Stanford L '.Varren
Public Ubraxy
Fayetteville St
TtLE OF TERROR
Miss. Woman Tells Modern
Uncle Toni’s Cobin Story
EDITOR’S NOTE: Following is the complete statement of Mrs. Beatrice Yoong of
Jackson, Mississippi before the Senate Subcommittee hearing on Februarj^ 28. Becanse
testimony by southern Negroes before that committee has largely gone unreported by the
daily press, the CAROLINA TIMES is reprinting Mrs. Jackson’s testimony in full in Ae in
terest of our readers.
Mr. Chairman and members
of the conunittee, my name is
Mrs. Beatrice Young. 1 am
from Jackion, Mississippi.
On the 25th of November
1956, my sister whipped her
Uttle girl and the following
day, which was November
26th, Deputy Sheriff Andy
Hopkins called my house
about 5:30 in the afternoon
and asked me U Mildred Mc
Gee (My sister’s child) was
at my home. I said “No,” and
he said, “If you have her it is
going to cause, you a lot of
trouble." I said, "No, not any
at all because she is not
here.” He then said to me that
he was going to come over
and search the hoiue. I told
him to come ahead and bring
a Inarch warrant. He told me
he did not need a search war
rant to search my house and
called me a smart blaclc
S.O.B. I told him 1 knew the
law and that if he came he
had better bring a search
warrant, and that I didn’t -like
the Idea of his cursing and
was not going to have it. I
hung up in his face.
About an hour and a half la
ter, Deputy Hopkins knocked
on the door and I opened it
but did not unlock the screen
door. He said, “Do you want
me to Icick this door down,
or do you want to open it?”
I said, “1 will open It if you
have brought a search war
rant like 1 told you to do.”
He said, “You’d better open
the door.” I asked him again,
“Do you have a search war
rant?” He said, “Yes, open
, I give it to
blackjack and came In. I
aaked him why ha hit me but
be didn’t answer. I asked him'
again and he hit me in the
mouth and told me to hush
and that I was imder arrest.
1 told him 1 had not done any
thing and if I was under ar
rest to' take me to jail and
stop cursing me.
On my way to jail. Deputy
Hopkins asked me if I wap
working and for whom I
worked. I told him'no one. He
asked me where my husband
worked and I said, “For the
Government.” He then said
he alweys found that Negroes
working for the Government
were always smart and that
ttiis time it was tiis damn wife.
He asked me if 1 had a law
yer. 1 told him “No.” He cur
sed me and took me to jail.
There was a man with him
but he told the man not to
come Inside with him because
he wanted to take me |n all
by himself and that he had
some work for me to do.
When we got inside, I asked
Deputy Konkins if 1 could
use the phone to get someone
to stay with my children. 1
called Mrs. Era Pitman who
Uves on Whitfield MiU Road.
We then went upstairs and
there Deputy Hopkins asked
me my name and age. He
said, “When 1 called you and
came out you asked me for a
search warrant didn’t you?”
I said, "Yes.” He said, “I can"
give you thirty search war
rants and he started hitting
and cursing me. 1 told him 1
had not done anything, and
for him to stop hitting me. He
did so for a few moments.
1 began to talk to him and
told him that 1 had had an
operation on my head. The
jailor sitting at the desk had
not opened his mouth imtil
then. He (Mr. Boteler) said,
“Girl, let me see where you
had your operation.” I went
to show him and he hit me on
the bead. I told liim tiiat I
was two months’ pregnant.
Mr. Boteler felt my waist and
asked me what 1 had on. I-
said a girdle.
Hos^dns mid, “X
aTh^.” I
.asked me how old he was.
I said, “Fifteen months.” He
said, “And you’re pregnant
again?'’ 1 said, “Yes.” He
said, “1 understand you stay
that way, you black S.O.B.”
He began pacing back and
forth and said, breathlessly,
“I ought to kill you for aU the
trouble you- have caused me.”
He started beating me again,
all over the head, shoulders,
and body. A few minutes la
ter, he turned me over to
Mr. Boteler and told him to
lock me up in a room on the
NEXT WEEK:
The complete story of the harrowing days
lived by Gus Courts in Miss, before the Bel"
zoni storekeeper left die state when he was
shot because his activities in regutering Ne
groes. Courts told his story to agnate Sab-
Committee holding hearings on civil rights.
Coal Shovel Murder Weapon In
Winston-Salem's Fourth Homldde
WINSTON-SALEM
Mack O’Neal, 58, of 709 East
Eighth Street, beoune Forsjrth
Cotmty’s fourth homicide of the
year, Tuesday ni^t, February
26th. O’Neal died ftbm skull
fractiu'es after being beaten
about the head with a coal sho-
vd by Vanderbilt Whlt^ Wil
liams, 65, of Oak Summit Road.
Aooording to police reports,
Williams and O’Neal were'
drinking together several hours
Saturday night, February 23rd,
and got into an argument ovtf
Miio would buy the next early
Sunday morning. WiUlams
he comd not remember how it
started, but, did rem^nber that
O’Neal hit him with something,
and that he took the object and
beat O'Neal over the head. The
object referred to was later
Identified as a long handle coal
shovd.
Williams, whose head had to
be bandag^ may lose an ear,
ho^dtal attmdants said. He had
bean in JaU since the Sunday of
the fight, on a charge of assault
with intent to kill, until the
death of O’Neal, when the
charge was dunged to murder.
A local funeral home direc
tor said Olfeal’s remains had
bean removed to Dnrtiam, from
which he is said to be a native,
by hia family. Finid rites war*
to be held in Duxliam.
Babbl Frederick L
■piritaal leader of Tonpia
Emannei in Grerasixm,
wUI be the veipen speakMr
at North CaroUna Coilag*
Sundajr afternoon at B. N.
Dnko Aadltortnm at 3:18.
Trained at Hebrew Union
of Cindimati, Babbl Byplna
has been a frequent lecturer
on coUege campnsea, ipon>
sored by the Jewidi Caiafc*
auqua Society.
Babbi By pins will speidE
Ml “SooM Jewiih IdMlf,”
Soadajr. Ae ceU^ ch^
willfttalifcauMlc.
fourth floor. When we got to
the door of the cell, Mr. Bote
ler said, "Wait a minute,” and
kicked me in the cell.
The following morning about
5:30, Mr. Bbteler came to my
cell and told me to come to
the door. I told him I was
unable to do so because I was
sitting in the corner. He ask
ed me if my .was sore. I
said, "Yes.” He said, “In a
minute my buddy (Deputy
Hopkins) will return and we
are going to take you out and
beat you again. About 9:00,
iDeputy Hopkins came and
(continued on page 8)
Listed above are witnesses and their sup-
porten at the Civil Eights haaiings before the
Senate Subcommittee on Constltational Bights in
Washington, D. C., last week.
Front row, from left to right are: Mrs. Henry
Gardner, Baltimore, Maryland; Mrs. Beatrice
Young, Jackson, Mississippi; Mrs. Olivia Hall and
Mrs. Carrie Page, Washington, IX C.; Mrs. Lillie
M. Jackson, Baltimore, Maryland; Mn. Lillian
Bosfield, Washington, D. C.; and Clarence Mit
chell, Director of the Washington Bureau,
NAACP.
Back row, from left to right, are: Charles A.
McLean, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Bev. W.
D. Bidgeway, Hattiesburg, Mississippi; Bev. Gus
Courts, formerly of Belzoni, Missbsippi, (now Uv-
Police Probe Discovery Of
Girl’s In Marooned Cor
ing in Chicago); Ben T. Shorter, Cuthbert, Geor
gia; Attorney Austin T. Walden, Atlanta, Geor
gia; Bev. William Holmes Borders, Atlanta, Geor
gia; Bev. A. Bell, Atlanta, Geori^a; Bev. A. L.
Bailey, Baltimore, Maryland; S. W. Bojmton,
Selma, Alabama; Mrs. Juanita Jackson Mitchell,
Baltimore, Maryland; Bev. B. J. Johnson, Atlanta,
Georgia; Bowen Jackson, Baltimore, Maryland;
and Bev. J. B. Butler, Baltimore, Maryland.
Two Norfolk, Ya.
Sailors Quizzed
ROANOKE RAPIDS
Police were investigating at
midweek circumstances sur
rounding the discovery early
Monday of the body of a teen
age Roanoke Rapids girl.
Miss Slnora Powell, 19, was
found dead jn an autnnobUe
Halifax County coroner Ru
fus Britton said that it was ap
parent that Miss Powell died
from carbon monoxide poison
ing. However, it was revealed
that investigation will be con-
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VOLUBIE 8S •>- NUMBEB 10 DtJBBAM, N. €., SATUBbAY, BIABCH 1,1957
PBICE: rSR CENTS
m
MBS. KEBB
Final Rites Held
For Sister Of
Dr. Shepard
Funeral services for Mrs.
Benena Kerr, one of the four
surviving sisters of the late Dr.
James Edward Shepard, were
held Sunday at one O’clock at
White Rock Baptist church^
Mrs. Kerr died suddenly last
Thursday night at Lincoln hos
pital.
Dr. Miles Maik Fisher, pas
tor of White Rock Baptist
church, officiated at the last
rites. Interment was at Beech-
wood cemetery. ,
Mrs. Kerr made her home in
Durluun at 2004 Fayetteville
street.
She was bom in Raleii^ and
attended Shaw University there.
Mrs. Kerr married the late Dr.
(Hurles Kerr and lived in Bos
ton, Mass for several years.
She returned to Durtuun in
1937 and had made her home
here since that tim*-
She was the daughter of the
late Rev. Augustiu and Mrs.
Hattie Shepard. *
Immediate survivors include
three sisters. Miss Theresa
Shepard, of Durham, Mrs. Ta-
lula McCurdy, Berkeley, CaL,
and Mrs. tJiita Boulware of
WUberforee, OUo.
Other survivors are three
neices; Mrs. Annie D. Smith,
New Bern; Miss Marjorie Shep
ard, Durltam; and Mrs. Dorothy
Ifsnley, Atbuota, Cta.
Y6w No
Retreot On Civil Rights Issue
Ministers Have
Prominent Role
Sessions
ATLANTA, Ga.
Some 150 NAACP leaden
gathered here in the fifth
Southeastern Regional Confer
ence of the National As80ciati0n
for the Advancement of Colored
People pledged themselves to
not retreat, but to march for
ward toward the 1963 goal of
complete first-class citizenship
status for every American, re
gardless of race, color or creed.
The meeting was held in the
famed Wheat Street Baptist
Church February 27 thru March
3rd, under the supervision of
Mrs. Ruby Hurley, Southeast
Regional Director of NAACP
for the States of Tennessee,
Oeotgla, Florida, North and
South Carolina and Mississippi.
Assisting were Gloster B
Ciurent, national office Branch
Director; Herbert Hill, Iabor
Secretary; Herbert Wright,
Youth CcWcil Director; Cla
rence Mitchell, Washington bu
reau coordinator; and Kelly M.
Alexander, president of the
North Carolina State NAACP
Conference.
, NO COMPROMISS
In marked contrast to the
much publicized 1890 Atlanta
meeting during which the noted
Booker T. Washington deliver
ed his “Atlanta Compromise”
q^eecii, setting the pattern of
segregation, the Negro leaders
gathered in Atlanta last week
called lor unity and equality of
traatment with aU avenues of
American life open to all clti-
teos alike.
EMPHASIS OS mmSTERS
More than a score of civic-
minded ministers from the
southeast area organised to
form a working committee to
soUcit the support of other
ministers and their chtirches in
spaarbeadlng the “fight for
Freedom” drive,over the south.
Anumg leaders of this new
southwide surge for freedom
are the Revs. Martin L. King,
Montgomery, Ala. bus boycott
laadar; 0. K. Steele, Tallahassee
(eoatinusd on page •)
4
FAISON
Testifies At
Senate Hearing
by Alice A. Dunnlgan
(Special To ’The Times)
WASHnfOTONi Dr«r
As acting chairman of the
Senate Comlmttee on Constitu
tional Rights, Senator Sam Kr-
vin of North Carolina, last weak
heard direct testimony on me
thods used by election officials
of his own state to deprive Ne
groes of the right to register to
vote.
Alexander Faison of Sea
board, a sophomore at North
Carolina College, gave a first
hand account of how he was de
nied the right to register and
how economic pressure was
exerted on his family and him
self after he had attempted to
register.
Charles A. McLean, field sec
retary of the NAACP for the
state of North CaroUna, pre
sented approximately 30 signed
affidavits by persons ^o had
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ALEX BIVEBA, JB., of Durham, Caro-
linas correspondent for the PITTSBURGH
COUBIEB, and Mrs. Bobert Vann, president
of the newspaper, chat with James C.
Hagerty, President Eisenhower’s press sec
retary, at the MATS airport la Washington,
D. C. before taking off with Vice President
Bichard Nixon to the celebration formally
creating the new independent African state
of Ghana on the Gold Coast. Beverly Car
ter, executive editor of the COUBIEB, looks
on at right. 
Kinsai COUEGE DEAN WIU
SPEAK IN DURHAH SUNDAY
Dr. Carl A. Fuqua, dean of
the Chapel at Klttrall CoU^e,
will q>eak in Durham Sunday
at the St. Joseph A.M.E. chur
ch’s morning and evening ser
vices.
Dr. Fuqua has had wide and
varied experience, as a youth
recreatlona) and social worker,
teecher, ntinister and educator.
.He received his training In
the public schools of CHilcago,
at Morehouse College, the Uni
versity of Chicago and NorUi-
westem University.
Dr. Fuqua has worked as su
pervisor of group work for ttte
Parkway Community house of
Chicago, as an ottlciai of the
Social Security Administration,
(oontinusd oe pegs •)
State Of Miss.
Forces Jackson
Out Of NCAA
JACKSON, MISS.
Jackson State college power
ful basketball team was forced
to pull out of the NCAA small
college basketball tournament,
Just four days before it was
scheduled to play a white team.
Jackson’s President, Dr. Jscob
‘L. Reddix, told newsmen he was
withdrawing the team after
Mississippi authorities advised
him to.
It was reported that Dr. Red
dix was told it was against state
policy to play “under present
conditions.”
Jackson, conference champion
(continued on page •)
Miss Buby Hurley, South
eastern Begional Director
for the NAACP, will speak
in Winston-Salem Sun^y
night at 7:30 for the local
branch’s “Freedom Day"
rally. The meeting wW be
held at Goler Metropolitan
A. M. E. Zion Church at
Fourth and Dnnleith Sts.
Bev. B. F. Blakey, pastor of
the church, Kelly Ale»>
ander, state SAACP presi* *
dent, Charles A. McLean,
field secretary for the state
organisation and several
other top ranking NAAGf
officials will participate
rally. The meeting wUl m.
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