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NAACP May Adopt Bus Boycott Example
Group Said
VOLUME 3S—NUMBEB 85 DUBHAM, NOBTH CABOUNA, SATURDAY, APBIL 7, 1»S6 PBICE: TEN CENTS
Pray Against Prejudice
Ten Million Join In
Prayer Day Movement
NEW YORK
An estimated ten mllUoa per
sons throughout the world of
fered prayers last Wednesday
for “deliverance from the evils
of race prejudice,” it was re
ported here Thursday by the
Rev. O. D. Dempssy, executive
secretary of the Natonal De
liverance Day of Prayer Move
ment.
The Movement, initiated by
the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell,
Jr., clergyman-congreasman of
this city, was supported by the
NAACP.
The March '28 prayer-protest
observance was formulated by
Powell immediately after near
ly 100 Negroes' were arrested In
Montgomary, Ala.,, for their
leadership of a maw protest
against racial dlscrimiiMtion on
city buses. The arrests o^urred
last month. —
The world-wide prayer obser
vance on March 28 emphasized
th% Montgomery bus protest*
Thousands of ^llars collected
in tl^ meetiags ars,Mng^««o^to
MontgoiB^ry to fa%lp financql a
^r-pool which makes It possible
tor the Negroes of that dty to
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MBS.
Last Rites For
Mrs. C. B. Noel
Are Conducted
Sudden death claimed Mrs.
Beatrice L. Noel last Sattirday
morning, March 31. She died at
her home at 414 Cecil St. in
Durham shortly after complain
ing of a chest pain.
Funeral services were held at
the White Rock Baptist Church
Wednesday at four o’clock. Rev.
M. M. Fisher, pastor of the
church, officiated.
Mrs. Noel was bom In Dur
ham, daughter of the late Oscar
and Minerva Womack. She re
ceived her education in the
city’s public schools and at the
North Carolina Chatauqua
Training school.
Very active in White Rock
Baptist church where she ser
ved as a member since her early
youth, Mrs. Noel belonged to
the Pals Sunday school class, the
Minerva Womack Mission Cir
cle and was lender of District
12 of the church.
Married in 1923 to Charlie
B. Noel, the couple bore two
children, a son and daughter,
both of whom survive.
In addition to her husband
and children. Miss Margaret A.
Noel and -Charlie B. Noel, Jr.,
Mrs. Noel is survived by four
sisters, Mrs. Essie Trice, Mr%
MinervAiT Evans, Mrs. Rosetta
Southerland and Mrs. Ametta
Barnes, all of Durham, and two
brothers, Manohor.and Clarence
Womack.
Interment was at Be«chwood
cematery.
PHndpals in tbe annual North Caroliaa NAACP Political Action meeting are sliown
discussing Begistratlpn and Vote Canq^aign at a recent Bale^h meeting wlien ZOO workers
galfaiMred f«««i mw the p4iUc^ Mtian. Cvi lUiaW-Univ-
etsity sociologist, ■ shown Ming queried on pfocedufe oy State i^c% FriBgtmiif Mtf. ftnth
H. Morgan as Henry L. Moon, national ^lublic relations director for the NAACP, looks
on. State NAACP chief Kelly M. Alexander and l^al chairman C. O. Pearson are interested
observers. (J. B. Barren Photo).
THAT CAPITALISTIC OLD NAACP
EDITOB’S NOTE: The following was printed as an editorial in the Cheraw (South
Carolina) CRBONICLE forjfarch 22:
Many white people, in th^ anger, confunon, and fear foUo^ng the Supreme Courfs
segregation ruling, have lashed out against the NAACP as a “communist organization.”
It is important that people understand more fully the nature of the NAACP in order
that some sort of solution to this problem can be reached. Failure to understand will
hurt the South’s position and bring about difficult complications.
, The vast majority of white people in th* South disagree with the Supreme Court rul
ing and disagree with the aims of the NAACP. Certainly Southern white people have just
as much right to work for a lawful reversal of . Court’s ruling as Negroes had to work for
the separate-but-equal doctrine, which was the law for about 50 years.
However, the South’s position Hinton, state president of the the Church and Christianity.
is not helped by careless accu
sation. It is simply not true that
the NAACP is a communist-in-
spired organization. Do most of
us know what communism real
ly is?
It is a philosophy of govern
ment, whereby all property is
owned by the state in a tightly-
regimented, state - controlled
economy. Communism, as prac
ticed In the World today, be
lieves that the individual exists
for the state. There is no person
al freedom and no interest in in
dividual, human rights. It’s a
brutal dictatorship in which the
citizen has no right to property,
religious belief, private thought,
or conscience.
Now keep that in mind while
we tell you of a speech in
Cheraw last Sunday by James
NAACP. Mr. Hinton was re
minding his people of their per
sonal responsibilities. Here is
some of his advice to Negroes:
1. Save your money and buy
yourself some land, so you can
provide for yourself and yom-
lamily.
2. Then invest your money
and amass more capital, so you
can build yourself a decent
house to live in.
i|3. Send your children to
school, so they can get the best
possible education.
4. Study the issucfs of the day
so you can understand them,
and then exercise your right,
privilege and responsibilities as
citizens of - America by voting.
5. Always put your trust in
the Lord and never lose faith in ' Marx’ Communist Manifesto?
6. Never resort to violence,
disorder and lawlessness. As a
member of the NIAACP, you
will always reiy upon due pro
cess of law, through the courts
of the land.
Now whoever heard of a com
munist ever asking his follow
ers to buy land, save and invest
money, build a privately-owned
home, or set up a private busi
ness? Whoever heard of a com
munist urging his listeners to
put their faith and trust in God,
or to avoid violence and make
their fight through the duly-
constituted courts?
Now in all fairness, no matter
how much you may disagree
with the NAACP, does Mr. Hin
ton’s talk have the ring of Carl
Considering Use
Of Technique
Passive resistance, ds typi
fied in Ihe now famous Mont
gomery bus boycott, would af
ford the NAACP a good weapon
for counter-attack, declared
Frank L. Stanley, editor and
publisher of the Louisville De
fender last week.
Following his ad&ress in
Durham last Friday night to the
Alpha Phi Alpha regional con
vention, Stanley made this ob
servation to newsmen on Con
gressman Powell’s recent im
plication that the NAACP was
seriou^y Considering adopting
the technique as one of its wea
pons in the struggle for com
plete enfranchisement of the
American Negro. Powell, said
in New York Ifist week that the
NAACP had been deeply im
pressed by the boycott.
“The' Montgomery boycott is
a number one' example of pro
testing, perhaps the best known
example of racial solidarity,”
Stanley staled. A first hand ot>-
server at th* recent trial of boy
cott leaders in Montgomery,
Stanley noted that “surprisingly
there is a total absence of racial
tension in the city. Negroes
don't seem to be mad at any
body.”
“Negroes have the bus com
pany licked. Ifltlie boycott were
settled next week in a manner
acceptable to ttCe boycotters, the
bus company wpuld still fail to
regain a large portion of its for
mer Negro pati»ns,” he de^
dared.
The veteran newsman also
predicted a victik’y for Eisen
hower in the coming presiden
tial elections and stated that ii>
tegration in public schools in his
home state of Kentucky had
been a success. About 40 per-
■ei^gated, ■ he estimated and
asserted that by the Fall, inte
gration would bt complete. All
of this has been accomplished
Without incident, he added.
Commenting on the status of
present day race relations in the
South, Stanley remarked that it
is a sad thing that the southern
white man refuses to believe
that the drive for full eitiaea-
shlp by Negroes is home grown.
“Most southerners fallacious
ly believe that the notions of
political equality were placed in
the minds of Negroes by out
siders,” he opined.
General president of Alpha
fraternity, Stanley revealed that
his newspaper, the Louisville
Defender, supported Stevenson
In the last presidential election,
but averred that it is uncertain
at this point as to which can
didate it will support.
Noting that Stevenson polled
nearly 90 percent of the Negro
vote in 1952, he t flered the view
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Durham was the scene last ^week-end of the Southeastern Regional meetfaig «f the
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. Frank L. Stanley, president of the fraternity, is shown hen
(center) chatting with North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company President W. J.
Kennedy as the Alphas tourned the Mutual’s Home Office during their stay lwi«r At ex
treme left is L. O. Swingler of Memphis, Tennessee, regional viw president of the orgaai-
tion. Stanley delivered the main address at public meeting of the fraternity held at Mt.
Vernon Baptist Church. The week-end convention was spiced with a round of social
activities, capped with a formal dance held at the Durham Armory on Friday night.
Demos Asked To Act
Now On Civil Rights
WASHINGTON, D. C.
Di^mocrats have been urged
anew by party mepibers in Con-
-gresB this week to push theit
own civil rights program since
the widUy heralded civil rights
program of the Eisenhower ad-
mini^teEition was not sent 19
Smithfield Cleric To Deliver Annual
Sennon At Mid-Year Session
OXFORD
When tbe 32 annual Mid-Year
session of Interdenomiiuitional
Ushers Association of Notth
Carolina convenes at the OxArd
Colored Orphanage here Sun
day, April 8, the largest delega
tion and number of visitors ever
to attend is expected, according
to L. B. Austin, president of ti>e
organization.
Plans for the meeting have
been going qp for the past seve
ral months and according to re
ports from the Orphanage every
thing possible has been done to
make the one-day session a
grand success. Dinner will be
served in the institution’s din
ing room at 1:30 p.m. Prepara
tions have been made to serve
600 guests. Approximately 400
more persons are expected to
eat in the city of Oxford or
bring lunches with them.
For the past IS or more years
the Ushers Association has been
making an annual donation to
the Orphanage of from |1,200 to
16,000. This year’s annual Mid-
Year session at the institution
will mark the second time the
Orphanage jias acted as its host.
The session will be presided
over by the president, assisted
by Vice President C. A. Langs
ton of Raleigh. Reports from all
usher unions throughdut the
state will be made for the Or
phanage and Educational fund
as well as for the proposed
Ministers and Ushers Home.
Highlighting the session will
be the annual Mid-Year sermon
which will be preached by the
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ToSpeali
Miss Anne Queen, College
Secretary of the American
Friends Service Committee, will
speak at North Carolina Col
lege’s vesper services Sunday
evening at 4:30.
Described as a vigorous cru-
sader^or human ri^ts and mili
tant foe of segregation and re
ligious bigotry, Miss Queen is
a native of Canton, N. C.
Special Services
For New Pastor
Are Underway
Installation exercises for the
Reverend H. Albert Smith, Pas
tor of the Shady Hill Baptist
Church here, will end Sunday
afternoon, April 8th, with a ser
vice which will feature the Rev
E. T. Browne, pastor of the Mt
Vernon Baptist Church, Dur
ham, as speaker. Music will be
furnished by a Choral Group of
the church, the name of which
as not been announced. The ser
vices will begin at 3:30 p.m.
Nine churches and five minis
ters have participated in the
exercises during the past week,
which began Wednesday night,
April 2.
The participating churches
have .been the Lawson Chapel
Baptist Church, Jones Chapel
Baptist Church, Gospel Taber
nacle Holiness Church, Old Mt.
Zion Baptist Church, Prospect
Baptist Church. Mill Hill Bap
tist Church, Queens C^hapel
A.M.E. Church, New Mt. Zion
Baptist Chvuxh and the First
Baptist Church.
Preaching during the week
were the Rev. V. R. Booker,
Rev. L. L. Wilson, Rev. BU
Thompson, Rev. A. J. Holman
Rev. S. L. Suitt.
Pressures -tor Democratic
sponsored civO rights legislation
came this week from Rep. James
Roosevelt (D.-Cal.) and Sena
tor Thomas C. Hennings, Jr.,
(D.-Mo.)
Last week, the Eisenhower
administration- announced a
three point civil rights proposal
which it intended to submit to
Congress. Days later, however,
the proposal was not submitted,
and it was stated that it was
being held out for revision.
Roosevelt wants Democrats to
act immediately—April 10th to
be exact—when the House re
turns from its Ei&ster vacation.
Roosevelt accuses the Adminis
tration of breaking its promises
on civil rights program though
the Justice Dept, had said one
would be ready early in Feb.
“What political game is being
played at the expense of the
rights of so many American
citizens,” asks the eldest son of
the late President. “If the effort
to enact civil rights legislation
fails this year, the blame must
rest wholly on the lack of lea
dership and program by the Ei
senhower Administration,” said
Roosevelt.
Senator Thomas C. Hennings,
urged the Eisenhower Adminis
tration to place its full support
behind four civil rights bills re
ported favorably on February
9, 19S6 by the Senate Subcom
mittee on Constitutional Rights
of which he is Chairman. These
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Sorority Cancels
Dance To Aid
'Rights' Walk
NEW YORK
Roy Wilkins, NAACP execu
tive secretary, i^’riday expres3el
Uie nupe that an action Liiken Ly
wj sorority chapters in this
city would be widely udopted
by other group.s.
Two, iirooidyu chapters of Al
pha Kappa Alpha sorority voted
recently to cancel plans for
their spring formal in order to
divert approximately $1,000 in
dance taxes to civil rights work
in the South.
Wilkins was informed of the
move by Mrs. Mitrjorie E. Mor-
sell of Brooklyn, co-chairman of
the group’s formal dance com
mittee. In a letter thanking Mrs.
Morsell, the NAACP official
told her that “funds are needed
now to carry on urgent NAACP
work in the Soufi.”
A communicatio.i ir?
Morsell had said her group “felt
ance Company here, a pioneer Negroes were walk-
WALTEB HORNSBY
Georgia Pioneer
Dies Suddenly
AUGUSTA, Ga.
Walter Spurgeon Hornsby Sr.,
prominent Augusta leader, died
suddenly last Tuesday, March
27, of a heart attack.
Hornsby was president and
last surviving co-founder of the
Pilgrim Health and Life Insiir-
organlzation in the southeast.
He and four others establish
ed the company 58 years ago. It
presently claims nearly nine
million dollars in assets and
maintains more than 55 million
dollars of insurance in force.
Hornsby was a former presi
dent of the National Insurance
Association and of the Georgia
Chamber of Commerce, member
of the advisory committee of the
Gwirmett St. Branch of the
Georgia Railroad Bank and
Trust company and a partner in
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ing to work in Montgomery,
Alabama, while Negroes were
being shot and killed while try
ing to vote in Mississippi, and
were being bomt>ed and thrown
out oi work in South Carolina,
this was hardly the time to be
dancing in New York.”
The formal resolution of the
sorority chapters stated: “We,
the sorors of the Brooklyn
Chapters of Alpha Kappa Alpha,
do here and now forego all in
terest in. or concern with a for
mal dance in this crucial year
of another Idnd of enumcipation
for Negroes.” '
Planners for the publications workshop to be held at
North Carolina College on April 29 are shown hare. Seated
are Shirley James, e^tor of the CAMPUS ECHO, NCC stu
dent newspaper, and Walter Davis, student publicatioBS
manager. Standing are C. B. Stanback and H. G. D*wsmi,
advisors.
Shaw Day To Be
Held April tth
The Durham City Junior Mis
sionary Union is emphasixiBg
Shaw University, Baptist School,
this month at White Rock, 3:00
p.m.
The regular Second Sunday
Meeting will be given over to a
Shaw Inspirational Program as
a guiding light to the young peo
ple of Durham.
Miss Eva Mtrritt, a Shaw
graduate, will give the inspira
tional message. Miss Merritt is
from First Calvary Church.
Other highlights the prograsa
wiU be solo» by Misses Martha
Thom peon. Union Baptist Chur
ch and Minnie Davis. White
Rock Baptist Church.
Tbe public is urged to be pce-
sant,p articularly tha Jualon.