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Arkansas State Press
Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas
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NAACP's Legal Department to sue Luckenbach Steamship Lines for $10,000 on behalf of Black messman Joseph DeBlanc, assaulted by white crewmember aboard SS James Fenimore Cooper, for retaining violent employee.
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NEW YORK CITY --The Legal Department of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People announced that it would take immediate action in behalf of a Negro messman who was brutally assaulted by a white crewmember aboard the Luckenbach Line's SS James Fenimore Cooper. NAACP atty, Louis R. Harolds disclosed that he has been assigned to represent the messman, Joseph DeBlanc, in a $10,000 damage suit against the Luckenbach Steamship Lines, charging that it acted wrongfully in continuing in its employ a person holding dangerous views and of intemperate and violent habits.
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brutally assaulted; $10,000 damage suit filed
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The Legal Department of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People announced it would take immediate action in behalf of a Negro messman who was brutally assaulted by a white crewmember aboard the Luckenbach Line's SS James Fenimore Cooper. NAACP atty Louis R. Harolds has been assigned to represent the messman, Joseph DeBlanc, in a $10,000 damage suit against the Luckenbach Steamship Lines, charging that it acted wrongfully in continuing in its employ a person holding dangerous views and of intemperate and violent habits.