Segregation At Parochial School
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FACULTY RECEPTION TIM
•bovt group is shown at • re
ception hold at part of North
Carolina College's annual fac
ulty Institute. From loft to
right aro Mrs. Floyd Ban; Dr.
Durham To Host N. C. State
Red Cross Conference Oct. 15
Durham will play host next
month to the North Carolina
State Conference of the Ameri
can Red Cross which will fea
ture Gen. James F. Collins,
American National Red Cross
president, as principal speak
er.
The one-d a y conference,
which is expected to draw
some 400 Red Cross staff mem
ber s and' volunteers from
throughout the state, will be
held Oct. 15 at the Jack Tar
Hotel. With the Durham Coun
ty chapter serving as the host
chapter, many local Red Cross
volunteers also will be expect
ed to attend, according to L.
C. Garrett, chapter chairman.
See RED CROSS 6A
NCC and Wisconsin University
Begin Student Exchange Plan
North Carolina College will
participate this fall in the first
student exchange between a
Wisconsin university and a
North Carolina Negro institu
tion when two sophomores
from the University of Wiscon
sin Marinette County Center
enroll for a semester at the
Durham institution.
Patricia Thomson of Cole
man, Wis., and Jane Liljestrand
of Marfnette, Wis., will begin
classes at NCC on Sept. 20.
2 Negro Pupils Barred From
Classes By Catholic Church
By MRS. J. J. HANNIBAL
KINSTON Racial barriers
are being maintained at Christ
the King Parochial School,
operated here by the Catholic
church through the Holy Trini
ty Church, according to reports
which indicate the Holy Trini
ty priest, Rev. John A. Weld
lnger, refused to admit the
first Negro children to apply.
Mrs. William Beech, Jr., a
life-long Catholic, said that Sis
ter M. Dolores, principal of
Holy Trinity had accepted an
application for her two chil
dren, Deborah Angela and
Christopher Bernard, graciously
when she applied in June.
However, shortly before school
opened, when she telephoned
concerning enrollment particu
lar!, she was told her children
must attend Father Paul Me-
School, operated solely
for Negro children, through
the Our Lady of Atonement
Church.
Christ the King and Father
Paul are said to have the same
scholastic standards, and both
schools offer instruction from
kindergarten to the eighth
grade level. A hot lunch pro
gram is available at Christ the
King School but no such facil
ity is in effect at Father Paul.
The public schools of Kins
ton and Lenoir County have
accepted applications for ad
mittance OK pupils on a non
racial bails. Although . there
were imports of several with
drawals and transfers, these
were said to be due to change
of mind of students and par
ents and not to refusal on the
part of school authorities to
enroll students without bias.
Norman Johnson, associate pro
fosse r of eductaion; Dr. Floyd
Bass, professor «f education
and director of the collage's
student teaching program; Dr.
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COLLINS
When they return to Marinette
at the end of the fall semes
ter, two NCC students will ac
company them and will attend
classes at the Marinette Coun
ty Center for the spring semes
ter.
North Carolina College, a
predominantly Negro institu
tion beginning its 54th year
of operation, has an enroll
ment of approximately 2,800
undergraduate and graduate
See NCC 2A
Funeral of Mrs. Robert P.
Daniel to be Held Sept. 17
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HIADS HUMAN RELATIONS
Albert S. Webb, executive vice
president of the Greensboro,
American Federal Saving* and
Loan Association, was last week
elected chairman of the Greens
boro Human Relations Commis
sion.
He became the first of his
race to hold the post In the
three-yea r operations of the
Commission.
Webb, a native of Tusfcegee,
Ala., Is a graduate of Hampton
Institute. He worked with the
Cleveland, Ohio, Dunbar Wh
Insurance Company, prior te
coming to Oreonsboro In 1959,
as manager of the MMrly form*
ed savings and loan associa
tion.
Eira Toften, chairman of tha
Department of Chemistry; and
Dr. Theodora Speigner, chair
man of the Deportment of Ca
orgraphy.
New Finns Buys
Old N.C. Mut.
Office Building
The purchase of the former
North Carolina Mutual Life
Insurance Company home of
fice building at 114-116 West
Parrish Street by Realty Serv
ices, Inc., was confirmed here
Wednesday.
Officials of the firm, a man
agement corporation of which
J. H. Wheeler is president,
stated that the first two floors
and the basement will continue
to be occupied by Mechanics
and Farmers Bank, of which
Wheeler is also president. The
announcement noted that since
Sept. 1, the fourth, fifth, and
sixth floors of the building
have been occupied by Oepra
tion Breakthrough.
The corporation also stated
that long range plans call for
extensive renovation and mod
ernization of structure, none
of which will be undertaken
until after the completion of
the ne# Mutual Savings and
Loan Association building lo
cated on the adjoining prop
erty.
Revenue stamps attached to
See N. C. MUTUAL 2A
PETERSBURG, Va. Mrs.
Blanche Taylor Daniel, the
wife of Dr. Robert P. Daniel,
President of Virginia State
College, Petersburg, Virginia,
died last night in a local hos
pital after a long illness.
A native of Hanover County,
Va., Mrs. Daniel was graduated
from Virginia Union Univer
sity with a bachelor of arts de
gree in education, and from Co
lumbia University with a mas
ter of arts degree with a com
bination major in psychology
from Teachers College, and in
religious education from Union
Theological Seminary in New
York.
Prom 1830 to 193 d she was
(he Registrar of Virginia Union
University. In IM9 she was a
part-time Instructor in a course
in religious education at Shaw
University, and since 1094
served as a part-time instruc
tor of a course in personal-so
cial adjustment at Virginia
State College. She has been a
teacher in several summer in
stitutes for religious workers
in North Carolina and Va.
She was a life member of Pi
Lambda Theta Natioanl Honor
Society; The links. Inc.; the
National Association of Col
lege Women, in which she
served as vice-president of the
Virginia State College Chap
ter; the Alpha Kappa Alpha
Sorority, in which she has
See MRS. DANIIL 2A
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LABOR
Union Backs Unseating Of
Congressmen From Miss.
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VOLUME 12 No. 23 ~ DURHAM, N. C. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, IMS PRICE: 15c
SNCC Finds Vote Drive Being
Opposed In Deep South
ATLANTA, Ga.—A four-week
appraisal of the 1965 Voting
Rights Act shows "great inad
equacies and minimum com
pliance" in most areas where
Negroes have had past difficul
ty in registering to vote, the
Student Nonviolent Coordinat
ing Committee (SNCC) said this
week.
Enforcement of provisions
outla - ,ving literacy tests in af
fected states has been a con
tinuing problem since the Act
was passed, SNCC said.
The SNCC cited the refusal
of an Albany, Georgia registrar
to discontinue the state's lite
racy test a week after the bill
became law, and the notifica
tion of Mississippi registrars by
by Attorney General Joseph
Patterson that the state's lite
racy test was still to be ap
plied to prospective voters.
In many Mississippi counties,
SNCC said, illiterate Negroes
were turned away from regis
tration offics. In Suhflower
County, home of U.S. Senator
James O. Eastland, a registrar
told Negroes: "You can't read
or write good enough .to regis
ter; come back, next week-"
In Mississippi's Washington
County, -registrars used the
state's voting application as a
literacy test and rejected Ne
groes who could not fill it out
and illiterate Negroes were
turned away in Desoto County.
In Humphreys, Holmes, Hinds,
Adams, Jackson and Marion
Counties in Mississippi some
literacy test was used.
In addition to stepping up
registration drives, SNCC work
ers in Alabama, Mississippi and
See SNCC 2A
PLAN 40TH ANNIVERSARY
CELIBRATION—The year IMS
marks th« 40th Anniversary of
the Daisy I. Scarborough Nur
sery School founded and or
oanlzod by J. C. Scarborough,
Sr. Tho School located at 525
Proctor Street, Durham, has an
enrollment of 100 students and
operates on a five-day per
week schedule caring for Hie
young one*. The members of
tho Board of Directors of the
School shown above constitute
the Planning Committee for the
Anniversary Celebration this
year. Reeding left to right.
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E. B. PALMER
RE-ELECTED TO
TEACHERS ASS'N
RALEIGH The Board of
Directors of the North Caro
lina Teachers Association has
announced the re-election of
Elliott B. Palmer to the post
of Executive Secretary of NC
TA for a five-year period.
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Palmer sucbeeded Dr. Char
les "A" Lyons on November 1,
1964. Prior to assuming his
present post, he was principal
of Lakeview Elementary School,
Durham County.
He has served as chairman
of the Board of Directors of
the Piedmont District of the
North Carolina Teachers Asso
ciation, president of the School
Masters Club of Durham and
Orange Counties, president of
the Durham County Unit of
See PALMER 2A
front row: Miss Idne M. Mason,
chairman; Mrs. J. B. McLester,
Mrs. W. A. Cleland; back row,
R. C. Foreman, Mrs. Clydle
ScarborougK, Director of the
School and A. M. Rivera, Jr.
Not present when ffa picture
was made were the following
directors: Mrs. Y. D. Garrett,
Mrs. J. S. Thompson, W. J. Wei
ker, Charles Ray and
Mrs. I. P. Crane, teacher. J. J.
Henderson is Chairmen of the
Board.
The ptAlic Is urged to ioln
in the celebration on a date to
be announced.
Last Rites Held for AME Minister
In Annapolis, Maryland Sunday
ANNAPOLIS, Maryland
Rev. Isaac John Miller, 54, pas
tor of Mt. Moriah A. M. E.
Church in Annapolis, Mary
land, died at Anne Arundel
General Hospital here last
Tuesday after a two-week ill
ness.
Funeral services were held
last Sunday at the Metropoli
tan A. M. E. Church in Wash
ington, D. C. The eulogy was
delivered by Bishop G. W. Ba
ber, presiding Bishop of the
Second Episcopal District.
Burial was held in the Dar.
lington Cemetery, Darlington,
S. C.
Rev. Miller, the son of the
late Elder Isaac J. Miller, Sr.
and Ella B. Miller, was born
in Winnsboro, S. C. and attend
ed the public schools in Bish
opville, S. C. He received his
college education degree from
Allen University, Columbia, S.
C. The honorary Doctor of Di-'
vinity Degree was conferred on
him by Kittrell College'iri 1954.
A courageous advocator of
Civil Rights for all men and a
dedicated Christian leader,
Dr. Miller was ordained into
the Christian Ministry at the
Baltimore Conference in 1941
and served as an ambassador
of Christ for 24 years.
Rev. Miller's first pastorate
was at Mt. Pisgah AME Church
in Hickory where he served
PROGRESSIVE
National Convention Holds
Successful California Meet
MRS. L. M. HARRIS TO SPEAK AT
MT. OLIVE AMEZ CHURCH SUNDAY
Woman's Day will be ob
served at Mt. Olive AME Zion
Church Sunday, September 26,
with Mrs. Lucinda McCauley
Harris, president of Durham
Business College, as speaker.
The program, under the
chairmanship of Mrs. J. C.
Siler, will begin at 4 p.m.
A native of Durham who at
tended Durham city schools and
was graduated from North Car
olina College with a bachelor
of science degree, Mrs. Harris
founded the business college
she heads. She has pursued
graduate studies at North
western and New York Univer
sities. . »
Mrs. HarrU is • member of
St. Mirk AME Zion Church
where she participates in the
choir and teaches Sunday
School.
Eddie Kirby Succumbs to Heart
Attack at Local Hospital Friday
The funeral of Eddie Kirby,
well known resident of Dur
ham will be held at the Union
Baptist Church here Friday at
2 p.m. Rev. William Fuller,
pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist
Church, will be in charge of
the service with Rev. Louis
Wade, pastor of the First Bap
tist Church in Oxford, assist
ing.
Kirby took suddenly ill at
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DR. MILLER
j faithfully for five years. He
also held the following pastor
i ates: St. Luke AME, Fayette
■jville; St. Stephen's AME
I Church. Wilmington; before
I he was called to the pulpit at
! Mt. Moriah.
! Rev. Miller joined in wedlock
| with Miss Hattie Parrott of
Darlington, S. C. in 1934. Sur
vivors inclue in addition to his
wife two children. Mrs. Dorothy
M. Melvin and Isaac, m, one
adopted daughter, Patricia,
five grandchildren, one broth
| er, Windell P. Miller, six neph-
K ews and four nieces.
The pastor of Mt. Olive is the
Rev. E. H. Whitley.
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MRS. HARRIS
his home, 3125 Fayetteville St.,
Friday, September 10 and was
rushed to Lincoln Hospital
where he succumbed that eve
ning about 8:15 as the result
of a heart attack.
Survivors include his wife,
the former Miss Mary Cadlett
of Durham, one sister Margie
Kirby of the city and one
daughter, Mrs. Lucille Fi in tall
of Durham.
Move Backed
By 227 Lawyers
In 44 States
WASHINGTON, D. C. —The
American Civil Liberties Union
called on the House of Repre
sentatives to act favorably on
a resolution that would unseat
the Mississippi Congressional
delegation on the ground that
it was elected by the "systemat
ic exclusion of Negroes from
the election process in Missis
sippi."
The civil liberties organisa
tion released the text of a mem
orandum sent to every Con
gressman and signed by 227
lawyers in 41 states, supporting
the ehallegene which was ini
tiated last fall by the Missis
sippi Freedom Democratic Par
ty.
The contest was brought un
der a section of the Constitu
tion which provides that the
House is to "be judge of the
Elections, Returns and Quali
fications of its own Members."
After months of legal spar
ring, including the taking of
depositions in Mississippi by
both sides, an elections sub
committee of the House Ad
ministration Committee will
hold a hearing on the issue
tomorrow (Sept. 13). The sub
committee will hear a motion
made by four of the five Mis
sippi Congressmen to dismiss
the complaint. It is expected
that the matter will be report
ed to the House for floor ac
tion later this week.
The ACLU memorandum
charged that denial of voting
rights to Mississippi Negroes
violates both the 14th Amend
ment's guarantee of equal pro
tection of the law and the 15th
Amendment's prohibition on
abridging the right to vote be
cause of "race, color, or pre
vious condition of servitude."
It emphasized that more than
discriminatory voting laws keep
Mississippi Negroes from vot
ing. "State-inspired and state
condoned intimidation and vio
lence .as well as threats of
economic reprisal, are common
place, and they, even more
clearly than the statutes, are
See UNION 2A
LOS ANGELES *- The Pro
gressive National Baptist Con
vention has just concluded its
Fourth Annual Session with a
record-breaking enrollment and
contagious enthusiasm. The Ex
ecutive Secretary, Dr. L. ,V.
Booth of Cincinnati, reported
an increase of nearly 100
Churches.
The Convention became the
first Negro denomination to
become a participating Agency
in the Urban Training Center,
Chicago, which under Founda
tion Grants trains ministers in
the needs of Inner City Minis
tries with their problems of
underemployment and despair,
the Convention, reported the
grant of SI,OOO to the major
Civil Rights Movements and
paids its initial installment on
a Life Membership in the
NAACP. Dr. R. A. Cromwell of
Philadelphia, Pa., Secretary of
the Foreign Mission Bureau of
the Convention reported the
opening of the new Pilgrim
Hospital of Issele-Uku, Nigeria
which is the only Medical Mis
sionary Station being sponsor
ed by Negro Baptists on the
continent of Africa.
Dr. T M. Chambers, Los An
geles, who has served three
years as President was elected
under the Tenure Law of the
Convention to final (1) year
term of office. Dr. Gardner C.
Taylor, Brooklyn, N. Y., Vice
President at Large and likely
successor to Dr. Chambers, pre
sided due to the illness of the
President. Other significant
developments included the
election of Dr. Thomas Kll
gore, Jr., Los Angeles as Vice
See CONVICTION 2A