Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Durham, North Carolina, under Act of March 8, 1879. FOR 28 YEARS THE OUTSTANDING NEGRO WEEKLY OF THE CAROLINAS VOLUME 29—NUMBER 9 DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, MARCH 3rd, 1951 Cents Per Copy PRICE: 10 CENTS “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 (Please turn to Page Eight) 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 (Please turn to Page Eight) 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 (Please turn to Page Eight) 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. ORDER YOUR NEXT WEEK’S COPY OF THE CAROLINA TIMES NOW. 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 (Please turn to Page Eight) 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 (Please turn to Page Eight)

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