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■. . i' Motlier Of Slain Boy Not Spared From Mississippi Fury Thfi Cortina Time* U The Oldest And Widept Read Negro NewMpaper In The Tteo Ct&ciinoM, dteCan PAY NO MORE VOLUME 31 — NUMBER 39 DURHAM, NORTH CABOUNA, SATUBDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1955 PRICE: 10 CENTS NAACP In Dallas, Texas Hies Suit To End Jim Crow * * * * * *'. ★★★ *** * DELMASimnM nr. POST JAS. E. GAYLiE, new OR-1 Vjpntion meeting in Ellis Audi-1 the field of Christian Educa- hSANS, vms presented j toriwn, Memphis, Term- TW»| tion; Lvft to right, Jos. E. Chtp- the John L. Webb Achieve- award is given each year to le, honoree-Dr. L. F. Hardee, ment Award for 1955, at the the layman doing the most Waco, Texas, making the pre- National Baptist Laymen Con-1 outstonding church work in | sentation. 28 Negro Children In Dallas Seek Right To Attend School Nearest Their Home DALLAS, TEX. Twenty-eight Negro child ren in this city have aslced the United States District Court to restrain the Dallas school board from denying them tbe right at attend schools nearest their homes. Representing the children in this suit, filed on September 12, are U.S. Tate, NAACP southwest regional counsel, and NAACP attorneys W. J. DuriuuB, C. B. Bunkley, Jr., Louis Bedford, Kenneth Hoi- bert and J. L. Turner, Jr., of Dallas. Also Thurgood Mar- shall, iipecial counsel, and Re- bert L. Carter, assistant coun sel, of-the New York office. The con4>lalnt, filed in Judge William H. Atwell's court, aames as defendants Dr. Edwin L. Hippy, president of the board of trustees of the school district, eight other board members, the superin tendent of schools and six grade, Junior and senior Idgh school principals. It asks for a hearing before a three-judg^ federal court. In addition to seeking an in- jimction restraining the school board “from denying or re fusing to plaintiffs the right and privilege of entering, and attending classes, and receiv ing instruction at . the public school within the Dallas inde pendent school district which is nearest their home,” the pe- pitioners asked for a declara tory judgment invalidating the Texas statues requirixtg segr«- (Please turn to Page Bight) IICKEIS600NSA1EF0RR01AND HAYES RECITAL OCTOBER fTH RALEIGH Tickets went on sale this week all over eastern and central North Carolina for the Roland Hayes recital to be held in Raleigh next month. Hayes appearance here will be under the auspices of the In terdenominational Udma A»- socie\tion of North Carolina for the benefit of, its Charity fund, including the Oxford Colored Orphanage, the home for aged ministers and ushers and scholarship fund. In Durham' where Charles Harris, a former accompanist of Mr. Hayes lives, he had the following to say of the noted singer: Roland Hayes who sings in Mimicipal Auditorium under "le auspices of the United Ushers Union on Sunday October the 9th, is perhaps the world’s greatest singer of the- past generation. He has car ried to his art the most pain staking thought and. penetra tion of which genius is made. Every sentence and phrase of his songs get the utmost in subtle care. Every word re ceives it’s conc^trated image ry, t One has only to review his criticisms wliich have been written since the year 1.02S to ROLAND HAYES the prewnt to learn just how he moved the critics to write in profound superlatives. No general terms could be used In a criticism of a Hayes recital. His unusual singing stirred them to write in lofty phrase ology. What is the secret of this ar tist’s long hold on his public? What does he have that most singers lack? Others have worked just as asstduosly to reach the heights-rebuffs, dis- ^ppotntments, discotmtge. (Please turn to Page Kight) Diggs At Trial Of Lynciiers In Mississippi SUMNER, MISS. Among the interested on- the-spot spectators at the so- caUed “wolf whistle” murder trial which began in this town, located in the heart of a rich farming district-, is Itep. Charles C. Diggs, Detroit, gan. The Negro solon sent in his card to the presiding judge and was immediately given a place at the segregated Negro press table, "niere is no con gressional iinmimity from prejudice in Mississippi. Disclaiming any official con nection with the trial, Diggs said he was here as an observer. However, an associate said tliat Diggs would air his views on the Till case, (which was called lynching in pre-trial statemei^)v ■at s^|»e8s'*«>rif^reiwe-he^’plans to hold. Diggs was met by a delegation from Mound Bayou, an all-Ne gro Community. Prior to his coming the Negro congressman wired Circuit Judge Swango that he intended to appear at the trial as an observer and was bringing two attorneys with him. Dairy, Cattle Show Set For September 23rd The Annual Junior Dairy Cattle Show sponsored by the Business Firms of Durham will be held Friday, September 23 beginning at nine o’clock a. m. and lasting until 1 o’clock p.m. at the Durham County Home on Roxboro Road. Participants in tlie Show will come from Orange and Durham Counties. The Vocational Agricultural Teachers and Farm Agents of these Counties are responsi ble for the management and supervision of the Show. They are training the boys and girls to fit and show their anlmala. Cash awards are -to be pre sented to each exhibitor on the Show Ground. Registration for the show will be from 9:00 until 9:45 Friday morning. At 9:45 a de- inonstration and instructions on milk will be given by Mrs. E: T. Nixon, home demonstra tion agent for Durham County. Judging will begin at ten o’clock by W. W. Fitzpatrick, manager of Quail Roost Farms. Presentation of prizes and awards will be by O. F. Wells, manager of the local Sears Roebuck Store. ''From 12:15 to 1:00 the par ticipants will be honored at a barbeque luncheon by the N. C. Mutual Life Insurance Company. Members of the Durham County Committee are: L. D. Lomon, J. L. Moffie, and J. C. Hubbard. Members of the Or ange County Committee are J. M- Uurlree, M. C. Burt and R. D. Smith. Sh^rUy Temple James, pic tured ;^bowe. North Carolina College junior, has been com missioned by the Winston Mu tual Insurance Company to edit a Negro history booklet which will be published dur ing Negro Histi/jy Week in ‘56. The work tuill feature nrticles by outstanding authorities. A native of Jamestown, N. C., Miss James is editor of the Campus Echo, the North Caro lina 'College student paper. Physician Dies While Visiting Children In Mich. DETROIT Dr.. Sterling F. Hogans, 57, physician of CJiarlotte, North Carohna, died of a heart at tack here Sunday night while visiting his daught^ and son of this citys Dr. Hogans be came ill last Sunday only three days before his death, but was not thought to be in serious danger. His daughter is Mrs. Gwen dolyn Hogans Bates, and his son is Sterling F. Hogans, Jr., his wife Mrs. Nora Belle Ho gans resides in Charlotte where she lived with her hus band at 409 Beatty's Ford Rd. Another daughter, Mrs. Rose- mond Cox resides in Durham. Mrs. Cox is the wife-of Geo. W. Cox, Jr., and Mrs. Bates is the wife of Hubert A. Bates of (Please txim to Page Eight) i: f— iiiif spEim now rps CENT OF W.VA. STATE COLLEGE INSTITUTE W. VA. In the mountains of West Virginia at West Virginia State College, integration has be come an accepted fact, a real ity which points to the col lege as a new cradle of demo cracy, as is pointed out in the October issue of COLOR. The state-supported school, located at Institute, 10 miles from Charleston, the state capital, is no longer a school for Negroes as 40% of the col lege student community is white. Last fall, 182 white students enrolled at the college (petting an unexpected reverktt in in tegration. But since ihen the enrollment of 212 additional Caucasians has brou^t the non-colored group of Irtudents to 394. TTie total college en rollment is 1,071. ' So completely have(^the two groups of wtiite (394) and Ne gro (677) student merged in to forgetting racial barriers the Dean of Men James Kel ly said of the whites, “They have lost their identity. We don’t know they are here.” Edward Dudley Gets Domestic Relations G>urt Appointment MRS. PATTERSON Last Rites Hejd Mrsi Patterson Here Tuesday F^eral services were held for Mrs. Jeanette McMillan Patterson, the daughter of ihc late William and Su&an Mc Millan, at the Covenant Pres byterian Church on Iiincoln St., Tuesday, Sept. 20, at 3:30 p.m. Mrs. Patterson died on Friday, September 16. at Lin coln Hospital. The funeral sermou was preached by the Rev. J. A. Cannon, newly elected assis- (Please turn to Page Eight) Mississippians Heap Insults, Threats On Mrs. Bradley As Slayers’Trial Gets Underway SUMNER, MISS. Deep-seated race hatred without feeling or pity and di-' abolically inhumane has spent its fury upon a bereaved Ne gro mother even as she grieved for her fourteen-year old son whose battered and weighted body was fished out of the Tal lahatchie River a few days ago. The boy, Emmett Till had been shot and bludgeoned by parties who weighted . it down in the vain hope that the bru tal crime would go undetected. Two white men are now on trial charged with murdering the lad. ' On trial are half brothers, Roy Bryant, 24, and J. W. Mi lam, 36. The state charged that they kidnapped young Till from the home of an Un cle he was visiting at Money, Mississippi and killed him for insulting the wife of Biyant at their country store. The boy is alleged to have given the “Wolf whistle” after leaving the store. The men admit taking Young Till from his uncle’s bouse, but they deny killing him. They say that they releas ed him unharmed. Mrs. Mamie Bradley, mo-1 ther of the dead boy, stated Tuesday that she had received 2,000 letters since her boy was killed many of them “threat ening and foul.”’ And such let ters have come at a time, when the impulse of decency in hu man nature has been withered so badly by the flames of pre judice that the sympathy due a heart-broken mother has been denied by their authors and instead a sorrowing mo ther has become the object of threats and abuse. These “threatening and foul” letters probably express the purpose of some persons to de feat the ends of justice by in timidating a mother who scheduled to be called a: prosecuting witness and to testify that the body found was that of her son, and to break her determination to sra the perpetrators of the deed pun ished. Local authorities are said to have speculated that the body fotmd was not Mrs. Bradley’s, son. Mrs. Bradley, who flew from Chicago to Mnnphls and continued her trip by auto to Sumner, wore mourning black (Please turn to Page Eight) 'Solicitor' Does Well Until He Tries Cop's Home WASHINGTON. D. C. Maybe Clarence C. Johnson will take more care in picking the home he contacts if ever again he goes on a fraudulent collecting spree to raise money for needy fellowmen he had no intention of helping. The enterprising gentleman, if he might be called that, either typed or had typed for himself credentials which stated that was authorized to collect money for needy fami lies in the flood areas. It was an easy way to make a fast buck. And it was until Johnson contacted the wrong home. He ran into Pvt. Conroy, a polled man, when he called at his home and asked his wife for a donation. Not satisfied with the typewritten statement (Please turn to Page Ei^t) JJEW YORK In spite of pleas from the NAACP, the New York Times and numerous religious and civic organizations of New York City, Mayor Robert F. Wagner announced this week the appointment of Edward R. Dudley to the vacancy created by the ending of Judge Huliert F. Delany’s term on the bench of the Domestic Reia- tions Court on August 31. Judge Delaney is a native of Raleigh, North Carolina and Dudley is from Roanoke, Vir ginia. Announcement of the ap pointment came after the NAAC:!’ Board of DirecttMV had sent a tel^cnun to the Ma yor strongly urging him to (•- appoint Judge Ddany and as suring him that “the NAACP believes there is one better qualified and giv^ its fuU m^p^ to .fDOgat Duc^y, former United Sta tes Ambassador to Liberia, is now NAACP special assistant in charge of the Fight for Freedom Fund. Prior to his State- Department ment by former President Truman, he had served tm the NAACP legal staff as first as sistant special counsel. In ad dition to his work with the NAACP and the State Depart- moit, he has served as assis tant Attorney General of the State of New York ana coun sel to the Governor of the Vir gin Islands. The New York Times whi,.h recommended reapp jir.ra= of Judge Delany and wliich expressed regret that tiie . i... or failed to do so ceir.meni.u as follows on Mr. D.j.ile;'; ‘There is no apparent ■vt-.icu to suppose that he w make a good judge after ht has had some exDiiie. ^e L. this difScult post.” White Man Fined $15.00 For Old Fort Assault ' OLD FORT A 30-year old white m«n who on Thursday, SeptembM' 1, made an unprovoked sault on Albert Joyner, Ne gro, after the latter had at tempted to register five Ne gro children at the local white elementary school, told May or W. L. Dalton of Old Fort, Monday, September 19, that the attack had nothing to do with Joyner's registration efforts, or attempt to buck lo cal Mgiegation customs. However, W. W. Amey, Jr., a railroad worker, pleaded guilty to the affray and as sault charges and Ifayor Dal ton fined him $15 and costs. Albert Joyner, 30, Megro hospital attendant, who enter ed a not guilty plea to a chargM of affiray, was acquitted. Both men were arrested M- lowing an invectigatiaa Into an altercation on the town’s main street here September 1. Warrants ^ charging absy against the two men wit* sworn out by poUee Ctkiai WiUiam Autry, fallowing hi* inveatii^tloB into the tilagad (Please tuna to 4
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