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HILLSBORO PRINCIPAL UNDER FIRE
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Baptists To Fight
Jackson in Court
VOLUME S3 — NUMBER 3« DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1957 PR1C& TEN CENTS
Virginia Turns Away
Scorfi Of Race Pupils
North Carolina’* program of limited desegrega*
tion wa* launched in iU amoothest fashion in Win-
•ton*Saiem last Thursday as one Negro student was
enrolled in previously all-white Reynolds Senior high.
At left, Gwendolyn Bailey, 15-year*old daughter of
Rev. and Mrs. E. £. Bailey, is shown just after she re
ceived matriculation cards during first day's orien*
tation. Center picture shows her in homeroom class.
At right, Gwendolyn is shown leaving the Reynolds
school after completing her first day. In background
can be seen spectators and news photographer.
Plan Ousts
. He’s out.
..; He’s in again
are tba muus.
In Winstoii-Solem School
Officials Credited
With Smooth
RICHMOND, Va.
At laat count prior to TIMES
prentime this week, at least 90
school pupiU, more than a dozen
of them white, had been refuied
admluion to public «chools In
Virginia. The reason: the PupU
Placement Act, a creation of a
special lesslon oi the Virginia
State AMembly.
At Hlchmond, the numiier of
MRS. MABEL POWELL
.. . Adequate job...
New Woman's
Editor Named
or
WINSTON-SALEM
Credit for the smooth man
ner in which the atate’s pro
gram of limited desegregation
was put into operation here
laat week hai generally been
given to fchool and city au
thorities.
Gwendolyn Yvonne Bailey,
flrit Negro student to be en
rolled at a white Mhool here,
made her entrance almost un
noticed at Reynolds senior high
last lYiurfday and completed
her first week at the school
without IncideDt.
Her ant day at §n all white
Nabrit To Heod Court Attack
Convention Is Punctuated
6y Fist Fights And Disorder
Ko e n ... . .
By S. B. JOHNSON
L.OU1SV1L.LE, Ky.
The election of Or. J. U.
Jacluon to a fifth term as presi
dent of the National Baptist
Convention amid a controversy
torn and strife-ridden conven
tion will face a court test.
A group of prominent Bap
tist leaders who opposed Jack
son’s re-election on the grounds
that the constitution limits the
president’s term of office to
four years liave selected noted
civil rights attorney James M.
Nabrit of Washington to handle
the institution of court proceed
ings against the veteran Baptist
leader.
They will seek to have a fede
ral court set aside Jackson’s
election which came unexpect
edly Wednesday night after the
convention had voted to hold
elections on Thursday.
The main issue in the court
action is expected to revolve
around the constitutional a-
mendmeot adopted in 1952
which limits the president’s
term of office to four.
The anti-Jackson group,
wUch is bringing the court ac
tion, is headed by Dr. J. Ray
mond Henderson of Los Ange
les, Dr. E. C. Smith of Washing
ton, D. C., Dr. Marshal Shepard
of PMadelphia, Dr. Timothy
Chambers .of Los Aiigeles, Dr.
William Holmes Borders of At
lanta, Dr. Holland Smith of Ar
kansas, Dr. J. P. Barbour of
Tennessee, Dr. U. G. Robinson
and Attorney A. T. Walden of
Atlanta.
A defense fimd of approxi
mately 12,500 has already been
•et up for the court battle.
Dr. Jackson’s election came as
the result of a political conven
tion-type demonstration and cli
maxed a convention which was
puntuated by name-calling, fist
fights, arrests and at one which
at times bordered on falling into
chaos. *
Following a heated discus
sion, an organized banner-wa-
ving crowd of Jackson’s follow
ers seized the floor, put on an
hour demonstration which ‘was
capped-when Rev. T. 8. Harten
of Brooklyn grabbed the speak-
•r’s microphone and shouted.
“I move that we suspend the
rules and elect Jackson presi
dent by acclamation.”cto
(The convention had earlier
voted toroid elections on the
following day.)
Dr. C. C. Coleman of Miss.,
seconded the motion and the tu
multous shouts and cheers of
the Jackson orchestra drowned
out the rumblings of protest
from dissenters.
Dr. Jackson’s appearance at
the convention Thursday morn
ing to accept bis election and de
liver the annual address touched
off another angry uprising in
the convention which resulted
in a platform scuffle sending at
least four persons to jail.
When Jackson appeared on
the stage, a mob of people
rushed to the center of the audi
torium and onto the stage. Rev.
R. L. Evans of New York grab
bed the microphone, and began
shouting into it. Another group
began pushing and throwing
chairs at each other on the
stage. *" *■
Ocder wtts^'^flnally restored
following the arrest of Rev.
Charles Wheeler, Rev. William
Baity, Rev. Roy Norsworthy and
Cleveland Jordan. Three drew
|2S fines and a fourth a $50
fine.
Anong with Jackson's reelec
tion came a shake-up in high
convention echelons. Removed
from office were Rev. Marshall
(continued on page 8)
LIST OF GRIEVANCES TO BE
GIVEN TO EDUCATION GROUP
HILLSBORO—Dissatisfaction with the manner
in which Central High School here is being operated
flared in the open last Friday night at a meeting of a
group of parents and the Pnncipal A. L, Stanback.
As soon as the meeting opened, around eight
o’clock, charges against the principal were hurled at a
fast and furious tempo by parent after parent. The
main charge was that he took the lead in securing an *
old edifice in the Mars HiU
section o£ Hillsboro, known as
the Old Odd Fellows build
ing, and having it renovated
as temporary dassrooms for
the sixth, seventh and eighth
grades, to relieve the over
crowded conditons at Central
^d one angry parent:
“Why did you take it upon
yourself to secure such a
building for our diildren?”
Stanback replied that he
only did so after such had
been agreed upon by the
school’s “Adivsory Con^ttee,
the tocal Parent Teachers Asso
ciation and the County Bowd of
Education.*’
It was later disposed that Ne
groes have no represenUtion on
tbt Board of Educatlcm.
Several parats also told a
representatives of the CARO
LINA TIMES that in addiUon to
securing the ancient structure to
be used as a classroom for their
children that the principal was
requiring male members of the
faculty to work on the building
in helping to make it ready and
that Jie was requiring the Negro
citiMns to raise half of the mon
ey to pay for its renovation. The
other half, they stated, will be
appropriate by the County
Board of Education.
In a petition be&g circulated
this week by the group of par
ents they charge:
1. The Old Odd Fellews* Hall
Is not s saltable place ter Ike fall
developmeat of stadsats ef ten
der sebool age tai that tk« baud-
lag was never designed t« serre
the purpese of sehert^ needs.
Moreover, It Is net eeedeehre ts
(continued on page •)
The PupU Placement Act is
part of the omnibus Stanley
Plan through which the Old Do
minion plans to keep its schools
operating in a dual capacity—
colored schools for colored pu
pils and white schools for wiiite
pupils.
Basically, the Plan calls for
the parents of students entering
any school to deposit with the
State Placement Board an
“agreement” that the student
will attend the school to which
he or she is assigned. In all
cases, students of the divers
races iiave been assigned to
schools “for their race."
At Norfolk and Riclunond and
other sites, parents refused to
sign_ the Placement blanks ten
ding' that the Act wiUch created
the Placement Board was un
constitutional. Their stand is
backed by a ruling of Judge
Walter S. Hoffman of the Nor
folk Federal District Court that
the Placement Act is "unconsti
tutional on its face.” In the
school action wUch resulted in
this decision some 30 Norfolk
parents sought to have their
children entered in thentofore
white schools. The court origi-
naUy held that their claim was
a just one, but the Norfolk
school board and other defen
dants in the action have appeal
ed the verdict to the U. S. Su
preme court.
Tiiat the PupU Placement
Act in Virginia is far-reaching
in its effect is shown in the in
stance of the expulsion from a
Richmond school of Bernard
Austin, Whose parents live at
Richmond yet are natives of
North Carolina. In the two Nor
folk instances, the parents of the
two students expeUed also are
natives of North CaroUna cities.
Carver High Gets
New Asst. Head
WINSTON-SALEM ’
Mrs. Betty C. Williams of 431
West Twenty-fifth Street, a
graduate of Winston-Salem
Teachers CoUctge and holder of
a Master’s Degree from the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, was re-
centty appointed assistant prin->
cipal of tto Carver Crest School
in this city. Mn. Williams stud
ied during the lBir7|Summer ses
sion at the Unlvarnty of North
Carolina at Chapel HUl. She has
ta\ight In the Winston-Salemi
school tyatmu for the past eight
years. L. A. Cook is pcincipal of
Carver Great School. \
PoWell as Wmntta's Bdltor of
the Carolina Times #as aitnoun
ced this week. She has already
begun duties in her new post.
Mrs. PoweU lias wprkied as a
special writer for the Times
covering events of interest to
women for the past eight years.
She replaces Mrs. Emma But
ler who resigned after a short
stay in the position.
‘‘Mrs,
in line with our policy
tinuaUy improving the content
of our paper and its mission of
serving the public. She has done
commendable job in her past
assignments with the paper and
we confidently expect her to do
an equally adequate job in her
new position,” said L. E. Aus-
Un, Times publisher who an
nounced the appointment.
The new woman’s editor is
active In many religious and
lilivic activities of the city, and
holds memberships in many wo
men’s organizations.
She Is a member of the Na
tional Council of Negro Wo
men, the Harriet Tubman
YWCA and the Women’s Auxili
ary of Lincoln hospital.
In addition, she has taken a
leading role in the activities of
Kyles Temple AME Zion Churctt
where she serves as clerk, and
as member of the Young Wo
men’s Missionary Society.
Among the many women’s
clubs to which she belongs are
the K.TjV. Social Club, the Lee
Fluer Garden Club and The
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students who we1
white schools in
attending
two other
cities of the state for the first
time.
At Charlotte, a young Negro
girl, Geraldine Counts, was
forced to run a guantlet of
insults, rocks and' stones and
sputum in her first day at a
previously all wiiite school.
Five Negro students who at
tended white schools in
Greensboro also became the
object of heckling and jeering.
Observers believe tliat the
fact tliat school officials per
mitted Gwendolyn to enter
tba school by a tack entrance
contributed much to tha calm-
nass ^ tltf,. stku|i^ haf*.
ranged by jtajmolds-princi^l
Claude Joyner and Owendo.
EDITORIAL
WINSTON-SALEMPOINTSTHEWAY
Winston-Salem, Greensboro and Charlotte should
be commended for the manner in which they have
. Po^7r^poTntment~ist?^'^^‘^e^ ^»^?‘^att(5ii^-^ of their pubiic
with our poUcy of con- schools. Of the three cities we think Winston-Salem
deserves the orchi(i, even though it has not attempted
the integration program on as wide a scale as Char
lotte and Greensboro.
Those who are acquainted with lace lelations in
other cities of North Carolina are compelled to ad
mit that in Winston-Salem there is probably more interracial
goodwill than in any city of North Carolina. We would place
Greensboro second with Charlotte holding third place. These
three cities are so far ahead of Duriiam, Raleigh and other
larger urban centers until there is no comparison.
We find that in Winston-Salem, Greensboro and Char
lotte white leaders are more ready and willing to sit down
with Negro leaders to discuss common problems. Especially
is this true in Winston-Salem where the YMCA, the YWCA
and various other civic and religious organizations have
paved the way by making it possible for leaders of both races
to meet on a common level to discuss interracial and other
problems which are bound to arise from time to time in any
urban center of ordinary size. As a result, Winston-Salem
took the admission of a Negro student to a formerly all-
white high school in stride.
The CAROLINA TIMES has contended through the
years that what North Carolina and other southern states
need is some program that would bring together leaders of
both races occasionally on a friendly basis to talk about com
mon problems. When this is done, Negroes will find that all
white people aren’t as mean and vicious as those who are
willing to spit on them or emasculate one of their race. Like
wise, our white leaders will find that all Negroes are not
rapists, thieves and do not carry knives. That within the race
are to be found, proportionately, just as many who are cul
tured and refined as within their own group.
When this is done, mutual respect will develop and in
stead of suspicious, hatred and distrust there will spring up
the kind of peace ahd human difnity that should abound in
every community.
JOHN L. flOLLOWAY
... Retired...
The retirement of John L.
Holloway, above, supervUor at
the North Carolina Mutual
home office in Durham was an
nounced this week by the firm.
A r«sld«nt of Elizabeth Street,
Holloway uxu formally retired
a$ of September 1. He had work
NCC EXPECTING 501FROSH
Some 800 freshmen and new. deans,
students were expected to be- This year’s class will ba ei-
gln matriculating st North Caro- posed to the “most extensive
lina College In Durham this counseling program ever organi-
week-end. College officlaU pro- zed.” a college spokesman said,
mised that this would probably. Counselling will be available
be the “best counselled” class in for personal and academic prob
the history of the school.
Newcomers were expected to
be officially welcomed to the
college on Wednesday night at
7:30 in special ceremonies by act as "big sisters” for women
NCC President Alfonso Elder students. A similar arrangement
and other top administrative' Is planned for male freshmen.
lems.
To implement the program,
14 senior counselors wlU Uva
In the freshman dormitory snd
offlcisls.
Testing programs were to get
underway Thursday in addition
ed for the company for >S yaar$.' to confarsoeas with parsonnel
In addition, each freshman wiU
be assigned an advisor for con-
sultstlon on acadamic problems.
lyn’s father, thf Revi?t>a(l E.
E. Bailey, the IS year
junior arrived at the school
by way of an underground
traffic tunnel. She walked un
escorted through the tunnel
and arrived at the schiool au
ditorium at 10:19 in time for
orientation.
By entering through the tun
nel, the young 11th grader
escaped possible 'deriflon at
thp hands of a crowd of ap
proximately 300 persons ^ho
had gathered at the front en
trance to await her appear
ance. She also did not
wor^ ^tended' f6r her
•crdilfthe'
In front of tB^ iefiOW;'
Principal Joyner called the
cooperation of students In ad
justing to different Ideal.s
which he said "will be better
for us, our schools and our
communities.”
City officials, law enforce
ment authorities and Rey
nolds students were also glv-
en credit for the absence of
disturbance which surround
ed Gwendolyn’s matricula
tion.
Some 15 police officers, plain
ciothesmen, patrol cars and
state highway troopers were
scattered around the high
school campus.
Several students assigned to
Gwendolyn's class said they
realized it wold take time for
her as well as themselves to
adjust to the different environ-
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'Ark. Challenge
Must Be Met'.
NEW YORK
The defiance- of Federal au
thority at Little Rock, Arfl., by
Gov. Orvai Faubus "threatens
the entire concept of a Federal
union and endangers a wida
category of rights and privileges
of citizens of the United States
wherever they may live,” Presl-'
dent Elsenhower was told in a
telegram yesterday.
The wire, sent by Roy Wil
kins, NAACP executive secre
tary, said the use of state troops
by Gov. Faubus to prevent Ne
gro students from attending
Central high school pursuant to
a Federal court order stemmed
from an idea that “states and
regions are free to decide whe-.
ther to abide by the Constitu
tion and the Federal court rul
ings or not, as they see fit.”
Asserting that such an idea
must not be allowed 'to stand
“unchallenged and unclarifled,"
the President was urged by tha
NAACP leader to fake iteps "to
preserve the authority of our
national government In tha llttla
Rock and any other similar situ
ation.”
The Chief Executive was r«^
minded that on July 2 Senator
Richard B. Russell of Georgia
had made a “bayonet” speech
in the Senate expressing his
horror st the thought of Fede
ral troop* being sent into tha
South, but that today “stata
troops carrying arms and equip
ment purchased and furnished
them by tha Unltad States sra
defying tha govsmmant of thair
country.”