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CAREY— Dr. 0. H. Sherril, (far
right, front row) of Raleigh,
Executive Secretary of the
Progressive Baptist
Pledges To Fight
President Is Scored
By More Than
4,500 Delegates
MIAMI The Progressive
National Baptist Convention
closed today with a rousing
vote to fight President Nixon's
most recent appointment to
the Supreme Court. At its
Eight Annual Session meeting
at the Barcelona Hotel in
Miami Beach, the militant wing
of black Baptists pledged to
fight confirmation of Judge C.
Haynsworth of Greenville,
South Carolina, with direct ac
tion, if necessary. The resolu
tions committee detailed the
judicial record of the Nixon
appointee that revealed "racist
tendenvies." The progressive
convention pledged itself to
accept the challenge of the
"substance of the Black Mani
festo" that has created such
an uproar in white church
circles in recent months.
More than 4500 delegates,
messengers and observers con
verged on the famous vacation
strip along the Atlantic from
(See NIXON page 3A)
NAACP Sues To Get Negroes In
Government-Financed
former Boy Scout Executive
Named State Probation Officer
Willie L. Harris, former dis
trict scout executive of the
Cheyenne Leaf district, Oc
coneechee Council, B. S. A.
has been appointed as a State
Probation Officer, assigned to
work in Durham county.
He is originally from the
Apex Community, where he
was a member of the Christian
Chapel Church. He has many
Civic connections in and
around the city of Apex, one
of which he is co-chairman
of its youth committee.
Harris is married to the
former Miss Jo Ella Walden
of Apex. She attended North
Carolina Central University and
is now employed as Secretary
of the Sociology Department.
The couple have one son,
Mothers Demon
Welfare Center
DETROIT Welfare
operations have been shut
down "indefinitely" in sprawl
ing Wayne County, which in
cludes Detroit, by officials
fed up with "harassment" by
welfare mothers demanding
more money to clothe their
children.
Closing of the department of
social services headquarters
in Detroit and its 17 branch
offices has thrown 1,800 em
North Carolina Baptist State
Convention, stands with a dele
gation who reported $25,000 at
the Seventy-second Annual Ses- |
Former NCC University Prof
Takes Part in Research Program
Mrs. Sandra Wray McAfee,
former instructor in mathe
matics at North Carolina Cen
tral University was one of the
professors participating in a re
search program at the Thomas
J. Watson Research Center this
summer, She worked with Alan
H. Weis Computing System, on
time sharing systems.
Faculty firom Hampton In
stitute, Savannah State College
and Southern University
worked at the Research Center,
participating in i summer
faculty program, sponsored by
the Research Division. The pur
pose was to establish a techni
cal liaison between the pre
dominately Negro Colleges
and Universities and the Re
search Division. The program
will permit the faculty mem
bers to apply the knowledge
of their related disciplines to a
laboratory environment as well
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Larry Jr., ten months old.
They reside at 531 Martha
Street in Durham.
ployes out of work and sus
pended service to thousands
of families in the Detroit area.
AMONG THE services halt
ed is the distribution of food
stamps to 14,000 households in
the county. However, relief
checks to 45,000 persons on
welfare rolls will continue to
be mailed from Lansing where
they are issued by Michigan
Denartment of Social Services.
The order to close the wel-
sion of Lott Carey Convention
at Convent Avenue Baptist
Church in New York.
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MRS. McAFEE
as observe the late scientific
development in research.
New Forest, rural region near
Southampton, England, is so
called because it was man
made. William I created this
royal hunting ground and herds
of cattle and ponies still roam
through it.
NEW YORK - In a joint
press conference here, Sept. 3,
NAACP Executive Director
Roy Wilkins and Director for
Labor Programs Herbert Hill
announced that the Associa
tion is launching a series of
legal actions aimed at stopping
work on Government-financed
construction programs unless
qualified Negroes are employed
on the projects.
Possibly the most far-reach
ing of these actions is aimed
at the Charlotte Model Cities
program. The agency will be
charged with failure to imple
ment requirements which pro
hibit racial discrimination in
all federally-assisted programs.
Preparatory to filing a law
suit, the NAACP and the
NAACP Legal Defense and
Educational Fund, Inc., jointly
filed a complaint Wednesday
afternoon addressed to George
Romney, Secretary of HUD,
and Charlotte officials as re
quired by Federal administra
tive procedures. It serves notice
that within 45 days a lawsuit
will be filed in the Federal
District Court.
tUU stated, "It is clear that
Nixon Administration has
failed in its legal obligations to
satisfy the statutory require
ments of the Model Cities Act
in relation to employment. It
is the intention of the NAACP
to prevent the continued use
of Federal and state funds to
directly subsidize racial discri
mination in the construction
See SUES page 3A)
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VOLUME 48 No. 37
Omegas Launch
All-Black Town Of M
Fayette To Be
Supported By
National Drive
FAYETTE, Miss. - A na
tional college fraternity last
week launched a campaign
aimed at easing the financial
problems facing this small
town headed by a black mayor
and an all black city council.
The Omega Psi Phi Fraterni
ty, with national headquarters
at Washington, D. C., and
which has more than 300 local
chapters with nearly 20,000
members in principal cities
across the nation is supporting
the effort.
Ellis F. Corbett, associate
director of Planning and Deve
lopment at A&T State Univer
sity, Greensboro, and national
president of the Fraternity,
came here on Saturday to pre
sent a check for SSOO to the
City of Fayette. Receiving the
check for Fayette was Negro
Mayor Charles Evers.
When Evers, brother of slain
civil rights leader Medgar Evers,
was elected mayor of Fayette
last July, he found the small
community had municipal
debts totaling more than
SB,OOO.
The city badly needs money
to help pay its public service
employees and to provide the
basic community facilities.
Shortly after taking office last
July, Mayor Evers and his five
man, all black City Council,
announced a nation-wide ap
peal for funds.
In making his presentation,
Corbett told Evers the Omegas,
whose membership totals more
than 20,000, consider their
gift a challenge to inspire other
individuals and organizations
to give.
"The Omegas," he said,
"hope to conduct a nation
wide campaign among their
membership to raise funds
needed by Fayette for opera
tions during the balance of the
calendar year."
The effort is to be con
ducted by the fraternity's
Social Action Committee,
headed by Samuel C. Cole
man of Newburgh, N. Y.
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MISSISSIPPI COUNT DOWN—
—The U. S. Court of Appeals
agreed with the Nixon Admini
stration attorneys last Thursday
at noon time that Mississippi
schools should not be integrated
this fall. This gave attorneys in
the NAACP Legal Defense and
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1969
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PRINCIPAL SPEAKER —Mrs.
Mattie Rice Coney, Executive
Director, Citizens Forum, Inc.
of Indianapolis, Indiana, prin
cipal speaker at the First Anni.
versary of the Women-In-Ac
tion for the Prevention of Vio
Speaker Blasts Lack Of Unity At
Prevention Of Violence
Hillside High School Girl One of
75 Chosen for Duke U. Project
Cynthis B. Manuel of Lin
wood Avenue, Durham, a stu
dent at Hillside High School,
has been doing research this
summer in the chemistry labo
ratory at Duke University. She
is one of 75 high school stu
dents chosen to participate in
Project Catalyst, a unique
nationwide program sponsored
by the American Chemical So
ciety to help motivate young
people from disadvantaged fam
ilies.
Miss Manuel has worked with
Professor Louis D. Quin of the
university's chemistry faculty
on a research project to study
chromatography.
Project Catalyst was con
ceived by the Chemical So
ciety to motivate disadvantaged
young people and give them
the incentive to continue their
education. Now in its second
summer, Project Catalyst brings
promising high school students,
principally juniors, into univer
sity chemistry research labora
tories where they work for two
Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF)
New York office twenty-four
hours to prepare an appeal
to the U. S. Supreme Court.
They worked through the night
and made the deadline in be
half of black Mississippi chil- I
dren in 33 districts. From left ,
lence and Its Causes held Mon
day night, September 8, at the
Washington Duke Ballroom of
the Durham Hotel and Motel.
At Mrs. Coney's left is Mrs. Asa
T. Spaulding, president of
Mi
MISS MANUIL
months on a one-to-one basil
with professional scientists.
Trainees are selected from stu
dents who are reeommended
by their teachers as having an
interest in learning but who,
because of their circumstances,
(See RESEARCH page 3A)
are Secretary Mary Ballard,
First Assistant Counsel Norman
Amaker, Cooperating Attorney
Reuben Anderson of Jackson,
Miss., and Norman Chachkin,
staff attorney.
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WIAPV and to her right is Dr.
Rose Butler Browne, co-chair
man of the program commit
tee. At Dr. Browne's left is an
unidentified gentleman.
(Photo by Purefoy)
First Anniversary
Of the Women-In-
Action Held Mon.
The Washington Duke Ball
room of the Durham Hotel
and Motel was the setting here
Monday night for the First
Anniversary Dinner of the Wo
men In Action for the Pre
vention of Violence and its
Causes.
With Dr. Rose Butler
Browne presiding, the session
got underway at 7:00 p.m.
with the by the
Reverend Howard C. Wilkin
son, chaplain of Duke Univer
sity. The welcome address was
by Mrs. E. C. Thompson, vice
president, followed by Honor
able R. Wense Grabarek, mayor
of the city.
Following a most delectable
dinner, served to over 300 per
so the History of the Organi
zation was brought by Mrs.
John Wilson, secretary.
Speaker for the evening was
Mrs. Mattie Rice Coney, Exe
cutive Director, Citizens Fo
rum of that city.
The address delivered by
Mrs. Coney was acclaimed by
an overwhelming majority who
heard her as most dynamic and
penetrating. * The speaker
warned the Women In Action
group not to spread themselves
too thin but to direct their
attack at one problem at a
time. "If you try to do too
much all at once you're going
to get killed in the actiom,"
she warned.
"You cant solve problems
of the present by living in
the past." She urged most em
phatically that those present
quit so much talk and so many
discussions and "get out and
get to work." She emphasized
that problems of the future
cannot be solved by living in
the past.
The speaker directed her
address at both the militants
and the conservatives. To the
latter she advised, "Don't tear
it down, build it up. See what
you can do to make your city
a better place."
At the clow of the address
presentations were made by
Mrs. James B. Wyngaarden,
co-chairman of the Sub-Com-
(See SPIAKIft page 3A)
Dr. M.L.Wilson
Named Pres.
For Third Term
NEW YORH—Dr M. L. Wil
son was reelected president of
the Lott Carey Baptist Foreign
Mission Convention for the 3rd
time at the 72nd Annual Meet
here at Convent Avenue Bap
tist Church, Friday, September
5, at the closing meeting. ,
Other Officers elected werer
first vice-president, Dr W. E.
Page, Baltimore, Md ; Dr C. R.
Edwards, Fayetteville, second
vice-president; Dr J. Jasper
Freeman, Norfolk, Va , record
ing secretary: Dr C. W, Ward.
Raleigh, assistant recording
secretary; Dr. L. J. Shipraan.
Youngstown. Ohio, statistician
and Dr M. G Wood, Baltimore.
Md , director of promotion.
Mrs. Mary H Wright, Philadel
phia. Penn . was reelected for
the third time to head the
Woman's Auxiliary; Dr Mary
Agnes Jordan. Portsmouth. Va,,
vice-president-at-large; Mrs N.
L Scarborough, Columbas, 0..
first vice president: Mrs. Nettie
Gaither, Washington, D C , sec
ond vice president; Mrs M P
Kelly, Philadelphia Penn.. re
cording secretary. Mrs Inez
Thomas, assistant recording sec
retary; Mrs L. S Hobbs. Phila
delphia, Penn., corresponding
financial secretary; Mrs Ruby
Marshall. Washington. D. C.,
treasurer and Mrs. J. L. S. Hol
loman. Washington. D. C., im
mediate past president.
Miss Gwendolyn Bowick,
Pittsburgh, Pa, was chosen to
head the Youth Department and
Aaron Boykin, Portsmouth. Va.,
received the honor of leading
the Layman's League Mrs. T
H. Slater. Philadelphia. Pa.,
will supervise the Youth Divi
sion assisted by Mrs. C. E. Grif
fin of Norfolk, Va.
Black Manifoto
President Wilson, in his sec
ond annual address, praised the
Black Manifesto, recently read
by Mr. Forman at Riverside
Church and suggested that the
same should be read in Black
churches as well
New U. N. President to be.
Mist Angie Brooks, U. N. dele
gate from Liberia, to the Unit
ed Nations paid a surprise visit
to the Convention on Friday
morning and expressed her ap
preciation to the convention for
the assistance that they have
given her.
„ Ninety-two churches gave
over SI,OOO 00 to the organiza
tion to balance out a total of
$294,017 29 for the fiscal year
from all sources, which is the
largest amount in Ix>tt Carey s
history.
Dr. W. C. Somerville, Execu
tive Secretary, of Washington.
D. C., in his annual report, stat
ed that 75% of all funds raised
was sent to the mission field
and appealing for a return to
the teachings of Jesus as an
answer to world crisis.
(See LOTT CAREY 3A)
Negro Market
Conference Set
For Sept. 17
NEW YORK A three-day
conference which will identify
the attitudes, perceptions, size,
purchase patterns, the socio
economic and cultural {actors
influencing the Negro market
has been set for September 17.
18. and 19. at the Hotel Plaza
in New York, according to Ad
vanced Management Research.
Inc.
Some 22 specialists in adver
tising, marketing, public rela
tions. sales, research, and con
sumer education involving mi
nority consumers will partici
pate in the conference. "How
to Effectively Sell The S3O Bil
lion Negro Market."
Conference Chairman is D.
Parke Gibson, president of D
Parke Gibson Associates, Inc.,
a New York consulting firm,
and the author of The 830 Bil
lion Negro, which is becoming
a best selling book on market
ing to black consumers.
In addition to the share of
market Negroes represent for
many products, and what moti
vates black consumers, other
subjects will Include strategies
in market development, the
creation of products for black
consumers, the recruitment and
effective utilisation of sales
men, communications with
the community, as well as case
histories of successful pro
grams.