946/01/11: 7, 1946/01/18: 7, 1946/01/25: 7, 1946/02/01: 7, 1946/02/08: 7, 1946/02/22: 4, 1946/03/08: 7, 1946/03/29: 4 Our Men and Women in Uniform (1949), 1949/03/25: 7, 1949/04/01: 7, 1949/04/08: 7, 1949/04/22: 5, 1949/04/29: 7, 1949/05/20: 4, 1949/05/27: 7, 1949/06/03: 6, 1949/06/10: 7, 1949/06/24: 7, 1949/07/01: 7, 1949/07/29: 7, 1949/08/05: 7, 1949/08/19: 6, 1949/09/02: 7, 1949/09/30: 7, 1949/10/14: 7, 1949/10/28: 7, 1949/12/02: 7, 1949/12/09: 7, 1949/12/30: 7 Our Men and Women in Uniform (1950), 1950/01/13: 6, 1950/01/27: 7, 1950/02/03: 7, 1950/02/10: 7, 1950/02/24: 7, 1950/04/14: 7, 1950/04/21: 7, 1950/05/05: 7, 1950/05/12: 7, 1950/05/26: 4, 1950/06/09: 7, 1950/06/16: 7, 1950/06/30: 7, 1950/07/07: 7, 1950/07/21: 7, 1950/07/28: 7, 1950/08/11: 7, 1950/08/18: 7, 1950/08/25: 7, 1950/09/29: 7, 1950/10/06: 7, 1950/11/17: 7, 1950/12/15: 4, 1950/12/22: 7 Our Men and Women in Uniform (1951), 1951/01/19: 7, 1951/02/02: 7, 1951/02/09: 7, 1951/02/23: 7, 1951/03/09: 7, 1951/03/16: 7, 1951/04/06: 7, 1951/04/20: 7, 1951/04/27: 7, 1951/05/04: 4, 1951/05/18: 7, 1951/06/08: 7, 1951/06/29: 6, 1951/07/06: 7, 1951/08/03: 7, 1951/08/17: 7, 1951/09/07: 7, 1951/09/14: 7, 1951/09/28: 7, 1951/10/05: 7, 1951/10/12: 7, 1951/10/19: 4, 1951/11/30: 7 Our Men and Women in Uniform (1952), 1952/01/18: 7, 1952/02/08: 3, 1952/02/22: 6, 1952/03/28: 7, 1952/04/04: 6, 1952/04/18: 7, 1952/05/02: 7, 1952/05/16: 7, 1952/06/06: 7, 1952/06/13: 7, 1952/07/18: 7, 1952/08/01: 7, 1952/08/08: 7, 1952/08/15: 7, 1952/09/12: 7, 1952/09/19: 7, 1952/10/10: 7, 1952/10/17: 7, 1952/10/24: 7, 1952/10/31: 4, 1952/11/28: 7, 1952/12/05: 7, 1952/12/19: 7, 1953/01/02: 6 Our Men and Women in Uniform (1953), 1953/01/16: 7, 1953/02/13: 7, 1953/03/27: 7, 1953/04/03: 7, 1953/04/24: 7, 1953/05/01: 3, 1953/05/29: 7, 1953/06/12: 7, 1953/10/30: 6, 1953/11/06: 7, 1953/11/13: 7, 1953/11/20: 4, 1953/11/27: 7, 1953/12/18: 7 Our Men and Women in Uniform (1954), 1954/02/26: 7 Our Men and Women in Uniform (1955), 1955/11/04: 6 Our Men and Women in Uniform (1956), 1956/02/03: 7, 1956/03/09: 7, 1956/03/23: 7, 1956/12/14: 7 Our Men in Service (1948), 1948/12/31: 7 Our Men in Service (1949), 1949/01/14: 7, 1949/02/04: 7, 1949/02/11: 7, 1949/02/18: 7, 1949/02/25: 7, 1949/03/18: 2 Our Men in Service (1953), 1953/07/03: 7, 1953/07/10: 7, 1953/09/04: 7 Our Men in Service (1954), 1954/04/09: 7, 1954/04/16: 7, 1954/04/23: 4, 1954/06/04: 7, 1954/07/16: 7, 1954/07/30: 7, 1954/08/13: 7, 1954/08/20: 7, 1954/08/27: 7, 1954/09/03: 7, 1954/09/17: 7, 1954/09/24: 7, 1954/10/01: 7, 1954/11/12: 3, 1954/11/19: 7, 1954/12/10: 7, 1954/12/24: 3, 1954/12/31: 7 Our Men in Service (1955), 1955/01/21: 7, 1955/01/28: 7, 1955/02/11: 7, 1955/02/25: 7, 1955/04/15: 7, 1955/04/22: 7, 1955/09/09: 7 Our Men in Service (1956), 1955/11/25: 7, 1955/12/02: 7, 1955/12/09: 7, 1956/01/13: 7, 1956/02/17: 4, 1956/02/24: 7, 1956/03/02: 7, 1956/07/27: 7 Our Men in Service (1957), 1957/10/18: 7 Our Men in Service (1958), 1958/02/07: 7, 1958/06/06: 7 Over 1,000 medics, nurses hope for early discharges, 1945/09/28: 1 point system, to aid discharge of service troops, sought, 1945/06/08: 1 protection against assault and violence, legislation passes House after 13 years, 1956/01/27: 1 Purple Heart Award
awarded to 188 Negro soldiers of 855th Engineer Aviation Battallion, 1944/12/22: 1 Black, SSgt. Sammy H., Texan receives Purple Heart, 1944/05/12: 1 Bruce 1st Lt. Thomas Edward, awarded Purple Heart and Bronze Star, 1945/07/06: 1 Cubit, Pfc. Olin D., awarded Purple Heart in Italy (photo), 1945/05/04: 1 Friday, Sgt. Elliott Marcellus, first SA World War II soldier is awarded Purple Heart, 1944/10/27: 1 Halbert, Cpl. John E., San Augustine, Texas, receives Purple Heart (photo), 1953/08/28: 1 Jones, Mrs. Robert W., accepts Purple Heart medal for her husband (photo), 1945/03/02: 1 Lewis, Eugene, WWI vet awarded Purple Heart, 1938/01/28: 1 Malone, 1st Lt. Thomas N., first of 99th to get Purple Heart (photo), 1944/03/10: 1 Nious, 1st Sgt. George, receives Purple Heart (photo), 1945/03/16: 1 Richie, MSgt. Preston E., ex-POW presented with Purple Heart (photo), 1954/02/26: 1 SA soldiers overseas say local girls forget promises, as news of marriages reach Australia, 1943/04/23: 5 San Antonians in Service (column), 1943/07/02: 3, 1943/07/09: 3, 1943/07/16: 7, 1943/07/23: 7, 1943/07/30: 7, 1943/08/13: 4, 1943/09/17: 7, 1944/01/07: 7, 1944/01/14: 7, 1944/01/28: 7, 1944/02/25: 7, 1944/03/24: 4, 1944/04/07: 7, 1944/04/14: 7, 1944/04/21: 7, 1944/05/05: 7, 1944/05/26: 6, 1944/06/09: 5, 1944/06/23: 7, 1944/06/30: 4, 1944/07/07: 7, 1944/07/14: 7, 1944/07/21: 7, 1944/08/04: 6, 1944/08/11: 7, 1944/09/01: 7, 1944/09/08: 7 scores of GIs, 'home for holidays' marooned in ships in LA harbor, 1945/12/28: 1 segregation/integration
See also specific service branch, i.e., US Army allied troops use US weapons Stimson claims Race soldiers cannot master, 1944/03/10: 1 Appeal Is Made to the President [to end discrimination] (editorial), 1939/09/22: 4 armed forces spread race hate in Hawaii, 1949/02/18: 5 Army Jim Crow causes former captain to give up citizenship, 1948/09/10: 1 Bell, William H., coach, asks FDR [President Roosevelt] to ban Jim Crow in Armed Forces, 1940/07/05: 2 charge of draft Jim Crow due to ignorance, officials say, 1941/01/17: 1 Eastland, Senator James
Army daily scores Eastland for insult to Negro soldiers, 1945/08/03: 1 How Long? How Long? [to end lies of Senator James Eastland] (editorial), 1945/07/13: 4 War Dep't, top generals prove Sen. Eastland liar, 1945/07/13: 1
Gen. Davis to get details of trouble in England, 1942/10/16: 1 How about Fighting the "Official" Enemy (editorial), 1942/10/16: 4 soldiers abused in England?, 1942/10/09: 8 (filmed in 10/16 issue) soldiers in England tell Mrs. FDR [Roosevelt] they are "ironing out" difficulties, 1942/11/13: 1 Ft. Benning Jim Crow vicious, increasing, as Gillem report ignored, 1947/06/06: 5 Hawaiian Island installations try to meet no-Jim Crow order, 1949/05/06: 4 Howard student keeps pact, tries suicide over Army Jim Crow, 1944/04/21: 1 Ike's [President Eisenhower] chief aide revealed as foe of discrimination, 1944/09/29: 5 Jim Crow creeping back into armed forces, solon charges, 1955/10/21: 4 Korean War ends: brings democracy to GIs, 1953/07/31: 1 Mississippi-born Army camp commander tells mixed trainees race hate not to be tolerated, 1944/01/21: 1 mixed training helps soldiers to forget bias, 1944/01/14: 5 NAACP activities
asks country to demand congressional hearing on bills to lessen Jim Crow in Army, Navy, 1938/04/29: 8 (filmed in 05/06 issue) brutal MPs in North Carolina to cause outbreaks, NAACP warns, 1941/08/15: 1 NAACP's Wilkins again asks Army to stop Jim Crow in Japan, 1950/08/18: 1 no Negroes being trained in Army Air Corps says NAACP, 1940/11/01: 1 offers to fight Army, Navy discrimination with court action against War, Navy secretaries, 1940/10/04: 1 probes death penalty to five in Australia, 1944/04/07: 1 protests as all newsreel companies cut out scenes of Race troops abroad with President Roosevelt, 1944/01/14: 5 protests War Dept. plan to segregate Army draftees, 1941/01/03: 1 pushes drive on Jim Crow in defense, 1941/01/17: 1 reveals brutality to 10 soldiers in Mississippi, 1944/04/28: 1 President Roosevelt didn't mean to infer Army Jim Crow [War Department policy] okayed, 1940/11/08: 1 says Army probe into killing of Negro soldiers in North Carolina is insufficient, 1941/08/29: 1 separate Negro Army division opposed, 1938/06/03: 1 takes up draftee's case after Chicago Board denies Jim Crow appeal, 1941/01/17: 1 unjust treatment of GIs in Korea verified, 1951/03/02: 1 War Dep't. policy anent Race in defense program announced; Ass'n told Race reserve officers will be called, 1940/10/11: 1
argues appeals of court martial convictions of GIs in Korea, 1950/12/22: 1 chief legal counsel, Thurgood Marshall, to see MacArthur, 1951/01/05: 1 defense of GIs in Korea is No. 1 task of NAACP, 1950/12/08: 4 four GIs, convicted in Korea courts-martial, exonerated, 1951/02/16: 1 Jim Crow blamed for court-martial injustice, 1951/03/09: 1 MacArthur won't allow NAACP attorney in Japan to defend courts-martialed soldiers, 1950/12/29: 1 NAACP attorney to fly to Tokyo to defend GIs, after constant stream of appeals for assistance, 1950/12/08: 1 ready to defend GIs court-martialed in Korea, 1950/11/17: 1 reduced sentences won for 21 GIs convicted in Korea, 1951/02/23: 1 Thurgood Marshall in Japan to defend courts-martialed soldiers, 1951/01/19: 1 Negro soldiers confined to zones in Melbourne, 1942/10/16: 1 no agreement with newsreels that omit Race soldiers, says War Dept., 1944/02/04: 1 "prejudice not tolerated here," at Pennsylvania camp, 1944/04/07: 1 Progress Is Made: New Policy for Race to Enter All Branches of Service (editorial), 1942/04/10: 4 protests mount at smear of Negro GIs, Jewish refugees by race-baiting Senate investigator, 1946/12/13: 1 Randolph calls for 10,000 to march in protest of defense Jim Crow, 1941/01/24: 4 report says Jim Crow in US armed forces rapidly decreasing, 1952/10/31: 1 RR heads deny soldiers forced to go without food, 1942/07/31: 8 (filmed in 08/07 issue) Secretary Knox announces Race may enter all branches of service, 1942/04/10: 1 South mistreats Northern draftees of both races, 1941/06/20: 1 Stimson, Henry L., Secretary of War
more fire on Stimson's head with revelation 184th had highest IQ, 1944/03/17: 1 Stimson admits foreign colored troops using weapons he says US Negroes too dumb to handle, 1944/03/24: 1 Stimson now denies 'low educational standards' stop Negro combat units, 1944/03/10: 1 Stimson says lack of education reason for breaking up combat units, 1944/03/03: 1 V-J Day again focuses spotlight on unfair GI discharge system, 1945/08/24: 1 War Dep't limits Negro officers to First Lieutenants, 1943/02/26: 1 What Is to Be Done About It? [racial discrimination against Negro soldiers in South] (editorial), 1942/08/21: 4 White, Walter
finds less Race hate in battle areas, 1944/05/12: 5 makes 14 recommendations to War Dept. after 20,000-mile foreign tour, 1944/05/26: 1 white GI's protest Jim Crow treatment of Negro soldiers, 1945/09/21: 7 white soldiers spreading hate in Philippines, 1945/10/12: 5 writer wonders what provisions being made for Negro draftees (by A.E. White), 1940/09/20: 4
Bolden, MSgt. Andrew J., holder of Purple Heart and Bronze Star, may receive Silver Star, 1951/02/02: 1 Crecy, Sgt. Warren G. Harding, Corpus Christi GI is awarded the Silver Star (photo), 1945/01/05: 1 Davis, Sgt. Taylor, Jr., holder of Purple Heart and Bronze Star, may receive Silver Star, 1951/02/02: 1 Foreman, Pfc. Robert L. S., killed serviceman's mother accepts award, 1945/06/22: 1 Jackson, Willie James, Navy cook gets Silver Star for deeds at Salerno, 1945/03/16: 1 Jones, James, heroic Texas chaplain, Anzio hero, gets Silver Star, 1944/06/30: 1 Marsh, Pvt. Woodall I., decorated after removing 12 wounded paratroopers after officers said it was impossible, 1944/01/14: 1 Rivers, SSgt. Reuben, awarded Silver Star posthumously (photo), 1945/06/15: 1 Singletary, Sgt. Fc Thomas A., is second SA Negro awarded Silver Star in Korea, 1951/07/06: 1 Stanley, Pvt. Courtney L., hero called from Korean front to get Silver Star medal, 1953/03/27: 1 Williams, MSgt. Curtis D., holder of Purple Heart and Bronze Star, may receive Silver Star, 1951/02/02: 1 survey shows 871,010 Negroes in armed forces at end of October, 1944/12/15: 1 use of mixed troops in Pacific up to MacArthur declares Secy. Patterson, 1945/06/01: 1 War Dept. denies boat transporting Race troops sunk, 1942/09/04: 1 War Dept. says Race in all arms, services, 1942/12/18: 1
See also Korean War See also US Armed Forces See also US Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAACs) See also World War I See also World War II 16 SA reservists become first Negroes in local unit, 312th Logistical Command (photo), 1953/12/18: 1 Army adopts policy on post-war use of Negro manpower, 1946/05/10: 1 Army denies troops at Central High under "do nothing" orders, 1958/04/04: 3 Army rejects more than half of Southerners, 1952/06/27: 1 Army silent on white officer's attack attempt, 1945/08/31: 1 Army teaches GIs how to spot fascists in US, 1945/05/04: 2 "Army Week" to show Negro's part in national defense, 1947/04/04: 5 awards and honors
See World War II, decorations and honors Bronze Star
See US Armed Forces
See US Armed Forces
See US Armed Forces Cameron High School's entire graduating class joins Army (photo), 1946/07/05: 4 chaplains
chaplains are taking their places among decorated heroes (photo), 1944/06/30: 1 full-strength Army to need 45 Negro chaplains, 1941/02/21: 1 heroic Texas chaplain, James L. Jones, Anzio hero, gets Silver Star, 1944/06/30: 1 Communist Red Cross accepts GIs who turn backs on US, 1954/02/05: 1 Davis, General Benjamin O. decorations and honors
See US Armed Forces
Horne, 1Lt. Clarence, in Army Dental Corps (photo), 1952/08/15: 7 qualified, and not over 38, eligible for dental corps, 1942/06/12: 6 discharge system, V-J Day again focuses spotlight on unfair system, 1945/08/24: 1 doctors
Army agrees to use one Negro doctor in each 13, 1941/01/31: 1 Army to call 100 doctors, nurses in next 60 days, 1941/02/07: 1 Capt. Clotilde D. Bowen, woman doctor attends course at BAMC, 1955/11/11: 1 over 300 Race doctors volunteer for Army service, 1941/05/30: 6 Exit Tenth Cavalry [transferring members to various Army posts] (editorial), 1931/08/28: 4 fairness in post-war Army, says Stimson, 1944/12/08: 4 fifteen [Negro] soldiers, two [white] officers are killed in blast, 1943/07/23: 1 Finance Office seeks SA couple, 1947/06/27: 7 first Negro field artillery brigade being formed, 1941/03/07: 1 first Negro paratroopers graduate (photo), 1944/04/14: 1 first to get commissions in armored force (photo), 1942/06/05: 1 five Race soldiers among Camp Normoyle motor graduates, 1941/01/31: 1 Fort Bragg's new CO interviewed by private: general asks suggestions from soldier-report for improvements, 1941/11/28: 1 Fort Knox parade ground named for Negro solider, war's first casualty of armored force, 1942/01/23: 1 GI dad wins fight to bring baby son to US, 1946/06/21: 5 Gilbert, Lt. Leon A., Jr.
President Truman saves life of Army officer Gilbert, Pennsylvania, from death sentence; penalty reduced to 20 years hard labor, 1950/12/01: 1 wife to seek reduction of officer's sentence, 1950/12/08: 1 Hawaiian mutiny soldiers get long terms, 1945/02/09: 1 infantry battalion in first retreat ceremony on Guadalcanal (photo), 1943/07/02: 1 life not bad for Negro soldiers in Guinea jungle, 1942/08/14: 4 Matson, Ollie, pro football player has no special privileges investigation reveals, 1954/04/30: 4 Meador report on venereal disease is blasted by prominent medic, 1947/01/17: 2 mothers of soldiers
champion mother, Mrs. Olivia Jones, has nine sons in Army (photo), 1944/02/18: 1 Harris, Mr. and Mrs. N. P., have five sons overseas (photo), 1945/01/19: 1 James, Mrs. Willie, San Antonio mother has five sons in armed services (photo), 1944/06/23: 1 Pollard, Mrs. Bernice E., another "five-star" mother (photo), 1944/12/08: 1 Negro barrage balloons, only one of kind in France, 1944/09/08: 1 Negro GIs will be kept overseas by Army's point system for demobilization, 1944/12/15: 1 "Negro in Army" report reveals present status, 1949/05/13: 1 Negro in Army to be featured on air, Tuesday, 1941/08/08: 4 Negro POW's stood up under brainwashing, 1956/06/29: 1 Negro regiment battling Japanese: unit thought to be 24th infantry, 1942/01/02: 1 Negro soldiers also hear better than whites, 1941/08/15: 4 Negro soldiers win admiration of Britishers, 1942/08/28: 1 Negroes are put in command by Col. B. O. Davis, 1945/07/13: 5 Negroes' better night sight may affect Army role, 1941/06/06: 4 new Negro combat team formed under Gillem report terms, 1946/03/29: 1 nine Race units to march in San Antonio Armistice parade, 1941/11/07: 1 99th Coast Artillery called home, outfit changed into "engineers," 1944/05/12: 1 Ninth Cavalry Negro regiment celebrates 76th anniversary, 1942/08/07: 5 northern Negro soldiers' IQ tops Southern whites, 1944/09/08: 3 number '13' stays with SA soldier's outfit, says William Marcus Adams, 1945/07/27: 1 number of Negroes in Army
58,437 Negroes in US Army on November 1, 1947, 1948/01/02: 3 187,383 Negroes reported still in Army as of May 1, 1946/06/21: 1 695,264 Negroes, including 7,768 officers in Army on VJ Day, 1945/11/09: 1 Negro troops to form 10.4 percent of US ETO Army of occupation in Germany, 1945/06/29: 1 Negroes in Army increase, but War Dept. has "liquidated"infantry division, 1944/05/19: 1 Negroes serving in 12 branches of US Army, 1941/08/01: 1
Army now has 440 race nurses; US Navy has 4, 1945/07/27: 5 Army nurse finds war fails to dent Jim Crow, 1945/08/10: 2 Army to call 100 doctors, nurses in next 60 days, 1941/02/07: 1 56 nurses assigned to Fort Bragg, 1941/03/21: 4
2 Prairie View cadets get commissions in regular Army, 1948/05/07: 1 2 SA youths become officers this week, 1942/10/02: 1 374 Negroes now training for US Army commissions, 1942/05/08: 8 (filmed in 05/22 issue) 769 in officer training schools, Stimson says, 1942/07/17: 5 all Race unit CO in New Guinea is made captain, 1943/06/25: 5 Brig. Gen. B. O. Davis congratulates first Negro officers finishing training at Fort Belvoir (photo), 1942/09/25: 1 Billups, Maj. Rudolph Raymond, promoted to Lt. Col. in Dental Corps Reserves (Jo's Jottings), 1953/11/27 Supp: 1 Bond, Lt. Thomas M., Jr., gets gold bars (photo), 1946/11/15: 4 Burley, Roy Willis Drummer, 2Lt Elsworth, SA Army officer leads search for lost SC child, 1951/07/27: 3 ex-Army officers may enlist as master sergeants, 1945/12/21: 1 Hudson, Major Haskel, at medical field service school at Brooke Army Medical Center (photo), 1948/07/23: 1 James, Jesse A., Jr., leaves for OCS at Fort Benning, 1954/11/12: 4 Jim Crow bars Race GIs from overseas OCS, 1945/04/06: 1 Kemp, 1st Lt. and Mrs. Chester L., first Negro American national born to occupation family in Japan, 1947/03/28: 1 Linton, Maj. Walter L. new system for picking officers initiated, 1946/12/20: 3 (Section 2) nobody sad over Gen. Somervell's resignation [as chief of Army service forces], 1945/09/28: 8 (filmed in 10/05 issue) officer training schools are open [and will include colored students], 1941/07/11: 8 (filmed in 07/18 issue) only 7 Lockburne officers named to regular Army, 1946/07/12: 4 Osborne, Capt. Julius F. regular Army promotions for lieutenant colonel, 1948/07/02: 2 Roberts, Lt. Alvin ("Fox"), commissioned at Camp Polk, LA (photo), 1954/02/12: 6 Robinson, Lt. Gen. James H., ranking Negro officer named to general staff, 1949/01/28: 2 Seegar, 1Lt. [illegible], honored by Republic of Korea Sea Scouts, 1954/09/17: 3 Stephens, Lt. Travis J. L., home on leave, 1948/06/11: 2 Stewart, 1st Lt. Richard W., Jr., San Antonio, is CO of first medical depot to be set up in Belgium, 1945/04/13: 1 Stiles, 1Lt. Roger C., on duty in Japan, promoted to First Lieutenant, 1952/11/28: 1 they get commissions at Ordnance Training Center (photo), 1942/07/17: 4 Thomas, 1Lt Garner, returns from tour of duty in Germany, 1954/07/02: 6 Thompson, Lonnie E., awarded gold bars as second lieutenant, 1954/12/10: 4 veteran captains discharged; green officers sent to battle, 1945/06/22: 1 Whitman, H. Frank, San Antonio officer promoted to first lieutenant, 1953/05/01: 3 Wilkins, 1st Lt. Larry A., on leave in Corpus Christi (photo), 1945/01/12: 1 Williams, Lt. Charles J., on leave before reporting for active duty (photo), 1952/06/27: 7 Williams, Capt. E. H., San Antonio, named instructor in Prairie View University military science department (photo), 1959/06/19: 6 Williams, Lt. Winston A.
decorated with Bronze Star for service in Korea (photo), 1952/04/04: 1 war hero, SA girl's husband, returns to duty (photo), 1952/02/22: 1 120 SA men join Army, depart for Oklahoma today, 1940/08/16: 1 Phoenix all-Negro riot results in 12 hurt, two killed, 1942/12/04: 1 Race division will be formed, Army announces, 1942/01/30: 1 Race leaders offer varied view on Negro divisions in case of war, 1939/09/22: 5 Race troops in Ireland win natives' favor, 1942/08/07: 8 (filmed in 08/14 issue) Race troops nine per cent of European invasion forces, 1944/07/28: 1 racial discrimination/prejudice
See also US Army, segregation/integration American race friction abroad is hurting war effort, reports White, 1944/05/05: 1 Army, selective service pass buck on service Jim Crow, 1948/05/21: 1 Army acts promptly to quash racism in French service club, 1953/07/24: 1 Army admits Negro scores must be higher than whites, 1946/11/08: 1 Army blasts prejudice as fight against Jim Crow UMT grows, 1948/01/30: 1 Army can duck draft Jim Crow clause, says Gen.; "no man may come into the Army who is not acceptable to Army," 1940/11/29: 1 Army "Crow" unchanged, Negro leaders approve Randolph stand, 1948/05/07: 1 Army determined to find way to bar radio expert, 1942/01/16: 8 (filmed in 01/30 issue) Army not doing enough to end discrimination says defense secretary, 1949/06/10: 1 Army nurse finds war fails to dent Jim Crow, 1945/08/10: 2 Army to abandon Jim Crow policy in redistribution, 1944/10/06: 1 Army to use race booklets [explaining racial differences] banned by USO, 1944/02/11: 1 Army tries to teach Germans "Democracy," Jim Crow style, 1948/05/14: 1 'Army's' attitude conditioned by necessity' says Lt. Col. Marcus H. Ray, 1948/01/09: 1 Army's progress in race relations since 1940 told by Truman Gibson, 1946/10/25: 4 But We Are Fighting [Nazi prisoners demand Jim Crow mess hall] (editorial), 1945/02/16: 4 draft board admits Army's "deep-seated prejudice" against Race, 1941/01/17: 1 FDR [President Roosevelt] Army policy bitterly flayed; Race leaders indignantly deny that they gave assent to Jim Crow, 1940/10/18: 1 FDR [President Roosevelt] regrets that Army policy was "misinterpreted," 1940/11/08: 1 five prominent men to stop paying taxes for J. Crow Army, 1948/04/23: 1 fliers' morale lifted as Col. Benjamin O. Davis made 477th's CO, Col. Selway ousted (photo), 1945/06/29: 1 foreign officers at Fort Benning get lesson in US race hate, 1947/05/02: 1 Fort Devens hate CO is forced out of Army, 1945/05/18: 1 general wants Jim Crow--stops El Paso Negro-promoted dances, 1949/12/30: 2 girl, civilian employee of air Army depot, confesses 'Negro raped me' story is untrue, 1944/02/18: 1 GI's in Philippines charge Nazi-like treatment, 1945/10/26: 1 Horace, Rev. J. L., makes personal investigation of conditions (photo), 1944/02/18: 1 integration in bloody Korea, but same old Jim Crow at Fort Dix, 1950/09/15: 1 Jeffers, Lt. Lance, assaulted by white GIs in London row, 1945/02/02: 1 Jim Crow burial order revoked, 1947/04/25: 1 man who sued Army for Jim Crow is convicted of draft dodging, 1950/06/30: 1 Maybe War Dept. Didn't Mean It [planning of separate redistribution facilities for returning Negro soldiers] (editorial), 1944/09/29: 4 NAACP asks country to demand congressional hearing on bills to lessen Jim Crow in Army, Navy, 1938/04/29: 8 (filmed in 05/06 issue) NAACP asks for probe of Army bias in Japan, 1950/08/04: 1 NAACP offers to fight Army, Navy discrimination with court action against War, Navy secretaries, 1940/10/04: 1 NAACP opposes separate Army division, 1938/06/03: 1 NAACP proposes volunteer division of US Army open to men of any race, creed, or color, 1942/01/16: 1 NAACP protests bring Army 'race tag' ban, 1957/03/01: 1 NAACP's Wilkins again asks Army to stop Jim Crow in Japan, 1950/08/18: 1 nationwide pressure brought against Jim-Crow Army tactics, 1931/11/06: 5 Navy, Coast Guard okey no-Jim-Crow bill; Army opposes, 1947/05/02: 1 Nazi prisoners fare better than Negro soldiers, 1944/02/18: 1 need for manpower gone, Army lapses into same old racist rut, 1946/07/26: 1 Negro and white soldiers live and work together in fight for victory (photo), 1944/08/11: 6 Negro soldiers in Europe ruled by Army Jim Crow, 1947/10/31: 1 Negroes being left out of Army, Navy sports program, 1942/07/24: 3 new US Army order is blast at Jim Crow (no racial separation allowed), 1942/11/13: 4 nine soldiers denied food because of color, 1942/05/22: 4 92nd Division's "poor showing" in Italy blamed on bias in training, 1949/04/08: 1 "The Policy Will Be Unchanged" [that no Negro officers will be in regular Army units] (editorial), 1940/10/18: 4 probe sought in brutal beating of Camp Kilmer GI, 1947/04/04: 1 publishers score Army bias in Europe, in report of tour, 1948/06/04: 1 Race still ignored in further Army increase plans, 1939/10/27: 5 Race troops have no difficulties in Australia, 1942/04/10: 1 racial clashes between GI's in Italy are denied; no evidence to verify newspaper accounts, says 92d officer, 1945/10/19: 1 Randolph, A. Philip, calls for strike against Jim Crow Army, 1948/04/09: 1 relief promised battle veterans after protest of Army double cross, 1945/09/14: 2 President Roosevelt didn't mean to infer Army Jim Crow [War Department policy] okayed, 1940/11/08: 1 Royall, Kenneth C., Secretary of the Army rebukes Army officers for Jim Crow, 1948/07/02: 1 with Secretary Royall out, end of Army bias thought nearer, 1949/05/27: 2 sergeant "busted" for protesting bias, 1942/12/04: 1 shooting of soldier in El Paso "hushed up" for 3 weeks, 1942/08/28: 1 soldier who protested bias free after year, 1944/02/04: 1 soldiers, Houston cops narrowly miss clashing, 1941/08/29: 1 soldiers go free after killing, insulting Race, 1941/08/29: 1 soldiers kept at Van Dorn not to be disarmed [in clash with white citizens], 1943/07/09: 4 veteran says it's hell to soldier in the South, 1941/10/24: 1 War Dep't. policy anent Race in defense program announced; NAACP told Race reserve officers will be called, 1940/10/11: 1 War Dept. warns COs against Jim Crowing Race soldiers, 1944/09/01: 5 war secretary Negro aide says Army trend is toward equality, 1948/10/01: 2 white daily, Philadelphia Record, condemns War Dept. action on Negro soldiers, 1931/09/25: 5 why no Negro Army grid teams?, 1942/09/25: 3
Alabama governor told Army's no Jim Crow edict stands, 1944/09/15: 1 Army denies Louis, Ray, jailed in Alabama for protesting camp Jim Crow, 1944/04/07: 3
Assistant Att'y General claims MPs asked Arkansas state troopers to act against Negro soldiers, 1941/10/10: 1 War Department washes hands of Ark. incident, 1941/12/05: 4 What Happened at Tuskegee? (editorial), 1942/04/17: 4
Army is probing slaying of soldier by Georgia cops, 1945/11/16: 1 CO of Fort Benning, Ga., faces action if non-Jim Crow order ignored, 1944/10/13: 1 vicious Jim Crow rule revealed at Georgia camp, 1944/02/25: 1
FDR [President Roosevelt] asked to investigate riot in Louisiana, 1942/01/30: 4 four whites face trial for brutal attack on soldier, 1941/10/03: 1 La. riot dramatizes injustices to Negroes says ANP investigator, 1942/01/23: 1 shooting at PX--armed mob threatens US officers, men on bivouac, 1944/08/18: 1 thirty hurt as MPs, soldiers battle in Louisiana town, 1942/01/16: 1 two soldiers slain last fall near riot city, 1942/01/30: 1 War Dep't makes first report on riot in Alexandria, LA: says civilian cops, one MP fired wantonly, 1942/01/30: 1
Fort Dix probe clothed in secrecy, 1942/04/17: 1 Gen. B.O. Davis heads probe of New Jersey riot, 1942/04/10: 1
brutal MPs to cause outbreaks, NAACP warns, 1941/08/15: 1 ex-Fort Bragg commander given minor post following "night of terror," seeks retirement, 1941/11/07: 1 General Davis files 600-page report on NC incident, 1941/09/26: 1 NAACP says Army probe into killing of Negro soldiers is insufficient, 1941/08/29: 1 race trouble flares between soldiers, MP, in North Carolina, 1941/08/15: 1 War Dep't. hasn't yet learned who did NC killing, 1941/11/21: 1
Gen. Donovan opposes Alabaman's proposal to keep Negro troops out of the South, 1942/08/14: 1 Bankhead's Proposal, That Negro Soldiers Not Be Stationed in South, Draws Texas Comment (editorial), 1942/08/14: 4 Bankhold told Negro troops will be kept in South, 1942/08/21: 1 Dixie CO defies US Army's ban on discrimination, 1944/09/08: 1 Dixie cops keep crowd moving as MPs beat soldier, 1941/09/12: 1 Dixie vents hate on soldiers; lieutenant, wife beaten by cops in Georgia, 1943/05/21: 1 Landis, Carol, film star, voices indignation at treatment of Race soldiers in southern Army camps, 1942/08/07: 1 mob threatens white officer for blocking Jim Crow in Mississippi restaurant, 1945/11/16: 1 NAACP reveals brutality to 10 soldiers in Mississippi, 1944/04/28: 1 Race MPs not allowed to quell cop-soldier clash, 1941/09/19: 1 soldier clashes blamed on Army Jim Crow policy, 1941/09/05: 1 St. Louis daily paper questions safety of Race soldiers in South, 1941/08/29: 1 Texas colonel, Harvey F. Dwyer, gets out of sick bed to fight Jim Crow, 1945/02/09: 1 Time for Action (editorial), 1941/09/05: 4 War Dep't. tells CMEs "leaders" approved sending draftees south, 1941/12/19: 1 What Is to Be Done About It? [racial discrimination against Negro soldiers in South] (editorial), 1942/08/21: 4 reactivation of Negro cavalry division at Texas fort; famed 9th, 10th Cavalry Regiments in unit at Fort Clark, 1943/02/26: 1 recruitment
"fabulous" bonus offered to re-enlistees, 1954/08/27: 7 local recruiting office says Army career offers many opportunities, 1954/07/30: 7 special training offered to high school graduates, 1954/07/23: 7 SA draftees handle rifles well in Arizona, 1941/03/07: 7 SA draftees in Missouri camp, 1941/07/18: 5 SA soldier keeps promise made in air raid; gives $5-bill to first Race girl he sees in Australia, 1944/04/14: 1 San Antonio boys safe in Australia, 1942/05/22: 1 Secretary of War says Army to train Negro soldiers as bombardiers and navigators, 1943/07/23: 1 segregation/integration
See also US Armed Forces, segregation/integration Army abolishes racial quotas for enlistments, 1950/04/07: 1 Army explains stand on Negro soldiers with white wives, 1957/11/29: 1 Army given until July 15 to report progress on abolishing Jim Crow, 1949/07/01: 1 Army has new integration plan, 1950/01/13: 1 Army integration in Europe called farce [commentary by Claude A. Barnett], 1952/02/22: 1 Army integration still has long way to go, 1952/11/07: 1 Army "still working" toward integration, 1952/03/21: 1 Army's stymying of integration continues, 1949/08/26: 1 Clark, Gen. Mark
anti-integration speech bitterly denounced, 1956/05/11: 1 McAuliffe, Gen. Anthony C. disagrees with Gen. Mark Clark on integration, 1956/05/18: 1 Defense Secretary asked to withdraw approval, 1949/10/07: 5 dinner for defense secretary, Louis Johnson, facing pickets, called off, 1949/12/23: 1 President Eisenhower dodges Jim Crow question (commentary by Claude A. Barnett), 1952/03/07: 1 federal judge refuses to dismiss suit against Army bias, 1949/03/04: 1 First Army, in New York, said to be integrating Race without fanfare, 1948/10/08: 1 Handy, Gen. Thomas T., European commander, admits Army J. Crow (commentary by Claude A. Barnett), 1952/02/29: 1 J. Crow abolished, but tag stays on forms, 1954/12/03: 1 Jim Crow Army in Europe is United States' worst enemy, 1952/03/28: 1 Jim Crow remains in US Army's new approved "equality" policy, 1949/10/07: 1 NAACP protests War Dept. plan to segregate Army draftees, 1941/01/03: 1 responsibility for Jim Crow Far East Command troops on MacArthur, 1951/06/08: 1 segregation still rampant in Army camps, investigator finds, 1946/01/11: 1 specialists "may be" assigned to white units, 1949/10/07: 5 Straight from the Capital (column), by Chuck Moore, 1950/01/20: 4 survey shows Army integration great success, 1956/10/12: 1 President Truman asked to reject "new" Army plan, 1949/10/14: 1
See also Korean War, service personnel See also US Army, officers See also World War II, service personnel Adams, Pvt. R. J., Seguin GI graduates from Army school in Germany, 1955/07/08: 2 Allen, Sgt. William, sends himself far, far away to Far East (photo), 1952/12/26: 1 Anderson, Alva Cornelius, at Dodd Field in Medical Corps (photo), 1956/06/22: 4 Armstead, Britton, Jr. Barnes, Pfc. H. C., released from active military duty, 1948/05/21: 7 Barnes, Cpl. Tunice, home on furlough (photo), 1951/09/14: 6 Bean, Cpl. Willie H., Jr.
gets combat badge (photo), 1951/09/28: 6 reassigned from Korea to Japan (photo), 1952/02/08: 8 (filmed in 02/15 issue) Blackwell, Sgt. Robert C., gold bars ahead for reserve officer, 1949/06/17: 7 Blanks, Sgt. 1st Class Floyd, San Antonio GI aids in disaster-stricken Holland, 1953/02/27: 1 Brady, Sgt. Alfred, receives honorable discharge, 1946/01/25: 7 Brady, Sgt. Francis, receives honorable discharge, 1946/01/25: 7 Brock, TSgt. Fred ("Chuchy"), late Technical Sergeant honored by having Legion post named after him (photo), 1946/01/04: 1 Brooks, Sgt. Thomas B., retired by Army after 23 years service, 1943/03/19: 6 Brown, TSgt. Esever I., Jr., returns from Japan to be separated (photo), 1947/04/11: 6 Brown, Pvt. Harold, Jr., completes GI course in Maryland, 1946/09/27: 7 Bullock, MSgt. Earl J., receives honorable discharge, 1946/02/01: 7 Burford, Sgt. James, San Antonian is "Soldier of Week" at German station, 1948/05/28: 7 Burton, SSgt Roosevelt, entertained by parents before leaving for overseas (photo), 1953/06/12: 6 Ceasar, MSgt Julius, Jr., gets lieutenant's bars at Morgan State College, 1949/02/25: 1 Chandler, TSgt. Robert C., San Antonio GI first volunteer for new program, 1948/05/28: 1 Clack, Sgt. George C., promoted to rank of Sergeant (photo), 1951/10/12: 7 Clark, Pfc. Lawrence, receives honorable discharge (photo), 1945/08/24: 7 Coby, Pfc. James E., of Marshall, graduates from non-commissioned officers academy (photo), 1953/05/29: 7 Cook, Cpl. Edgar M., Jr., receives honorable discharge (photo), 1945/12/14: 6 Davis, Cpl. Alton E., graduates from Fourth Medical Battallion Academy (photo), 1955/03/25: 5 Dilworth, Cpl. Herbert W., receives honorable discharge, 1946/01/25: 7 Dixon, Pvt. Lacy, Jr., undergoes basic training (photo), 1955/03/11: 7 Dominique, Pfc. Kenneth, now stationed in Wisconsin in Army (photo), 1951/03/23: 6 Dotson, Pvt. Samuel C., in service in Kentucky (photo), 1951/06/22: 5 Douglas, MSgt. Joe A., on atomic maneuvers at Fort Bragg, N. C. (photo), 1954/04/23: 3 Edwards, Cpl. Noal P., sent to far east (photo), 1953/05/15: 7 Evans, Warrant Officer Cornelius J., visits wife, family after returning from France, 1955/06/10: 4 Ewing, Pvt. Joe A., serving in Japan, 1948/12/03: 7 Fields, Sgt David, first Negro assigned to recruitment in this district (photo), 1954/08/06: 1 Flowers, Romie, receives honorable discharge, 1946/02/08: 7 Flowers, William B., awaits discharge after 38 months overseas (photo), 1945/09/28: 4 Galloway, Pvt. Marvin, Jr., serving in Japan, 1947/08/29: 7 Gardner, Pfc. Ernest C., home on furlough (photo), 1952/02/08: 7 Gettis, Sgt. Durley, GI is honor student at Camp Hood, 1947/09/05: 7 Giles, Sgt. Haywood J., on duty in Germany (photo), 1951/10/19: 6 Green, Edward L., SA World War II vet, appointed warrant officer, 1952/03/28: 2 Greene, Pfc. R. C., San Antonio GI rests at Japanese resort, 1947/08/01: 7 Griffin, SSgt. Edward, San Antonio GI awarded for program completion in Japan, 1948/06/18: 7 Griffin, Pfc. Gerald, SA athlete still starring in Army (photo), 1955/08/05: 5 Hammond, Winfred, serving in Japan, 1948/12/10: 7 Harris, Curry, receives honorable discharge, 1946/02/08: 7 Harrison, Pvt. Vernon, en route from Japan, 1948/11/26: 7 Hartfield, Pvt. Joe, SA GI completes airborne course at Fort Benning, 1948/04/16: 2 Hathaway, Pvt. G. L., dies in California hospital (photo), 1948/05/28: 1 Hemphill, William B., discharged from armed forces (photo), 1945/07/06: 7 Hervey, Sgt. Thomas, Jr., one-time 4-F reenlists after first stint ends, 1949/05/27: 7 Hill, Monroe, receives honorable discharge, 1946/01/18: 7 Hodge, Willie A., Jr.
ex-Lion, gets Army grid award, 1951/12/28: 5 ex-Lion of Wheatley in last game at Fort Benning, 1951/11/30: 5 Howard, Pvt. Oscar, Seguin soldier is "Trainee of Day" at Fort Knox, 1948/07/23: 5 Hynson, Pvt. Eddie J., serves in Germany (photo), 1953/05/08: 7 Jackson, Pfc. David E., completes airborne course, 1948/08/06: 7 Jackson, MSgt. Frank G., honor graduate of Seventh Army's Non-Commissioned Officers Academy (photo), 1953/07/31: 7 Jackson, SSgt. Langston
returns from third tour of duty (photo), 1951/10/05: 7 SA GI qualifies in military occupational specialties, 1948/08/06: 7 James, Pvt. Jack E., completes basic training (photo), 1958/05/16: 6 Johnson, SSgt. Floyd Raymond, discharged after 3 years overseas (photo), 1945/07/27: 4 Johnson, 1MSgt. Walter, retires from Army after 30 years' service (photo), 1944/05/05: 5 Jones, Sgt. Ben H., home on furlough (photo), 1951/10/12: 6 Jones, Humphrey Bernard
promoted by Army to Warrant Officer, junior grade, 1952/02/29: 6 San Antonian goes to Far East Command, 1952/03/28: 6 Kelly, Cpl. Sam H., wounded San Antonian in California appeals to blood donors, 1952/01/11: 7 Kyle, Cpl. William S.
San Antonio GI now at New York Station, 1948/07/16: 2 spends furlough here (photo), 1946/09/27: 6 Lane, James, returns home after discharge from service at Fort Riley, Kansas (Our Men in Service), 1958/01/24: 7 Lee, Sgt. Robert T., receives discharge from Army (photo), 1947/05/23: 7 Lennear, Lou A., non-saluter convicted, given dishonorable discharge (photo), 1959/06/05: 1 Lewis, Joe B., receives honorable discharge, 1946/01/18: 7 Littlejohn, Cpl. Fred, home on furlough (photo), 1951/08/31: 7 Loudd, Sgt. Nathan W., two GIs graduate from Kelly course, 1948/01/30: 7 Louis, Joe Mahome, 1st Sgt. Isaiah, retirement of (photo), 1945/04/13: 2, 1945/04/13: 6 Mansfield, Sgt. Parker, in atomic maneuvers (photo), 1953/04/17: 3 many San Antonians serving in Japan, 1948/12/03: 7 Mathis, Fred Lee, Jr. McGee, Sgt. Henry, on furlough before going to officer candidate school (photo), 1946/08/16: 7 McKay, SSgt. Benjamin B., won't be home for Christmas (photo), 1951/12/21: 6 Milam, Henderson, gets Army discharge soon, 1957/10/04: 7 Miller, TSgt. Eugene, in San Antonio on emergency leave, 1952/05/16: 4 Mitchell, Cpl. Frank, honorably discharged, 1945/11/23: 7 Mize, MSgt. Matthew, Fort Sam non-com is in Army 29 years (photo), 1943/07/09: 4 Mooreman, Edward L., San Antonio GI selected member of Camp Stoneman Honor Guard, 1953/06/26: 7 New, Pvt Thomas J. (Blair) Noble, SSgt. Nathan S., furlough ends; returns to post (photo), 1954/09/24: 7 Oldham, Sgt. Vernell, wins November Plaque of the Month in Pusan, Korea (photo), 1957/01/11: 7 Osborne, Georgene, enlists in Army for two years, talks over future with vet H. Mills (photo), 1951/11/16: 1 Patterson, Pfc. T. C., GI, killed accidentally in Okinawa, buried at Luling, 1949/05/27: 1 Plummer, Pfc. Horace, Jr., in Hawaii (photo), 1949/12/23: 6 Pollard, Cpl. Lee Roy, returns from Pacific Islands (Comings, Goings and Doings), 1948/12/03: 2 Price, MSgt Andrews, named Week's Personality in England, 1951/05/04: 7 Price, Cpl. James L., on Okinawa (photo), 1949/12/16: 6 Revado, Pfc. Charles J., in Japan (photo), 1949/08/12: 6 Rhodes, Robert L., Jr., stationed at Fort Bliss (photo), 1953/12/18: 6 Richards, Pvt. Robert, on maneuvers in Japan (photo), 1949/01/14: 7 Ricks, Technician 5th grade Silas L., GI is embassador of democracy in Germany (photo), 1948/06/11: 1 Riley, Charles L., receives honorable discharge (photo), 1945/11/30: 7 Robinson, Augustus P., Army bandsman, returns to duty after visiting family in SA, 1952/11/21: 6 Robinson, Pvt. Louis, now at Fort Sam Houston awaiting discharge (photo), 1945/09/14: 7 Rogers, MSgt. Elworth, retires, 1953/04/17: 1 Rogers, MSgt Marion, two GIs graduate from Kelly course, 1948/01/30: 7 Russell, Pfc. John B., Jr., home on furlough (photo), 1951/10/05: 7 Severe, Cpl. James, Corpus Christian stationed in Japan, 1948/07/16: 7 Sims, Pvt. James O., SA GI enlistee dies at hospital in Mississippi, 1946/12/13: 1 Smith, Birdie Jo, Seguin girl joins Army (photo), 1959/06/19: 1 Smith, Pfc. Floyd, Sr., chosen "best soldier" of the month in his battery in Alaska (photo), 1954/07/16: 7 Smith, MSgt Sherman W. Spruells, SSgt. Elzie, returns to Army (photo), 1949/04/01: 6 Staples, Sgt. Jack, assigned to Pacific area duty (photo), 1953/04/10: 6 Stevens, 1Sgt. Charles A., receives Army Commendation ribbon with Medal for superior work at Fort Bragg (photo), 1958/06/13: 1 Stewart, SP2 Edward J.
BAMC soldier has had colorful service career, beginning in 1916 with the campaign against Pancho Villa, 1957/05/31: 3 still around after 42 years of military service (photo), 1958/11/21: 1 Stovall, TSgt. Varick A., graduates from Brooks clerical school, 1948/03/26: 7 Tabor, John D., receives honorable discharge, 1946/01/04: 7 Tatum, Morris T., discharged from Army, 1945/12/07: 7 Taylor, SSgt. James D., receives Army Commendation Ribbon (photo), 1946/08/02: 7 Wallace, Pvt. Thomas E., selected "Soldier of Month" in his company (photo), 1949/06/17: 7 Warner, Joseph B.
awarded Occupation Medal in Japan, 1948/10/08: 7 San Antonio GI is fire fighter in Japan, 1947/07/25: 7 White, Cpl. Louis Edward, discharged from service after final tour in Germany (photo), 1954/01/22: 7 Wilder, Pvt. Virgil, gets stripe in Japan, 1948/04/16: 2 Williams, Technician 4th grade Albert, stationed at Fort Sam Houston, 1948/03/26: 6 Williams, Pvt. Clarence, guest of his parents (photo), 1948/12/03: 7 Williams, Cpl. John B., receives honorable discharge, 1945/12/14: 7 Williams, Sgt. Otho, receives honorable discharge (photo), 1945/11/16: 5 Wilson, Pvt. Thomas, two San Antonio GIs leave Philippines for US and separation, 1947/01/03: 7 Wilson, Willie N., two San Antonio GIs leave Philippines for US and separation, 1947/01/03: 7 Wright, Cpl. Abraham, returning home after duty in Japan (photo), 1954/03/05: 6 Young, Pvt. Joseph Lee, undergoing basic training at Fort Bliss (photo), 1954/02/12: 4 Ziegler, Sgt. James D. and so, they're in the Army now!; 120 young Negro men sworn into the Army and departed for Fort Sill, 1940/08/23: 1 soldier gives gallon of blood to bank since September, 1944/04/14: 1 soldiers strike in Mississippi after disorders [in Jackson], 1943/07/23: 4 special Army committee now pondering new "Negro Policy," 1945/10/26: 1 story of 1943 sinking of troop ship, USS McCalls, is told, 1945/09/07: 1 temporary re-enlistment grades end Jan. 31, 1946/01/04: 7 tentative placing of Negroes in Army announced, 1941/01/17: 4 three Negroes capture 40 "supermen" in France, 1944/09/08: 1 three San Antonio men arrive at Fort Wood for training, 1942/09/11: 5 three shot as soldiers, civilians battle in Arkansas, 1941/10/10: 1 three soldiers accidentally asphyxiated in Amsterdam hotel, 1956/03/02: 4 time for retaining ratings extended for enlistees, 1946/02/01: 5 troops arrive at Fort Huachuca from overseas, 1945/10/12: 4 two soldiers die in outbreaks at Fort Dix, NJ, 1942/12/11: 1 War Department steadily trimming down Negro units, 1931/09/04: 3 women play vital role in US Army, 1954/08/20: 6 Woodring says Negro Army units to be increased, 1939/09/29: 1 Woods, Lamas, convicted of involuntary manslaughter, gets three years, 1947/08/15: 1 work started on quarters for Race Army division at Fort Huachuca, 1941/12/19: 1
See also San Antonio Aviation Cadet Center See also Tuskegee Army Air Squadron 10 San Antonio boys with air unit in Philippines, 1945/02/02: 1 12 Nazi planes downed by 99th Airmen over Italy, 1944/02/04: 1 75 airplane mechanics report for class work, 1941/04/18: 4 air authority speaks at Muny Auditorium Saturday, 1942/07/24: 5 air group is transferred from Dixie to Indiana, 1944/09/08: 5 all men, 18-26, eligible for air cadet training, 1944/04/14: 1 ANP finds morale shot among 99th Pursuit Squadron flyers sent to South Carolina, 1944/08/04: 4 applications for Air Corp entitled to draft deferment, 1941/04/04: 1 Army squeezing Negroes out of US Air Forces, says scribe, 1947/02/07: 1 Columbus, OH, daily newspaper objects to all Negro air group, 1946/02/08: 1 A Day to Be Remembered [first Negro fatality in history of the Corps] (editorial), 1943/05/21: 4 Distinguished Flying Cross
pilots receive (photo), 1944/10/13: 5 12 veteran pilots awarded Flying Cross, 1945/05/18: 1 Fletcher, 1st Lt. Henri Frank McCreary, Lt. Walter Lee Negro airmen in first battle with German flyers, 1943/07/02: 1 Negro Pilots [training facilities need to be made available] (editorial), 1940/11/15: 4 Negro youths may fly; applications being accepted, 1941/04/11: 1 new aviation unit has many SA enlistees, 1942/11/20: 4 new wings for the Army Air Corps (photo), 1942/12/25: 6 newspaperman believes 99th Fighter Squadron's 17 victories to be record, 1944/03/03: 1 officers
Roberts, Maj. George Spencer, 99th commander, hopes to fly after war ends, 1944/06/16: 1 Sidat-Singh, Wilmoth W.
Lt. Sidat-Singh buried in Arlington National Cemetery, 1943/07/09: 3 of Tuskegee Army Air Squadron, crashes, body recovered from Lake Huron, 1943/07/02: 1
Army bias behind fliers' transfer from Selfridge Field (Detroit), 1944/07/14: 1 Army drops bar against Negro flying cadets, 1941/03/21: 1 bomber group is moved as 101 officers are released from confinement, 1945/05/04: 3 colored citizen's application turned down, 1931/09/25: 1 father of white air crash victim lashes government for letting Negroes fly, 1944/12/29: 1 flyers that US spurns may enter Canadian force, 1941/01/17: 4 Georgia-born general of 1st Army Air Force blamed for Jim Crow, 1945/06/01: 1 Hastie, Judge William, tells why he quit war post; rank anti-Negro policy is principal reason, 1943/02/05: 1 Negro corps given setback as prejudice wins, 1939/06/30: 1 no Negroes being trained says NAACP, 1940/11/01: 1 sixty air officers defy Jim Crow, arrested, 1945/04/13: 1 service personnel
See also World War II, service personnel James, 1st Lt. Voris S., dies instantly in crackup near Schertz, Texas (photo), 1946/12/13: 1 Johnson, Pvt. Stafford T., Jr., gets first stripe, 1946/08/23: 7 Tanner, Emmett J., receives honorable discharge, 1946/01/18: 7 Watson, Pfc. Maurice, completes machinist course, 1946/12/27: 8 Weddington, Pvt. Verzonia, receives honorable discharge, 1945/11/30: 7 Wilborn, Vernon L., receives honorable discharge, 1945/12/14: 7 Williams, Pfc. T. V., receives honorable discharge, 1946/01/25: 7 Walterboro AAF officers removed after ANP expose, 1944/09/15: 1 War Dept. says Race airmen to be fighting soon, 1942/12/25: 4 young San Antonians show little interest in opportunity for air combat training, 1944/06/23: 1
See also Nurses and Nursing, military nurses 820 vacancies in nurse corps, 1948/07/02: 7 Alabama cops assault, rob US Army nurse, 1942/09/25: 1 first regular Army nurse, Nancy C. Leftenant, gets commission, 1948/02/20: 1 James, Mary V., held for impersonating an officer in Army Nurse Corp, 1951/10/19: 2 nurses attend Brooke school at Ft. Sam Houston (photo), 1949/02/04 Supp: 4 Petty, Capt. Mary L., first colored woman to receive captain's commission (photo), 1944/07/07: 6 Raney, Lt. Dena, first Negro woman to attain rank of 1st Lieutenant (photo), 1942/10/09: 1
eight San Antonio reserves end two weeks active duty, 1955/08/12: 7
announces non-discrimination hiring policy, 1952/04/04: 3
CIO to organize US Engraving Bureau workers, 1950/05/26: 1 Congress digs ground from under vets employed in engraving bureau, 1950/05/12: 1 discrimination rife in Bureau of Engraving despite Executive Order, 1948/12/31: 1
nurse recruiting drive sponsored by Schenley Products, 1944/07/28: 7 three major companies urge recruiting of Negro nurses, 1944/08/11: 4 West, Amy E., cadet nurse, returns to Louisiana, 1945/09/21 Supp: 2
Booker, Cameron A., Katharine Beverly, and J.W. Hemmings are three Negroes among SA army of census takers; total of 186, selected from 1200, busy counting noses (photos), 1940/04/05: 1 census report shows vast need of educational action, 1934/01/19: 1 citizens told to beware of phony census takers, 1950/03/31: 1 Cooperate with the Census Enumerators (editorial), 1940/04/05: 4 indicates school facilities being increased, 1940/02/23: 4 SA had Negro census takers 40 years ago, 1950/04/21: 1 SA has score of Negro census takers, 1950/04/14: 1
Census Bureau official reveals status of Negro population, 1940/11/22: 4 director denies any Jim Crow, 1941/02/07: 1 Jim Crow said to be rampant in bureau, 1941/01/31: 1 non-white earning power only half that of Whites, Census reveals, 1951/03/09: 1 178 Negroes in DC office of Census Bureau, 1940/02/23: 4
advocates of amendment point out advantages, 1950/12/15: 4 Fair Employment Board
board draws fire from NAACP, CIO, 1948/10/22: 1 two Negroes named to board, 1948/10/15: 1 Green, Wendell E., Chicago attorney, sworn in as commissioner (photo), 1935/11/15: 2
mess attendant hero in sinking of troop ship, 1944/02/25: 1 Navy, Coast Guard okey no-Jim-Crow bill; Army opposes, 1947/05/02: 1 recruiting office opens in SA, 1955/03/18: 3 San Antonio company sought for Coast Guard, 1955/09/30: 6 women's reserve (SPARS), to follow Navy's lead in allowing Negro women, 1944/10/27: 1
Hill, Haynes, Davis say they don't want Commerce job, 1933/10/13: 1 Jones, Eugene Kinckle
appointed advisor, 1933/09/22: 1 appointment strikes snag, 1933/10/06: 1 Jones wins Dept. of Commerce position, 1933/10/27: 1 secures "white collar" workers under CWA program, 1934/01/05: 1 scored for lack of interest in small businesses, 1949/05/13: 4 Secretary Roper's Advisory Committee [Negro Advisory Committee weighted with northern members] (editorial), 1933/09/22: 4
See also US House of Representatives See also US Senate 81st Congress
capital scribe thinks 81st Congress didn't do bad job, 1949/11/04: 1 South to hold same old power Congress, 1948/12/24: 1 83rd Congress scores zero on civil rights legislation, 1954/08/20: 3 84th Congress, bitterness apparent as Congress opens new session, 1956/01/13: 4 85th Congress "productive," but did little for public's good, 1958/10/03: 1 Capitol Page School
has first Negro graduates, 1957/06/21: 1 US Congress differs on "mixing," but run integrated Capitol Page School, 1956/11/23: 3 youth from Virginia quits congressional page school because of Negro student, 1959/04/17: 7 Congress Begins Work on Soldier's Bonus, Permanent Neutrality Policy, Relations with Supreme Court (Tid Bits From the Week's News), 1936/01/10: 4 Congress expected to wage war on US Supreme Court with southerners filling important positions, 1956/10/12: 2 Congress passes Hoover's furlough plan for federal employees, 1932/06/17: 1 "Congress to aid big business;" entirely ignores social legislation, 1947/08/22: 2 History Was Made [Congress reins in spending] (editorial), 1939/08/18: 4 Kluxer says "surprising number of congressmen are KKK members"--and don't we know it!, 1948/06/04: 1 new civil rights education bills introduced in Congress, 1958/02/21: 1 An Opportunity for Congress [to rein in taxes] (editorial), 1939/09/08: 4 urged to withhold school aid from defiant states, 1958/02/07: 1
Birthday of the Constitution (editorial), 1937/09/17: 4 Rights Imply Responsibilities (Commentary by Ruth Taylor), 1945/07/27: 4
quick promotions for construction men in Engineers, 1942/05/29: 7
first Negro appointee
Brackens, Brown L., Jr., San Antonio man appointed to Soil Conservation Service post, 1952/01/11: 1 field agent, T.M. Campbell, calls for more colored demonstration agents, 1934/06/08: 1 Mitchell, John W., promoted to agricultural national extension leader (photo), 1953/09/11: 1 Perry, Dr. Ezell W., Oklahoman named to special PMA regional post, 1948/05/14: 1 Republicans bow to Dixie on Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) anti-bias clause, 1953/09/11: 1 studies loans to Race farmers (photo), 1941/10/10: 2 USDA seeks to curb annual farm-to-farm migration (photo), 1942/01/16: 7 Weir, Raymond J., promoted to chief of Administrative Services Division (photo), 1941/12/05: 1
reaffirms non-bias employment policy, 1956/01/13: 1
bias eyed in science education proposal to help finance scholarships, 1958/01/24: 1
colored Assistant Solicitor appointed, 1933/11/24: 1 concerned over leaks on lowering Negro wages, 1933/12/29: 1 urges Negroes to protest "hurtful" operations, 1934/07/06: 1 Weaver, new appointee, is center of controversy, 1933/11/17: 1
admittedly cautious about bias cases, Justice Dept. does nothing, 1958/07/25: 1 joins fight for Hoxie, Ark., school integration, files brief to halt racists in issues having "nation-wide impact," 1956/08/31: 1 lack of authority to probe bombings in the South restated, 1958/06/20: 3 refuses to act in bombings of Negro and Jewish institutions, despite urging of solons, 1958/05/16: 1 Smith, John Lee, appointment as US Attorney in Texas opposed by NAACP, 1953/03/27: 1 to review Bunche loyalty hearing; ex-Reds who testified against Bunche may be investigated, 1954/07/16: 1
Church, Roberta, Chicago woman given high position in Labor Dept., 1953/07/24: 1 Mitchell, James, P., Secretary, says US prejudice has wasted manpower, 1958/02/07: 1 Oxley, Lt. Lawrence A., appointed as commissioner (photo), 1934/03/09: 1 Wilkins, J. Ernest, Assistant Secretary. See Wilkins, J. Ernest Women's Bureau gets Negro, Mrs. Laura Kirkland, 1947/11/07: 1
American athletes on goodwill tour in Africa win countless friends for US, 1956/06/29: 5 Bunche, Dr. Ralph Johnson
DC Jim Crow is real reason Bunche turned down State Department proposal, 1949/06/10: 5 declines State Department post, 1949/06/03: 1 Lend-Lease pact signed by US, Liberia, 1943/06/18: 5 William Worthy passport case
Chicago man appointed adviser, 1933/08/25: 5 jobless denied compensation to force low pay acceptance, 1945/10/05: 1
Rucker, Alvin M., appointed acting director (photo), 1944/07/14: 5
Black Legion man, Drew Pearson, OKed by Senate for FCC position, 1947/07/25: 4
agency's Jim Crow employment policy ruled out, 1946/12/27: 2
See also US Congress the Black Cabinet in the New Deal, 1934/04/06: 4 Do You Want Government Economy? (editorial), 1939/09/15: 4 eleven indicted at US Vet. facility at Tuskegee; Walter Burke among those held, 1936/07/17: 5 local ministers, business men protest against Hoover budget plan, 1932/04/22: 1 some Negroes in office ("Interesting Information"), 1932/09/16: 4 thousands of Race will be affected by federal merger, 1939/05/05: 6 Will There Be Economy? [in President Roosevelt's new budget] (editorial), 1940/01/19: 4
ends Jim Crow in cafeteria, 1949/09/23: 4 Jones, Samuel B.
former Register employee now US Government pressman, 1949/08/26: 6 gets post at US Government Print shop (photo), 1937/07/23: 1
Alford, Dale, Arkansas racist, provisionally seated by House pending fraud investigation, 1959/01/16: 3 civil rights bills received week of July 9; legislation goes to floor despite maneuverings of southerners, 1956/07/06: 1 civil rights debate opened in House by 290 to 117 vote, 1957/06/14: 1 Committee on Un-American Activities
Ben Davis, New York, gets the better of Rankin in Dies Committee tiff, 1945/10/05: 1 Broadway fights so-called Un-American Committee (photo), 1947/11/21: 2 Civil Rights Congress (CRC) fights to abolish Thomas-Rankin un-American committee, 1947/08/15: 4 committee eyes Bill Patterson's right to travel, 1959/05/01: 1 committee winks as G. K. Smith speaks at Washington monument, 1947/08/15: 1 contempt of Congress looms as Robeson blasts probers, 1956/06/22: 1 ex-Air Force officer, Louis Wheaton, accused of treason in House inquiry, 1956/06/01: 1 film hearing reveals Negro stand of Un-American Committee, 1947/11/07: 1 Jackie Robinson gets House committee straight, 1949/07/29: 3 Mundt Subversive Activities bill fought by leaders; so-called "Un-American" Activities Committee abolishment urged, 1948/05/14: 1 new member, F. E. Hebert of Louisiana, is Negro hater, 1947/12/26: 1 New York group seeks death of Thomas-Rankin Committee (photo), 1947/10/31: 1 Rankin Committee attack on Dr. Edward U. Condon, springs from racism, 1948/03/19: 1 Rankin Committee smears NAACP with Red charge, 1947/10/17: 1 Rankinites continue witch hunt--brand Civil Rights Congress, 1947/09/12: 1 refuses to hear Paul Robeson's side of story, 1949/07/29: 1 report targets lawyers being subverted to Communism, 1959/02/20: 1 sociologist's proud review of Negro loyalty makes impression, 1949/07/29: 1 Supreme Court to test legality of Rankin Committee, 1947/07/11: 2 Thurgood Marshall joins battle to rid US of Thomas committee, 1947/12/19: 1 "Un-American Committee" is as serious threat to Negro as KKK, 1947/05/09: 1 "Un-American Committee smears organizations and publications, 1951/06/29: 1 Un-American group makes joke of phrase, "this is free country," 1947/07/04: 1 vote denial used to show Rankin Committee illegal, 1948/01/23: 1 Diggs, Charles C., Detroiter becomes third Negro now in Congress, 1954/11/12: 1 House Judiciary Subcommittee gets facts on Dixie civil rights violations, 1957/02/22: 1 House Looking for Revenue for Government Debt (Tid Bits from the Week's News), 1932/04/01: 4 House Rules Committee southerners pull slick trick to delay action on civil rights legislation, 1956/06/29: 1 Johnson, James A., Jr.
Chicago lad, 14, doesn't get House page job through a mixup when white boy gets job, 1959/02/06: 1 O'Hara, Rep. Barratt, to ask Congress to create page job of disappointed Chicago Youth, 1959/02/06: 1 use of mail for sending hate literature probed by House, 1954/04/23: 1
bitter housing foe confirmed as Housing and Home Finance Agency head, 1953/04/03: 6 Horne, Dr. Frank
Frank Horne, Mrs. Horrow fired from posts, 1955/08/05: 1 may get new housing position, 1955/08/19: 4 offered another post after his dismissal from previous job, 1955/08/19: 1 will not accept substitute job offer, 1955/08/26: 1
Smith, A. Maceo, appointed racial relations adviser (photo), 1939/11/17: 5 three USHA racial relations advisers named, 1941/07/25: 1
Hunton, Margaret Reynolds, gets Library of Congress post (photo), 1940/11/29: 7 two women get posts in Library of Congress; Race professionals given appointments for first time in history, 1940/11/29: 1
Brewer, Herbert L., first San Antonio Race man to join Marines (photo), 1942/07/17: 1 lack of replacements nullifies point system for Negro marines, 1945/12/14: 1 Negro Marines prepare for action at Camp LeJeune in North Carolina (photos), 1943/05/21: 3 officers
Brewer, 1st Lt. Herbert L., completes air transportability course (photo), 1953/04/10: 1 for first time, three Negroes being trained as officers, 1945/04/27: 1 racial discrimination
See also US Marine Corps, officers Buckhalter, Pfc. George T., serving as cook with Light Helicopter Transport Group 16 in Japan (photo), 1957/08/23: 1 Fields, Pfc. Walter, Jr., Texas Marine wins shot put in Korea, 1954/09/24: 5 Gordon, Cpl. Martin, signs up again (photo), 1955/02/11: 7 Gray, Pfc. Silvester, home for holidays after basic training (photo), 1953/12/25: 6 Harris, Pvt. Rass, Jr., serving with Marine Helicopter Transport Group 16 in Japan (photo), 1957/02/01: 7 Henry, Pvt. James C., now training with Marine Reserves, 1953/05/29: 7 Jackson, Pvt. Weldon, serves with security division in Japan (photo), 1957/03/01: 7 Jones, Pfc. Donell S., in Korea (photo), 1954/11/26: 7 King, Malcolm Russell, receives honorable discharge, 1946/01/11: 7 Middleton, Pvt. Dewey Everett, SA Marine, dies in blast at Camp Pendleton during night maneuvers, 1957/04/12: 1 Nauls, Charles E., joins the Marines, 1954/03/12: 7 Oliver, Pfc. George W., wounded in action, in Pacific hospital (photo), 1945/05/25: 1 Palmer, Charles E., gains rank of sergeant, 1955/06/17: 3 Palmore, Pfc. Victor M.
feted in Seguin while on leave (photo), 1958/05/16: 2 lauded for achievements during basic training, 1956/11/16: 7 Simmons, Petty Officer William A., serving in the Pacific (photo), 1945/07/13: 8 (filmed in 07/20 issue) Taylor, Edward L., Giddings, promoted to corporal while serving at Twenty Nine Palms, California (photo), 1958/10/31: 7 Taylor, Wesley H., completes recruit training (photo), 1953/06/05: 6 Williams, 1Pvt. Louis H., SA athlete on maneuvers in Puerto Rico (photo), 1953/10/23: 5 Woods, Pvt. D. A., completes training, assigned to Camp Lejeune, NC (photo), 1956/11/30: 6 Toys for Tots
drive set for Dec. 1, 1956/11/23: 6 drive set for Saturday, 1955/12/02: 6
service is asking Negroes out of ship jobs, 1941/01/10: 5
first Negro to graduate is assigned to ship, 1944/07/21: 1
America's first Negro skipper, Capt. Hugh Mulzac, under treatment, 1947/11/28: 1 Mulzac, Capt. Hugh, charges Negro officers being shelved, 1948/05/07: 1 war-time ship officers now job-bias victims, charges Capt. Hugh N. Mulzac, 1949/07/15: 5
Blunt, Roger R., graduates and receives commission in Engineer Corps of the Army (photo), 1956/06/08: 1 Brunner, Ronald S., California, graduates from West Point (photo), 1958/06/06: 1 Davenport, Clarence W., gets appointment, 1939/07/07: 2 Davis, Ernest J., Jr., nephew of San Antonian, named to West Point, 1942/07/31: 1 eight additional Negroes at West Point, Annapolis, 1954/10/01: 1 Fowler, James D., Mitchell appointee is June graduate, 1941/06/13: 1 Francis, Henry Minton, named as candidate, 1941/02/21: 1 Kelly, Wilbourne A., III, graduates as second lieutenant (photo), 1959/06/05: 3 Kirkpatrick, Felix J., dismissed Negro West Pointer seeks to be reappointed, 1936/01/10: 5 Negro graduates for 1955 (photo), 1955/07/29: 3 Olive, Lewis Cortez, Jr.
is first Negro athlete, 1953/06/12: 6 makes history when honored with Commendation medal for heroism, 1952/02/15: 1 two West Point grads ordered to Fort Riley, Kansas, 1949/07/01: 4
Annapolis refuses to regard race Navy enlistees as sailors, 1941/09/19: 1 Brown, Wesley A., New York, sixth Negro in 100 years enters United States Naval Academy, 1945/08/24: 1 denies Jim Crow policy toward athletes, 1941/04/18:3 eight additional Negroes at West Point, Annapolis, 1954/10/01: 1 graduates
first Negro graduates from Annapolis today (photo), 1949/06/03: 1 first Negro seems certain to graduate in June, 1948/09/24: 1 four Negroes graduate, 1959/06/12: 1 third Negro graduates from Annapolis, 1955/05/20: 1
Harvard blasts Naval Academy for barring Negro varsity athlete, 1941/04/18: 3 Navy denies Harvard Jim Crow charge, 1941/04/18: 3 NJ congressman blasts Annapolis for Jim Crow, 1941/05/02: 1 Something Stinks in the Navy (editorial), 1941/04/18: 4
twenty-two Negroes to be given commissions in USNR, 1944/02/25: 1
anti-submarine vessels to get mixed crews, 1944/02/25: 1 band to play here Sunday, May 11, 1951/05/11: 6 boys, 17, again being accepted as Navy enlistees, 1943/04/09: 5 chaplains, Negro Navy chaplain named, 1944/07/07: 1 Construction Unit
interviews of applicants in Houston, 1942/07/24: 7 Navy calls for tradesmen in Houston area, 1942/10/16: 1
Branch, James H., former San Antonian commended at Corpus Naval Air Station (photo), 1945/02/09: 1 Brown, (Seaman 2d Cl.), Joseph, Jr., deserter, nabbed in Corpus movie theatre, 1945/02/02: 1 Brown, W. K., with history-making patrolmen (photo), 1942/10/09: 1 Corpus Christi gets first Race naval policemen, 1942/10/02: 1 discrimination at naval base protested, 1946/03/08: 1 Finley, Messman, F., in jail again for row with Corpus cops, 1942/05/01: 1 gob draws gun on shore patrolman in Corpus row, 1944/01/21: 1 Naval Station commander thanks policeman who dispersed sailors, 1942/10/09: 1 Navy man fatally knifes another in fight over girl, 1944/03/17: 1 sailor critically slashes SP chief, cuts two others, 1945/06/22: 1 saves Navy patrolmen from angry gobs, 1942/10/02: 5 Shore Patrol Unit (photo), 1945/03/09: 1 two Navy men killed in Corpus seaplane crash, 1944/05/19: 1 worker killed in accident, 1944/02/25: 1 enlistment of Race recruits starts June 1, 1942/05/29: 1 explosion of ammunition ships, Port Chicago
explosion of two ammunition ships kills 203 Negro sailors, 1944/07/21: 1 five awarded Navy and Marine Corps medal, 1944/11/10: 1 [Negroes die] In The Service of Their Country (editorial), 1944/07/21: 4 Port Chicago "mutiny" men restored to duty, 1946/01/11: 1 Rep. Rankin, Mississippi, blocks settlement of Port Chicago claims, 1944/09/08: 5 ten Texans among Port Chicago blast dead, 1944/07/28: 1 first Negro doctor is in San Diego (photo), 1950/03/24: 1 first Negro Navy recruit sworn in under new ruling, 1942/06/05: 1, 1942/06/26: 1 first Negro physical instructors trained, 1944/01/14: 5 first Negro WAVE, Edna Earle Young, sworn into regular Navy, 1948/07/16 Supp: 3 five Negro Navy correspondents give news of the Pacific (photo), 1945/09/14: 1 Forrestal, Secretary, James V., outlines liberal program for Negro, 1945/02/16: 1 Galveston youth, Doreston L. Carmen, is first to arrive for naval training at Great Lakes Station, 1942/06/19: 1 gobs, who blazed away until Jap suicide plane hit gun, awarded, 1945/08/10: 1 Granger, Lester B., appointed adviser to Navy Department (photo), 1953/09/25: 1 Great Lakes Navy trainees maintain excellent record, 1942/07/31: 8 (filmed in 08/07 issue) Guam riot
45 Negro sailors convicted in Guam rioting, but all whites escape punishment, 1945/07/20: 1 Navy holds up Guam riot story for six months, 1945/07/27: 1
eulogy of Joe in Congressional Record, 1942/01/23: 3 Jim Crow Navy to get thousands of dollars from champ Joe Louis for Navy relief, 1941/11/21: 3 a Negro's dollars are all right for the Navy (photo), 1941/11/21: 4 Miller, Dorie (Pearl Harbor hero)
See Miller, Dorie Navy gets 105 recruits from Houston in one week, 1942/07/31: 1 Navy says it has no policy on foreign marriages, 1946/01/25 Supp: 2 Navy secretary names advisory group on Negro recruitment, training, and assignment problems, 1945/05/18: 1 Navy seeking skilled workmen, 1943/05/21: 4 Negro gobs now serving throughout Pacific Theatre in all Navy assignments, 1945/07/20: 1 Negro goes to work as designer in Navy Department, 1941/10/24: 1 Negro lookout on US sub awarded Navy, Marine Corps medal for dooming Jap ships, 1943/06/25: 4 Negro personnel with ratings, commissions, to stay, 1945/11/16: 1 Nimitz reiterates Negroes too brilliant for Navy service, 1941/08/01: 5 no mess rating for men passing classification test, 1946/03/01: 1 nurse is sworn in to regular corps, 1948/01/30: 1 officers
another Negro commissioned by US Navy, 1944/09/01: 1 Armstrong, D. W., ex-Navy officer dies in New York, 1947/08/01: 7 Brown, Ens. Jesse Leroy, Mississippi, first Negro Naval flier, posthumously awarded Distinguished Service Cross and Air Medal, 1951/10/12: 3 first Negro lieutenant commander named, 1946/05/24: 4 first Negro naval aviator, Jesse Leroy Brown, commissioned (photo), 1949/04/29: 1 Gravely Ens. Samuel Lee, Jr., first Negro officer on US warship speeds toward Japan, 1945/08/03: 1 Navy does not intend to use Race officers; thus won't train them, 1942/07/17: 1 Navy gets first Negro medical officer, 1944/07/21: 1 Navy gets its first Negro lieutenant, 1944/05/19: 1 Navy now training 34 Negroes to be officers, 1945/05/18: 5 pamphlet is guide for white officers on command of Negro personnel, 1945/06/01: 7 ranking Negro officer, Dennis D. Nelson, II, wins promotion, 1953/08/07: 1 two Negroes given Navy commissions at Harvard exercise, 1944/09/29: 1 Williams, Ens. Joseph B., first Negro Seebee officer (photo), 1945/11/02: 5 Race machinists go to work in DC Navy yards, 1941/02/14: 4 recruiting not affected by cutback in overall strength of armed forces, 1957/10/25: 7 ROTC (Reserve Officer Training Corps)
college training exams on Dec. 3, 1949/10/07: 5 date set for annual NROTC exams, 1957/09/20: 3 deficiencies of Dixie education revealed by naval ROTC exams, 1949/06/03: 1 SA boys, home on furlough, say Navy life great, 1937/12/10: 1 sailor in Guam wants letters, books, papers, 1953/07/24: 6 San Antonio casualties of World War II listed by Navy (photo), 1946/06/07: 1 seeks recruits in San Antonio, 1951/03/09: 4 segregation/integration
See also US Armed Forces, segregation/integration ACLU charges Navy still guilty of discrimination, 1955/10/28: 4 Among Those Who Died (editorial), 1941/11/14: 4 case of Jim Crowed Corpus Christi guard (Homer C. Wooten) being probed, 1942/07/24: 5 Charlie Barnett defies Navy Jim Crow of musician, 1945/08/03: 2 commandant says Navy ordered Nazi-like race tags, 1941/10/31: 4 Corpus man, appointed guard at Naval Air Station, rejected because of color, 1942/06/12: 1 defense secretary approves Navy plan to eliminate racial inequalities, 1949/06/10: 1 denies banning Negro blood donors, 1942/01/23: 1 edges Army in non-segregation policy toward Negroes, 1948/02/13: 1 five-point war on bias pockets in Navy urged, 1955/07/29: 4 Granger, Lester, dissatisfied with race policy, resigns Navy post as special consultant (photo), 1954/07/30: 1 just an old Navy custom: Negroes not allowed to fly, 1941/11/21: 1 kicked messman rips sailor who demands bus seat, 1942/04/10: 1 magazine article by sea vet tells of Navy bias, 1947/09/19: 2 NAACP asks country to demand congressional hearing on bills to lessen Jim Crow in Army, Navy, 1938/04/29: 8 (filmed in 05/06 issue) NAACP offers to fight Army, Navy discrimination with court action against War, Navy secretaries, 1940/10/04: 1 Navy, Air Force integration complete; Army 95 per cent, 1953/10/23: 1 Navy, Coast Guard okey no-Jim-Crow bill; Army opposes, 1947/05/02: 1 Navy abandons Jim Crow training; Negro, white recruits to be trained together, put in same companies, 1945/07/06: 1 Navy bars Negroes because they would have to be made petty officers, 1941/01/31: 1 Navy conditions for Negroes better, can still be improved, 1957/12/06: 1 Navy Department reaffirms anti-Negro policy, 1941/04/04: 1 Navy does not intend to use Race officers; thus won't train them, 1942/07/17: 1 Navy edges Army in non-segregation policy toward Negroes, 1948/02/13: 1 Navy insists on Nazi-like tags for Race workers, 1941/11/07: 1 Navy non-discrimination policy reported successful, 1945/10/19: 1 Navy officials "explain" South African incident, 1955/01/28: 1 Navy orders end of all J. Crow at all shore stations, 1953/08/28: 1 Navy secretary gets protest on enlistees' arrest [for writing letter of complaint relative to treatment of Negroes in the Navy], 1940/11/22: 5 Navy sincere in integration of race, Urban League head says, 1945/07/20: 2 Navy will take more Negroes--as servants!, 1939/09/22: 6 Navy's racial policy in Pacific sub-standard, observer reports, 1945/11/09: 1 Negro personnel barred from service picnic held in Maryland, 1957/08/09: 6 Negroes being left out of Army, Navy sports program, 1942/07/24: 3 new policy toward Negroes draws both praise, criticism, 1942/04/17: 1 no Race sailors in Washington Navy Day Parade, 1944/11/10: 1 Not Everything Is Discouraging [as Navy abandons Jim Crow training system] (editorial), 1945/08/03: 4 officers refuse to bring Negro GIs home on flat top, 1945/12/14: 1 Powell, Congressman Adam Clayton, bias charge denied by Dept. of Defense, 1955/02/25: 1 seamen to protest Race hate regardless of cost, 1945/01/19: 1 Silly Isn't It (editorial) [on Navy's failure to utilize intelligent Negro youths], 1941/11/07: 4 starts drive to integrate Stewards' branch of service, 1953/10/09: 1 200 Navy volunteers turned down by recruiting station, 1942/04/17: 1
See also US Navy, officers See also World War II, service personnel Bell, Charles A., serving on minesweeper (photo), 1955/02/04: 7 Brown, Franklin Delano, probe sought in bayou death of SA Navyman; body found in auto submerged in Buffalo Bayou in Houston (photo), 1957/12/06: 1 Brown, James Eugene, returns to duty aboard the USS Los Angeles after 3 weeks of leave (Comings, Goings and Doings), 1957/09/06: 6 Brown, Ens. Jesse L., Mississippi, first Negro Navy flyer killed in action, 1950/12/15: 1 Carroll, R. C., Corpus Christian retires from Navy (photo), 1955/10/28: 3 Clark, Douglass Frederick, passes Navy tests with highest honors (Alamo City Briefs), 1935/12/13: Crockett, Gordon Odell, in the Navy now (photo), 1937/12/17: 5 Ellis, Herpel, Jr.
battle-tried veteran returns to San Antonio (photo), 1944/01/28: 1 honorably discharged after nearly three years of service (photo), 1944/01/28: 1 Gaines, Earl Alfred, called for Navy enlistment, 1938/07/08: 7 Graddick, Richard A., journalist to assist with press staff for USS Saratoga (photo), 1956/04/27: 1 Griffin, SFC Ed, SA Navy man, Korea frostbite victim, in hospital, 1951/01/19: 7 Guilmenot, Max Avery, and Tanner, Jesse Donald, two SA boys seek to join Navy, 1937/12/03: 1 Hartfield, Herbert ("Buba"), makes highest grade ever on Navy enlistment exam (photo), 1941/10/31: 1 Hockley, Isaiah, SA boy, who joined Navy at 13, discharged, 1944/04/07: 1 Jackson, Lee Melvin, assigned to duty in Japan (photo), 1954/05/14: 7 Jackson, Lonnie David, submarine messman is decorated, promoted, 1935/12/13:1942/06/19: 1 Jackson, Richard C., promoted to radarman third class (photo), 1959/07/10: 6 Johnson, Ernest J., gets discharge from Navy (photo), 1945/10/26: 4 Johnson, Percy E., Jr., honorably discharged, 1945/11/23: 7 Jones, Petty Officer Warren, receives honorable discharge, 1945/11/30: 7 Kyle, Melvin W., Jr., completes basic training (photo), 1945/12/21: 1 Kyles, Costella, recently reported to Naval Air Station in Corpus (photo), 1956/06/22: 7 Liggins, Napoleon, decides to make Navy his career (photo), 1952/11/21: 7 Lott, Petty OfficerLeroy, receives honorable discharge (photo), 1945/11/16: 7 Luckey, Leon V., Navy dischargee returns from overseas (photo), 1945/11/09: 7 Mackey, Hollis, on Antarctic mission aboard an ice breaker, USS Staten Island (photo), 1957/01/25: 3 Mapp, Winston Cleveland
SA boys, home on furlough, say Navy life great, 1937/12/10: 1 three San Antonio youths, enlist in United States Navy, 1937/09/10: 5 Miller, Ellison Eugene
and brother, Manuel G., prepare meal aboard destroyer USS Leonard F. Mason (photo), 1953/11/13: 1 and brother Guy Miller, Jr., lauded by commanding officer of ship where they are stationed (photo), 1952/04/25: 1 Miller, Guy, Jr. and brother, Ellison Eugene, lauded by commanding officer of ship where they are stationed (photo), 1952/04/25: 1 Neely, Edward T., submariner is processed for discharge (photo), 1945/11/30: 1 Nious, George, one Santone, two Seguin youths enlist in Navy, 1938/05/06: 5 Perry, Joseph Henry, home on furlough from Navy, 1936/08/07: 7 Petitt, Alfred Neal, receives honorable discharge from Seabees (Comings, Goings and Doings), 1946/07/26 Supp: 4 Pollard, Dallas L., reports at Corpus Christi Naval Air Station (photo), 1957/07/26: 7 Ruffin, Samuel E., promoted to commissaryman, second class, 1952/11/07: 7 Shepherd, Melvin, promoted to airman (photo), 1957/02/08: 7 Slaughter, SA James L., reports to Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi (photo), 1956/06/29: 7 Smith, James, Jr.
SA boy, home on furlough, say Navy life great, 1937/12/10: 1 three San Antonio youths enlist in United States Navy, 1937/09/10: 5 Taylor, Nehemiah, Jr., two SA vets of many sea fights are discharged, 1945/09/28: 5 Tyler, MM3 Meredith, home on leave after serving aboard the USS Jupiter (Our Men in Service), 1958/01/10: 7 Washington, Alexander Wardell
SA boys, home on furlough, say Navy life great, 1937/12/10: 1 three San Antonio youths, enlist in United States Navy, 1937/09/10: 5 Williams, Sam D.
home on 30-day furlough (Our Men in Service), 1958/01/17: 7 now based in Japan (photo), 1957/07/12: 5
See Ships two more SA boys join Uncle Sam's sea force, 1938/05/20: 7 two SA men at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 1941/06/06: 5 "USS Franklin" attack, one Texan killed, one wounded in epic Jap battle, 1945/06/15: 1 wants colored enlistments; San Antonio station now open, 1935/12/06: 7 Why No Award for French? [Charles Jackson French's heroism] (editorial), 1943/03/12: 4
first Negro WAVE, Edna Earle Young, sworn into regular Navy, 1948/07/16 Supp: 3 first Negro WAVES sworn in at Boston, New York, 1944/11/17: 1 Navy drops bar against Negro women, 1944/10/27: 1 Navy has first Negro WAVE supply officer, 1953/04/24: 1 Navy renews its appeal for Negro women in WAVEs, 1945/08/10: 7 Negro ban 'explained' by Capt. McAfee: says Navy unwilling to "undertake experiment within experiment," 1944/06/02: 1 no Jim Crow at Bronx training school for WAVES (photo), 1945/01/12 Supp: 4 no Negro Navy officers, so no officers for 'Waves,' 1942/08/14: 5 Pickens, Lt. Harriet L., trains WAVE recruits (photo), 1945/05/04: 4 WAVES accept Race as cutback gets under way, 1944/11/17: 1
ODT turns down Negro baseball's plea for buses [to transport teams during baseball season], 1943/04/09: 3
Camp Founders Girls help "Save OPA" effort (photo), 1946/05/10: 1 Neal, Ernest E., named to OPA Regional Office at Dallas, 1944/05/26: 5 'Save OPA' drive under way in San Antonio, 1946/05/03: 1 We Learn the Hard Way [post-war prices go up] (editorial), 1946/07/12: 4
McKinney, William F., Gainesville, appointed to regional office, 1951/08/03: 1
answers NAACP's 'untrue picture' charge, 1941/08/15: 1 buck passed by OPM Committee in first case: gov't does discriminating, so case sidetracked, 1941/08/15: 1 job Jim Crow committee gets first case, 1941/08/08: 1 NAACP charges OPM employment picture not true, 1941/08/08: 1 "urges" contractors to use Race labor, 1941/04/18: 1 Weaver, Dr. Robert, heads new OPM Negro Division, 1941/04/25: 1 wins Race skilled jobs in Illinois plants, 1941/05/16: 1
blames shipyard heads for Mobile riots; firm's officials hoped to discredit FEPC, Executive order, 1943/06/25: 1 Negro loses voice with folding of OWI, Sept. 15, 1945/09/14: 4
four Negroes serve as US patent examiners, 1947/09/26: 4 Wallace, Henry A., finds jobs for 50 [Negroes] in Patent Office, 1945/11/09: 5
See also National Alliance of Postal Employees (NAPE) B. T. Washington stamps to be issued, 1939/07/28: 1 Bomar, Thomas B., Negro post office official visits San Antonio, 1947/04/11: 1 clerk-carrier vacancies in SA Post Office, 1951/11/16: 3 DC postal workers to lose jobs due to "marriage clause," 1933/09/29: 1 Diggs, Charles C., Jr. (D, WI), solon protests closing of Magazine, AL post office after last white family moves, 1958/02/07: 1 exams for rural mail carriers to be held, 1953/03/13: 2 Kirven, Lazar R., Sr., is first SA Post Office clerk in thirty years, 1951/09/14: 1 Leonard's Pharmacy secures first Race postal sub-station, 1935/07/05: 1 loyalty program
militant California postal worker fired on 'loyalty' charge, 1948/05/21: 1 NAPE launches fight against 'loyalty program,' 1949/09/02: 1 two more fired in Philly P.O. for "disloyalty," 1949/07/15: 5 two Philly PO men cleared by Loyalty Board, 1949/12/30: 5 two postal men win fight against "loyalty" firing, 1950/05/19: 1 veteran reinstated on job as Loyalty Board backs up, 1950/06/09: 2 post office to charge for postal savings within month, 1953/09/25: 1 postal men must take furlough, 1933/06/23: 1 postal zone number speeds mail delivery, 1957/06/28: 3 racial discrimination
bias in post office closing being probed with protests postponing shutdown in now all-Negro community in Magazine, Alabama, 1958/02/28: 1 department cuts off air mail delivery by airline that discriminated against colored newsman, 1933/10/06: 1 Memphis first as Senate group probes PO bias, 1948/02/06: 1 New Orleans postmaster's denial of job bias sets off new blast, 1949/02/04: 1 postal official denies speech 'Uncle Tom' type, 1947/01/24: 1 Texan assistant superintendent in Detroit post office, 1948/10/08: 1 Thanks for a [fair] Postmaster (editorial), 1939/01/20: 4 up go postal rates; it'll cost more to write beginning August 1, 1958/08/01: 1 Your Postman Asks Your Help [to get permanent salary increase] (editorial), 1944/11/17: 4 Yule mail period set for Armed Forces overseas, 1957/10/11: 7
Carter, Dolores, named to top-flight dietetic position (photo), 1956/03/16: 1 Eason, John C., Jr., now serves as chief of program development branch (photo), 1952/03/07: 1 Mills, Maj. Mary, nurse officer to leave for duty to the Middle East (photo), 1952/02/01: 6
See also Military Draft/Enlistment Alabama draft board, ired by Negro's deferment, fired because won't call inductees, 1957/07/05: 1 collegians not only group being deferred, 1951/04/27: 1 Connally raves and rants against anti-discrimination amendment to conscription bill, but it passes, 1940/09/06: 1 with conscription bill passed, the percentage of Negroes to be in first draft is said problem being pondered, 1940/09/06: 1 Draft Board admits Army's "deep-seated prejudice" against Race, 1941/01/17: 1 has troubles over 'is he is, or is he ain't a Negro,' 1945/08/10: 1 Hilliard, R. W., Prairie View personnel director appointed advisor to Selective Service (photo), 1941/09/19: 1 Johnson, Maj. C. C., appointed executive assistant to draft director, 1940/11/01: 1 Race members assist in draft board offices, 1942/06/12: 1 seek safeguard against compulsory enlistment bias in defense program, 1940/08/16: 4 six SA men named to draft advisory board, 1941/09/26: 1 Uncle Sam's Selective Service Questions and Answers (Column), 1940/10/11: 1, 1940/10/18: 4
cloture and filibuster rules
cloture rule bill drawn by Senate committee, 1949/02/18: 1 committee debate on limiting debate ends, debate unlimited, 1949/02/11: 1 compromise seems likely in filibuster rules fight, 1949/02/04: 1 GOP's join Dixiecrats to keep filibuster, 1957/01/11: 1 Johnson, Lyndon B., has change of heart on filibuster issue, will co-sponsor change in Senate rules, 1957/01/18: 1 Lyndon B. Johnson's cloture resolution called fraud and a "vote against civil rights" by Roy Wilkins, 1959/01/16: 1 six bishops lead anti-filibuster group to Capitol to petition for a change in Senate Rule 22, 1959/01/16: 1 Wilkins, Roy (NAACP Officer), calls for Senate to act to end Senate Rule 22 for majority vote to end a filibuster, 1956/12/14: 2
Keating, Kenneth B. (R-NY) and James E. Jackson, secretary of Communist Party, USA, involved in hot verbal exchange over racial issue, 1959/05/29: 1
Chicago policy kings also shrewd, alert business men, 1951/06/29: 1 New Jersey woman named counsel to committee, 1955/07/01: 2 Weber, Louis, who lied in crime probe, starts 5 year sentence, 1952/08/01: 1 group subcommittee told Negroes tire of "studies," want action on civil rights, 1954/02/05: 1 Hennings Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights
Dixie leaders tell Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights about Jim Crow, including ballot and rights denial, 1957/03/08: 1 ends hearings on civil rights, 1957/03/15: 1 McClellan, John L. (D-Ark), backs down on charges against NAACP witnesses, 1957/04/19: 1 Senate committee to cut off civil rights hearings March 5, 1957/03/01: 1 Negro's patience running out in face of "continuous violence" Wilkins warns Senate Judiciary Committee, 1957/03/01: 1 Senate hits new low in insulting Negroes, Jews, 1944/06/30: 1
Alabama
Alabama rape case results in split decision, 1949/02/18: 1 asked to review 'Bama court ban of NAACP, 1959/03/13: 1 Lucy, Miss Autherine, admission ruling (University of Alabama) upheld by high court, 1956/05/25: 1 NAACP contempt fine set by Alabama court set aside, allowing for test on its merits, 1959/07/10: 8 (filmed in 07/17 issue) rape conviction of 19-year-old Alabama boy set aside, 1954/12/17: 1 reviews NAACP 'Bama case to decide if state can demand membership roll of organization, 1957/06/07: 1 Supreme Court asked to review Alabama's barring of NAACP, saying 'Bama ruling strangles democratic processes and right to petition, 1957/03/29: 1 Woodall, Robert, fugitive sent back to Alabama; court rules that state has privilege to send prisoner to state of crime without federal court interference, 1952/11/28: 1
death sentence of Arkansas Negro convicted of killing white employer set aside, 1958/05/30: 1 refuses to hear case of rapist, Herman Maxwell, Arkansas, 1952/05/02: 1 reviews Dixie death penalty of Frank Andrew Payne, Arkansas, on alleged first-degree murder charge, 1957/04/19: 1
asked to review Florida bus seating case, 1958/04/04: 8 (filmed in 04/11 issue) did court mean bus Jim Crow should end?, 1956/05/04: 3 high court kills intrastate bus Jim Crow, 1956/04/27: 1 new Virginia bus case headed for Supreme Court, 1946/10/18: 2 orders ruling by lower court in Tennessee's segregation law on buses and streetcars, 1958/12/26: 1 Supreme Court gets South Carolina intra-state travel case, 1956/03/09: 1 Supreme Court outlaws Jim Crow law in interstate bus travel, 1946/06/07: 1 Why Not Face It? [Texas attorney general and Supreme Court Decision] (editorial), 1956/04/27: 4
at least four cases on high court docket, 1955/10/14: 1 constitutionality of Civil Rights Act of 1957 one of first in fall session, 1959/07/10: 1 double-prosecution ruling significant in civil rights cases, 1959/04/10: 1 refuses to re-hear civil rights foes in two cases, 1953/10/23: 1 desegregation
Democratic Party may be doomed by Dixie manifesto, 1956/03/16: 1 Florida officials map plans to defy Supreme Court ruling, 1956/03/23: 1 Ike [President Eisenhower] declares South really not defying Supreme Court, 1956/03/30: 1 southern states still ponder ways to defy Supreme Court, 1955/03/04: 1 Florida
anti-NAACP ruling stayed by Supreme Court, letting NAACP file a petition for hearing, 1959/03/06: 1 court upholds Florida ruling on probe groups forcing testimony, 1959/07/03: 3 Florida peonage law nullified, 1944/04/21: 1 Supreme Court wipes out Jim Crow at a Florida pool and beach, 1957/04/12: 1 Thomas, Jimmy Lee, doomed to electric chair, when court refuses to review case of alleged rape of white woman, 1959/01/02: 8 (filmed in 01/09 issue) two doomed Floridians saved when Justice Robert H. Jackson lashes biased press, 1951/04/20: 1 upholds Jim Crow golfing in Florida by refusing to review Florida Supreme Court decision, 1952/03/14: 5 Guam rape-murder case
goes before US Supreme Court, 1953/02/06: 1 Ike [President Eisenhower] refuses to save airmen from execution, servicemen lose last hope, 1953/12/25: 1 to review Guam cases of two GIs doomed to die for rape/murder of white civilian worker in 1948, 1953/01/02: 1 housing
best social victory in years opens up 500 new homes in Chicago, 1940/11/22: 1 court strikes out housing loyalty oath, 1955/11/25: 2 high court again belts Jim Crow [by banning segregation in public housing projects, public places of recreation and state-supported colleges], 1954/05/28: 1 Honolulu keeps housing bias despite Supreme Court ruling, 1950/02/10: 7 Maryland's 'lily-white' plea turned down by Supreme Court, 1949/05/13: 5 New York housing bias case involving Pelham Hall apartments, heads for US Supreme Court, 1957/07/12: 3 real estate owner can't be sued for selling to Negroes, Supreme Court rules, 1953/07/03: 1 rules against Hutchinson, Kansas's condemning home of Negro property owner, 1956/12/28: 7 Washington, DC covenant block
court rules against restrictive covenants, 1948/05/07: 1 residents in covenant block have varied reactions to Supreme Court decision, 1948/05/28: 2 substitutes sought for restrictive covenants outlawed by Supreme Court, 1948/05/14: 1
Beauharnais, Joseph, Negrophobist's white supremacy tactics scored by Supreme Court in Illinois group libel law case, 1952/05/16: 7 doomed youth gets stay for appeal to Supreme Court as Illinois methods scored, 1951/10/19: 1
court fails to rule on mixed marriages; action has to be started all over again, 1955/11/25: 1 marriage case review refused, 1956/04/27: 4
Black, Hugo L. Byrnes, James F., Race shocked by appointment of Byrnes as associate justice by FDR [President Roosevelt], 1941/06/20: 1 Coleman, William T., Philadelphian is first Negro clerk in Supreme Court's history, 1948/05/07: 1 Harlan, John Marshall
appointment approved by Senate committee, 1955/03/18: 1 Ike [President Eisenhower] scores delay in confirming Judge Harlan, 1955/02/11: 1 Murphy, Frank
President Roosevelt's Fifth Nomination to Court Takes Seat (Tid Bits From the Week's News), 1940/02/09: 4 was friend of minorities, 1949/07/29: 5 Louisiana
Louisiana State University appeals to US Supreme Court in effort to oust student, Alexander P. Tureaud; says equal facilities at Negro schools, 1954/03/26: 1 Supreme Court orders Louisiana State U. to readmit Negro student, 1953/11/27: 1 Washington, Paul, Louisiana man saved from chair just a few hours before execution, 1951/07/13: 1 Martinsville Seven
dies in chair for rape, 1951/05/11: 1 has execution stayed temporarily by Justice Black for alleged rape of a white woman (photo), 1951/03/23: 1 May 8 set as new execution date for McGee, 1951/04/20: 1 the McGee story in DC; officials turned deaf ear to citizens who pleaded for his life, 1951/05/18: 1 Mississippi takes life of McGee, but price is high, 1951/05/18: 1 Supreme Court again refuses to save McGee, declines to review the case, 1951/04/06: 1 Mississippi
refuses to act in Mississippi jury methods, 1953/10/30: 1 rules against Perry Howard GOP's in Mississippi, 1954/02/19: 1
case of doomed Mississippians goes to Supreme Court, 1935/05/17: 1 Court sets aside death sentences of Mississippi torture case, 1936/02/21: 1 freedom for Miss. trio saved by US court; three sharecroppers tortured to get "confessions," 1936/10/02: 1
grants appeal in Nixon case, 1931/10/30: 1 political paragraphs: Dr. Nixon goes to US Supreme Court for second time, 1931/10/30: 4 primary case, Nixon vs. Condon, up before Supreme Court, 1931/12/18: 1
four death sentences of North Carolinians convicted of murder or rape upheld, 1953/02/20: 1 four North Carolina death cases before Supreme Court, 1952/05/09: 1 railroad cases
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen Jim Crow upheld by Supreme Court, 1957/12/27: 1 Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks must represent, without bias, all members; Supreme Court rules in case involving Houston local, 1957/11/29: 1 railroad accommodations must be equal, 1941/05/02: 1 Railroad Labor Act decision improves status of 4,000 RR men, 1944/12/29: 4 rules in favor of Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters preventing discharge for alleged failure to join Brotherhood within 60 days of fixed date, 1958/10/24: 1 won't review Illinois RR Jim Crow case, 1954/10/22: 1
conviction of Georgia's killer-cops reversed, 1945/05/18: 1 Texas Supreme Court's death verdict against Bob White reversed, 1940/04/05: 4 Roosevelt Administration
Black, Hugo L.
Appointment Brings Charges of Being KKK member (Tid Bits From the Week's News), 1937/09/17: 4 NAACP urges President Roosevelt to ask Justice Black to resign bench, 1937/09/24: 1 Roosevelt Argues for Reforming Supreme Court (Tid Bits From the Week's News), 1937/03/12: 4 Roosevelt's Fifth Nomination to Court, Former Gov. Frank Murphy, Takes Seat (Tid Bits From the Week's News), 1940/02/09: 4
500 schools desegregated one year after ruling, 1955/05/13: 1 anniversary of school ruling will be widely celebrated, 1958/05/02: 1 The Appeal to Dynamite [court's school integration decision leads to violence inflamed by southern press] (Between the Lines, commentary by Dean Gordon B. Hancock), 1958/05/23: 4 Arkansas
Because One Man Did, One Didn't, There's a "Mess" [Arkansas legislature orders closing of schools] (editorial), 1958/08/29: 4 called to hold special court session for Central High School case, which the Court rejected, 1958/07/04: 3 court: "Integrate now!" Faubus: "Close doors!"; high court unanimous in decision for immediate integration, 1958/09/19: 1 court ruling kayoes Faubus, saying states cannot adopt evasive schemes avoiding integration in schools, 1958/10/03: 1 September 11 set for action on Little Rock; Supreme Court to call one-day special session next Thursday, 1958/09/05: 1 Supreme Court in special session for Little Rock after Arkansas legislature votes to close state's public schools, 1958/08/29: 1 court ok's pupil placement law in Alabama test, says law similar to Texas and is valid on its face, 1958/11/28: 1 court to hear school cases Monday, 1953/12/04: 3 DC airways filled with discussion on Supreme Court school rulings, 1954/06/18: 1 declines to fix school desegregation deadline; Jim Crow to be ended as soon "as feasible," 1955/06/03: 1 Dixie's best legal minds working overtime to thwart Supreme Court, 1954/09/24: 4 final action on J. Crow school cases delayed until fall, 1953/06/12: 1 Harford County, Maryland, "gradual" plan gets green light from Supreme Court, 1958/06/20: 1 hears Jim Crow school arguments, 1952/12/19: 1 high court rules Lousiana State University must admit undergrad, 1956/05/18: 1 how to integrate schools is Supreme Court's next question, 1954/05/21: 1 J. Crow schools outlawed; Supreme Court rules segregated schools unconstitutional, 1954/05/21: 1 lawyers for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund argue Jim Crow school fate in Supreme Court (photo), 1953/12/11: 1 Lucy, Miss Autherine, admission ruling (University of Alabama) upheld by high court, 1956/05/25: 1 NAACP asks high court to set integration date, 1955/04/22: 1 NAACP briefs in school suits received by court, 1953/11/27: 1 Negro in Louisiana State U. upheld by Supreme Court, 1951/01/12: 1 orders Oklahoma to provide law school training for Negroes, 1948/01/16: 1 postpones Jim Crow school hearings until December, 1952/10/17: 1 Protestant Episcopal Church back Supreme Court ruling, 1954/12/31: 7 question of J. Crow schools now up to Supreme Court, 1952/12/05: 1 refuses to halt DC integration, 1955/01/21: 1 refuses to review school cases from southern states, 1956/06/08: 1 school ruling recalls 1896 opinion by Justice John Marshall Harlan, 1954/05/28: 1 second anniversary of school integration ruling observed, 1956/05/25: 1 South Carolina NAACP to honor dissenting jurist in school case, 1954/10/22: 1 Supreme Court ok's pupil placement law in Alabama test, says law similar to Texas and is valid on its face, 1958/11/28: 1 Texas Colored Teachers Association oppose delay, circumvention of Supreme Court edict, 1954/12/03: 1 Texas Episcopalians endorse Supreme Court ruling, 1955/02/11: 4 to begin school suit hearings, Oct. 14, 1952/10/10: 1 to hear school cases Monday, 1953/12/04: 3 to hear ways to effect school ruling, 1955/04/01: 1 to rule on segregation cases, three involving school integration, two with organizational discrimination and two involving Negroes directly, 1957/10/18: 1 won't budge in graduate school segregation ban decisions, 1950/10/13: 1 segregation
attorney general asks end of "separate but equal" myth, 1950/04/14: 1 Beauharnais, Joseph, Negrophobist's white supremacy tactics scored by Supreme Court in Illinois group libel law case, 1952/05/16: 7 Dixie roars defiance at new anti-segregation decision forbidding segregation in public places, 1955/11/18: 1 park, recreation Jim Crow killed by Supreme Court, 1955/11/11: 1 Rulings to Have Far Reaching Effects on Race Relations (editorial), 1954/06/11: 4 "separate but equal" myth ruled out by Supreme Court, 1950/06/09: 1 Supreme Court upholds 'lost' civil rights law [on Washington, DC, restaurant segregation], 1953/06/12: 1 Talmadge, Dixiecrats, KKK head yowl at Supreme Court decisions, 1950/06/23: 2 to get Washington, DC, restaurant Jim Crow case, 1953/02/06: 1 to rule on segregation cases, three involving school integration, two with organizational discrimination and two involving Negroes directly, 1957/10/18: 1 turns down two Jim Crow appeal cases, involving a union bar and rest room case, 1959/03/20: 1 Smith, Howard (D-Va), Negro's "friend" pushes bill to curb Supreme Court by restricting issuing writs of habeas corpus, 1958/03/21: 1 South Carolina
jury selection case refused by Supreme Court, 1947/10/24: 1 SC drops case against man freed by Supreme Court, 1949/09/02: 1 South Carolina teachers take NAACP ban to Supreme court, 1957/05/10: 1 The Supremest Court (Between the Lines, commentary by Dean Gordon B. Hancock), 1957/05/31: 4 Sweatt, Heman Marion
Kasper, John, Supreme Court turns down Tennessee racist's appeal from contempt of court conviction in opposing school integration, 1957/12/13: 2 Memphis' banning of Negro films may be affected by Supreme Court ruling, 1954/02/05: 2
Decision on Constitutionality of TVA Suit Delayed (Tid Bits From the Week's News), 1936/02/14: 4 Ruling Handed Down, Tennessee Valley Authority Wins (Tid Bits From the Week's News), 1936/02/21: 4
ban of movie "Pinky" by Marshall, Texas ruled against, 1952/06/13: 1 Cassell, Lee, Supreme Court to decide fate of doomed Texan, 1949/11/25: 1 Gordon, Johnnie Elwood, court asked to review Texas sentence, 1955/10/14: 1 "The Grovey Case" [lost appeal to Supreme Court for Negro right to participate in Texas Democratic Convention] (editorial), 1935/04/05: 4 to hear Texas racial appeals, 1931/10/16: 1
Gaines case before Missouri Supreme Court again, 1939/06/02: 5 law school case goes to Supreme Court, 1938/06/10: 7, 1938/11/18: 1 Must Admit Lloyd Gaines to Law School (Tid Bits from the Week's News), 1938/12/16: 4 petition for reconsideration denied, 1939/01/06: 1 university to petition for reconsideration of recent decision, 1939/01/06: 1
Arkansas vote case to be carried to Supreme Court, 1942/08/14: 5 Georgia voting case decision called "reactionary," 1950/04/28: 1 grants appeal in Nixon case, 1931/10/30: 1 "The Grovey Case" [lost appeal to Supreme Court for Negro right to participate in Texas Democratic Convention] (editorial), 1935/04/05: 4 high court again sidesteps ruling on Georgia vote law, 1958/08/01: 3 Justice Black and the Texas Primary (editorial), 1940/02/16: 4 "literacy test" for voters before Supeme Court, 1959/06/05: 1 NAACP to carry primary case to Supreme Court, 1942/05/22: 1 political paragraphs: Dr. Nixon goes to US Supreme Court for second time, 1931/10/30: 4 primary case, Nixon vs. Condon, up before US Supreme Court, 1931/12/18: 1 refuses to consider Georgia vote law, 1950/05/12: 1 rules against Jim Crow, for poll tax, 1951/06/08: 1 Texas asks that Supreme Court primary ruling be set aside, 1944/04/28: 1 Texas Citizen Denied Right to Vote by Supreme Court (Tid Bits From the Week's News), 1935/04/05: 4 Texas denied primary vote case rehearing by Supreme Court, 1944/05/12: 1 Texas "white primary" case headed for US Supreme Court, 1941/05/16: 1 upholds Negro voters' rights in Democratic primary case, 1932/05/06: 1, 3
Citizens meet at Auditorium for discussion, 1932/05/06: 1 local attorney honor guests in celebration, 1932/05/06: 3 White Men Should Realize What This Action Means (editorial), 1932/05/06: 1 "white primary" in Supreme Court for fourth time, 1943/06/18: 1
See also Veterans Albright, Joseph F., 'segregationists' said out to 'get' VA special assistant, 1947/12/05: 1 Dibble, Dr. E.H., succeeds Ward at US hospital, 1936/02/07: 7 'flat feet' as racial characteristic banned, 1947/04/25: 1 gives special consideration to vet teachers who take graduate GI Bill courses, 1950/09/01: 2 Holland, George L., VA assistant to speak here Tuesday, Oct. 28, 1952/10/24: 3 Loan Guaranty Division set up here by VA, 1946/04/26: 4 reminds vets many programs end this year, 1947/03/28: 1 sharecroppers ruled ineligible for readjustment allowances, 1945/10/05: 1 Tuskegee given $300,000 for Vets hospital, 1935/09/13: 1 VA officer commends Hicks Beauty School on training for veterans, 1954/05/28: 6 VA officials accuses Negro groups of being indifferent to veterans, 1946/03/22: 1 why some vets don't get fast replies; VA gets over a million pieces of "mystery" mail a month, 1953/11/27: 1
denies ban on mixed marriages, 1946/04/12: 6 Gibson, Truman K.
Gibson quits War Dep't--Chicagoan named successor, 1945/11/16: 1 is civilian assistant (photo), 1940/12/27: 1 Maybe They Didn't Mean It [planning of separate redistribution facilities for returning Negro soldiers] (editorial), 1944/09/29: 4 orders hiring of Race workers, 1941/08/29: 1 Patterson, Robert P. as War Secretary, Burton on Supreme Court, pleases Negroes, 1945/09/28: 1 Taylor, Walter, honored for 42 years of service (photo), 1942/05/22: 1 War Department publication hits Race segregation, 1945/09/28: 1 won't back down on Jim Crow ban, 1944/09/08: 1
Negro Manpower Service is set up; headed by Weaver, 1942/06/26: 1 places 200,000 workers during January of 1945, 1945/03/30: 7 Weaver, Dr. Robert, discouraged, disillusioned, to follow course set by Judge Hastie and quit US post, 1944/01/07: 1
union blocks wholesale firing of Race by War Production Board (WPB), 1942/12/25: 1
See also US Women's Army Corps (WACs) 3 more SA area WAAC's at Des Moines, 1943/04/23: 7 3 more young Santone women join the WAAC's, 1943/02/05: 1 4 SA WAACs start training at Fort Des Moines, 1943/02/26: 7 14 young Texas women leave San Antonio for training at Fort Des Moines (photo), 1943/03/26: 6 applications being accepted in SA for WAAC, 1942/08/28: 1 city and county drive for WAAC's gets under way, 1943/04/09: 1 Drive for WAAC Quota Under Way (editorial), 1943/04/23: 4 opportunities are many, pressing need for WAAC's, 1943/01/01: 4 SA organizations asked to aid in getting WAAC's, 1943/01/15: 1 San Antonio women are in the Army now (photo), 1942/12/04: 1 service personnel
Bright, Geraldine Walker, now a WAAC officer, visits Prairie View (photo), 1942/11/06: 6 Cesar, Minnie B.
joins WAACs (Jo's Jottings), 1942/12/11: 6 Santone WAAC in motor transport specialist school, 1943/02/26:6
is SA's first WAAC officer (photo), 1943/06/18: 1 Santone WAAC graduates as motor specialist, 1942/12/04: 1 Hamilton, Winnie Ruth Marshall, Gracie, into the Army [WAACs] goes another SA girl, 1943/02/26: 7 Meador, Miss O. L., becomes third Southwest Texas Race woman to join WAACs (photo), 1942/10/02: 1 Parrimore, Mrs. Eula Mae, San Antonio WAAC, starts training at Fort Des Moines, 1943/03/26: 4 Price, Cohuita H., joins WAAC's, 1943/03/12: 6 Stewart, Georgia, joins WAAC's, 1943/03/12: 6 solon demands probe of Alabama WAC center Jim Crow, 1955/02/18: 1 urgent call is made for more WAAC recruits, 1942/10/02: 1 WAAC cagers in action at Fort Huachuca, Arizona (photo), 1943/04/23: 3 WAAC officers recruiting in SA (photo), 1942/11/13: 1 WAAC recruiting booth at Cameo [Theatre] (photo), 1943/04/23: 1 WAAC's need 139 from SA area in next 3 months, 1943/01/08: 1 women to start WAAC officer training, 1942/07/17: 1 women trainees seek commissions at Des Moines, 1942/07/31: 6
See also US Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAACs) Brown, Cpl. Dorothy J., serves as WAC medical technician in Japan (photo), 1954/02/05 Supp: 2 charge of Jim Crow at Fort Knox brings integration promise, 1953/06/26: 1 detachment of WACs at Fort Sam Houston studying to handle reassignment center duties, 1944/09/29: 1 ex-WACs to form interracial club, free of bias, 1947/08/08: 4 first Negro WACs overseas stand inspection (photo), 1945/03/30 Section 2: 1 Jefferson, Elizabeth, SA woman, in history-making plane leap, now a WAC sergeant, 1945/06/22: 6 Jim Crow denies WAC's recreation at Atlantic City, 1945/11/02: 6 Leroy, Marguite
"more money in the Army" says reenlisting WAC, 1946/04/26: 1 reenlists in WAC (photo), 1946/04/26: 1 only one WAC, an officer, remains on duty overseas, 1946/06/21: 1 prison sentence for four WACs voided, 1945/04/06: 1 refusal of menial tasks results in prison sentence for 4 WACS, 1945/03/30 Section 2: 1 WAC Recreation Building formally dedicated Jan. 31, 1945/02/09: 7 WACs study photography at AAF training command school, 1945/01/12: 1 War Dept. rules WACs are not laundry menials, 1944/02/18: 1 Wearye, Tech. 5th Grade Shirley H., wins "prettiest WAC" contest (photo), 1944/12/01 Supp: 4
final rites held for infant, one month old, 1959/01/23: 8 (filmed in 01/30 issue)
run down, critically injured in '36's first serious car accident, 1936/01/17: 1
See Churches, usher boards See City-Wide Junior Ushers Union See City-Wide Usher Board See City-Wide Ushers Union See Eastern District Ushers Board See individual church usher boards See Interdenominational City-Wide Ushers Union See Interdenominational State Ushers Union See National United Ushers Association of America See San Antonio Ushers Union See Texas Church Ushers
See also USO, San Antonio See also USO, Sycamore Street (San Antonio) Army to use race booklets [explaining racial differences] banned by USO, 1944/02/11: 1 'bolt from blue' closes all USO clubs Jan. 31, 1950/01/27: 1 effort made to continue USO hospital program, 1950/03/10: 6 Gloster, Dr. Hugh, USO executive visits southeastern USOs (photo), 1946/06/14: 2 interracial photos banned as "controversial," 1944/03/31: 1 Johnson, J. W., ex-soldier, serves as USO volunteer (photo), 1945/10/12: 5 Metcalfe, Ralph
named to new USO post, 1943/06/25: 3 Olympic ace says USO meets needs of Negro service men, 1942/07/17: 3
baseball team continues to lead league, 1942/06/05: 3 Brownwood Club one of country's finest (photo), 1942/04/10: 2 doubles quota in fund drive, 1942/06/19: 8 (filmed in 06/26 issue) gets contribution from Indiana, 1942/05/01: 5 girls service organization (photo), 1942/05/22: 8 (filmed in 05/29 issue) "Miss USO of Texas" crowned (photo), 1942/06/19: 7 Smith, Emma Clay, of San Antonio, is assistant program director (photo), 1942/05/29: 1 West, Col., is Brownwood USO speaker, 1944/04/21: 5
Brown, Mrs. Vessie Hill, San Antonio, to direct Corpus Christi YWCA-USO, 1942/11/06: 1 celebrates first anniversary (photo), 1944/09/01: 4 Corpus Christi in drive for club for service men, 1942/10/09: 1 Navy men present gift to officer at USO affair (photo), 1942/12/25: 1 Pruitt, Mrs. T. C., new USO director of Staples Street USO (photo), 1945/03/02: 1 site picked for Corpus Christi's USO building, 1942/12/18: 1
Dallas USO under national supervisor, 1943/07/09: 4 groups entertain soldiers at Camp Wolters (photo), 1942/06/26: 8 (filmed in 07/17 issue)
Harris, Anna Lee, assistant at Houston USO (photo), 1942/07/17: 7
Bond, Thomas M.
associate field supervisor, cites gains in race relations in address to USO workers (photo), 1945/10/26: 4 national representative of USO-YMCA visits San Antonio on business (photo), 1947/05/23: 6 to tour regional USO clubs (photo), 1945/03/02: 1 Centre Street USO
news in 1949, 1949/03/11: 7 USO building lease renewed for another year, 1949/02/18: 1
activities in 1942, 1942/10/16: 7, 1942/11/13: 4, 1942/12/11: 6, 1942/12/25: 6 Production Unit meeting, 1943/03/12: 5
additional dormitory facilities urgently needed, 1945/08/10: 1 anniversaries
4th anniversary celebrated with open house, 1945/02/02: 6 5th anniversary
birthday breakfast celebrates fifth anniversary (photo), 1946/02/08 Supp: 3 fifth anniversary of service celebrated; post-war program in SA eyed, 1946/02/01 Supp: 2 Wrenn, Emma Lee, honored for celebration idea (photo), 1946/03/01 Supp: 3 arts and crafts exhibit (photo), 1946/01/11: 8 Bond, Louise (Mrs. Thomas)
honored for USO services, 1946/08/09: 6 to serve on operating committee as USO volunteer chairman (photo), 1945/11/02 Supp: 3 craft shop classes meet Monday, Thursday (photo), 1947/02/21: 5 debating team holds debate on June 1 (photo), 1947/06/20: 4 "family night" featured at USO, 1944/08/04: 4 forums conducted each Thursday evening, 1946/03/29 Supp: 2 garden party for service men's wives, 1944/07/14: 6 holiday housing sought for veterans, kin, 1945/12/14: 1 homes sought for informal affairs for convalescent soldiers, 1944/08/04: 4 Hospital Committee
activities, 1946/05/03 Supp: 4 gives program at PDC, 1946/01/04: 8 Junior Hostesses
activities in 1946, 1946/06/21 Supp: 4 bring flowers to shut-in GIs (photo), 1946/06/21 Supp: 2, 1946/06/21 Supp: 3 Edwards, Coleen, named "Hostess of Month" (photo), 1949/06/24 Supp: 2 junior hostess school opens, 1944/06/30: 5 "Mother of the Year," Mrs. Mollie Montgomery, honored on broadcast (photo), 1946/05/17 Supp: 4 Negro MP Unit to be formally presented tonight, 1945/02/16: 1 Negro Navy men honor wives at USO club, 1944/04/21: 3 new organization, Tob-Smok Club, makes merry (photo), 1944/03/10: 4 news/notes/activities in 1942, 1942/05/22: 7, 1942/07/31: 7, 1942/08/14: 6, 1942/08/28: 6, 1942/09/04: 3, 1942/09/11: 7, 1942/09/25: 6, 1942/10/09: 7, 1942/10/16: 6, 1942/10/23: 6, 1942/11/06: 6, 1942/11/13: 4, 1942/12/04: 4, 1942/12/11: 6, 1942/12/18: 6 news/notes/activities in 1943, 1943/01/15: 7, 1943/02/05: 6, 1943/02/26: 6, 1943/03/12: 8 (filmed in 03/19 issue), 1943/03/19: 6, 1943/03/26: 6, 1943/04/23: 5, 1943/05/21: 6, 1943/06/18: 6, 1943/06/25: 6, 1943/07/02: 6, 1943/07/09: 6, 1943/07/16: 6, 1943/07/23: 6, 1943/07/30: 6, 1943/09/17: 8 (filmed in 1944/01/07 issue) news/notes/activities in 1944, 1944/01/21: 6, 1944/01/28: 6, 1944/02/04: 4, 1944/02/18: 6, 1944/03/03: 7, 1944/03/10: 4, 1944/03/17: 4, 1944/03/24: 5, 1944/03/31: 4, 1944/04/07: 2, 1944/04/14: 6, 1944/05/05: 5, 1944/05/12: 6, 1944/05/19: 6, 1944/05/26: 7, 1944/06/16: 3, 1944/08/11: 5, 1944/08/18: 4, 1944/09/01: 6, 1944/09/08: 6, 1944/09/15: 6, 1944/09/29: 6, 1944/10/06: 7, 1944/10/13: 7, 1944/10/20: 6, 1944/10/27: 6, 1944/11/03: 6, 1944/11/10: 6, 1944/11/17: 7, 1944/11/24: 6, 1944/12/01: 6, 1944/12/08: 6, 1944/12/15: 6, 1944/12/22: 5 news/notes/activities in 1945, 1945/01/05: 7, 1945/01/12: 6, 1945/01/19: 6, 1945/01/26: 7, 1945/02/09: 7, 1945/02/23: 7, 1945/03/09: 6, 1945/03/16: 5, 1945/03/30: 6, 1945/04/20: 5, 1945/05/04: 6, 1945/05/25: 6, 1945/06/08: 6, 1945/06/29: 6, 1945/09/07: 6, 1945/11/02 Supp: 2, 1945/11/30: 6 news/notes/activities in 1946, 1946/01/11: 4, 1946/01/18 Supp: 4, 1946/03/01 Supp: 2, 1946/05/03 Supp: 4, 1946/05/31 Supp: 3, 1946/06/21 Supp: 2, 1946/07/19 Supp: 3, 1946/11/01: 6 news/notes/activities in 1947, 1947/01/10: 7, 1947/02/28: 6, 1947/03/07 Supp: 2, 1947/04/18: 2, 1947/06/06: 7, 1947/06/20: 6, 1947/08/01: 2, 1947/08/22: 7, 1947/09/19: 2, 1947/11/28 Supp: 3, 1947/12/19: 8 (filmed in 12/26 issue) open house, tea, to honor new officers, 1944/08/04: 6 Operating Committee
Bond, Louise (Mrs. Thomas), to serve on operating committee as USO volunteer chairman (photo), 1945/11/02 Supp: 3 Booker, O. C., elected chairman of operating committee, 1946/01/11: 1 Fitzgerald, O. E., heads operating committee (photo), 1947/02/07: 5 officers study recognition certificates (photo), 1946/02/01 Supp: 2
Bedney, Pvt. William, sings on KMAC broadcast (photo), 1945/03/23: 1 Breckenridge, Cpl. Paul, former soloist of "Wings" choir, on USO program, 1945/03/23: 5 Calanthians on USO broadcast Saturday, 1945/04/13: 6 Kelly Field on Saturday's broadcast, 1945/04/27: 6 on air next Friday afternoon, 1946/08/23: 6 Randolph, A. Philip, on broadcast Saturday, 1945/03/30: 1 USO Hour airs on KMAC, 1945/03/02: 5 regional supervisor, Miss Irene Redman, visits, 1947/06/06: 7 robbed again, 1946/12/27: 3 robbed of $54.85, 1944/10/20: 1 San Antonians urged to acquire USO facilities for future use, 1945/08/24: 1 San Antonio USO becomes service center, 1948/01/23: 1 Service Center. See also Service Center (formerly Sycamore Street USO) Service Men's Wives
activities in 1944, 1944/07/28: 6 reorganizes at USO, 1944/07/21: 6, 1944/08/04: 6 staff members
Harris, Mrs. Locille West, resigns post, 1945/03/16: 7 Jackson, Ruth, becomes third professional worker, 1947/06/06: 6 Redd, Oreneda, formerly program director of Sycamore Street USO, is now assistant director of Wichita Falls USO (photo), 1945/11/02: 6 Stewart, Zer Nona (director) USO-Army show
acrobatic dance team to be featured (photo), 1945/06/01: 2 awaits curtain time tonight (photo), 1945/06/15: 2 bond buyers to get free tickets to show, 1945/06/01: 2 cast ready for cues, June 15, 1945/06/08: 7 Gordon, Pvt. Robert C., swing pianist to be in show (photo), 1945/06/08: 5 great cast now rehearsing for USO-Army show this month (photo), 1945/05/04: 2 sailor boys add comic relief (photo), 1945/06/08: 5 show now being planned, 1945/04/13: 7 USO-Army show at Municipal Auditorium, 1945/05/25: 7
graduation exercises held for volunteers (photo), 1945/11/23: 6 senior ladies carry flowers, sunshine to GIs, 1946/06/14 Supp: 3 USO thanks volunteers, 1946/08/09 Supp: 2 Wilcox, Miss Evangeline, program consultant visits USO clubs (photo), 1944/12/01: 5
national officers visit San Antonio, 1944/02/25: 6 Neal, Mrs. Audrey Duconge, studies SA's needs (photo), 1946/01/18: 6 Red Cross Canteen unit to assist Travelers' Aid, 1943/06/25: 1 seeks rooms for soldiers' kin, holiday visitors, 1944/11/24: 6 Travelers' Aid Service secures more volunteers, 1943/07/02: 6 USO Victory Club No. One
has dinner tonight, 1943/01/08: 6 holds first annual dinner, 1943/01/08: 6 meetings in 1943, 1943/01/01: 6, 1943/01/15: 6 organization of, 1943/01/01: 6
activities in 1942, 1942/02/13: 6, 1942/04/10: 6, 1942/04/17: 6, 1942/04/24: 6, 1942/05/29: 6, 1942/06/05: 6, 1942/06/12: 6, 1942/06/19: 7, 1942/06/26: 3 activities in 1945, 1945/08/24: 6 Brown, Mrs. Vessie Hill, San Antonio, to direct Corpus Christi YWCA-USO, 1942/11/06: 1 Davis, Mayme, regional director, at Corpus Defense Council meeting, 1942/12/18: 6 national staff members visit city (photo), 1946/10/25 Supp: 4 program for weekend announced, 1942/01/16: 5 Rogers, Etha Belle, named director for San Antonio USO, 1942/01/09: 1 to give benefit square dance, 1942/08/07: 6 USO News, 1945/08/10: 2, 1945/08/17: 6 volunteers assist at USO Travelers Aid Branch (photo), 1943/03/12: 1 weekend program announced, 1942/01/30: 7
rites conducted for Seguin boy victim of heart attack, 1953/02/06: 2 Ussery, Rev. Dr. J. N.
final rites held in Austin; Rev. G.F.C. Curry officiates, 1936/08/07: 1
funeral arrangements pending, 1934/06/01: 8 (filmed in 06/08 issue)
Jordan, Rhoda, Hampton drama director, first Negro instructor at Utah college, 1951/06/29: 6
anniversaries
tenth anniversary celebrated, past presidents honored, 1938/05/06: 6 twentieth anniversary observed (Jo's Jottings), 1949/01/21 Supp: 3 annual garden pilgrimage date set, 1941/05/09: 6 annual musical tea given, 1941/01/03: 6 conducts first pilgrimage tour of gardens, 1940/05/24: 6 entertains with Open House (Jo's Jottings), 1936/01/10: 6 first fall meeting held, 1932/09/23: 6 flower show to be held at 'YW' May 25, 1941/05/16: 6 garden pilgrimage and flower show is grand success, 1941/06/13: 4 hears two brilliant papers, 1933/04/07: 4 holds first meeting of season, 1933/10/06: 6 invites all to social at St. Philips Jr. College, 1933/02/17: 3 meetings in 1931, 1931/05/29: 8, 1931/09/25: 6, 1931/10/30: 6, 1931/12/04: 6, 1931/12/25: 6 meetings in 1932, 1932/04/22: 6, 1932/12/09: 6, 1932/12/23: 7 meetings in 1933, 1933/01/27: 6, 1933/03/03: 6, 1933/05/05: 6, 1933/06/09: 6 meetings in 1934, 1934/01/12: 6, 1934/02/09: 7, 1934/03/02: 5, 1934/03/23: 6, 1934/06/22: 6 meetings in 1935, 1935/06/07: 6 meetings in 1936, 1936/01/03: 6, 1936/01/31: 6, 1936/02/21: 6, 1936/03/27: 6, 1936/05/01: 6, 1936/06/05: 6 meetings in 1937, 1937/12/03: 6 meetings in 1938, 1938/04/01: 6, 1938/10/14: 4, 1938/10/28: 4, 1938/12/02: 4 meetings in 1939, 1939/03/24: 6, 1939/04/14: 6, 1939/05/19: 6, 1939/06/30: 6, 1939/11/03: 7 meetings in 1940, 1940/01/26: 7 meetings in 1941, 1941/01/03: 6, 1941/03/07: 7, 1941/03/14: 6, 1941/04/11: 7, 1941/04/25: 7, 1941/10/03: 6 meetings in 1942, 1942/01/23: 6, 1942/12/04: 6 meetings in 1943, 1943/04/23: 6 meetings in 1944, 1944/01/07: 6, 1944/02/11: 6, 1944/07/07: 6, 1944/09/29: 6, 1944/11/10 Supp: 3, 1944/12/22 Supp: 1 meetings in 1945, 1945/01/12: 7, 1945/02/09: 7 meetings in 1946, 1946/11/01: 6, 1946/12/27 Supp: 4 meetings in 1947, 1947/02/28: 4, 1947/05/02: 6 meetings in 1949, 1949/02/25 Supp: 4 meetings in 1950, 1951/01/05: 6 meetings in 1952, 1952/08/01: 6 meetings in 1955, 1955/01/07: 4, 1955/04/08 Supp: 3 more than hundred guests at "open house," 1938/01/14: 6 music recital presented, 1933/01/27: 6, 1934/02/23: 6 news in 1938, 1938/12/30: 6 Thanksgiving meeting held, 1933/12/08: 6 Utopians hostesses at art exhibit, garden party, 1939/07/07: 6 |
San Antonio Register at UTSA (Full Text available in microfilm format) You might be interested in reading: The original San Antonio register, 1931-1978 : historical study of a South Texas Black newspaper institution / by Fred Mitchell Fowler, Jr. (thesis, available at UTSA Library) |
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