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FOR 28 YEARS THE OUTSTANDING WEEKLY OF THE CAROLINAS
VOLUME 29—NUMBER 22
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, JUNE 2nd, 1951
PRICE: TEN CENTS
Leaders in State IV A AC P Meet
KELLY ALEXANDER
MRS. L. L. GRAHAM
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P. B. PRICE
N. L. GREGG
Pictured above are four of the
leading officers of the North
Carolina Conference of NAACP
which will play leading roles in
the eighth annual meeting to be
held in Spring Hope, June 7-8.
At top from left to right is
Kelly Alexander, President,
North Carolina Conference of
NAACP Branches, National
Board Member, Secretary, Char
lotte Branch NAACP, will pre
side over the business sessions
and deliver the keynote addres:
Thursday evening, June 7; Mrs
L. L. Graham, vice-president.
Bottom: P. B. Price, vice
president and N. L. Bregg, treas
urer.
Parmele School Principal
Winner In Jim Crow Suit
Washington, D. C.—The Unit
ed States Supreme Court refus
ed to accept an appeal filed by
the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
here Monday, and upheld the de
cision of the U. S. Court of Ap
peals at Richmond that “Jim
Crow” segregation is a burden
on interstate commerce.
Prof. William C. Chance of
Parmele, N. C., sued the ACL
because he was ejected from a
train at Emporia, Va., while en
route from Philadelphia to
Rocky Mount, N. C., for his re
fusal to move into a coach “re
served” for Negroes.
The Supreme Court also re
fused to hear an appeal filed by
the City of Birmingham, Ala.
against a decision by the U. S.
Circuit Court in New Orleans.
The lower court held Birming
ham’s zoning. Ordinance violates
the constitutional guarantee a
gainst depriving citizens of
property without due process of
law.
The action of the nation’s
highest court makes final the
law that “Negro and white segre
gation cannot be enforced by
means of zoning laws; “railroads
may not segregate Negro passen
gers by using so-called ‘Jim
Crow’ cars.”
I
Victorious
Prof. W. C. Chance, principa
of W. C. Chance High School
Parmele, who was victorious ii
a United States Supreme Cour
action brought against the At
lantic Coast Line. The Court rul
ed that “railroads may not segre
gate Negro passengers by usinj
so-called Jim Crow cars.”
WINSTON-SALEM MAN LOSES
FIGHT TO ESCAPE GAS
CHAMBER FOR RAPE
School Teacher
Given Bond In
Contempt Case
Asheville — Thirty-eight year
old school teacher, Annie Haw
kins, was ordered released last
Wednesday under $3,000 bond,
after she was charged with con
tempt of court.
Action grew out of accusations
that she talked with a Negro
member of the jury trying Fred
“Rabbit” Simpson and eight
others on liquor conspiracy
charges.
Contempt action against two
other persons growing out of the
same case were dismissed. Judge
Wilson War lick tried Mrs. Haw
kins last Tuesday without a jury
and said he would reserve judg
ment until a full transcript of
the Simpson case is turned over
to him
Washington—Clyde Brown o:
Winston-Salem lost his appeal t(
the United States Supreme Cour
here Monday from a death sen
tence when the Court refuset
review of the case.
Brown was sentenced to tin
gas chamber in Forsyth County
Superior Court last Septembei
15 for raping a Reynolds Higl
School girl last June.
Brown’s family appealed th<
case to the North Carolins
Supreme Court where it wai
ruled that he got a fair tria
in the lower court. Appeal wai
then made to the U. S. Supremi
Court.
Basis of the appeal was tha
Negroes were systematically ex
eluded from the Forsyth Gram
Jury that brought the indict
ment.
In his brief Attorney Genera
Harry McMullan held that Ne
groes were not excluded fron
the jury that indicted Brown ant
that a Negro woman served on it
The decision was a 7 to 2 ver
diet with Justice Hugo Blacl
and William O. Douglass votin)
to give Brown a new trial.
Spring Hone Host To
State NAACP Meet
Spring Hope — The Eighth
Annual Convention of the North
Carolina Conference of NAACP
Branches will be held in the city
of Spring Hope, June 7-8.
The convention theme is
“Training Leaders for Com
munity Action.” Mrs. Bernice
Norwood Napper, Field Secre
tary, NAACP, New York City
will direct three important work
shops.
Workshop 1, Branch Admin
istration, P. B. Price, Laurin
burg; Mrs. L. B. Michael, Ashe
ville; W. L. Greene, Raleigh,
Consultants. Workshop 2, Mem
bership and Fund Raising Tech
niques. N. L. Bregg, Greensboro;
W. R. Saxon, Asheville; Rev. T.
H. Wooten, Lumberton; J. B.
Harren, Rocky Mount, Consult
ants.
Workshop 3, NAACP Action
On The Local Level: Training
Youth For Leadership. Charles
McLead, Winston-Salem, T. V.
Mangum, Statesville; Mrs. L. L.
Graham, Burlington; Rev. L. W.
Wertz, Hamlet; Rev. J. B. Hump
hrey, Charlotte.
Legal activities of the state
conference will be discussed by
C. O. Pearson, Durham, State
Conference Legal Committee
- Chairman; Attorneys Herman L.
Taylor, Raleigh; Thomas H.
Wyche, Charlotte; C. Jerry
Gates, Durham; O. T. Denning,
Winston Salem; M. E. Johnson,
Durham and John W. Langford,
High Point.
The convention will open 9:00
A. M. with Registration June 7.
The Executive Committee will
convene for a special meeting at
10:00 A. M.
Alexander Keynoter
Kelly M. Alexander, Charlotte
President of the North Carolina
Conference of NAACP Branches,
will deliver the Keynote Ad
dress on Thursday evening,
June 7th at 8 o’clock. He will be
introduced by T. V. Mangum,
President, Statesville Branch.
Other personalities on the
Thursday evening program will
be Rev. James Avery, Pastor, St.
Stephen Baptist, Spring Hope;
Mrs. Ruth Morgan, Wendell; His
Honor, Mayor Allen Barbee of
j the City of Spring Hope; Rev. A.
M. Wiggins, Pastor, New Hope
1 Baptist Church, Spring Hope; J.
i D. Honey, Businessman, Spring,
t Hope; Cleother Lucas, Spring
Hope Youth Leader. John D.
■ Williams, President of the Spring
■ Hope Branch will preside over
' the Thursday evening meeting.
After the mass meeting Thurs
’ day evening the Spring Hope
Branch is sponsoring a banquet
at the Williams Center and Mrs.
Bernice Norwood Napper, Field
Secretary of NAACP will be the
speaker. The banquet is being
for the benefit of the education
al cases in the state of North
, Carolina.
| J. S. Bowser Trophy
The state conference will pre
' sent to the branch that made the
L greatest increase in member
ships over 100 during the period
April 1-May 30, the J. S. Bowser
Sheriff Jails
Klan Head
Conway, S. C. — Horry Coun
ty Sheriff Earl Jordan arrested
the grand dragon of the Carolina
Association of the Ku Klux Klan,
Thomas B. Hamilton here Friday
charging him with violation of
the 1951 anti-masking law.
[ Hamilton was arrested at his
. home in Leesville by a repre
sentative of the State Law en
l forcement division on a warrant
. sworn out by Sheriff C. E. Sas
L ser.
[ Included in the charge were
, the exhibition and display of a
. simulated burning cross on
: Hamilton’s car last Saturday
; night during a Klan motorcade
on Horry County highway.
Trophy, In memory of Attorney
J. S. Bowser, Charter member
and first Legal Chairman of the
North Carolina Conference of
NAACP Branches. He died in
December of 1950.
Gains Of State Branch
The greatest gain made by the
North Carolina Conference of
NAACP Branches since the 7th
Convention that was held in Fay
ville, last year is the decision of
the Fourth Circuit Court of Ap
peals reversing the decision of
Judge Johnson J. Hayes not to
admit Negroes to the University
of North Carolina Law School.
This case resulted in the Board
of Trustees of the University vot
ing to admit qualified Negroes to
certain professional and graduate
schools of the Greater Univers
sity. Edward O. Diggs, 30-year
old Negro of Winnston-Salem, is
the first member of his race to
be accepted for admission.
His acceptance by the Admis
sions Committee of the Medical
School for admission as a stu
dent next September was an
nounced April 24, by the Univer
sity officials.
The state conference will map
plans for a continuation of its’
program to eliminate discrimina
tion and segregation in the field
of education on all levels.
Political Action
Negroes are now engaged in
active program of political action
in North Carolina. In more than
ten cities Negroes were candi
dates for positions in govern
ment. The State Conference held
a special register and vote meet
I ing in the city of Durham, two
years ago and bestirred the Ne
groes to action in the field of
political action. This program is
now displayinng outstanding re
sults.
The results of the NAACP
having a conference with the
Honorable W. Kerr Scott several
years ago requesting that he ap
point Negroes to policy making
boards of the state level is now
showing signs of success. The
governor recently appointed
Kenneth R. Williams, Winston
Salem alderman and professor
religion at Winston-Salem Tech
ers’ College to a three-year term
on the State Advisory Board of
Paroles. He is the first Negro to
be appointed to such a position.
The 8th Annual Convention of
the North Carolina Conference
of NAACP Branches will end on
Friday afternoon, June 8th. The
officers of the North Carolina
Conference of NAACP Branches
are President: Kelly M. Alex
ander, Charlotte; Vice-Presidents
Rev. A. D. Owens, Reidsville;
Rev. L. W. Wertz, Hamlet, Mrs.
L. L. Graham, Burlington, P. B.
Price, Laurinburg; Secretary:
W. R. Saxon, Asheville; Record
ing Secretary, R. J. Williams,
Fayetteville; Assistant Recording
Secretary: Mrs. Gloria Bryant,
Bolivia; Treasurer, N. L. Gregg,
Greensboro; Auditor, Rev. J. B.
Humphrey, Charlotte.
Executive Board Members:
Earlie Crosson, Norlina; W. L.
Greene, Raleigh; Rev. T. H.
Wooten, Lumberton; J. B. Har
ren, Rocky Mount; Attorney
Conrad Pearson, Durham, Char
les McLean, Winston-Salem; and
Mrs. L. B, Michael, Asheville.
Announcement
r
The CAROLINA TIMES an
nounces this week the appoint
ment of Mrs. Samuel Little as
its representative in Burlington.
Mrs. Little,
who is highly
respected i n
the city as a so
cial and civic
leader, will
write a weekly
society column
(or Burlington
ton and vicin
ity as well as
direct tne distribution of the
TIMES in her city.
President
John D. Williams, president,
Spring Hope, Branch NAACP.
Mr. Williams is very active in
the field of Civil Rights. Under
his leadership the Spring Hope
Branch is growing into a most
effective social action voice in
Nash County. His efforts to get
Negroes the right to vote is out
standing in Eastern North Caro
lina.
S. C. Beauticians
To Meet In
Myrtle Beach
Myrtle Beach, S. C. — Carver
Training School auditorium here
will be the scene of the South
Carolina State Cosmetologists
and beauticians annual meeting
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday,
June 3, 4, and 5.
The opening on Sunday after
noon at 5:30 will be in the form
of a tea, following which will be
general registration. At 7:30 in
the evening, Rev. J. N. Lennard,
pastor of Mt. Olive A. M. E.
Church will deliver the beauti
cian’s sermon at the church.
Registration will continue
Monday and a regular business
s.ession will be held. Reports of
committees will be heard. Music
hour and luncheon will be held
in the Patio Casino, followed by
demonstration in hair styling by
a guest artist at the auditorium.
In the afternoon, delegates
will hear Dr. P. C. Kelly, who
will deliver an address. Presi
dent Flossie Wilson will address
the convention at the Monday
night session which will be held
at Mount Olive Church.
The annual ball will feature
David Pugh and his orchestra at
the auditorium on Monday night
at 10 o’clock.
Business sessions will continue
on Tuesday morning. General
election of officers and installa
tion will climax the three day
meet on Tuesday afternoon.
Bunche Hits
Discrimination
in A.&I. Speech
Greensboro — Dr. Ralph J.
Bunche, noted member of the
United Nations official staff tore
into discrimination here Monday
in his commencement address to
nearly 400 graduates of A. and
T. College.
Said Dr. Bunche, “To perfect
our design for living we need on
ly to demonstrate that demo
cracy is color blind.”
Following his address Dr.
Bunche was awarded another
Doctor of Laws degree by Presi
dent F. D. Bluford, which brings
the total conferred on Dr.
Bunche by various educational
institutions to over 20.
“We are demonstrating for the
world to see that men of all
backgrounds and cultures can be
solidly welded together in bro
therhood by the powerful force
of two nobel ideals — individual
liberty and the equality of man,”
said Dr. Bunche.
“All the Negro wants, in the
South or in the North, is for the
white man to get out of his way,
to remove the unjust and un
democratic obstacles in the Ne
gro’s path, to remove the dam
ning curse of race — that un
democratic, unfair, intolerable
millstone — from around his
neck.
“The Negro does not ask that
anything special be done for him
or given to him. He asks only for
elemental justice — his full
rights, privileges and opportuni
ties as a human being and an
American citizen.
“I cannot see that there is any
longer, in this enlighted age, any
logical explanation, why the re
moval of this racial millstone
should not or cannot be done
within a reasonable time'.
Like Any Other Citizen
“The Southern Negro citizen,.
like every other citizen, is work- j
ing, farming, studying, owning
property, paying taxes, shedding
his blood for his country and for
the free world, living and dying
just like any other citizen ex
cept that in the South, parti
cularly, he must do all these j
things behind a deliberately
arbitrary, unjust and undemo
cratic curtain of segregation.
“There has never been a more
monstrous fiction than separate j
but equal,” Bunche said.
“I offer no apologies and bow
to no one in demanding for the
group of citizens with which I
happen to be identified all the
rights and privileges which are
the priceless heritage of every
American citizen. What loyal
American would ever demand
less?”
EDITORIALLY SPEAKING
Educationalr Statesmanship Needed
Where is all the good faith that trustees of UNC said
they were acting in on April 4th when they paved the way
to admit a Negro to its. medical schools?
The Negro was admitted, and the feeling in Negro’s
minds was that at last the university would go by its trustees
action and admit other Negroes and Indians who “were com
petitively qualified.”
Then, last week the news leaked out that some of the
university’s big shots had sold the-trustees on a plan to keep
Negroes and Indians out of the university indefinitely. The
plan was to offer a Ph. D. program at North Carolina Col
lege in Durham for all departments. In Greensboro last
Thursday this rumor was confirmed by a brief announce
ment from the UNC trustees that a joint committee compos
ed of NCC and UNC trustees would study the plan. Now it
appears that “the highest official at North Carolina College
and some of the university’s leading officials” have been
working on such a proposal for a year or more.”
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Ihree U. y Judges To Decide
Fate Of "Separate But
Equal" Educational System
A. & F. Speaker
Dr. Ralph Bunche. noted Unit
ed Nations official and Nobel
Prize winner, who lashed out at
discrimination in a commence
ment address delivered to ap
proximately 400 graduates of A.
and T. College Monday. Presi
dent Bluford conferred another
Doctor of Laws degree on Dr.
Bunche to add one more to the
20 or more he has already re
ceived.
Man Is Killed
In Charlotte
Charlotte — David Johnson
was shot to death in the doorway
of his residence, 919 East Sixth
Street alley early Sunday morn
ning when he answered the call
of a former roomer.
A warrant was issued charg
ing Mack Wright with murder in
connection with the killing. An
other occupant of the building,
Howard Mosley, told investigat
ing officers that he heard Wright
calling for Johnson to open the
door about a. m., and then he
heard two shots. Johnson stag
gered out of his apartment and
into the apartment occupied by
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Torrence,
where he collapsed. He was pro
nounced dead when officers ar
rived. Mosley also reported that
he heard Wright call for him
(Mosley )and his wife to come
out, also, that he “wanted to
kill them, too.”
It was also reported that
Wright owed Johnson back pay
on his rent and that several
j arguments had been had between
I them concerning it.
Witnesses claimed they saw
Wright leaving, following the
j shooting, in an automobile driv
I en by another person. He was
not apprehended immediately.
Charleston, S. C. — Three U.
S. Circuit Court judges listened
to the final arguments opposing
and upholding segregation in
southern public schools here
Tuesday and took them under
advisement. The decision, which
may not come until the latter
part of June, is expected to over
throw the segregated school sys
tem of the entire South, if it is
decided in favor of the Negro
parents who brought the ac
tion on behalf of their children.
The State admitted that Ne
gro and white schools are not:
equal in District 22, located in
Clarendon County. But it in
formed the Court that the State
has adopted a $75 million im
provement program for Negro
schools which would equalize
conditions. The defense asked
therefore that the three-judge
court keep the case out of the
United States Supreme Court un
til Negro schools can be improv
ed to a level in keeping with
schools for whites.
During the hearing four edu
cational and phychological ex
perts testified that segregation in
itself was harmful.
Dr. Kenneth Clark, New York
University psychologist said that
he had made a test of 26 Negro
children in Claredon County,
where the suit was originated
and that they showed a “defin
ite disturbance in development
of personality and a feeling of
inferiority.
Thurgood Marshall, head of
the legal staff of the National As
sociation for the Association
of Colored People, urged a re
versal of decisions in which the
U. S. Supreme Court has said
that separate schools may be
provided as long as they are
equal.
Said Marshall, “separate but
equal- has resulted only in in
equality. The only part that is
true is that they are separate.”
Marshall stated further that
segregation resulted in a phy
chological “road block” that
make it impossible for Negroes
to get an equal education, re
sulting in their permanent in
jury.
Robt. McC. Figg, Jr., repre
senting the school trustees, plead
ed for time in which to provide
equal school facilities for Ne
groes.
Judge John J. Parker express
ed surprise that Attorneys for
both sides indicated they had not
planned to present written briefs
on the case. Judge Parker re
minded the lawyers, “you’re ask
ing a decision here which is a
i long a new line.” He referred to
previous decision which stated
that schools for the races may be
separate if they are equal.
Marshall stated he could file
his brief in a week and Figg said
he could file his within two
weeks.
Other District Judges hearing
the case were: Judges J. Waties
Waring of Charleston and Geo.
Bell Timerman of Batesburg.
Dr. C. C. Spaulding Gives
Inspiring Finals Speech
Kaleigh—Ur. C. C. bpauiding,
| president of the North Carolina
j Mutual Life Insurance Company
I and the Mechanics and Farmers
Bank, delivered the final ad
dress to 90 members of the
Graduating Class of the Wash
j ington High School here Wednes
i day night.
The noted business leader who
has spent more than a half cen
tury as one of the nation’s out
standing Negro business men
said discrimination is becoming
too unpopular to last long and
the members of the class can
make it more unpopular “by
your own actions and character.”
Said Dr. Spaulding, “I believe
in cooperation, goodwill and get
ting along with everybody, and
i we can get along in the future
better than we have gotten along
in the past. By your character
and conduct you can make it
unnecessary for people to be
segregated or discriminated a
gainst.”
“If you Be you will Do. If you
be sober, if you be honest, if you
be careful, if you be courteous—
you will be something in life and
you will do something in life.
“The walls of segregation are
crumbling by their own voli
tion,” said Dr. Spaulding. He
warned the graduates that when
they are finally down that Ne
groes must be ready to accept the
responsibilities that go with good
citizenship.
Dr. Spaulding then decried the
fact that there is too much dis
honesty and immorality in high
places, so much so that recently
a U. S. Senator was introduced
as Mr. So and So from the Dis
trict of Confusion,” he said.
“It is better to be oppressed
than to oppress others,” said Mr.
Spaulding.
Music for the occasion was
furnished by the high school
band and the choral society.
The Salutatory address was by
Walter Watson.
The diplomas were presented
the graduates by Mayor P. D.
Snipes, chairman of the Board of
Education, who was introduced
by Jesse O. Sanderson, Superin
tendent of Schools.
Professor C. H. McLendon,
principal of the school presided
over the program.