ILLINOIS: Barred for Reasons of Color

Naturally, Dr. Percy L. Julian's name was on the list when a group of outstanding industrialists and scientists were invited to a private luncheon at Chicago's exclusive Union League Club last week. After all, Dr. Julian, "Chicagoan of the Year" in 1950, is a research director for the Glidden Co. (paint, etc.), and a top chemist who has invented, among other things, a process for synthetic manufacture of experimental drugs for treating arthritis. But when the Union League Club saw his name on the list it said he could not come to the club. Reason: the club's directors had "issued...

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