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ARKANSAS FINE LIFTED
Nine White Students Are Among
21 Ajirested in Winston-Salem
Large scale arrests of partici
pants in the currcnt sit-down dem-
onstrattqns protesting segregation
at lunch' counters continued in
North Ccirolina this week with the
arrest of 21 persons in Winston-
Salem and three in Charlotte.
During the week, there were
a meeting over the week-eml. an
nounced that, they were withhold-
i n g further demonstrations tci
await developments in talks with
the store managers.
Ther* hints from inform
ed tourcci that th* variety t?or*s
in Greensboro which became tar-
NAACP list Protected
Unanimous Vote
Says Group Has
Right to Secrecy
WASHINGTON, D. C. — The
NAAd* clmlked up a major victory
in iU fight In alive in the
South when tho United Slates Su-
prenn> C«)urt ruled Tuesday that
two Arkanti.is NAACP units do hot
have lo disclosc their membership
lists.
Actually, Ihc court was ruling
on the coiiRtitiilionaUty of two tax
ordinances in Little Rock and
Noflh Lille Ilock, Ark. The ordi-
nHnces required that the local
NAACP units fil6 tinanciai sUte-
monis and discWe memlwrship
rolls.
By a tmaniinM^ vote, fhe
H^d thatfbAlh «irdin«neM
fines imposed on Bates,
president of the Arkansu NAACP
branches, and Mrs. Birdie Wil
liams, head of the North -Little
Rock branch.
Both had been levied with fines
by Arkansas for failing to disclose
membership lists in accordance
with the ordinances.
unwarrantid *yioi.Ans)M_
fn its written opinion, the high
tribunal contended that the .ordi
nances used against the Arkansas
NAACP units were an unwarrant
ed violation of the rights of the
NAACP membe^ to freedom of
as.scmbly.
It agreed with arguments pre
sented by NAACP attorne.vs that
disclosure of NAACP membership
lists would subject the orgraniia-
tion’s members to harassment and
possibly bodily harm.
Observers saw in the Supreme
Court’s decision the first impor
tant legal battle ■ won by the
NAACP in its running battle with
See SECRECY, page 6
also indications that students whol gets of th* A&T students' pro-
started protests in some Tarheel | See A|(*ESTED, page 6
cities were ready to call off the -
demonstration.s to await develop
ments in'negctiations.
A* the protest spread to other
states in region, violence erupt
ed and tnore arrests were made.
Eleven persons, ten whi 'e and
one Nefro, were arrested follow
ing a tcuffle inside a Chatta
nooga, Tenn., variety store on,
Tuesday. Thirty-four were book
ed on trespess charges in Rich
mond, Va., on Monday.
In FiwI Speech
As Howard Prexy
Dr. Mprlecai Joimson, president
of Howard University, will be in
Durham Sunday and Mondav for
what are likely to be his final ad
dresses in this area as president
j of the Washington, D. C., instilu-
In. Raleigh, where 43 students lion.
from St. Augustine’s College and Dr. Johnson will speak at ves-
Shaw Ubiversity were arrested last • pers on Sunday afternoon and
STUDINTS PkOiM CASTRO'S
iuBA VHIT MCC^Tw* Durham
ftutftnM at Ntr.li Caratlna Cot-
l«t«, Re^id piKe«l^, second
Irom ' m# Ami* Stephens,
second fr^ th^jNiiBhly en-.
joyed a thcdfe myr Visit Includ
ing lunch witttl-ihe above two'
students from we University of
Havana, Cuba, who visited NCC
last wetk. Cuban itudent ^t left
is Marena Elena Dtea. YMAfh is
Huntberto Lopez Morales. NCC
photortby Ray.
week, ti!(als were scheduled to be
held on- Thursday. The students
were charged with trespassing.
Nine white students from
Wake Forest College were among
the 21 arrested in Winston-Sal
em on Tuesday. The Negro stu
dents were from Winslon-Salem
Teachers College. I
The group was arrested around
noon Tuesday at the F. W. Wool-
worth store and charged with tres
passing. They sat at the lunch
counter of the store afid were
charged on w^jrrants signed by the
store manager Herman Warren.
^Aisles leading to the lunch coun
ters had been blocked and store
clerks stationed at the entrances
to scftfen customers coming tf> the
eal4lts
ipwHce cheers w frenv
Negro btritanders who were
among a'targe group of onlook
ers gathered outside in front of
the store.
A&T College students, following
attain before an all-coliege a.'^sem-
bly on Monday at North Carolina
College.
The Vespers servic" Rtart.s a
See PREXY, page b
■
BRANDIS
Winstoii'ielai
Business
Sent fo
PRAiljE NKRUMAH FREEZE
AMEs Blast France For
African Bomb Tests
SPEAKS IN TEXAS — John S.
Stewart, Durham Business and
pelltkal leader, was schedwied
to address the Dallas Negro
Chamber «f Commerce's annual
banquet in that Texas cit^r on
Friday, February 26. The affair
was slated for the Dallas Memo
rial Auditorium. Siewart Is a
member of the Durham City
Cauncil, led the Durham Com-
mltee on Negro Affairs t* be
coming one of the most effective
political action organiiations «f
I s kind among Negroes in the
coiihtry, and holds important
positions on Boiicy-making bod
ies of many Durham businesses.
PHILADBtPHIA —Bishop Sher
man 1,. Greefie, Senior Bishop of
tiie African Methodist >EpiscopaI
Church last week called the ex
plosion of the French nuclear wea
pon in the Sahara “a ‘ragic ex
ample of man’s misuse of the
blessings of science.”
Speaking at the open:ne of the
Richard Allen Bi centennial Obser
vance at i^hiladelphia’s Academy
of Music, Birhop Greene staled
that “the' decision of the French
government to conduct its atomic
test in Africa '‘merely to gain pres
tige” as “an inexcusable act of fol
ly representing a total disregard
for the welfare of the African peo
ple themselves.”
"Christianity In Africa, al-
ready on trial against Islam and
Marxism has been given a set
back that will take decades to
recover. This decision by Cen
tral DeOuaMe to ignore world
opinions and explode his atomic
bomb in Africa will do matb-
ing to convince the people of
the emerging African states that
Christliin nal'lons have a friendly
attitude towards them."
Concluding the Bishop praised
Prime Minister Nkrumah of Ghana
for his decision to freeze the busi
ness assets of France in his coun
try.
Ike Sends Wire io Celebration
Of Richard Allen's Birthday
NEW YORK—The President of
the United States and tiie Govern
ment' of 33 slates were among the
scores of officials to send greet
ings last week to the African
Mehtodist Episcopal Church on the
200lh Anniversary of its founder,
Richard Allen.
The King Fights On
ATLANTA. Ga.—"Putting me in
jail won’t stop our fight.”
Rev. Martin Luther King pledged
to continue his civil rights work
despite his arrest here on .Ala
bama income tax charges.
Dr. King is free under S2,000
bond on two charges of perjury
brought by a Montgomery. Ala.,
grand jury. He faces an extradi
tion hearing.
SPEAKER —John H. Wheeler,
chairman of the Durham Com
mittee on flegro Affairs and
president of Mechenics and Far
mers Bank, will be one of the
key speakers at Kittrell College's
Founder's Day on March 1. He
I will speak at ten o'clock.
Bishop F. D. Jordan of New Or
leans, La., chairman of the Bi
centennial CDmmission’s Govern
mental Liaison Committee hailed
the congratulatory messages and
tributes as unprecedented recog
nition of Rich.^rd Allen as one of
the greatest Americans of all
time.”
Text ,of the President's message
which was read by Bishop Jordan
at the Richard Allen Bi-centcnnial
Banquet last weeic is as follows;
White House, Washington, 0. C.
"It is a pleasure to send gree'-
ing to the members and friends
of the African Methodist Epis
copal Church gathered in honor
of the 200th anniversary or their
founder. Bishop Richard Allen.
By fai Ih, Bishop Allen knew that
every person has e|ual rights as
a child of Cod. In prayer and in
service to his fellow men, he
knew that all citiiens are expect
ed to give their best efforts. To
this end he established the Afri
can Methodist Episcopal Church.
Congratulations and best wishes
for a fine meeting.
Dwight D. Eisenhower"
Governors sending messages irf-
cl,uded James T. Blair, Missouri;
John Burroughs, New Mexico;
George Clyde, Utah; Price Daniel,
Texas; George Decking, Kansas;
Michael DiSalle, Ohio; William
Egan. Alaska Buford Elligton, Ten-1
nessee; Foster Furcolo, Massachu-j
setts; Harold Handley, Indiana; |
See RICHARD ALLEN, page 6 |
: WIN.STON'SAlJOf — Ai»r»w £
‘ T»TTe!l Winatnrt - Mem Tesefcen
I College buftncM wMnairrr wtw at-
\ :emptei to kill Mmaclf two mMthy
; a‘-!o while stale andflars werr fm-
I ina over his reconh, w»t charKc4
, this week with ten CMnHs of forge-
ry by city poliee. '
Terrrll was baqrftalized Twes-
! day, however. aatb«rMl«
I came to serve him with the war-
' rants.
The warrants were iasued after
State .Auditor Harry BrUnaa dik-
closed that a Uortasc ^ tl2.SU;-
63 existed in the Teaekera Coicsc
accounts: “
"We are nmt going fo brint
a man wit* ie slcir IHns liwt
to jaM," Detectlvo Caytaiw W. ■.
Burke tnpttthtmd foflewing Toft
rcM's admittanc* !• Kale
ting Reynold* heepifel.
The Detective captain told «ew»-
men that hr had railed in Forsjtb
County health officer Dr. Fr»d
I’egg to examine THreil bcfovc
the latter was sent to tJie boafi-
lal.
Burke iuiid when he caltcd the
Terrell iiome on the college cam
pus before attempting to serve the
warrants, he was told tliat the
business manager was sick and in
bed.
EXAMINED BY OOCTOU
The police official tben had Dr.
I Ppqg examine the 80 vcar oW
school official. Pegs consulted with
Perreirs private ptlysicias and
both agreed he was too sick to be
jailed.
A Charei Iliil board of eduta Solicitor ilanney Lupton acrom-
yun lupnibcr who quit last sum- panied Burke and Dr. Pegg to the
liior because the board refused to; Terrell home,
kdiiiit a Negro sUuient to a pre-: The audit .if the Winsto»Salem
Viousiy all-white school, will speak | Teachers College boolcs which re-
11 Ourbani Sunday night. suited in tlie cliargcs lcvrlt«l
He is Hr. Henry P. Brandis, against Terrell started in late Oef-
•li-an of the University of North as a routine cli»-ck.
C.irolina Law school. He vnll speak; When the team discttvei«4 the
at the union Baptist Cmr^-I| a*»Vlrst series o| “diacrepMries.'’
;^q(=FICUtt*' , ipL PMC «-
TRYlN^q TO fOoL NEGROES
VAL WASHINGTON CLAIMS
lYNDON JOHNSON PHONY
Over Integration
To Speak Sunday
BERRIAN RETURNS FROM
GUINEA—Dr. Albert Berrian,
chairman of the North Carolina
College Romance Language de
partment, points to map of Africa
from which he recently returned
after hAvIng spent several week
in Cuinea studying aspects of
that country's educational sys
tem and exploring possibilities
of es ablishing an institute at
North Carolina College to train
teahers for the new Republic.
Dr. Berrien made the trip at
the request of the Guinean gov
ernment.—Photo by Jordan.
NCC Students to Chart Own
Course of Action in Protest
Indications were manifest this
week that North Carolina College
students will chart their own
course and follow their acknow
ledged leaders in the sit-down pro
test which they started two weeks
ago against downtown variety
store lunch counters.
Lacy Streeter, NCC junior and
one of the leaders of the move
ment, told the TIMES last week
that students are not too hopeful
of achieving their aim through the
negotiations machinery which has
been set up between* the college
administration and the Durham
Human Relations Council.
"After last yeer's experience
with the Human Relations Cown-
cil, students are not hopeful that
we can obtain satisfaction
through this process," he said.
Streeter was referring lo th«
handling by the Human Relations
Council and a college committee of
the North Carolina College stu
dents protest against the Mer
chants Association policy of wel
coming students at the begmning
of the school term. The Associa
lion had excluded NCC students
from the welcome.
North Carolina College officials
appointed a student-faculty com-
mitte, headed by D. G. Sampson,
to settle through conferences with
the Human Relations Council, stu
dents’ grievances against the pol
icy of segregation at lunab coun
ters in downtown variety stores.
The move^es made after the
Humen rtHRions Council,
through its chairman, the Re*.
Werren Carr, announced that it
was available to assist in nego
tiating the matter.
Several meetings havp l>een held
between the two groups, but there
has been no official statement as
See PROTEST, page 6
WASHINGTON, D. C. — Sena
tor Lyndon B. Johnson’s current
efforts toward helping passage bf
civil rights le ’i.slation were brand-1
ed as “charadt” designed to “fool}
N’-egroes ami other minority
groups,” by Val J. Washington
din'ctor of th? Republican National
Committee Minorities Division
this week,
’ Washington’s statement on the
Texas Senator’s maneuvers said:
“The staged drama now going
on in the Senate, with other South
ern Senators reading mock criti
cisms of Senator Lyndon Johnson
(D-Teit.), is nothing more than a
charade intended to make Johnson
appear a kni.ghl in shining civil
rights armor,
‘•The Southerners, including
Johnson, know that passage of a
civil rights bill is inevitable. Their
strategy is to get as meaningless
a bill as possible and. at the sattie'
time, make Johnson appear to be
clashing with other Southern Sena
tors.
“In this manner, they hope to
fool Negroes and other miniority
groups into supporting the South
ern Democratic choice for the
Presidency,
“The Southern opposition. lel by
Senator Richard Russell (D-Ga.),
accuses Johnson of tricking them
by using “disorderly procedure”
to bring civil rights to the floor.
Notice that they do not accuse
him of doublerossing them. •
“Senator Russell is the Senate's
master of strategy and parliamen
tary procedure. He could not be
tritked by "disorderly prtKedure”
It is more Ukely that Russell help
ed Johnson, behind the scenes, to
devise the "disorderly procedure,
“Proof of Johnson's phoney
battle with other Southern Sena
tors can be. fdund in the record.
In I9S7. Johnson opi>osed “disor
derly procedure” and strived lo
send the GOP civil rights bill to,
the Eastland Judiciary Committee.
In presidential year 1960. however.
Johnson, is' all for bypassinc the
same committee.
“The inW) Johnson moves on
See PHONY, page 6
WASMINCTOM '
Wilkins Pledges
NAACP Aid To
Sit-in Strikers
NEW YORK — Loc^ bnMilct
of the National AsaociaUM tt tte
Advancement -of Cotorcd
throughout the couaity kaw ksea
called upon to support the a««th-
ern Negro students' campMXM to
end discrimination at the baMA
counters ia chain and local varietjr
stores.
The pnuest of tkcae yoiiag
people, NAACP Executive Sccye-
tary Roy Witkins s«id Ifcik w«ek in
letters to local hraagk
"have the cooperation a^H
of the NAACP fhr ‘.beT m I
ate expressiow of
democracy.'*
Previously, Mr. WilUto i
telegrams to CiceeStt Crtik
dent of S. HL Kres* gl
and R. C KMNroMt.
F. W. Weehw^
the principal dttia
ed in tlw
cfmnlew.
THa NAACP. M
See PkMMIk t