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Univeristy of Library ||" THETftU Th1)NBR IQU E p"|J rwas rt^RS THE OUTSTANDING WEEKLY OF THE CAROL1NAS Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Durham, North Carolina, under Aet of March 8, 1879 “ "prices ten cent VOLUME 29—NUMBER 28 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, JUNE 9th, 1951 ★ ★★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ■ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★★★ Fires Old President And Elects New One At Same Meeting Figured In South Carolina Segregation Case With magnificent effrontery top scientists of America told three Carolina Federal Judges that segregation legally branded Negroes as inferiors and permanently damaged the personality struc ture of the individual. The testimony was given at the Clarendon County South Carolina school case, the first direct frontal attack on segregation in modern times. Witnesses who testified under examination by the NAACP corps of lawyers are shown at top. Or. David Krech, associate professor of social psychology, University of Southern California; Mrs. Helen Traeger, lecturer at Vassar; Dr. Kenneth Clark, assistant professor of psychology at City College New York, and Dr. Harold J. Me Nally, assistant professor at Teachers’ College, Columbia University. Others who testified but not shown here are, Dr. Matthew J. Whithead, Howard University; Dr. Ellis D. Knox, Howard University; and Dr. C. Hupp, Ohio Weleyan. In the background is shown the historic Char leston post office building in which is located the tiny Federal courtroom. In the future this building, like Fort Sumter, will be remember ed as the battle ground where the first shot was fired to bring South Carolina into the Union. Bottom scene shows Thurgood Marshall and Spottswood W. Robinson, IH, conferring with some of the 67 parents and guardians of Claren don County. Three N.C. College Students Win Fight To Enter UNC Three Negro law school stu dents have been accepted for the University of North Carolina Law School’s Summer term which begins Monday, June 11. Dean Henry P. Brandis identified the three for the CAROLINA TIMES as: Harvey.. Beechjjf Kinston and Durham; Jr Kenneth Lee of Greensboro •' and'Floyd McKissick of Ashe ville. The men are students at NCC’s Law School. McKissick graduated in June. Beech and and Lee are second year law students. ' In a telephone conversation „ to the TIMES from Chapel Hill, Dean Brandis said the other plaintiffs ( James Lassiter and Solomon Revis) had given “no formal notice of a desire to at tend the University’s Summer - Law term.” Although Monday is registra tion day, additional registration is expected to be opened “for a few more days,” Dean Brandis said. This seems to mean that other qualified Negro law students could enter UNC’s Law School if they applied. Dean Brandis said he had “no comment” on the U. S. Supreme Court’s refusal to review the State’s petition to overrule the order of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The three judge Ap peals Court ruled in Richmond on March 15 that UNC should admit Negroes. Earlier Federal Judge Johnson J. Hayes ruled in favor of UNC in its refusal to admit Negroes on the grounds that NCC offered an adequate legal education for Negroes. A housing authority in Chap el Hill said no plans had been made regarding living accom modations for Negroes. The entrance of the law school Certified Dr. L. R. Swift, the first Ne gro doctor in the entire South to be certified recently by the American Board of Obstetrics of Gynecology. He received all of his training in preparation for the Specialty Board at Lincoln Hospital here. students on Monday will shat ter the university’s 182 year old all-white record. Edward O. Diggs, “a senible Negro,” was earlier admitted to the Medical School for the Fall term. The application of Negroes for Ph. D. work in education and library science has been tabled pending a study by a joint committee composed of representatives of trustee boards of NCC and UNC. Faculty, students, and alumni at NCC are opposed to offering a Ph. D. there in any field. Medical Society To Hold Annual Meet June 12-14 Greensboro — The 64th an nual sessions of the Old North State Medical Society, oldest organization of Negro medical men in the world, will meet here in Bennett College’s Pfeiffer Hall on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, June 12, 13, and 14. Dr. Clyde Donnell of Durham, secretary-treasurer for the past 32 years, is in charge of over-all planning for the sessions. Also meeting with the ONSMS are the state’s pharmaceutical rep presentatives and the woman’s auxiliary of both organizations. Some of the outstanding med ical authorities, practicioners, and professors of medicine in the East are among the discus sion leaders for the sessions. Among the topics which the society will consider are civil defense, State health problems, and the newest trends and tech niques in the areas of gynecol ogy, obsteterics, and diseases of the heart. Officers of the Old North State Medical Society are Dr. J. Charles Jordan, Winston-Sa lem, president; Dr. George H. Evans, president-elect, Greens boro; Dr. W. T. Armstrong, first vice-president, Rocky Mount, and Dr. R. E. Wimberly, Ra leigh. The society’s opening sessions promise to provide a varied pro gram of business meetings, films, and social events. Two films on “Orthopedic Procedure for Post Poliomyelitis" and “Diagnosis and Treatment of Gastrontestinal Cancer will be shown. MUKALt Ul NEGROTROOPS AFFECTED Fort Bragg — In spite of President Truman’s order ban-\ ning segregation in the armed forces of the United States, Ft. Bragg, near Fayetteville is re ported to continue to be a cess pool of rank discrimination, jim crow and race phobia. With the integration program in full swing at Ft. Jackson, South Carolina and the Aber deen Proving Ground in Mary land, both only a few hundred miles away, Ft. Bragg continues its same old pattern of Jim Crow. That Lt. General Leonard, the commanding officer of what is reputed to be the largest rnili tary camp in the world, has de liberately defied his Command er in Chief, the president of the United States, came to light here several days ago when the CAROLINA TIMES learned of some of the rankest instances of discrimination against Negro troops to be found anywhere in the South, if not in the entire | nation. Not only is Lt. General Leon ard not integrating Negro troops into white units, but he has re legated them to a section of the camp, known as the Spring Lake area, where conditions in many instances are so deplor able that they contribute to the low morale of the men, high rate AWOL and venereal dis eases. In at least one instance over 800 men were found being fed, along with the flies, in a mess | hall only large enough for 400. In several instances as many as 100 men were found in bar racks built to accommodate on ly 60. This in spite of the fact that right acress the street from several overcrowded barracks there were empty ones and a mess hall that is being used for classrooms for white children of officers and post guards. For the 80th Aircraft outfit and the 505th Airborne Infantry regiment there is only on ser vice club. In another instance of a i batallion of a Negro chemical company there is only one tele phone available for all the men in the entire outfit. In addition there are no recreation facilities. The one building once set aside for recreational purposes for the chemical company is so dilapidated that it is considered a fire trap. As a result chaper ons don’t want to bring young women there any longer. So far as Negro troops at Ft. Bragg are concerned, there is little or no such thing as pro motions any longer. This also contributes to the low morale of both the men and the Negro of ficers stationed at the camp. In spite of the fact that there are three lawyers in one comp any, Negroes have no repre sentation in the Judge Advocate General’s office. The lawyers instead are tied down with troop training. In fact, segregation is ramp ant at Ft. Bragg with the morale of the Negro troops stationed there sinking to a lower and lower degree. Winners In UNC Segregation Fight Ihese tour North Carolina College Law School students were plaintiffs in a case that sought to obtain admission of the quartet to the University of North Carolina’s Law School. The NCC stu dents charged they were refused admission to UNC because of their race. They argued further that NCC’s 10-year-old Law School was inferior to the 80-year-old Chapel Hill institution. After losing initial action in Middle District Federal Court last Fall, the four won an appeal in the Circuit Court in Richmond, Va., on March 15. The State of North Carolina appealed to the United States Supreme Court. On June 4 the U. S. Supreme Court refused to review th State’s petition. Action is expected to be set ii motion to admit the Negro students to the all white UNC Law School. The law school students pictured are Jame Lassiter, Rocky Mount; Solomon Reavis, Raleigli J. Kenneth Lee, Greensboro, and Floyd McKis sick, Asheville. McKissick and Reavis were graduated fror NCC at 40th commencement exercises on Jun 4. Lassiter and Lee have said they plan to ente UNC. Baby Once Dead Now Very Hale And Hearty Waco, Tex. — Van Pell Evans Jr., who had a ten minutes taste of death when he was on ly 17 days old and an emer gency operation for a strangu lated hernia when he was less than 2 months old, is a hale and happy' youngster. He will be three months old on June 8. In this picture he turns his head toward his mother and points at his lensman father as if to say “look mamma, daddy is making a picture of me.” Van Jr. stopped breathing for ten minutes on March 25 from congested lungs caused by a cold of several days duration. He was cyanotic “blue as a post” when the physician arrived. Applying artificial respiration and hope a gainst hope the pediatrician did the impossible—brought back a faint heart beat. A wild ride to the hospital about 12 blocks away, artificial respiration enroute and artificial respiration and oxygen from a waiting tank in the emergency room then to an oxygen fed in cubator for several days were the factors that started the youngster on the recovery road. The account of the tots un usual experience considered one of the modern day miracles was carried throughout the nation by the Associated Press, Asso ciated Negro Press and in one of the medical journals. Commenting on the restora tion of life his physician said, “the Lord must have great work in store for this boy to do.” The father a veteran news paperman photographer and for mer pictorial magazine publish er, is executive of the Waco Ne gro Chamber of Commerce and director of public relations at Paul Quinn College in Waco, Texas. Dr., Rev. Browne Durham Business School Speakers Officials of the Durham Busi ness School here have announc ed their closing activities for this year. Dr. Rose Butler Browne, pro fessor of Education at the North Carolina College at Durham will deliver the Commencement Address on Sunday evening, June 11 at eight o’clock. Baccalaureate services will be held from Mount Vernon Bap tist Church, Sunday afternoon, June 11 at three o’clock with the Reverend E. T. Browne, pas tor, delivering the sermon. For parents of graduates and friends of the institution, Open House will be held at five o’clock on Sunday afternoon. The Durham Business and Professional Chain announces a temporary change in the time of its regular meeting from Sunday afternoon to Thursday night at eight o’clock at the Algonquin Club House, effective im mediately. Lincoln Hospital First Board Man A training program for Negr< residents which was initiated a Lincoln Hospital in 1935 ha produced its first Specialt; Board man. The program wa worked out by Dr. W. C. Davis on. Dean, Medical School, -Duki University, with the cooperatioi of the Medical Advisory Com mittee of Lincoln Hospital com posed of Dr. R. A. Ross, Chair man, Dr. A. H. London, Dr. An nie T. Smith, Dr. Clyde Donnel and Dr. J. A. Speed. The lat< Dr. M. O. Bousfield, Director Medical Services of the Juliu; Rosenwald Fund was very mucl interested in developing residen cies for Negro doctors since ther< were so few hospitals in th< country offering such training During the early years, the pro gram was financed primarily b; the Julius Rosenwald Fun< through the efforts of Docto: Bousfield. Dr. Leroy R. Swift was thi first resident to complete a fou: year residency in Obstetrics anc Gynecology at Lincoln Hospital He began his l’esident train ing on July 1, 1937, and com pleted it on June 30, 1941. A1 of his training in preparatioi for the Specialty Board in Ob stetrics and Gynecology was re ceived at Lincoln Hospital dur ing these four years. Dr. Richard L. Pearse, Chie of the Department of Ob stetrics and Gynecology at Lin coin Hospital, and Dr. R. A Ross, Professor in Obstetric and Gynecology, Duke Medics School, were responsible for hi training. Doctor Swift has re cently passed the America 1 PAUL QUINN COLLEGE SETS FAST PACE Waco — Paul Quinn College in a surprise move a few hours following the close of the 79th commencement exercises Thurs day, May 24, fired its president and hired a new one in the same stroke. The new president ad dressed the board of trustees be fore the meeting adjourned. The school’s board of trustees announced at the end of a closed doors session at 9 p. m. thht Mrs. Nanie Belle Aycock would be succeeded in the college’s presi dency by the Dr. S. L. Greene. Jr. j Mrs. Aycox came to the col lege as president in 1946. Dr. Greene served as presi j dent of Campbell College in (Jackson, Miss., from 1940 to | 1949. j Although there was no evi .dence of a change of presidents - j in the making during any of the assemblies of the commence ment exercises except a veiled prelude in the open session of the trustee meeting Wednesday morning, a full scale hearing was held behind closed doors | by the board’s committee on ’faculty Wednesday afternoon | and night and again Thursday : night. | Small groups of ministers and j laymen gathered and shifted a ' bout on the campus while the j faculty committee was in closed | sessions. The committee on the faculty j voted unamimously for the ; the change before making their recommendations to the forty member board. The vote of the trustees was 35-2 to accept the recommendations of the faculty committee which recommend ed Dr. Greene to succeed Mrs. Aycock as president. Three members did not vote. It was learned from a reliable source close to Bishop Gomez, s chancellor of the school, that Mrs. Aycox had been notified 8 months ago that a change in s the presidency would be asked >' for. Also that she was asked to resign by officials of the school , several months ago and again e j preceeding the opening of the r | commencement exercises. She j refused to resign and elected to j have a hearing before the fac ■ | ulty committee. Mrs. Aycox was given pro found thanks in a resolution by the trustees for the valuable ser vice she has rendered the col lege. She came to the school when it had lost its creditation with the state department and had only six students. She saw the college restored to eredita tion and the student body grow to around 700. Bishop Gomez said: ! “Our only interest is to build not just a first class Negro but a first class American college. There is nothing personal in the action to secure a new president, but the experience of the past \ three years demands a stronger 5 faculty and administrative per _ sonnel.1' 5 (During his three years as chancellor of Paul Quinn there have been erected a new student union building, a new memorial chapel, a nearly completed gym nasium and a new $150,000 ad ministration building is under | construction. All of the completed build ings are paid for and all mater ’ ials and labor in the uncomplet ed buildings are paid for as far 1 as the work progressed. The to ’ tal cost of the expansion pro | gram is nearly a half-million dollars.) ■ Greene Is A Bishop's Son r The new president of Paul l Quenn is the son the Rt. Rever • end S. L. Greene, Sr., bishop of the Georgia district of the AME church and chancellor of Morris ; Brown College in Atlanta. Since leaving Campbell Col lege as president, Dr. Greene has served as pastor of A. M. E. ' churches in Boston, Mass., and ' Wilmington, Del. The latter of ^ which he resigned to accept the 1 presidency of Paul Quinn. He ■ holds a bachelor degree from ' Wilberforce, a doctor of divin ' ity degree from Payne Theologi cal Seminary and a masters de f gree from Columbia. Paul Quinn’s Summer School . opened June 1. s i Board of Obstetrics and Gyne 1 j cology, and is now certified. He s is the first Negro doctor in the - entire South to be certified by i this Board
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