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The Navy fires thirty white barbers for refusing to serve black sailors at the Jacksonville FL naval Station.
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AG is a guest. see transcript
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The College Women's Extravanganza program was called Around the World.
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AG explored entering the Women's Army Corp as a 2nd LT in the spring of 1954.
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Annie Lee Moss was a black communications clerk in the US Army Signal Corps in the Pentagon and alleged member of the American Communist Part and was questioned by United States Senator Joseph McCarthy in his role as the chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.The highly publicized case was damaging to McCarthy's popularity and influence.
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A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.
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Informants accused Ralph Bunche of being a communist. He was investigated through a loyalty hearing and cleared of the accusations.
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Women's singles:
1. Bye
2. AG d. Mrs. Raymond Bush, 6-0, 6-2
3. AG d. Alice Netter; 6-3, 6-0
F. AG d. Isabel Troccole: 10-8, 6-3.
Ladies doubles:
F.Troccle/Norma Laidlow dd. AG/Joan Piken; 6-0, 2-6, 6-1
Daily News 07 July; Democrat & Chronicle 08 July; Philadelphia Inquirer 12 July; Atlanta Daily World 12 July; Brooklyn Daily Eagle 07 July.
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Women's singles:
1. Lois Felix d. AG; 6-1, 6-0
Ladies doubles:
S. AG/Ethel Norton d. Sara Mae Turner/Karol Fageros; 6-1, 6-1
F. Connolly/Hart d. AG/EN; 6-3, 6-2
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Women's singles:
1. AG d. Mrs. Daniel B. Chance; 6-1, 6-1
2. Janet Hopps d. AG; 6-2, 2-6, 6-4
Women's Doubles:
2. AG/Nell Hopman d. Hopps/Joan Rossdilley; 7-5, 6-2
Q. AG/NH d. Lois Felix/Katherine Hubbell; 1-6, 6-4, 6-4
S. LB/DuPont d. AG/NH; 6-2, 6-2.
Mixed Doubles:
2. AG/Don Fontana d. Wickel, Mrs. Harry Hoffman; 1-6, 6-4, 6-4
Q. LB/Straight Clark d. DF/AG; 3-6, 6-4, 6-3.
Philadelphia Inquirer 20,23,24 July -
Ladies singles:
1. AG d. Edith Cressman; 6-2, 6-0
Q. AG d. Lottie Buckley; 6-0, 6-1
S. AG d. Mary Albright; 6-0, 6-3
F. AG d. Betty Smith; 6-1, 6-1
Ladies doubles:
S.AG/Mary Kay Morris d. Patsy Rice/Nancy Paden; 6-1, 6-1
F. AG/MKM d. Mary Albright/Betty Smith; 6-1, 6-1
Lancaster Intelligencer Journal 29&31 July; Lancaster New Era 30 July; Lancaster Sunday News 01 August -
Singles:
1. AG d. Carolyn Liguri; 6-1, 6-3
2. AG d. Barbara Davidson; 6-2. 7-5
Q. Helen Fletcher d. AG; 6-4. 6-4
Phil Inquirer 3 Aug, Herald News 6 Aug., Paterson News (NJ) 7 Aug, Hartford Courant 7 Aug. -
Women's singles:
1. AG d. Richardeen Ellis; 6-1, 6-2
2. AG d. Margaret Peters; 6-1, 6-1
F. AG d. Ivy Cover Ramsey; 6-1, 6-0
Mixed Doubles:
AG/Whirlwind d. Mr. and Mrs. Quentin Vaughn; 6-3, 7-5
Atlanta Daily World 20 Aug, Alabama Tribune 27 Aug. -
Women's singles:
1-Helen Pastall Perez d. AG; 6-3, 3-6, 6-3
Cleveland Call and Post 11 Sep
Men's Singles
2- Tony Trabert d. Hubert Eaton, 6-0, 6-0, 6-1 (NYTimes) -
The American contralto becomes the first black to be a lead singer for the NYC company. She will sing the lead role of fortune teller Ulrica in Verdi's opera, The Masked Ball, during the 1955 Met season.