Three weeks ago white inhabitants of Tuskegee, Ala., protested (to the Veterans' Bureau) the installation of an all-Negro staff at the Government's hospital for Negro veterans at Tuskegee. Sheeted Ku Kluxers paraded in the streets; General Frank T. Hines, Director of the Veterans' Bureau, suspended the installation of Negroes.
Last week General Hines announced that if the whites of Tuskegee did not wish an entire Negro staff installed, they must propose a suitable alternative. Immediately a committee of three, appointed by the white people, sent a proposal to Washington. They asked that the...
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