Rips Blood Jim Crow, Censored, p. 1
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Title
Rips Blood Jim Crow, Censored, p. 1
Description
"NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Station WTIC in Hartford canceled a speech on race relation scheduled to be delivered by Prof. Maurice R. Davie of Yale university because it objected to certain references in the script about the American Red Cross policy on Negro blood donors, it was learned this week.
The speech which was to have been given in connection with the Fourth of July celebration contained the following objectionable statement, according to station officials. “Perhaps no single accident has done more to damage Negro morale than the gratuitous insult to the race by the Red Cross in [illegible] refusing to accept the blood of Negro donors and then in segregating it, for no scientific reason whatsoever.”
Leonard Petrucclli, program manager for WTIC, said the Red Cross had not objected but the station management had decided “it was not in the public interest.” to carry the program.
Prof. Davie, a sociology instructor at the eastern school, said he had refused to make the talk even though it meant cancellation of the program because he refused to “kowtow to the Red Cross or any other organization that interferes with my freedom of speech.”"
The speech which was to have been given in connection with the Fourth of July celebration contained the following objectionable statement, according to station officials. “Perhaps no single accident has done more to damage Negro morale than the gratuitous insult to the race by the Red Cross in [illegible] refusing to accept the blood of Negro donors and then in segregating it, for no scientific reason whatsoever.”
Leonard Petrucclli, program manager for WTIC, said the Red Cross had not objected but the station management had decided “it was not in the public interest.” to carry the program.
Prof. Davie, a sociology instructor at the eastern school, said he had refused to make the talk even though it meant cancellation of the program because he refused to “kowtow to the Red Cross or any other organization that interferes with my freedom of speech.”"
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Publisher
The Chicago Defender
Date
1943-7-10
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N/A, “Rips Blood Jim Crow, Censored, p. 1,” African American Fourth of July, accessed May 2, 2024, https://africanamerican4th.omeka.net/items/show/71.