FOU
UON VOTERS IN DIXIE BY ’60
Had Backed Segregqtloi
The above ccene* were taken
during the annual con/crctioc 0/
the toeetem North Carolina unit
of the AUK church, held hut
week in Raleigh. Minietert from
eeveral districte within the con
ference were onigned new posts.
In top photo, Bi«hop Frank M.
Reid, far left, back to camera,
pretiding Bishop of the second
epiacopal diatrict, condKctt or
dination ritw for new deacons.
Kittrell College alttmni Presi
dent Mrs. Vorheese Jamison of
Baltimore is shown in center.
Top right. Bishop Reid and Dr.
O^ge Singleton of Philadel
phia, poufe for impromptu con
ference during session. Dr. Sin
gleton substituted for the Bi«hop
for Sunday’s address. Vernon D.
Cowan of AehetHlle, pretident of
the Laymen’s league of the
church, and league secretary
Mrs. MyrtleJCnox Long of Wil-
son, go over plan* before a ses
sion. In center, the Rev. George
Fisher, toidely known civil
rights champion atm pastor of an
episp^pal church at Raleigh, says
goodie to long friend Bishop
Reid idstring conference. Picture
at bottom right shows officers of
Womtn’s Missionary Society.
Study Racial Peace In Eastern N. C
By J. B. Hjuren
BOCKY MOUNT
Tht St. JamM Baptlit Church
her* was the acene November
18th ot the Mcond ol the “Inter
racial iMtttaifat” held thia year
by Negro aad white Baptiat wo-
men’i organliatlona oi the state
tm the Intereat of better interra
cial haraoony, ChristUnlty and
eooperatka.
The tint sueh meetliig waa
held in Charlotte on Augnat
aoth, but offtrtala stated that the
eest Carolina meeting was much
more widely attended.
At the November
‘ MMre were more then two
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^ FSSiSBSSgi
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, NOV. 23,1*57
PRICE: M dEMTS
Convention,
Mrs. M. A. Home, president and
Mrs. SUen S. Alston, Executive
secretary; and the Woman’s Mis->
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Durham AHE
Church Receives
New Minister
The Bev. Melvin Chester
Swann, tor the past live years,
pastor of Bethel AME Church of
Oreensboro will be the new pas-'
tor of St. Joseph AME Church
of Durham.
The appointment of Bev.
Swann to his new poet eame at
the close of the annual session
of the Western Nortti Carolina
Conference held In Raleigh last
week. The new pastor of St
Joseph will succeed Bev. D. A.
Johnston, who has been at tha
local chutcih for the past nine
years. Rev. Johnsten will go to
Qreensboce aw pastor of Bethsi
AME Chunk. '
Rev. Swann came to the Wes
tern North Carolina Cotorence
from ^ItfnUie vdiere he initiat
ed the constsoction of the flOO,
000 Hemmlngway Temple. Ete ia
a graduate of Claric University
and Oammon Theological Semi
nary in Atlanta, Georgia. He al'
so took advanced study at Union
Tbeological Seminary In New
York and A&T College graduate
aehooL
In addition to his work m
pastor Rev. Swann is in charge
of radio and tooadcast educatlmt
of the AME Church and will
represent the church at the
general assembly of the National
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AMEZ May Purge
Charlotte Gergyman
WINSTON-SALEM
The poBslbility that discipli
nary action may be taken against
an AME Zion minister of Char
lotte whose stand on race rela
tions has been declared in con
flict with the church's was indi
cated at the annual meeting of a
unit of the church’s state organi
zation here last week.
The western North Carolina
Conference of the AME Zion
church passed a resolution dis
avowing support of Dr. J.S.N.
Tross's publicly admitted state
ments on race relations and hint-
ed of possible action against the
Zion cleric.
Tross’s position on race rela
tions have been repeatedly aired
In a newspaper he publishes in
Charlotte.
"We declare that the position
of Dr. J. S. Nathaniel Tross (on
race relations) is not now...and
never will be the position of the
AME Zion connection. We will
not harbour segregationists in
our Church...” the resolution
stated.
It was passed by the confer-i
ence and signed by the confer
ence chairman, Salisbury district
presiding elder C. E. Norment,
and five other members of the
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T’hit scene showing AME Zion in Winston-Salem. Pictured here! ference. Left to right, they arei Hunter, Charlotte district; Bis-
clergymen was taken during the| are the church’s seiUor Bishop the Reverends L. C. Clark, North hop Walls; Reverends C. E. Nor-
church’s recently concluded wes-iW. J. Walls, fourth from left,\CharU>tte district; I. L. Houston,] ment, Salisbury, district and J.
tern North Carolina conferencel and presiding elders of the con-| Winston-Salem district; G. W | D. Gladden, Lincolnton district
Herbert L. Wright, national
youth secretary for the NAACP,
will be heard in an address at
North Carolina College next
Tuesday, Nov. 26, at 10:80 a.m.
in B. N. Duke auditorium.
Wright’s appearance is spon
sored by the college NAACP
chaptsr. The program is open to
the public.
Mitchell Sees Negro Legbbtors From Dixie As NAACP
Sets Strategy To Use New Law In Expanding Race Vote
ATLANTA
Southern leaders of the Na
tional Association tor the Ad
vancement of Colored People
and cooperating organizations
‘last week set a goal of 3,000,000
Negro voters in 11 southern
states by 1060. The goal was an
nounced Sunday by Roy Wil
kins, the Association’s executive
secretary, at the close of a two-
day planning conference attend
ed by 8S representatives from
Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia,
Flmrida, Louisiana, M1ss1ss1m»1,
North Carolina, Tennessee,
South Carolina and Virginia.
The southwlde conference was
called by the NAACT to develop
a program to enlarge registra
tion and voting by Negro citi
zens under provisions of the
1957 ClvU Righto Act, the first
A. T. Spaulding Appointed To
Government's Emergency Cabinet
Antiouncement of ttie appoint
ment Am T. Siwuldlng to tho
President’s emergency cabinet
was made this week from Dur
ham following Spaulding’s re
turn from Washington where he
spent four days in briefing for
his new Job.
rormal title for Spaulding’s
new Job la that of Natkmal D*-
ienae Bxecutlva Beaarvlst. The
yrogram was establidiad under
the National Defenae Produetioa
Act in 195S to provide key go-
vsrmaent agendas and depart^
OMBta with trained paiaaanet
in tka ease at an tmrgmry.
Each department of the e:
cutlve branch haa been assigned
reserve personnel who will
swing Into action if an emergen
cy developa. Spauldini^ was
named to the State Department’s
national defense executive re-
Since the establishment of tlM
mobilization program, some 1100
reaervists have been appointed.
Tha fiill complement is 1,200.
All reservists have beao cleared
for security.
Aeoor4|ng to Gordon Gray, dii
rector of tbe oftlee ai Defense
(oaatinaad ea pa^e 8)
such law passed by Congress in
82 years. A statement issued by
the conference calls for coopera
tion of local and state NAACP
unite with chturches, organized
labor, civic, professional and fra
temal soci^es in a southwlde
drive to expand vastly the num
ber 6f registered Negro voters in
this region.
“We seek as our first goal,”
the statement asserts, "the regi^
tration of as high a proportion
of Negro voters as of whites. The
immediate goal is to bring Negro
registration up to 60 per cent
of Ito potential or about 3,000,
000 voters by 1960. With the in
centive of the 1957 Civil Rights
law, we are confident that this
goal can be reached.” This goal
would more than double the pre
sent Negro registration of about
1,250,000 in these states.
Clarence Mitchell, director of
the Washington bureau who told
the conference that opponento of
the newly enacted civil righte
law were afraid that “Integra-
tioa at the polls” wouM work
fundamental changes in the po
litical complexion of the South,
predicted the early election ol
Negro legialators from the South
as a result of the anticipated ex
panded Negro voting under the
new dvU.rights act.
Tbe new law, signed by Presi
dent Eisenhower on Sept. 0, es
tablishes a Commission of Civil
Rights to investigate sworn com-
plalnto that dtizens have been
denied the right to vote because
of their race, religion or national
origin; to ^dy and collect in-
formatlea concerning 1^1 de-i
v^tvmente ctmstituting a denial
of equal protection at the laws;
and to appraise laws and policies
of the federal government con
cerning equal protection of the
laws.
Kelly M. Alexander of Char
lotte, N. C., a member of the na
tional Board of Directors, was
nanuM chairman of a committee
on implementation >of the con
ference objectives. Named to
serve with him were W. Lester
Banks of Richmond, Vs.; Mrs. L.
C. Bates, Liftie Rock, Ark.; C. R.
Darden, Meridian, Miss.; A. T.
Walden, Atlante; W. C. Patton,
Birmingham; and B(rs. Ruby
Hurley, Atlanta. The committee!
will meet within 80 days to plan
action for a full scale campaign.
Seek Removal of Restrictions
In response to a question rais
ed at a press conference follow-
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Church Marking
(4th Year With
Program Series
Celebration of the 64th anni
versary of Covenant Preaby-
terian Church in Durham will
continue Sunday with two speci
al Mrvlces at tte church, it was
at tb* church last Sunday. It eoi
tinu^ with a Family Hour wor
ship program Wednesday night.
An anniversary dinner Monday
night at seven at the church will
bring the celebration to a close.
Sunday has been designated
anniversary Sunday, and two
special programs, one at eleven
and anotheFat^sTx will be held.
Eev. J. W. Smith, pastor of the
church, will speak during the
eleven a.m. service, while Dr.
John R. Dungree, pastor of the
United Presbyterian Church of
Henderson, will deliver the main
address during the evening ser
vice.
L. E. Austin, publisher of the
Carolina Times, will be the main
speaker for the concluding pro
gram in the anniversary series
Monday night.
Mrs. Almeda Spears is chair
man of the anniversary celebra
tion committee. She is assisted In
directing the observance by
Richard T. Pippin and Howard
Fitts.
£
J. W. Davidson, principal of section provides the school with
Pearsontown school, points to
scale model thawing newly con
structed wing for school as Mrs.
lola Mason, president of school
committee, looks on. The
wing was formally dedicated in
ceremonies at the school last
Sunday afternoon. Completed at'was occupied on Oct. 16.
a cost near $150,000, the new!
nine more classroom*, a cafe-
teria-auditorium and aujriliarv
rooms. The school also gained an
additional 300 pupils when the
new former wooden frame Pearson
town school on Fayetteville road
was abandoned. The new section
Here And There
DR. DUNGEE
State PTA Congress To Gather
In Raleigh Friday For Confab
RALEIGH
LlgoQ high school here will
provide the setting for the 18th
yearly convention of the North
Carolina Congress of Colored
Parento and Teachers Friday and
Saturday.
“Imperatives for Growth iq
home, school, _ community,”
theme of this years conference,
will be treated by three wor-
shops during the conference and
a major address by the or^nlza-
tion’s president.
Three workshops are sche
duled for Friday afternoon, and
Mrs. Mary C. HoUoday of Stai
ville, will deliver the presiden
tial address on Friday evening.
Committee meetings, exhlbito,
demonstrations, showing of films
and a Youth forum are also fea
tures of the conference.
A dinner meeting Friday at
6:80 at which specisl awards
and recognitions will be made
and a reception for delegates fol
lowing the President’s address
will highlight the less formal
aspects of the conference.
The event of widest public In
terest will come Friday night
when Mrs. Holliday is scheduled
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THE RACES: A bit of history was recorded in Durham
on Wednesday when Negro and white practical nurses held a
joint workflhop at the Methodist Retirement Home In
Statesville wbere white heat was generated at the arrefiti Urt
^ . -4irq Nagso meil wito thpir white girl fri^
lUagi dtiwn early thfii week. Hie
girls, Judith and Martha Lambeth, 17 and 19 years old, and
their mother were escorted out of the town by poHcp. One
of the two NegroeSi Alfred Smith, 22, will face trial on chnrpes
of driving without operator’s license and having an improper
muffler ... At Asheville, students from some 14 city and
Buncombe County schools appealed to President Eisenhower
this week to call or sponsor a national youth conference as a
counter measure to acts of violence attending integration of
public schools .... Dr. Edwin Edmnnds, Negro leader of
Greensboro, charged the City Council with acting in a venge
ful manner in deciding to sell the city’s public pools rather
than run the risk of desegregating them in the future ....
North Carolina Baptists took time out from Asking colleges to
stop that dancing to hear a report from its committM on
social service and civic righteousness which said there are
indications a “sizeable minority of Baptists are ready to move
forward toward the Christian solution of race problems.”
EDUCATION: Three Tar Heel educators who have
contributed over 100 years service to the
state's public schools were honored at the
Resource-Use Conference at North Carolina
College last week. At top are Mrs. Lawrence
Woodson of Raleigh, State Elementary
School Supervisor, and William Collins, prin
cipal of Johnston County Training School at
Smithfield. Inset is Mrs. Clara S. Jamerson,
of the W. B. Wicker School faculty in San
ford. They received plaques and citations
.... St. Augustine’s, Livingstone and John
son C. Smith all announc^ this week receipt
of allocations from the United Negro College Fund. St. Augus
tine’s received $11,135.76; Livingstone, $12,530.76; and
Smith, $14,193.51 .... The fundamental cause for shortage
of scientists and science teachers is that unequipped science
and math teachers make their subjects out to be so hard,
difficult and unusual that they scue prospective elementary
school pupils away from them, so said Dr. Samuel P. Massie,
director of Fisk University’s workshop for science and math
teachers .... Dr. Rose Butler Browne, professor of Education
at North Carolina College, told a Barber-Scotia college stu
dent audience last week that the world will not accept them
unless they are prepared to be good . .'. and good for some
thing ... Newly elected officers of the North Carolina Negro
College Clonference are Dr. L. S. Cozart, Barber-Scotia prexy;
Dean Foster Payne of Shaw; Dr. George Davis of Elizabeth
City; Dr. A. F. Jackson of A. and T. College and W. E. Blue-
ford of Johnson C- Smith. Cozart is the new president ....
Samuel C. McGhee, Hampton Institute instructor, recently
returned from Kakata, Liberia where she spent two years
an the ICA staff . . . Gilbert Riley, Durham, senior, has been
elected “Mr. Chidley Hall for 1957." Chidley Hall is North
Carolina College’s men’s residence hall.
RELIGION; ’The Credit Union of Durham’s West Dur
ham Baptist Church will hold Open House Friday at seven
and sponsor a worship hour Sunday evening at seven-thirty
in observance of National Credit Union month .... The
monthly meeting of the Durham Interdenominational Ushers
Union will meet Sunday afternoon at Mount Gilead Baptist
Church