Newspapers / The Carolinian. / Jan. 4, 1964, edition 1 / Page 11
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THEIR PROTESTS BROKE DOWN MANY BARRIERS—RaIeigh high school and col lags students ere showt. above as they demonstrated night and day in lair weather and foul to bring about a goodly amount of integration in dining facilities, indoor movies, hotels and motels in the Capital City area last Spring. Negro ditisens are now permitted use of more facilities than ever be fore in the Raleigh-Wake County section as a direct result of these protests. LEAVING CITY Dr. Grady Demas Darla, well-known Ra leigh reUartaoa and etrle lander. Durham's BM-member Union Baptist Church la IM4. Be an aonaeed bis intention te leave Raleigh la the saauncr of IMS. He la currently paator of Ober- Ha Baptist Charch. dean of Shaw’s School of Religion and outgoing president of the Ra leigh CtttSMU Association. HEADS BHRINERS Thom- M Foy PMf, Winston-Salem mhool teacher, «m nnanimoos iy chosen to hood the nation’s MAM Shrinen. dnrinc the nn annl eonrentioa. heM In Pltts hnrgh. JJOrt pFMSroPtT vStfuSST Dm * tu PICTORIAL HIGHLIGHT OF 1963 GAVE UFE FOR RACE CAUSE Former Baltimore. Md. postman William L. Moore was murdered during the last week in April, 1963 on an Alabama highway while enroute to Mississippi to weak an audience with segregationist Governor Roee R. Barnett. Moore, a native of New York, carried on a one* man campaign to eliminate racial discrimination in this country. Hie body was dis covered by a peering motorist. Hie attackers have never been ap r-*- —- ,J INTEGRATION MOVEMENT WAS STATE-WIDE Shown am Negro youth* as they attempted to enter a movie thea tre in Witliameon in the Fall ot 1963 at Wilharmton, a hot bed ol racial *trite at the done at the year. Similar demomtration* took place in Chapel Hill. Sardord. High Feint and many other N. C. VETERAN MINISTER DIES —The Re*. Johnnie W. Jones, who hod Postered the historic Fayetteville Street Baptist Church here, died in May, IMS oiler serving os minister of the church for 31 years. A native of Johnston County, the Rev. Jones attended schools In his native area, and also took cours es at Bhaw University here. Un der his leadership, the church grew from a wooden structure to its present impressive ap pearance. His funeral, conduct ed from the church, is reported to have been one of the largest attended ever held in this eity for a Negro clergyman. Rev. and Mrs. Jones lived in the church parsonage. 1013 S. Person St., until the time of his death. RE-ELECTED John W. Winters, the first and only Ne gro ever to serve on the Raleigh City Council, was re-elected in April, 1963 for another two year term. Placing fourth In a field of seven councitmen. Mr. Winters was appointed chair man of the Council's Public!) WnrVs Commission. WOMAN OF YEAR Mrs. Virginia Kimbrough Newell, an instructor at Shaw University, was chosen Raleigh's Woman of the Year for 1963 because ol her religious, civic and educa tional activities. The honor was bestowed upon her by members of the Omlcron Zeta Chapter of the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., in March. The nomination was made unanimously by all the blubs of Raleigh. FIRST XEt, E O OR %D James Howard M redilb. 31. be came the first Negro ever to graduate from the historic V nteemiljr of at Ox ford. He received his 8.1. de gree In Aognat of IMJ, and now risUrt In W achington, D C. ASSASSINATED By far tho top newt story of INS was the trade ssosednstlna of Piwst deat John FttsgeraM Kennedy, tho only president bora la IMS century. Killed at Dallas, Tes sa, by a sniper's ballet oa Fri day, November IS. INS Presi dent Kennedy was the second U. S. President to bo assassinat ed fat this century. The other was William McKinley, who was killed in INI. SLAIN IN MIBB Medgar Evers, who was shot In the back at midnight In Jackson, tdn., early in the Spring at IMS as he was returning home from me NAACP meeting. Evers was State Field Representative far the Mississippi State NAACfr Branches. SHAW'S PRESIDENT Dr. James Edward Cheek. 11, was named president of Shaw Uni versity on Wednesday. Novem ber 27, IMS. He assumed his du ties on December 1. He formerly taught at Va. Union Unlv. In Richmond. * Rhft.tT PERFORMANCE Charles (Sonny) Liston prosed •nee again on September 31. I M 2, that he was the world’s heavyweight boxing champion hr knocking out not'd Patter son. former champ* hi the first lonnd ae he did in the ertgtaa! fight staged fas IMS. -MARCH ON WASHINGTON”—Wednesday, August 28, 1963, h the day that will live for ever in the hearts of Negroes around the world. This was the day when more than 200,000 Negroes and whites staged a gigantic "March on Washington ” for jobs, civil rights, and other advances. Thk was considered the second most important story of 1963. The group above is shown at the Lincoln Memorial. BIRMINGHAM CHURCH BOMBED—Four email girls were killed on Sunday morning, September 15, 1963, as the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Ala., was dynamßed. They were attending Sunday School in the church (Top photo). Lower pictures show scenes at the time of the funeral. In photo on extrema right Jbottom, Christ's-entire likeness is intact except hr the face. AMBASSADOR JIM CROWED HERE —Miss Angie Brooke. Shaw graduate and currently Liberian Ambassador to the l/nited Nation s, is shown at the ShW Cafeteria here Tueedmy, April 30. 1963, with her nephww, Joeeph Out land, e Shaw etudant. The ce/eteria now par roe aD without regard to race or odor. emm rsfljprq MMMMmm. M. C, SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, INI 11
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