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NAACP Seeks To Restore Peace In Riot Areas
NEW YORK—The National
Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People mobi
lized many of its units for duty
in strife-torn communities
throughout the nation last
week, in an effort to calm ra
cial tensions and to bring peace
to ghetto areas in which vio
lence has erupted.
In Tampa, Fla., where three
nights of rioting erupted after
Freak Pook Acciden 1 Takes Life Of Youth In Chapel Bill
PRINCIPALS IN COMING
EVENT—Shown are the princi
pals in the 16th annual meet
ing of the Woman's Home and
Foreign Missionary Society of
the A. M. E. Zion Church, who
will participate in the event,
scheduled to meet at First A
MEZ Church, McDonough St.
at Tompkins, Brooklyn. N. :Y.,
August 5-12. Seated, 1-r, Mrs.
W. M. Smith, Mobile, Ala., su
pervisor, 9th district; Mrs. F.
S. Anderson. Louisville, Ky.,
supervisor, Bth district; Mrs
Medis G. Warren, Portsmouth,
Va , retiring chairman. Life
members Council; Mrs. Idonia
Rogerson, Winfall, N. C., im
AMEZ Foreign Missionary
Meet SlatecLJor Brooklyn
PITTSBURGH Mrs. Emma
B. Watson, president, Woman's
Home and Foreign Missionary
Society, AMK Zion Church, an-
nounced, this week, that plans
and program are complete for
the 16th quadrennial meetiny
of the Society, at First AME
Zion Church, Tompkins Street
at McDonoagfi, Brooklyn, N.Y.,
August 5-11.
Registration and social acti
vities are scheduled for Satur
day, August 5. A well rounded
program of orientation to
Brooklyn and environs has been
planned that will include even
the children.
The Sunday program will
keynote the opening. Bishop S.
Darme Lartey, the first na
tive-born African ever to pre
side in Africa, will deliver the
sermon. He has charge of the
work in Ghana. The prelate of
West Africa, Bishop A G.
Dunston, Jr., will address the
assembly at 3 p.m., Sunday.
The first day services will close
with a sermon by Bishop W.
A. Hilliard, immediate past
prelate of West Africa and
chairman of the Boar- 1 of Fore
ign Missions.
The business sessions will be-
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N.Y. Mother of
Eight Awarded
B.S. Degree
NEW YORK-Mrs. Felicia R.
Wright, who received a Bache
lor of Science degree from New
York University's School of
Education on June 13, brought
her own personal cheering sec
tion to Commencement exer
cises—six of her eight children.
Mrs. Wright, a high school
dropout, is 38 years old. She
entered NYU in 1962, after
graduating from the two-year
New York City Community Col
lege. Earlier, she earned her
high school diploma ir evening
classes which she attended be
ginning in 1950.
Her children range in age
from nine to 20. Two were fel
low June graduates this year.
Felicia Maria received her high
school diploma, and Cecile Ma
rie was graduated from ele
mentary school.
She was able to raise her
family and go to college at the
same time, lhe says, only with
the help and cooperation of her
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a white policeman shot and
killed a Negro burglary sus
pect, NAACP State Field Di
rector Marvin Davies and other
civil rights leaders toured the
Central Avenue riot area and
urged teenagers to stay off the
streets.
Davies and other Negro lead
ers later met with Mayor Nick
Nuccio to discuss racial griev
ances. After the meeting, Ma-
| mediate past-editor, Woman's
| Column; Mrs. Minnie D. Hur
ley, New York, treasurer; Mrs.
Cordelia M Elliott, Indianap
polis, Indiana, supervisor, 4th
Wilmington, N. C., supervisor,
3rd district; Mrs. Amelia Tuck
er, Louisville,, Ky., supervisor
6th district and first Negro
woman member of the Ken
| tucky Legislator; Mrs. Josie E.
j Fuller, Cincinnati, Ohio, retir
j, ing superintendent, Buds of
j Promise; Standing, Mrs. Doro
j thy K. Walls, Chicago, 111., su
j perintendent, Ist district; Mrs.
; Minnie Miller Jones, Salisbury,
| N. C., supervisor, 2nd district;
' Mrs. Alce'stis Coleman, Salis
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SLOAN
MEN'S DAY SPEAKERS—Mt.
Gilead Baptist Church will ob
serve Men's Day on Sunday,
June 25, with special programs
for morning and evening serv
ices, according to Jesse L. Al
len, Chairman of the Program
Committee.
Maceo A. Sloan, (left) Vice
President, Home Office Opera
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ACADEMIC PROCESSION
NAACP Executive Director Roy
Wilkins and Oberlin College
President Robert K. Carr in
academic procession at the
opening of the 134 th anniver
sary commencement exercises
on Tappan Square. In present
ing the Honorary Degree of
Doctor of Laws to Wilkins, the
civil rights leader was .cited
agreed to withdraw
500 National Guardsmen and
and more than 150 policemen
from the Central Avenue area,
•in the heart of the ghetto.
The NAACP and the Com
mission on Community Rela
tions also recruited 'some 100
Negro youths to patrol the
streets in an attempt to pre
vent further outbreaks of vio
lence.
bury, N. C., retiring 2nd vice
president Mrs. Lonia Gill,
Whistler, Alabama, secretary,
Young Women; Mrs. Rosanna
Nelson, Newark, N. J., Ist vice
president; Mrs. Emma B. Wat
son, Pittsburgh, Pa., president;
Miss Lougenia Lovette, Detroit,
Mich., supervisor, 12th district;
Mrs. Edra Mae Milliard, De
troit Mich., supervisor, 11th
district; Miss Susie M. Brown,
Washington, DC., recording
sect.; Mrs. G. L. Holmes, Knox
ville, Tenn., executive secre
tary; Mrs. Laura Smalls, Wash
ington, D. C, secretary of sup
plies.
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McCASKILL
tions, North Carolina Mutual
Life Insurance Company, is
scheduled to deliver the morn
ing address. Dennis McCaskill,
(right) Principal of Merrick-
Moore School, will be speak
er for the evening program.
Both speakers are active in the
civic and religious life of the
Durham community.
as a "wise, compassionate, de
determied, effective leader, who
came early ana stayed late .in
the ever-demanding business
of securing freedom and equal
ity for all." Wilkins deliver
ed the commencement address
after the previously scheduled
speaker, UN Secretary-General
U. Thant, had to cancel' be
cause of Itie Middle East crisis.
Meanwhile, NAACP Execu
tive Director Roy Wilkins met
with other civil rights leaders
ip upstate New York on June
S3, to develop plans to com
bine organizational efforts in
Cleveland, Ohio, this summer
to ease racial tensios and wipe
out inequality and injustice."
Details of the joint effort
have not yet been formulated,
according to Dr. Kenneth B.
Wilson Native
Dies in Fall
From Board
CHAPEL HILL-For nearly
three quarters ft'f an hour Fri
day afternoon, spectators and
swimmers had been thrilled by
the expert execution of fancy
and difficult dives from the
high board at the Roberson
Street swimming pool.
It happened in a split seond
At about 6:05, James Edward
Ward lay crumbled on the
concrete undlr the board The
crowd's exhilaration turned to
gloom. According to eye wit
nesses, Ward made an ap
proach to the edge of the
board, made his spring, appa
recently changed his mind, did
a second spring, turned in mid
air as if to go back to start
another dive. It was as he
came down from the second
spring that his right foot
missed the board and he went
under.
In less than fifteen minutes,
Ward was receiving treatment
at Noiith Carolina Memorial
Hospital's intensive care divi
sion. It was reported that he
suffered abraisions on his back,
lacerations oh his right shoul
der and severe brain damage
James Ward, age 19, had
come to Chapel Hill from Wil
so last week to take a job at
Gravely Sanatorium here. He
died Monday morning at 11:15.
Miss Jane Hogan of the
Chapel Hill Recreation Depart
ment, whfl.wM.nt the pool at
the time of the accident, ex
pressed the regret and pro
found sorrow of the commu
nity at Ward's untimely acci
dental death. She credited the
Rescue Squad and the Hospital
with very prompt action and
feels that everything possible
was done to save young Ward's
life. .' a
Ruling Pleases
Att'ys Carter,
Weinberger
NEW YORK Commenting
on the Supreme Court's unani
mous ruling, June 12, invali
dating Virginia's anti-misegena
tion laws, NAACP General
Counsel Robert L. Carter and
Andrew D. Weinberger, New
York lawyer and a member of
the Association's Board of Di
rectors, said in a joint state
ment: "We are pleased that
the Supreme Court has handed
down this long overdue deci
sion. In a free, democratic so
ciety, people should be free to
marry Whomever they choose
without any restrictions based
on race or color."
On behalf of the Association,
they had filed a brief amicus
curiae, February 27, in the
case of Loving v. the Common
wealth of Virginia. In it they
stated, "Negroes cannot be
consuiered to have obtained
equtil rights' or to have gained
full freedom as full-fledged
citizens of the United States
jMitil they are free to make the
individual decision as to whom
they will marry without legis
lative interference or proscrip
tions based solely on the acci
dent of color."
Mr. Weinberger has written
extensively on the issue of in
terracial marriages. His most
recent article, "Interracial
Marriage in the USA," was
published in the March, 1967,
issue of the NAACP organ, The
Crisis.
According to Mr. Weinber
ger, there are 50,000 known
Negro-white marriages in the
United States. He estimates
that there is a much larger
number of such marriages be
tween white persons and per
sons of some African ancestry
who have passed over into the
white community.
Although the opinion by
Chief Justice Earl Warren was
directed specifically at the an
ti-miscegenation laws of Vir-
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Clark, head of the Metropoli
tan Applied Research Center,
which sponsored the meeting.
In Cincinnati, Dr. Bruce H.
Green, president of the local
NAACP branch, said: "While
we certainly cannot condone
violence ... we must condemn
the conditions of poverty, lack
of employment, dilapidated
housing and sub-human condi-
Che €arswpi €mwo
ITn« WTM UNBpSSiaTI
VOLUME 44 No. 24 DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1967
Watts Hill Jr. Named Chairman Of
Home Security Board Of Directors
W. Rock Pastor
To Preach a!
Jack Tar Sun.
The Re»'. Lorenzo A. Lynch,
Pastor of White Rock Baptist
Church, will preach at the
"Upper Room'' Hour of the
Inter-State International Court
Order of Cyrene of United
States of America, Sunday,
June 25, at 8:00 a.m. at the
Jack Tar Hotel.
The - Male Chorus of White
Rock, under the direction tpf
Theodore Freeland, will sing
for the occasion.
The "Upper Room" Hour is
not a closed meeting but ift |
is opened to thd general put l l
lie and persons not connected !
with either the organization or |
White Rock will be gladly re
ceived.
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NEW OFFICERS AND BOARD
members of the Old North
State Medical Association elect
ed at the 80th convention in
Winston-Salem last week are
left to right: Dr. R. C. Roane,
Wilmington, Dr. Willard, Win
Plot To Assassinate NAACP
Head Uncovered By Police
NEW YORK An abortive
plot to assassinate top Negro
leaders, take over the govern
ment of the United States and
other leading nations of the
world was uncovered by police
this week. With lightning like
thrusts, police in large num
bers swarmed into residential
sections Wednesday morning
following which they arresed
17 persons, 16 of whom were
Negroes.
In addition to the persons
arrested, police also seized a
machine gun, 30 other weap
ons, helmets, radio trnsmit
ting equipment, telescopes, sev
eral hundred rounds of of am
munition and an amount of ex
plosives.
Slated for assassination were
Roy Wilkins, executive secre
tary of the NAACP, Whitney
M. Young, Jr., Urban League
official and other prominent
leaders of the non-violent ap
proach in the civil rights strug
gle.
tions in which ghetta residents
are required to live."
Dr. Green was involved in
round the clock meetings with
community leaders and city of
ficials in efforts to halt the
violence which broke out on
June 13. He said that city of
ficials who have long ignored
ghetto conditions and extre
mists who stirred up emotions
created the atmosphere for the
HILL
PROMOTED Announcement
i was made this week-wof the
j election of Watts Hill, Jr.,
I (left) as chairman of the Board
of Home Security Life Insur
-4 a. n qf Company and Arthur W.
, Clark (right) as president.
Hill and Clark are widely
i known in business and civic
circles. In addition to having
served as an official of Home
ston-Salem, board of directors;
Dr. Frank Sullivan, Wilson,
recording secretary; Dr. J. P.
Green, Henderson, president;
Dr. Flotilla Watkins, Greens
' boro, first vice president; Dr.
I
Seized in the plot were an
assistant elementary school
principal, a teacher, a Navy
management analyst, an anti
poverty worker, a welfare de
partment clerk and members
of a secret, violent-advoc-te ora
ganization known as the Revo
NCC Summer School Enrollment
250 Higher Than Last Year
North Carolina College's
summer enrollment is some
250 persons more than at a
comparable time last year, a
report Friday by Dr. C. L. Pat
terson, acting director, reveal
ed. The college held registra
tion June 12 and completed a
week of classes Friday.
Patterson indicated that by
noon Friday 1277 students had
registered, as compared with
some 900 at the end of the
I riots.
Kenneth Guscott, president
of the Boston, Mass., NAACP
Branch, called on U. S. Attor
ey General Ramsey Clark to
launch an investigation of po
lice brutality charges brought
by Negroes during weekend
riots which started June 3 in
the slum section of Roxbury, a
Boston neighborhood.
"We, as always, will respect
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CLARK
Security for 15 years, Hill has
served as a member of the
Durham City Council and the
N. C. House of Representatives
Clark is a World War II vete
ran and presently a Colonel in
the Air Force fieSefve He has
also held numerous important
positions in other cities of the
state
R. W. McDowell, Raleigh, sec
ond vice president; Dr. J. S
Cochran, Weldon, president
elect and Dr W. T. Armstrong,
Rocky Mount, secretary-treasur
er.
lution Action Movement or
RAM, police reported.
Also involved were members
of several other pro-violence
organizations of pro-Castro,
pro-Chinese and Black Libera
tion Front.
first week in 1966. He also
noted an increase in under
graduate over graduate enroll
ment this year and predicted
daily enrollments until the
close of registraftion on June
21.
The college's new six-week
intersession, which begins June
26 and can accommodate 400
graduate students, may bring
an additional 200 to 250 stu-
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and defend the rights of any
persons unjustly or unlawfully
treated," Guscott told a dele
gation of Negroes who com
plained of police mistreatment.
In a meeting of community
leaders, Guscott also added
that "those who, commit vio
lence in the name of civil
rights only do a greater dam
age to that cause."
PRICE: 20c
Arthur Clark
New President
Local Ins. Co.
The Board of Directors of
Home Security Life Insurance
Company of Durham announced
Tuesday (June 20; the election
cf Watts Hill Jr. as chairman
of the board and Arthur W.
Clark as president
Former Chairman George
Watts Hiil will continue on the
beard and as chairman of the
executive committee. He had
served as board chairman for
27 years and, prior to that, as
president for five years.
Home Security, now in its
51st year uf operation, has
over 5575 million insurance in
force, and 615 employees in
cluding Representatives in N.
C.. S. C , Ga. and Fla.
Watts Hill Jr. has been presi
dent of Home Security since
1961, a member of the com
pany's finance committee since
since 1960, a director since
1954 and a member of the com
pany's finance committee since
1951. He was executive vice
president prior to becoming
president.
Clark, who has served as ex
ecutive vice president since
1964 and director since 1961.
is chairman of the company's
finance committee. He joined
the staff of Home Security in
1948 and was director of plan
ning from 1952-58 and vice
president from 1959-63.
Poor Reading
Score Shocks
Ass'n Officials
DETROIT, Mich. Stress
ing the need for cooperation
among parents, students and
teachers, Miss June Shagaloff,
NAACP director for educa
tion, expressed shock and dis
may at the reading scores of
students at a local high school.
The results of tests admin
istered at Northwestern High
School showed that a signifi
cant number of children en
tering the 10th grade were
reading at fifth-grade level or
below.
In a hard-hitting address be
fore the High School Study
Commission, Miss Shagaloff
insisted that inner city schools
may have to abandon tradi
tional subjects in the lower
grades and begin to "give kids
the most basic skills first."
Virginia State
Professor Earns
Ph.D. Degree
PETERSBURG—Aubrey S.
Escoffery, J native of New
Haven, Conn., ard associate
professor of psychology at
Virginia State College, has
received the degree of doc
tor of philosophy in psycholo
gy from the University of
Connecticut.
Mr. Escoffery joined the
staff of Virginia State College
in 1952 and from 1957-59 was
a teaching follow at the Uni
versity of Connecticut whtr
he was pursuing tour* wot.,
for his doctorate.