March 7, 1975

After the students sat down in the hallways to protest arbitrary cancellation of a Black History Week assembly, they were pushed out of the school by administrators and detectives, then suspended for leaving school!

The suspended students and many parents have held three singing, chanting civil rights marches to demand readmission to Columbia High School. "Black students have rights" and "Dr. Hinson jails children" were among the signs carried by 150 students and parents seven miles from Columbia High to the De Kalb County courthouse Feb. 22. Dr. Hinson is the De Kalb school superintendent.

Three years ago, the Blacks who first moved into this area were confronted by racist administrators demanding that they bring deeds to their homes before they could enroll their children at Columbia. Once admitted to school, the Black students were faced with constant humiliation and segregation within the building.  
 

March 6, 1950

DETROIT, Feb. 26--A grimly determined audience of 500 gathered at the Greater King Solomon Baptist Church here today in an emergency meeting called by NAACP leaders to counteract renewed activities by rabid anti-Negro forces, KKK elements, segregationists, etc.

In the recent period there have again been cross burnings in Detroit. One was burned on Feb. 10 on the property of Mr. and Mrs. James Waterman, Negroes. One week later an organization calling itself the "Greater Detroit Neighbors Association, Unit 5," held a meeting at Sportsman's Hall with the obvious intent of organizing a campaign of terror against white people who sell their homes to Negroes, and Negroes who buy them.

The NAACP will demand a hearing before the Housing Commission and the Mayor, at which they and a committee representing labor organizations and churches will demand action to protect Negro home-owners and whites who want to sell their homes to Negroes. Several speakers said that mass mobilizations and action would be necessary.  
 
 
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