There was another kind of news last week about the Negro in America:
·The Bank of America promoted E. Frederic Morrow, 57, to vice president of its New York-based international subsidiary, specializing in foreign loans and business development. A former administrative assistant to President Eisenhower, Morrow has been with the bank three years, following executive service with the African-American Institute, a privately endowed educational-cultural agency. Seven years ago, when Morrow left the White House, one of the better positions offered him was as a used-car salesman at $50 a week with only Negroes for customers. "I was very frankly told," he recalls,...
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