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Editorial Grist: Where Negroes Own Cadillacs

October 10, 1957

Describes the belief that Black Americans had better ownership abilities in the south and notes that Bishop Addison of the African Universal Church believed efforts for integration to be negative.

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Negro Nightspot Operator Claims $25 Fee Asked For By Police Commissioner

November 10, 1955

Describes that Ozzie Newsome, a Black man who owned a restaurant in Muscle Shoals, was told by Police Commissioner Thomas F. Terry that he would have to pay a $25 fee each week to operate, a fee that Newsome could not afford. The article continues to describe the trial that was still being deliberated by the jury at the time the article was written.

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