U. S. Court Approves SCEF Suit Against Eastland's Lawyers
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Att'y. Richardson Preyer A&T Finals Speaker
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PREYER
400 to Hear
Former Judge
District Court
GREENSBORO The 76th
annual commencement exer
cises for A and T. College are
to be held Sunday, June 4. The
single program is scheduled
for the Charles Moore Gymna
sium beginning at 11:00 A.M.
Main speaker for the pro
gram is L. Richardson Preyer,
Greensboro, an attorney and
senior vice - president and
Greensboro city executive for
the North Carolina National
Bank A graduate of Princeton
University, Preyer holds his
law degree from Harvard Uni
versity,
A foimer judge of the U. S.
Middle District Court, he has
served also as city judge for
Greensboro and judge of the
North Carolina Supreme Court.
An active worker in civic,
business, political and social
affairs, he holds memberships
on boards of many national,
state and local organirations. *
More than 4CG graduates are
to receive degrees at the exer
cises.
Following the program. Dr.
Lewis C. Dowdy, president of
the College, and Mrs. Dowdy
will host the President's Re
ception for the graduates,
alumni, guests and friends in
the main ballroom of the new
Memorial Union.
Tribunal Move
Called Great
Victory tor CR
WASHINGTON, D. C. The
U.S. Supreme Court has ruled
that the Southern Conference
Educational Fund (SCEF) may
proceed with a $250,000 dam
age suit against J. G. Sour
wine, chief counsel of Senator
James Eastland's Internal Se
curity Subcommittee.
The suit charges that Sour
wine along with Eastland vio
lated the constitutional rights
of SCEF and its supporters by
conspiring with Louisiana of
ficials to raid its offices in
New Orleans in 1963.
Lower courts had dismissed
both suits on the grounds that
Eastland and Sourwine were
protected by legislative im
munity. The Supreme Court
held that such immunity ap
plied to Eastland but not to
Sourwine and it reinstated the
suit against the chief counsel.
SCEF officials called the de
cision a "great victory for civil
rights and civil liberties in
the South and in the nation."
In connection with the 1963
raids, Louisiana officials charg
ed three SCEF leaders with
violating that state's anti-sub
versive law. SCEF challenged
these charges in federal court
»nd took that issue to the Su
preme Court in 1965. SCEF
contended that it was being
harassed because of its work
for civil rights and that Louis
iana's anti-subversive law was
unconstitutional anyway.
In a landmark decision in
1965, the Supreme Court up
held SCEF's contentions and,
in effect, told the state of
Louisiana to leave the organi
ation alone. SCEF then filed
its suit against Eastland and
Souiwine, whom it charges
helped plan the raids and later
ipirited SCEF records out of
Louisiana to Washington while
they were the subject of fed
jersl court litigation. SCEF is
kin suing Louisiana officials.
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VOLUME 44 No. 20 DURHAM, N. C. SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1967 PRICE: 20c
N AACP Seeks Million Signers
For Civil Rights Legislation
LYNDA BYRD TO APPEAR
IN MOVIE SKlT—(Hollywood,
Calif.) President Johnson's
daughter Lynda Bird, who is
sponsor of the 1968 National
Jas. Felder To Head
S. Ci Voter Education
Lindsey Merritt Speaker for
Russell CME Men's Day Sunday
Russell Memorial CME
Church, pastored by Reverend
Charles R. White, will present
its Annual Men's Day Service,
Sunday, May 28, at 11:00 a.m.
Lindsey A. Merritt, former
Hillside High Setyool Distri
butive Education Coordinator
and currently. Employment
Services Representative, North
Carolina Good Neighbor Coun
cil, will be the guest speaker.
Merritt attended the Durham
City Schools. He received sup
plemental training at North
Carolina College, University
of North Carolina, and New
York University. He is a mem
ber of the Mount Gilead Bap
tist Church, a past Department
al Superintendent of the Sun
day School, member of Eco
nomic Committee, Durham
Committee on Negro Affairs,
past General Secretary of the
North Carolina College Alum
ni Association, member of
AVA, NEA, NCTA* and DTA
( professional organizations ),
former Radio-sportti announcer,
station WSRC, Csfptain, area
"G" North Carolina : Heart Fund
(Durham Division),-'.and a mem
ber of Omega Psi Phi Fratern
ity.
The speaker is married to
the former Miss Betty Jordan
of Seaboard, N. C. They have
Humphrey As
Program For Youngsters
DALLAS Vice
President Hubert H. Hum
phrey called Sunday night
for year - round programs
to help young persons, es
pecially Jtito MMhfrprivileged.
prepare for the responsibili
ties for citizenship.
"I# our country can make
all these investments to put
a man on the moon, we can
make Investments to put a
man on his feet," Mr. Hum
phrey told a meeting of the
National Conference of So
cial Welfare.
"WE CANNOT delay in
making equal the life chanc
es of our Negro youth, our
Puerto Rican youth, our
Mexican - American youth,
and our Indian youth... who
Easter Seal campaign, stepped
before the cameras to film a 1-
minute TV "spot" for the cam
paign. Lynda (L) and Dinah
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MERRITT
one daughter, Sally Anita.
Others associated with the
program are:' Reverend C. R.
White, A. C. Smith, B. L. Law
rence, J. T. Walker, W. Hooks,
R. Anderson, O. Tapp, R. Tay
lor, H. Cherry, A. Wingate, Sr.,
J. Howard, A. Ginyard, F. H.
Alston and Talmadge McCal
lum, Chairman of the Men's
Day Committee.
The Russell Memorial Male
Chorus, directed by J. Boun-
sell, will render program mu
sic. W. H. Cole will serve as
guest organist.
have been Reflected In our
•ocial thinking," the Vice
President added.
While he addressed the
welfare organization at th e
Dallas Memorial Auditorium,
a group of American azi
party "storm troopers" de
monstrated outside. A police
detail kept them away from
a group of peace pickets.
MR. HUMPHRET asked
for a commitment to year
around programs for health,
education, recneatlon, work
and community responsibili
ty, "programs in which
vcboolir, private enterp r 1 se,
public and voluntary agen
cies arrange their resources
for the development of com
petent young citizens and
workers.' • '
Shore play with some crippled
children who'll appear with
them in the film, made at War
ner Bros. Studios. (UPI)
COLUMBIA, S. C. The
South Carolina Voter Educa
tion Project announced recently
that James L. Felder, soon 'o
graduate from law school at
Howard University, will be its
new director,
Felder will replace Richard
Miles, who resigned at the end
of 1966 to join the U. S. De
partment of State.
The announcement of Feld
er's appointment was made by
Dr. Charles H. Thomas Jr. of
Orangeburg, president of the
South Carolina Voter Educa
tion Project.
Felder, a 28-year-old native
of Sumter, is expected to begin
his duties with SCVEP shortly
after his graduation from How
ard early next month.
Felder was graduated in 1961
from Clark College in Atlanta,
where he was quarterback and
captain of the football team.
He was elected president of
Clark's student body during his
junior year.
Felder spent. 1962 and 1963
in the Army. A sergeant, he
was a member of the eight-man
military bonor guard at the
funeral of President John F.
Kennedy. During his two years
in the Army, Felder was as
signed to the honor guard unit
in Washington which served at
the White House, at funerals
and at other military and cer«-
See FELDER 2A
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THE lIST COMMENCEMENT
exercise for Kittrell College
was held Wednesday, May 24,
at 10:00 a.m. The address for
the occasion was delivered by
Rev. S S. Morris, Jr., pastor,
Coppins Chapel AME Church,
Chicago, 111. *-
A Nationwide
Drive is Staged
By Association
NEW YORK—A nationwide
drive has been launched by the
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored Peo
ple to gain one million signa
tures from NAACP memhere
and the general public to sup
port enactment of the 1967
civil rights bill
Roy Wilkins. NAACP execu
tive director, announced at a
news conference here, recently,
the distribution of printed pe
titions to the Association's 1,-
800 branches to "gain one mil-
See SIGNERS 2A
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MISS MARSHALL
26 to Graduate With Honors
In NCC Finals Sun., May 28
Roper School Principal Elected
To City Council; First of Race
ROPER—Elected to the City
Council of Roper, Saturday,
May 13 was E. V. Wilkins,
principal in the city school
system. Wilkins is believed to
be the first of his race to be
elected to a public office in
Roper since Reconstruction.
Since being elected to the
Council he has already been
named to serve on two com
mittees.
Whitted Wins
GOLDSBORO—Attorney Earl
Whitted, Jr., followed the old
adage of "you are not a cham
pion until you repeat," by win
ning his second term to the
G-oldsboro Board of Aldermen,
in the May 6 election.
Presiding over the com
mencement program was Rev.
Dewey Robinson, pastor of the
MetiopoliUn A. M. E. Church,
Washington, D. C. Degrees
were awarded the graduates bj
Rev. L. G. Horton, president
of the College. Also participat
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NCC COMMENCEMENT PRIN
CIPALS—JVoith Carolina Col
lege officials who will play sig
nificant roles in the institu
tion's 56th annual commence
ment Sunday, May 28, are from
left: William Malone, marshal;
William Jones, chairman of the
interim committee administer
ing the college; Dr. Helen G.
Edmonds, dean of the Gradu
Langston Hughes Passes At
65 In New York Hospital
NEW YORK The National (
Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People joined j
millions of Americans this ;
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WILKINS
ing in the finale was Bishop
George W. Baber, presiding
prelate of the Second Episco
pal District of the A. M. E.
Church. Those in the picture
from left to right are Rev.
Morris, Bishop Baber and
President Horton purefoy)
ate School; Dr. William H.
Brown, member of the interim
committee; Watts Hill. Jr.,
chairman of the StaU- Board
of Higher Education and prin
cipal speaker; Dr Stewart B
Fulbright, dean of the undef- /
graduate School; Daniel G
Sampson, dean of the Law
School; Miss Evelyn Pope, dean
I week in mourning the death
I of Langston Hughes, the noted
; poet, novelist, shortstory writ
| er, essayist, playwright and
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Twenty-six North Caroina
College students will graduate
with honors at the college's
56th annual commencement
Sunday, May 28.
Among some 490 NCC stu
dents receiving undergraduate,
graduate, and professional de
grees, they represent 12 of
the college's academic areas.
Eleven Durhamites are in the
honor group, and fivf of the
seven honor students majoring
in mathematics, the largest aca
demic area represented, are
Durhamites. Six are French
majors, among them two from
Durham.
Earning Summa Cum Laude
honors are Natlie Elizabeth
Marshall, Durham, matheifcat
ics; Sandra Wray, Durnam
mathematics; and Edna E.
Clegg, Hampton. Va., FYencfi.
Graduating Magna Cunv
Laude are Elizabeth A Gal
breath, Red Springs, mathe
matics; Nettie V. Young, Dur
ham, mathematics; Gloria J.
Snipes, Durham, Spanish; Leo
nard King, Durham, French;
Deloris E. Boone, Durham,
mathematics; Delores Bona
parte, Durham, nursing;
ryn L. Wallace, Mt. Olive,
chemistry: Robert D. Sanders,
Clayton, biology; Annie B
Isaac, Durham, mathematics;
Ella E. Tyson, Greenville.
French; and Georgia M. Wil
liams, Fayetteville, business
education.
Cum Laude graduates are
Warren D. Leggett, Durham,
accounting; Floyd W Hayes,
HI, -Log Assess, Calif.. French;
Betty M. Harmon, WindsoT,
French; Judy M. Dugger, Rob
ersonville, sociology; Mollye J.
Brinkley, Weldon, mathemat
ics; Mary J McNeil, Charlotte,
business education; John T.
Williams, Rocky Mount, chem
istry; Carolyn D. Edge, Rocky
Mount, English; Barbara J.
Johnson, Durham, French; B.
D. Carr, Chadbourn, home eco
nomics; Carolyn J. Mumford,
Kinston, home economics; and
Gloria A. Evans, Durham, psy
chology. f
of the School of Library Sci
ence; and Dr Charles Orr, mar
shal
Approximately 490 NCC stu
dents are candidates for under
graduate, graduate, and pro
fessional degrees at the convo
cation which begins at 3 p.m.
in NCC's McDougald Gymna
sium.
onetime busboy who went on
to achieve worldwide acclaim.
"Of many men it is said 'We
shall not see his like again,'
but this tribute applies in truth
to Langston who won our love
in his big own special way. He
gave to people his riches of
cheer, of compassion, of right
eous indignation over wrongs."
NAACP Executive Director Roy
Wilkins said in a telegram to
Mrs. Toy Harper, Mr. Hughes'
aunt who lives in Harlem.
Mr. Hughes, who passed on
May 22 in Polyclinic Hospital
J here at the age of 65, had been
J a regular contributor to the
I NAACP's official magazine.
THE CRISIS "We count it as
a special privilege that it was
THE CRTSIS which gave Lang
ston his first publication any
where in 1921 when it appear
ed with his poem. "The Negro
Speaks of Rivers,' " Mr. Wil
kins said
In accepting the NAACP's
| coveted Spingarn Medal in
I 1960, Mr. Hughes said he did
| so "only in the name of the
! Negro people who have given
me the materials out of which
Imy poems and "stories, plays
and songs, have come; and who
j over the years, have given me
i as well their love and under
| standing and support. Without
| them, on my part, there would
| have been no poems; without
j their hopes and fears and
I dreams, no stories; without
' their struggle, no dramas;
1 without their music, no songs."
Langst'on Hughes was horn
| in Mo., on Feb. 1, 1902.
1 His mother was a school teach
| er and nis father was a store
keeper. He was graduated from
. Central High School in Cleve
land and later went to Mexico
to collect material for future
works.
College Will
Give Degrees
To 130 May 28
RALEIOH, N. C. Saint
Augustine's College will con.
fer degrees on 130 graduate*
r.t its centennial commence
ment exercise Sunday, May
28, in Emory Health and
Fine Arts Center.
Dr. P. R. Robinson, presi
dent of Saint Augustine's,
also announces that honor
ary doctorate degrees will be
conferred upon Lt. Lawrence
A. Oxley and Mrs. Eugene
Halmi. Awards will be giv
en to Mrs. Rebecca C. Weath
erford and Mrs Mabel B.
VVj-j.pb/, u-'bo have been elect,
ed yy the faculty as the out
standing teachers of th~ year.
RECOGNITION will also
be given to Dr. James A.
Boyer, who recently retired
as president of Saint Augus
tine's College.
Lieutenant Oxley Is direc
tor of Special Projects and
Liaison with the White
House Staff on Medicare
legislation, serving under the
lal.e President John F. Ken
nedy qnd with President
Lyndon B. Johnson.