Bouquets For Illinois Students, p.4
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Bouquets For Illinois Students, p.4
Description
"“Biggest” and best bouquet this week goes to students of Illinois for their part in one of the most courageous actions taken by any student body in recent years. The Illinois elected a nineteen-year-old girl as queen of their 42nd homecoming two weeks ago.
The girl, Clarice Davis is the daughter of a streetcar motorman and is a social gro girl ever to reign as queen of a Big Ten conference school, is a demonstration to [ii] the world that at least on the college campus Americans are beginning to fight their way out of the jungle of racial prejudices. If we are to maintain our position as a world leader, we must show clearly that democracy is a living, working principle not just a lot of idle chatter expounded by Fourth of July orators. We like to think of Miss Davis as a symbol and of what intelligent Americans can do when they cast aside their hates and prejudices and begin to think rationally and sanely about what our Constitution means when it says: “ All men are created equal”."
The girl, Clarice Davis is the daughter of a streetcar motorman and is a social gro girl ever to reign as queen of a Big Ten conference school, is a demonstration to [ii] the world that at least on the college campus Americans are beginning to fight their way out of the jungle of racial prejudices. If we are to maintain our position as a world leader, we must show clearly that democracy is a living, working principle not just a lot of idle chatter expounded by Fourth of July orators. We like to think of Miss Davis as a symbol and of what intelligent Americans can do when they cast aside their hates and prejudices and begin to think rationally and sanely about what our Constitution means when it says: “ All men are created equal”."
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N/A
Publisher
Arkansas State Press
Date
1951-11-30
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N/A, “Bouquets For Illinois Students, p.4,” African American Fourth of July, accessed April 28, 2024, https://africanamerican4th.omeka.net/items/show/383.