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—THE CAROLINA TIMES SATURDAY, MAY XT, IMI
Concern for the Future of NCC
Rumors and whispers to the ef
fect that conditions at N. C. College,
between the Administration and stu
dent leaders, are far from being set
tled continued to circulate unabated
in and around Durham this week.
Such was most graphically reflected
in the letter of Dr. B. T. Elliott, Jr.,
written to the editor of the Durham
Morning Herald which appeared in
the Tuesday, May 22, edition of that
newspaper.
We think there immediately arises
a great concern among all good citi
zens of Durham and the state, as
well as loyal and devoted alumni all
over the nation, when any condition
develops that threatens the contin
ued growth and success of NCC.
Proof of the above statement has
again and again been revealed
through the years that have seen
NCC grow from a small educational
institution into one of the leading
of the state and nation.
Here is what Dr. Elliott's letter
had to say in part:
"Student attempts to communi
cate with the administration have
been heard and forgotten. The sen
iors' request for a Negro com
mencement speaker was simply
ignored as a case in point. NCC
does not have a free atmosphere
oriented toward' freedom of
thought, speech, and expression.
Negro students who have demand
ed first class citizenship off cam
pus are insisting on a similar on
campus status. Violeiwre similar to
that on other Negro "College Cam
puses must be considered a possi
bility. If it occured; to blame it on
a convenient scapegoat such as
Stokely Carmichael would not re
solve the guilt of those who failed
to deal with the students in a re
sponsible manner. It may be per
tinent to mention that Carmichael
spoke at Duke recently but NCC
officials announced that he was
not invited to speak at NCC. If the
All-Negro Political
The Freedom Democratic Party
candidates in the two towns in Sun
flower County, Mississippi where
they ran defeat
ed, although in one''toWn the Negi*o
voters were a substantial majority
of the registered voters. The Free
dom Democratic Party is an all-Ne
gro political party in effect (it has
two white members in Miss. I It has
been backed by the Student Nonvio
lent Coordinating Committee as part
of their Black Power drive.
The fundamental reason for their
failure is that the tactic of setting
up all-Negro political is
wrong, and intelligent Negroes who
have fought against segregation
know that. In Jefferson County,
Miss., there is also a majority of
Negro voters, and they did elect a
Negro to the school board there,
Robert Williams, a member of the
NAACP, not by setting up an all
Negro party but by going into the
Democratic Party primary. Charles
Evers, the NAACP state organizer
for Mississippi and brother of the
martyred Medgar Evers, says they
expect to elect a Negro sheriff there
at the next election.
In Alabama there were eight coun
ties in which Negroes were a ma
jority of the registered voters. The
NAACP has had sufficient political
muscle in Washington to get a law
protecting the right of Negroes to
enroll as voters, and if they are de
nied such rights by the local regis-
The Red Smear Attempt at Dr. King
Efforts on the part of certain
sources in this country to pin a Com
munist button on the lapel of Dr.
Martin Luther King or smear his
name with being connected with the
reds in any way will get nowhere
with those of his own race. It is also
our feeling that such stupidity will
come to naught with all intelligent
citizens of this country who believe
in right.
As a minister of the gospel of Jesus
Christ, Dr. King or no other believer
in Christianity, will be able to find
room in his heart, soul or mind for
both the teachings of Jesus and Carl
Marx. Whatever blunders or errors
Dr. King may have made in the past
in his stand on the controversial
question of the Vietnam war, those
who know him best are satisfied
that the idea of embracing commu
nism has never entered his mind.
We would advise those who wish
to find some source of undermin
ing Dr. King's position as a leader
of his people to hunt for another
administration does not respond
with changes that are overdue,
then they will be held responsible
for whatever the future brings."
The Carolina Times feels that it
is in a most strategic position to in
terpet and express the feeling of
the alumni, as well as the many
friends of NCC, with regards to what
now appears to be a most explosive
situation existing at the institution.
Our one and only purpose, therefore,
is to endeavor to help avert a simi
lar situation from happening on the
campus of NCC that has happened
on several other college campuses
during the past several weeks.
Certainly it is too late now to un
do what has already been done, or
that which the present administra
tion has arranged to be done in the
immediate future, especially as it
regards the racial identity of the
commencement speaker for the grad
uating class of 1967. Thus it would
appear that wisdom would dictate
that the administration and the
leaders of the student body at
NCC rise to the heights of nobility
and find the humility to confess that
both have from time to time made
blunders—blunders of the head and
not of the heart. In their efforts to
find a solution to the very perplexing
problem of endeavoring to operate
an educational institution of higher
learning in the face of the changes
now taking place in our social order,
they may discover ere it is too late
that such humility is an attribute
of the strong and not the weak, it
"becomes the throned monarch bet
ter than his crown."
Our greatest concern, therefore,
for the present plight of NCC is not
for the administration, its student
leaders or its student body as a
whole. Our greatest concern is for
the intangible NCC, the soul of the
institution that can only be felt and
understood by those who are in love
with its future, its destiny.
Parties Not Wise
trars the Federal Government can
and does at times send Federal reg
istrars to register them.
-t 'ln seven of these bounties the
-SljriCK set up all-NegTO parties, the
Black Panther Party. In all seven
counties the Black Panther candi
dates were all defeated but in Ma
con County the political tactic ad
vocated by the NAACP of integrat
ing Negroes into the existing politi
cal parties was followed. It was suc
cessful and in that county there is
now a Negro sheriff as well as a
majority on the school board. Thus
the only elected Negro officials in
any county in Alabama or Mississip
pi were elected by integrating Ne
gro voters in the Democratic Party,
not by segregating them in all-Negro
political parties.
In general this policy is beginning
to pay off. There are now 15 Ne
groes elected to state legislatures
throughout the country, including
10 in Georgia, 6 in Tenn., and 3 irf
Texas. There is one Negro U. S.
Senator, Edward Brooke of Mass ,
and Negroes have been elected to
state-wide offices in at least two
other states. Conn, and Mich. This
could not possibly have been done
on any Black Power basis. It has
been done by integrating Negroes
into exisiting political parties just as
other ethnic groups such as Italians,
Poles, Jews, Irish, Scandinavians or
French Canadians have been so in
tegrated
red herring to drag over his trail.
The respect, admiration and faith
millions of Negroes and others have
in the loyalty of Dr. King as an
American citizen remains unblem
ished and untouched by the silly ef
forts on the part of his enemies to
smear his name with communism.
France & U.S. Bases
\cpitt;■ Iio;«s» have l.r'iUiMi down
.md lite i ! ili" is ui*v.
m:iiod |r. I lie unpleasant liK'l lll.lt
l-'ranoe will «iv- llu* T j'ilif! States
IH> ipiuruutced r»-«*iitr\ rights in iis
I MINOS ill h'rillK't'.
I'resident Charles l)o(iiiiille in
efTect kicked I _S; armed lorees mil
of Knune in a |iress conference
announcement seven months ago.
giving (hem until April Ist. MNiT to
tfei. "lit- Since then IIK'H and supplies
have U'Ku.i to move to (iermany and
Kii^liiiicl.
Iluwever, much cannot lie moved
and will lie lost—or Icllj'nr l-'raiieo.
| Time For Action... Congress And Community!
SPIRITUAL INSIGHT
"Can affliction, hardship, per
secution . . . ? Rom. 1:35
With a ringing shout of jubi
lant triumph the great Chris
tian says neither affliction,
hardship nor persecution can
separate him and Christ the
Savior. There is no willing
ness to give up, in the face
of great nor little difficulties.
His resolve is to stand firm,
unshakable in the spiritual
riches of Christ. Then what
about us who claim this great,
triumphant Christ and are so
easily wilted in the face of lit
tle trials and ordeals of ;this
' life. Ip Chriat and bis spirit's
tvjwer, we too*, ought to be able
to stand unmovable letting
nothing separate us from that
great, gracious love.
In Christ we have power to
endure and overcome afflic
tions. If we are in Christ, in
stead of complaining, we too
ought to be able to say none
of these afflictions will move
me. Too many of us become
cy babies in the face of little
difficulties. We run from lit
tle afflictions. We wilt and
fade away under the vicious,
Things You Should Know
BOYD %^Mk
BORN IN MISSISSIPPI OF SUVE FIK UK- J/JW
PARENTS/AFTER THE CIVIL WAR HE DRIFT
ED AROUND THE US. AND MEXICO ON ODD JOBS:
COWPUNCHER / FARMHAND,SATFMILL HAND S
HE WAS ORDAINED A BAPTIST PREACHER ABOUT L ®
1874. HE RESTORED THE SAME CHURCH IN WILLIS;
9RIMES COUNTY TEX AS FOR THIRTY YEARS/ '
SUPPORTED FOR ASSOCIATE
JUSTICE. U.S. SUPREME COURT BY HERBERTFL||
HOOVER/-HE WSDEFEATED BY NEGRO
VOTERS BECAUSE HE HAD RUN FOR GOVERNOR \
OF NORTH CAROLINA IN ©2O ON A PLAT
FORM CLAIMING "NEGROES ARE UNFIT ,
V \ * . • . R ' I» : - *" ' ' * 1
FOR THE PRIVILEGE OF CITIZENSHIP*/
' G**r*#trSu
In Christ We Have Power to
Endure and Overcome Afflictions
crushing blows of afflictions.
A runner a cry-baby never
grows into the full stature of
Christian nobility. The train
can run because of the friction
between the wheel and the
track. And how can we grow
spiritually unless we confront
and pass successfully through
our afflictions? Afflictions
faced and passed through will
mean spiritual growth for your
soul.
Hardships are essential for
the growth of a truly great
soul. Ease never made a great
man nor woman. Call the roll
Ol the truly great' souls and
what do you find? It was not
the ease of Pharoah's court
that made a Moses, but the
hardships of the desert years.
Some hardships must be inter
woven into the fabric of the
human soul. It was not the
security of the little farm at
Tekoa that made an Amos but
the difficulties he encountered
at Bethel. Yes hardships are
indispensable for the enrich
ment and growth of the spirit
ual life of man. The hardships
By REV. HAROLD ROLAND
of the Military Academy helped
General Benjamin Davis be
come a great soldier. He would
not let little hardships sepa
rate him from his lofty aims in
life. Hardships for those in
Christ and the spirit's power
help to fashion the ladder by
which we climb the heights.
The Jewish people In their
history of persecution through
out the world present the way
in which persecutions can be
made creative. Persecutions in
instead of crushing them have
a kind of spiritual elas
ticifar. In the f*c«'4f persecu
tions they-have forte bouncing
on- W Higher hrffchti Persecu
tions can indeed become spirit
ually creative. In response to
persecutions we can fashion
great spiritual resources. Then
let us stop crying about our
persecutions —tnni them into
spiritual gems.
With faith in God we should
not become the unfortunate
victims of afflictions hardships
and persecutions but we should
let them make us victors In
life's struggles.
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To Be Equal
By WHITNBX M. YOUNG 18.
Facts About
THE MYTH that people on welfare are "chiselers" who don't want
to work has been repeated so often that it falls into the tech
nique of the Big lie—repeat it often enough and people will
believe jt. Every time a politician wants to make a hit with the home
folks or a newspaper wants to boost circulation, they go back to the
old welfare chiselers routine.
• Now they wfll have to find another horse to flog, because a
White House official has made public the figures on welfare re-
fipienis and they show that only 30,000 — less
than 1 per cent—are abjf to work.
There are 7.3 million people in the U.S. getting
some form of welfare aid. A little over 2 mil
lion are aged, 700,000 are blind or handicapped
3.J million are children, and the rest are the
parents of these children who are unable to
support them. Almost a million of these are mo
thers who can's leave their kids to go to work,
while most of the 150,000 fathers on welfare are
handicapped in one way or another.
These people don't sound like chiselers to me
or to any other fair-minded person. They are vic-
MR YOUNG'
Tims of a system which has failed them and they are people who may
have met with misfortune in life, but they must be accorded the basic
dignities due all human beings. The present welfare system treats
them in a manner which robs them of dignity and frustrates efforts
to make them self-sufficient.
Helps Break Up Many Families
This nation reveres the family and everyone agrees that a
strong family unit is essential to society, yet the welfare system ac
tually helps break up many families. Children who receive welfare
in the Aid to Dependent Children program often pay for the aid by
losing their fathers. That's because of the "man-in-the-house" rule
which forbids assistance to the children if there is an able-bodied man
living with them. So many fathers must leave their families to keep
their children from starving. The rule is enforced by Gestapo-like
raids, usually in the middle of the night, to check on whether a man
is home. '■sfc,,
There are many other abuses—most states pay benefits which
don't even come up to their own standards, payments average below
the federal poverty standards, eligibility is often denied on unfair
grounds, clients must submit to harassment and humiliating investi
gations, and incentives are dimmed because benefits are cut by a
dollar for each dollter earned by anyone in the family.
There is also another myth about welfare—that Negroes gravi
tate to big cities because welfare payments are better there. This is
false. Only about a third of welfare recipients are Negro, and those
who go to the cities are doing what millions of immigrants before
them did—they go in search of work and they go to escape the brutal
repression which still exists in large-sections of the United States.
They are no different from the white families who leave poverty
stricken areas of the South or the Appalachian region in search of
jobs and dignity.
{'NVl^nteo
THE 'LOOSE-LEAF SYSTEM '/*
-Signers
Continued from front page
lion signatures of support for
passage of this crucial legisla
tion."
Emphasizing! the. need for
additional civil rights legisla
tion this year, Mr. Wilkins
pointed out to the long list of
civil rights murders committed
in the South where "no one has
been convicted in these
crimes."
"The pending bill, if enacted,
would enable the Federal Gov
ernment to prosecute such
cases in the future as the slay
ing of Jimmy Lee Jackson in
Marion, Ala., in 1965; the fire
bomb murder of Vernon Dah
mer in Hattiesburg, Miss., in
January, 1066; the bomb-maim
ing of of George Metcalfe and
the bomb-murder of Wharlest
Jackson, both of Natchez, Miss.,
in 1965 and 1967, respectively,"
Mr. Wilkins told newsmen.
At present only states can
act in suspected murders. If
the states choose not to act and
a conspiracy indictment is not
or cannot he secured, the sus
pected persons remain free.
Other Titles in the 1967 bill
would grant the authority to
isaue "cease and desist" ord
ers to the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission. The
Commission may now find *
firm guilty of racial discrimi
tion in its employment policy,
but may not order it to ceaae.
Another section of the bill
would eliminate racially dia-
criminatory practices in the se
lection of juries in state and
Federal courts.
Wilkins also declared that
"As an indication of our con
cern with these developments
and of our determination to
educate our members and the
public on the issues, we will
begin this month an accelerat
ed voter registration and edu
cation campaign. This will re
inforce our year-'round pro
gram of voter registration"
-Felder
Continued from front page
monial occasions.
After a brief period during
which' he worked in Atlanta,
Felder entered Howard's Law
School in September of 1964
He has served as treasurer of
the Student Bar Association
and as the Howard representa
tive to the American Law Stu
dent Association.
~■ In addition, he currently it
serving as special assistant to
Congressman John Conyers,
Jr. of Michigan.
Felder is married to the for
mer Ch arietta Pickering of
Sumter. They have one son,
age four.
The South Carolina Voter
Education Project is a state
wide organization engaged in
programs of voter registration,
citizenship education and lead
ership training. It has played
a major role In boosting Ne
gro registration In South Car
olina beyond the 100,000 mar^,