SEGREGATKXI Wr OKE ilK
VOLUME 22 — NUMBER IT
DUBHAM, N. C., SATUBDAT, APSII^^19S6
PBICE TEN CENTS
GOP Official Says
Party Backs Court
Washingon Hits
Adlai, Demos In
Durham Speech
The Republican party intend*
to “enforce the Supreme Court
decision” and “makt the Con
stitution work lor all citizens in
eVery article and amendment."
This promise was made here
last Sunday by one of the par
ty's top officials before some SOO
persons at Mt. Vernon Baptist
church Sunday. The occasion
was the regular meeting of the
Durham NAACP chapter.
In a speech sanctioned by El
senhower, Val Washington, di
rector of minoritieB fDr the Re
publican National Committee,
attaciied the liberal record of
Adlai Stevenfion and the Demo
cratic party, took note of the
fact cludrmanships of key Sen
ate and House committees were,
held by conservative, southern
democrats, and cited the record
of the Republican party on civil
rights 84 proof ttat It to _
concerned with the rights at lifl-’ 'WWrtWSp''
R. O. Everett, veteran Dur
ham lawyer aM former chair
man of the County Boa/^. of
nor^ee than the Democratio
party.
Wastiington also took passing
swipes at what he considered
misconception of the party, its
alleged concern for wealth an(^
big business, its conservatisini
and its stigma of being the par
ty of d^ressions. He termed
sented the record of the present
administration an proof of its
untruth.
He accused Stevenson of
demagoguery, of "talking out of
both sides of his mouth” on the
race issue, and declared that
“thousands of his followers,
both colored and white, were
sadly disillusioned by his gyra
tions” on the civil rights issue.
“On the civil rights isaue,
when the c/iips are down, he
has gone to the right of the Su
preme Court and become the
most conservative of conserva^
tives,'' Washington asserted.
Washington, who said hlA
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Budget Naming
Of 3 Bishops On
AMEZ Agenda
PITTSBXmGH, Pa.
Some 11,000 delegates and|
visitors plan to attend the 30th
quadrennial general conference
of the AME Zion Church May
2-16, at the Wesley Center AME
Zion Church, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Major features of the general
conference will be the study
and introduction of~i denomi
national budget for both home
~and foreign missions expansion
and the faction of three bishops
to fill vacancies created by
death during the past four years.
Civil rights will also have aq:
important part in the conference
discussion and will influence
the plans of - the denomination
for future action to assure the
fulfillment of the recent Su
preme Court’s decision for inte
gration of public schools. For
the past 160 years, the AMB
Zion Church has been known as
the Negro’s Freedom Church
and no conference is complete
without thorough exploration of
the current issue. Present-day
Zion leaders follow closely iq
the footsteps of such well-
known leaders of the past as
Frederick Douglas, Sojoumev
Truth and Harriet ’Tubman, all
of whom were members of the
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week by the Durham Committee
on Negro Affair* for "many »er-
vice* to the people of Durham...
for the post half century." Atty.
Everett is teen receiving a cita
tion from Dr. C. E. Boulware,
executive tecretary of the com
mittee. Looking on are J. S.
t.
ittee, tiftreme left, a
son O'. Sverett, second from
right, ton of Atty. Everett.
Everett recently resigned his
poet as chairman of the board of
elections. The citation took note
of the many elective positions
Everett has held and comment-
id that he had “furthered thcf
:n- ‘clJuST’# TfetfctSWro other pr«61«m wUb th»auggM-
spect for the najesiy o4 tW
law, and advanced the cause sS
democracy in our time
White Named
HampfonlanOf
Year In N. C.
BRICKS
Nathaniel B. White, a vicc
president of the national alumni
association of Hampton Insti
tute, was electe^ Saturday the
outstanding Hampton Alumnus
of the,.year in North Carolina.
The selection was made by
a special committee selected by
the state president of the asso
ciation.
New state officers of the as
sociation were also elected at
the meeting of the alumn^
group. Mrs. Janie T. Newsome
was named president and Isaac
Rogers, James T. Johnson, Mrs.
Audrey Robinson and Mrs. Lau
ra Thompson were named first,
second, third and fourth vice
presidents, respectively.
’The selection of the outstand-i
ing alumnus of the year in the
state was made on the basis of
points awarded for various f«-
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How It Came About ^
Compliance And
Usual Protesb
State of South CMroUna) that 1 get up and get up now. In
County of Richland ) order to avoid confusion I rang
Sarah Flemings, being duly the bell to get off at Washing-
sworn deposes and says: ton Street. As I followed two
1. That she resides 1107 Page other passengers toward the
Street, in the City ot Columbia, front door I was asked by the
County of- Richland. State ot operator to use the back door at
South Carolina. ' the same time I was struck by
2. That she was struck by the the operator. After getting off
operator of a South Carolina the bus I called Mrs. Tokunaga
Gas and Electric Company bus and related to her the incident,
while enroute to Rose Hill sec- She in turn asked that I not re-*'
tion of Columbia on June 22, port for work. Then I called the
1994, on or about 0:00 a.m. The South Carolina Gas and Electric
above incident occurred on Company, the person answering
Main Street between the streets the i^one stated that he would
of Taylor and Washington. see the driver upon his return.
3. The below facto I swear After this I went home and up-
to be true. I boarded the Rose on feeling ill I went to the
Hill bus at the comer of Taylor emergency room at Columbia
and Main Streets at which time Hospital. Or. Deal examined me
there were no seats vacant, along with the South Carolina
When a seat became vacant 1 Gas and Electric Coihpany doc-
MISS SABA FLEMING
proceeded to take this seat. The tor. He stated all I needed to do son, at which time he made a
operator of the bus asked if I was to apply ice packs to my check of me then gave me some
could not wait until the person adomen. After following his in- capsules. He alsj requested that
was out of the seat before sit- structions and without any re- I remain in bed for two or three
ting down. He also demanded suits I called Dr. E. P. Steven- days.
Roy Wlikln»
The Supreme Court’s rrfi—I
to hear an appeal from a k>w«r
court’s ruling on segregation to
public transportation Monday*
has been interpreted in many;
quarters as the final “no” to
southern advocates of segrcfpi-
tion who are attempting to gst
the court to reconsider its dc
cision in the public schools i
NAACPHead Says He
Did ISol Endorse GOP
NEW YORK
’The NAACP policy is firmly
non-partisan and tiis CiiicagO
speech of April 11 was not a
call to Negro voters to support
thy Republican party, it was de
clared here last Friday by Roy
Wilkins, executive secretary.
“The exact text of the Chicar
go remarks was not published,
but instead interpretations weref
used,” WUIdns said. "A small
section of the speech dealt with
the fact that Senator James O.
Eastland of Mississippi is now
chairman af the Senate Judici
ary ComiOfttee and voters were
called upon to-oensider this and
tion that if nece.ssary we might
help our brothers in the South
by the way we vote in the
North.
“The NAACP is firmly non
partisan. That policy will be
continued and observed by me.
The civil rights issue is squarely
in the national political spot
light and every statement upon
it is viewed politically by par
tisans of both major parties,”
Wilkins said.
We run a risk whenever we
urge any type of action on this
issue, but it is a risk we take
without giving allegiance to
either party. We believe it our
duty to keep pojnding for civil
rights, seeking action by both
parties on the bills now before
Congress,” he added.
Durham Pastor To Be lionored By
Church For 35 Years Tenure
A special service celebrating observed each year at Easter,
MRS. DOROTHY A. BABNBS
MISS SAKAB DOTSON.
Goldsboro Woman Will
As League Marks 13th Year
Speak
’The Housewives’ League of
Durham will take note of its
13th year with an observance
at the Mt. Vernon Baptist Sun
day.
A special program has been
planned for the observance.
starting at three o’clock Sunday
at the chiirch, according to Miss
Sarah Dotson, president of the
league.
Mrs. Dorothy A. Barnes, pro
minent Goldsboro business wo-
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Mrs. Daisy .rjompfcin, second
from left, dellrered the princi-
Tpal address at a Women’s Day
program held at St. Joseph’s
AMS Church in Durham tost
Sunday. Mrs. Lcmpkin is a lonff*
time hijrh official of the NAACP Lampkin, Mrs. Lyda Merrick,
and vice president of the Pitts
burg Courier. Others seen in the
picture are, left to right, Mrs.
B.A.J. Whitted, chairman of the
Women’s Day committee, Mrs.
Mrs. Albert Turner, Mrs. Jose
phine Stravhome and Rev. D.
A. Johnston, pastor at St. Jo
seph.
Ihoun Fund
Takes Form As
Planners Meet
Students, faculty, and alumni
at North Oarolina College have
formed a committee to send
hurdler Lee Calhoun to the
Olympic tryouts in Los Angeles
next month.
At an organizational commit
tee meeting in NCC President
Alfonso Elder’s Conference)
Room over the week-end si
chairman, treasurer, and solicit
tation group were set in motion.
Upon the recommendation o^
Alumnus A. M. Rivera, Jr., a
mammoth rally climaxing witl^
bands, choral music, majorettes,
and all the trappings of an ex
travaganza will highlight a
special Lee Calhoun Day.
The committee's goal is 91,
800. Charles A. Bay, NCC News
chief, is chairman. William'
Jones, college business manager,
is treasurer of the group.
Officially named the North
Carolina College at Durban^
Calhoun Committee, the group
will accept checks, money or
ders or cash. Jones will be re
sponsible for alUfunds collected.
He is bonded.
Working with Rivera in plan
ning the mammoth rally is a
committee with faculty mem
bers Mrs. Willa Woods Lewia
and James E. Parker, and Miss
Josephine Long, president of tlie
off-campus women’s council.
Miss Long is a Durham resident.
At midweek, the committee
said it liad the endorsement of
R. “Bus'’ Holmes, national
alumni head and several noted
friends of NCC including
Charles H; Cash, Jr., promotion
director at Television Station
WTVD.
Students Christopher Rey
nolds and Miss Joan Burt are
among the committee’s policy
planners.
Student Government Leade*
W. Sherman Perry said the pro
ject had the "unquaUfled sup
port of the Student Govern
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the thirty-fifth anniversary of
the Reverend T. C. Graham as
’IMMer of the ^est Durham Bai^
tist Church will l>e held on Sun
day, April 20, at 11:00 ajn.
Slated to speak for the occa
sion is Dr. J. Neal Hughley, pro
fessor of economics and coUegei
minister at North Carolina Col
lege.
Rev. Graham became pastor
of the church here in 1921, com-
ing from the Poplar Spring Bap
tist Church, Wilkes County. At
the time, the membership, num
bering between 60 and 70, was
worshipping in a small wooden
building with a xeating capacity
of 150.
From the tin-.e Rev. Graham
took charge. Mile local church
has made steady progress. Its
present membersip totals 500
persons who worship each Sun
day in a beautiful structure
built in 1924.
In 1940, a .pacious education
building was erected to care
for the needs of a growing
Church School. Both buildings
were brick veneered in 1947.
The value of the present plant
is estimated to be $150,000.
One at the best organized
churches in the city, the West
Durham Church sponsors a vi
gorous program of religious edu
cation, training its members in
an understanding and apprecia
tion of the teachings of the
Bible.
Stress has been laid particu
larly on Christian stewardship,
so that the church is financed
strictly along biblical lines-by
free will offeringb and tithing'
with four special offering days
Homecoming, Thanksgiving and
Christmas.
REV. T. C. GRAHAM
The Rev. Mr. Garham is a
member of the otanford L. War
ren Public Library board' of
trustees and chairman of the
Ordaining Council of the E^st
Cedar Grove Missionary Baptist
Association. In past years, he
served the Ministers Alliance as
president, treasurer and secre
tary.
Nineteen ytai? ago, he be
came the pastor of the Mount
Calvary Baptist Church, Ba
hama. He built the present
sanctuary of that church in
1939 and, durinR the forties,
built its educatic: plant.
In 1948, Shaw University
conferred on Rev. Graham the
Doctor of Divinity degree in re
cognition of bis outstanding
work and achievement.
The court dismissed In tea
words an appeal from a U.S.
Court of Appeals deciab>a In
Richmond, Va., tiiat segre^ti^
on intrastate buses violatai the
fedexal constitution.
The court said the appeal wmm
filed “without atiiority of law,"
and that it "needlessly conauai-
ed our time.”
The caae originated in Sooth
bia, S. C., when Miss Sara Flam
ing ciiarged that she was as
saulted by a bus driver who wsm
attempting to force her to Um
rear of the bus. It went all the
way to the District Court at
Ricimiond, Va., fnmi which the
ruling against segregatiaa to
public transportation was iani-
ed. An appeal 'rom this lower
court’s decision was what the
Supreme Court refused to hear
Monday.
Almost immediately, the la-
pact of the court’s refuaal to
hear tiie appeal, tha«by making
unlawful segregation in public
transportation, was felt in th«
South. In some quarters, it pro
voked the usual reaction of se
gregationists, while in ottiers it
brought compliance and some
rather startling revelations.
Perhaps the typical segrega
tionist reaction to the court’s de
cision came from Montgomery,
Ala. police commissi oner Oyda
Sellers, a member of the White
Citizens CouneiL
“As far as I’m concerned,” he
was quoted as saying, “this
rfamn thing appHles to South
Caroliba only.’' Ha reportedly
went on to say that any pasM«u-
ger who violates city or state
segregation laws will be proae-
cuted.
Moat soutiiem ?tates officials,
incfaidinc Gov. Hodses of North ^
Carolina, Gov. Griffin of Ga.,
Attorney Generals J. L. Almond
of Va.. T; C. Camson of S. C.
and Ben Sheppard of Teauet
criticized the court for ursor^
mg states’ powers in the de
cision.
In Norfolk, V'a., immediata
compliance with the dertifawi
came from that city’s tana offi
cials, who announced Ti—day
that signs requirinf Ifagaa pas
sengers to seat from Ike raar
and white patrons from
front were to be removed imme
diately. On Wednesday, •egr*'
gatlon came to an end mi tl»e
citjr’s buses.
From Charlotce, came th«
rather surprtstn^ hifnnnattan to
many that the owneta of ttiM
city’s bus lines had stonpad en
forcing the segresatkm law
since it assumed operatloa o tiM
lines about a year aga tkal
the company had bean quMijr
eliminating signs raqutetog Ne
groes to stt tram tta xmr tar
some time.
In Durham, segregated seatr
ing arrangement wen abolsfa-
ed ’Tueaday, foUowtog ttae
court’s dedaion. Duke Power
company, operator ai bus aya-
tems in Durham and in Graaaa-
boro, instructed driveta n(A to
assign seals to persona by rea-
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Five teadieni at the W. G. Pearson elementary
sehool in Durham wha have been ea toe aeheel’s
faculty since it opened were singled oat fer
reeogaltioa by toe sdioel’s ParentTTMeher Aase-
clatloa laat week. Dr. Helen Bdmeads, profeMer
ot History at Norto Canriina College, waa gaeat
speaker at the speeial program, held to eea-
juactln wito toe P. T. A.’a tegalar mmithly
nuaUng. Awards ot allvar eagvaved dishea ware
ky Otagga D.
T. A. at tta
preaented to tlM
Jr... preaident at toe r.
Appreelatlea NlghT*
shown raeeiviag the awarAi to to* nINmw I
Left to right are Dr.:
Mlaa Bet& Faatar, Mn. lai^
S. Lee,Jbs. Celia DavUna^ I
G. D. White, Jr.. aai Fnak I
tlM nA pragraat eeasBatttaa,!
eipal.