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VOLUME 3«—No. 1»
DURHAM, N. SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1960
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CONVSNtrON COMMfTTKi —
Membars of the convcnfien ftUn*
nins tommittM of tti« Fun*r«l
biractort A«yMljrtip|fVv,(>tJ||Kl¥.
Carolina ara Mr* thor^*
ty aftar a tuNchaon in Durham
fhi* weak during wliich thay
want eyar plans for tha ergani-
(ation'a fartheeming eonvanfion.
Tha group wilt convfna in Dur^
>1, %iaN>av.1s. *p4k\(^ j54«'.
turc^ ara; laff fa right, frent‘
row, Jamat Pilgrim* Mr. and
Mr*. L. B. Garrik, A R. 'KalMy.
Sacond raw, tama-ordar, ara-C.
A. Klaywoad, L.. Ma^lip, R. M.
ar, and C. C. Sewell, Fourth row.
L. Rivara; and Mr*k 1h N. Me*
McLaurin. Th(H row/ laft to.
right, ara J. Holloway, C. H.
Morris, W. C. Ailfn, F. R. Coop-
Di Daffopi, Jr., Roberl
C. C. Stokes, and Charws James.
NAACP Moves
To Aid Victims
BH.OXI, Miss. Robert I/. Cirter,
NAACP general counsel, arrived
here by airplane Tiiursday to con
duct the defense of Dr. Gilbert Ma>
soil and others arrested in connec
tion with the wade-in demonstra*
tion of Negroes on the municipal
beach here on April 24.
Tha Nagre swimmar* ware
driven from tha baach by white
hoodlums while local police
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For G^la Pay
New School Suit Filed
Token Mixing
Plan Attaclied
In Complaint
A suit involving 170 Negro stu
dents was filed last week in the I
federal district court against the
Durham Board of Education. |
This is the largest number of I
plaintiffs in a single legal action
brought against a school system
since the Supreme Court 1954
decree outlawing segregation in
public education.
The Durham Board of Education
is accused of using the North Ca
rolina Pupil Plscement laws to
maintain and operate segregated
schools by assignment on the basis
of race.
The North Carolina Pupil
Placement statutes give local
school officials the authority to
assign school children on the
basis of various vague factors.
The suit charges the school
board with niaiing assignments on
the basis of 2 school zones—one
for white and another for Negro
'students. It also accuses school
onicials of operating 2 segregated
school systems.
The school board has not ap
plied the stale pupil placement
statutes as a means of abolish
ing state-imposed racial dlstinc-
tioi\S/ the oourt was told in the
«swi|p# t awiM ae«w j r,
SheparA, au horitie* advanced a "genuine outbre
methfid" for desegregating the
city's publlQ sctiools, the com
plaint charged.
The complaint was filed on be
half of 170 Negro children by
NAACP Legal Defense and Edu
cational Fund attorneys. It asked
the court to issue a decree enjoin-
mg the school board officials from
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Attack Victim Announces Plan
To R^i|i to Protest Movement
'••f '‘a'. ■serfcoji&t^saess SalWlaiy-as lieMprjuted ljt
li*e in Walgreen’s drug store to
JraStgiTiTis ■ Tile nlUuCITlS w ■iiy I Ilf IIS J If CUIIVWvy*
HI
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J. W. DAVIDSON
Host Potentate
Robinson Talks
Of Candidates
At NAACP Rally
RALEIGH — benaior John Ken
nedy (D.-ljlass.) must repudiate his
alliance with Gov. John. Patterson
of Alabama to win Negro voters,
Jackie Robinson, former baseball
star, said here Sunday.
Robinso}!. made the comment in
a discussion of candidates during a
speech before the North Carolina
NAACP’s ‘‘Freedom Day” rally at
Memorial Auditorium.
Nagroee made an all out effort
for Senator Hubert Hump^irey
In the Wisconsin primary, itob-
Inson revealed to his audieiica.
After the primary, he said Sen.
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Shriners. fi'oni ludozei^ ^
.'■cities in North -Cairothu will be in
Durham next Week-end for the
organization’s annual “ClalB Day”
activities. y
The activities will start on Fri-
' ^ay and continue through Saturday
’ night.
One of the more colorful high
lights of the two day gathering
will be ttie custfomary parade
I through downtown streets of no-
' vices who will be initiated.
The meeting opens bn Friday
! afternoon with a roundtable dis-
cussibn on several aspects of the
North Carolina shrine program.
Discussants slated to be heard
include key officials of the North.
Carolina organization.
A public meeting is scheduled
for Friday night at 7:30 p.m. at
St. Joseph’s A. M. E. Church. An
address by the Rev. Douglas E.
Moore, pastor of Asbury Temple) the N. C. House.
Methodist Church will feature'
this meeting.
Moore will be introduced by!
Frank Burnett, Impertial Deputy!
of North Carolina.
On Saturday initiations of no-1 More than 100 delegates from
vices will be held in the after-, g fjyg expected at
noon. Preceding Initiations will^ North Carorina College Fi'fday
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CANDIDATE—Dr. Grady A. Da
vis, dean of the School of Reli
gion at Shaw University, got his
campaign for a seat in the North
Carolina Legislalvna in high
gear last Saturday with a rally
In Chavis Park. Soma 200 per
sons showed up for the rally
despite a rain downpour. He is
seeking Wake County's seat in
school other than the one to which
they would be assigned if they
were white.
It also asked the court Xo direct
the school officials to cease operat-
mg segregated schools and to pre
sent a complete desegregation plan
within a time set by the court
The action resulted from re
fusal of the school board to grant
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Publisher irf Calif.
L. E. Austin, publisher or the
Carolina Times, left late Mon
day by plane for Los Angeles,
California, where he will attend
sessions Of the general confer
ence of the AME Church.
Austin was accompanied by P.
B. Richardson, of Nashville, both
of whom are delegates from the
s«cond district.
The chairman of the second
district delegation, the Rev. Mel
vin C. Swann, had left earlier
by automobile.
The conference ends on May 16.
outbreak of violence in connect
ion with the student protest
against segregated lunch counters
in Durham announced his inten
tion to return to the movement
this week.
"As soon as I can gat consent
from my parents," Willie Doug
las Burt, a slightly built 17 year
old Hillside senior told the
Burt was slugged into unconsci-
Women's Regional Meet at NCC
tiome Agenb
From 18 Counties
At NCC Meet
Eighteen of the State’s counties
are expected to be represented by
some 700 Home Demonstration
Club members in a one day session
at North Carolina College on Fri
day.
The occasion will be th’ 16th
annual Western District Council
Delegates will consider the na
tional theme. “Today’s Home
Builds Tomorraw’s World” with
Violence Erupts
In Duriiam
DemonstratHMB
Trial of two Negroes and out
white man in Recorder’s Conrt on
charges of assault growing out of
a fight which erupted in Wal-
sreen’s Drng Store Saturdav after-
noon was continued Monday.
Charged are Coiumbu.1 Preaale^,
17. and Bruce Baines, 18, who are
members of a student group pick*
eting three downtown firms wtHch
maintain segregated lunch couBt-
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ers, and 31 year old Garland Glam,
a white man.
A 13 year old girl, also a men-
ber of the student group, was
turned over to juvenile autliMi-
lies..
One member of the student
group, 17 year old Willie D. Burt,
was Icnoclced unconscious and
[ spent three days in the hospital
as a result of the lighL
! According '.o police reports, the
I fight broke out when students,
' who have been manning picket
lines in front of Walgreen’s for
several weeks, wept iwide the
store to be served at the luacb
counter. - •
At mid-week, several of the Jto-
enWr the lunch counter.
He spent three days in Lincoln
hospital where doctors at first
thought he might have suffered a
brain concussion. Later examina
tions proved the injury was not^
severe. His parents said doctors'
now believe be suffered largely
dents interviewed hgr the TOOB
expressed the opinioa that tlw
whites involved in the lif:^ were
mostly members of the “iModiviB
element” of the city.
Some of them exirfaiittd that
. ing to the Vfi^g(een's area since
from emotional shock.-.
T BurF liis 'Baeii i ^~rF~oF Ifie'
i>rotest movement sine* its early
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ON Tin:
the demojistralions and pieketidB
-started—iii Mai«h aad- Iw
tempted to lucd Negroes iato h
fight.
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Sit-Down I
CAMBRIDGE. MASS. —Students tions will include the firing of a
of Harvard University who have I "second shot for freedom” at the
been picketing for ten weeks inf rude bridge in Coacord, B(assa-
support of the Southern sit-ins chusetts. “We hope that periiapa
Wednesday sent out a nationwide this shot will be heard not only
“call to action” to college students around the world, but even in the
throughout the country. American South,” Barbacke «»ii»
They asked that all students ■ .
stand up and be counted, in fa- ™
BARRIERS NAACP URCCS
vor of immediate and full equality I
for all Americans by participating
DALLAS, April 29. — Youth sit-
special reference to the program j ‘“ mass demonstration to be held, in protest demonstratioa against
throughout the country on May 17, the ban on seating Negroes at
the sixth anniversary of the Su- lunch counters in southern variety
preme Court school desegregation stores must be extended to
decision. ^ education, job opportunities, voter-
At a meeting of Harvard’s Lunch' registration and every form of ra-
emphasis, “Human Relations in
the Home and Commurtity.”
H. W. Wllkerson, assistant
news editor, N. C. Agricultural
Extension Service, Raleigh, will
be the day's principal speaker
at a morning session in B. N.
Duke Auditorium. The program
begins at 10:30 a.m.
Counter Integration Committee,
Krank Bardacke. a freshman who
acts as chairman of the Harvard
group, attacked the older genera-
cial discrimination.
This view was emphasised hen
by Clarence A. Lewis, field secrt?
tary of the Southwest Regiwi ot
the annual session of Regiona III
of the National Council of Negro
Women.
Delegates are exptected from
North Carolina, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida.
“Youth and Adults in Creative
Hillside Awards Day
Awards Day exercises will be
held Friday morning at Hillside
high school at 11 o’clock.
The program will honor out-1
standing students in scholastics community Living” is the theme
and extracurricular achievements.' ^ ^ meeting.
Miss Betty Jo Goodloe valedic-^ ^
torian, is this year’s ranking senior
honor student. Salutatorian, sec-
bnd honor student, is Miss Marsha
Goodwin.
James T;. Taylor, retired NCC
professor and former NCTTA exe
cutive,' will be the main speaker
for the service.
The progratn will, be held in
the ^hool’s auditorium.
National Presi dent Dorothy
Height ot New York will be a dis
cussion leader at the opening
“coffee and conversation hour” at
7:30 Friday night in the Social
Room of the Home Economics
Building. She will also deliver an
address at the banquet session Sa
turday night at 7:30 in the col-
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Other participants durmg the "having failed to show us the National Association for tM
morning meeting are NCC Presi- their example or to teach us Advancement of Colored Peo^,
dent Alfonso EHder, who will ex- *’5' ^heir words that freedom is speaking at a recent luncheoo
tend greetings from the college,' something to act for as well as to I meeting of the Southwest regiootl
and Durham County Manager E. \ | conference of the Universal t.m
Harvard’s May 17 demonstra-
S.1 Swindell, who will represent
governmental agencies.
Mrs. Evangeline D. Vann, Dur
ham County Horae Economics
Agent, will make special announce
ments at the end of the morning
program. Mrs. Gladys Gilreath, Dis
trict Council president from Guil
ford County, will preside at the
1 opening event.
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Sluw University to Separate
College From School of Religion
MIm Dorolhjr Hdght
noon in Duke Auditorium, the sec
ond session will be given over to
routine business reports.
Among council officers to be
heard, in addition to Mrs. Creola
Howell of Mecklenburg County,
vice president, are; Mrs. Helen
Williams, District Council Secre-
tees, faculty, library aad dkg*
room facilities.
Scparytion will lj« put Ma
feet by the beginotBg «| Ml
RALEIGH — Dr. William K.
o. . . o OA Strassner announced that the
Starting at 2:30 Fnday after- ...
.L ' B®*™ of Trustccs of Shaw Umver-
I sity, at its annual session on Mon
day, May 2, approved plans for session,
the separation of the school of
Religion from the college of arts The Board also gave its ■nMrMil
and sciences. to the appointoMnt ot ■ UnMawiil
The n»ove was made to streng- Celebration Coamittey !• plan
Ihen the School of Religiua as an j the ol>servance ot fhe
independent seminary haviog its I niversary of Ibe
own charter, administratioa, tnis- IMS.
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