By unsegregated plane and Pullman, in segregated buses and in Jim Crow railroad coaches, delegates of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People descended on Atlanta, capital of the Deep South. They met in the Deep South for the first time since an earlier convention in Atlanta in 1920. Thirty-one years had made startling changes in both the N.A.A.C.P. and Atlanta.
Unlike the earlier convention, which had met quietly in a small church in the city's Negro district, most of last week's sessions were held in the city's marble-front municipal auditorium....
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