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34TH YEAR, No. 26
Ft. Lauderdale
Federal Judge Emett C. Choate
ruled in Miami on Thursday that
the City of Fort Lauderdale vio
lated Negroes rights under the
14th amendment in ibarring them
from the municipal golf course
and ordered the course integrated.
The order is not effective for
10 days during which the city
will initiate its appeal.
A hearing on a motion by the
city to have the course continued
on a segregated basis during an
appeal was set for 9:15 ajn.
Tuesday before Judge Choate.
Choate is not expected to allow
the city to bar the Negro golfers
during the appeal becau:e it is
very unlikely that the Fifth Cir
cuit Court in New Orleans will
reverse his decision.
Choate ruled Negroes seeking
use of the course were deprived
of their rights long before the
Supreme Court’s historic Brown
decision on schools, which threw
out the “separate but equal” doc
trine and set off the series of civil
rights cases now in U. S. courts.
The city has never provided
golf facilities for use of its Ne
gro citizens, Choate found.
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BROTHERHOOD LEADERS —These
six Dade County high school students re
ceived statewide recognition this week for
their work in furthering human relations
and contributing to inter-group under
standing within their communities.
The six received awards Monday
night at the fifth annual Brotherhood Din
ner of the Florida region of the National
MRS. UPIIOIA SOLOMON OILS
Mrs. Capitola Solomon, mother
of B. Solomon, owner of the B.
Solomon Funeral Home, died at
her home, 315 NW 16th st. Thurs
day afternoon. A resident of Mi
ami since 1926, Mrs. Solomon is
also survived by a sister, Mrs.
Bruno Rogers of Jacksonville.
A native of Monticello, Fla., Mrs
Solomon was a member of Mt.
Rep. John Orr American
Heritage Award Winner
State Rep. John B. Orr Jr. of
Miami, who stood alone in t h e
Florida Legislature and voted
against school segregation, has
been named by the Fund for the
Republic as winner of an Ameri
can Heritage award.
The 37-year-old Miami attor
ney received the top national
MIAMI, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1957
Negroes Win Golf Rights
Conference of Christians and Jews at the
Fontainebleau Hotel.
Those receiving certificates of recog
nition are, left to right: Benjamin Lebow,
Hialeah High; Cora Ann Culver, Mays
High; Dennis Baker, Hialeah High; Linda
Marks, Miami Beach High; Althea Sy
monette, Washington High; Pete Desjar
dins, Miami Edison High.—Herald photo.
Zion Baptist Church as well as
a number of civic and commun
ity organizations. Mrs. Solcmor
lived in Valdosta, Ga., where her
kite husband operated a funeral
home before the family moved to
Miami.
Funeral arrangements, in
charge of the Dade County Mor
ticians’ Association, are incom
plete at this time.
award at a banquet Thursdaj
night in Wahington’s Mayflower
Hotel.
In July, 1956, Orr blasted
members of the Florida House
for passing bills to preserve seg
regation. He denounced segrega
tion as morally wrong and. favored
gradual integration of schools.
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Booker T. Washington, also pres
ident of the Dramatics Club, is
(part of the sus.sen.e) 17 this
week.
Janice is one of the first teen
age graduates of Maxine Bethel’s
Charm School—Bil King photo.
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TWO CALLOWAYS—Cab Calloway, the hi-de-ho
maestro now holding forth at the Cotton Club on Miami
Beach, was joined here this week by his sister, Blanche,
another snowbird seeking fun in Miami's sun.
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The State Legislative Investi
gating Committee probing the
NAACP which ha? been holding
its sessions in Tallahassee since
early this month, i? tentatively
scheduled to conduct hearings in
Miami beginning Monday.
No hearing site has been cho
sen as yet and no subpoenas have
been eerv.d to any NAACF
members or officials in the Miami
area.
Local NAACP officials are un
perturbed over the visit of the
investigative group.
Hearin 3 in Tallahassee came
*? an on Tue day when Fran
cisco Rodriguez, of Tampa, attor
ney for the organization testified
that members of the NAACP
sponsored petitions demanding an
end to segregated schools and
tood ready to lend legal aid to
force desegregation.
The committee has been trying
to prove that the NAACP violat
ed state law by promoting liti
gation.
Jackie Robinson Speaks Here
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; MRS. SUGAR RAY M.am
welcomed home one of the its
favorite daughter; this week
when lovely Edna Mae Robinson
brought her famous hubby and
young son home for a winter va
cation. The Robinsons will stay
in Miami until March when Ray
will return to New- York to prep
for his rematch with Gene Full
mer.—Photo by Bondu.
II MEN, 3 BOYS
NABBED IN
FREIGHT THEFTS
Eleven men and three teenage
boys were arrested this week by
sheriff’s deputies in connection
with a series of freight car rob
beries involving $25,000 worth of
stolen roods.
Freight cars of the Florida East
Coast Railroad were broken into
and quantities of radios, TV sets,
phonographs, .whiskey and vari
ous appliances were stolen. One
car at 6050 NW 24th ave. was
set afire at the Sears Roebuck
warehouse riding. The fire, which
Qgused seme $2,000 damage, was
believed set to destroy evidence.
The eleven men were charged
with suspicion of grand larcency
and the juveniles were ipiaced in
Youth Hall.
GETS 20 rM«S
IN SEX KIUING
His guilty plea and 20-year
j prison sentence for manslaughter
| Monday canceled out the first
degree murder trial of Allen W.
j Hendricks, 32.
Sketchy te timonv to Circuit
Judge Grady L. Crawford show
!rd Hendricks strangled Joel
: Gainer, 24, a deviate, after a
drinking party Oct. 29 at Hen
■ chicks’ room, 15034 NW 3rd ave
Grand jurors indicted Hen
dricks on the murder count Nov
20. He had been in jail since the
slaving. The sentence was Uk
maximum under Florida law.
A proud papa is Larry Doby as he plays with his
pretty daughters, Leslie and Christine, in the Sir
John Hotel pool. Doby played centerfield for the Cleve
land Indians for nine years before being traded to the
Chicago White Sox in Oct., 1955. He reports to the Sox
spring training camp at Hollywood March 12.
Mrs. Ratcliffe to Speak
At Forum Sunday
Mrs. Ida Ratclifife, principal of
Northwestern Senior High School
will be the guest speaker for the
King of Clulbs Forum, Sunday,
Feb. 24 at the Mt. Zion Baptist
Church at 3:45 p.m.
Mrs. Ratcliffe is a product of
D9de County who has the dis
tinction of being the first prin
cipal of the first comprehensive
h’.eh school in the county. She re
ceived her A. B. degree from
Wiley College and her M. A. from
New York University. She heads
TELLS NAACP
FIGHT FOR
FREEDOM
Jackie Robinson. retired
Brooklyn Dodger baseball great,
will speak at an NAACP man
meeting Sunday afternoon at
Greater Bethel AME Church.
Robinson is national chairman
of the NAACP Fiftot for Freedom
Campaign that seeks to raise
$1,000,000 in 1957 to underwrite
civil rights work. He is touring
the country speaking in the Inter
ests of the fund.
The local NAACP council has
invited many prominent celebri
ties now in the Miami area to
appear on the program. A large
crowd is expected to be on hand
at 3:30 when Robinson tells of his
Fight for Freedom. There is no
admission and the public is in
vited.
an in titution of 1280 pupils with
an instructional staff of 68. She
holds membership in various pro
ses ional organisations. Among
those are the Florida State Teach
ers Association, The Florida
Council on Secondary Education,
and the Florida Teachers Educa
tion Council. Sh? is a mebber of
the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority
and the Ebenezer Methodist
Church. She will discuss the top
ic, “Our Children, Can They, or
Can't They?”