Orlando Sentinel: Central FLorida Negro Edition, Monday, May 10, 1965

Orlando, FL, 1965. Fair. photos, Six pages (numbered 1-4, 3C, 4C). Newsprint. 38 x 58 cm Paper moderately browned. Later vertical fold in addition to reguler horizontal fold. Modest splitting where fols intersect. The Orlando Sentinel newspaper was still segregating news about African Americans into a separate section like this when this issue appeared. We don't know how often such sections were produced or just when this newspaper stopped segregating news about African Americans. The Reverend Canon Nelson Wardell Pinder, a African American who came to Orlando in 1959, seems to be credited locally with having had positive role in helping Orlando integrate its lunch counters more or less peacefully and in persuading the Orlando Sentinel to stop restricting news about African Americans to these separate sections. This issue of their Negro Edition includes an opinion piece by Roy Wilkins titled "White South Dissenters Change Slowly.