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N. C. Students Study Use Of
Ballot At Franklinton Meet
FRANKLIN High School
and college students who reside
in more than 21 Black Belt
Counties in North Carolina
gathered last week in Frank
linton, for a conference spon
sored by the Southern Chris
-11 a n Leadership Conference
(SCLC), Summer Community
Organization and Political Edu
cation Project (SCOPE) and the
Congress of Racial Equality
(CORE).
The directors of the confer
ence which brought together
more than 300 students from
the Black Belt Communities
were Hosca Williams, SCOPE
director. Attorney Flyod B. Mc-
Kissick, National Chairman of
CORE, Gwen Green, assistant
SCOPE director and Golden
Frinks, SCLC-SCOPE State Field
Director.
The conference convened at
5 P.M. Friday, July 16, ended
on Monday evening, July 19, at
which time the students had
been orientated in community
organization, political educa.
tlon and the effective use of
the ballot. The conference key
note address was delivered by
Attorney F. B. McKissick. who
told the delegates that they,
"through their counties repre
sent one million black votes
that when organized and de
livered, could bring about an
equal society in which the black
man would have power to
change the society for the good
of all impoverished people."
He stated "These one million
organized black votes can be
the basis of a third political
force needed in North Caro
lina.
Golden Frinks of Edenton,
Field Secretary for SCLC told
the students that they must
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Dr. King Sends
Advance SCLC
Parly To Chi
ATLANTA—SCLC Presi
dent Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr., today dispatched an ad
vance party of his top field
workers to Chicago to help
local leaders mobilize sup
port for a march on Mon
day, July 26, in demand of
quality integrated education
In that city.
e
Dr. King and Executive
members of the Southern
Christian Leadership Con
ference are due in Chicago
Friday evening to spend the
weekend giving support to
the fight for "Freedom ad
Racial Justice" led by A 1
Ratoy, convener of the Co
ordinating Council of Com*
munity Organisation.
Dr. Kihg'a advance mobi
lisation party Includes 12
veterans of civil rights camp
aigns which have spanned
the South. They have preach
ed and conducted nonviolent
skirmishes in such places as
St. Augustine, Albany, Birm
ingham, Montgomery, sekna,
and In numerous other Infa
mous blackbelt hamlets in
the states of Georgia, Ala
bama, Louisiana, South Caro -
Una, Florida, Danville, Va.,
Texas, and Mississippi.
NEW LAW DEAN
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DANIEL G. SAMPSON, profes
sor of law at North Carolina
College this week was named
dean of tho college's School of
Law, succeeding Dr. Albert L.
Tumor, who rotlrod in Juno
aftor serving 23 years In tho
position.
The announcement was made
following a meeting of the In
stitution's Board of Trustees
Wednesday at which the board
approved President Samuel P.
Massie's recommendation of
Sampson to the post.
Sampson, joined the NCC
faculty In 1950, and Is a native
of Sumter, S. C.
NEGROES PICKET
Police Brutality In
Alabama Continues
GREENSBORO, Ala. Over
100 Negro demonstrators pick
eted downtown white merchants
here today, in an effort to bring
about recognition of their grie
vances against voter registra
tion tests and job discrimina
tion. They were counter-picket
ed by local Klan members.
When the demonstrators re
turned to their home base, the
St. Matthews A. M. E. Church,
they were surrounded by whites
in cars and trucks. The whites
began to throw bottles and
briclu. Someone, reportedly a
policeman, shot into the crowd
of Negroes as they were try
ing to enter the church. Jesse
Bregans, Negro, was grazed on
the right forearm by the bullet.
10 people were taken into
Selma, Alabama to the Good
Samaritan Hospital as a re
sult of being Injured by the
bottles and bricks. One civil
rights worker, Robert Wright,
Negro, from Alexandria, Va.
was hit in the heed by a bot
tle. He was hospitalized and is
reported in fair condition.
Three stiches were required to
close the laceration. Another
demonstrator, Bddle Long, was
also struck by a floying object,
and received seven rat urea in
the back of his head.
Reverend Davis, pastor of the
St. Matthews AME Church, em
phaalsed the reasons for the
protests. "Our three main
causes, he said, are Voter Regis
tration, Education and Job
Opportunities. The local white
merchants hire Negroes but in
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Changes to
Be Discussed at
Lawyers' Meet
BOSTON, Mass.—The legal
rights of millions and millions
of Americans face very drastic
changes in the latter part of
the '6os.
These changes will be the
theme of the 19th annual con
vention of the American Trial
Lawyers Association. July 24
through August 1 at the Fon
tainebleau Hotel in Miami
Beach, Fla., where thousands of
trial lawyers will convene.
Space and poverty, civil
rights and crime explosion, au
tomation and atomic develop
ments are ingredients which
will make this convention the
most outstanding in the legal
field in years.
The demands of these com
ponents of the Space Age and
the Great Society call for a
new breed of lawyers who must
understand and meet the
changing, challenging response
of the '6os and early '7os.
"Trial lawyers must be pre
pared to interpret the chang
ing laws for today's American
public and to lay the ground-
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Noted Author And Historian
Blasts Biased American History
GREENSBORO—A speak'
er at A&T College last week
lashed out at the "ommis
sions and commslons" of
American history books
about the Negro. i
The speaker was Dr. John
Hope Erinklln, noted author,
and historian and professor
of American history at the
University of Chicago. He
was appearing as guest lect
urer at the A&T College
Summer Institute for High
School Teachers of History,
sponsored at the college by
the U. S. Office 6f Educa
tion.
He bemoans the fact that
moat white authors of Ameri
can history appear to have
written for white school chll
dren only, lor they "have
studiously left out the many
creditable deeds of the
gro," he said.
The speaker was concerned
about how a Negro child
should feel after completing
the assigned course In Ameri
can history without finding
one word of credit or one
word of favorable comment
from one of the millions of
his foreparents.
"I am more coocerened,"
Dr. Franklin said, "About
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VOLUME 42 - No. 25 DURHAM, N. C.-SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1965 PRICE IS Cents
Goodloe Cites Myriad Of Change At
National Insurance Association Meet
NEW YORK—The 45th an
nual convention of the Nation
al Insurance Association open
ed Tuesday with 400 delegates
from 25 states in attendance at
the Roosevelt Hotel. J. W.
Coodloe, executive vice presi
dent of North Carolina Mutual
Life Insurance Co., Durtiam,
was keynote speaker for the
Home Office Section.
Goodloe urged the executives
of the 45 predominantly Negro
member companies to take a
"good hard look at the myriad
of changes in the making and
meet the 'challenge of change'
with a shift in management out
look. perspective and practices
in keening with President John
son's Great Society concept."
"Title VII of the 1964 Civil
Act marked the end of
one era in race relations and
limited opportunities and the
beginning of another of vastly
increased chances for self-rea
liration," Goodloe stated. "Pos
sibly no other group of insur
ance companies in America is
so profoundly affected by this
legislation," he continued, "as
our own. For NIA member com
panies are a product of one of
the 'great scars' of history
discrimination—and, could now
be a victim of American busi
nessmen's remedy for the other
—epportunity—unless we rec
ognize and meet management's
challenge of the change."
The Durham executive point
ed out he felt NIA members
are facing a four-faceted change
technological, attitudlnal, legal
and competitive. "And, while
the first of the three are
not necessarily unique chang
problems for NIA companies,"
he statedh, "the fourth—com
petitive change—is more acute
•vith us than with the rest of
the life insurance industry. No
longer do we have a captive
group of job applicants solely
dependent upon us for manager
ial type employment. No longer
can our salesmen use the time-
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how the little white child
feels upon finding that the
only important people in the
history of this country have
been the white people, and
that In a society which itres.
ses equality, they are fully
justified in claiming for
themselves all the privileges
and perogatlvos."
He also hit at the statement
made by many historians,
"American Negroes are the
only people in the world who
ever became free without any
effort of their own." He add.
Ed, "With one stroke of hla
faulty pen, such historians
have turned their backa on
the 186,000 Negroes who
served in the Union Army
during the Civil War and the
thousands of others served as
spies, scouts and sabotures
the Confederacy."
Addressing himself directly
to the teachers, he said, "AJ
our society changes so must
our teaching change."
He concluded, "It would be
a great tragedy If we awake
one morning to find our so
ciety in a state of complete
equality and very cordial re
lationship* among all people
and at the same time we
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WlNNEßS—Winner* In the Ora
torical Contest of Hi* Durham
Ushers Union hold hora, Sun
day, July 11„ at tha Wait Dur
ham Baptist Church ware: first
MINIMUM
Wage For Hired Farm
Workers Is Demanded
A federal minimum wage for
hired farm workers was de
manded by the Nat'l Advisory
Committee on Farm Labor in
testimony before the Subcom
mittee on Migratory Labor of
the Senate Committee on Labor
and Public Welfare in Washing
ten recently. "Hired farm work
ers are the most exploited earn
ers in the United States, with
the lowest earnings and the
substandard living conditions,"
according to Phillip Randolph,
the Co-Chairman of the Com
mittee. "Steadily declining em
ployment opportunities, an an
nual income under SI,OOO, and
of minimum wage, collective
exclusion from the protections
bargaining, unemployment in
surance, an dsufficiently restric
tive child labor legislation,
have combined to create eco
nomic deprivation which man
dates federal action," Randolph
testified.
Comparing the wages of hired
farm workers with those of oth
er workers, the NACFL has
found that "not only are in
dustrial wages much higher,
but the disparity between farm
and nonfarm wage rates has
continued to Increase since the
end of World War 11. By 1963,
the average hourly cash earn
ings of hired farm workers,
amounting to $0.89, were not
only lower than those of every
industrial group covered by
the Fair Labor Standards Act,
but were below those of other
exempt industries as well."
In addition to testifying in
favor of 5.1864, the minimum
wage bill, the National Adviso
ry Committee on Farm Labor
also endorsed limitation of
child labor in agriculture,
coverage of collective bargain
ing rights of farm workers un
der the National Labor Rela
tions Act, and establishment of
a Volunatry Farm Employment
Service and a National Adviso
ry Council on Migratory Labor.
WILKINS' LIFE
THREATENED
DENVER— A 53-old-year-old
man, who served time in Colo
rado and Oklahoma and Utah,
was arrested last week In con
nection with a death threat he
made against Roy Wllklns,
NAACP executive director.
The man, identified as Jack
Keeley, was arrested in Hilton
Hotel, NAACP convention head
quarters, as he allegedly sought
to phone Wllklns room for the
second time.
prize, $50.00, Mc-
Craa; second prise, $25.00,
Jacqueline Manf.um and third
prizes, sls-00, Harriett Thorpe.
Presentation of the prizes was
First Calvary Church to Hold
Testimonial Service for Pastor
At 6:00 p. m. on Sunday, July
25, the First Calvary Baptist
Church of Durham will cele
brate the eleventh anniversary
of Rev. A. L. Thompson, as
pastor.
Guest minister for the occa
sion will be Rev. J. H. Fergu
son of Hilly Branch Baptist
Church of Lumberton. Rev Fer
guson will preach the anniver
sary sermon. Special partici
pants on the program in addi
tion to Rev. Ferguson, will be
Lonnie Singletary of Bladenboro
and Julian Cooper, Clinton.
Other friends and admirers of
Rey. Thompson will also take
an active part in the celebra
tion.
Accompanying Rev. Ferguson
to Durham will be his choir
and other members of his
church.
Chairman of the anniversary
House Committee Hears Farm
Workers' Spokesman First Time
WASHINGTON, D. C. A
House committee seeking to
extend minimum wage coverage
to farm laborers has heard
from the workers themselves
for the first time.
The House Committee on La
bor and Public Welfare heard,
July IS, from sharecroppers and
cotten pickers, including a re
presentative from a nerwly form
ed labor union of cotton work
ers in Mississippi's Delta re
gion.
Aaron German and Andrew
Hawkins of Shaw, Mississippi,
told the committee workers in
their area earned 30 cents an
hour. Hawkins said "kids have
to drop out of school" because
their parents can't support
them on the wages they make.
A spokesman for the Nation
al Cotton Council, a lobbying
group at wealthy cotton farm
ers, said cotton was a $lB bil
lion dollar-a-yesr Industry that
employed 9 million people. He
said that the Industry was un
able, however, to pay day work
ers $1.25 an hour.
Rep. James Roosevelt (D-Cal.)
mad* by Mri. Mary Vanhook
at pictured abova. Othars in
tha pictura left to rlpM ara,
Miftts McCraa, Mangum and
i Thorpa.
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program is Elvin Haskins of
First Calvary.
asked the Cotton Council
spokesman, "Do you mean that
this is what it takes to grow
cotton.. .that it takes slavery?
If so, I'd rather not see cotton
grown.
Hawkins, one of the organi
zers of the MUsisaippi Free
dom Labor Union, told the
House Committee that federal
subsidies go only to landown
same and Indicate thereon the
pers. Hawkins aald sharecrop
pers were told how much to
plant, when to plant It. and
when to pick it.
In further testimony, Hawklna
said that worker* on a planta
tion owned by Senator James
O. Eastland (D-Miaa.) received
such low wages that they were
forced to operate Illegal liquor
still. Hawkins also said that
Senator Eastland uses priaon
labor on his farm.
Median incomes for Mississip
pi Negroes across the state la
SO9O. a year, according to a re
port Issued by the Atlanta
baaed Student Nonviolent Co
ordinating Committee.
Elks Eye House
Seat Held By
H. C. Bonner
Members of the Improved Be
nevolent Protective Order of
Elks of the World, who live in
eastern North Carolina and
southwest Virginia, are expect
ed to start a political drive that
might land a Negro in the U. S.
Congress, when Progressive
Lodge No. 1280 and Unity Tem
ple No 914 celebrate the 18th
annual Religious and Civic
Festival at Mt. Zion Church,
here Sunday, July 25th.
The celebration will begin at
11:00 A.M. Devotions will be
conducted by the Unity Temple
Missionary Department with
daughters Eva Johnson, Lonnie
Brown, Anna Booe ad Betty
Valden in charge. Welcomes
will be by Rolie Johnson and
Rolie Johnson and Daughter
Doris Ingram. Columbus Bea
man and Daughter Ida Bean Mm.
Lewis Jones, winner of the es
say contest, will deliver his
prize winning essay.
Jack Faison, sponsor of the
program, will introduce the
visitors. Alexander Barnes, di
rector of Civil Liberties for the
State of North Carolina, will
keynote the celebration with an
address on "Meeting the De
mands of Today." There will be
an appeal for registering and
voting by McKellar Stephen
son. State Daughter Ruler Le
titia Smith and Sta'e President
S. T. Enloe will also speak. The
apocal for the support of tho
movement will be made by L.
H. Moselcy, principal of Our
berry High School.
The afternoon session "will
open with a songfest, featuring
the Elk Chorus, directed by
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Dr. Curry To
Head Lincoln
Hospital Clinic
Lincoln Hospital has re
cently opened its .new Pri
vate Diagnostic Clinic with
Dr. Charles L. Curry as its
head. Dr. Curry is currently
serving as Director of Medi
cal Education, in which capa"
city he will continue to ser
ve.
The clinic was formed In
order to provide a more
sophisticated type of service
to the community and is ex
pected to generate a superior
type of patient care at Lin
coln which has generally
been difficult to obtain ex
cept at large medical center*.
It also should provide In
creased utilization of bed
space at Lincoln.
Dr. Eugene Stead, Chair
man of the Department of
Medicine at Duke Hospital,
has been vitally Interested In
this project and has been a
guiding force In its realiza
tion. The Department of
Medicine will provide con
sultation when necessary.
Dr. Curry is a native of
Riedsvllle and Is the first Ne
gro to be trained In Internal
Medicine In the rigid Duke
program.
He holds a B. S. degree
from Johnaon C. Smth Uni
versity where he was gradu
ated Magna Cum Laude In
19M with majors In Chemis
try and Biology. He attended
the College of Medicine at
Howard University, and was
graduated in the top IS per
cent of hla class in 10S9.
He then completed a year of
rotating internship at the
Reynolds Memorial Hospital
in Winston-Salem. Following
his internship, he engaged in
the general practice of Medi
cine in StatMville where he
became a member of the at
tending staff of Iredell Co.
Memorial Hospital.
In IMS he entered the
Armed Service* and was
stationed at Fort Bragg,
where he was assigned to
the Womack Army Hospital,
Medical Department, Ha al-
Charge of tha Medical Exam?
lng Division at Tort Bragg.
Division at Fort Bragg.
Following a year at It.
Bragg, ha was assigned to
the Military Assistance Ad-
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