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THOUSANDS HOME Edition m “ ‘ " >J FREEDOIk Mills ★ ★ ★ Cali Issued As Yearly Campus Exodus Begins VOLUME 37—No. 22 SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1961 RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED PRICE: IS CenU Africa's Faith In U.S. Affirmed Lii)erlan Ambassador States Position in Stiaw Finals Speecii RALEIGH—In spite of the criti- 'oi»m within and without the coun- tA' everyljody knows that the Umted States is the first Country tfl contribute to foreign countries the sole purpose of obtain- ^ g peace, said Ambassador Geo. JPadmore of Liberia as he ad- 3sed the Shaw University grad- ng class, at the Ninety-sixth Conunenceroent exercises here Monday.^ The uncommitted nations know, he stated, that weapons manu- factur^d by the United States will be uted essentially for the pro tection of the United States. “No one (s afraid they might wake up in the morning and find that an invasion by American forces had been launched. Padmore further stated that Africans were well aware that the aim of both Elast and West is to win the friendship of t)ie majority of the African peoples. ¥l()th political philosophies are largely foreign ito the African, the Ambassador declared, ^ere- fore heliop's to* maintain abroad view toward each side, anA at the same' tlm'e^1Ki3H6p-*-3K'^if^rifflt7^ of his own. Padmore painted out to the graduating ctiMI t)>Bt three for midable enemies face mankind todayt—Ignorance, disease and pre judice. These are the crusades that call the youth of 1961. He deplored the fact- that in many countries, a shred of edu cation is a rare privilege. He chal lenged the graduates to grasp the opportunity to ptoudly walk the path of human relationship. Dr. William R. Strassner, presi dent of Shaw University, presided at th« exercises and conferred the honorary Doctor of La\^s degrees ,upon Padmore, citing him as an outstanding business executive and political leader, and also Dr. Frank P. Graham, United Nations mediator as “a great humanita rian and a champion of the rights and dignity of every individual.” An honorary Doctor of Divinity Degree was conferred upon the Reverend Paul H. Johnson, pastor of Martin Street Baptist Church, Raleigh, for his vigorous - leader ship as a minister. PRINCIPALS AT SHAW COM MENCEMENT—Dr. William R. S:'r«Mn*r, Shaw University pres ident, George Padmore, Liberian Ambassador to the U. S., Dr. A. T. Spaulding, insurance company president and member of the Shaw trustee board, and Dr. Frank Graham, United Nations RaWlgh. Padmore, and Dr. Paul iJohnson, Raleigh minister (not pictyriNl) «vere given honorary official, are plctur»d ehortly be j by the Univwsity dur corn- fore Shew University's menc«niecit program' Monday ^ SENATE APPROVES BILL On Scliool Aid Scored T POINT GRADUATES CADET Kenel4i L. Quinn, son of Mr. and Mrs. IlMtiey H, Quinn, Louisville,ky., m^ll. he graduated rom the L Academy at Wllti Point, N. Y. Quinn will be eommlssioned a second lieufoat||t in the Signal Corps. At W«tt ^olnt he was active in the Sp^inlsh language, camera, sailing Mtd weighMift- Ing clubs. (ANPhoto) CADET Reginald J. Brown, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. Idgar J. Brown, Richffiond, Calif., will be graduated June 7 from the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, N. Y. Birown will be com missioned a second lieutenant In the Infantry. NEW YORK-Responding to Ad ministration pressure for a school aid bill palatable to Southern C^n- gre^men, the Senate this week re used to incorporate in the bill guarantees that Negro children will benefit from Federal money on the same basis as white chil- dren^ Despite a telegraphed appeal by the NAACP to 81 Senators, it tabled an amendment offered by Sen. Prescott Bush, Republican, of Connecticut. This would have authorized the withholding of Federal funds from any state failing to proceed in good faith to comply with the constitutional . requirement that racial discrimination be ended in public schools. The vote against the Bush amendment was 61 to 25. In his wire to the Senators, Roy Wilkins, NAACP Executive Secre tary, cited rioting in Alabama and the defiance of federal authority as proof enough that “to keep the race question out of the Federal school bill is in fact support for the racists." In a subsequent message to Senator Mike Mansfield ot Mon tana, Senate Democratic inajority leader, Wilkins criticized the “un- See. FAJLU^>A, log the exerclsM. ] tJrges Pro|?e of Removal of Bus in Ala. lAjfLANTA, Ga.—The Southern Cfar)|tt«n Leadership Conference throtgii I^esident, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,-last week urged Everett Hutchison, Chairman, In terstate Commerce Commission to 'investigate the removal 'of inter state passengers at Cuba, Ala. I , IBiH NEW YORK—The NAACP this week urged members of Its 123 key college units in 33 states to return home on a “non-segregated transportation basis” at the end of this school year. Estimated campus pepvlatiens affected is 544^50, InMuding Howard University in Weshlng. ten, D. C., with a student popu lation of, 4/400, the bulk of whom reside in the South. Roy Wilkins, the Association’s executive secretary, urged the students to “sit where you choose on trains and buses,” and to “use terminal, restaurant and other facilities without discrimination.” Wilkins noted that the direc* tive "will obviously apply to students whose routes home lie exclusively within a state/ as well as to thoee who will be In terstate passengers. “The Supreme Court’s rulings are clear as to both types of travel,” he said. Tlie NAACP spokesman observed “the publicity focused on the Free dom Riders and the heavy armed guard needed for their protection have led leaders of the Rides to feel that, the viciousness, crudity and disregard of law characteris tic of Southern segregationists have been well exposed.” However, the Ride leaders agree that "the Rides have not yet tested to what extent Negro passengers engaged In normel and routine travel will be able to en|oy nen-eegregated use of facilities," he said. “The impending end of school terms, in colleges throughout the country affords an opportunity for such tests,” he added. SecrdMry Wilkins emphasized that “Aaidrican citizens have the light and the dtrty to tesrTlw en forcement of the Constitution of the United States as emtxMlied in the law and in the interpretations and rulings of the U. S. Supreme Court. • “Any state law or custom which is not in compliance with the Con stitution is subject to challenge at any time by any citizen who chogses to act to enjoy his rights.” he concluded. Two Tarlieel V/omh Educators Among Forty Suggested For Jotis in Kennedy Administration MONEY TO MaJMTAIN ffAMlLIES between planting and harvest is (King provided by the AFL> CIO to S3 NepCt farmers in Payette and Haywood Counties, Tenn., who lacked funds from usual sources after they had registered to vote last year. Examining the list erf those to receive the aid are left to right, Assi^ant Dir. Don Slaiman of ^e AFL-OO DepL erf Gvil Rights, F^eld Rep. Richard Haley of the Coi^ittee on Racial Equality (CORE), and Se& Matthew Lynch of the Tennessee AFL* CIO, in whort ofBce in NtehviUe th* confersnco took place, ^ " — —— BROWNE WASHINGTON, D. C.—Two pro minent North Corolina educators were among a list of 40 distin guished Negro women whose names were submitted to Presi dent Kennedy as qualified to serve in policy-making positions in the current administration. They are Dr. Marjorie Browne, professor and chairman of Math- ema'.lcs m'.' (Jlorth Carolina Col- lega, and Dr. Wilmoth Carter, professor of Sociology at Shaw University. The list was prepared by the American Council on Human Rights, an organization composed of sororities and other women’s organizations all over the country. Dr. Browne is a native of Mem phis, Tenn. She came to North Carolina College in 1948 after tak ing her undergraduate work at Howard University and the Mas ter’s and Doctor’s degrees at the Univeristy of Michigan. Dr’ Carter, a native of Keids- ville, N. C., is a gr«du4ti of Shaw, Atlanta and the Univewity ^ Cki- cago. The only name on the list rec ommended for a specific post was that of Iilrs. Marjorie McKenzie Lawson of Washington, D. C., who wae Presi(ient Kennedy’s campaign advisor on Negro matters. ACHR urged that she be ap pointed to the United States Fed eral District court in Washington, D. C., because, “she is eminently qualified, and because President Kennedy has promised to appoint a Negro to a Federal judgeship.” Dr. Jeanne L. Noble, president of Delta Sigma Theta, directed compilation of the list at New York University’s Center of Hu man Relations, commissioned by ACHR to direct the manpower talent search from which came the 40 names. The names were presented to Presidential Aides Frank D. Reeves and Louis Martin by Dr. Noble, Dr. Marjorie H. Parker, president of ACHR and of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. In a statement accompanying the list, ACHR said; “Recognizing that these are early days in the appointment of individuals, ACHR is, nevertheless, disappointed the fact that very few Negro wom en have been placed in policy making positions. Besides Drs. Browne, Carter and Mrs. Lawson, others who made up the list of the first 40 are as follows: Dr. Sadie T. M. Alexander, Phil- See TARHEELS, 3-A PICKETS IN N. Y. —Some of the thousands of union mem bers and students who joined CORE in picketing the Grey hounds and Tretlways bus term inals 9n Mey 17. The pickets protested «(le cotifinuatiaa ef segregetioit in waiting roems in the South. CORE initiated pick ets merched in 33 cities acroee ttie country. The abve scene took place in New York. NUCP Urges "No Cool Off" For Freedom Kiders in Soothlaad NEW YORK — Roy Wilkins, NAACP Executive Secretary, today sent the following statement on the Freedom Bus Ride Project to 1,434 ^^AACP units in 45 states. The j)osition of the NAACP on the Freedom Bus Riding project ,Meji9iSle fnd clear: • Amencan citizens have the right and the duty to test the enforcement of the ConstituJfon of the United States as embodied in the laws and in the interpreta tions and rulings of the United States Supreme Court. • Any state law or custom which is not in compliance with the Constitution is subject to zen who chooses to act to enjoy his rights. • Where the proper authori ties ‘of the state and Its subdi- visiohs fail or refuse to protect citizens of the United States in pursuit of the enjoyment of their rights, it is the duty of the Fed eral Government Jo furnish such protection. • We reject completely, regard less of the guise in which it is presented, the indefensible thesis that citizens who seek to exercise their declared and defined consti tutional rights anywhere in their country are provocateurs, or in citers to disorders or violence, or are otherwise disturbers of the public peace and order. When the public peace is based upon denial of the constitutional rights of the individual and upon the suppres sion of petitioners, protestants and peaceful activists, then it is not peace, but tyranny. * The attempt to equate the peaceful protests of those persons acting within their rights and within the framework of the law, with the violent brutality of mob sters operstting wholly without, and in defiance of. the law is a service to spnfusion and to the f^her deHsement of due pro cess and equality under law. This alleged reasoning is alcin to in- sistin£ Negro citixeiis V>h« seek to Register and vote in some localities are as guilty of creating a disturbance as are the white people who use violence to stop them. • We further reject the con tention m Negro citizens should voluntarily declare a moratorium >ir efforts to challenge the denial ^ their rights and should permit licgregation-«-usual in the interest'Slf lessened tension*. Nev er have the segregationists been asked to alter their customs or operations, even tuiefly. in the in terest ai lessened tensions. Never have the segregationists given an inch except under the pressure oi court orders or economic boycotts. In these instances change has been reluctant, grudging and on a minimum basis, and has been accomplishad only after last-ditch resistance. • It is significant that the Free dom Bus Riders encountered no violence apd bloodshed except in Alabanul, the one state where the NAACP has been prevented from operating. The Secretary conferred person ally on May 15 (the day after th« bus buraiot at Annikton, i^a.) with Attorney General Robert F. Ken* nedy for one hour ukI urged Fed eral protection for the riders. In other statements and speeches the same protection has been demand ed by the NAACP. TWIMTY-PIVE YEARS IN THE CLASSROOM — Pictured above are members of the W. G. Pear ses (lemenhiry School faculty wiig km taught at tii* scheel for 25 and more years. They were honored last week et the final meeting ef the Parent- Teachers Association, of which William J. Hollewey, counMler ^ Mrs. C« at Nerth Caroline College, is R- president. Shewn ere Mrs. Ada K. Devis, Mrs. Julte D. (pembie, tmm m
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