RACES: Freedom & Bowlegs

A week's sampling of the state of U.S. race relations.

¶ In Atlanta's Wheat Street Baptist Church, Henry Wallace spoke to an unsegregated audience of 3,000 Negroes and whites. City officials refused to interfere. Said K.K.K. Grand Dragon Samuel Green: "We'll see them later."

¶ Holding its annual meeting in Baltimore, the Southern Medical Association firmly specified who might attend: "White physicians, white faculty members of medical schools, white personnel of health departments, white hospital residents and interns, white medical students."

¶ The University of Nebraska student council demanded that Nebraska...

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