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Volume XX — Number V
Durham, N. C., Friday, January 27, 1961
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North Carolina College at Durham students who were active in
sit-in demonstrations last year received the congratulations of the
Reverend Ralph Abernathy, who spoke at the College this week on
behalf of the Student Government Association. Rev. Abernathy^
above, goes over “non-violent strategy” with student leaders:
George Dunn, Kinston, N. C.; Guytanna Horton, Pittsboro, N. C.;
Doris Davis, Charlotte, N. C., and Donnie McNeill, Durham, N. C.
High Schools Join Association
Forty high schools in North
Carolina and Virginia joined
Southeastern Scholastic Publi
cations Association in the No-
vember-December membership
drive, it was announced at
North Carolina College today.
SSPA is an organization for*
high school journalists working
on newspapers and yearbooks. It
’■■as headquarters at North Caro-
na College.
The organization offers expert
clVIce on publication problems,
publishes a periodical devoted tq
problems and activities among
high school journalists, studies
and disseminates information on
vocational opportunities, and
sponsors an annual meeting at
North Carolina College.
This year’s meeting has been
set for April 7 and is expected
to attract over 500 students and
teachers from high schools in
North Carolina, South Carolina
and Virginia.
Mrs. Ruth Tillman of Person
County Training School is presi
dent of SSPA. H. G. Dawson, di
rector of the News Bureau at
North Carolina College, is exe
cutive secretary.
High schools joining SSPA in
the latest membership drive in
clude: Adkin High, Kinston;
Berry O’Kelly High, Method;
Booker T. Washington High,
Rocky Mount; Brawley High,
Scotland Neck; Camp High,
Shelby; George Washington
Carver High, Pinetops; Central
High, Gatesville; R. A. Clement
High, Cleveland; Conetoe High,
Conetoe; W. S. Creecy High,
Rich Square; Frink High, La-
Grange; J. H. Hayswood High,
Lumber ton; Henderson Insti
tute, Henderson; Hillside High,
Durham; Inborden High, En-.
field; P. S. Jones High, Washing
ton; Ligon High, Raleigh; Lin
coln High, Chapel Hill; Little
River High, Bahama; Mary
Potter High, Oxford; Merrick-
Moore High, Durham; Monroe
Avenue High, Hamlet; P. W.
Moore Junior-Senior High,
Elizabeth City; North Warren
High, Wise; Person County
High, Roxboro; Pitt County
Training, Grimesland; Pleasant
Grove High, Dunn; W. H. Robin
son High, Winterville; Second
Ward High, Charlotte; Shaw-
town High, Lillington; Spring
field High, Lucama; H. B. Sugg
High, Farmville; R. L. Vann
High, Ahoskie; West Charlotte
Senior High, Charlotte; West
End High, Clarksville, Va.; J. A.
Whitted Junior High, Durham.
Coeds To Study
In Quebec City
Two North Carolina College
co-eds have been selected to
study French during thj suri7
mer session at L’Universite
Laval in Quebec City, Canada.
The students, Betty Barnes and
Mary Alice Williamson, were
chosen because of their more-
than-ordinary interest in French
and their diligent studies beyond
the classroom.
Miss Barnes is a junior psy
chology major with a French
minor who hails from Weldon,
North Carolina. Miss William
son, a junior music major, is a
native of Clinton, North Caro
lina. She expects to have accu
mulated enough hours to have a
major in French as well.
The grant was made to these
students through Dr. George A.
Reynolds, an alumnus of Laval,
by the Director of the Summer
School, Monseigneur Alphones-
Marie Parent.
Miss Barnes and Miss Wil
liamson will be studying in -a
EYench university in an entirely
French atmosphere.
French Professor
At All for Summer
Dr. George A. Reynolds, pro
fessor of French at NCC has
been extended an invitation tO'
teach in the 1961 session of the
Atlanta University Summer
School. He will be expected to
teach three sessions in French
beginning June 12, 1961.
An article by Dr. Reynolds,
“Montesquieu: Quelques idees
sur I’influence exercee par le
climat sur la religion,” is sched-
xiled to appear in the March,
1961 issue of the College Lan
guage Association Journal.
Rev. Abernathy
Peaceful
Demonstrations
An Alabama minister, speak
ing at North Carolina College
recently, urged continued sit-in
demonstrations and intensified
economic boycotts as weapons
by Sothern Negroes in the fight
for integration.
Rev. Ralph Abernathy, who
succeeded Dr. Martin Luther
King as president of the Mont-
_ gomery Improvement Associa
tion, spoke before a mixed
audience of students and towns
people on behalf of the NCC
Student Government Associa
tion.
“Not only must we sit-in”,
Abernathy said, “but we must
stand-in, wade-in, and kneel-in
imtil we can walk-in as first
class American citizens.”
The young minister, who is
pastor of Montgomery’s First
Baptist Church, congratulated
the NCC students for their
demonstrations of the past year.
He said, however, that “the
struggle must continue, espe
cially in ct.opioymfen^ v'here no
dent has been made.”
“We must launch a nation
wide program of non-coopera
tion with the evil system of
segregation,” Abernathy con
tinued, “We must not spend our
money in any store where our
dollars are respected and our
persons disrespected. We must
not spend in places where we
cannot earn.”
Using as his subject, “Build
ing a Democratic Civilization
Amidst World Tensions, Frustra
tion, and Fears,” the visiting
cleric traced the history of racial
segregation from the 1850’s.
In the early days, he said,
Negroes used “deceptive weap
ons,” speaking what they
thought others wanted them to
Bay, and in a manner thought to
be required of them.
As a result, he continued, the
Southern politician came to feel
that only a few “agitators” were
(continued on page 3)
Protest Leader
Heads NAACP
Callis N. Brown, sit-in protest
leader, has resigned from hisi
post in the Student Government!
to serve as president of the lo
cal chapter of the NAACP.
The former Commissioner of
Student Affairs revealed his de
cision in an interview with
Echo reporters shortly after the
NAACP election which ruled
him president. Said Brown, “Be
cause of my rigid schedule I feei
that I should devote most of my
time to the study of law and the!
functions of the NAACP. Thia
way I should be able to do a
much better job as president of
the group.”
The incumbent stated further
that this move is in no way con
nected with the activities of the
publishers of the “Eagle’s Eye’,
a paper designed to unseat SG
president, Lacy Streeter.
Commerce Day
Slated for March
The Department of Commer
cial Education at North Carolina
College is in the process of pre
paring for the Tenth Commerce
Day, March 17, 1961.
The purpose of this activity is
to bring the high school and in
terested college students to the
campus to share with them the
advances of the field of com
merce.
Some of the main activities
will be machine demonstrations,
a tour of campus, an outstanding
speaker (not known as yet), and
the annual State Typing Contest.
The State Typing Contests are
constituted by three divisions
according to number of (semes
ters a student has taken typing.
The contests are for interested
high school and college students.
Approximately 1,000 students
(continued on page 10)
These actors and actresses are seen in a scene from “Carmen”
an English production of the Italain opera. This opera will be pre
sented here in the B. N. Duke Auditorium by members of the Na
tional Opera Company on February 8.
Demonstration
Against Movie
Houses Begins
“I don’t have no comment”,
replied Crawford, the manage*
of the Carolina theater as he
watched the three sign-bearera
marching in front of the en
trance.
The executive, red-faced and
affecting a grim though super
ficial composure, refused to
identify the owner of the con
cern or to comment on the box-
office effect of the protest
against the theater’s segregation
policy.
High school and college stu
dents began picketing the Cen
ter and Carolina theaters a
week ago. Since then, the Cen
ter has closed the “colored” sec
tion but no indication of de
segregation in the “white” sec
tion has evolved. The Carolina
has closed neither section.
E^o reporters were further
humiliated by Crawfords re
quiring them to wait ta th«
“colored” section for an inter
view. The lobby had alreajiy be
gun to accumulate dust because
of disuse, although it ie still
open for business. /'
At the Center^, theat^j/ roi;#o^-^
ters were met by a genial, co
operative man named i Lewis,
who identifies himself as the
manager. Lewis held that public
feeling in Durham is opposed to
desegregated movie facilities;
therefore, any such move would
hurt his business. As to how his
personal feelings are with re
spect to desegregation, the man
ager declined comment. Lewis
said that his policy was to pro
vide a clean, decent place for
his customers, white and black.
Since the protest was ap
parently a “secret” movement,
few NCC students were aware
that it was in progress. The
leaders, if any, of the protest
(from the NCC campus) could
not be reached for comment.
The manager of the Center
theater declared that no one had
negotiated the matter with him.
Students Protest
"Alcatraz” Exam
Students of Dramatic Art 10*
are floating a petition denoun
cing the final exam, which ha*
been called unreasonable and
even childish.
The exam was given in B. N.
Duke auditorium with about 20#
students participating.
Among the many outcries
were complaints that the test
was poorly constructed, the di
rections vague and confusing,
and there were enough proctors
on hand to staff a prison. The
proctors included the Dean oi
Men, and also the head of the
music department.
When last seen, the petition
contained over 100 signatures.
Although the grades had not yet
been posted, most of the stu
dents feel that the results can in
no manner accurately judge the
student’s knowledge.
Miss Mary L. Bohanon is the
head of the Drama Department.