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FOR 28 YEARS THE OUTSTANDING NEGRO WEEKLY OF THE CAROLINAS
VOLUME 29—NUMBER 9
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, MARCH 3rd, 1951
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“Separate But Equal” Schools Of Sanford
Pictured above are the five
white schools buildings of the
city of Sanford and the one
county school located inside the
city limits that must serve Ne
gro residents of both the city
and county. There are no school
buildings for Negroes in the en
tire city of Sanford maintained
out of city funds. Naturally the
one county building is rammed
and packed with students al
most to the rafters, creating a
condition that is not only un
sanitary but a menace to the
health and lives of Negro pupils.
Photo No. 1, Sinclair Elemen
tary School; No. 2, Mclver Eie
mentary School; No. 3, Sanford
High School; No. 4, Jonesboro
Elementary School; No. 5, New
Senior High School, now under
construction, also for whites, be
ing built at an admitted cost of
$640,000. No. 6, the one Negro
county school, located inside the
city limits of which Professor W.
B. Wicker is the principal.
White People In Sanford Have Strange Conception
Of Equal Schools For Negro Citizens Of City
Sanford—You have got to vis
it this town to believe it. This
little city with a population of
over 10,000 souls, more than
one-third of which are Negroes,
has never erected a single school
building for Negroes. Yes, San
ford white folks go to church,
sing and pray just like other
folks. There is a Kiwanis Club,
a Rotary Club and a Chamber of
Commerce. The white folks
even go to prayer meetings and
Sunday School just like other
people, but they just have never
considered the Negro citizens of
the city in the equation when
they have thought of education.
Yes, Negroes pay taxes just
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N. A. A. C. P. TO CHALLENGE
GEORGIA SCHOOL ACT
New York —Georgia’s recent
ly passed bill requiring with
holding of state funds from any
public school for white students
to which Negroes may be ad
mitted will be challenged in the
courts, Walter White NAACP
executive secretary, has warned
Governor Herman Talmadge in
a telegram.
Mr. White urged the Georgia
governor to veto the bill passed
by the state legislature, in a
wire dated February 16. “You
may be sure,” Mr. Whitted add
ed, “that if this measure be
comes law our organization will
take appropriate legal action to
challenge its constitutionality.”
There is already pending in
the Federal District Court a
suit brought by the NAACP on
behalf of 213 parents to break
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Plaintiff Asks Reversal Ut Lower
Court Decision Against UNC
RALEIGH — An appeal from a lower court decision that
the separate law school at the North Carolina College for Ne
groes is equal to that of the University of North Carolina is
scheduled for argument here before the United States Court
of Appeals on March 15.
Attorneys for the National Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People filed their brief on February 19 ask
ing for reversal of the lower court decision and admission of
Negroes to the university law school.
At tne initial trial betore Fed
eral District Judge Johnson J.
Hayes in Durham, N. C., last
August, NAACP Attorneys Con
rad Pearson of Durham, and
Thurgood Marshall and Robert
L. Carter of the national office
legal department submitted evi
dence demonstrating the super
ior advantages of the University
law school in comparison with
the Negro school. The older and
larger University school, they
pointed out, offered more
courses, had a large and better
equipped library, a facutly of
greater number and prestige,
and other facilities and ad
vantages not enjoyed by the Ne
gro school.
Despite this evidence and the
testimony of expert witnesses,
Judge Hayes ruled that the Ne
gro institution is substantially
equal to the university law
school. The suit was filed on be
half of Harold T. Epps, Robert
Glass and other Negro students
who had applied for admission
to the law school of the Univer
sity of North Carolina.
Bishop's Council
AME Church
In Drastic Move
Los Angeles, Calif. — In an
unprecedented unaimous vote of
15-1 the Bishop’s Council of the
A. M. E. Church voted in its
annual session here Saturday to
remove Bishop R. R. Wright as
presiding prelate over the Third
Episcopal District of the A. M.
E. Church, which includes the
State of Georgia.
Bishop Wright has been the
storm center o f a fight over
Morris Brown College since he
took over the reigns of the Dis
trict as the successor to Bishop
W. A. Fountain, senior bishop
of the church, who together with
his son Dr. W. A. Fountain, Jr.,
had built the school to an en
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Editorially Speaking
With Malice Toward None
Now that Negroes of the city have been awarded victory
in the equal education school suit it is our desire that leaders
of both races in Durham will approach the task of working
out a satisfactory solution to the momentous problem which
faces our citizenship with a spirit of malice toward none and
respect for all.
We would have our fellow white citizens here know
that there is not a single respectable Negro in Durham who
desires to take from the humblest white child even a shadow
of an educational opportunity to which he is entitled. It is
our desire to see every child, without regard to race, creed
or color, have the best education that Durham can provide
for him.
That Negro citizens were called upon to dig down in
the-r pockets to raise more than $8,000 to prove what every
intelligent citizen should have known in the beginning—that
Negro and white schools here were not equal—will not be
held against city officials or members of the Board of Educa
tion. The years have taught the race that malice and revenge
will get us nowhere. One of the basic techniques of our sur
vival has been our ability to forgive and forget some of the
most atrocious deeds committed against us.
Negroes of Durham want to work with their white fel
low citizens to build a bigger and better community for all
its people, but they want to do it on an equal basis and not
with the customary parental attitude on the part of others.
There will be no gloating, there will be no bragging,
there will be no disrespect. On the other hand Negro leaders
here will see to it, if given the opportunity, that the very
least amount of embarrassment and discomfort will come to
anyone involved in the process of working out a satisfactory
solution to the problem that faces us. This is the only kind of;
action that will be endorsed by them and this newspaper.
Respectable and intelligent Negroes here want to be
good neighbors, they want to work with enthusiasm in build
ing Durham and it is with that attitude that they will meet
their fellow white citizens half-way in any undertaking that,
means a better opportunity for the children of Durham,
whether they be white or black.
N. C. College Choir Acclaimed In Annual Concert
* i z i t * ■■■ z m
Samuel W. Hill, director of
the North Carolina College 75
voice mixed choir, is shown here
in Durham last week with the
singers who received an en
thusiastic ovation during their
annual concert.
Many Cities Planning Legal
Action For Equal School Rights
Last Rifes Held
For Mrs. Whiffed
Last rites for Mrs. Sallie Lat
ta Whitted, 81, were held at the
Primitive Baptist Church here
3:30 P. M. Thursday, February
22. Elder Arthur Cooper, pastor,
officiated.
I ivirs. wnraea
had been con
fined to her bed
for only two
weeks. She was
born in Durham
County the
daughter of the
late Mr. and
Mrs. Meredith
Latta. She was
reared in the city of Durham
where she had lived for over 75
years.
For a long number of years
Mrs. Whitted had been a faith
ful member of the church and
was highly loved and respected
by all of its members.
Her husband, the late William
Whitted, who was a blacksmith
in Durham for a number of
years, died in 1925.
Surviving Mrs. Whitted are
three sons, Arthur and Irvin
Whitted of Durham and Dewey
Whitted of Baltimore, Md., and
one daughter, Mrs. Evelyn Rog
ers of Durham.
Interment was at Beechwood
Cemetery.
SPECIAL
NEXT WEEK
AN EDITORIAL
ON THE COMPETENCY
OF NEGROES
An Answer To Governor
Scott’s Accusation That
Negro Appointees To
State Jobs Are Irrespon
sible.
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Honored
Wilbert Tatum, senior student
at Hillside High School and Co
Editor of the Chronicle, learned
today that one of his original
editorials was selected by the
School Press Review for pub
lication in the January issue.
The Review is the official or
gan of the Columbia Scholastic
Press Association of which the
Hillside Chronicle is a member.
“So This Is War” is the title
of the editorial which was term
ed “effective and sincere” by
the editorial board of the School
Press Review.
Sigmas In
Successful
Meet Af A &!
By A. J. TURNER
Greensboro — The planning
committee of Phi Beta Sigma
met Saturday, February 24 in
the new science building at A.
and T. College, Greensboro, to
make final plans for the state
meeting which is to be held Fri
day, March 16 in the auditorium
of the Bloodworth Street Y. M.
C. A. in Raleigh. The meeting is
called at 4 p. m. and will last
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x x. wave yj j- ouiio ill me xeuei ua
courts to seek better educational'
advantages for their children by
their parents was predicted this
week when the CAROLINA
TIMES learned that counsel
have already been employed in
Chapel Hill, Wilmington, Bur
lington, Sanford; Perquimans
and Hertford Counties and are
now in the process of gathering
evidence. Suits have already
been filed in Durham, Wilson
and Plymouth.
That the wave of suits should
come approximately within two
years after the appointment of
Dr. Harold L. Trigg to the State
Board of Education, as the first
and only Negro to serve in that
capacity, was interpreted as a
repudiation of his leadership
and a lack of confidence that he
has the courage or will even
present the actual condition of
the educational plight of the Ne
groes in North Carolina to the
State Board of Education.
Dr. Trigg’s appointment was
made over the protest of leading
Negroes of the State and was
the choice of Dr. N. C. Newbold
and State Superintendent of
Schools Dr. Clyde A. Erwin. In
spite of the fact that a list con
taining the names of several
well qualified Negroes was
handed the governor, Trigg re
ceived the appointment, report
edly as a Negro member who
would be “safe.”
Several Negro leaders ques
tioned on the matter this week
were unanimous in the belief
that a conference should be call
ed by the governor with repre
sentative Negroes and education
officials to work out some means
of halting the numerous court
actions that are now in the mak
ing.
Said one very well-known
business man, who asked that
this name not be used, “We
represent one-third of the
State’s population or more than
a million citizens of North Caro
lina and it is astounding that Ne
groes have not resorted to court
action before now to secure for
their children what they ap
parently cannot obtain through
begging, pleading and bootlick
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