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Atlanta Daily World
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
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In Memphis, Tenn., city censor Lloyd T. Binford barred white performers from appearing before a Negro audience at a Sunday basketball game between the Harlem Globetrotters and Kansas City Blues, enforcing a policy of racial separation in shows. The acts were performed instead at the white audience game.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (SNS)
White performers were barred yesterday from appearing before a Negro audience when an 86-year-old censor advised the auditorium to bar the scheduled appearance of a white troupe which was to appear with the Harlem Globetrotters and Kansas City Blues.
Lloyd T. Binford, chairman of the city board of censors, declared there was a difference between white persons performing before a Negro audience and two Negro teams performing before a white audience.
The acts were scheduled between the halves of the basketball games. Both teams were Negro while the troupe was white.
The game which was held Sunday went off on schedule, while the white troupe was barred from appearing before the Negro audience.
The acts were then shown at the afternoon game, which was held for white persons.
The aged censor explained that this was in line with the policy that "each race handle its own show."
He added, "I don't think there was any social equality in the Negro ball teams playing before the white audience."
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Memphis, Tenn.
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Sunday
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white troupe barred from negro audience performance; acts shown at white audience game instead.
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White performers scheduled to appear between halves of basketball game featuring Negro teams Harlem Globetrotters and Kansas City Blues before Negro audience; 86-year-old censor Lloyd T. Binford, chairman of city board of censors, advised auditorium to bar them, citing policy that each race handles its own show and difference from Negro teams performing before white audience.