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VOLUME 33 — NUMBER 39
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1957
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Fear Radsts Set $300,000 6a. Fire
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NAACP State Convention
Opens Thursday In Charlotte
Albany State
Victimized By
Arsonists' Wort(
ALBANY, GA.
Approximately $300,000 in
damage was Inflicted on Al
bany State College as the re
sult of tires here Friday night
which totally destroyed one
and seriously damaged an
other building.
First reports of white men
seen leaving the scene shortly
before the fire was diseovei^
have added to the general
ing in this 8B,00»
ROT W^JaNS
Tliurgood Marsitall, Roy Willdns
To Speal( During Four-Day Meet
CHARLOTTE
Roy WUkins, Executive Sec
retary, NAACP, will deliver the
keynote address of the 14th An
nual Convention of the North
Carolina State Conference of
Branches, National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People meeting in Charlotte,
North Carolina October 10-13,
and Thurgood Bfarshall, Qirec-
tor-Counsel, NAACP Legal and
Educational Fund, Inc., and
Special Counsel of the NAACP
will address a Special Civil
Rights Mass Meeting closing the
oemFsation.
att
whfti Mrrad m ui andftotfoi
and for olasMom qwoe, were
▼letims at the atwa. An eatl-
mated $t5t,999 damage was
done to Hasard by the biMe
aa^ another |M,NO to Caro
lina HalL
An atmosphere of tension im
mediately seized the town as
reports indicated that the fire
was started by white men. The
general belief expressed here
abouts was that whites were
inspired to set the torch to the
Negro school in the wake of
general south wide tensions
over school desegregation.
However, there has been no
school desegregatim in Oeor-
gim’s pablie or private Mhoola
at any level, and there will
likely be none in the im
mediate future, veteran ob
servers /eel.
In addition, Albany State
boasts of enjoying haiinonious
relations with all segments of
the community.
First reports say tiiat a
“blonde” man in a red eheeked
shirt along with two or time
other teen aged wlilte yonths
were detected ninning away
from Carolina Hall shortly
before the flames were diaeev-
ered in that building.
~ A double night watch was
pofted OB the campus early
this week and city and state
police authorities began in
vestigation of the fires. They
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Backs Ike On
ArkaitHs kflie
A telegram commending Pres
ident Eisenhower for his “cour
age and determination to uphold
the rights of all United States
citizens to equality” was sent to
the White House last week by
the Durham Committee on Ne
gro ^airs. The message which
was authorized by the Commit-
Thursday was signed by the
chairman, J. H. Wheeler.
Not only did the Committee
authorize the sending of a mes
sage, but a special committee was
appointed to explore the idea of
asking for a conference with the
president and Negro leaders of
the South on the matter of inte
gration.
This question was raised at
the meeting when it was thought
by some that such a move might
be advisable since a committee of
southern governors had been
granted a conference with the
president, in which there was lit
tle possibility that both sides of
the matter would be presented.
' ^Whether the special committee
will recommend that a confer
ence with the President be
sought will be decided at the
next meeting of the Durham
Committee on Negro Affairs af-
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October 10, for the annual con
vention of the North Carolina.
NAACP, a meeting which prO'
—misfls to be the most crucial in
its history. With three North
Carolina cities desegregating on
a token basis since the ^historic
Supreme Court d^grejSatlbn
decisions the delegates will con-
The convention will get un
derway on Thursday with a
Special Ministers Conference
with Dr. Edward J. Odom, Jr.,
National Church Secretary of
the NAACP as the guect speak
er. The Theme of this special
conference Is ‘1^9 Role of the
Chiurch In Preparing the Com
munity for Integration".
Roy Wilkins will address the
opening mass meeting scheduled
for eight pjn. Friday evening at
the Charlotte Park Center.
Thurgood Mantfal1 will deliver
the convention’s concluding ad-^
dress at S:M pjn. on Sunday
aitasaoon, OctMw i»
Oefpb4^,
Presi-
deot. North Carolina Confer
ence of Branches will deliver
REVEREND KING
N. C. BAPTISTS
WIU HEAR
MARTIN KING
FAIRMONT
Rev. Martin Luther King, per
haps the most widely known
Baptist mhiister in America, will
address North Carolina Baptists
at the State Convention here late
this month.
®e will speak before the sec
ond meeting of the three day
General Baptist Convention
wt)ich gets underway here at the
First Baptist Church on October
29. The convention will end on
October 81.
Some 1700 Baptist churches In
the state will send representa'
tivte to the session. Panel discuS'
sions, forums and reports mark
ing 90 years of the convention’s
work will be featured.
John W. Fleming, spokesmen
for the State Baptists, said this
wo^ that the convention com-
mitt^ has drawn up a program
to encourage and
snpport ot education-
^prk.
Dyndmite Set On At Home
Or Pupils In Mixed School
GREENSBORO
The first instance of violence
since the intial wave which ac
companied desegregation of
schools here erupted Tuesday
night in a dynamite explosion in
the yard of the home of two of
six Negro pupils who have been
admitted to formerly all whitfe
Greensboro school.
City police said that dynamite
was either thrown or planted in
the front of the Elijah J. Herring
home which was undamaged by
the blast.
Noise from the explosion
awakened the Herring family
which had retired for the
night. No one was hurt.
Police had made no charges
early Wednesday, but reports
say they were trying to round up
suspects for questioningg.
■Two of the Herring boys,
Elijah, Jr., 16, and Russell, 12,
were among the first Negro stu
dents to be admitted to Gillespie
Park high school at the begin
ning of the fall term.
A ear seen leaving the scene
of the blast late Tuesday #as
ciused several miles out of
Greensboro, but there were no
Indication that the sapeets
were eanght
All available policemen were
rushed to the scene of the blast
and reports say that the in
vestigation is being pushed in an
effort to capture the dynamiters.
Four suspects were reported
questioned late Tuesday, but it
was not clear if they were held
or released.
Herring, who lives at 2101
Finley Street, escorted his two
boys to the white school on opm-
ing day admist jeering and hoot
ing.
Since the first wave of Jeer
ing and Insults stemming from
openlnr day, a calm iiad set
tled over the desegregation plo-
ture here with Incidents eon-
fined to classrooms.
In addition to the Herring
boys, four other Negro students
were admitted to formerly white
schools in Greensboro.
The explosive, whi6h rocked
the Herring home, was apparent
ly detonated from a drainage
ditch in front of the home, police
reported.
state confwence of Wendell,
will make response.
Clarence Mitchell, Director,
NAACP ^ Washington BlifeKU
will direct a workshop on Regis-
centrate on plans for expanding tration and Voting and report to
present desegregation programs the convention concerning civil
and implementing freedom for rights legislation recently pass-
Negroes in all areas. | (Please turn to page XUght)
Special Program To Honor Pastor
Browne In Ninth Year At Church
The Mount Vernon Baptist
Church has set apart the week of
October 7-13 for the celebration
of the ninth anniversary of its
pastor. The Rev. E. T. Browne
During the celebration, five of
the city’s leading churches will
render service. Appearing on
successive week-day nights wUl
be the following Baptist church
es: Morehead'Avimue, First-Cal*'
vary and Mt. Gilead. On Thurs
day night, the St. Mark A. M. E.
Zion Church will render the pro-,
gram and on Friday night th#
New Bethel Baptist Church.
The ministers of these church
es preaching during the week are
Rev. C. E. McLester, Rev. A. L.
Thompson, Rev. Harold Roland,
Rev. R. L. Speaks, and Rev. L.
W. Reid. Ibe time of each ser
vice is 7:80 P. M.
Miss Bennlb Bookn, second from was formalljr installed as the new presldant of
the Hillside High School Stndrat ConncU in ceremonies at the school last week. Principals
to the installation ceremony pictured with Miss Booker here are, left to ri|^t, T. M. Davis,
member of the Connell faenlty advisory committee; John 8. Stewart, City Cotmdfauai wlio
delivered the main nddtess; BOas Beohar, md acting Superintendent of Schools, Lew Han
non. Other offlcera of the new Ceocfl are WllUe Grem, vice-president; Awanya Bosh, sec-
retnry; Catherine Barnett, treaaarat; and Elaine Bowling, parlinmentariaa.
fsaturad
s^lcer, ^v. Xing, is pastor of
the Dexter Avenue Baptist
his annual address. Mrs. Ruth ^“jch in Montgomery and Pres
Morgan, Vice-Prerident of the Montgomery Im-
provement Association, an or
ganization which catapulted him
into international prominence as
the result of his leadership of its
passive resistance to bus segrega
tion in that city.
He has been widely acclaimed
throughout the United States
and has been described by sev
eral national publications as the
most outstanding and admired
personality of the country.
In addition to Rev. King, sev
eral prominent Baptist ministers
and convention officials will par
ticipate on the convention pro
gram. Among them are Dr. P. A.
Bishop, president of the State
Convention; Rev. O. L. Sherrill,
executive sec’y.; Rev. Wendell
Somerville, president of the Lott
Carey Convention; and Revs. J.
W. Jones, Harold Roland and
W. L, Wilson,
A highlight of the celebration
is set for Sunday, October 13, at
11:00 A. M. when the annual
message will be delivered by Dr.
S. N. Daughtry of CarrsvUle,
Virginia. Dr. Daughtry, 85 years
of age, has been described as an
able speaker and will bring a
wealth of experience to the oc
casion.
-At 7:80 P. M. the exercise will
be given by the Mount Vernon
Baptist Church Family of 1970
and will be sponsored by the
Children’s Church and Dramatic
Club.
Among the achievements rec
orded at Mt. Vernon during Rev.
Browne’s pastorate include the
establishment of a credit union,
purchase and operation of "Mt.
Vernon Acres,*' a picnlc-farm, or
ganization of a young people's
church, purchase of several
busses and a steady growth in
member^ip.
The public is invited to attend
the special anniversary services.
Key figures in the Fall Convocation at Kittrell College, formally opening the college for
its 72nd year, are pictured here. Left to right are the Rt. Rev. F. M. Reid, Presiding Bishop
of the S^ond Epkcopal District of the A. M. E. Church; Dr. Ezra Johnson of Hot Springs,
Arkansas, who delivered the principal address; Dr. W. L. Hildebrand, Chairman of the
Executive Board of Trtuteetf; and Dr. R. Vf. Wisner, President of the AME-supported school.
Nation’s Press Praises Kids
FadAg Angry School Mobs
NEW YORK
The courage and dignity of
the Negro students in Little
Rock and elsewhere in the
South has won wide commenda
tioiT from~the press and fromi ter of our country’s history.’’
individuals throughout the Following are other editorials,
country, as well as from the Montreal (Canada) Star:
foreign press. j "Where they (Negro young-
President Elsenhower paid sters) get the sheer guts to go
tribute to them In his statement through with it, we don’t know,
of Sept. 21 on the Little Rock Is It easy to Imagine the
crisis when he said: "All pa-1 soul-searching that their pa
rents must have a sympathetic i rents went through before let-
understanding of the ordeal to ting the children step into suct>
which the nine Negro children' a maelstrom of terror...What
who have been prevented from sort of dedication does a man—
attending Central High School'or more important, a youngster-
Last Rites For
Centenarian
Faaeral serriosa for Mrs.
Mary Jane Oannlngham were
held at the Bbeneser Baptist
Chnreh at 1:00 p. m. ea Wed
nesday, September 85. Tiie of
ficiate aaiaister was the Bev.
J. A. Brown, tiM pastor.
Mrs. Cnnnmgluun, who was
1*1, years old, died Saaday,
September tt, at her residenoe
485 Lakeland Avenae.
Fellawtaif the serriees, she
was baried in Beeekweed Oem-
eiscy.
tha la anrvlTsd by a grand-
asn, iaaaaa Caaatngbaai, Jr.
Fayetteville
Honors Coach
Who Resigns
FAYETTEVILLE
Resigning Fayetteville State
Teachers College Coach William
"Gus'’ Gaines and his family
were presented with gifts from
the college faculty, staff and
alumni at a recent student as
sembly.
Gaines is leaving Fayetteville
after twelve years as head
coach of its athletic teams and
chalnnan of the Health and
Physical Edneatlon Depart-
menL
He is scheduled to take a po
sition in the New York State De
partment of Civil Service and
Social Welfare. In this capacity,
he will direct programs for the
New York Boys Training School
at Warwick.
Gaines and his wife, Mrs.
Landonla Gaines, were presented
gifts from the faculty and staff
by acting dean Layfayette Park
er and from the Alumni Associa
tion by Alumni President Or
lando Hudson. The Gaines’ chil
dren, Linda, 7, and Deborah, 8,
were presented checks from the
faculty and staff.
Mrs. Oainea lias worlMd for
11 years ss secretary to the
President and sssistaat budget
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The Rev. R. L, Speaks, pas
tor of the St. Mark A. M. E.
Zion Church, will be the guest
speaker at Vespers Services at,
North Carolina College Sun:
day at 3:15 P. M. Mr. Spealu
has announced as hb subject,
“The Secret of Victorious Liv
ing.” *
Conducting the services,
wliich will be held in the B. N,
Duke Auditorium, will be
College Minister, Dr. J. ^eai
Hughley. Music will be fur
nished by the NCC choir of 85
voices under the direction of
Professor Samuel W. Hill.
have been subjected. They and
their parents have conducted
themselves with dignity and
with restraint.” ^
Life magazine in its issue of
Sept. 30 published on its edi
torial page a letter from Prof. J.
B. Rt^ine of Duke University in
Durham, N. C. "Thank you for
recording for history the ac
count in word and picture of
these brave Negro kids going off
need to face the stones of a
crowd, their knives or guns or
clubs, of being cornered by a
mob of vicious whltet egged on
by screaming viragos who re
semble women?
A Fearful Price To Pa t
New York Pont (by Max
Lerner):
it doesn’t destroy It can bo a
young to pay...For those whom
it doesn't destroy It can
to face the mob waiting for [creative experience. The night.
them at the schoplhouse,” Prof.
Rhine wrote. .
"Brave they must t>e, for thciy
kao'w they will be taunted with
abuse that will hurt more than
physical Injury Itself...I cannot
recall that there has ever been
a more inspiring demonstration
of courage by the children of
any race, in any age...Their ex-
ampl#is at least one redeeming
feature in all this horrid chap-
before Elizabeth Eckford wcni
to school, at Little Rock, she
read the lines In the Psalms,
‘The Lord is my light and my
salvation; whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the stren^h of my
life; of whom shall I fearf’%
Los Angeles Mirror-Newt.
"One thing in the story from
Little Rock sticks in our mind.
In the face of a Jeering crowd,
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DR.VANDOREN
AT HAMPTON
HAMPTON, VA.
More than IStO students and
nearby residents .gathered at
Hampton Institute’s Ogden
Hall last Thnrsday to hear an
address by ,Dr. Mark Van
Doren, Prolemor of English at
Colnmbia University, and win
ner of Palltxer Prise for
Poetry, 1840, the first'speaker
in the college leetnre series.
Dr. Van Doren spoke on
“Homer,” immortal Greek poet
and author of the classics "The
Iliad*' and "The Odyssey,” em
phasising Homer's ever-pre
sent themes of people, family
relationshipa that have made
his literataro live tkrongh tha
agea.
Little Rock,Ark. NAACP Leader
Applauded By Unit's Chairman
NEW YORK I branches and state conferences
The entire nation is indebted throughout the cotmtry must
to Mrs. L. C. Bates for her meet. You have demonstrated
"steadfast, sober, calm and what can be done. It remains for
courageous leadership and gul- all of us In the organization,
dance" in the Little Rock crisis,] and indeed for all liberty-loving
Dr. Channing H. Tobias, chair-1 Americans to rally to your sup-
man of the NAACP Board of port tlirough increased m ember-
Directors, said today in a letter
to Mrs. Bates, president of the
Association's organization in
Arkansas.
"Considering the provoca
tions confronting you," he said,
"the situation, without your
leadership might well have de
teriorated into disastrous con
flict. Never has there been
greater need than today in
Little Rock for perceptive and
decisive leadership such as you
have shown.”
Mrs. Bates’ work in Little
Rock, he ssserted, “demon
strates the need for strong
NAACP state and local imits.
This Is s challanga which our
ships and contributions to the
Association which for nearly a
half-century has borne the
brunt of the struggle for equal
rights.”
Praising the courage ot the
Negro school children, Dr. To
bias said; "I am sure that thjpse
young people have been in
spired by the fine example set
by you. Your dedication exem
plifies to them the role they
must play in today’s struggle
and in the futiure. History will
accord to them, and to you, full
recognition of the role they and
you have played in man’a tm-
ending struggle for human Jus-
tlca.”