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oon Laps = * Lt tot, Ue 301. > Turning out for the session -ddrcessed by Mrs. ELEANOR te ROCSEVEIT was a crowd of some 1,500, including hundrcds of curi- a osite-stricken Chattanoogans. Unprepc:ed were many residents of fi the ‘host’ city for what they ran into at the doors of the munici- e rel auditorium: On hand to greet all comers were Negro women in * evening frocks, Hardley less surprised were native Chattanoogans - vhen they got inside; waiting to usher them to seats was a corps of + mesre youths, ; = a £ Unbothe red by an ‘dim Crowisn' was this second "Southern i “onfcrcne:: for Human “lelfare': All delegates and onlookers sat where i* tho. versed, and as if by deliverate rre-arrangement, the audicnce 4 soe therenshlw mixed, “% a Registratton and inferm.tion béeths in «nc sbout the Con- ere ten de db wer | “vy populcted by " sroes. ; On the ri:tform at one sessirn vere five white, forty- NG there blesks (includin, c choir of twentvetvo). Cbscrvers estimited ? the ro than helf. tne delegates were colored. ¢ a Predonincnt in convention ci:rvings-on were enisssries of ‘ reo GC, the Werkers! Allinnee, other 1 ft-wing grouns, and 4 con- eit ost. sprinkling of New Del philoscphers. ~ “7 + me The New Devd's Aubrey Williams, 1. conspicuous kicker -bout Pireinehots mee segregation lew et Cer ference “umber one, "gain wes ev qtrey figure. Maong-more active minibers of the Alabama contingent were ere “4 ] dam Mitch, Joe Gilcaars. # + ' In large desrce, Chat banoogans who looked in on enrly con- ‘ vention hudéles werc cuick to sce and b ar enough, stared cway from ther: vot, Obviously discouraged ot th conference's failure to grin *: is Cony wore its bigwigs. To detached cbservers the radical roundc— ° Jey Jeck-d like pretty ‘much of a second fizzle. . lear to every onlooker was the fact that prime objective ef conference directors was to elimimte Southern poll taxcs, let * . ‘ -yipyboty vote. Equilly clear wis the fact that most of the signal e:llise fom the conference hod becn done in advance, not by ne tive ° Seathornors but by roadie.) ogitaters he dquorters in ism strongholds voowhire in the United States. ey ’ og - . oT he . Nett et = ay : SE eee Tee os Joab, >. et al ome ae ees Parere: ¥ ' 2 - =~ OW, one a a we OTE SW aes ee De ccanet ays ; yo ee See Pee NR aes a ———