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Jack Roosevelt Jackie Robinson — Part 04

18 pages · May 13, 2026 · Document date: Apr 23, 1956 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Jack Roosevelt Jackie Robinson · 18 pages OCR'd
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Mr. Tolson. FD-350 (4-3-62) Mr. Belmont. Mr. Mohr Mr.Cl'ahan Mr. conred -ach (Mount Clipping in Space Below) Mr. Tele. Room Miss H slines. Miss Gandy Matter of Principle' (Indicate page, name of "All my life wt have been newspaper, city and state.) HARLEM PICKETS fighting against this same thing as it applies to the Ne- gro." Mr. Robinson said yester- SWITCH TACTICS . like this. It is a matter of prin- 8 NEW YORK TIMES as bad as white supremacy. The dispute revolves around Threaten a Demonstration. plans by Sol Singer, i white restaurateur., to open - steak- Against Jackie Robinson house next door to the Apollo Theatre in a choice section of 125th Street between Seventh A Negro group, led by and Eighth Avenues. Black Nationalist, shifted its The Harlem Consumers Com. protest tactics yesterday away mittee. led by Icwistmichaux from Anwhite business man to. has picketed against tje steak- JackiDRobinson, the former house off and on for three Brookrytr Douger star. weeks. The group had asserted The Negroes dropped plans. Ithat Mr. Singer planned. to to demonstrate against ' pro- force a near-by Negro-operated! posed steakhouse in Harlem restaurant, Lloyd's Steakhouse, when 1 they leamed that the. out of business. white proprietor planned Mr. Michaux, who calls him- pull out. self an African Nationalist and But they threatened to picket. wears a goid-trimmed. black today against Chock' Full velvet fez, had threatened to !O' Nuts restaurant at 125th] resume picketing yesterday un- Street and Seventh Avenue be- less he was given assurance cause Mr. Robinson had criti- Ithat Mr. Singer would with- draw gans used in protests agajnst Mr. Michaux's colleagues said. the white man. Itheir lawyer had informed them Date: 7/14/62 Despite their threat, Mr. Rob Ithat Mr. Singer intended to pull inson, who is a vice president lout. Edtton:LATE CITY of Chock Full O Nuts, refused "However, Mr. Singer said in! a telephone interview yesterday. Author: to withdraw comments that ap jthat he was leaving town to Editor: JOHN B. OAKES peared in The New York Am- Sterdam News on Thursday. 'check with his financial backers Title: NATION - OF--ISLAN. In his newspaper column, Mr about the venture. He said he Robinson said Negro pickets had already invested $90,000 tn -SM=NOT had chanted such slogans as 'restaurant' improvements and "Black man must stay: Jew was reluctant to absorb such a must go" while demonstrating loss. He has offered to sell out Character: against the proposed to Negro business men but ha. restau- had no offers. - or -25-330971 ,rant. Classiflcaon: Submitting Oifice: NYQ ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED NOT rFCORDED HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED 476 JUL $3 1962 DATE_31384 BY SpSrQ 1952 5 4 AUG 1 cfhce nl-
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