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FOR 25 YEARS THE OUT^ANDING N EGRO WEEKLY OF THE CAROLINAS
VOLUME 28—NUMBER 6 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, FEB 11, 1950 PRICE: TEN CEXTS
State-Wide Registration Meet
Called In Durham March 4th
ST. PAUL GETS NEW PREXY
Mrs. Franklin D, Roosevelt, chairman of the United Nations
Conunission on Human Rights, visited North Carolina College last
week as guest of the College’s Women’s Assembly.
Highlights of Mrs. Roosevelt’s visit show her in upper right
photo being welcomed to North Carolina College by President
£lder «t 11a. m. Center photo shows Miss Mary Bettis, Wash
ington, D. C., senior presentin£ Mrs. Roosevelt a $25 check for tltf
former First Lady’s Wiltwyck Boys’ School in New York City.
MiRg Carolyn Smith, New Bern (N. C.) junior and granddaughter
of North Carolina CoUege founder, the late Dr. James E. Shepard,
looks on as Mrs. Roosevelt received check. Photo, top right, shows
North Carolina College’s First Lady, Mrs. Louise Elder, and Mrs.
Roosevelt in informal pose during luncheon at Mrs. Elder’s home.
Center photo shows Mrs. Roosevelt addressing overflow
audience in Duke Auditorium, North Carolina College. Dean of
Women Louise M. Latham, is shown at extreme left, Mrs. Roose
velt is speaking, and Dr. C. C. Spaulding, North Carolina College
trustee, is at extreme right. College choir, which attracted Mrs.
Roosevelt’s attention frequently during their singing, is shown
in background.
In lower left photo. Miss Smith, chairman of the day’s pro
gram, wiio relayed audience’s questions to Mrs. Roosevelt, is
shewn with sp«akvr,4iateniDg intently to students' qu^tions which
impressed the UN delegate with their thoughtfulness. Lower Cen
ter picture shows Mrs. Roosevelt chatting during limcheon at
Elders’ residence with (left) Dr. Lucy S. Morgan, professor of
public health education at the University of North Carolina and
at North Carolina College; Dr. Spaulding, and Dean Latham.
Lower right photo shows Mrs. Roosevelt and Dean Latham
discussing Mrs. Roosevelt’s trip South prior to her speech in
Duke Auditorium.
Four Men Escape
With $15,000 In
Registration Fees
BALTIMORE
Four Negro bandits, walked
into the library of Morgan State
College around five o’clock Mon
day afternoon, held up the busi
ness manager, James H. Carter
and his eight assistants at the
point of guns and escaped with
$15,067 in mid-term registration
fees.
Waiting on the outside of the
building while his comrades
made the haul was a fifth mem
ber of the bandits. On leaving
the building the five men ran
across the campus and made
their get-a-way in au tomobile
parked nearby.
All of the bandits appeared
to be men in their early twenies,
aeeonlin'? to stntenionts made by
the victims of the robbery. Their
heights ranged from about five
feet, s«*veu inches to five feet,
10 iiiclies. Tiiey were unmasked.
Police are rc'ported to be
working on several clues,
Sedolia Dormitory
Destoyed By Fire
isedaua
Damages ^estimated at about
$150,000 were listed as the re
sult of fire which destroyed Qlen
Stone Hall, girl’s dormitory at
Palmer Memorial Institute here
Wedne.sday afternoon.
The blaze was discovere about
1:15 p. m. by the maintenance
superintendent, Charlie Maye,
who put in alarms to surroimd-
ing towns. Fire department from
Oak Grove, near Greensboro,
Gibsonville, and Burlington
battles the‘flames until about
3:45 in tlie afternoon when the
Kchool’H 50,000 gallon water
supply was exhausted and all
tiiey could do was watcli sections
of llie first floor and basement
l)urii. J)r. Charles Hawkins
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Speaker
Dr. Ray C. Petry, professor of
Church History, Duke Univer
sity, will preach the sermon on
Interracial Day, Sunday, at
White Rock Baptist Church at
11 a. m. This service cooperates
with the program of the Federal
Council of Churches of Christ in
America. The guest preacher has
the distinction of being an in'
terpreter of the medieval saints.
Sermons that shaped the pulpit
tradition are brought together
in his latest volume, entitled
“No Uncertain Sound.”
Carter Speaks
MNAACP
Mass Meeting
Attorney Uobert L. Carter, as
sistant special counsel of the
xNAAt'P, addresseil a mass meet
ing of, the local ^^AACP Tues^
day night, giving his view on
Civil Eights and urging the im
portance of our people attend
ing trials and the atfect of the
public on the decision of pre
siding judges.
He recounted the various
cases he has participated in as
NAACP counsel and the adven
tures of his travels throughout
the ISouthlands. He stated that
the national office' and people a-
way from here look upon North
Carolina as the ideal state where
in the Federal Courts are so im
portant. “The outcome of these
cast's will determine tiie whole
pattern of Southern education
for the Negro,” he said.
He came to Durham to argue
the question of jury trial in the
“Epps Caise” which is being re
quested by the State defense.
This is tlu> ease concerning two
two North Carolina College law
students who are seeking entry
into the University of North
Carolina Law School.
March Of Dimes
Coes Over Top
The Durham Ministerial Al
liance and its members rallied
to the appeal of Attorney Frank
Brower, Division head of the
March of Dimes and more than
doubled their liuancial report
of last year, while North Caro
lina College spearheaded by its
President upped its donations
from $124.00 in last year’s cam*
paigii to $585.13 this year.
On a whole, acconling to the
report of the Division Chairman,
Durham has done better than
ever in spite of the fact that
there are fewer people in some
of the instiutious and organiza
tions, as a result of this period
of recession. However, the chair
man said, “Citiiiieus seemed t«
recognize the bankrupt condi
tion of the Foundation of In
fantile I’aralysis and came to its
rescue as best they could with
thv- ijope of cure tor some and
finding of a prevention for the
a»ifeiser>. ” .
Special March of Dimes col
lections were taken by the
chui'clies to supplement the fund
that was exhausted last Sep
tember, and turned in $285-b3
more than doubling last year’s
amount of $137,41. The two
Labor Unions reporting before
the newspaper deadline were:
American Federation of Labor
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Announces
For Assembly
s
W. F. Brower, Negro At
torney, filed with the Durham
County Board- of Elections here
Monday as a candidate, for the
North Carolina House of Repre
sentatives.
Attorney Brower is a graduate
of Hampton Institute, the North
Carolina College Law School,
class of 1949 and a World War
II veteran, having served both at
home and on foreign fields.
Mrs. Eva Adams holds six-
weeks-old Clarice White, baby
buried for six and one half
hours last week near. Hender
son. The unwed mother of the
infant, Miss Gracie Lee White,
is being held in Vance County
under $3,000 bond on a charge
of attempted murder.
State NAACP To Launch
Mammoth Campaign For
250,000 Negro Voters
CHARLOTTE
Kelly Alexander, president of
the North Carolina branch of
the National Association for thtT
Advancement of Colored People,
annouiiceil here Tuesday that a
state-wide meeting will be held
in Durham, Satunlay, March 4
at one o’cloekP . M., for the
purpose of organi/,iug an all-out
registration campaign among
Negroes of North Carolina.
A registration t)f 1250,000 Ne
groes is the ilesired goal and
every possible effort will be
made to reaCh that number, Mr.
Alexander stated:
The meeting in Durham will
be held at Page’s Auditorium on
the corner of Pine and Enter
prise Streets, and n'prt'Kcntatives
from every county, city, town
and hamlet are exi)ected to be
in iittendance.
Mr. Alexander stated that let
ters are going out from his of
fice tills week to the leaders in
church, business, labor, profes
sional and civic affairs with the
hope of having representatives
from all walks of Negro life in
attendance at the gathering.
Dental Confab
Planned
Otticers of the Old North State
Dental Society held a meeting
in Durham Sunday at the Al-
gon(iuin Clubhouse, relative to
their annual convention to be
held in Durhiun .June (i and 7
at North Carolina College.
They are Dr. E.' P. Xorris,
Sr., Durham, president; Dr. W.
L. Miller, Greensboro, viee-presi-
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RICHMOND, VA„
j The Board of Truste^^s of St.
Paul's Polyteehnif’ Institute,
Ijawrenoeville. Virginia, elt^tpd,
: unanimAi«ly, Earl Hampton
..McClenney, Sr. a.-s the Institute’s
j new and tliird president, at a
special meetiiis? held in the Mayo
Memorial Church Hou.se, Rieh-
; mond, Virsrinia. on Monday,
-January 3J. He will assume
duties April 1.
Mr. M(*Cl*^nney, an active .1*7-
man in the Protestant Episcopal
Church and at president is Presi
dent of Voorhees School and
•Junior (.‘ollege, tVnmark, South
Carolina. He has held many im
portant positions in the field of
education. He holds the M. S.
degree from Cornell University,
and is now a candidate for the
doctor's degree at Pennsylvania
State College.
MrTFDRTAt NCC
\¥omen's Day
Observance
The hydrogen bomb and racial
disiTinlinalion were among jhe
perils to world pea^e listed here
last wetik by Mrs, Franklin D.
Roost-velt in au address in B. N.
Duke Auditorium at North
Carolina College.
Mrs, Roosevelt, United States
representative to the General
Assembly of the United Nations
and chairman of the I'X's Com
mission on Human Rights, dis
cussed the work of the commis
sion in her main speech. In a
question and answer period af
terwards, however, she scored
Russia and her satellites for de
lining to grant freedom to their
people, and she deplored the
sad policy of the present gov
ernment of South Africa” to
wards that country’s colored
majorities.
The widow u£ the wartime
president spoke before an over
flow crowd during the annual
Women's As.sembly Day obser
vance, which IS traditionally the
highlight of the year's program
tor North Carolina College’s un-
iergraduate women.
Carolyn Smith, N'ew
Bern, senior, aud granddaughter
of the late Dr. .James E. Shep
ard. founder of North Carolina
College, presided inuring the
noon program aiul introduceil
Dean of Women Louise M.
Latham, who presented Mrs.
Roosevelt to the capacity audi
ence.
PLtintiug out that the Com
mission on Human Rights is
.-hari^eil itii ilrafting a world
wide tlH‘ument to insure the
freedom and ritrlits of all peo
ples, Mrs. Roosevelt saiil the ab-
sfUi-e of '.ucli a iftiivt'rsal dot‘U-
ment in the past contributed to
World War II
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Negro History Week - Lest We Forget
Next week, February 12th
through Tilth, innrks the 25th an
nual obsi'rvance of Negro His
tory Week, first introduced in
1926.
The Negro’s contribution to
America has been overlooked in
many cases. Did the slaves'’ of
1019 come to America empty-
handed, or did they bring some
heritage of native endowment
and skill, even of civilization?
For an answer we look to their
African background and to their
early records when they toiled
in America as pioneers.
Natives of Africa were the
first to smelt and forge instru
ments of beauty and usefulness.
This may account in part for the
fact tliat throughout the days of
slavery the Negro did practically
all of the South's blackamithing,
carpentry, w'agon-making, iron
work, forest clearing and crop
harvesting. He manned the fac
tories, machine shops, mills, and
even ran the trains.
In Africa, the Negroes had
been skilled weavers, rug mak
ers, potters, wood carvers and
builders.
In America, where the cul
tures were fused, they soon de
veloped great skill as carpenters,
masons, and builders. Their
pathos, sympathy, tolerance,
religious fervor and song have
colored the literature through,
the centuries.
By 1860, the slaves were doing
most of the mechanical w’ork of
the South. Many of them were
hired out by their owners. M&ny
bought their freedom and ac
cumulated enough to go into
business for themselves.
Ijet us turn back history’s
pages, lest we forget some of the
Negro men aud women who have
made lasting contributions to the
advancement of civilization.
In Education
Before the Civil War, the edu
cation of^the Negroes was for
bidden in*many states,-and very
little attention was paid to it
anywhere. Nobody thought Ne
groes needed an education, and
many thought them incapable
of being educated. Besides,
there was a general fear that
education would make theni dis
contented and lead to slave up
risings, v^onsequently, when the
Negroes were freed, ninety per
of them con III neither read nor
write.,
John Peterson, a Negro, in
1833 was made principal of the
first normal public school for
Negroes in New York City.
John Chavis, a Negro bom in
1763, was sent to Princeton Uni
versity, where he ranked as a
good student. Later he studifed
at what is now Washington and
Lee University. Returning to
North Carolina, he opened a
classical school and had aa his
pupils many prominent white
people. The school was used for
l)oth white and colored pupils.
Booker T. Washington, the
founder of Tuskegee Institute,
instituted a new proirrani in
education by directing attention
to the training of the hands and
the mind. He was born of a slave
mother in 1859 and died in 191,t.
He is accredited with figuring
very largely in the celebration
of National Negro Health Week.
Virginia E. Randolph, a con
temporary pioneer in the field
of education, became the first
Jeanes Supervisor in the State
of Virginia, Her contribution'
has been mainly along the line i
of adapting rural sehool pro- i
grains to the needs of rural Ne-'
groes. '
Mordecai .Johnson, the first;
Negrojiresident of Howard Uni
versity, is internationally known
as an educator and admini.stra
tor,
Mary Mclieod Bethune held
an important administrative
position in the Federal (iov*rn-
ment as adviser on Negro, af
fairs. Mrs. Bethune is the found
er of BethuilV-C(Hiknian College.
E. Franklin Frazier, au
i-mineiit so«'iolo*'ist who headed
the department of sooiolo^jy at
Howanl University, is the author
of “The Negro Family in- Chi
cago.” which gives a si'ientifie
stuily of Negro life.
W. E. B. DuBois is interna
tionally known as an eilueator,
tuH'iologist, ami author. He
'ceived his Ph. D. from Harvard
(University. He was etlitor of the
Crisis, official organ of th»
NAACP. Among his best-ki]gfrn
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