Granger Praises Coronet’s
16-Page Feature on Negroes
BY GUICHARD PARRIS
NEW YORK. (Special). Lester B. Granger, executive
director of the National Urban League, hailed the 16 page
feature on “The Negro In America” in the May, 1950 issue
of Coronet Magazine out today (April 21), as a “deeply
human document which gives the record of 15,000,000
Negro citizens. It is inscribed with dignity and pride.” The
Urban League, now in its 40th year, is a nation-wide inter
racial social agency for promoting equal economic oppor
tunity. 1
Observing that Negroes have
played a historic role in the de
velopment of America as a na
tion, Mr, Granger said “Negro
Americans have shifted from
rural homes to such an extent as
to become a three-fifths urban
population group. .. this mighty
movement which has literally
transformed large and small
communities in every section of
the country has neither solved
all of the serious problems of the
Negro population nor avoided
the creation of new community
problems as old ones are re
solved.”
“The Negro in America” ar
ticle tells of these problems and
the men who are working to
solve them, educators, jurists,
writers and scientists. It tells
also of the “just plain folk”
who have worked for the better
ment of their fellow-man as well
as themselvfes.
Included in the picture story
are Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ed
wards, Oklahoma City, Okl„ who
received the National Urban
League 1948 Recognition Award
for service to humanity. Mr. Ed
wards has shared his hard-won
fortune with others by building
and endowing a 195-bed hospital
dedicated to the service of all
who need medical care, regard
less of race or creed. Out of
every dollar he earned in the
early days as a horse and buggy
junk dealer, he put away a few
pennies “for bigger things.” His
success grew until he was able
to build the “Edwards Addition”
in Oklahoma City—a develop
ment of 500 homes for Negroes
in moderate circumstances—and
finally the hospital.
Also portrayed in the feature
are: Jackie Robinson, Marian
Anderson, Joe Louis, who got his
start through the Detroit Urban
League, and Ralph Bunche. The
article pictures the late Dr.
Charles S. Drew, developer of
blood plasma, Judge Francis E.
Rivers, Dr. Percy L. Julian,
prominent bio-chemist. and
Charles S. Johnson, president of
Fisk University, the last two
former members of the urban
League family.
“The Negro people of America,”
the report concludes, “have ac
complished many things. Lead
ers like Ralph Bunche, of the
United Nations foresee a bright
future. For the achievements of
today are the fertile seeds of to
morrow.”
ISAACP Leader Asks Ohio
Democrats to Include
Civil Rights in Platform
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (ANP).
A demand for the inclusion of
civil rights as a plank in the
democratic party’s 1950 platform
was made here last week by
Henry J. Richardson, jr., NAACP
and American Council for Human
and Civil Rights leader.
Addressing the state democratic
platform committee at the Clay
pool hotel, Richardson said:
Pictured above are 24 student nurses from Bryan Memorial Hospital after receiving their caps at
Grace Methodist church March 5th.
Two of the girls, Ada E. Coffey, front row extreme left, and Martha J. Hammonds, front row
extreme right, received THE VOICE Scholarship Awards presented in August as a result of funds
raised through the sale of THE VOICE COOK BOOK project.
“The Negro in Marion county
represents 18 percent of the total
voting strength and 11 percent of
the total vote in the state. He
merits strong government repre
sentation in all elective offices
and equal opportunity of employ
ment in all branches of govern
ment.
“The government must guaran
tee and assure him equal oppor
tunity of employment in public
and private utilities, industry and
licensed businesses.
“His demands for these consti
tutional rights are equitable, so
cially sound and morally strength
ening. This challenge is the crucial
test and essence of our democracy
and must be accepted and met by
all political parties.”
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