On May 1, 1948, Sen. Glen Hearst Taylor (D-Idaho) was arrested in Birmingham, Alabama, for trying to enter a meeting through a door marked for "Negroes" rather than using the “whites only” door, and convicted of disorderly conduct. Taylor was in Birmingham to address the Southern Negro Youth Congress.On May 1, 1948, Sen. Glen Hearst Taylor (D-Idaho) was arrested in Birmingham, Alabama, for trying to enter a meeting through a door marked for "Negroes" rather than using the “whites only” door, and convicted of disorderly conduct. Taylor was in Birmingham to address the Southern Negro Youth Congress.
On May 1, 1948, Sen. Glen Hearst Taylor (D-Idaho) was arrested in Birmingham, Alabama, for trying to enter a meeting through a door marked for "Negroes" rather than using the “whites only” door, and convicted of disorderly conduct. Taylor was in Birmingham to address the Southern Negro Youth Congress.