StorK in Eight Southern Cities Open Counters To
All Without any Loss in Sales, Survey Reveals
ATLANTA, Ga.—Eight cities in
thf South hiive ended the student
■it-in controveny by desegregat
ing iMnch counters, and others have
made promising Marts toward
fatisfactory solutions.
Thcs* eitiat ar* fhos* with
whit* and Naaro ciliiatit who ara
"daaply intaraitad in tha wal-
far* and paaca of tha community
and willing to woric for a just
•oivtion to Nagro aspirations."
This is the conclusion of a re
form TOWARD A SOLUTION OF
THEJ sit-in CONTROVERSY, pre
pare^ for the Southern Regional
Council by Margaret Price. The re
port; was released Fri. along with
a detailed account of three Texat
Cltiei, Lunch Counter Desegrega
tion in Corpus Christi, Galveston,
and San Antonio, Texas, writter.
for >the Council by Dr. Kenneth
Mocjand.
‘le data, tha Prica raport says,
lunjch countart hava iMan op«ned
ta iNatroat in Austin, Corpus
Christi* Dallas, San Antonio,
and Galvasfon, Taxas; Nashviila,
'(Tann.; and Wintton-Salam and
Salisbury, N. C»
Where settlements have been
reached, “there has been little So
lace for the South’s prophets 6f
disaster,” the Council reports. On
the contrary, the study shows that
DO rtore in the South which has
bpened its lunch counters to Ne
groes has reported a loss in busi
ness.
•The report mdicated that the
flltethods used to reach agreemen.
have not followed a precise pat
tarn and “thus do not furnish a
blueprint available to every com
munity.” However, methods “do
suggestions which might be
adaptaiiie to local situations,” the
Council said.
In savaral eomm-mitiat, nvar*
chants "maraly wara waiting for
samaona to taka tha laad but
^ no ona had botharad to chack
thair attitudai." FIHing this pat-
tarn ware Dallas, San Antonio,
Qaivaston, and Salisbury, whara
only slight prattura was r«.
^wlrad to induca tha stores to
riasagrtigata and tha communi y
to accapt tha ehanga.
■,.;Generall>, liowever, “the best
Ifromise d. .Hicceastul settlement
has come from a small intcrracial
Committee of outstanding citizens
^0 are amenable to change.
fke$e committees have included
TOth unofficial committees of
civic and/or church leaders and
bfficial groups appointed by
tnayors. °
In Wlnt^op■Salam, a mayor's
* WAS in
factlng a salisfactory solution
aftar a pariod of conflict, whilt
In San Antonio,—Auttiry, and
Salisbury, unofficial committaas
helping bring about tha changt.
(Datallad reports on Winston-
Salam and Nashviila are now In
prapartlon and will ba ralaasad
^ to lha public whisn compiatad.)
Most of the North Carolina
cities involved have interracial
committees at woric on the pro
blem, the report shows.
In Florida. Governor LeRov Col-
SIT-IN STAFFER—Rav. B. El
ton Cox, icadar of tha tuccass-
ful High Point, N. C., sit-in pro
test demonstration, is cui'rtntly
touring middle aastam states
on behalf of NAACP. Associa
tion hat retained Rav. Cox for
brganixlng and reactivating tha
yauth and collaga units in St.
Louis, Kantat City, Indianapolis,
Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus,
Cincinnati and Louisville.
South Has Big
Future-HST
NEW YORK—Former President
Harry S. Truman declared recent
ly that the United States “won’t
have any trouble” when Southp-
ners come to the conclusion that
"‘r/ice' aSd cre&f and color don't
malce any difference in what’s in
a man’s heart.”
Writing in the cuftent issue of
Look Magazine, Truman insisted
that Southerners arc “just as fine
a people as you will find anywhere
in the nation” and said there is
no doubt in his mind that the
South ha& an important {uturex^
"You will recall that I left
no doubt where I stood on the
important itsuet involving t he
South in my campaign of 1948,”
Truman wrote, adding:
“I took a stand that involved
serious political risks, and some
of the Southern states ‘seeded’
(rom the Democratic party. But
theer was «o olher course that we
L’ould follow and keep the Bill
of Rights a living thing.
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lins has' established a state-wide
committee and urged the forma
tion of similar local groups. The
Council repor^ that at least 30
■Southern citites have established
such community groups. Savannah
is the only deep South city which
has attempted this method of so
lution, though without success.
The Council predicted a coiv
tinuation of the pr^hatl move
ment. It said, "The students tit-
ins-only onai aspect of Negro
ditcontant-have been too wide-
tpraad, and IndicaKve of too
greA impatience for anyone to
expect they will ditappear as
quickly as they began. The move
ment tftay die down during sum
mer vacations, but it teems un
realistic to expect that this dra
matic movement . . will die
easily before it maket wide-
tpread new gains for Negroes
in their drive for dignity.
“More and more communities
inevitably will be confronted by
the sit-in pi*oblera. A look at what
has been done in some cities may
of.*r other communities guide
lines and reassurances.”
The Council asserts that an
ominous aspfct- of the tit ins is
that "scores of Southern clHet
... are noV even making an ef
fort to tolve the sit-in dilemma,
or potential."
“SotiUiern whjte citizens,” the
report concluded, “will have only
themselves to blame if they are
faced with a new rash of time
and money consuming law .suits.
They will have only themselves to
blame if they permit the extre
mists to lead them down the path
towa.'d hate and violence and
aponomic damage.”
TRIAL SITE—NAACP Executive
'Secretary Roy Wilkint points to
Baton Rouge, La., site of cur
rent "disturbin0 the peace" trial
of sit-in . protest leader Donald
T. Moss, right. Young Moss was
one of 18 expelled from South
ern University. He was recently
named to NAACP National Of
fice staff. Mr. Wilkins assured
him of Association's full sup
port.
Justice Dept. Aid
Sought in Tenn.
Vote Trouble '
MEMPHIS — The U. .a Depart
ment of Justice has been asked
by the NAACP here "to (ake im
mediate action to provide federal
regtstrafs‘90 that att BligihtcjiNe-
gr'ocs who desire may register to
vote in this (Haywood) county
without delay.”
The complaint was filed oh May
26 as was a similar one with the
U.S. Civil Rights Commission.
D. S. Cunningham, president of
the Memphis NAACP branch, cit
ed three forms of discrimination
again.st Haywood County Negrpes
who have started registering for
the first time since Reconstruction,
investigation, he said, showed that;
■‘Negroes entering the courthouse
in Brownsville, Tenn., at this time,
do so at a risk of intimidation
and potential bodily harm.
"Negroes were required to
t'and in racially segregated
lines; whereas white people were
registered upon arrival, evert
though many Negroet had tp«nt
hourt awaiting their turn to
regitter.
“Registration procedure in this
district is designed to be so slow
that it is utterly impossible for
Negroes to register in any large
numbers. Continuation of this slow
pace means that less than 50 Ne
groes can register to vote in this
district for the next election.”
Next elections will be held on
August 4. Deadline fbr registra
tion is July 5. The local NAACP
unit, along with the Brownsville
branch, further requested govern
ment protection. •
LESS THAN 100 REGISTER
Cunningham forwarded a sworn
aifldavit to the Justice Department,
dotumenting discriminatory con
ditions in Haywood County. It was
signed by Rev. E. L. Currie Who
alleged that registration of
groes was kept at a minimum'
a “calculated and deliberate”Dlah
to process no more than eight per
day.
To da'«, lets than 100 Ntr
groftt have been allowed to reg
itter. Brownsville hit a sordid
hittory of civil rightt denial.
It is the teens of the lynching
of NAACP leader Elbert Wil-
llamt in June, 1940.
Williams’ remains were fished
out from a neairby Wver. This “off
the record” lynching took place
after Mr. Williams raised the ire
of local whites by taking'a promi
nent part in an NAACP cam
paign to get Negroes to vote.
Brownsville is located in Hay
wood County, No record stands of
any arrest in connection with the
killing. Ironically, registration of
Negroes there today comes 20
years too late for Williams and
other NAACP leaders run . out of
town for seeking basic constitu
tional righta.
Sit-Downers Got Their Inspiration From American
Revolution and The Bible, Dr. Frank Graham Says
5ftEENSBORO — “The collapse
at {he Siiinmit Conference should
remind us that the United Nations
is not an inslitution to be by-
^ssed by the great powers, but
one that should be a forun for
|hem,” Dr. Frank P. Graham, of
New York City, toll the audience
attending the 87th commencement
a^ Bennett College on Monday.
,br. Graham, UN mediator for
India and Pakistan, chose' “The
United Nations in the Atomic
Age” as the subject of hi& address.
He called attention to the fact
lhat the United Nations made its
appearance on the st^e of the
world the same year that atomic
power made its entrance into his
tory—11 years ago.
"Wt need in America," said’
Dr>, Graham, "a re-baptism in Mi«
great principles of tha American'
Revolution. Thera have been
two major barriers to progrett
in thit area, namely, statas'
righ.'s and a political monopoly
by tome axciutivs American
groups."
Stating that he is a believer in
stateuk’ rights, Dr. Graham quali
fied the. remark by saying that
states’ rights should embrace
states' t^sponsibiiitiets to provide
“equality of opportunity and hu
man dignity for all ppople.
PRAISES SIT-DOWNERS
“As a Southerner.” he said
•‘and a' North Carolinian, I love
my own- people and that include;:
colored as well as white people.
. . We have here in North Caro
iina a wonderful opportunity to
build a iiobler civilization where
there is freedom under the law
and human brotherhood under
God.”
Dr. Graham paid tribute, in
directly, to those young people of
the South wh3 initiated the sit-in
moveritet at .he segregated lunch
couidnn of /aritey stores. After
referrmj to tiie youth of Indonc-
siaJ jHio,, in their recent revolt
took,.,^^ir cue fi’om the Ameri-
can'f.J^paration of Independence,
pleasing to me that an-
othtrf^outh movement should
have Its origin in North Carolina^
These youths did not get their
Inspiration and guidance from
Motebw, as some would have us
believe, bu! from the Judean hills
THE CAR'OLIflA TIMES
MT., JUHi 11, 1*10 *TH1 TMUm UMWOURT—TAM »•
Conmunisni Forcing West to Look
At Itself, Howard President Says
ATIxANTA, Ga. — Describin?
communism as a universal ethi
jviil which tees humanity as a
whole and is striving ta redeem
the woild from poverty, Presi-
lent Mordecai Johnson of Howard
Jnivcrsity said that after five
hundred years of exploitation of
the black, the •‘brown, and the
yellow man by the Christian west,
communism was forcing western
nations to stop and take a look
at their policies.
Dr. Johnson spoke at the com
mencement convocation at Atlanta
Unive si‘y where seventy three
students received master's decrees
At the ceremonies I'r. Johnson,
Atlanta banke' and e'lucator Lori-
m^r D. Milton, and Iruman K.
Gibson, Sr., Chicago civic leader
and insurance e.xecu.ive, received
honorary degrees.
Scoring the betrayal of the
teachings of Christ as evidenced
in the exploitation, humiliation,
and segregation of those of dark-
or skins, tr. Johnson said that
hrmgfi the west mieM
>f th)* way eommiuiiets Catef
■bout b.inging freedom tg th—
rho had been denied it bf
.vest, they had been iMnecd to
inin hands totethrr on behalf af
>ach other and the reet of tbe
,»orld.
"We mutt help eiwaiicipelo Ifco
whole world from peweriy," bf
said, yet how con wo go *o
Africa to tmtp if wo 4on> ctoon
house at homo?” Tho trooliMnI
of tho Negro ii» tho
States compremisos in
any such move, accordinf lo Or.
Johnson, who citod tbe Vowr
months "Congreu foamod at Iho
mouth" In civil riihia
and then came out' "witk a
mouse without even a
As examples of failure in U*it-
od States leadership he noted tbo
.vi.hdrawai TDm Egypt of tko-
promised money for the Aswaa
lam and diplomatic short-sigMcd-
ness in Cuba.
and the American Revolution.
In their pstition they tsktd
simpiV that stor''t that sell lo
the public should provide the
same quantity and quality of
service for all people."
The speaker referred to the
present atomic a^e as one of
'mortal peril and immortal hope
for all mankind” and urged the
;raduates to “throw their weight
m the side of the incessant strus-
jle for universal disarmament.”
P;esident Willa B. Player, after
conferring degrees upon 67 mem-' place as adults.”
bers of the class, said in heri Si'vcnty-five people, Negro and
chargc to the graduates; representing eight
“It is ny hope that as you leave | c„„ferred fbr four
these walls, you will know lhat strategy for Negro-white
Role of White Southerner In
Desegregation Fight Discussed
MOIVTEAGLE. TENN, — Open I basically a stni'tgle for demoeroey.
ing the May 25-28 workshop at
'lighlandcr on “The Place of tfie
(VUite Southerner in the Current
5 ruggle for Justice,” Myle.s Hor
on. Director of the school said
•hat this is the fi.'st time when
college studen*s have participated
IS adults in a workshop Jiscussin;
.icmmuniiy-wiJe adult problems.
“The experience of demonstrat
ing for freedom is an adult ex
perience,” he said, “and students
who have so related themselves
to the community have taken their
you do not know all and that you
will be curious to iynow more. We
hopti that you will have humility
and an awareness of the world
about you. We look to you for
leadership wherever you are and
expect you to strive as best you
know how to give history a for
ward thrust.”
cooperation in achieving full in
tegration of the races, a.id de-
cla.ed in its final report that
■‘ihere is certainly a place for
the white southerner in the cur
rent struggle for justice.”
The confere,nce went on re-
he white person’s commitment
•■lould be as total as the Negro'l.
'lo'.vever, each individual’s moot
ittin-’ role cannot b? blue-printed
T advante, or in terms of rigid
’o's and don’ts. Each persons most
:nove out of his own conviction,
jut he must be sure that what
le does is geared to the Negroes’
'etermination to realiae full free-
!o!n and eqtiality immediately.”
Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth Preoi-
lent of the Alabama Christian
\lovement for Human Rights, Key
peaker for the Workshop, called
itt«'ntion of the group to the fact
hat Negroes must help demmi-
ifrate their commitment by
porting the white people who have
taken leadership in the cause.
‘•Nogroes must remember that
he white people who stand for
,hem must be stood with," he aaid.
We must get over the idea that
white people have got to do tbiBis
for Negroes. White and Negroes
cord as saying, “Since this is must do things together."
NCC Grad, Now Law Student at
UNC, Wins Whitney Fellowship
NEW YORK—Graduates of North
Carolina schools and residents of j eleven years,
the area are among some 28 young
scholars who have been awarded
lohn Hay Whitney Opportunity
Fellowship this year.
young Negro scholars in the past
Julius LeVonne Chahibert, a
graduate of Nor'h Carolina Col
lege now attending the Law
School et the Univsrsity of N. C.
at Chapel Hill, It among them.
A native of Mt. Gilead, N. C.,
Chambers received a John Hay
W.hitney award to continue his
study for the LL.B. degree at UNC.
He is in his second year at the
Law School.
As a undergraduate, he was a
campus leader and won a Woodrow
Wilson Fellowship to study his
tory at the University of Michi
gan in 1958. \
Other students from thit area
who have won the Whitney
ewardt are Alvin N. Puryear, of
2705 Shell Road, Hampton, Va.;
Htldred Reach, of R:. 6, Char
lotte, N. C., Nancy Kirby, of
'^Maddofifleld, N. J., and Marian
Wright, 119 Cheraw St., Ben-
Histttvilfe, S. C.
A graduate of Yale, Puryear
won a grant to study for business
administration at the Master's
level at Columbia University. Miss
Roach who earned an undergrad
uate degree at Fisk, will study at
the master’s level in music at
Tale. ■
Mitt Kirby, who finlthed ^n-
nett Callage, in Greensboro, N.
C., will w6rk on a Matter't De
gree In Ptychology at the Uni-
v«rtity of Chicago. A graduate
of Spehnan, Miss Wright will
study Law at Yale University.
The Whitney Opportunity Fel
lowships were established to en
able young men and women, who
have been prevented by race, cul
tural background or region from
developing their talent, a chance
to further their studies.
Awards have been mad^ to 290
Others who received the awards
this year are Leroy Bogan, Wi
chita Falls, Texas; Marie Bun-
ocmbc, Washington, D. C.: Mrs.
Jean C. Cahn, Baltimore, Md.;
Fred Clifton, Durham, Kentucky;
James Crosby. Jr., Cincinnati, 0.;
Carroll Fluelien, Elysian Fields,
Tex.: Daniel Graves, Moorestown,
N. J.; Donald G. Gwynn, Balti
more, Md.
Ragan Henry, Hamilton, Ohio;
Thomas Jenkins, Chicago, 111.; Al
bert Johnson, Berkeley, Calif.;
James Kirkwood, Prairie View,
Tex.; J^illiam Majors, Indianapo- ■
lis, Ind.; Elaine McCoy, Baltimore,
Maryland; Mrs, Joan Miller, New
York City,
Johnnie Porter, Jackson, Miss.;
James Rolls, Philadelphia. Pa.;
Mrs. Charlotte Scott, Chicago, 111,;
Joseph Scbtt, Detroit, Mich,: Dr.
Louis Sullivan. Fort Lauderdale,
Fla,i.,^hn Walker, ^Little Rock,
.\rk,j^^obert Wilson, Baltimore,
Md.; lyarren Wilson, Jamaica,
New
Grecnsboro Alumnae
Givid $1,000 to Bennett
GRE^SBORO—Cash gifts tot
aling . 1^,258, were presented to
Presidentr Willa B. Player by grad
uates \altending the annual Ali-
Benhel^ luncheon at the college
SatU|^.
Lwgiest gift—a check for $1,000
—was made by the Greensboro
alu^Dl'j^ chapter. The Delaware
Vall^'chapter, composed of alum
ni Ifipil in Philadelpha and Ches-
ter^'JINll and Wilmington, Del.,
whooi^lg^ved by bus 35-strong—was
nei^^#^h a gift of $550.
Graduates unaffiliated with any
chaptpt.gave a total of $735, Mrs.
Fannie Lea Hinnant, of Greens-
boro,^ -president of . the National
Bennett Alumni Association, made
tho presentations.
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