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VOLUME 44 No. 31 DURHAM, N. C. SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1967
NBL To Hold 67th Session
In Atlantic City Sept. 14-16
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WEST DURHAM BAPTIST
CHURCH BURNS MORTGAGE
—The 75th Church Anniversary
"Of the West Durham Baptist
Church was climaxed Sunday,
August 20, during the morning
worship service at the church
j with the burning of the mort
i gage. The happy occasion also
marked the end of a gigantic
mortgage -liquidation fund-rais- I
Negro Jurisdiction Of M. E.
Church To End April 1968
NEW BISHOP
NAMED AT MEET
IN NASHVILLE
NASHVILLE, Tenn. The
Central Jurisdiction of The
Methodist Church elected the
Rev. Dr. L. Scott Allen a bishop
here Friday (August 18). Until
now he has been editor of the
Negro jurisdiction's magazine,
the Central Christian Advocate.
Bishop Allen, 49, a resident
of Nashville, was elected on the
second ballot at the Central
Jurisdictional Conference, by a
vote of 43 votes out of 62 cast.
He led with 32 votes on the
first ballot.
This will be the last bishop
elected by The Methodist
Church, which next April will
become The United Methodist
Church by uniting with the
Evangelical United Brethren
Church. The jurisdiction also
was the first to elect a bishop
in the denomination as present
ly constituted, when in 1940 it
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St. Augustine's, NCS Establish
Center To Aid Desegregation
SCHOOLS IN
RALEIGH FORM
JOINT EFFORT
RALEIGH St. Augustine's
College and North Carolina
State University have establish
ed a center to assist North Car
olina school boards and profes
sional and community person
nel in their programs for school
desegregation and equalization
of educational opportunity.
Dr. Prezell R. Robinson,
president of . St. . Aufusiine'*'
College, and Chancellor John
T. Caldwell of N. C. State, made
th e announcement Tuesday,
July 25.
The Center is supported by
a $200,000 grant from the U.S.
Office of Education under Title
IV of the Civil Rights Act of
1964.
Dr. W. A. Gaines, professor
of sociology at St. Augustine's,
has been named director of the
Center. The executive director
is Marion Bird, a visiting pro-
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ing campaign in from which (
more than $12,000 was realized.
Shown witnessing the mortgage
burning is Rev. F. D. Terry,
second from left, pastor of
West Durham Baptist Church
since August, 1965, who has
led the church successfully to
be free of indebtedness. Others
pictured above participating in
the ceremonies are left to
"Black Power" Cheers Brown
Out of Jail on Gun Charge
NEW YORK Rap Brown,
Director of SNCC was released
on $15,000 bail here, Wednes
day, August 23. on the Federal
Gun Charge.
U. S. District Judge Thomas
Murphy, reduced Brown's bond
from the original $25,000 to
to $15,000. which he was able
to post.
Judge Murphy, twice walked
off the bench when clapping,
shouting and jostling by Brown
followers interrupted the courts
proceedings.
Brown told a group of sup
porters waiting outside the
court house: "Justice is a joke
in America. There is no jus
tice in America. If Lyndon
Johnson thinks I'm going to
pay $25,000 to get out of jail,
he's crazy. He wouldn't pay that
much for Lady Bird. If he is
Novelist Says Negro Riots are
Caused by "Broken Promises"
Novelist William Styron says
the Negro riots in America
today are the result of broken
promises.
In an interview at his sum
mer home in Vineyard Haven,
Mass., 'the 1947 Duke Univer
sity graduate said Negroes in
the . nation's -slum areas con
tinue for the most part "in a
state of bondage" despite the
Supreme Court's 1954 school
desegregation decision and the
huge legal and legislative steps
forward in the Negro cause
sinct that time. ,
Styron is author of "Lie
Down in Darkness" and "Stt
This House on Fire." He is cur
rently working on a ntw novel,
"The Confessions of Nat Tur
ner," which deals with a slave
uprising in Virginia mire than
135 years ago.
right: P. L. Perkins, Sr., Chair
man, Board of Trustees; Rev.
Terry; J. H. Markham, Chair
man, Board of Deacons; Dr. J.
Ray Butler, Pastor, Ebenezer
Baptist Church, Wilmington,
guest speaker, and W. L. Mc-
Auley, Chairman, fund-raising
campaign.
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BROWN
worried about my rifle wait
until I get my Atom Bomb."
He told his New York Times
interviewer that the violent up
heavals this summer are ex
plained by "the disparity be
tween promises given the Ne
gro and the ultimate actuality
of his life.
Styron described today's ex
plosive race situation as simi
lar in many respects to that
existing when Nat Turner grew
up in a Virginia comfunity not
far from Styron's own birth
place.
"An atmosphere of relative
goodwill prevailed" as the
young slave matured, Styron
said. "He was led to a point
where freedom seemed almost
in his grasp."
When this freedom was de
nied, however, he turned to vio
lence—organizing and leading
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Three-Day Meet
Set for Hotel
Ambassador
ATLANTIC CITY—The 67th I
Annual Convention of the Na- j
tional Business League will get
underway Thursday, September
14, in Atlantic City's Ambas
sador Hotel, it was announced
in Washington, D. C., by B. G.
Burrell, President of the 67
year old predominately Negro
organiaztion. The three day
confab will run concurrently
with the first pleanary session
of the National Committee for
Equal Opportunity in Business.
The committee is composed of
fifty of the nation's major busi
ness executives and will delve
carefully into ways and means
of promoting the growth and
development of significant
business activity among the de
prived ethnic minorities con
centrated in the nation's urban
centers.
The convention is expected to
be one of the most significant
meetings held by the NBL since
its founding in 1900 by Booker
T. Washington. Having recently
signed a $500,000 contract with
two federal agencies to provide
practical business training for
small business operators, the
League is busily engaged in the
detailed "setting up" of the
national project staff and creat
ing the literature required for
its operation. Burrell indicated
that the staffing of the national
project office should be com
pleted by Septemebr 1 and the
field training activities under
way by October 1.
In addition NBL has launch
ed a vigorous campaign to
raise $250,000 in supporting
funds to cover administrative
costs evolving from the rapid
expansion of NBL programs and
membership. "Project Main
stream", the ambitious new five
point program aims at rapidly
creating a sizeable new class of
minority business operators.
Cleveland Bank
Joins Plans for
Progress Group
WASHINGTON, D. C The
National City Bank of Cleve
land has become the first mem
ber of that city's banking com
munity to join Plans for Pro
gress, the national voluntary
equal employment opportunity
program of American business.
National City Bank empolys 1,-
300 persons in its operations in
the Cleveland area. The Plan
was signed July 13 by John S.
Fangboner and by Vice Presi
dent Hubert H. Humphrey on
behalf of the Federal Govern
ment. The Vice President is an
ex-officio member of the Plans
for Program Advisory Coun
cil and is active in the Plans
for Progress program.
A Plan for Progress is a
written statement of policy,
committing the participating
company to take affirmative
action in the hiring, training,
and upgrading of minority
manpower. The Plans informs
both the employees and the
community at large of the com
pany's policy of merit employ
ment, and serves as a guide for
supervisors and persons work
ing in personnel administra
tion.
The Plans for Prograss pro
gram started in 1961 and now
numbers more than 370 major
corporations, representing some
9 miillion workers and cutting
across every sector of the econ
omy and region of the nation.
Mr . Fangboner stated he
welcomed the occasion to for
malize and publicly announce
National City Bank's long
standing policy of supporting
equal employment opporunity.
In signing the Plan, the Vice
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Williamson,
Cox, Michaux
Present Plea
WASHINGTON, D. C. The
National Association of Real
Estate Brokers, Inc. presented,
Tuesday, August 22, an appeal
to the Subcommittee on Hous
ing and Urban Affairs, in sup
port of Title IV of Section 1026,
"The Civil Rights Act of 1967 "
Q V. Williamson, President;
Leon Cox, Jr., Executive Direc
tor; H. M. Michaux, Jr., Assist
ant General Counsel; Dan
Spaulding, Chairman of Public
Affairs Committee; and other
members of the Public Affairs
Committee, were present.
Title IV, deals with discrimi
nation in the sale of real estate,
it has been programmed to pre
vent the refusal of sale or rent
al in any area, on the bases of
racial status.
At a time when riots flare j
up across the nation and when
it is plain to see that one of
the main reasons for such dis
order is the poor housing areas
in which the Negro's are re
stricted to.
In the main part of Mr Wil
liamson speech, he stated "It is
indeed a sad commentary on
our democracy that it was at
all necessary to ask Congress to
pass a bill guaranteeing some
citizens rights already enjoyed
by other Americans.
We are vitally concerned
with Title IV, for we know
tthat housing segregation un
dergirds all other segregation.
We cannot hope to eradicate
other inequities without eradi
cate segregation in the hous
ing market. We must act imme
diately to speed the housing
programs to aid the underpri
vileged. We must act to elimi
nate the discrimination in hous
ing that helps to perpetuate
the ghetto.
Thirty years after President
Franklin D. Roosevelt shocked
this country by announcing
that one-third of this nation
was ill-housed, President Lyn
, don B. Johnson, in his State of
the Union Address, noted that
, one-fifth of this great nation
remained in the same dire
straits. Yet, today, it is neces
sary to carry on long debates
to detrmine whether the Con
gress should come to the aid
of one-fifth of its constituents.
The shortage of decent and
adequate safe housing has been
so acute that Congress has rec
ognized that it is an area of
national concern and an area
that required a national effort.
Therefore, Congress has creat
ed, throughout the years, such
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NAACP AWARD TO MISSIS
SIPPI STATE CONFERENCE—
Dr. Aaron Henry, NAACP Mis
sissippi State Prexy, accepts
plaque from Mrs. Medgar Evers
during Freedom Fund Banquet
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GRAND MARSHAL—(Los An
geles) Deposed heavyweight
boxing champion Cassius Clay
waves to crowd as he serves as
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CIVIL RIGHTS ADVOCATES—
Some of America's foremost
civil rights supporters were in
attendance at the National As
sociation for the Advancement
cf Colored People's 58th an
nual convention in Boston, Mas
Wilkins Warns Con gress On
Anti-Negro Welfare Vote
NCM Life Ins. Co. Announces
Retirement of A. J. H. Clement
W. A. Clement, agency vice
president of North Carolina
Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany, announces the retirement
of A. J. H. Clement, Jr., and
the transfer of L. W. Reaves
to its North Philadelphia Dis
trict effective Sept. 1, 1967.
Mr. Celement, currently man
ager of the Company's North
Philadelphia District, is taking
early retirement after thirty
seven years with the company.
After graduation from John
son C. Smith University, Mr.
Clement formed his connection
with North Carolina Mutual in
November of 1930 as an agent
on the Charleston, S. C. Dis
trict. He was promoted to As
sistant Manager of that District
in 1932. From 1935 to 1937 he
served as a Special Agent. In
June 1937 he was named man
ager. of the Savannah District.
Serving in this capacity until
1942, he was transferred back
to Charleston as Executive As
sistant Manager. On September
1, 1949 he was named manager
at the NAACP's 58th annual
convention in Boston, Mass. The
prize was awarded to the con
ference for the highest increase j
in membership in 1966. Mrs. j
Evers' husband, Medgar, was |
Grand Marshal of the parade
that climaxed a week-long Sum
mer Festival in Watts recentß
sachusetts. Left to right: At- I
torney John Bynoe, convention
chairman; A.ME Bishop Stephen
• G. Spottswoods, chairman. NA
ACP Board of Directors; Kivie
I Kiiplan, NAACP president; Roy
j Wilkins. NAACP Executive Di- !
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CLEMENT
of that District. In 1955 he was
again transferred to Newark,
N. J. and named manager there.
In 1961, he was again trans
ferred, this time to Los Ange
les where he remained until
1963 when he moved to his
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NAACP field director for Mis
sissippi when he was slain from
ambush by a racist, June 12,
1965. Mrs. Evers now resides
in California where she is an
active NAACP supporter.
Along side Clay's car are escorts
wearing "Sons of Watts" Shirts.
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| rector; Massachusetts Senators"
Edward Kennedy and Edward
Hrooke, recipient of the NAA
CP's coveted Spingarn medal.
More than 2,500' delegates at
tended the- six-day convention
NAACP SIXT Y
WIRES SPEAKER
OF HOUSE
NEW YORK—In a telegram,
dispatched on August 17, to
Speaker of the House John W.
McCormack, Hoy Wilkins, exe
cutive director of the National
Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People, warned
that passage by the House of
the pending Social Security bill
"will be interpreted by the
great majority of Negro Ameri
can citizens as punitive action
■igainst children of the poor,
many of whom are Negro,"
Those who vote for "this wel
fare restriction upon Negro
children" will face aroused vo
ters who "will demand straight
tnswers on their vote," the N
AACP leader told the Congress
man
The full text of Mr Wilkins'
telegram follows:
Passage by the House today
-if Social Security Bill without
separating or amending the
Welfare Section will be inter
preted by great majority of
Negro American citizens as
punitive action against children
of the poor many or whom are
Negro. We are well aware that
your own humane approach to
matters of this kind would pre
vent vour condoning the pen-
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Study Durham
Housing Plight
To Be Made
The Durham-based Low-In
co m e Housing Development
Corporation this week an
nounced it is starting a $20,000
study of Durham's housing sit
uation. John H Wheeler, of
Durham, president of the Hous
ing Corporation said a contract
for the six-month study has
been awarded to Morton Hoff
man and Associates, of Balti
more, which has done similar
work in Tulsa, Oklahoma; Fres
no, California; Rochester. New
York and Baltimore.
Housing Corporation presi
dent Wheeler presided at a
meeting at which city leaders
met with the corporation's exe
cutive director Walter L Bob)
Smith to discuss the study, how
it will be carried out and what
kinds of information it will
produce.
Smith also introduced Mor
ton Hoffman, recognized as one
of the nation's leading urban
economists, who will be in
charge of the Durham study.
Hoffman and Smith said a
first phase of the study will de
termine the extent of low-in
come housing needs in Durham.
This phase will include an an
alysis and updating of United
States census "information plus
housing information in the
hands of city officials. The
study's first phase also will
compile information on family
size and income levels among
Durham's low and moderate
income groups.
The study's second phase will
be development of a 10-year
forecast projecting Durham's
growth in terms of rates of
population increases in differ-
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