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,>'tHt7jCAROLIM.A TIMES •'txf TtUTM UNIRIDLIO~tAT. AMIi. 11, 1tS9 , Virginia Changes Its Course Same Old Tlkrtftt, But It Mui»t Not Work This Time Tllf altnut fftcp nf \’irriniaV H)vrrn>r J. I.inl-.ay MmoiiH in his -iintf’- lintlle aj-Tainst intej^ration in ih- i«tlilii' -cluMil' is n sliininp e\ani|>lp of Iho Inrk of mniiship that is tot> oftrn fonnil nnmnj^ many of tlir pcrsnns elfi'lt'd to pnMic office in tho South. A few month*- »pi. Almond was (iefiniloly tInitnhinK hi.s nose at ffileral nnihoriiies anl tirg^infj the I>«»ple of X'irprinia to pat apainst tlie mixing o( srliools. On .Monda\. Ahnund infrinl the rieneral A'senthly to let each cily and cmnty choose it> o\Mi course ill tlie mailer tif intej;;nitinK schools. Throwing;' hi- >ti(i(iori liehitid a lepis- lative sHid\ connni .i>in that reciininu-nlel financial aid fi'V jirivnte rducation'to any lo cality that ^oe^ nut want integration, he rec ommended that lliosp wild lo want it he al- l(wed to lo .'O. He iiov. praises the .so-called freedom of clioire program as the wiser course instead of that fif “massive resistance” which he formerly recimiiieniled. S.Tid he: "'I'lip prof^rnm recaiiiineniiot) hv the commission is not one of defeatism or surrende^. It may lie that, we have witnessed Gettyshurjj. hut if we unite and topi-ether for the best interest of Vir-jinia there will he no Appomatox.” This, he says, is hetter than the course of ahandoninf; the public schools as recommended l>y the seprepationist elements. That riovernor .Mmond belatedly discovers that resistance at^ainst federal atithorily is futile and. above all, that resistance apainst the new era of world-wide freedom for men of ^11 races, creeds and colors is more futile is a sad indic.ttnent of his leadefshij) as the f^overnor of Virginia. When it comes to stu pidity, we are unable to say whether he or Governor Orville Faitbus of .\rkansas takes the cakc. In sjiite of what .\lniond says, the course he now recommends is a complete surrender to federal authority in the matter of jnihlic school integration. If he has been aUe to “save face" by having the legislative commission make the recommendations that he should have made as Virginia's chief executive, let him have the ball to play with. The fact re mains that the change frofn “massive resist ance," which ha.s been declared nnconstilii- tional by both federal and state authorities is replaced with a “freedom of choice" pro gram. “A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.’’ The White Church Is Catching Up ■Mter .W) ]it;.irs of hymns and nnthems the white chtirch api>ears to be catching uj) with the rhythmic singin.ij that is nK>re often fi'imd in X’egro churches from oTie side of the na tion to the othetj At Xorwalk, (onnecticut last .'Sunday morjiing the St. I’aul's l’rf)test- ant Episcopal C'hurcli ,J>e^'an mass “with the ripjile of a jazz piano" while many members of a standing-room-only cro«d Kioked on, listened, swayed and tap|)ed their feet as “the four-piece combo pierced the dim interior of the church." Of course many of the staid old New Eng land church members debated whether this kind of music should be jilayed in the house of God. Hut officials of the .\ational C’otuicil ^ and the Xational Council ot the Protestant ^^iscopal t'hurch wl\o attended jl / Complacency ot Negro Students . ■'Xow tlUt the R.'isler season is (>ver and f. 19.35 against the University ot North the stii'Jenls in our colleges and univerfiitie.s Carolina, in .spite of the opposition of the O r#» K«r*L' 111 iltolf- r'lnr-iiir- are back in their classes from Spring vaca tion we would like to call the attention of our readers to the ap|>arent general coni[dacency existing among them on the question of civil rights. This was observed during the travel of thousands of stndeirts to and frf>m their N. C. College administration and others. His efforts were followed later by students in other states and finally by another X. C. Col lege student, Floyd G. McKissick, who brought action against North Carolina on ac- coimt of the then inadequate facilities of the ^ V,..lirKC .,,,1 ..... .„i- waiting; room ncronimoflalions in nnrham • i • ir *. u • j * i ^ **Kissirk s efforts result in more adequate law Greensboro. Charlotte, Raleigh and Winston Salem, the principal cities in which the lead ing educational institutions of the race are located in North Carolina. In (he face of the fact that the federal courts have long ago 'struck'down separate waiting room facilities, esi)pcially for inter state passengers, we know of no single in stance where a stiiilent in one of our educa tional institutions has taken advantage of the privilege of not being segregate*! in waiting room accommodations. On the contrary, our students from N. C. College, A & T College, Winston-Salem Teachers College. Shaw Uni versity, St. I’^ugu^tine's College, Bennett Col lege and Johnson C. Smith Universities have gone right on accepting the indignities of segregation with an apparent telish. It might be a re-v«>lation to some of these students ivho are now attending fiur schools „ lime mat stufients m our ?>Jegro schools and and colleges with so much complu'-ency to colleges tune in on this wave of freedotn. It learn that it was a student, Raymond Hoctitt is high time that they at least make use of of X. C. College, wFio .struck the first blow .the privileges already obtained, even if they in the nation against segregation in state edu- do not have the courage to strike for improved National institutions'. Hocutt brought court conditions. The utter desperation of flixie segrega tionists can be seen in the decision of first Alabaina and now .Arkansas to send impledged delegates to the Xational Democratic conven tion, TTius, these two stales join with Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi in the abortive Oli tows fti>Bah«rt everu Saturday at Durham, H. C. by UMlUd Publish«rt. Inc. L. ■- AUSTIN. Pretident •L E. JOHNSOIf, ControlUr jt| )nfH>l OMm located at 430 E. Pettigrew 8t North Carolina IMMtf M irrfMil cku* matter at the Poat Ofllee s BmTImw. north CaroUma u*d£t the Aet of March S. ifft. jtftji iiytinnr ratzs; $4.09 nn. ymab OFFICE TlL»»«flOO We Say Let Them Bolt scheme to withhold their 49 electoral votes from the Deitiocratic presidential candidate tinless he and the convention knuckles under . to their segregationist rflemands. ♦ • ♦ An indication of how ill-conceived their scheme is the fact that the worst the Dixie- crat conspirators could possibly do would be bring about the defeat of the Democratic candidate. We don’t see how this could be possible, but for argument’s sake, let’s concede that this may happen. They, thus, would insure the election of a Richard Nixon or a Xelson Rock efeller, neither of whom has anything in com mon with their I9th century states rights philosophy. We say let them_bolt. The sooner the bet ter. We would view such an event as good rid dance of very smelly rubbish.—^AFRO AMER ICAN (April 4). S&Kciucucesx: Georgia Headed Toward Showdown In Schools Issue c the services as observers were all for jazz music, proviled it is real .American jazz. Ministers, officials .and members of Negro churches, with the exception of those few that have tried to pattern their services after the cold white church, will wonder why there has to be so much fuss about jazz in a church. 'I'hey will be amazed that our white brethren are just catching up with how much the rhyth mic beat can add to a religious service. Jazz music, with all of the rhythm found in a mod ern-day tiance orchestra, has been played, jumped, tapped and shouted to ever since the Negro church was started. If our white brethren have just discovered vyhat it can add to religious worship, they don’t know what they have been missing. SPIRITUAL INSIPHT By REV. HAROLD. ROLAND The Redeemed Must Help Save Others By Telling Christ's Story school facilities at X. C. College but eventu ally the o|)ening of the I.aw School at the University of North Carolina to Negroes. It was Hocutt and McKissick who led the way to new horizons of freedom for their peo ple while their elders and many of their fel low students objected, w'ere non-cooperative or looked on with contempt. Needless to say when the victory 'was finally won, many of' those who objected, were non-cooperative or looked on with contempt were the first to take advantage of Hocutt and McKissick's successful efforts. In Africa,yindia, China and elsewhere in the world, oppressed people are moving against their oppre.ssors. The wave of free dom now .stirring in the .souls of mankind is not confined to any/parttcttlar nation or sec tionit’s wofld-wide. It is, therefore, high time that students in our Negro schools and "And a great number that be lieved turned to the Lord . . Act* 11:21 Tfie word of salvation has power to captivate the souls of men. The Gospel in its simple, s(nritual beauty has power to grip the souls of men and turn them from their'sinful and^^ovll ways ta God and his righteous ness. Thi.s Gospel of God’s W^p^ derful salvation has charmfeO,| fascinated and redeemed lost souls in every age for twoj thousand yeans. It is om's to tell the story of Jesus and his love, and there will be some be lieving souls. The story of Christ and His cross will turn men from a life of sin to lives of righteousness. Souls redeemed and aflame with a holy passion have gone teljing the story of God’s re- deeiiiitig love;' arid may fiavff believed and turned from sin to become great .saints, burning with a passion of love and ser vice. If you will witness as to what Je.sus has done for your soul, you, too, can cause someone to believe and turn from a life of sin to a life of righteousness in Christ Jesus. Why don’t you tell somebody what Jesus has done for you? Tell some lost soul about the healing power of Jesus. You can tell the sin-sick soul there is healing in Jesus. Just tell the story and someone will believe and turn to the Lord. We need more people to live it, and we need more jieople to toll it. There is someone lost in sin near you, and you can find th4 lost soul and tell the story of" God’s redeeming love in Christ Jesus. Just tell the story of Jesus and His redeeming. And someone will believe and turn to the Lord Jesus Christ. The redeemed are to witness before the unredeemed of Gqd's^ redeemin.s love. If the redeemed fail to tell it, the story of the Good News of Salvation will not be toht. Irtra—the redeemed,-mtwt tell it. Tell the i^nredeemed that God in Christ is ready to save his soul. Many will believe and turn to God if you will just tell them of the Savior’s love. Some Ipst soul is just trailing to be fold about Jesus’ love. You can issue the call of Salvation to some WATCH ON THE POTOMAC lost soul. Your witness for Jesus may rescue or save some persh- ing soul Today. Your personal witness may mean peace and joy for a soul and a home today. Have you as a redeemed soul ever caused just one soul to be lieve and turn to the Lord? Or do you belong to that ninety-five so-called redeemed souls who never lead a soul to Christ? Why not today become a wit ness for some soul to believe «i>d' turn to the Lord? There is a matchless’ joy'' in leading a soul to Christ. What a ftlessing to help a soul escape from a prison cell of sin; and find the joy and peace of the new life in Christ Jesus. You can do it. How? Just ask God to help pre pare you to be a winner ot souls. If Christ has saved you, God Mn prepare you to tell the lost of this salvaCion. Anyone who can tell the story of God’s redeeming love with a •passionate conviction can help the unsaved l)clieve and turn to the Lord. Yes, "A great number believed and turned to the 1/ird” because a redeemed soul—Peter —fold how Jesus saved him. By ROBERT SPIVACK As , public opinion mount* against closing, however, Geor gia’s rubber - stamp legislature continues passing the governor’s segregation bills in complete disregard of their crippling im pact on the state. The latest such effort is the collogc age Ijmit bill which decrees that no per .son over 21 years af age may be admitted to a Georgia uni versity for undergraduate work, and no person over 25 for grad uate work. This has met tremendous op position, because like any other racist law, its effects arc as harmful to white as to Negro citizens. In this case it hits par ticularly hard, denying educa- eation to people from all walks ot life simply because they are older than the average college student. NO MORE STUDENTS Since the successful suit of three Negro students against the Georgia State (College of Business Administration, that college has frozen applications and will take no new student. (Masses there now are composed entirely of persons who were already en rolled before this suit was de cided. When they finish their work and leave, unless new loopholes are found. Georgia State will probably be forced to close. At Georgia Tech at the pres ent time are applications from qualified Negroes who ask to be admitted for the coming year, and the same policy is l)eing fal lowed there. Even if the situation sjiould be changed to pllow somp de segregation, however, many would-be students, who have ap plied at schools where they will he sure of attending next yea^, will be lost to Georgia. ,• PUBLIC SCHOOL SUIT A secoi^ suit Ts now pending in the Federal District Cotnrt. This is one against the Atlanta Public school system. Georgia officialdom, according^ to state ments made by various legisla tors, expects the couirt to rule that such a segregated system cannot be continued. T,his may /veil bring us tcf'jthe peak ot the crisis, the questim df the hour: ^Will fhe s*hooh lose? ’ r • The people qT Atlanta are watching developments with in tense feeling. The Virginia de cisions especially have given the “open-school” forces new ammu- •nition. But the only voice to speak out for sanity among the “elected” representatives of the slate, is that of "Muggsy” Smith ~ of Fulton County; (AtliHrta^-H«-' has not only opposed the ftov- ernor’s ruthless segrega^on measures, b\it has offered coun ter-proposals' in an attempt' to save the schools. H course these were voted down. The present legislative session is a joke; almost every part ot the governor’s program, which is reactionary not only to the schools, but in every phase of Georgia life, has gone through with no real opposition. In the meantime, there is a definitely growing sentiment among .the people to avert this impending calastrophe. ITA’s, church greujis, letters to the ed itors, and the resolution.s of such wganlzatlons as the I^cflgue ^ lif W»men Voters, evince a deter mination to keep the .schools ojJen. In large measure, thfS over whelming desire has not quite crystallized into any mass move ment. The people whc are Iw- ginning to see the extreme re action of Geori5ia’s legislature have not yet come to the realiza tion that it is they who must do something about the situation. SOME SPEAK Some of our citizens are speaking up. Charles Mathias, in ternational representative of thfe United Steel Workers Union, which has many* Negro mem- ' hers said recently—“Our union is for the brotherhood of Qod. We are in favor of any child going to any school that is suit able.” ' Mrs. Ray Mitchell, vice-pre.si-' dent of the 1-eague of Women' Voters, says h.^r organization Is ’ definitely in favor of integra- * tion rather than clo.sed schools. ' Certain business interests are being so hurt by the situation that murmurs of protest are coming from their direction al-* so. Lockheed Aircraft's tremen dous facility here is having trou ble getting .scientists and other qualified men to come to Atlan ta. And many of our finest teachers are looking^ a£Oimd for other places where they will have security in their work and certain public schooling for their children. NO TURNING POINT At .this, point it appears that no significant turning point in this struggle h»s yet been reach ed. There are still a numlier of vicious, racist organizations threatening and bullying those who would desegregate. There are also a number of groups that are making arrangements for private schools, but since the progaass^ inMV>ra*njtt, ff»«plc 'seem to be losing faith in the private school plan as any .sort of solution. Opposed to these, “status quo” organizations, we now have two new liberal groups: HOPE (Help Our Pftblic Educa tion) and SOS (Students for Open Schools.) While both of these are small they are indicative of -■a-traad, _ As the rnonlhs go by there is a noticeable^ isteadily growing strength among those who want to keep the tth|»ols open. This feeling, how^yer, has noF'made itself heard in the chambers of Georgia’s lawmakers, and unless something is doixe the schools will close.—SoulAern Newsletter (March) De Sapia’ism^Mipt.South May Be G0ip'$l960 War Cry Hail To Women of Achievement LEHMAN AND DE SAPIO Washington—The Democratic Party, as everyone knows, is a collection of smaller political parties, each with a .special back ground, special problems and a special appeal. The “party” has never, as such, been a cohesive, tightly-knit political organTza- tion. To many Northerners there are the “Southern” Demwrats, often spoken of as a singltii bloc. Actually there are Soathern Democrats who speak fo? r'lhe “New South,” such as Lister liill, Albert Gore, Estes KefauvM, and Halph Yarborough. Then there are Southern DemocratsV'rWho speak for special interestsp'jiuah as Speaker Sam Rayburn^ tyn- don Johnson, Sens. Spessard',Hol land, John McClellan, Robert Kerr and others of the oil or private power bloc. Besides these there are .the Southern Democrats who speak and yearn fdr the “Old with its suppression of the Neg ro citizen. In this group belong Sens. James O.^'Eakland, Strom Thurmond, Richard Russell, and Herman Talmadge. With a presidential campaign coming up, the Republican Par*- ty undoubtedly will make much of the Nprth-South split in. the opposition and that is perfectly acceptable political operating procedure. It would be surpris ing if the Republicans did not make the most of these cleav- age.s—and still others they could exploit. * « 9 « The Democrats, however, have another problem besides ‘The South” and unless it is faced squarely they are likely to find *hemselves on the outside, look ing in, at The White House as they did in 1952 and 1956. It’s the question of bi-city “bossism” which seems to grow, with each passing year, rather than dim inish. ' Right now the New York Dem ocratic organization, still smart ing from its resounding defeat at the hands of Oev. Nelson A. Rockefeller, is engaged in a bit ter struggle between reactionary imachipe politicians, headed by tammy Boss Cermln* DeSapio, dnd a liberal bloc led by form er Sen. Herbert H. Lehman, Eleanor Rooeevelt and former Air Secretary Th«maa FInlatter. In terms of getting maxiimim personal publicity and trying to (Ideate the illusion that he Is a “new” kind of Tammany boss, DeSapio has done very well for himself. In terms of ending the sort of political corruption that characterized tlia O’Dwyer Ad ministration in New York, De Sapio has been a colossal flop. Those who know tell me that in many ways things are worse now than they were 10 years ago. « * • Made To Order For The G.O.P. Sen. Lehman recently spoke in Washington on the disinte gration of the Democratic Party in New York under DeSapio. He recalled how New York had long led the nation in liberal lead ership and in the field of ideas. In 9 of the last 10 Democratic conventions, he noted wistfully, a New Yorker was either nom inated or a leading contender. Now all that has changed. The image the American voter has of the New York Democrat is either the sleek DeSapio or the blurred image- of Mayor Robert Wagner, who has been called by some critics a “municipal Eisenhower,” . equally well-mean- ing and equally indecisive. In carrying his fight against DeSapio, L«hman makes the point that it was the boss’ ruth less tactics in the 1958 Buffalo convention that cost the Demo cratic ticket its victory. “I might add that on every occasion I can remflRiber when the bosses have won, the results at the succeed ing general election have been disaftrous,” Lehman said., The news columns relate the I'ririy. reraaj>kabl^ aoliievements ©f- women in widefy divergent fields of endeavor and in widely sepa rated locales. Both are N’egroes, one African-bom, both American- educated. That each achieved di.s- tinction in highly competitive and immen.sely dilTicult career areas is all the more noteworthy. One, just 27 years of age, is the author of one of the few plays of the past decade to receive unani mous critical acclahn. It has just opened on Broadway, and she is the toast of the (^eat Whife Way. No doubt, she is on her way to greater fame and riches beyond her fondest dreams. She is pretty and talented Miss Lorraine Hansberry, writer of “A Raisin In The Sun.” She is the first woman of the race to reach Broadway as a major playwright (Langston Hughes preceded her as the race’s first Broadway play wright. In all, nine Negro men Until the image of DeSapio-ism is destroyed, Lehman added, he doubts that New York can even have much influence at the Los Angeles Democratic convention. • * * ' What the Senator means, of course, that he doubts New York can havei any ppsiti^ve ..influence. It’s negative influence,- so long as De Sapio remains, will be considerable. And it’s made to order for smart Republican pub licity men who will tell voters that a Democratic victory will be a victory for the EastlUnds of the South and the PeSapios of the No^th. This is likely to bf OOP have been authors, co-authorSj or c(^llaborators of Broadway plays or musicals or collaborators of Broadway plays or musicals of varying succe.ss). The other is Mi.ss Angie E. Brooks, a member of the Liberian delegation to the United Nations, now appointed Ijberian Assistant Secretary of Stale (concerned With foreign affairs)^ a former as^st- ant attorney general of her 'coim- tl'y, the .second on the continent to gain .self-government il^ider black Africans. In this country .she won degfees from Shaw University and the Uni versity of Wisconsin, then went on to further study at London (Eng land) University. She has taught law in her native country, is a member of cour.su of its bar, and u counsellor of the Superme (!ourt of Liberia. African women have been nota bly handicapped until recent years. That they, like the men. propaganda line despite another observation made by Lehman, a point that will probably get lost in a national campaign. “In most other states, the Dem ocratic Party organizations have become more and more democrat ic',’ he notes. “In one state after another the power of the old-line' party bosses-— thp Hagues of. New Jersey, the Pendergasts of Missouri ami the Crumps o£ Ten- nesijee—has been bcoken upon the rock ot public disapproval." What it all boils down to* is this: “Boss” DeSapio—unless he quits—could end up being the Republican’s secret weapon for 1960.
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