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Atlanta Daily World
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
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Negro airman Pfc. Phillips J. Evans transferred from University of Alabama training course in Tuscaloosa without attending class, likely due to race; Air Force blames records error.
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala-(SNS)- After his arrival here for a training course at the University of Alabama, a Negro airman was transferred Friday without having attended a class.
Pfc. Phillips J Evans, of the 347th School Squadron and 24 other soldiers arrived at the University Thursday from Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.
Pfc. Evans spent the night in McCorvey Hall, new three-story brick dormitory on the campus, but his bags were left packed. "I don't know what the trouble was," he said. "It was because I'm a colored fellow, I guess."
The University of Alabama has a contract with the air force to train a number of soldiers as clerks.
An Air Force spokesman said Pfc. Evans was transferred Friday morning "through a mistake in the records."
The spokesman also said Pfc. Evans was transferred Friday morning, but failed to disclose his destination.
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Tuscaloosa, Ala
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Thursday And Friday
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pfc. evans was transferred friday morning without attending a class; destination not disclosed; air force cited a mistake in records
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Pfc. Phillips J Evans, a Negro airman from the 347th School Squadron, arrived at the University of Alabama Thursday from Lackland Air Force Base for a training course as a clerk but was transferred Friday without attending class, spending the night in McCorvey Hall with bags packed; he attributed it to his race