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WISING nUE UP:
KsUon from U*e Nation*! FV»t«niil OiMineU •( Churchw, who oaHed on him at hi* Now ^
ten laat week. *%e* expreeeed Mupriae when teld there were hoteto in tlie U. & which did Mt welcoiiie
Necroeai Bev. TIiamM S. Barten »t>Brooi(iyn (ecnter, right) espreeied aerioiM need to ealigliten Bieaa-
hower oa wliat needed ta be done In Une with iila pre-eieeHen ptedgea. (Keweprea* Phata.)
State Solons Confused By
Pending Fate Of Jim Crow
UEIGH
xypicai or-* 4«c confusion
which the Issue of the Supreme
Court’s dellberatlotu on the le
gality of segregation has on the
minds of some of the members
of the State General Assembly
is the reaction of Rep. John W.
Umstead of Orange County to
a question posed him by the
AsKxdated Press recent^ on
what he thought North Carolina
should do if the Court rtdes
agalast segregation in the public
schools.
Rep. Umstead was quoted by
the AssoclBted Press as saying
that the solution lies In pro
viding separate but equal facili
ties.
He was further quoted; “This
will in my opinion go a long
tpwadL3Qttling this dlffi-
^roblem. It Ibc been my ex
perience in talking with Negroes
in my County as well as in other
parts of the State, that they
only wish equal opportunities.
They would much rather prefer
to have their own schools. I feel
In North Carolina are of this
opinion."
When questioned .this week
by the Carolina Times as to how
survey of the thinking of Ne-
...groes on this issue was made,
and how he arrived at the 98
per cent figure as representing
those Negroes in North Carolina
who favored segregation, Rep.
Umstead immediately declared
that he had been misquoted by
the Associated Press, and that
he was referring only to Negroes
of Orange County.
When asked to name a few of
those who favored segregation,
Rep. Umstead peremptorily sug
gested that his information was
gained in confidence and abrupt
ly broke off the interview de
claring he wished not to become
embroiled in any argument and
that he had done as much for
Negroes in North Carolina as
any public official.
On the reaction to the Asso-
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EDITORIAL
Putting Words
In Negro Mouths
When Representative John W. Umstead of OrangeCoun-
ty attempts to plit words in the mouths of “98 per cent of
the Negroes in North Carolina” about how they feel on the
matter of segregation, we are of the opinion that he is stick
ing his nose into a matter he knows absolutely nothing about.
No white man is or can be qualified to understand the pain
ful sting of being humiUated and insulted over and over as
the result of segregation. Certainly he hw no right to
himself up as an authority on the issue when the only side
he has ever been on has been the one that imposes the ne
farious system.
The pernicious practice of some white people in trying
to represent themselves as being able to interpret how the
Negro feels or what he wants is, in our judgment, not only
that W per-cent-of the Negroes vicious birt dtjwnright stupid. The Caholinx Timis does not
intend to stand by and let these self-styled authorities on
Negro affairs get away with their rotten practice any longer.
No respectable Negro in North Caroiina""or""an^vliiCTe
else endorses segregation in schools or elsewhere. He does
not endone it because he knows that basically it is wrong
and that it not only destroys self-respect in Negroes, but self-
respect and the morals in any man, white or black, who al
lows himself to sink so low in the scale of human existence
as to believe that God has made him His pet brat to kick oth
er people around.
John W. Umstead may have talked with a few Negroes
in Orange County and outside who are hamstrung because
of a job or some other benefit they feel they would lose if
they would talk freely and frankly on the question. We
defy him to trot out a single person whom the Negroes ap
prove as a leader who will endorse segregation in any form.
North Carolina and other southern states have had
around 90 years to prove that they meant what they said
about “separate but equal” schools. Up until this day and
not in one single instance can they show that prior to resort
to the federal courts that they made one honest attempt to
live up to their own laws which they lec^islated without one
Negro having anything to do with them.
For 90 long years the Negro worked, waited patiently,
paid tiuces, fought in the armed services and shouldered every
other responsibility of citizenship. The only thing he got
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F. HENDERSON
SUCCUMBS IN
N. Y. DEC 30
NEW TOKK
Fleteher Hendersea, famed
orehestra Jeader aad artaager,
died Monday aii^t at a Harlem
hospital foUewlag a long ill-
neas. HeadefMn was SS whan
he died.
One of the moat popalar band
leaders, amngm and ahew-
men of 18 years baek, Hender
son had been in riww ^aalBess
for three decadea. He had liv
ed fwr the past few yaars in
Manhattan with his wife, Mrs.
Leora Henderson.
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Local NAACP
Program Set
Here Jan. t1
The first in a series of the
New Year's Convention spon
sored by the local branch of
the National Association for.
Advancement of Colored Peo
ple is scheduled for White
Rock Baptist Church here Sun
day afternoon, January 11, at
three o’clock.
Officially titted “DniiMm
Cltlsens’ New Tear Cenvan-
tlon,” the parpoae ot the con
vention, which a ■pokeaman
said MTly this week will be
come regular year-opening af
fairs. is to pndi a “program ot
action to bring more democ
racy to Durham in 195t.’*
The program proper will con
sist of devotionals, a review of
the local and national NAA-
CP’s work diuing 19S2 and a
roundtable discussion. Also,
the first Negro graduates and
students of the University of
North Carolina will be Intro-^
duced during the meeting.
Local chapter prcaident M. I.
Jolinson will review the asso
ciation’s work for the year,
and J. S. Stewart, A. J. Stan
ley and li. E. Anstln wUI parti
cipate in a discnssion on the
snbject '‘Elevating the Stand
ard of the Negro In Our City
19S3.” B. N. Harris, member
of the local chapter’s execn-
tWe eemmittee, will pveaide
over the convention.
The slogan of this—the first
convention—is “First Class
Citizenship—the Inalienable
Rights of All Americans."
In issuing the call for the
first convention, the local as-
soeiatioB argee every eitlMB
“to attend this convention to
outline a program ot action to
bring more democracy to Dur
ham in 1953.”
The call reads further:
“We . . . are initiating ... a
Durham citixens’ New Tear
Convention which we hope to
convention In fntnre years and
establish as a tradition In Dnr-
ham. We believe that this will
have a beneficent effect upon-
progress ... In every area ot
activity ... in Durham for onr
more than 25,000 Negro dt-
FOR THIRTY YEARS THE OUTSTANDING WEEKLY OF THE CAROUNAS
Entered as Second Clou Matter at the Pott Office at Durham, North CarcMma, under Act of Mmrdi 3,1S79.
nacEiocnrn
VOLUNK so—NVMBBB S*
DUBHAM. N. 0., SATUKDAT, JfANUABT S. 1053
None Reported In ’52
Old lynchings’ On Way Out,
Replaced By New Terror
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Dr. Balph Bnnche, diieetor of
the division of tmsteeshipa of
the United NatlcMis, was ap
pointed last Sunday a member
of a three-man commisBlon to
Investigate racial dlstarb-
ances in the Union of Sonth
Afriea. Tliat territory has been
the seene of nnprecedoited
racial violence since Premier
David Malan’s government as
sumed sweeping Jadiclal and
exeentive powws which were
designed to reduce the native
Afrieans to virtual serfdom.
TUSKfG:
For the first tilne since Tus-
kegee Institute began making
annual reports of lynchlngs in
these United States, some 70
years ago, the school’s report for
the past year, 1952, shows that
not a single lynching was com
mitted during the year.
Although 1952 gave the na
tion Its first lynch-less year ac
cording to the Tuskegee report,
the school noted that there seem
ed to be an increase in other
forms of violence against Ne
groes and reported that one
lynching of the old type was
prevented during the year.
Observers who studied the re
port generally feel that the
lynching as It is commonly
known and was commonly used
over the past decades is be
coming unpopular, but tiutt
other forms of violence, equally
as lawless, are taking its place.
They point to the portion of
the Tuskegee report for the past
year which states that during
the past four years—1949
through 1952—there were at
least 68 bombings—49 against
Negroes, ten against whites and
public institutions, eight against
Jewish synagogues, schools and
community centers, and one
against a Catholic church.
As further evidence that the
old “rope and shot-gun” lynch
ing is being replaced by a kind
with newer weapons, Tuskegee
President F. D. Patterson said
that other similar forms of vio
lence and lawlessness have not
declined.
“Indeed," he went on, “there
appears io be too many cases of
unnecessai^ brutality and kill
ings by officers of the law of
persons suspected or guilty of
crimes; and a resurgence ot the
mob spirit as expressed in beat
ings, floggings, indendlarism,
bombings and the like.”
Taking cognizance of the de
cline of the old type lynching
and its replacement by a new
method of lawlessness and vio
lence, the report focuses special
attention on recent bombings.
“Against Negroes,” Dr.' Pat
terson said, “this weapon has
been used mainly where mem
bers of the race have moved or
attempted to move into what
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Man Forced
South By Dixie
Bondsman
COLUMBUS, OHIO
The strange story of the
shanghaing of an Alabcuna man
at gun point from Detroit and
his lodging in an Ohio jail was
disclosed Monday night as
tUchigan State police attempted
to prevent the man’s return to
the South.
It happened this way:
Gerdis Hill, 21, auto plant
worker, was accosted on a De
troit street by a man who de-,
scribed himself as HlrnuhgntiB
deputy H. Brady Batson, handp
cuffed, and hustled out of town
to Toledo, Ohio wliere he was
jailed by Batson who had idM-
tified himself to Ohio authori
ties as a Birmingham 'sw oAcer.
Michigan Gov. /’
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fcElght)
liens.”
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Dr. Alonso G. Moron, PresMmt of Hamptan lastitnte. chats Informally with a group of Hamp-
tonians vrior to a meeting af tka North Carolina Begion of the Hampton Ainmwi held reoratly in
Dnrtam.
Shown ab**a are: (ssatad. laft to rt^t) M. Kelly .Bryant, Jr., Oorresponding Seeretary of Nertt
OaroUaa Koglsai Iba. WilUam M. Bleh. Dr. Mtonn. Nathaniti B. WMte, Preaident irf North Oaro-
liaa Begion; Mn. O. L. Thomvaaa, Mrs. 0. S. WOson, Prasidant ot Bariington^r^ham diaatar:
Dt^A. ■. Waatlnrfcrd.
Senate Group
Plans Move To
Hall Filibuster
WASHINGTON, D. C.
A fresh attempt to halt the
senate’s practice of allowing its
members to literally “talk legis
lation to death” was launched
here Tuesday as a group of
Demc^ratic and Republican
senators held a conference to
map plans for the drive.
Senator Herbert Lehman
(D-Llb-N.Y.), who called the
meeting at his office, announced
following th^ meeting that an ef
fort will be made on opening
day (Saturday) of the new Sen
ate to break the body’s cloture
rule.
The cloture rule has enabled
Southerners to use the filibuster
with smashing success in stop
ping civil rights legislation in
the past two Congressional ses
sions. Instead of referring to the
rule as allowing the filibuster.
Southerners say that it permits
unlimited debate.
Attempts to change the rule
twice before have met with un
successful results. A similar
proposal to have it changed in
the 81st Congress was beaten
down by a coalition of southern
Donocrats mdi Republicans, and
the fllibustai atfectlvely stymied
action on elvil rights legislation
which came up in the 80th Con-
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The first fourteen Tar Heel students to benefit from scholar
ships set up by the James E. Shepard Memorial Foundation are
pictured here in North Carolina College’s Shepard Memorial
Library recently.
Scholarship winners are, front row, left to right, Herman
Thomas, Morganton; Evelyn Wilder, Franklinton; Mary Toong,
Greensboro; Mary Mason, Apex; Josephine Long, Durham and
Willie Adams. LaGrange. Baek row, left to right, are Charlaa
Strayhome Trenton; Fronnie Whitehurst, Ayden; James Marrill,
Jacksonville; Lucille Beynolds, Asheville; James Jordan, Oxfee*
James McLean. Lillington; Donald HendersotfTCharloti^ j
Komegay, Mount Olive. ^
Burlington Girl Dies
in Fluke Accident
Frank G. Burnette was elect
ed niostrlous Potentate of Zafa
Temple 116 of the Ancient
Arabic Order Nobles of the
Mystic Shrine at the organl-
zation’a December itaeeting.
Bnmette, who serves as prin
cipal of the Lyon Park School,
succeeds Dalrymple Sysnette
as Potentate of the looal tem-
»le.
Other offioers elected at the
meeting were Thomas Nichols,
Chief Babban; Ulyssaa Gewge,
Assistant Babban; Clarenee
Hudson, Grand . Mor; and
Bonnie Hawkins and Bagaae
Short, First and Saeand Cere
monial Masters.
BURLINGTON
A 17-year-old girl was kUled
here Monday morning when
she was struck by a loaded
school bus on Burch Bridge
R6ad.
Mias Elsie Mae Boberts, re
sident of Boute 4, Burlington,
was pronounced dead on her
arrival at Alamance County
hospital where aha was rarii-
ed soon after the accident.
Because of the unusual cir
cumstance surrounding the ac
cident, county coroner J. B.
Walker has ordered an autopsy
to determine the exact cause
of the girls’ death.
According to Highway Patrol
man O. M. Hicks, who investi
gated the aeeident, Danny WU-
llam Wagoner, the bos Mver,
was baeking oat «t tba irlve-
wayof a s«rvlee station when
hia rear wheds pasaefl aver
the body ot fke girl.
Patrolniaii Hlcka quoted Wag-
ogner as saying that be did not
see the girl before the accident
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FOSDICK TELLS INTERRACUL
GROUP DEMOCRACY MUST
BE REBORN EACH GENERATION
NEW YORK
Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick,
internationally known minister
and author, said in an address
at Convent Avenue Baptist
Church in New York City re
cently, that although he was en
couraged over improvements
that had been made, he was still
indignant over the injustices in
flicted on colored people.
Continuing to speak in this
vein at the monthly interracial
meeting sponsored by the Chris
tian Iklucation Department of
the Baptist Churches of Greater
New York, of which Dr. Horatio
Hill is the head. Dr. Fosdick ex
hibited unmistakable. awar«iess
that citizens have a definite re
sponsibility for making demo
cracy workr
“Democracy cannot be inheri'
ted, but must be re6om In each
i new generation in the moral Ufe
of the people,” the eminent min
ister said.
Using as a subject “Tbe Be-
covery of Our Nation’s Moral
Heritage,” the former minister
of Rockefeller Church of New
York, further devcfpped his
theme by saying that because of
science we have envohred new
modes of transportation . by
which the world has undergone
great shrinkage. The result, be
said, is an undaniaUe proximity.
“Have we the power to trans
form this world-wide proximity
he challenged his audlaace.
In what might have been re
ceived by the audience as tlM an
swer, I^. Foadick said that the
problem is not scientific, but
ethical.
'What- mail’s mind creetaa,*^
he said, "his character roust
control.”
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