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THE CAROLINA TIMES SATURDAY. AUG. 27. 195B
NAACP Wants Murder Of Negro In Miss. Investigated
Slain Man Had Been Itir^tened
Because Of Political Activities
HAPP¥ MOMENT IN BEAUTY
CULTUBISTS’ LEAGUE’S
HISTORY
A highpoint in the history of
the National Beauty CulturWa
League’s history was realized
Sunday, Aug. 14, when the na
tionally known organization
dedicated its National Shrine
and Hall of Fame at its nation
al headquarters in 25 Logan
Circle, Washington, D. C. .
Above, Mrs. Cordelia Greene
Johnson, right, head of the
League for sixteen years, un
veils mural with the assistance
of artist Lucile D. Roberts,
who was cmmissioned to do
the painting depicting the de
velopment of the beauty cul-
turist profession. Later in
ceremony, the NBCL opened
its Hall of Fame, which honors
sixteen pioneers in the field oj
beauty culture.
Durham People Benefited By
Agencies Serving Community
Are you one of the more
fortunate or less fortunate
citizens 6f Durham? Most
people earn their own liv*ng,
conduct their own affairs, and
’cherish their independence,
but approximately two-thirds
receive direct service of some
kind, from one or more com
munity agencies. The needs of
Durham people fall into these
groups;
1. Emergency needs, such as
the loss of e~mployTnent,~3eaffi"
of the wage earner, sickness,
or accident.
2. Long-term needs, such as
old age, chronic dtsease, phy
sical handicaps, or mental iU-
ness.
3. Rehabilitation needs, such
as family discord, personality
disorders, or juvenile delin
quency. .
One of the principal func
tions of the Council is to
quicken awareness of Com
munity problems and develop
by fact finding an understan
ding of how agencies are deal
ing with these problems. This
is done bv sponsoring public
meetings and forums, main
taining a speaker’s bureau,
distributing studies and re
ports, and getting publicity
through the press, radio, and
other media. Community un-
derstandiiig of welfare needs
and services is also developed
through cooperation with
other organizations and mat
ters of general civic interest.
In 1932 a small group of in
terested citizens met as the re
sult of the suggestion of Dr.
Howard E. Jenson and Dr.
John S. Bradway of Duke
University at the Duke Legal
Aid Clinic to discuss various
health and welfare problems
and to form a permanent or
ganization to study and to de
velop ways and means to solve
these problems.
The Durham Social Plan
ning Council has achieved
many goals; some these ac^
compUshments are as follows:
1. The CouncU worked for
and stimulated citizens groups
and social agencies to orga
nize a Community Chest.
2. The Council worked for
the establishment "of ji juvenile
court.
3. The Council peTiod*cally
published a directory of social
and health agencies. However,
the last directory was publish
ed in 1952.
4. The Council made the
“Durham Survey’’ in May,
1944.
5. The Council made “A
Survey of the Child and Fami
ly Welfare Services of Dur
ham,” In July, 1948.
6. The Council ‘-conducted
studies of the social needs of
specific areas in Durham, such
as the “Marvin Alley Report,”
a study of the conditions on
Marvin Alley, and the “Driver
Avenue Report,” a study of
the general characteristics of
the Driver Avenue Area.
7. The Council made the
study, and compiled the re
port on the "Educational Plan
ning Council of Durham City
Schools,” January, 1945.
8. The Council completed in
1954 a sell survey of all health
and welfare agence$ in Dur
ham. This project was com
monly known as the “Social
Audit.”
9. The Council completed in
1955 the “Family Budget
Guide,” for the purpose of de
veloping a minimum standard
of living costs fbr a family in
Durham.
The Durham Social Plan
ning Council has many goals
for the coming year and some
of the projects which have al
ready been started are''as fol
lows :
1. The Council is making the
“Survey of Emergency Needs
in Durham; the ayailibility of
Funds for this purpose; and to
whom this information will be
most valuable.”
2. What is the Need For a
Master Plan of Recreation in
Durham, (Publicly and Pri
vately.)
3. The Council is developing
a director of health resources.
4. The Council will study
the degree of mental heaUh
problems in Durham County.
5. The Council will study
the need for hospital and
medical facilities for the „chro-
nically in Durham County.
The recommendations and
action which the Cotmcil will
take will d^end upon the
findings of these studies and
other surveys will be made as
the need arises.
The Durham Socfial Pi
ning Council is a member
agency of the United' Fund;
therefore, it is financed by the
United Fund. If the United
Fund meets its goal, the ser
vices of the Council and the
NEW^ YORK
The National Association
for the Advancement of
Colored People today urged
the U. S. Department of Jus
tice to investigate a murder
which occurred in Mississippi
on Aug. 13 to determine whe
ther the Negro victim was
shot “as a result of a conspi
racy against his exercise of
the right to Vote.”
The request was embodied
in a letter dispatched to Attor
ney General Herbert Brown
ell, and signed by Thurgood
Marshall, NAACP special
counsel.
An NAACP investigator of
the killing has disclosed that
the murdede4 man, Lamar
Smith of Caseyville, Miss.,
“had received several threats
on his life If he did not slow
down on his political activi
ties,’’ the letter relates.
Smith “had' 'been very- ac
tive in the political circles of
Lincoln County,” the message
points out. He was a registered
voter and exercised his voting
rights in the Mississippi Aug.
2 primary.
The letter' says that Snjith
“Was shot Saturday morning,
Aug. 13...on the Court House
lawn of the Lincoln County
site, and in spite of the large
number of persons who . nor
mally congregate there on
every Saturday, the officials
have not been able to. locate
one person who saw the inci
dent.”
Today’s letter was the latest
in a series of requests on the
part of the NAACP for federal
action on a worsening racial
situation in Mississippi. That
state has been described by
Association officials in recent
months as "a jungle of race
hatred and terror.”
Federal action regarding
Mississippi first was requested
by the NAACP in May after a
Negro minister _Jn Belzonl,
Miss., was shot and killed fol
lowing a warning to remove
his name from the list of re^s-
tered voters. This he refused
to do.
The Association again asked
for federal intervention in the
Mississippi situation earlier
this month when three Negro
residents of Lowndes County
received death threats through
the mail containing the phrase
“If you are tired of living, vote
and die.”
Catawba Baptists Pledge Support
In Struggle For Integration
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Because of the increased
amount of tension, the arising,
cdnflicting debates, and the re
cent upheavals caused by the
Supreme Court's antisegrega
tion Decision of May 17, 1954,
and because of certain unethi
cal attitudes taken on account
of this decision, the 1955 -ses
sion of the Mountain and Ca
tawba Missionary Baptist Sun
day School and ’Training Un
ion Conventions make the
following statement: '
Even in tjie infancy of the
Christian Church Peter had a
sort of discriminatory attitude
toward people of other races.
He did not want to mingle
with them nor have anytlifng
to do with them. Of course,
this attitude was wholly lui-
ones which Durham people
need and are entitled to have
will be rendered.
Christian and it was because of
this unfair policy that God
sent to him a vision of a sheet
descending frortf ‘ heaven,
whereupon were all manner of
creeping things and beasts of
the fields and birds of the
air. After being asked to speak
freely of them, Peter called
the sheet’s contents “vile and
unclean.” He was converted
from this attitude, however,
when the Voice which spoke to
him said, “What the Lord
hath made clean, call thou not
common or unclean.”
The United States has often
been referred to as a Christian
nation, founded upon the prin
ciple that “all men are created
equal.” Unfortunately, how
ever, much of Peter’s narrow
judgment still prevails in our
great land.
Individuals, groups, and
states are wrongfully discrimi
nating against others because
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DURHAM AND EAIiElOH, HOESH CABOUDfA
of the complexion of skin. An
untouchable attitude toward
dark-skinned individuals and
groups prevails, for there is
segregation in employment! in
business; and even among
children in state-supported tax
Khools-a fuagrant violation of
our Constitution.
We, th«! members of the
Meuntain and Catawba Bap
tist Sunday School and Train
ing Union Conventions, in
session at Statesville, North
Carolina, do hereby welcome
and uphold the Supreme
Court’s decision against such
unchristian and foolish prac
tices of segregation. We com
mend the Justices for their
Christian outlook and wil* in
every way abide by. their de
cision. ’
The only solution to the in
ward pain between the races
in our land can be found only
when, we begin to integrate-
not in part, but in full. Segre
gation is evil, unchristian,
harmful, and ungodly. Our
churches stand ready to fight
this evil with every possible^
Christian method.
We believe that only after
we are united in heart, mind,
tgid soul can we present a
Christian, democratic ap
proach to the tense world. “A
house divided against itsvlf-for
any reason-can not stand.” We
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