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| Uneasy Torrance Peace
| Negroes to Move
On More Builders:
® REACTION to Marlon Brando’s charge of
racial bias in movie industry. Page A-2.
An uneasy peace hung over the integration-|
roubled Southwood housing tract of Torrance yester-
lay as a Negro family prepared to move into the
iouse on which developer
jon Wilson accepted a $500
leposit Friday.
| There were no pickets at
he tract, no demonstrators
and few sightseers.
WIDEN DRIVE
In reality, however, the
peace at Southwood was lit-
ile more than a temporary
armistice. Attorney Thomas
Neusom of the National As-
sociation for the Advance-
ment of Colored People said
his group intends to bring
pressure on other builders,
now.
“We will start work im-
mediatelygon every builder
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of tract homes in Southern
California,” he said. “Those
who don’t agree to inte-
grate will face mass dem-
onstrations and picketing.”
Other Negro leaders were
jubilant over their “victory”
though, and the Rev. H. H.
Brookins said the agreement
reached with Wilson was an
“important breakthrough” in
jending all segregation in this
area.
Wilson, on the other hand,
denied that he had ever dis-
criminated against Negro
buyers.
“As I have _ previously
stated,” he said, “it has not
been and is not my policy to
discriminate ih the sale of my
homes—ane a statement to
that effect will be posted in
my sales offices from now
on.”
ACCEPTS DEPOSIT
He accepted the deposit Fri-
day from Negro attorney Odis
Jackson on a _ single-story,|,
three - bedroom Southwood
home priced at $30,000.
Jackson said he had
picked the Southwood home
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