My Soul Is a Witness by Prof. Bettye Collier-Thomas & V. P. Franklin

Author:Prof. Bettye Collier-Thomas & V. P. Franklin [Collier-Thomas, Bettye. & Franklin, V. P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Published: 2015-11-20T00:00:00+00:00

29 In Washington, D.C., Sen. Vance Hartke urged the State Department and the District Commissioner’s Council on Human Relations to take steps to end discrimination against black diplomats serving in the United States. Hartke added that, because of racial segregation, Washington was a “hardship post” for black diplomats (JM).

OCTOBER 1960

1 In Dade County, Fla., seven black students were admitted to Dade County Community College. It became the first integrated junior college in the state (SSN).

1 In St. Marys County, Md., an unidentified fifth-grade black girl was admitted to an all-white school. Public schools in fifteen of Maryland’s twenty-three counties had been integrated (SSN).

7 In Long Island, N.Y., Mrs. Nilda Flott filed a complaint with the State Commission Against Discrimination against barber Angelo Mustachio. Flott accused Mustachio of violating New York’s anti-bias statute when he overcharged her son five dollars because he had “kinky” hair (NYT).

13 In Dayton, Ohio, Dr. M. R. Clarke told the Ohio Civil Rights Commission that the three hospitals in the city discriminated against black patients. He pointed out that St. Elizabeth’s had two segregated wards (JM).

20 In Greenville, Miss., segregationist senator James Eastland announced his support of the Democratic ticket because he did not want to lose his chairmanship of the Senate Judiciary Committee. As chair of the committee, Eastland continued to block civil rights legislation (NYT).

27 In Detroit, Mich., a group of two thousand white parents planned to keep their children out of school for two days to protest a decision by members of the local school board to transfer 314 black students to white schools. Board members sought to reduce overcrowding at all-black schools (NYT).

27 In Los Angeles, Calif., NAACP official Frank Barnes charged that a black army officer at a southern California Nike base was excluded from government-leased housing because of his race. He made the charges before the Housing Division of the California Advisory Committee on Civil Rights (JM).

27 In Louisville, Ky., the Disciples of Christ apologized in a resolution to black delegates who were denied service at six hotels and restaurants. Rev. King Allen stated that the resolution was initiated by white friends of the black delegates (NYT).

28 In De Kalb County, Ga., Martin Luther King was freed on a two-thousand-dollar bond to appeal a four-month prison term for violating an earlier sentence of twelve months on probation. The earlier sentence was for driving with an Alabama rather than a Georgia driver’s license. At the urging of Robert F. Kennedy, Judge J. Oscar Mitchell allowed King’s release from Reidsville Penitentiary pending the ruling on his appeal (NYT).

31 In Chicago, Ill., the four youths from A&T College in Greensboro, N.C., who sparked the sit-in demonstration movement received the Thomas J. Crowe Award from the Catholic Interracial Council of Chicago. Recipients were: Joseph McNeil, Ezell Blair, Jr., David Richmond, and Franklin McCain (NYT).

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