Box OSS.03

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Coverage of the National Sorority of Phi Delta Kappa youth group, Xinos.

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Includes coverage of Xinos conference held in Baltimore.

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Coverage of YMCA branches in New Jersey including Montclair, Orange, and Princeton YMCA branches.

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Coverage of 12th St. YMCA in Washington, D.C.

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Includes two copies of Toward A New Anti-Fascist Youth Organization by Max Weiss.

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Feature written on Mrs. Edmonia T. Yates for AFRO's Salute of the Week column.

Scope and Contents Includes Objectives of the Committee on Participation of Negroes National Defense Program, Final Report of the Chief of Staff United States Army to the Secretary of the Army, Armed Forces Talk on race prejudice. Includes a 1944 clipping from The Commonweal titled "Negroes in the Armed Services" and discussing racial prejudice in the army. Includes a 1951 clipping on case of human trafficking and drugs at Fort Bragg Reservation and on six white paratroopers, members of the 511th Airborne...

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Includes photograph of Petty Officer Evangeline Geraldine Bailey, the first woman musician in naval history. Includes a fragile 1942 clipping titled "The United States Navy Belong to the Entire Nation," where the AFRO reproduces a full page of original pictures and navy department records of the period when there was no color line on any warships. Includes a cut of the Navy's Cross.

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Includes coverage of U.S. Supreme Court cases on the constitutionality of segregation in public schools. Also includes Look magazine 1956 front page story titled "The South vs. The Supreme Court"