The Augusta Courier

Interracial Party Atlanta Gets Too Loud For Neighbors

Georgia City Keeps Pace With Nation's Capital And "Chicky Baby's" Example

Washington and Atlanta are displaying model examples of race mixing for the elevation of the rest of the nation.

Sammy Davis, Jr., and his white wife were the most prominent entertainers at the Grand Ball in Washington for the inauguration of the new president.

It must be remembered that Peter Lawford, the actor-brother-in-law of John F. Kennedy, was one of the groomsmen at Sammy Davis' wedding in Hollywood recently.

When the President's sister, Mrs. Peter Lawford, went down the receiving line, she gleefully shouted to Sammy Davis: "How do you feel, Chicky Baby?"

And then, with a kiss, "Chicky Baby" replied to the President's sister, as follows: "Man, I feel electric."

Atlanta Society

THE ATLANTA JOURNAL, in its issue of Tuesday, January 17, 1961, carried on page 35 a story about what they call "an interracial party" in Atlanta.

The "party" was given in apartment 15 at 774 Piedmont Way by Miss Virginia Carolyn Haselgrove, age 23, and Miss Janet Feagans, age 25. Both are white.

At the party also were Miss Ann Masey, of 822 Penn Avenue, N. E., and Gordon L. Crane, age 29, of 3722 Peachtree Road, N. E., both of whom are white.

Also at the party were several Negroes. These Negroes are listed as Marion Shorter, age 37, and Henry Shorter, age 45, of 998 Westmoor Drive; Lorenzo Benn, 37, of 115 West Lake Avenue, and Alice Wyche, age 26, of 749 Baylor Street.

Interracial Affair

It was 1:54 o'clock on Sunday morning, the neighbors reported a disturbance in the two white girls' apartment where the interracial affair was taking place.

The police said: "Upon arrival we found the arrested subjects having a party. Some of them were drinking but none was considered intoxicated."

And then the police said that this wasn't the only time these kind of parties had been held in this apartment.

The police said: "This is the third call we have had on this location and until now we have heard no disturbance nor could we get anyone to prosecute."

Affairs of Negroes

Now, these affairs of Negroes and whites on mixed parties are getting to be a right common occurrence in the City of Atlanta.

Readers of the Courier will recall that we carried several stories about these race mixers and interracial parties in Atlanta last summer.

Since summer, we have had no bird-dog among them to report to us and, consequently, the only ones we are able to tell our readers about are the ones that get arrested or get their names in the Atlanta papers.

Common Occurrence

But, we have followed it long enough to know that it is becoming a very common occurrence.

But what could you expect in a country where the President's brother-in-law is groomsman at an interracial marriage and where the President's sister permits the Negro groom to kiss her and she shouts at him, "How do you feel, Chicky Baby?"

Yet, Ralph McGill and the race mixers still proclaim that this is not what they are advocating.

But whether it is or not, this is the end result of what they advocate.