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‘‘I still Have Faith in My Country” - ■ - Miss Lucy
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“There ig nothing that anyone
in Alabama orlany place else
can do which will checlc my
faith in ultimate Justice within
the democratic principles,” de
clared Miw Autherine Lucy
here today.
At a crowded press confer
ence held in the Wendell Wilkie
Memorial Building under the
auspices of NAACP, the young
woman who on Feb. 29 was per
manently expelled from the
University of Alabama said, “I
still maintain my faith in my
country.”
The university expelled Miss
Lucy, its first Negro student, the
same day that her reinstate
ment on the campus was order
ed by a federal court in Bir
mingham, Ala. She flew to New
York with Thurgood Marshall,
NAACP special counsel, and
Mrs. Constance Baker Motley,
NAACP assistant special coun
sel, to consult physicians and, as
put it, "to get a rest from the
terrific strain I have been under
since this case began.” |
In the short statement she
read to the press. Miss Lucy said
she was “completely dishearten
ed” by the expulsion action of
the university.
“At the time," she continued,
“I intend to continue not to be
angry or to bear iUwill to {Iny-
one.”
She said she has “authorized”
her lawyers to "take whatever
steps are necessary” to "test the
validity or invalidity of this
latest action of the Board of
Trustees.’’
Suffering from exhaustion,
Miss Lucy left immediately af
ter reading her statemmt. Re-
poHers’ questions about her case
were answered by Mr. Marshall,
who had accompanied her to the
press conference.
Asserting that "we will not
allow aaybody by any action to
make us angry or to make us
emotional about this,” B(r. Mar
shall said that a decision vrill be
made later on legal action on
Miss Lucy’s case.
aCss Lucy was admitted to
the University uf Alabama on
Feb. 1 by a federal court order
after almost four years of legal
battle. She was temporarily su
spended from classes on Feb. 6,
following several mob demon
strations and threats on her life.
In order to get her readmitted
to the imiversity. Miss Lucy’s
lawyers had filed contempt
charges, based on preliminary
informatioa available at the
time, against the university offi
cials. ,However, upon thorough
investigation it was discovered
that the charges could not be
supported by competent legal
evidence, at the hearing on Feb.
29, the charges were with
drawn by her lawyers.
These charges—Uiat univer
sity authorities had conspired
with the mob to force her tem
porary expulsion from the cam-
pus—^were citcd by tb* OBivOT-
sity trustee* as their reason for
permanently expelling her.
Marshall- observed that the
reason used to expel Mias Lucy
was not the real ooe. Her law
yer’s complaint was Hied time
weeks ago, he recalled, and tlM
university had sufficient time to
act before the Judge ordered ber
admission.
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VOLUME 32 — NUMBER 10
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1956
PRICE: TEN CENTS
1,000 ATTEND CIVIL RIGHTS MEETING
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Farm Agents’ Supervisor Shot To DeatK By Agent
Negro Leaders
Hold Meet At
Holly Knoll
CAPAHOSIC, Va.
A group of pi'ominent educa
tional and civic leaders met
here at HoUy Knoll over the
week-end, (March 3-4), at the
invitation of the Phelps-Stokes
Fund, for an informal discussion
of the problems of race relations
in the United Slates. Particular
attention was devoted to an as
sessment of some of the recent
developments, along with their
implications, in this troubled
area.
Among other topics, the
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Noted Minister
To Speak At
NCC Sunday
Dr. James T. Cleland of Duke>
University, one of he nation’s
leading clergyman, will speak
to a vesper audience in Duke
Auditorium at North Carolina
College at 4:30 p.m. Sunday,
March 11.
At Duke University since
1945 as James B. Duke Profes
sor of Preaching in the Divinity
School, and Dean of the Chapel,
Dr. Cleland has held teaching
positions with Glasgow Univer
sity, Eidenburgh, Scotland; Am
herst College, Mass.; the Union
Theological Seminary in New
York, ^nd in the Pacific School
of Rehgion, Berkeley, Califor
nia.
He is also an author of note.
Best known of his publications
are “Best Sermons,” 1949-1950;
The Interpreter'll Bible, Volumes
II and rV; “The True and Lively
World” and ‘ Occasional Ser
mons.”
The general public is invited.
Music will be furnished by the
North Carolina Choir.
Other March speakers, accor
ding to Dr. J. Neal Hughley,
college minister, are the Rev.
Wilson Q. Welch of Fisk Uni
versity, March 18; and Dr. R. I.
McKinney’s speech at 4:30 Sun
day afternoon, March 25, will be
the day’s second message Inau
gurating Religious Emphasis
Week. The Rev. Harry B. Smith
of Chapel Hill will speak to the
college Sunday School «t 9:30
a.m. in Religious Emphasis
Week’s first address.
Picttered o{>ot)i *Jirc toUie ^
the principals in the recent ar
rest of Clarence M. MitchM, di
rector of the Washington Bu
reau of the National Association
Atoaiicinient'of Colored
People in Florence, South Caro
lina. Mitchell was arrested
token he refused to use the Ne
gro entrance at the railway
waiting to&m in Florev£e,'
was quickly released wheH
Judge William Smith ordered a
nol pros of the charges of viola
ting South Carolina’s antiquated
segregation law. Mitchell
shown in the venter of the pic
ture. At hs right it Attorney L.
C. Jenkins. Attorney William W.
Bennett is third from the right.
Last Rites Held For
Mrs. Rosa Cletand
Last rites were held for Mrs.
Rose Etta Cleland at the St.
Joseph AME Church last Mon
day morning at 10:30 o’clock.
The pastor. Rev. D. A. Johnston,
officiated. He was assisted by
the Rev. T. C. Graham, pastor
of the West Durham Baptist
Church, and the Rev. Fred Hun
ter, Rector of the St. Titus P. E.
Church.
Mrs. Cleland was the widow
of the late Rev. W. C. Cleland,
former pastor of the St. Joseph
Church here and the St. Paul
AME Church, Rnleigh. Rev. Cle
land, also served his church as
a presiding elder in the Durham
District
She was also the mother of
Dr. W. C. Cleland, local pedia
trician, member and secretary
of the Lincoln Hospital medical
staff, and former president of
the Old North State Medical
Society. !
Although she had been an in
valid for th« past ten years, Mrs
Cleland did not become severe
ly stricken until some 18 days
ago. She died last Saturday
morning at Lincoln Hospital
just a little over a month away
from her 86th birthday.
A native of Hickory, Mrs.
Cleland was born on April 6,
1870. Her parents wer.e the late
Julius and Harriet Collette
Alexander Cleland.
She attended the City schools
of Hickory, KIttrell College,
Kittrell; Knoxville College,
Knoxville, Tenn; and th^ Na
tional Religious Training School.
She was hiarried to the late
Rev. Cleland, December 25,
1905. Two sons were bom to
this imlon, the late Frederick
C. Cleland and William Alex
ander Cleland of the home.
She first came Here to live in
1918 and remained until 1923,
during which time her hiislmnd
served as pastor of the St. Jo
seph Church. She served
throughout his pastorate here as
teacher of the Maxahalia Sun
day School Class. Leaving Dur
Former Durham Pastor Found
Dead AtSawMill NearNorganton
MRS. ROSA E. CLELAND
ham in 1923, Mrs. Cleland re
turned in 1946 to make her
home with her son.
For a number of years, Mrs.
Cleland was active as school
teacher. She taught in her na
tive Hickory, Roxboro and Le
noir. EUie was principal of a
school in Hickory at one time
and also served as matron at
KittreU CoUege.
Surviving Mrs. Cleland are
her son and several cousins.
Interment was in the family
plot in Hickory.
Found Guilty In
Homicide Case
LENOIR
A 48-year-old Negro woman
was found guilty of manslaugh
ter last week by a ]ury of 12
inen, but sentence was not pass
ed inunediately.
The woman, Mrs. Novella
Hemphill, 43, on last October
10, shot off the side of her hus
band’s head with a shot gun.
The killing occurred at the
home where the woman and her
63-year-old husband Willie UV'
ed.
MORGANTON
Mystery surrounds the death
of the Rev. H. A. Washington,
former pastor of the old CME
Church on Matthew Street,
whose body fully clothed, in-
clu-' ^ his hat, was 'found
ursday, March 1, at an old
sawmill site near here.
The 70-year-old minister, ac
cording to information given
Sheriff Roy A. Sigmon, had
been on a visit with his wife to
Winston-Salem where he for
merly pastored the St. James
Methodist Episcopal Church.
Late Friday while on tiie way
back to Tyron, the couple had
car trouble and remained stall
ed in the car all night.
They were able to get the car
fixed Saturday morning, but
five miles southwest of Morgan-
ton, their car v/us involved in a
coUisioh.
Mrs. Emily Washington, the
minister’s wife and other oc
cupants of the car were taken
to a hospital.
, Apparently badly dazed, but
showing no outward evidence of
injury, the Rev. Mr. Washing
ton was unable to remember
where his wife was and started
a search for her as he incoher
ently told persons in Morganton
who saw him.
A taxicab driver reported
driving Rev. Wasiiington around
for about two hours, but un
able to get from him any
specific directions, brought him
back to where he had picked
him up. The minister then, he
said, walked down toward a
lake.
He told some small boys fish
ing in the lake, they report, that
he was looking for his wife.
In the meantime, his wife re
leased from the hospital, re
turned home and her concern
by his failure to return resulted
in the instituting of a search
which lasted untl the minister’s
body was discovered at the old
sawmill site.
Harry Setzer, acting Burke
County Coroner, said the Tyron
pastor had made his way from
Morganton about 12 miles south
REV. WASHINGTON
on Highway 13 and then had
walked about two miles off the
highway to the sawmill site
where he collapsed.
His watch, wallet and other
personal effects found on the
minister indicated no foul play,
the coroner pointed out.
Leaders Vow To Continue
Fight For Equal Riglits
Legislation By Congress
300 Expected
For Alpha Meet
Here March 30-31
Ourhamites are showing "ex
cellent spirit and cooperation”
in making room in their homes
for the more than 300 delegates
expected to attend the Alpha
Phi Alpha Southern Regional
•Convention here March 30-31. -
This was the report of H. R.
Edwards, the fraternity’s chair
man of the committee on regis
tration and housing made at a
meeting of the group last week.
The report also revealed that
numerous delegates are bring
ing their wives to the Regional
Convention.
Edwards said contacts have,
been made throughout the city
in an effort to take; care of the
large numbers expected to in
vade the city for the Alpha
meeting. Additional emphapis is
being placed on the convention
because of the celebration this
year of Alpha Phi Alpha’s Semi
centennial.
Sierving with Edwards on the
registration and housing com
mittee are Dr. C. D. Watts W.
P. Kearney, O. B. Coward, M.
A. Blount, and Rev. W. T.
Brown.
The local Beta Theta Lambda
Chapter (graduate) and Gamma
Beta (undergraduate) are ser
ving as co-sponsors of the con
vention. .
DR. BENJ. E. MAYS
May^s To Speak
Pn Chapel Hill
Sunday, Mar. 11
CHAPEL, HILL
Br.'Benjamin E. Mays, Presi
dent of Morehouse College, At
lanta, Georgia, will preach at
the Sunday morning worship
service of the Community Chur
ch of Chapel Hill at 11:00 a.m ,
March 11. The service will be
held in Hill Music Hall. Dr.
Charles Jones is pastor.
Dr. Mayes graduated with
honors from Bates College,
Lewiston, Maine. He received
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WASHINGTON, D. C.
More than a thousand certi
fied delegates representing 51
co-operating organizations ga
thered at the Metropolitan Bap
tist Church, 1225 R Street, NW..
this city, for the biennial Dele
gate Assembly for Civil Rights
Sunday afternoon, and received
instructions regarding calling
upon their respective congres
sional representatives in the in
terest of civil rights legislation
it this session of Congress.
General chairman of the as
sembly was Roy Wilkins, execu
tive secretary of the NAACP.
around which the SO other na
tionally kno\im organizations
rallied." Fully one-third ot the
delegates were white citucens
from the industrial labor unions
and religious groups. Some of
them were: AME Zion Church,
American Civil Liberties Un
ion, American Council on Hu
man Righs, AfL CIO, ADA,
American Jewish Congress,
IBPOEW, Brotherhood Sleeping
Car Porters, Congress of Racial
Equality, NAPiS, CME Church,
Catholic Interracial Council, Na
tional Baptist Convention. USA,
United Auto Workers and
NNPA, to mention a few.
Charles A. Zimmerman of the
International Lady Garment
Workers Union, was chairman
of the opening meeting with
Wilkins and Clarence Mitchell,
Washington Bureau head, as
sisting. Citing the need for af
firmative action on the part of
Congress in btHialf of civil
rights legislation, none o! which
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Molton Zaciiary Killed By
Farm Agent Who Later
Fails In Suicide Attempt
DR. SIDNEY T. JAMES,
prominent Durham business
man who died at his home here
Wednesday, March o, at dsbj P.
M., following an illness of three
years. Funeral arrangements
had not been completed at press
time Wednesday nftemoon.
BOY SCOUTS
INVITED TO
ANTARCTIC
The'Occoneechee Council, Boy'
Scouts of America, lias^^b^n in
vited to submit one or more of
its members to serve as a junior
scienticlfic aid to the Antarctic
bases of the United States Na
tional Committee for the Inter
national Geophysical Year dur
ing the years of occupation
1957-58. A number of other
Scout councils ere also receiv
ing invitations at this time.
•Some months ago. Admiral
Richard E. Byrd, a member of
the National Council, a member
of the National Court of Honor,
and the recipient pf the Silver
Buffalo Award personally
pressed a keen desire, based on
the record made In his previous
expeditions, to have a member
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Molton R. Zachary, district
agent of the A. and T. College
Extension Service, was killed
last Thursday morning, Mar. 5,
by shots allegedly fired by Tal-
madge Mitchell, assistant coun
ty farm agent for Pitt County
Mitchell, reportedly turned the
gun on himself and was crittcal
ly injured. The incident occured
in Greenville. North Carolina.
GREENVILLE
Molton R. Zachary, 38, dis
trict supervisor of the A4T Col
lege Extension Service, was shot
and killed, here on Monday
(March 5) about noon. S. G.
Git>bs, police chief, stated' that
his investigation Indicated that
Talmadge MitcheU. 34. assistant
county agent for Pitt County,
had shot Zachary and then
wounded hlmse'f.
The shooting and alleged at
tempted suicide took place in
the Pitt County agent s office
following action by the Pitt
County comxnissioiier which re
quested Mitchell's resignation.
The decision had been recom
mended by Zachary. Hospital
officials sated on Tuesday morn
ing that MitchtiU remained in
a critical condition and had a
50-50 chance to sunrlv*. No
charges had tMeu placed against
him. pendlns the outcome of hla
condition aiMl further InvMtlga-
tion.
Mrs. Amelia Cap^Murt. hom*
demonstration ig«it for Pttt
County, said Zachary was Mat-
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