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limited' Integration: i nVE NEGROES ENIER ^MMLS ★ ★ Caution is Watchword in Five Integrated School Systems Integration Takes Place In Six Towns Six North Carolina com munities observed with inter est the beginning or continu ation of integration in their public schools as school boards this week moved warily in the direction pf compliance with the Supreme Court ruling of 1955. In those communities m which “token” integration was effected, these were the pre liminary observations: HIGH POINT: White high school student voluntarily re moved a decisive sign painted on the driveway of one of the schools to which two Negroes. Miriam Lynn and Brenda Jean Ljmn, sis ters, were admitted for the first time. The Lynns attended their first day’s classe* without inci dent. GREENSBORO: A Confederate flag was unfurled outside the Gil lespie Park Elementary School where five Negro youngsters were enrolled. Greensboro started its third year of limited integration CHARLOTTE: One Negro stu dent, Delores Fannie Waterman, enterfed the new Garinger High School in this' city’s third year of limited integration. The student was the only Negro admitted to “white” scl»jls in Charlotte thia year. WAYNE COUNTY (COLDS BORO): About 12 students, chil dren of Negro personnel at Sey mour Johnson Air Force Base be gan school with approximately 1000 white pupils at Meadow Lane Elementary School. WINSTON • SALEM: Seven Ne gro pupils quietly entered white schdols as this city bejan its third year of limited integration. HAVELOCK: Seventeen Negro ifudents, children of Cherry Point Marine Base personnel, entered white schools earlier last wek. RETURN postage GUARANTEED jy7HETRUTHl|glBfti5E0^|J VOLUME 35—NUMBER 36 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1959 PRICE: 15 CENTS Leaflets At Durtiam Higli,Name-Calling Mar Ottierwise Peaceful Transition At Tliree Schools Five Xegro students enrolled at three fjrnu'rly white schools in I>urhani amid an at mosphere of calm here Wednesday, Aside from some catcalls and epithets from loiterers around the buildings, the only untoward incidents rcjiorted by mid-day \\ ediK-sdav was the discovery' of a number of w Indianapolis Mayor Bacl(s Education Drive INDIANAPOLIS—Mayor Charles H. Boswell has issued a stay-in- school prbclamation. part of a na- tional campaign sponsored by the NAACP youth and college divi sion, it was announced this week. Similar proclamations are being planned in major cities such as Dallas, 'Texas; Oklahoma City, Okla.; Richmond and Norfolk, Va.; Nashville, Tenn.; Philadelphia, Pa.; Chicago, III.;. St. Paul, Minn.; Wi chita, Kan., and New York City, N. y. Mayor Boswell urged the young people of Indianapolis to return to their classrooms this fall. He further urged that "parents,, man- .agement, labor, educators, and all public and private agencies en courage our youth to complete the education so essential to them as future workers and citizens.” The NAACP youth and college division reports that a little over three-fourths of the students en tering high school manage to grad uate and the “drop-out” rate is risijig. NAACP Plans Conferences . In Key States NEW YORK. — Fall planning session of 10 key NAACP state conferences of branches, were an nounced this week by Gloster B. Current, director of branches. Alto Iowa, in Council BlMfft, Oot. 3-4; Virginia, in Danvillt, Oct. 9-11; North Carolina, in Ath«> vlll*, Oct. S-11; Illinois, in Alton, Oct. 23-25; South Carolina, in Greenvillo, Oct. 22-24; Kantai, In . .2941; fend tha North Vy**^ *''** in'Tacoma, WaiA., Oct. 3-4. CLAUDETTE BRAME SYLVESTER WILLIAMS ANITA BRAME AMOS WILLIAMS ANDRiE McKISSICK Seek Strong Rights Bill in U.S. Congress NEW YORK, -r- NAACP units throughout the country were urged this week to press their Washing ton Congressmen and Senators for a strong civil rights bill to coun teract the possible efforts of some Congressmen to push through a weak.WH'.ia lhe-dosingi,4«ys ot the present session. "If a WMk bill It pushed through at tho. last'minute, a ttrong bill may b« blocked until 1961 or later," NAACP Secretary Roy Wil kin* Mid In a memorandum to the membership. “Supporters of civil rights want a strong bill passed at this ses- action postponed, but we do not want a token bill, just so that certain leaders in Washington call it the Civil Rights Bill of 1959 and thus try to smother the issue in the 1960 election campaign. "Any bill that doet not providf for stronger action by the federal government in school desegrega tion catet, M well as Include besmbingt, voting rightt, extension of the Civil Rightt Committion and other 'itemt in the bill* which havf been kicked from pillar to pott In tKi* *et*ion it not a ttrong bill." The memorandum scored the blocking of the civil rights bill in the Senate Judiciary committee of which Senator James O. Eastland of Mississippi is chairman, and in the House Rules committee of which Rep. Howard Smith of Vir ginia is chairman. It pointed out that some Republican committee members in the House had voted with Southern Democrats to strike out certain key sections of the bill. “The House and Senate leader- Cancer Experts to Address Lincoln Hospital's Post Graduate Clinic; Program For [vent Revealed held here Wednesday, October 21, . . , . , . , at the Angicr B. .Duke Nurses ship of both parties, together with' Dr. Clyde Donnell, president of | This year’s meeting will feature Lincoln Hospital, tuesday announc-^ symposium on Cancer. Dr. Ellen ed program highlights of the 14th uB. Winston, Commissioner of the Annual Post Graduate Clinic to be North Carolina State Board of Welfare will be among opening speakers as she talks at the 9 A.M. ttie White House, must bear the responsibility for any decision The program is sponsored j(ri«- session on “North Carolina’s Plan of Cancer Control,” This part of i)liT at this session/ the NAACP cal Society and the staff of Lm-j directive declared. coin Hospital. Real Gone Berry Swings Out Of Mississippi, Through N. C. Registration For Bond Voting Begins Oct. 3 Rogittration book* for tho thir ty-four and a half million dollar ttatewide bend ittuo will opon at 9 a.m., Octobor 3, according to Sigmund Mayer, Chairman of tho Durham County Board of Bloct- ion*. Portont detiring to rogittor will have two Saturday! in addition to tho opening day of r«gi*trati«n. Thay will bo Saturday, October 10 at which time tho bookt will opon at 9 a.m., and clot* at 5:46 p.m., day of rogittration. Challenge day for the tpaclal bond election will be October 24. Regittrar* will remain at their polling placet from 9 a.m., until 3 p.m. Th« election will be held Tuet- day,.October 27-uit.whieh.tim«..ttae poll* will open at 6:30 a.m., and dote at 6:30 p.m Any way you cut it. it was a swim;ing move ^for Charles (Chuck) Berry, the rock and roll singer. That is. Berry really swung out of MissLuippi, foUowipg his release on %ond, pursliant to his arrest in Meridian, Miss., Where a 20-year-old white girl complained that Berry had tried to date her, during Berry’s ap pearance at a high school dance. From Birmingham, where Berry paused to evaluate his unwanted residence in a Mis sissippi jail, the word was on and upward. And that means northward. ° Going back to M ississippi to sti'aighten out the little misun derstanding, Mr. Berry? Going back to where? V Durham area fans, attention: Berry will appear at the Dur ham Armory with Shirley & Lee in a Dawn Dance uncapped at 12:01 a.m., Labor Day, Sept. tcmber 7. And watch Berry. Like he knows how tb swing, man. ... -m Carolina. At. lO.A.M. the group will hear a workshop discussion on three leading cancer sites. Participants of Cancer ol the Breast” “Cancer of the Genito-Intestin-j al Tract” will be the theme of thei 1:30 a.m. session. Dr. G. J. Bay-! lin and Dr. Charles D. Watts will open the workshop with talks in "Cancer of the Stomach and the U|?per G. L Tract. leaflets on the Durham High School lawn early Wednesday before the opening of school. Police said they were investi gating the source of the 1 eaf- let« but late Wednesday had not discovered their source. Printed on a sheet approxi- matey 2 inches long and four inches wide, the leaflets read; “Remember Little Rock- The people there at least had the ‘guts’ to fight. Does Durham have less courage? Originally, eisht Negro pu pils had been selected from a list of 225 applicants to make the historic move. Two, Amos and Sylvester Williams, were reassigned to a Negro school when their par ents moved out of the white school district shortly before school opening. Another, Larry Scurlock, as signed to Durham high, had not returned to the city from an out of town job. The five who were enrolled Wednesday are Alonzo Vick ers, of Shirley Street, and An- dree McKissiclc, of North Rox- boro, Carr Junior High; Lucy Jones, of Berkeley Street, and Anita Brame, at Onslow Street, Brogden, Junior High; and Claudette Brame, also of On slow Street, Durham High. Four of the fhre who broto the color barrier in Dnrham't public schools chat tad excited ly about their experience* in Durham’s first intesrated schools foUowinf their first day. Alonzo Vickers, Andree Me- Kissick, Lucy Jones and Anita Brame, all joni’ar high school students, agreed that they en countered little trouble at Hm schools. Vickers said he was called a “black nigger” at Carr Junior High as he left the building far the day. But he added that he believed the young white bar who hurled the insult was not a Carr student All five of the students mtn escorted to the schools by their parents or some other gromi- up. At Durham High, Claudette Brame was admitted to a side door apparently in a pre-ar ranged plan and escaped nem- men and photographers wlio had waited at the front en trance. Cr.vBaylin and Dr. Max SShiebel will discuss “Cancer of the Colon and the Rectum. Dr. Wayne Bundles will sum marize “The Stateus of Chemithe- . , ,, c I u I Cancer Therapy” at the 0* ‘his session. will talk on ‘Cancer of the Lung ; Dr. W. L. Thomas, “Cancer of the Dr. David T. Smith of Duck Cervix”, and a speaker to be an- University Will summarize the nounced to dicuss “The Challenge ■ overall symposium. Cong. Diggs Blasts '40 & 8' Policy, (kiits American iegioii American Legion Action Refusing Negroes Said Aid to U.S. Enemies NEW YORK, — The American, doctrine, although a substantial Legion was charged with “giving' minority dissented, ammunition to Americas com- “Millions of Negro Americans muist enemies, this week by the gj.g gjgo disturbed about a system I NAACP for refusing to remove that openly humiliates them with CHUCK BERRY Decision To Drop Race Clause In Urban Renewals is Applauded MONTCLAIR, N. J.—The fed eral government’s decision to stop relocating Negro families dis placed by federally-assisted urban renewal programs according to race was hailed this week by the NAACP. Jack E. Wood, NAACP special assistant for - housing, called the scraping of the racial reservation stipulation in Scction 221 “a giant step toward establishing full equal ity under federally-assisted hous ing.” Wood addressed the Mont clair Clergymen’s Club here. The government’s former policy of reserving portions of 221 hous ing by race was planned, accord ing to federal housing, officials, “to meet the needs” of displaced tenants. “However,” Wood continued, “prejudiced builders and local city governments across the na- encc in Miami in 1855. Wheeler tion misinterpreted -the—-stipula- was appointed to the group by tion to t^ean federal approval of Austin, Wheeler At AME Meet Philalelphia — John H. Wheeler and L. E. Austin were amc>,g sev eral high ranking A. M. E. Church officials here Wednesday and Thursday for a regular meeting of the general church board. The two-day meeting opened at Jones Tabernacle A. M. E. Church on Diamond street Wednesday afternoon. The general board of the A. M. E. church is the official executive body between session of the Gen eral Conference. Austin was elected to the body at the church’s general confer- Bishop Reid. segregated housing. the anti-Negro ban of its subsid iary 40&8 society. racial clauses and refuses to grant their children equal opportunity In a telegram to Legion Com- in unsegregated education,” Mr. mander Preston J. Moore, NAACP Wilkins said. Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins | He also charge ^hat the same added that, “the Jargest organiza-1 “system” is “playing the shell tion of men who went into uni-1 game with a Congressional civil form to fight for democracy is on record as not believing in the doc trine, although a substantial is on record as not believing in the rights bill,” but concluded: Hoo- “ray for America! Long may she live in spite of her poison pill doctors.” Coiif^rcssman Charles C.'8 subsidiary in Difl^s (I).-Mich.), rcsifjjicd, groups of this week fruni the .\inericau Legion’s fun-making “-10 aiid S” cor))s. announced liis resi}'- a tclcfjrain to Leg^ion coniinaiukT Preston I. Moore. excluding tueh hAoorably dis charged veterans, wko kare stfved with sacrifice in the defenA of our way of life, is indefensible. which read as follows; “I hereby resign from my mem bership with your organization as a protest against its rejection of a proposal to permit voluntary racial integration in local units of the 40 & 8. “The innocuous substitute res olution which passed calling for ‘sympathetic support’ for a ‘re examination’ of the membership restriction merely compounds the insult of your action. This shock ing demonstration of intolerance against legionnaires of Oriental and Negro d^ent (which makes it apply to me personally) makes a mockery out of the democratic ideals to which your organization is committed. “That you, in effect, would con done the practices of your 40 & “I will continue ta support my local chapter, ^Charles Young Poet worAwfaile pro grams as 1 have dona ia the p«t as a private a Member ti the Michigan Stata Senaie Veter ans Committee, and a member al the United States HoMe ei Repe«- sentatives Committee oa Veterant Affairs. However, I cannot in good coD- science remain a member of. tM ‘Un’-American Legian as Imtg m the aforementioned discriminatiaa is the official policy of the or ganization. “The vote of yoor southern dele gates against the idtegration pro posal was not surprising, but ta see a majority of Mrthem dele gates, including tbeee from my own State of Miehigaa, associate themselves with thia anti-demo- crAic viewpoint gives validity to the oft-repeated soMthem ciwr(e that all race discrimination is imt below the Bason-Dixoo Line. Tennessee Segregationists Ask to ih Court hut Down School MON'TEAGLE, Tenn.—The seg-| tional character of the school's i was on trial for violating Tennes-1 licly announcd that he has Mei| regation battle moves from Little support may see the . . . hearing [see statutes against teaching of j ordered and directd by tbe tltn . . . turn Altamont into a stage] evolution in public schools.” j eral Assembly ot tke State ot Ite- presenting a drama rivaling that| The District Attorney General^ nesse to bring an Action Highlander Falk SdweL Rock to Altamont, Grundy County, Tennessee on Monday, September 14th at 9 a.m. At that time a petition propos ing the p||ilocking of The High lander Folk School will be heard. There is no word of the real charge—that Highlander, in exist ence for 27 years, has always been an. integrated school, and that in recent years has based its program on full citizenship and integra tion. in Dayton, Tenn. a quarter of a I of the eighteenth Judicial Circuit century ago when John T. Scopes' of the State of Tennessee has pub- Drop Charges Against Alderman In St. Louis Restaurant Case ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI — Peace , disturbance charges against Alder- The opposition to Highlander is clay were dropped in not only the story of opposition in j police court yesterday, Alderman Tennessee, but. also stems from cuy and two other members .r«f die-hard segregationists in Ark- Congress of Racial E^iuality ansas and Georgia. The petition ac-: (CORE) were arrested after at- Aion is a move to eliminate one of temping to secure service in a Ho- the few remaining integrated Johnson Restaurant at 3501 schools in the South working for fjorth Kings Highway, St Louis, full democracy. The Chattanooga- , 'Times, Aug. 13th stated, “There Alderman Clay is chairman of are many who feel that the na-^ the Committee of Fair Employ ment Practices of the St. Louis Board of Aldermen. He further said “ttat ka had the school wateked every day since the dose of lll» LegisUlive hearings to try to ***** somethbg that he could use t* twdtock the interracial institutiea.** On July 31s at tke ck>ee ef • dynamic workshop ^ Commnaity Leadership, SUte and County of ficers, acting pursuMM to a seerek CORE DEMONSTRATE warrant, raided the Schoot aid The CORE group plans to hold a »*«hed for liwior. they femd demonstration in front of the Ho- **® l*I**or at tke Schoel but ward Johnson Restaurant Friday',!**** director ef August 28th. CORE has been try-'Septima P. Clark, ing to secure service for all at the *long «itj| restaurant since April 1986. Over,^ UH 3& attempts have been to d/scuss tW situation with man^j ' (Sm charges, Pa«t I) I just i
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