President Truman did more than any other man to combat prejudice during 1948, it was announced today by the Irving Geist Foundation Awards Committee, set up by the Foundation and the Newspaper Guild of New York to select news material that made an outstanding contribution to interfaith understanding or combatted racial, religious or nationalistic prejudices.
Herbert Bayard Swope, Lewis Gannett, Russell Crouse, Ed Sullivan and A.H. Raskin, Judges for the Awards, held that the Report of the Committee on Civil Rights, originated by the President and reaffirmed in his State of the Union message to Congress, had inspired the most far-reaching news stories on the subject during the year.
The first prize of $500 was awarded to Ray Springle for his series of articles, “In The Land of Jim Crow.” The second prize of $300 was awarded to Dorothy Nor-man for articles in her daily column, “A World to Live In.” The $200 third prize was divided between Selma Robinson for her feature article, “New Seed on American Soil,” and Herbert Mitgang for his article, “Created Equal?” The awards will be made at a luncheon at the Biltmore Hotel Jan. 31. They were established by the Irving Geist Foundation to further interfaith understanding and combat racial, religious arid nationalistic prejudices.
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