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*8IEni£ HOST TO IME MEH ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ -k it if ★ ★ ★ NAACP Secretory Asks Investigation Till Case The Cmvlina Ttme$ fa The OUmtt And Widest Read Negro NetMpaper In The Two Caroikim. PRICE 10c PAY NO MORE VOLUME h — NUMBEB 47 DUBBAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1955 PRICE TEN CENTS AMEZ Annual Conference Here AME Conference In 63rd Annual Session In Mountain City ASHEVILLE The 6Srd an&ual Mnion of W«tt«m North Carolina Conference, opened here Wed., when delegates representing the African Methodist Episco pal denomination from as far east as Raleigh, converged upon the city. . The Rt. Rev. Frank Madison Reid, who was appointed to preside over the Conference at the dnth of Bishop L. H. Hem- mlDway, opened the confab xfiA'^tss ured the delegates and visitors that it was a profound pleasure to preside over the his toric Conference. The first day s^ion featur ed the Holy Communion and organization. The Conf^nce Is expected to not only m a suc cessful one, but will be full of interest, due to the fact that It will be the last one before the meeting of the general con ference in May, at Miami. A (Please turn to Page Kgbt) BISHOP F. M Integration Working It Fhrida Base; Whites Teacli Yoluntarily Desegregation is working in 27 Army post schools located in 10" SoutHem Ihd border states as white and Negro teachers engage in the ioint ef fort of tralqing tha bi-racial groups of childrsn committed to their care. The only excep tions era at army posts at JPort Meade, Md., and Pine Bluff, Arksansas, where thd army has extended its deadline. In the "Deek> South,** the army runs the schools since local officials refuse to operate integrated schools. According to Lee Nicholas United Press Staff Correspon dent who visited four typical post schools, two in FloHda and Texas were integrated this fall, one in Alabama last fall and the fourth in Georgia, in Sept. 1903. Across the South, where schools have been racially se gregated for generations and many spokesmen loudly oppose any change, Negro and white children are sitting together in classrooms on military posts without fuss of fanfare. Whlte'Yeach VdturUarfly ~ The percentage of Negro pu pils involved is tiny compared with most nearby communities. Their parents usually rai>k well above the economic and educa tion levels of surrounding Ne gro cottonfleld hands and la borers. Many of the white mili tary personnel involved are from northern states wher« school integration is an accept* ed fact. Moreover, military people are accustomed to obey ing orders. But Southern white civilian teachers are teacliing voluntari ly in the integrated p6st schools. Southern parents send their children off to school dal ly with Negro youngsters. And some Southern educators and observers are watching the military experiment closely as a pilot operation that may help point the way to eventual com pliance with the U. S. Supreme (Please turn to Page Eight) N. B. White, preddaat of the Dor ham Business and Profsa- sioaal Ohala wtmmia a ehaek to Ited SatloB, wliuier of Om New York trip la the Cfeala’t “Trade Week Sales Promotlea COBtfSt” Showa afeova aro: tnm left. Dr. S. B. Fnlbrlght, ooirtest ehalmuui; I. O. FondioriHrf, eaabler of Meehanlea add Fannen Bank, where the wtai* Blag tieket was drawa; Mr. 8«tt«a; Mr. White aa* B. Kelly Bryaat, Jr., leeratary. LAST RITES HELD FOR REV. R. W. UNDERWOOD, AGE AT MT. ZION BAPTIST CHURCH CIOLDSBORO iLast rites for the Rev. R. W. Underwood, age 65, who died at Manorial Hoq>ital, Monday, November 14, iTere held at the Mount Zion Baptist Church, Wednesday^ at.l p.m. k The Doctor 9- H. James, pas tor of the B^«an Baptist Chur ch of Brooklyn, New York was in charge of the ceremony. Rev. Underwood’s death tame as the climax to two months illness. Appearing on the funeral ceremony were Dr. P. A. Bisluq> of Rich Square, president the General Bap tist State Convention of North Carolina: Dr. W. R. Strassner, president of Shaw University, Raleigh; Bishop H. V. Plvon- mer, ciurent president of the Hamptoo Minister’s Interdeno- minatlgjiU Conference, Hamp ton, Virgtnia, and Rev. J. A. Nintno of Gromyille, pres^- «eot iat#'s Alliance and B. J. Bur nette, who represented the lO' cal churches. Rev. Underwood was born in Sampson County, near CUo- ton, the son of Rev. Charles T. Underwood and Mrs. Aeline Underwood. During his minis try, he pastored some of the leading Baptist churches of the state, in Goldsboro and Rocky Mount. He received his educa tion at the Joseph K. Brick School and Shaw Unlve^ty. The later school conferred up on him several yean ago an honorary Dr. of Divinity De gree. At the time of his death. Dr. Underwood was pastor of the Mount Zion Baptist 'Church. Under bts leadership, the church had grown in spiritual and numerical strength, until it was considered one of the' lead ing of eastern North Carolina churches. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Beatrice Everett Underwood; three sons, Rufus W. Under wood, Jr., Charles T., and Gerald Leonard Underwood; to]!, Mrs. Leoora . Robinson, Mrs. Addie Faison and Mrs. Madessa Anderson, all of New York. Interment was at Elmwood Cemetery in Goldsboro. ariL RIGHTS iSSUE^ C. C DIGGS m IKE TO CALL SPKIU SESSION or CONGIiESS WASHINGTON,« C. Michigan’s Congressman C. C. Diggs, Jr., tias appealed to President EUsenhower to call a Special Session of Congress to deal with the_^ issue of Civil Rights. “ , The Democratic Representa tive in a letter to the President also asked that “positive speci fic strongly worded statement” on the Administration’s stand on Civil Rights be included in the State of the Union message that the Chief Elxecutive is now preparing. Diggs expressed happiness for Mr. Bisenhower’s recovery and disclosed that It bad been his (Diggs) intention to request a Special Session after return ing in September from the Em mett Till trial in Sumner, Mias. He withheld his appeal, how ever, imtil the President had recuperated. Congressman Diggs pointed oqt four areas of Civil Rights that 'he deemed important enough to justify the immediate attention of the House and Se nate. They are: (1) Restriction on voting privileges at Negroes In the South; (2) Need for le gislation to strengthen the au thority of the Justice Depart ment to intervene where civil liberties threatened; (3) segregation in interstate trans portation and (4) the need for a national ruling to end dis crimination in employm^t. A copy of Congressman Diggs letter to the President fbllows: Hon. Dwight D. Eisenhower President of the United States White House Washington, D. C. Dear Mr. President: I Join all Ajneriea and multi tudes elsewhere in sincere gra titude for the progress of your recuperation and share their prayers for your quick and per manent return to normal heal th. Juat before your illness, I had planned to urge your con sideration of a Special Session of Congress to deal with demo- (Please turn to Page Eight) DR. B. F. SMITH NCC Librarian Nmed Director State Association Dn Benjamin F. Smith, L'i- ftnirtenJames £. Shep- iird MsqupnliJ jVor^H OM. - ndrAed one 'of fhe dinctori of thi CoHege and University sec tion of the Integrated North Carolina Library Association. The North Carolina Library Association met here recently at the Sheraton Hotel. It was the fffif' session tri whicTi Ne groes and whites participated on and integrated basis. The NCLA in 1954 began to admit atialified Negroes who formerly were affiliated with the North Carolina Negro Li brary Association. The Negro unit was schedul ed to Hold what is believed to be its last session as a separate unit in Charlotte, North Caro- lino, on Novembtx 4 and 5. Governor Asks Federal Probe bi Till Slaying SPRINGFIELD, lU. Illinois' Governor Stratton, whose name is being mentioned as a possible republican presi dential nominee in ‘56, sent a letter to Attorney General BrowneU this week asking mat the case of Emmett Till get a federal investigation. Stratton cited that Emmett— a “citizen of Illinois was abduc ted and t»-utally murdered...lt 4iow appsani tboss sible for this tra|lc crime are not being brought to justice.” Stratton made public his let ter after the Leflore County grand jury in Miss, refused to (Please turn to Page Eight) Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority To Admit Negroes By Order Of U. S. District Court COLUMBUS, OHIO The Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority was oMered last week to put an end 'to its policy of refusing to lease to Negro applicants any public housing unit controlled and managed by the city Housing Authority. The order was issued by Chief Judge Mel G. Underwood of the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio at Columbus. It permanently enjoined the Columbus Housing Authority from “denying the plaintiff, and members of the class the plaintiff represents, the right to lease any unit 'of the housing controlled and managed by said defenants... solely because of the race and color of said plaintiff...” Three of ColuSibus’- four pub lic housing projects have hitherto been closed to Negro tenants. Judge Underwood’s order will open all projects on a non-segregated basis. The suit was filed by attor neys for the Columbus Branch of the NAACP la bohalf of Owan Ward and ssvoral othor Nagro fUnilias who sought and were refused admission to the three all-white projects. Attorneys for the Negro were William H. Brooks, John Fran cis and Mary E. Durham of Co lumbus, and Constance - Baker Motley of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund staff in New York. Rev. J. A. Delaine Fights Return To South Carolina The Rev. J. A. DeLaine, mili tant champion of racial rights, who was forced to flee South Carolina atiout six weeks ago to escape mobsters and terrorists, is now fighting attempts to re turn him to tliat state to face with probable conviction, tri- umped up charges and fabri cated violations of law. But he will not face the figiit unaided as is evidenced in the raising of $2,129 in his behalf at the Bridge Street A.M:E Church last week. Both he and his wife spdke at the Brooklyn mass Meeting. Rsfv. DoUlno, who has bosn rafarrod to as South Carolina's “fugitive from injustico,” de clared that he had been hound ed by persecution for six years since he started the fight for (Please turn to Page Bight) Bishop Jones To Preside Over Central N. C. Meet; St. Mark Is Host Church The 77th Annual Session of the Central North Carolina Conference of the African Me thodist Episcopal Zion Church will cofivene at the St. Mark AME Zion Church, beginning on Wednesday, Nov. 23rd, and ending on Sunday Nov. 27th, with the reading of the pastors’ and layworkers’ appointments. Bishop R. L. Jones of Salis bury, presiding Bishop o{ the 7th Episcopal District, will be in charge and preside over the conference. The session will get underway at 11:00 on the morning of November 23. Rev. H. S. Gillespie will deliver the opening sermon, and the Lord’s Supper will be administered. The evening service will be featured with an Annual ser mon by Rev. W. W. Carson. Music will be rendered by the five choirs of the St. Mark Church. Ctee«tings will be brougbt hv the foUowing persona: On be half of the Church—Ado^h Coward; On behalf of the CXty- Councilman R. N. Harris; On b^alf of Education—^Or..A. El- On- hehaii ai Btujweis and ^bor—J. W. Goodloe; On be- laK of the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance—^Rev C. E. McLester. BISHOP B. L. JONES Wilkins Sends Atty. General MessageUrginglntervention In Mur&r Or 14-Yeor-Old Boy ROSCOEDUNJEETOBEHONORB) AT BANQUEI ON IHE FORnEIH ANNIVBISARr OF HIS PiPBi OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. Roscoe Dunjee, editor of The Black Dispatch and member of the NAACP’s board of direc tors, will be honored here at a banquet next week on the oc casion of the firtieth anniver sary of his well-known weekly newspaper. Principal speaker at the ban- Homecoming At Shiloh Baptist Church Sunday MORRISVILLE Homecoming Day will be ob served at the Shiloh Baptist Church, Morrisville, Sunday. November 20. The regular morning service will be held at 11:00 o’clock with preaching by the pastor. The Rev. L. W. Reid, pastor of the New Bethal Baptist Church, Wsat Durham, will ba th» guast spaokar in tha aftwr- nooa. His coafragatloa and choir will accompany him. Dinner will be served follow ing the morning service. Rev. J. H. Jones, pastor, ex tends a cordial welcome to all. quet, scheduled for Nov. 18, will be Thurgood Marshall, NAACP special counsel. In addition to sponsoring the banquet, a Citizens’ Testimoni al Committee For Roscoe Dun jee is attempting to raise suffi cient funds to enable the 73- year-old editor to travel abroad in Africa, long a desire of the militant civil rights defender. NAACP Urges FBI Probe NEW YORK Attorney General Herbert Brownell has again been called upon to intervene in the kid naping of 14-year-old Emmett ^ Till in view of the acquittal of his accused killers and the re fusal of the LeFlore County . Srand jury to _in$ct. them on I the kidnap cliarge. I In a telegram to tdx. Brown- I ell, Roy WUkins, NAACP exe cutive secretary, today pointed out that the jurors in the mur der trial based their verdict on the claim that the body was not that of Young TUI, who had been missing since August 2S. If this is so, Wilkins told the Attorney General, “the clear The testimony banquet pregumpUon is that his (TUI’s) will coincide wiUi the closing kidnapers have carried him across a state boundary bring ing the case within the jurisdic- of the Oklahoma Conference of NAACP Branches’ Silver Anni versary meeting. The confer- ^ federal Bureau at ence, first of its kind in the investi^tion under the Liad- U. S. when it was organized 25 years ago by Btr. Dunjee, is ex pected to pay tribute to the edi tor. Dinner For Blind Persons Set For Raleigh YHCA RALEIGH Tha aaaual Ltoas duk rr»> Thanksgiving Day DizuMr to blind persons of Wake County will be' givo) at the Bloodw-rth StrMt YMCA, Friday. Nov. 18 (Pleas* turn to Page Eight) berg act.” The text of the tele gram foUows: A jury in Tallahatc;hlc Coun> ty. Miss., has acquited two men. charged with the murtter of 14- year old Emmett tlU oo tbe ground that the body recovered from the Tallahatchie Rives was not that of the missing youth. In neighboring LePlorc County a grand jury yesterday refused to indict the men w> a kidnap charge although they had previously admitted taking the boy from the hoiae of his great uncle and were Ideatl- fled by wltneasas. In view at the acquittal and tfte rstiMal ta indict, NAACP again urfss Da- partment of Justice to *“**■ (Please tuni to Pagt llgkt)
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