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FLORIDA First Fruits In late 1951, Florida was swept by a storm of racial violence. Miami's Carver Village, a housing development newly opened to Negroes, was three times the target of dynamite bombings; similar attacks were made on synagogues and a Catholic church. The climactic outrage came last Christmas when Harry Moore, state coordinator for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and his wife were killed in the bombing of their home at Mims...
...Discrimination is legally prohibited." Having very small white communities, there is little racial friction. Nigeria, for example, with a total population of 25 million, has only 5,000 whites...
...change Dr. Moroka was accused of advocating-namely, racial equality-"has nothing to do with Communism as it is commonly known," said the judge. "The Legislature, for the purpose of suppressing Communism, has enlarged the meaning of Communism. It is not for me to judge the wisdom of legislation . . ." Rumpff found himself obliged to declare all 20 defendants guilty of what he called "statutory Communism," but he promptly suspended all of the sentences...
...week. Wherever it stopped, hundreds of people swarmed about it, buying the magazine: The African Drum. A 5? Life-size monthly, Drum has in less than three years become the leading spokesman for South Africa's 9,000,000 Negro and colored population. In South Africa, torn by racial strife, Drum's popularity is easily xplained. "We air the views and grievances of the blacks," says Publisher James R. Bailey, a white man, "and make them feel that Communism isn't the solution to their problems...
...Secretary Oliver Lyttelton, who toured Kenya last month, assured the House of Commons that "we will free Kenya from fear." Yet fear still reigns, and what was once pooh-poohed as a "native" bushfire might easily engulf the richest colony in Britain's East African empire in a racial holocaust. Last week, in the exclusive "White Highlands," settlers went in fear of unseen Mau Mau snipers. One family found that its servants had fled to join the Mau Mau, leaving the beheaded trunks of its loyal "boys" sprawled across the doorstep. At Thomson's Falls, Dr. Ian Meiklejohn...