SMASHED
ATTY. GEN. URGED TO ACT
Protests Rise
VOLUME 37 — No. 20
R*h«m Po«tag« GuarantMd
DURHAM, N. C, SATURDAY, MAT 20, 1961
PRlC^t
City Vote Stirs Comment
Suit Filed in
Cliariotte City
College issue
I DUNintlng wave of protests to Mobs outside Anniston and at
ftat4 and federal officials have the bus station in Birmingham at-
bew registered by various groups tacked members of the “Free|bm
JaUhe wake of last Sunday's beat- Ride” tour and set fire to a
^llgs sttfTo^ed by a group of.inter- Greyhound bus.
Ij^al bus tMVel^s^ii Ala))^^. Several members of the group
CDUNCILMEN SWORN —Nawly
*l«ct«l and ratumed
H)a City Council ara shown
Durtiam Strays
Siigjitiy From
.'spirited comment made the
i^unds this week in the wake of
burham’s city el'cctions Saturday.
A small number of voters cast
ballots in Saturday’s election for
^ve '.city Councilmen. Only 9,902
’ 4S.636 registered voters took
RlU't in the election.
Pwhttps the most interesting of
m ^aws *anhe'6he for^MayW;'
«^%tUiht>ent E. J. Evans defeated
I.' L. Atkins by a close margin,
^vans polled 9,507 votes while
ifUkins garnered 4,202 votes.
I. J. (Buck) Dean defeated John
■C. McDonald in Hie race for the
Council’s fifth ward seat, Eugene
Carlton, Paul Alford and Charles
Steal won at-large seats, and Floyd
Fletcher and J. S. Stewart were
returned to the first and third
ward seats, respectively.
Steel, Stewart and Fletcher were
incumbents. The latter two ran
unopposed.
The aspect of Saturday’s elect
ion which caused the most coin-
ment was the fact that Negro vot
ers strayed slightly from the en
dorsement of the Durham Commit-
iet on Negro Affairs.
The Committee endorsed Atkins
la the Mayor’s race. In the past,
lueh endorsement has usually
meant a support by Negro voters
ot from 80 to 90 percent.
Saturday, however, Evans re
ceived 709 votes in the all Negro
precincts, while Atkins got only
1,630. )
Most political observers dis
counted the possibility of a seri-
oui *pllt between voters and the
Comnittee. It was pointed out that
Continued on 6-A
taking Hiair oaths ol 4w«a In
Durham Monday prior to tha
basinninfl of a niw Coiipcll sot*
sion. Loft to right fackts camora
aro Paul Alford, Chartoa Slool,
I. J. Doon, J. s. Stawart and
Eugona Carlton. Floyd Flatchor,
also rotumod to tha Council It
not iMcturad’. Photo courtoty of
Durham Horald.
' Tha Southarn Christian Lood-
#rthip Confaronca, hoadod by Dr.
jjKartin Luthar King, tho Amorl-
Can Civil Llbartiat Union, and
.|ho Amorlcan Jowlth Congrost
•tl aant matsagot to Attomoy
i.f|onaral Robart F. Kennady urg>
Ihg a federal Invostlgation of
|ho violence.
See PROTEST, 6-A
JOSEPH PERKINS
. arrattod in Charlotto whon
triad to vat thoat thinod
EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT;
"Ail I Could Itear Was The
Sound of Fists Hitting Flesh"
FAISON LOSES BID
Battle
ROCKY MOUNT The 41st annual
session of the North Carol^tja
State Associatioh Of the Order of
Eli(s pnded her0 (I^Ujniday on a
note trf inUitattt' fvr con-: ■
tinuing th'e fi^ht for fh^t class ci>
tizenship.
L. E. Austin, TIME£ publisher,
set the tone for the meeting in his
keynote address Sunday.
He told the delegates; “We can
no longer wait for the white peo
ple to give us first-class citizen
ship. We have waited long enough
and the young people have deci
ded to do something about it.”
Austin’s address was followed
by a speech from John Edwards,
a key figure in the Durham stu
dent sit in and boycott movements.
Besides the emphasis on civil
rights, a highlight of the meeting
was the re-election of the Rev. K..
P. Battle, of Rocky Mbunt, to head
the N.C. body.
Battle defeated Jack Faison, I
Seaboard businessman, who was
believed to pose a serious threat
to the former’s 15 year reign as
head of the N. C. Elks.
The entire program of state Elks
was revamped and the civil liber
ties program will project a for
ward looking plan to aid the mili
tant organizations of the state.
Dr. J. E. Jones, health director,
promised to carry his program
throughout the state in the hope
that Elks will not only have strong
See BATTLE, 6-A
am
Employment Service Bars Woriiers
From Defense Plant, Says NAACP
NEW YORK—Although a segre-
lated all-Negro local union has
been dissolved by the International
Association of Machinists and cer
tain “fringe” improvements made
In the general picture at the Mari-
etU, Ga., plant of the Lockhced
Aircraft Corporation, the company
te still requisitioning workers by
race through the Georgia State
Employment Service, it was charg
ed-here this week by the NAACP.
Herbert Hill, the Association’s
lab6f secretary, visited Marietta
last week, thirty days after the
NAACP had lodged complaints of
discriminatory employment poli
cies, and noted the continuance of
the racial requisitions for workers.
He said that, throughout the
S^th, racial segregation and arbi
trary racial separation of workers
and job categories are characteris
tic features of st^te employment
services.
“Major industrial corporations
operating with Federal govern-
See BARS, 6-A
-TO"
I:.
CHARLOTTE—A suit seeking to
halt further strengthening ot two
separate city colleges has been
filed in Mecklenburg Superior
Court.
Hie action was brought this
week by Dr. Roy S. Wynn, physi
cian, and Dr. James D. Majtte, •
dentist.
It seeks to halt consttuctiba
new facilities for Carver Cbttege.
The two medical men said they
filed suit on behalf of then^ves
and all other taxpayers in
lenburg County.
They contend in the sult 'toat
a new structure, planned totyCMr-
ver College, should not be j^ilt
because it woufd result in a Waste
of tax money and contribute to
ward continuing illegal ftcial teg-
regation. v
Charlotte current}^ operate! two
city colleges. Carver it ran fo^
Negroes, and Charlotto College for
whites.
The doctor* claim itl the
that maintaining and invastin#
both of the jtvo-^ear commuiliv
college* “amounts to
crelfoii refeattlnc ^
creased cost for sUch facillti
therefore a^ needless waste 6f pub
lic funds ahd. taxpayers' money.
See SUIT, 5-A
IN MISSISSIPPI
REV. GANT
Noted Women
Educators To
Speak jn Durham
Two women who have carved
promient niches in edocation and
the church will be the principal
speakers for the annual women’s
day program Shnday at the Em
manuel AME Church in Durham.
They are Dr. Rose Butler
See WOMEN, 6-A
Spurs
Anti-Bias Move
JAMAICA, N. V.—Morfe fUel was
poured on the NAACP’s “Oplera-
tion Mississippi” this week by the
brutal lassoing of a Negro child
from a passing car in .Jackson, the
state’s capital.
Medgar Evers, NAACP held sec
retary for Mississippi, lold an
NAACP rally here (iSunday, May
14) of an incident that transpired
in his state last week. The rally
was held at-the St. Albans Congre
gational Church.
Nine-year old Gloria Laverne
Floyd was lassoed by white youths
from a passing convertible with a
wire loop. The car didn’t stop,
thereby dragging the child along
the street.
Little Gloria suffered • deep
gash in her head that required
three stitches, cheek bruises, a cut
on her right shoulder, and burn
marks on her neck from the wire.
See LASSOING, 6-A
Southside Shopping:
Center Cleats
Zoning Hurdle
A proposed shopping center tor
the southern end of Durham clear
ed another hurdle this week.
The City Planning and Zoning
Commission approved requests for
the shopping centers owners to
create a shopping center zone on
the south end of Fayettfeville
street.
The change, to put a C-l“A ,zone
on the area instead ot its preient
C-1 designation, will go to the
City Council tor final action.
A C-1 designation is for single
family residences.
The proposed center would be
located south of the Norfolk and
Southern spur tracks on the west
side of Fayetteville road.
TOr SURVIVES MISSISSIPPI
AtRfflfilTY -n LiMteJyrtysL^^
*otwa Floyd was walkin|>do^n
hor Jackson, Mlttlttippi, street
last waok whon white youths In
cowvOrtlhla rodo by and lattood
hor. NIno-yoar-old was dragged
by moving ear. NAACP reported
a deop gath in hor head, cheok
hrultet, a cut on the right shoul
der and burn marks oiv her nock
from tho ndnit Usto.
NAACP is countering with
"Operation Mpssissippi"-^-an all-
out drive to *0d such abuse. The
Includat volW reglttratlon, ute
of public accommodatjoni, tchool
Integration and Increased state
govornmont aonpioyment of Ne
groes.
Eisi)ey Named Principal of New
Central Alamance High School
GRAHAM — Top administrative
officers of the new Alamance Cen
tral High School were announced
this week.
J. J. Eisbey, currently principal
of Pleasant Grove Union School,
has bee nappointed principal of
the new school.
Rivera G. Mitchell, now princi
pal of Graham Negro high school,
will be assistant principal.
Alamance Central, a consolidat
ed school, will replace Pleasant
See EISBEY, 6-A
EDITOR'S NOTE: Hero Is an
oyewitnoi* account of tho beat
ings of tho Interracial team of
"Freedom Riders" and the burn
ing of a but in Alabama by a
whito mob last Sunday. The ac
count It reported by Mrs. Fran-
cot Bergman, 59, relired white
school administrator of Detroit,
Mich.
“Seven hoodlums boarded the
bus before Annston. They j»ist
sat there while my husband went
out and got coffee and sandwiches.
When he came back the bus driv
er told us:
‘Now, we don't want any trou
ble. The last bus that went thru
here got burned. You niggers get
tothe back.’ ”
“No one moved.
FISTS HIT FLb^H
“Then these hodlums got up
and started going after one of
the Negro students, Charles Per
son, of Morehouse, and my hus
band. Jim Peck went up to try
and block the blows. Then they
turned on ail the Negroes and my
husband and Peck. One had an
empty coke bottle. They t>eat them
kicked them and stomped
“I was standing there agonizing.
All I . could hear was the sounds
of fists bitting flesh. After they
beat all the Negroes, they grabbed
them and threw them on top of
my husband who was on his face
on the floor in the aisle between
the seats.
“A policeman who was standing
outside th e bus c^e in then and
when we asked him to do some
thing, he just said:
I dcm’t see anything. If I
don’t see anything, I can’t do
anjrthing. ’
“Near collapse, the . . . riders
slumped into their seats and the
bus moved onto Birmingham.
Knots of angry whites were clust
ered around the Birmingham sta
tion to greet us, but no police
appeared.
“The authorities . . did not
show up until Peck . . . and the
Negroes were l>adly l>eaten by
whites. Roving gangs of whites fol
lowed the Negroes through the
station. One grabbed a young Ne
gro and as the whites shouted ‘Hit
him,' slammed his fist into the
Negro’s fice.
“Bleeding, the Negro fell to the
See EYEWITNESS, 6^A
RETIRED CHURCH OFFICERS
Pictured above aro'fivo retired
St. Joseph's AME Church offi
cers and minitter the Rov. Mol-
vin C. Swam ahortly after a i>ro-
gram honoring them at tho Dur
ham church Swiday evening.
Seated, left to right, are Dr. J.
N. Milit, Mrs. Bessie Gihner and
E. R. Merrick. Standing ara J.
C. Scaritorough, the Rov. Swann
and D. J. Jamos^ TWo other re
tired offkors howered ot the
progrem but not ^ktwrod era C
E. Anthony and L. C. Taylor.
Anthony and Jamoa are retired
Stewards. The other* ero retired
trustees.
Poiicenien Idle
As Group Beaten
By Touglis
NEW ORLEANS. La. — A trip
through the South by a* hiterrs-
cial team of boa travelers to
demonstrate the extent of raei^
freedom in Interstate trawl wm
smashed in AlatMuna thia week hf
white mobe.
A crowd of akowt 1i0 wfcHo
men, some armed wMh ilwbe and
knives, attachod and destrayed
a Greyhownd bus on wMcIl nii*o
members of the Cengrea of Ra
cial Equality (CORE) wore rW-
ing near Anniston Sunday.
Shortly afterwards, another
group of white men at BirminC'
ham pounced on a group fron
CORE as the pasaengers debarked
at the bus station and beat up
several ot the groop.
Some of them were so severely
beaten that they had to be hoepi-
talized for treatment.
Members of tho group said
later police, standing neerfcy m
many instances, refused to if>-
tervene to holt tho beatings.
The group, which l>egan the trip
in Washington, D. C. several days
ago, decided to call off the re
mainder of the tour when it co«Ud
get no assurance of safe escort
through Alabama from Govemoc
Patterson.
The CORE itinerary had called
for stops in Montgomery, Ala.,
and Jackson, Miss, before ending
the trip in New Orleans.
Along the route, which inclnded
previous stops at Richmond, and
Danville, Va., Greenstraro and
Charlotte, N. C., Rock Hill. Winns-
t>oro and Colombia, S. C., and
Atlanta, Ga. the group had met
with increasing troutrie as it at
tempted to use bus station facili
ties without regard to racial desg-
nations.
In ChorloTio, N. C. Joe Perk
ins, a 37 yeer old Negro ment-
her of tlw group had spent oiso
niQht in joil after ho«in«
ot^oatod on elMvm
ing when ho attawiylad I* gat o
shoo shine in tho bus stetioN
barber shop.
At Rock Hill, S. C. several mem
bers of the group, including Gene
vieve Hughes, white, of Blaryland,
were jostled and knocked to the
floor by a group ot white “toughs
when they entered the white waiU
ing rooaa-o^ the bwa stotiea.
In Winnsboro, S. C. IB year old
Henry Thomas, Negro student, waa
charged with trespaasing when He
refused to leave “white^ side of
the Trailways bus station rest»-
urant when ordered by a waitress,
and hia traveling companion, 47
See SMASHED. 6-A
Ala. Airport,
Florida Cafe
Serve Race
JACKSONVILLE. Fla. —Variety
store lunch counters Tuesday be^
gan serving small groups of young
Negroes for the first time.
It marked a successful coacltt-
sion to a sit-in campaign waged
since last August
The movement was marked bgr
three days of racial violence at
its outset last summer.
However, most white piriot
paid no attention to Negroes eot-
ing at the lunch counters last week.
• • •
NEGROES SERVIO IN
MOBILE. ALABAMA
MOBILE, Alabama — Two Ne
groes were served without incideat
at the airport restanrant last
week. The two were the Reverends
Joseph E Lowery. presideBt ot
Alabama Civic Affairs AssociatiM,
and vice-president of the SontlMn
Christian Leadership Coofereaeo;
and T. E. Williams, vice presidst
of the AlalMma Civic Affairs Am>
ciation of Mobile, Ala.
Reverend Lowery is ecio of
four Negro ministers against wImhi
officials 9f Alahaaaa have IbtIiiiI s
judgement of two^niDioa
Alabama courts wied Um
ters guilty of Uhel r—Hia
a fuU-page ad pniiMifcai !■
New York Timas
which statements ^
have be«i made about
and certain offieials.
race reUtioas tbero.