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VOLUME XXI — NUMBER II
DURHAM, N. C., FRIDAY, OCT. 27, 1961
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Wesley Blasts Civil War Commission
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National Guard Segregation Studied
Paper Reviewed
By Federal Gov.
A research paper on segrega
tion in the National Guard by
North Carolina Professor I. G.
Newton has been requested for
“review and study” by a federal
agency in Washington.
The paper was read here Oct.
13 at the 6th annual meeting of
the Association for the Study of
Negro Life and History.
Brought to the attention of
administration officials, the
paper by the NCC professor was
requested “without delay” to be
used in overall study of the
Guard now underway. It is be
lieved that Professor Newton’s
paper is the only definitive
study of the problem in exis
tence.
Dr. Newton, a professor of
political science, observed that
“unwritten policies related to
rocTuitiiir! and arcoptancf' oj ml
*y applicants’’ keep the
jer of Negroes in the Na-
Guard “minute.”
attributed this to “dual
factojfs” in the NG set-up which
give each state the right to es
tablish its own policies.
In tracing the history of the
National Guard, Newton cited
Ex-President Truman’s Execu
tive Order 9981 of 1948 forbid-
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Moot Court Set
In Richmond, Va.
North Carolina College Law
School plans are under way for
participation in the National
Mo0t Court Competition, an in-
ter-law school api>ellate moot
court competition sponsored
each year by the Young Law
yers Committee of the Associ
ation of the Bar of the city of
New York.
The Twelfth Annual Regional
Moot Court Competition for the
Sixth Region, which includes
North Carolina, South Carolina,
Virginia and West Virginia,
will be held at the University of
Richmond, Richmond, VirgLiia,
on Friday and Saturday, NovfeTi-
ber 18 and 19.
The case to be argued this
year, Richard Black versus John
Green, eoncerns an American
citizen owning property in Nir
vana, South America. The
Plaintiff, Richard Black, owned
the Blackbean Plantation with
dockside and warehouse facili
ties in Nirvana, South America.
In February 1960, the former
government of Nirvana was
overthrown by Piton who estab
lished himself as supreme ruler
of Nirvana. Among the acts
passed during the first three
months of his regime was the
natisnalization decree of March
1, 1960, which authorized the
nationalization of such proper-
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ASNLH President
Views Centennial
In the opening address of the
Oct. 12-14 Association for the
study of Negro Life and History
Conference, held at North
Carolina College, Dr. Charles H.
Wesley blasted the National
Civil War Centennial Com
mission for placing Negroes on
“another separate-but-equal ba
sis.”
Speaking before a capacity
crowd in B. N. Duke auditorium
on Thursday morning. Dr. Wes
ley stated that since the Com
mission’s creation in 1957 it had
released announcements of pur
poses which were sound and iit
accordance with the act of Con
gress. He was referring to the
Commission’s announcement thaV
Dr. Charles H. Wesley (leift) of Central State College and Dr. Johii Hope Franklin (right) of
Brooklyn College enjoy a joke with am unidentified spcictator looking ojn. Dr. Wesley and Dr. Frank-, “every corner of America shoul
lin were key speakers at the October 12-14 meeting of the 46th annual gathering of thij AssociaHoti j
for the Study of Nepr^p IJfp Oaif^oJhlia^'oUege.,.^ ’ ^
fociis its attention
JOHN H. FRANKLIN DEPLORES CIVIL WAR XIRCUS'
Professor Named
To Church Group
Dr. Ross E. Townes, North
Carolina College professor, has
been named one of twelve lay
men in the North Carolina Con
ference to the National Lay
Committee on Evangelism in the
Methodist Church.
The appointment of Townes,
who is chairman of the Board of
Trustees of Asbury Temple Me
thodist Church, was announced
yesterday by H. J. Taylor of La
Grange Park, Illinois, who is
chairman of the committee.
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Dr. John Hope Franklin,
Chairman of the History De
partment at Brooklyn College,
Brooklyn, New York; was the
guest speaker at the 46th An
nual Meeting of the Association
for the Study of Negro History
which was held in B. N. Duke
Auditorium, October 13, 1961.
Dr. Franklin’s theme was, “A
Century of Civil War Obser
vance.” He expressed the view
that Americans yesterday ob
served and of today are obser
ving the war “in ways that re
semble a natonial circus.”
Basing his information upon
this theme. Dr. Frankln piointed
out that when there was talk of
having a semicentennial it be-
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Dr.\ Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., (right) Harvard historian and
special Wde to President John F. Kennedy, praised “freeidom
riders,” toe NAACP, and the “non-violence campaign” efforts of
Dr. Martin Luther King, in a major ASNLH address. Schlesinger
compared the work of these “freedom fighters” with that of heroes
of the American Revolution and the Civil War. He was banquet!
speaker foi^, the 46th annual meeting of the Association for the Study
of Negro Lite and History, of which Dr. Joseph H. Taylor, Heft) wasi
host.
Schlesinger Pays
Tribute To ‘Riders’
A member of the Kennedy
group of New Frontiersmen!
gave a pat on the back to “free
dom riders” in a speech at North
Carolina College October 13,
comparing their efforts with
such events as the American
Revolution and the Civil War.
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.,
special assistant to President
John F. Kennedy, included both
the NAACP and Martin Luther
King in his tribute to “freedom
fighters” whom he said “remind
the nation of our commitment to
the Declaration of Indepen
dence.”
Schlesinger was the banquet
speaker for the 46th annual
meeting of the Association for
the Study of Negro Life and
History, which ended its three-
day meeting at NCC following a
business session October 14.
The more than one hundred
historians attending the meeting
were luncheon guests of the
North Carolina Mutual Life In
surance Company. They also at
tended a seminar featuring
Oluyeni Adeniji of Nigeria and
E. M. Dobra of Ghana, both of
whom defended their countries’
roles of “non-alignment”, with
East-West power blocs in world
politics.
Following Schlesinger’s ad
dress last night. Dr. Joseph H.
Taylor, chairman of the division
of social sciences at NCC and
host for the ASNLH meeting,
presented President Charles H.
Wesley with a $900 contribution
to the Association “from Dur
ham citizens.”
The money represented con- i
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pies laid down for us a century
ago, and, having done so. should
now look to the future with
democratic ideals more pro
foundly avowed tha» ever be-i
fore.”
“However,” stated Wesley,
“from the opening of this first
centennial year, 1961, there has
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Cartwright Tells
Of UN and Africa
Dr. Marguerite Cartwright,
forum speaker here in B. N.
Duke Auditorium on October 16,
told NCC students of the work
of the United Nations and of
African relationships.
Dr. Cartwright, a native of
Cambridge, Massachusetts, holds
a doctorate degree of philosophy
from New York University. She
formerly was a faculty member
of Hunter College, and has
traveled to many Afro-Asian
countries. She is now an accredi
ted correspondent to the United
Nations. She was also a dele
gate to the last UNESCO Cmi-
ference.
Dr. Cartwright began her
speech with a general descrip
tion of the U.N. and its works.
She pointed out that the U.N. is.
not a super state, but rather an
arbitrator which can only be as
strong as the member nations
make it. “The U.N.,” she pointed
out, “Is concerned with all
threats to international peace
and security, and is the best
hope for peaceful settlements.”
According to Dr. Cartwright,
until recently Africa had been
regarded only as a land of vast
economical potentials. Recently,
however, with the surge of na
tionalism, there are now forty
seven Afro-Asian Nations with
U.N. memberships.
Thus, in order to secure a
two-third majority vote oh
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