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FOR 28 YEARS THE OUTSTANDING WEEKLY OF THE CAROLINAS
Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Durham, North Carolina, under Act of March 3, 1879.
VOLUME 29 — NUMBER 24 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, JUNE 16th, 1951
PRICE: TEN CENTS
UNC LAW BUILDING OPENS DOOR TO RACE
Here is the age old law building at the University of North Carolina that opened its doors
this week to four North Carolina College Law School Graduates who will attend Summer School
classes at the University. Two of the men, J. Kenneth Lee of Greensboro and Harvey Beech of Dur
" ham, have already been assigned rooms on tEeThird floor of Steele Dormitory. "The other two who
will probably not live on the campus are James Lassiter of Rocky Mount and Floyd B. McKissick of
Asheville. -t——1
Fayetteville Negroes May
Seek Admission To White
School If Petition Fails
Fayetteville
Trustees of Fayetteville City
Schools were handed a petition
Saturday by the Young Men’s
Civic Co-Ordinating Committee,
seeking either equalization of
white and Negro schools in Fay
etteville or entry of Negro stu
dents into the white schools in
September.
The petition read in par: “
... if the trustrees cannot or
have not provided total equality
for Negro public school students
by the beginning of the 1951
1952 school term . . . the under
signed will seek enrollment of
Negro public school students in.
the same schools which are pro
vided for white public school
students who are similarly situ
ated.”
The chairman of the trustee
board, Neil A. Currie, said that
some of the requests in the pe
tition “have been met, and others
are in the planning stage.” He
contented that the trustees felt
the Negro school E. E. Smith
High and Fayetteville High
(white) compared rather favor
ably.
The petition charged the fol
lowing inequalities: 1. Fayette
ville High offers a larger and
more varied curriculm than does
E. E. Smith. The petition point
ed out the absence of a com
merical department at E. E.
Smith. The white school has one.
2. The white school has a far
better program and equipment
for its students in home econom
ics than does E. E. Smith.
3. E. E. Smith High, in its in
dustrial department, does not
have the quality and quantity of
equipment the white school has.
4. The white school has a sup
erior science department to that
of the Negro school.
5. Inadequate library facili
ties are suffered at E. E. Smith.
6. The white school has a well
equipped gymnasium and athlet
ic field on its campus for the
exclusive use of its students
whereas there is no gymnasium
nor athletic field at E. E. Smith
High School for the exclusive
use of its students.”
7. Fayetteville High School
has paved entrances and ap
proaches, a hard-surfaced park
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Lost Relative
James Fuller of Adams
Court is desirous of seeing his
daughter, Miss Mary Fuller,
who when last heard from was
living in the East Durham sec
tion of Durham. Her mother
is Mrs. Lucille Montague.
Anyone knowing the where
abouts of Miss Mary Fuller,
please ask her to contact the
CAROLINA TIMES at 518 E.
Pettigrew Street or Phone
5-0671.
Committee On Negro Affairs To
Meet At First Calvary Sunday
The annual re-organization meeting of the Durham
Committee on Negro Affairs will be held Sunday afternoon
at 4 o’clock at the First Calvary Baptist Church on More
head Avenue.
This is a city-wide mass meeting, at which reports are
made to the people concerning the activities and achieve
ments of the Executive Committee during the past twelve
months. All interested citizens are urged to be present.
J. S. Stewart, chairman of the Committee, will pre
side at this meeting. Additional persons will be elected
to the executive committee and recommendations relative
to future policies of the organization will be discussed.
TECHNICIAN
Mrs. Margaret K. Goodwin,
who attended the 23rd Annual
Convention, American Society
of X-Ray Technicians held June
3-8, at the Benjamin Franklin
Hotel Philadelphia, Pa.,
Mrs. Goodwin, a registered x
ray technician, is in charge of
the x-ray and laboratory service
at Lincoln Hospital. She is a
member of the American Society
of X-Ray Technicians and has
had several years experience in
the field of Medical Technology,
ogy.
Following completion of train
ing at Lincoln Hospital under
the direction of Eugene Bradley
in 1939, she was x-ray techni
cian and laboratory technician
at Lincoln Hospital and Com
munity Hospital, Norfolk, Va.,
until June 1941 when the call
of matrimony interrupted her
professional career.
Mrs. Goodwin returned to
Lincoln Hospital seven years ago
and has served in a dual capacity
as instructor in the Lincoln Hos
pital School of Medical Tech
nology and as x-ray and labora
tory technician. She did post
graduate work at Mt. Sinai
Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa.,
during the year 1945.
While attending the conven
tion in Philadelphia, Mrs. Good
win and her young daughter,
Marsha, were the house guest
of Mr. and Mrs. Sloan.
State NAACP
To Lead Fight
For Integration
The Eighth annual convention
of the North Carolina Confer
ence of NAACP Branches was
held June 7-8 in Spring Hope.
President Kelly M. Alexander
said, in his keynote address, that
the NAACP is on the march to
eliminate discrimination and seg
regation in the field of educa
tion. “The attack is now being
made at the high school and ele
mentary school levels.” Alex
ander told his audience that the
entire policy of “separate but
equal” is a farce, and Negroes
can only receive equal educa
tional opportunities with the
superior white facilities. This,
of course, means that integra
tion in education is the only
solution to the problem of deny
ing Negroes equal education.”
An important feature of the
convention were three work
shops on Branch Administration,
Membership and Fund Raising
Techniques; and NAACP Action
on the Local Level. Participating
in these discussions were: Mrs.
Bernice N. Napper, field secre
tary, NAACP, New York; P. B.
Price, Laurinburg; Mrs. L. B.
Michael, Asheville; Mrs. Lassit
er, Oxford; N. L. Gregg, Greens
boro; W. R. Saxon, Asheville;
Rev. T. H. Wooten, Lumberton
and J. B. Harren Rocky Mount;
T. V. Mangum, Statesville,
Charles McLean, Winston-Sa
lem, Mrs. L. L. Graham, Bur
lington and Rev. L. W. Wertz,
Hamlet.
Attorney C. O. Pearson, chair
man of the State Conference
Legal Committee, presented the
legal program and discussion on
educational inequalities, and po
lice brutality, etc., was entered
into by Attorneys C. J. Gates, M.
E. Johnson, John Wheeler of
Durham; Herman Taylor and
Roger D. O’Kelly of Raleigh;
John W. Langford of High Point
and E. W. Avant of Durham.
The convention approved re
commendations on immediate
action to eliminate segregation
at the elementary and secondary
levels in education, specifically
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Shaw President Blasts
Jim Crow School Svste
Southern Presbyterians
Abolish Segregated Unit
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Segregaton in the deep South
was dealt a severe blow here.
Monday when the Southern
Presbyterians, in their 91st Gen
eral Assembly, voted dissolu
tion and absorption of its lone.
Negro Synod.
The move means that in the.
future business meetings white
and Negro members of the
church will sit together.
Dissolution of the Negro Sy
nod after a two hour debate on
the question, during which ef
forts were made to offer motions
to carry the matter over until
next years meeting and to turn
the Synod over entirely to Ne
groes independent of the white
church.
When Col. Francis P. Miller
of Charlottesville, Va,. in his
speech advocating the dissolu
tion plan, referred to it as “a
Christian communty thing, not
a race thing,” he was loudly ap
plauded.
Negro members of the synod
had already voted for dissolu
tion, but had made no indication
that they wished to pull out
from the parent body and be
come an independent organiza
tion.
After vote on this question by
Synods of Alabama, Georgia and
Louisana, action on the matter
will be taken by a commission.
The step was hailed by many
as being in keeping with the
breaking down of segregation in
other fields all over the South.
Texas School
Admits Negro;
“To Do Right”
This article is reprinted in
full from the June 18, 1951
issue of Time magazine with
permission.
Mrs. Annie Taylor has spent
half of her 48 years as a teacher
in the Floydada, Texas grade
school for Negroes. This year,
before she could qualify for a
renewed contract, state law re
quired that she go back to
school herself for some courses
in elementary education. And
the most convenient place for
“Miss Annie” to do her graduate
work was Way land College, a
white Baptist institution at
Plainview, only 28 miles away.
Wayland has received inquir
ies from Negroes before, but not
until Miss Annie sent a tran
script of her record did the col
lege find one who was academic
ally qualified. Like other South
ern colleges, Wayland might
well have waited until the courts
ordered an end to racial rectric
tions. But one day before the
spring term ended. Wayland’s
president, Dr. J. W. (“Bill”)
Marshall, called faculty and stu
dents away from final exams,
asked them to vote on Miss
Annie’s application. No faculty
members, and only nine out of
274 students, had any objection.
The next night Dr. Marshall
faced the board of trustees.
“Our concern,” he explained,
“is that we do right, and if we
do right, God will see that we
come out right.” Despite token
resistance from some West Tex
as trustees, the board decided
that to “do right” was to open
“the academic facilities of Way
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Prominent Washington Matron Attends Graduation Of
Son Who Was Taught By Some Of Mother’s Teachers
When Mrs. Audrey L. Woodson, (second from right, 4918 Fitch Place, N. E., Washington, D.
C., was a young dashing co-ed at North Carolina College, Durham, two of her professors were Miss
Pauline Newton (third from left) and Miss Ruth G. Rush (extreme right).
Two years ago Mrs. Woodson sent her son Wilburn K. Wright (fourth from right) to NCC as
a transfer student. Wilburn finished along with 254 other NCC students on June 4 with BS degree.
Others shown in the above picture are left to right: Miss Roxie Holloway, the President’s staff,
NCC, Miss Barbara Chambers, 32 West 118 Street, New York City, one of the graduates, Miss
Newton, Wright, Mrs. Woodson, and Miss Rush.
FATHER’S DAY SPEAKERS AT MOUNT VERNON
Father’s Day guests at Mount Vernon Baptist Church here Sunday will be Dr. M. C. Allen,
President of Virginia Theological Seminary and College, Lynchburg, Virginia, who will deliver the
sermon at the morning worship hour; Dr. C. C. 2 Spaulding, president of North Carolina Mutual
Life Insurance Company, who will make his annual visit to the Sunday School at 9:45 as a teach
er of the Tonkins Men’s Bible Class; and W. J. Kennedy, Jr., who will deliver an address at the
7:30 evening service. Music for the occasion will be furnished by the Mount Vernon Male Chorus
under the direction of Mrs. E. H. Fogle.
Four NCC Law School Grads Begin Classes
At|UNC; Other Applicants Turned Down
Chapel Hill — For the first
time in its history the University
of North Carolina opened its
doors here Tuesday to Negroes
when four former students of
the North Carolina College Law
School begun attending classes.
Two of the Negroes, Ken
neth Lee of Greensboro and
and Harvey Beech of Durham
will have rooms on the third
floor of Steele Dormitory. It had
not been determined last Tues
day just what arrangements for
rooms the other two, Floyd B.
McKissick of Asheville and
James Lassiter of Rocky Mount,
will make.
Although the University has
admitted the four law students
to classes there is strong evid
dence that its officials do not in
tend to let down the bars of
segregation any further than the
federal courts force them. Ex
cept in the matter of one Negro
who has been accepted for the
medical school, the four law
students, who were admitted on
ly under court order, are the on
•ly Negro applicants that have
been accepted.
In fact one young woman,
Miss Gwendolyn Harrison,
daughter of Dr. Joseph P. Har
rison had been assigned to a
even turned down after she had
been accepted last Spring for the
first Summer term. Miss Har
rison had bee nassigned to a
room in “C” Dormitory. She
stated that she designated that
she was a Negro on her ap
plication.
When the young woman ar
rived Monday to begin classes
she was told by Chancellor R.
B. House that a mistaken had
been made and that the Univer
sity officials did not know that
she was a Negro.
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SAYS NEGROES
WANT BEST
EDUCATION
Raleigh
Like a bolt out of a clear blue
sky, Dr. William R. Strassner,
president of Shaw University let
it be known here Saturday that
he differed with Governor Kerr
Scott on the matter of segrega
tion.
The State’s Chief Executive
said here last Friday at his press
conference that he thought seg
regated public schools would
never be eliminated in the State.
The North Carolina governor
then went on to put his own in
terpretation on what Negro
leaders wanted in the matter of
public schools by stating that
most of them did not want non
segregation.
Said the Shaw University
president who has, since taking
over the reigns at the Raleigh
educational institution, continu
ed to gain in respect of Negroes
all over the country, Negroes are
interested primarily in the best
educational opportunities, re
gardless of whether they exist
in a segregated or integrated
school system.
“They are certainly not get
ting these opportunities under
the present segregated system,”
he said. “If the best educational
apportunties require integration
sf white and Negro schools, that
is what Negroes want,” Dr.
Strassner stated.
The Shaw president said “the
segregation picture in this coun
try i s undergoing a rapid
change.”
He stated further, however,
that “I do not believe there will
ae an immediate change in North
Carolina but, ultimately Negroes
like all underprivileged peoples
of the world, will achieve the
goals they are striving for. This
movement toward ultimate
equality cannot permanently be
stopped.”
Dr. Strassner’s forthright
statement was heralded by Ne
groes all over the state as more
nearly expressing the real feel
ings of the race on the matter
of segregation than statements
to the contrary made on the
subject by well-known state
school heads and others on the
State payroll.
It is reported in several quar
ters that Governor Scott’s state
ment on what most Negro lead
ers did not want in North Caor
lina was the result of misin
formation given by certain of
his Negro advisors.
N.C. Dentists To
Meet In Wilson
The Old North State Dental
Society will meet in Wilson
ruesday and Wednesday June
19 and 20. The President is Dr.
W. L. T. Miller; the Vice-Presi
ient, Dr. Dewey Hawkins; and
;he Secretary, Dr. Morris Watts.
NOTICE
Durham Business and Profes
lional Chain meetings for the
nonths of June, July and
Vugust will be held each Third
rhursday night in the month at
eight p. m. beginning, Thursday
!*ight, June 21st at the Algon
juin Club House, 1400 Fayette
ville Street. Everybody is urged
to attend.
SPECIAL THIS WEEK!
In The CAROLINA TIMES
READ WHAT EXPERTS SAY IN THE TESTI
MONY OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA TRIAL
ABOUT THE EFFECTS OF SEGREGATION
ON YOUR CHILD.
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