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Theology Professors Quit
Post When Trustees
Okay Segregation
Only One Faculty
Member Remains
SEWANNNE. TENN.
A dispute over co-racial edu
cation, caused eight seminary
teachers to offer their resigna
tions here at the University of
The South last week". The re
signations will become effective
in June, 1058.
^ 'nie dispute arose when a Ne-
’ gro Seminary clwed its doors be
cause of too few students. An
Episcopalian synod of 16 south
ern dioceses asked the Ideology
school for its conclusion on mix
ed seminaries. No Negroes have
yet applied or been refused ad
mission to the school.
The board of trustees of the
school handed down a ruling last
spring stating that they thought
it “inadvisable to admit Negroes,
groes.
The eight who resigned, pub
licly challenged the college to
reverse its ruling. Their resigna
tions were offered early in Oct
ober in an effort to “dear the
air” towards sympathetic con
sideration by the trustees.
All but one of the members
dt the seminary faculty staff and
the chaplain resigned. They are;
Bev. F. CraighiU, deans; Reva,
Claude E. Guthrie, Robert Lan
sing Hicks, Robert M. McNair,
.Howard A. Johnson, James A,
Reddick, Frederick Q. Shafter,
all instructors, and Rev. Richard
Hooker Wiler, chaplain.
,-The professors felt that by re
signing, the question of admlt-
t’ing Negroes could be consider
ed in the light of Christian prio-
oiples rather than baaed on the
methods used by the instructors
in publicly protesting tile de
cision made by the trustees.
Or. Edward McCardy, presi
dent of the University, accepted
the resignations, and statad tfa|it
the instructors may be reln-
iated if the board reverses its
segregation de^t»ion.
Last Rites Held
For Mrs. Rosa
Jolinson, Age (18
Last rites for Mrs. Rosa
Johnson, age 68, were held at
the Mount Vernon Baptist
Church here, Friday, November
7 at 8:00 P. M. The Rev. E. T,
Brown, pastor of the church,
officiated. Mrs. Johnson, up to
the time of her death, when
she suffered a heart attack on
Tuesday, November 4. resided at
115 E. Hillside Avenue of this
city.
She was born in Louisville,
North Carolina, near Winston-
Salem. About 35 years ago she
moved to Durham. She was a
member of St. Mark A. M. E.
Zion Church for a long number
of years. Her pastor, the Rev. S.
P. Perry, was out of the city at
the time of her death and it was
finally decided to hold the fune
ral at Mount Vernon.'
Mrs. Johnson was the daugh
ter of the late Granville ai^d
Mrs. Charity Jarrett. Her hus
band, Wm. Johnson, died several
years ago. -
Surviving are two daughters,
Mrs. Irene Cardwell McAllister
and Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, both
of New York City.
Interment was at Beechwood
Cemetery.
DR. BUNCHB TO SFEAl(
FLATTSBURG, N. Y.
Dr. Ralph J. Bunch, director
of the Department of Trustee
ship of the United Nations and
1950 Nobel Prize wlnher, will
address'the faculty and students
here at Champlain College on
Novonber 11.
NAACP In Mss.
To fight Bias
YAZOO CITY, MISS.
The Mississippi State Confer
ence of Branches of the Na
tional Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People
this week pledged itself “to the
full use of the courts to insure
the full rights of all citizens
a^ guaranteed by the 14th and
15th Amendments of thb Con-
stituiton of the United States.”
A resolution adopted by del
egates attending the seventh
annual session of the confer
ence called for legal action to
elimate segregation in public
education “from the lementary
U> the graduate and profes
sional levels,” and called for
full and free use of the ballot
by Negro citisens, federal leg
islation against discrimination
in employment, housing leg
islation, and action to end po
lice bmtallty.
“Let us rededicate ourselves
to the cause for which we
have ««sembled,” the resolu-
'tion s^ied,' adding that “not
violence, bombings or other at
tempts at intimidation” would
stop the state’s NAACP in its
drive for equality of citizen
ship and opportunity for Miss-
issippians.
Daddy” Grace Responsible For
AHurder Angers Followers
Suit Against Magazine And
Former Police Captain
Threatened By Attorneys
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U.S. Supreme Court
fons Separate Coaches
For Railway Travel
LeMoyne Host
To Association
Colleges, Scliools
WASHINGTON, D. C.
LeMoyne College will be host
institution for the Association of
.Colleges and Secondary Schools
for Negroes, which will hold its
1952 sessions in Memphis, De
cember 1-4.
According to John F. Potts,
principal of Charleston’s
Avery Institute and president
of AC8SN, haadB eMlepw
and secondary sishools in more
than seventeen states will
convene in Memphis for this
year’s meetings.
Theme for the four-day con
ference will i)e “Education For
Freedom,” the Association’s ex-'
ecutive committee has aimounc-
ed. A large array of persons
prominent in education are
scheduled to serve as speakers
and consultants for the confer
ence. I
In adddtion to Dr. Potti, key ^
officers of the Awociation are ;
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Southern States
Ponder Ruling
WASHINGTON
A Supreme Court action here
Monday, November 10, ordered
railroads to eliminate “Jim
Crow” coaches.
This case was one of a long
series supported by the National
^sociation for the Advancement
of Colored People in its fight to
end segregation in transporta-
ti^ and other areas of living.
William C. Chance, 63, of
JParmelee, N. C.. a Neffro high
school principal, gave Impetus
to the transportation suit when
he was ejected from an At
lantic Coast Line coach in
Emporia, Virginia, in June,
1949. itefusing to change from
a white to a Negro coach, he
was arrested for disorderly
conduct,
Chanee sued the railroad and
the conductor, Alva S. Lambeth,
for damages amounting to $25,-
000. He was awarded $50.0& for
wrongfully arrest by a federal
Jtiry in Richmond, "nje railroad’s
segregation ruling was upheld.
However the Fourth U. S. Cir
cuit Coiu:t of Appeals reversed
thepe findings in January, 1951,
when it ruled that segregation is
invalid as a burden on inter
commerce.
The ACL appealed the case
to the high bench following
the decision of the clrciilt
court of appeals.
The Supreme Court rejected
appeal from the lower coui;t rul
ing that separation of white and
colored passengers is an uncon
stitutional burden on interstate
commerce.
Pictured above is William
C. Chance who won the Su-'
preme Court decision Nov. 10,
ruling that segregation is an
unconstitutional burden on in
terstate commerce. Chance, a
65-year-old school principal,
has been fighting the case since
1948.
Justice Dept.
Studying Ban
On La Baker
WASHINGTON, D. C.
Though in Buenos Aires,
Argentina, Josephine Baker
has declared that she shall
count it an “honor to be bar
red from the United States,”
the Justice Department has be
gun to consider whether or not
to admit the controversial sing
er to this country should she
seek to return.
La Baker long ago renounced
her American citizenship when
she married a Frenchman. She
considers BVance her home. As
far as could be determined, she
has not applied to reenter this
country, though slie does have
a suit here against Walter
Winchell, the syndicated col-
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Mack Ingram who was giv
en six month suspended sen
tence in Caswell County Snp-
perlor Court Wednesday,
charged with assault by “leer
ing.” Attorneys tor the forty-
five-year-old farmer, and fath
er of nine children have given
notice of appeal to the State
Supreme Court. Ingram first
received a sentence of two
years in Yanceyville Record
er’s Court.
WASHINGTON
Growing resentment from the
three million followers of Bishop
Charles Manuel (Daddy) Grace,
head of the House of Prayer for
All Peoples this week swelled in
to a resounding crescendo as
“Daddy’s” 24-member Board of
Elders, coast-to-coast, blasted re
ports that Bishop Grace had been
responsible for 1933 gangland
style slaying of EHder G. Wilson
Becton in Philadelphia.
Going even further tlian the
resentment of the elders and
members over the report linking
the head of the 303-church cult
to the Becton murder, was the
revelation that Bishop Grace’s
lawyers here are now ready to
file a slander suit against a Ne
gro monthly magazine which
pubtished the charges.
On top of that, it has also been
revealed that the Bishop may al
so file a similar suit agnirit Cap
tain James A. Kelly,''who was
head of the Philadelphia Homi
cide Squad at the time an un
identified gunman’s bullets mow-.
ed down the colorful evangriist
whose flair had swept the Quak
er Cty.
Denies Krtly^ ftnnlBtlM
Entering a frank denial at Cap
tain Kelly’s purported revela-
I tions to the Negro nn«g»»in*
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NAACP May Fight 6 Months
Suspended Sentence Given
Caswell Man For 'Leering’'
BY ADA HANNAR
YANCEYVILLE
An all white jury of 12 men,
tried and true, brought in a ver
dict of guilty here Wednesday
against Mack Ingram, Negro
sharecropper, charged with leer
ing at a young white woman 75
feet away.
It took the jury, composed en
tirely of farmers, only about 55
minutes to reach a verdict again
st the 45-year-old father of nine
children. He was convicted un
der a law of North Carolina
which states that assault may be
committed without actual phy
sical contact if it can be proved
that the defendant intended an
attack against the person of an
other. According to statements
obtained from Attorneys in the
case, no other state, including
Mississippi and Georgia, has such
a law.
The case was tried before Su
perior Court Judge Frank Arm
strong, who did not pass sentence
until Wednesday morning, when
he announced a suspended sen
tence of six n^onths on the road
against Ingram. Immediately
following the sentencing of the
farmer, the Attorneys for the
National Association For The
Advancement Of Colored People
who have been defending In
gram, gave notice of an appeal
to the State Supreme Comrt.
According to testimony of the
prosecuting witness, 18-year-old
Willie Jean Boswell, now Mrs.
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