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Eleanor Roosevelt — Part 22
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“the celebrated photo study ‘Children in America!
MARION PALFI was booked for a year-long tour of -
braries, pahoole and art galleries in the South. —
“after the brutal Christmag Mare oF tt ef a MAAOP
Jeader HARRY T, MOORR in Fiorida, ® aroup of { ae eit
etanding Floriaians demanded + that Governor Funan
gonvene a conference ta gtudy and improve huran reietions
the State, The acer served as aeeretarias for the
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"of @,414 administrators apoied, 7il repiied,
Favoring segre ation of Negro dents were 479; integra-
tion was baoke by 287 Seventy-six suggested the erection
of separate hoepitale for Negroes, The rest either did
not anewer the question or gave other answers,
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Southern states, 5,750 replies were received, | of these,
64 per cent backed segregation of patients; 17 per cent
integration; 11 per cent the erection of separate hospitals
for the races, However, 71 per oent proved admission of
Negroes to medical scoleties, Sixty- r cent gave
outright sanction te admission of siffie doo ors to hospital
etaffe, and 14 per cent voted qualified approval.
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designed and iilustrated ty ¢ the famous American artist —
BEN SHAHN, presented the SCEF case studies of hospital ;
discrimination and exolusion. The booklet was written by
the Southern journalist ALFRED MAUND and 25,000 copies
wesw distributed, Mra, F, D, ROOSEVELT devoted her colum
‘My Deay' for Oot. 17 to a discussion of the work, declaring:
"It 4s such organizations as the SCEF that wili reeiiy bring
about the ohanges all of us hope for--not only in the South
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