A&T SniDENT STRKE SPREADMG
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These scenes were taken at the lunch counter of the F. W. Woslwvrth store in downtown Greensboro early this week. They t}>ow A and T College students counducting a sit-in strike at l>.e store’s iunch counter. The strike began MoiMlay, and as of
Wednesday, none of the students had been served. The fttudents read newspapers, studied or talked among themselves, at shoi«a in extreme left and right panels. White customers continued t j patronize the counter, as incKcated in center
“Blood Alley” Claims Another Victim
Second Slaying
On Greensboro
Lane in 2 Montlis
By AUBERT HART
SUff CorrespendMt
GHEENSBORO—A certnin part
of North Gllnier Street Is a nar
row, filthy three-blqffk thorongh-
fare lined* on both sides by ram-
shaclcic frme. shacks.. Its physical
'appearance ho didcrent frdm
that of scores of other Greensboro
back streets where this city’s poor
er Negro iesn\ents live. But this
part of Nokh Gilmer Street, )>or-
dcred on one fide by teenning East
Market and almost touching se-
drte Lindsay Street, has long been
a thorn in the sides of Greens
boro’s overworked group of Negro
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police who'cover the area. TTgKtS
jn the North Gilmer Street are
more frequent than in any other
part of this c!ty, according to ap
ftuthorativc source.
0»«th Strikes '
' On Friday afternoon, January
29, according to authorities. Myr
tic B. Watkins, of 803 Ashe Street
was in bed at 210 N. Gilmer Street, j
It was a dismal afternoon and Gil-]
tncr Street was preparing itself
for the busy weekend of drinking,
brawls and carousing. Friday is
"pay day” for the laboring men
of Greensboro.
According to authorities, a
Gladys Walls, alias Glariyx Wil
liams came to the Gilmor Street
address looking for tlic Watkins
woman. An argument reportedly
ensued during which the Watkins
woman elecled the Walls girl,
who is only 21 years old. from
the room. Gladys returned to the
mom with a knife and when the
argument got hotter She plunged
the weapon into the other woman’s
body.
The Watkins woman was dead
on arrival at L. Richardson Hos
pital.
Police arrcslod Gladys Walls and
See SLAYING, pag3 t
Basketball Game Fray
Funeral Rites Held In Durham for
Dick Tucker, Well-known Man
funeral rites for Richard 0.|
(Dick), Tucker, well known Dur-|
ham resident, were heid at the
Scarborough and Hargett funeral
chapel on Sunday afternoon, Jan.
31, at three o’clock p. m.
The Rev. A. L. Thomas, of Dur
ham, officiated at the chapel ser
vices. Burial rites were conducted
at Rcechwood cemetery on Mon
day, Feb. 1 at 11 o’clock «. m.
Tucker died at his re.sidence,
at 109 East Enterprise street, on
Friday, January 29. He was 65. He
had been ill for the past several
months.
A niitive of Granville County, he
was born on October 2, 1884, son
-«f the late Mr. and Mrs. William
'.'ucker.
Tucker i.s survived by one sis-
See FUNERAL, pafie 6
A&T Cager is
Hurt in Hampton
Cage Action
GREK.NS30R0—An A&T Col
lene playcV was in the campus
infirmary here at mid-week as the
result of injuries sustained in a
fracas during a basketball game
last Friday between the Aggies
and Hsmpton Institute.
He is f eshman forward Hugh
Evaiii', .vhose condition was not
made kr.- wn to newsmen.
Evans was injured when he and
Hampton Institute star Nat Trader
tangled near the end of the thira
quarter in a game at Hampton’s
gymnasium last friday night.
According to Hampton public
HENDERSON —» Bishop Frank j relations director, Joe Brady. Trad-
Madsion Reid, presiding prelate of ei-, going .in for a shot under the
the Second Episcopal District of basket, and Evans collided and
came down in a section of the
stands, filled with spectators.
Brady, discounting reports that
Evans was the badly outnun.bcred
combatant in a light which ensued
between him, Trader and Hamp
ton students, said that when the
two fell, several students fell up
on Evans and that in the crush of
the people tryjng to disentangle
themselves in the stands Evans
was hurt.
He said further in a telephone
conversation that Evans was im
mediately taken to the hospital
where he received x-rays, all of
which were negative.
Brady’s report was contradicted
by an unidentified eyevvi'ness who
said Evans pushed Trader as he
went in for a lay-up, and that
when the iwo fell to the floor,
Hampton students pounced upon
Evans, badly mauling him before
the Aggie bench could come to the
rescue.
However, A&T College public re
lations director E. F. Corbett said
as far as he knew A&T basket
ball officials had made no com
plaints to the school or the con
ference on the issue.
MYRICK
Students Protest Lunch Counter
Segregation at Woolworth Store
CiK KK.N.SHOKO—A sit-iu strike aj^ainst a downtown live
and ten vciits store, started Motilay when four A&T College
freshmen si)ontaneously sat for one hour at the lunch countcr
without l)einu; served, appearetl to have broadened into a com-
pHs-wide int)vcnient late Wednesday.
Bishop Improving
the A. M. E. Church, who was
admitted to Jubilee Hospital of
Henderson on January' 26 on ac-
See BISHOP, page 6
Man Dies From
Auto-Train
Wreck Injuries
Last - ritcf for -Jlobcrt (Bobby)
Myrick, 31 year old Durham resi
dent who-died as the result of in
juries sustained in a train-auto
collision, v/ere .slated to be held
at the Mt. Vernon Baptist Church
on Tuesday, Fehvuary 4.
The Rev. E. T. Browne, pastor
of Mt. V’ernon paptist, officiated.
Burial .service.' we.e sclicduled for
Sse MAN DIES, page 6
This was the situation here at,
mid-week a.s nearly 45 A&T Col
lege students took part i- the sit-!
in campaign beipg coniti.ctpd at
the F. W. Woolworth stores lunch
counter.
“We're prepared to keep com
ing for two years if we have to,’
an unidentified student told re-
pfjftqw.' ,» -
TIrt students have heeA.^ Sitting
at stofe’s lunch countet since
Monday in an effort to get serv
ice. So far, none have been served.
But the action is beginning to
have widespread effects
Already the^segregated part of
the lunch counter, a clo.sed in
snack bar which afforded stand
up service to Negroes, has t)een
cToseHT
In the meantime, a district su
perintendent of the chaii» store
has arrived from Atlanta, appar
ently to personally take charge of
the store’s handling of the situa
tion.
In addition, indications that the
students woul.i receive organized
support from the city’s lown.speo-
pie mounted Wednesday.
Cut South's
Representatives,
■I WilkiiK
f T IHtlllJ r I
Lakeview Elementary School to be
Dedicated in Rites Sunday
CITED BY CHURCH—John H.
Whtelcr, one 'of the firjt Ameri
can Negroes to be invited to
visit the Union of South Africa
by that government listens to a
citation read to him by D. E.
Moors during a brief proqram at
which St. Joseph's Church hon
ed WHkeler last Sunday night.
The citation and a plaque was
presented following report of
an extensive tour he made of
South Africa during December.
—Photo by Rivera.
State Clamps on Teachers to
Get Test Before Supreme Court
TUCKER
See FRAY, page 6
WASHINGTON — An Arkansas
law requiring public school teach
ers to list all their organizational
affiliations will be subjected to the
scrutiny of the United States Su
preme Court.
In response to an appeal filed
on Nov. 23 last by attorneys of
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
on behalf of R T. Shelton, a school
teacher, and the Arkansas Teach
ers Association,"the Court, on Jan.
25, agreed to review a lower court
judgment upholding the validity
of the statute
Through Robert L. Carter, N
AACP general counsel, of New
Y«rk City, and J. R. Booker and
Th*d Williams of Little Rock,
Shalton and the Teachers As
sociation contended that the Ar
kansas law was designed to crip.
pit the NAACP and is in viola
tion of the equal, pi*3tection and
due process clauses of the Pour-
See CLAMPS, page 6
Dedication services for the new
Lakeview elementary school were
announced this week. The pro-
grapi is scheduled for Sunday af
ternoon, Feb. 7 at three o'clocic
p.m.
Main speaker for the prosram
will be T{. N. harris, member of
the city board of education He
will bo introduced by J. W. David
son, principal of Pearsontown ele- ]
mentary school.
Keys to the building will be pre
sented to County schools superin
tendent Charles Chewning by Ken
neth Royal, chairman of the Coun
ty Board of Education.
Chewning will turn them over
to Dennis McCaskill, principal of
the new school.
Other participants on tne pro-
See SCHOOL, page 6
McCASKILL
Dr. George A. Simkins. presi
dent of the Greensboro N 4ACP,
said his organization is prepared
to assist the students in anv way
needed.
The fact tba. the sit-m campaign
had gathered support frotn A&T
student l>ody was seen on Tues
day,. secMul d|y^-.the,strike wt^ra
STIIkE, page 8
See SI
NEW YORK—NAAC? ETcecntivc
Secretary Roy Wilkins said Mon-
'tay that “if the South remains
stubborn on Negro disfranchise-
in e n t, disadvantaged northcl^
states ought to insist on a cut in
Congressional representation” from
■» uthern states denying Negro
voting rights.
"Tliis step would decrease
Dixie House member*, by 20 te
25 per cent and clothe them, so
to speak, hi th« proper size
britchos," W'lhins Midefl.
'The NAACP chief executive
spoke on "Freedom, Franchise" and
Segregation” at a forum ceU'lwrat-
ing the centennial of the found
ing of Cooper Union for the Ad
vancement of Science and Art
He spoke in the sa.'^ Great
Hall that housed the mass meeting
31 years ago. that helped briig
the NAACP into liehig. It is also
the hall in which Abraham Un^
coin made bis famotis'address on
Feb. 27, 1859 vindicating tl> prin
ciples of the new Republican par
ty.
DENIAL HELPS ONE PARTY
Wilkins pointed out that dis
franchisement of~citl2ens of both
races allows Southern congress
men and senators to be elected
and re-elected through their one-
party system.
Their resulting “seniority cives
them a disproportionately pcwer-
See WILKINS, page 6
The New Lakeview SM