NCTA BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEET la nation Saturday. December 5, at the VCTA headquar
ter* here were the following membera el the Nerth Carotin* Teaehera Association's Beard of Director*:
Left to right: J. H. Twitty, A. D. Smith L. H. Meeeley, O. A. Face. Jr., Mr*. Leona B. Daniel. Charles il.
Coleman, J. A. Clarke, J. A. Brown, Dr. S. O. lone* Dr. 8. E. Donean, president; Attorney Corttas Todd.
Mrs. Geneve J. Bowe, secretary; Oliver N. Freeman, A. R. Bo we, Mr*. Juanita M. Corbin, Dr. Nelson H.
Hants, treasurer; Mrs. Elisabeth D. Koonts, NfEA-DCT elect president; John H. Wooten, and King A.
Williams. Standing, L-R.: J. R. Barnes, J. H. Lacs* Dr. Lafayette Parker, W. A. Foster, Fred McNeill,
field representative; and E. B. Palmer, executive secretary.
Seek 20’000 Turkeys So Miss. Negroes
Won't Have To Eat Syrup, Bread For Yule
CHICAGO <NPI> Comedian
Dick Gregory and Mississippi
heroine Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer
have started a campaign to airlift
JO,OOO turkeys to Mississippi so Ne
groes in the state won’t have to
eat “syrup and bread” for Christ
mas dinner.
Mrs. Hamer, who stirred the Na
tional Democratic Convention Plat
form Committee with her account
of Mississippi terror, said most Ne
groes in the state have never seen
a turkey except in pictures.
*1 am 47 years aid and 1 have
had aaa turkey and I am nn-
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er six years ago and I bought
It ah the installment plan and
took about eight months to pay
#«."
Mrs. Hamer said the white
man who gave her credit
“doen’t own that store any
more.”
The idea to airlift the 20:000 tur
key* to Mississippi was the Inspira
tion of Dick Gregory, who formed
a committee for Christmas in Mis
sissippi.
Famed news columnist Drew
Pearson is co-chairman, at in Law
rence Landry of Chicago. Gospel
singer Mahalia Jackson is honorary
chairman.
Gregory announced that Sammy
Davis, Jr. will appear in a Chicago
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connection with the project.
Gregory himself said he and his
family will accompany the Christ
mas dinners on the flight to Missis
sippi and will spend Christmas with
the people of Mississippi.
Pearson anneaacad from
Washington that lAM turkey*
have been donated by the Feed
Fair grocery chain and that Gi
ant Food chain store* have of
fered a “generous amount."
In describing the condition of Ne
groes in Mississippi, Mrs. Hammer
said:
2- Year Boycott Os Store
Changes Town's Pattern
OROVILLE, Calif. - A two-year
boycott of the Barnes Supermarket
not only has made that store aban
don Us lily-white job policy, but
has changed the employment patt
ern in the entire town. Negroes now
are working at the local brandies
of Montgomery Ward, the Bank of
America and seveal other down
town stores.
The boyeett, bolstered by pic
keting. had wea Um sarppsrt of
more than 98 percent et to*
“From now until Christmas there
is a very little work, the cotton is
light add picking is very slow be
cause you have to work in mud al
most up to your knees.
“When I left on Thanksgiving
Day the people were working in the
fields to earn enough money to be
able to buy a little something for
that night’s supper.
“All my life I never htd enough
to eat until I began working for
the ‘movement.’ Then my doctor
told me I had to go on a diet, so I
am now back to boiled eggs where
1 was before.”
non-white Community. Finally,
following rumors that toe store ,
was about to close, management
hired Its first Negro clerk and
toe long boycott was ended.
“Members of CORE'S Orovill*
chapter are comparing their success
with Barnes Supermarket to toe
result* of the 1258 Montgomery
bus boycott, though on a smaller
scale.’’ commented Chet Duncan.
CORE’S Wd stern field secretary.
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Analyze Failure Os “White Backlash"
NEW YORK (ANPD Column
ists and political analysts who pre
dicted that the white backlash vota
was going to b* » major factor in
the election art looking for some
new answers since the election.
The New Port Times to aa
editorial effaced two auptoaa
torn* far to* tellur* at to* bask
lash veto to develop, “The Bn*
h that far meat Americana out
■Me the deep South there waa
dearly m eeafUct,' the Times
mid. They wanted a PiwMud
right* was aaerat aa wall aa to
" They feel it demonstrates again
the effectiveness of complete Ne
gro community support in ending
discrimination.*
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gal and who tea Id be aaunlsd
on to aaok national unity to
making real too prtadplm of
eqaaltty.
The second explanation la toot
even those with basic reservations
about the civil rights movement
recoiled in many instances from
giving their votes to the Republi
can ticket because they feared tost
a Goidwater victory would prove
too injurious in its over-all effect
on foreign and domestic affairs.
California's vote for a constitutional
prohibition against fair housing
legislation make* it plain that the
absence of a widespread backlash
in the Presidential race la no guar
antee of easy progress toward
breaking down the walls of racial
ghettos, toward* better school inte
gration or toward other forms of
program at the local level
“The difficulties in to* way of
toll equality, in tact u well aa
law, remain staggering. But to*
election returns Indicate that the
/ -~*ran people at large want to
move affirmatively toward a so
lution of these difficulties; and
even if they may be reserved in
their attitude toward speedy at
tainment of racial justice, they are
not prepared to cast overboard all
other values and judgements af
fecting the nation's welfare.”
PRESIDENTIAL FIRSTS
Theodore Roosevelt, the Catholic
Digest states, waa the tint Presi
dent to ride In an automoblla and
the first to laava th* U. S. while in
office, o trip to toe Panama Canal.
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NEW ORLEANS (ANPD-Grand
Master John G. Lewis, Jr, of the
Prince Hall Masons, speaking at a
district meeting here of masons in
th* New Orleans and Plaquemines
Pariah area, declared that it is
now incumbent on Masonry to
“turn away for a few momenta
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