Barred for Reasons of Color

Naturally, Dr. Percy L. Julian's name was on the list when a group of outstanding industrialists and scientists were invited to a private luncheon at Chicago's exclusive Union League Club last week. After all, Dr. Julian, "Chicagoan of the Year" in 1950, is a research director for the Glidden Co. (paint, etc.), and a top chemist who has invented, among other things, a process for synthetic manufacture of experimental drugs for treating arthritis. But when the Union League Club saw his name on the list it said he could not come to the club. Reason: the club's directors had "issued a rule barring Negroes."

Said Scientist Julian, whose home in suburban Oak Park has twice been vandalized since he bought it a year ago: "It appears to me that organizations like the Union League Club are as directly responsible as any other agency for such un-American incidents as the bombing of my home and the Cicero riot. When individuals in high places behave as the Union League Club behaves, ordinary citizens follow suit."

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