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The Nicest Kids in Town

Matt Delmont, Author

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Notes for “Observers Note a Lack of Negro Participation”

[i] McDougall interview.
[ii] Jackson, American Bandstand, 21-22.
[iii] Ibid., 24.
[iv] Wolfinger, Philadelphia Divided, 189.
[v] Palmer interview. Palmer went on to be an important community activist in West Philadelphia. On Palmer’s work in addressing educational inequality and racism, see Countryman, Up South, pp. 191-199 and 225-268.
[vi] CHR, “Present Status of Current ‘C’ Cases,” May 4, 1954, CHR collection, Box A-2860, folder 148.2 “Minutes 1953-1957,” PCA.
[vii] Pricilla Penn, “Social Notes of Interest In the Quaker City Whirl,” Philadelphia Tribune, June 1, 1954.
[viii] CHR, “Intergroup Tensions in Recreation Facilities,” March 7, 1955, NAACP collection, URB 6, box 4, folder 104, TUUA.
[ix] Jackson, American Bandstand, 23.
[x] Jackson, American Bandstand, 57.
[xi] Blavat interview.
[xii] “Arrest TV Em Cee As Drunken Driver,” Philadelphia Tribune, June 23, 1956.
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