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THE CAROLINA TIMES T 'ms TRUTN UNBRIDLED' SAT., SEPT. }7. T9S9 A y uie to the City of Dute AFRAID TO LET.THft .nTtl,:RliA(^l TH|^FI/)OR Diilrtnui i> to b« congratulated th.it it has »h4c Id »Cifpt without any major dis- ItMfinM tW bejjinnini; tif intejiratimi in it* pdbik •chool*. A Ifreat amt>tnit of the calm \vM^ attended the history niakinj? event imtat he attri>uti-d to tliv dail\ ne\v.'paj>ers of the city that did one of the ii»K‘st pieces ot public relations we have seen in many years in preparing the people for the change. Now that Durham has ni»ie the first step we trust that school officials will move forward with the-jirogram in such a manner as to make it utu^eKsarv for further federal court action. The Carolina Times is of tiie opinion that Negro leaders here are willing to meet the Board of Eclucatifm over half way so long a* they can fee! that an honest effort is being made to comply with the law. Hoth sides, ho\tever, will need to exercise a bit of patience and the Board of Exlucajion should not expect Negroes to be pernianenlly satisfied with the verj’ small number oi Negro i>upils out of__a total of 225 which it has approved for re assignment. If Negro leaders appear to be impatient, members of the Board should take into consideration that they have been wait ing for five long jears since the decision of the Supreme Court for the Board to act and that th€K.itave been forced to spend tremen dous sums of monCv in the federal courts to get even a token of compliance with a victory they has already won. Members of the Board of Education will also need to take' into consideration that it i« the Negro pujjil* who are losing because of inferior schools, overcrowtled conditions ^nd the disadvantages of having to travel across town in buse* t« get to school. At the satne time Negro leaders will need’ to understand tliat for nearly 300 years every conceivable effort has been made to brainwash the white man and the Negro into believing that a white skin is a badge of superiority. That both are victims of the nefarious practice should be carefully taken into consideration by t'^eir leaders and efforts »f adjustment made as t. e Negro moves into the main stream of full American citizenship. There will be crackpots on bofti sides, such as Kasper, the Rev. Cole and on^the Negro side such as Elijah Muhammed and others. Such leaders w’ill resort to and teach violence and defiance as a means to an end. If seiisi* ble leaders, however,'will keep alert and exercise due diligenre and influence such as was done in beginfitng the integration of schools in Durham trouble like that of Little schools in Durham, trouble like that of Little will ahvavs be avoided. Wekonfe to the South, Mr. Khrushchev Sending Kids South To School WATCH ON THE POTOMAC Sy ROBERT SP^VACK It is unfortunate that the visit of Premier Nikita Khrushchev to this country will not include a single city of the South. We do not fully agree with the fmjilications contained in the stateent made by Bi.shop Sherman L. Green of the .A.M.E. Cluirch tliat such a visit if it included .\tlanta, Ga would counteract the propaganda that .\merican Negroes are not a downtrodden race. Khrushchev might start looking into some of our southern closets like Mississippi, Little Rock, Arkansas the rural sections of Georgia and hundreds of other southern conimnnities where Negroes are still barred from full citizenship in these United States. Bishop Green, who is well past 80 years of age, has probably become enchanted with the glory that attends the high office he holds in the M. E. Church and the type of Negro homei, businesses and educational institutions with which such an office throws him in con tact. He has probably forgotten that Georgia and other southern states still have their chain gangs, Negro ghettos, inferior schools, job discrimination, police brutality and that in many of them it is still dangerous for a Negro ^ attempt to vote. Another i-easoo- ior. tunata that the Soviet premier will not visit the South is because we think that the would learn his greatest lesson of democracy from southern Negroes who, in spite of the hard ships. humiliations and disadvantages they suffer, continue to forge ahead in this coun try, That they still have faith in democracy and their own destiny as Arrierican citizens, we think, is the greatest lesson Khrushchev can learn about America. He ought to be shown that democracy has so much to offer over and above the disadvantages Negroes suffer that they are making progress toward the goal of full citizenship in spite of the South and not because of it, as Bisliop Green’s statement implies. We rather think that omitting the South from Krushchev's tour of America will in the end give Soviet propagandists just the oppor- tunty ,they \yant to accuse, thi^^country of having skciet&s.Tntits closat \(’hicn it .wish'es ti' hide. We say let the premier visit the South, and if possible let him see it as it is and not just one side. .As bad as some parts of it is We don’t believe it has eter written a chapter of its history as bloody as that which the Soviets wrote in Hungary. Welcome to Souths Mx^ Kryshchev. . Jonhson's Tastics Lil(eiy To End In No Gvil Rights Bill This Season Nobody Wins in the Chapel Hill School Case It is most unfortunate for all concerned that the Chapel Hill .School Board did not have the morals or Uie courage to admit the one Negro pupil to'a white elementary school in Carrboro last week. From all indication* there was one and only one reason w'hy the 10-year-old boj’ w'as not admitted and that was his race. This now Ibaves no alternative for the parents of the child but to continue ^^ic, efforts in the federal #x)Urts whicl\, af fts a\cq«^' pribeeiiuife. If thei-s^oor .iMiard nas no evidence ^fiat the boy was re fused admission other than on account of his race, it is certain to lose the case. This means that it then will eventually have to admit him under federal court order. It might be well to consider here for a moment just who are and w'ill be the greatest losers in this school case that is being need-, lesily fought apparently just to save face of the Board members who voted not to admit the Negro pupil. In the first place these mem bers have lost their self resj>ect in that they did not have the morals to-do what they knew was right. In the second'place they have lost the respect of every fair-minded person in the Chapel Hill community who is mindful of the facts in the case. For in the end those who bow to the demands of the flesh, whether that of his own or his brother’s are- certain to eventually pay the, price of their folly. tnmcr fiatnnlay at Owbam, N. C *' by United Publishers, Inc. L. E. AUSXIN, President AIMBT E. HABT, AMistant to the Publlsber M. E. JOHNSON, Contr(riler Mac^ Office locatcd at 486 E. Peltigr«w St thKbaa, NMrtfi Cuooliaa “• Meoad cUm matta at the Post Offic« Nwtii Carolina, uador IIm Ast «| ' *• WMOMnipN RAHSr HOO FBt TKAS ^ -4iHBBN8B0«O omCK-. Dean Henry Brandis of the UNC Law School has characterized the action of the Chapel Hill Board as "legally and morally in defensible.” With that lie has handed in his resignation. Thus the school Board now' loses the services of one of its most valuable mem bers ; one that an education board in any much larger city would consider it an honor as well . very fortunate to have. Dean Brandis has probably discovered that the little men who , comprise^ the Board have allowed their prej- ^ udices fto'mar their concept and vision and are therefore unable to rise to in occasion that demands statesmanship rather than “hate- nianship.” As we see it, nobody has won in the Chapel Hill school case. Instead, the Community is totally divided on an issue that proper leader ship on the part of its board of education might have avoided. THE CIVIL RIGHTS'tMPASSE On the night of April 25, 1959, a 23-year-old Negro naijijtd’ Mack Charles Parker was dragged from his jail cell in Poplarylle, Miss, where he was being Hdd on charges of raping aaSMgnant white woman. His body was found nine days later in the Mississippi side of (he Pearl River, across from .Goalusa, La. The reports 'said we youtli. was “Killed by two shots”. Af the time there fH''great indignation in the pres& an^ the President deplored it murder. The FBI was the case and, apparent, too much difficulty f(M^ involved in the case. But oimay" 25,^ FBI had to withdr the case because, according to Attorney General William P. Rogers, “no federal law had been violated.” The FBI’s information was turned over to Gov. Coleman of Mississippi, who has not yet impanelled a grand jury. The killers are still at large. Do you remember the case? It’s now September, 1959 and Congress, frightened by the im pending visit of Nikita Khru shchev and the possibility that he might want to address both . Houses, is talking of adjoum- !^ffient. In all the ensuing months there has been no action on civil rights and not even very much talk about it. How did this situation arise? SPIRITUAL INSIGHT Were the civil rights advocates outmaneuvered? Just what has happened, after so much original indignation over the Parker case, that makes lawmakers yawn and want to talk of other matters. The responsibility for the de lay on civil rights clearly be longs to Democratic Leaders Lyndon Johnson in the Senate and to the old Republican- South ern Democratic coalition in the House. Johnson says he wants a “dvil rights” bill, but what he now proposes is so minimal that the NAACP and allied organizations think it Is worse than no bill at all. Even Senate Republican Lead er Dirksen calls it a “skeleton- iZBtr measnre; Alront alt It wotrtd- do is extend the life of the Presi dents’s Civil Rights Commission, outlaw church - school bombings and provide schoG&g for the children of military personnel, where it Is denied because of lo cal defiance of the Supreme Court desegregation decision. Johnson apparently will not even allow any language assert ing that the 1954 decision is re cognized as the “law of the land.” So fsr* an anti-lynch legislation is concerned, he will not hear of it. THE TECHNIQUE FOR kill ing A'BH^ — It is quite possl- able that there may still be a bill beping the "civil rights” label act^d on by the Senate before ad'Joumment. But It is clear that it will have no teeth and will do little to advance the Negro from seeend-elass to firstelass eitizen- ship in those parts of the land where his equal rights are still denied. While Johnson is primarily re sponsible for this state of af fairs, the Northern liberals must also bear some responsibility for allowing things toi drift until this late in the session. I do not refer to men like Sens. Douglas, Case of New Jersey, Javits, Clark, Carroll of - Colorado or others in that small but sturdy band. I am referring to those “Liber al” Democrats who went along with Johnson’s sirategy early in the session when they accepted hls^ assurances TRar no antl-fni- buster regulations were needed because there would be a “civi! rights law.” They did not insist on knowing what kind of law— and particularly when it would come up on the ealendar. If the liberal northerners had insisted that Johnson make it an early order of business, disposed of in March or April, then the Southern threat of a filibuster could be ignored. But putting it on the calendar this late in the year, meqns that the Southerners can now talk it to death. So the Li berals find themselves in the position of favoring postpone ment until 1960. This is risky strategy, but circumstances may force them to it if they want a bill that means anything. ity RLV. HAROLD ROLAND The Church Falls i^in At Dallas, TexaSi last week nearly 1,000 Methodist leaders of both races met at South ern Methodist University and approved a seven-section race relations manjiC'Sto calling for integration of churches, schools and neighborhood communties. The housing sec tion of the manifesto declared in part, "The freedom to choose a house and a neighbor hood should not be limited becajuse of a per son’s race. The right to rent or purchase, however, is not enough. Community accept ance which creates a sense of betonging is in the spirit of Christ.” 4 The manifesto alsfnPged Methodists to ad here to the Supreme Court's ruling outlawing segregation iu ac^iools. Further on it stated that the ch«r*^s goal must be "the full ac ceptance *{ any Christian into the church,” It then w*t*red down this particular part of its stateiheftt by sayinJ that “current situations r*quil4^ different nekt steps,.”, for the integra- tt«Mt churches. It II hard for an outsider to understand just Iww truttee b6ardi of Mtthodlst tchcoU in $*e THI CHUKCH, Page 8 None Shoud Pass up Opportunity To Be Witness For God's Truth A few Negro parents in New York City are sending their ehil dren to schools in the segre gated South, but any attempt by Southerners to exploit this (act as an argument in support >f school segregation will misinter pret the real signiflcanee af the New Vork sitaation as reported in The Times. The number of Negro chiktren who have left New York to be educated in the'South is very small and their percentage of the total Negro school popula tion here is very small, and their percentage of the total Negro school population here is infini tesimal. These youngsters have been sent South, generally to live with relatives, in order to escape slum conditions alid slum schools. This is the hcairt of the matter. The question is not of New York schools v«r«us Southern Segregated schools. is rather a question of serioiu NewYork problems of blighted nbtghbor- hoods and of urban deteriora tion, a problem which Ijew York 'faces in common wdth' moiV American cities. Within these de- ^riorating areas the children are in trouble, and this kind of trouble knows no color line. To these facts parents react as parents—not as white patents or Negro parents. Their parental instincts kna>^* only one motHe: to protect their children. Some parents react by moving ittto other neighborhoods. Others try to escape to the suburbs or en roll their children in non-public schools. And the great majority of parents, it should not be for gotten, still keep their children in the'local public schools. There are many flaws in the New, York schools, and the school authorities themselves are fully aware of ,them. They don’t like double sesions and substandard facilities any more than do the parents of the chil dren who suffer as a conse quence. Many parents, under standably, refuse to be put off with promises of future improve- ^ ments. The flight from city slums and teen-age crime is not an endorse- Aent of school segregation in , \he South. But parents, regard less of color, are deeply worried ‘ over conditions in New York, and the pUght of the city spUls J' | over and |>fcomes the plight of J the schools. ■' —NEW YORK TIMES,„S«pt. 5 i Southern States Organized To Make Mass Attack On Illiteracy BRASSTOWN — The Literacy Movement' in 4he Southeast, a plan to offer millions of adults in southeastern states an oppor tunity to learn to read and write, is being launched through spe cially formed literacy organiza tions which will cover the Caro- Unas and Eastern Tennessee. Mayes Behrman, director of the movement and head of the Literacy Division of the John C. CampbeH Folk School at Brass- town, the coordinating agency for the southeastern movement, said a plan of organization has been perfected for the area in which the first mass attack on adult illiteracy will be made in the nation. The Literacy Movement in the Southeast by Television will have parallel ofganizations in each state in which it works. Each state organization will have three basic sections—rural, urban and industrial. Behrman said several promi nent persons have already agreed to serve on various committees and several rural, civic and ser vice organizations have agreed to take major roles.in enlisting students and volunteer workers. The Literacy Movement in the Southeast is an outgrowth of the successful experiment staged last winter over WBTV in Charlotte , by the Carolina’s Literacy Move ment. In six months, 1,000 per sons learned to read and write. The group of 98 television les sons, each 30 minutes in length, is based on the Laubach method of teaching reading and wrjtlng. The lesons are designed specifi cally for adults who missed an opportunity to learn te read and write as children. ■ In its first expanded effort. The Literacy Movement in the Southeast, with Alabama co operating, will offer reading and writing lessons by >television to one million non-reading adults in the Carolines, Eastern Tennes see and Alabama. Behrman is director of the movement,. A* extension direc tor and now as head of the re cently established Literacy Divi sion of the John C. Campbell Folk School at Brassto#n, Behr man organized the Carolines’ Literacy Movement wliich held classes in 17 North Carolina and three South Carolina counties last winter. The lessons will be given over 10 commercial televisions sta tions in the Carolinas and Ten nessee beginning in January. The Alabama Literacy Meve- ment will use three outlets of the state educational television network and develop its own or ganizational set-up. Between now and January when the early morning tele vision classes will begin, many volunteer workers will be need ed, Behrman said. To enlist students, find places where classes may be held, ob tain television sets and enlist vounteer teachers who will be given special free training in ad vance of the classes, Behrman outlined this plan of organiza tion: Each state will have three sections; rural, urban and- in dustrial. Chairman of the industrial sec- tron of the North Carolina Lite racy Movement will be Dr. Gao, D. Heaton, former pastor of Myers Park Baptist Church fo Charlotte and now a consultant . to industry. Serving as general Secretary of the industrial section ^in North Carolina will he. CbatKs T. McNary of Greeasboro, re tired director of personnel aad public relations of Blue Ball Manufacturing Company, Inc. Home demonstration organiza tion of North Caroina has al ready formally adopted the movement, Behrman said, and most local clubs plan to serve as the rural enlisting groups throughout the state. > Negro home demonstration clubs in North Carolina have al ready set a student enlistment goal of more than 30,000 per sons. In East Tenneuee, the Junior Chamber of Commerce will serve as the coordinating agency for the area. Glenn Ellis of Chatta nooga, a retired YMCA worker, will be general secretary of the industrial section in Eastern Tennessee, This plan of organization will be followed in North Carolina, South Carolina and Eastern Ten nessee. In Alabama, the Literacy Movement there will use its own organizational methods and will be a co-operating movement, Behrman said announcements would be made later when full statewide committees have bAn formed. "Yet he did not leave himself without witness ..." Acts 14:17. It is rather strange that God is never left without a witness. There are times when it seems all the spokesman for God have been hushed into a mysterious silence. But amid the silent mys tery there arises a witness. You remember that Elijah faced this same problem in a dark iiour in the history of IsreaV when it seemed as if no witn^sfes were left; but Elijah, the senant of God, was reminded that there were hundreds who had not for saken the true -and the living pod. God always has a witness “, , . Yet he did not leave him self without witness ■ ■dm ^A voice to witnes* foG%od wilL arise in the most^ unlieel^ llimes an& places. At times it seems as if evil will carry the day. And strangely a voice ippeaks up for God and his caus^ of rlghtooua- nes. Wheb the tidk of evil and ?• idolatry were sweeping the north ern Kingdom, God had a witness there in the darkest hour. Amos appeared on time to speak for God. God is never left completely without a witness in the time of great, critical need. God moves in some heart and someone -will cry out for the cause. Do you keep silent when you should be a voice for God? At times we let God down when he might expect us to be witness for him in certain situations. But. voices do spring up to witness for God in unexpected places. Just the right word at the right time can mean so much. And a good deed done at the right time can mean so much in terms of wit- nes for God. There are times if you keep silent God wiH be lacking for a witness in the cause. Thus those of us who claim the Master as Savior should be ever •lert to our opportumties to be a witness for God. The opportunity you miss to witness for God will leave you with a sense of shame. I had a great opportunity to be a witness for God; but I let it pass. These missed opportunities to witness leaves us with an inner sense of regret. And we must live with them until we take them to God in that feeling of sorrow called true repentance. We can sscape the consequences of our neglect through God’s mercy and forgive ness. Peter had to live with the shameful tears of regret in his denial until he went to God for forgiveness. Let us then be ever alert to use our inescapable op portunities to stand as a witness for Jesus. In every case of clear ttrt moral respbnsibility'Iet us overlook no opportunity to stand as a witness for God. Reitiember your ftilort to speak coul^ leave Ood. withrai a witness. Today's Youth Can Be Called Christian, Church Debaters Say less. 1 - - - “The youth of today can be called Christians,” so says one group of debaters who won when debating this topic, Sunday night, August 30, at the St. Mark A.M.E, Zion Church, The positive team, the winners, were Virginia Mc Neil, Willie Odom and Fred Brun son Jr. Their opponents, the nega tive team, who accepted their de feat very gracfulUy, were Cynthia Mebane, Rosa Snipes, and Gloria Snipes. Carolyn Skinner and Jean Hinton did a wonderful Job as moderator and thne-keeper, r«- specUvely. The President of Hillside De- batittf .Society, Woo4row Wiggins, WiUiaw ^ Ptloiw Hayes were tht jvdgts who Juri ed both competent and efficient. Willie Odom and Cynthia Meban* were judged as the best speakers on the two teams. Preceding the debate, the youth presented an Etiquette Tea, which was carried out gracefully. Not only did the youth demonstrate the correct attire for certain oc casions, but they also brought out cor rect at tire for certain occa sions, but they also brought o'ut proper etiquette for family rela tions, including^ family worship. During the tea two aistersj Alma Turner and Carolyn Turner w«re presented gift , certificates for bringing in the largest number Ml patrons. H*freihiiMiit« w«rt serv ed during.the tea. '
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