The Black community scored another victory here December 16.

A federal jury upheld charges that Milwaukee cops and officials had violated the civil rights of Daniel Bell, a twenty-three-year-old Black youth killed in 1958. The jury awarded $1.8 million in damages to Bell's family.

Milwaukee policeman Thomas Grady planted a knife on Bell after shooting him in the back.  
 
January 14, 1957
The U.S. Senate on Jan. 4 voted 55-38 to make any effective civil rights legislation impossible for the next two years. This was accomplished by voting to retain Rule 22 under which the Southern Democrats can filibuster to death any bill they really want to stop.

The fight to amend Rule 22 liberal Democrats have been promising since the election returns revealed major Negro dissatisfaction with the Democratic Party, turned out to be a fight in name only. In fact it was carried on not only without harsh feeling on either side but even without harsh words. The whole show took place in the frame of a "unanimous consent" agreement. Senate Majority leader Lyndon Johnson (D-Tex.) got all the Senators from liberals Humphrey (D-Minn.) and Douglas (D-Ill.) to white-supremacists Eastland (D-Miss.) and Talmadge (D-Ga.) to agree unanimously to his plan.  
 
January 16, 1932
Ghandi, V. Patel, J. Nehru have been arrested by the Indian authorities. As a protest, the cotton, the bullion, the piece goods, the seed and the stock exchanges in Bombay and other cities have been closed. For the time being, the nationalist bourgeoisie still holds the reins firmly.

In a recent interview with Parisian newspapermen, Ghandi expressed the opinion that in the event of "sudden" emancipation, a free India would not very well be able to dispense with a regular standing army. The newspapermen showered questions on the saintly man and he answered nearly all with saintly patience and serenity. There was one question, however, which he evaded with the sleekness of an eel. That question was in regard to his attitude toward the Russian revolution. The "Mahatma" did not appear pleased at all by the suggestion of a comparison between the Indian revolution and the Russian.  
 
 
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