7HB CAROLiNA TIMES
PAM IWUiCAT, MAY V. 1MI «THI TRUTH UNIRIDLID"
AND WHY II OUR WORLD LEADERSHIP QUESTIONED!
iMit For Federal IpimnM
'llic annauncertiMit l«»t Saturday Uiat Dr.
I Ikveriy L«kc of Raleigh is one of eight
)fr^ous recommended for appointment to the
U. S. Fourth Circuit Court of Aiipeals is
en>>ugh to tt»m the stomach of every respect-
sble and fair-minded citizen of North Caro
lina. In addition, even the mention of the
name of Dr. Lake for any federal jKJst is aa
affront to ev«r^- Xepro democrat of th^ state.
During the 1960 gubernatorial campaign,
l)r. Lake proved to he. not only a N’egro
iiater but a race baiter of the very lowest
type. Instead of dealing with worthwhile
issues of the campaign, he gave as one his
main, reasons for desiring the office of gov
ernor was to run the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People out
of North Carolina. In his speeches apjiealing
to the Yoters of the state for support, Dr.
Lake resorted to the very low "st type of lace
l>aiting and firmly established the fact that
he is absolutely unfit for any kind of federal
post, to say nothing of that of a Circuit Court
judge.
.Mthouffh we ^a^re satisfied that high offi
cials of the De^icratic Party are not stupid
enough to insist that a man of Dr. lake's
calibre be appointed to thie federal bench, we
are taking no chances and urge our readers
to let it be known now that the suggestion
of Dr. Lake for such a post docs not meet
their aj)proval. In their efforts to prevent
such a catastrophe from happening we rtre
quite sure they will have the support of all
fair-minded ^hite citizens. Letters and tele
grams should be sent to the president voicing
disapproval of such an appointment, and they
should be sent immediately.
Ride on, freedom Riders
The blood-curdling shrieks and screams
heard in Alabama, Mississippi and other
states of the deep South are not only the
death-rattle of a dying era. but they are the
wails of the guilty conscience, sin-^ick and
\ depraved soul of the South. Negroes all over
the nation may as well gird up their loins
and prepare for deeds of horror that arc sure
to be committed against the freedom riders
as they take up the cudgel against the south
ern ^’hite man’s go4 of segregation in .Maba-
ma, Mississippi, Louisiana and South Carolina.
Be not surprised if the blood of the freedom-
riders flows freely or several of their lives
are taken. The sicker the conscience, the
more horrible W'ill be the deeds.
Look all around you at the mulatto bastarcis
strewn all over the South. Observe the mil
lions of Negroes w-ho have been cheated out
of their farms, homes, labor and equal edu
cational opportunities. Behold the thousands
of Xegro women who have been prostituted
b}’ the bestial lust o( southern white men who
take refuge behind the laws of southern states
that prohibit inter-marriage and protect them
.even in the most aggravated cases of rape in
volving a Negro woman.
Go to Fayette, Haywood and surrounding
counties in Tennessee where you w^ll find
the members of over 700 Negro families who
have been evicted from their homes, as rent
er* i^n| ghwecroppers, merely because they
regis^f(9^.Totft^{or the first tinjfe. Some of
these people' have found reltuge in tents,'lo
cated on farms oivn«d by Negroes.
When jrou have seen all this, you will then
know w Hf white people in such states screatn
and act like maniacs when they are brought
face to face with afiy movement that threat
ens to destroy a continuance of segregatioii.
— ion aill^lgo jkaow-why-the -fireedom ridefs
art determined to go on in spite of pleafe
of U. S. Attornej’-General Robert Kennedy
and others to “hold back their integrated btis
trips into Alabama and Mississippi.”
Sometimes in the course of history and the 1
affairs of mankind destiny appears to mark
time, and time threatens to break down into
eternity lest a wrong long enthroned be
not destroyed. Nearly a hundred years ago
there appeared small cracks in the walls of
slavery in this country while the frantic
screams of the slave owners rent the air but
"the walls came tumbling down.”
Let those of us who truthfully love America
and want to see her triumph over her enemies
in the challenge she now faces in the struggle
with comtnunism be not deceived by those
who scream about state’s rights or the sover*
eignty of states. This nation cannot survive
in such a struggle so lon^ as the enemy is
able to point to one man or woman who is
denied the right to huhtan dignity because
of race, creed or color. The louder they
scream, the more determined all of us must
become to Settle,once and for all the dastardly
defiance of the United States Constitution
and other federal laws by certain southern
states. Public officials in .'Mabama, Missis
sippi, Louisiana and other states of the deep
South must be made to understand that they
cannot take an oath to uphold the Constitu
tion of the United States in one breath and
defy it in the next without having to pay the
price for sueh.'
Some day historians will sit down to v'rite
about dembcracy’s struggle for survival in
a worfd nowi being threatened with commu
nism. When they do, the^ will be compelled
to proclaim in no uncertain terms that it was
the freedom riders who Hsked life and limb
to turn the. pitiless spbtli^ht of truth on,
southern hVpbcrisy’s claitti of belief in derno-
cracy and alval^ehed the nation to the fact
r
jm
By REV. HAROLD t
Virginia Pre^itated
Her to SM D'iib
- r
A
SPIRITUAL INSICiHX
Hie ^rest Way To Peace Is To
Seelt Justice Through the Courts
"Have « eempUliH afalnlt any*
e««. Hr* CAurts are oftn'i
AcH
Courts are established ^imari-
ly to settle injustices betiVeen'in*
dividuals and institutions} Some
in bitter passion would r^^rt to
other unlawful means ttf settle
wrongs and injustices. '
Riots may be substitute! tor a
court of law in the setttement
of wrongs. The lynch mol) is an
other example of the retort to
illegal means to settle wr4ngs. or
grievances. The lynch mOb »io-
lenUy usurps the place an^ func
tion of the courts. One of thei
law must be the basis of order
and justice 'for afl. When every
human being becomes a law -unto
himself, there is confusion and
anarchy. Thus laws are passed
and cfturts instituted for the set
tlement of injustices arising
among human beings.
There is a lofty moral grand
eur about the approach that the
NAACP has taken over the past
half century in th“ struggles of
Negroes against the injustices
they have suffered in this land.
AU efforts to label this organiza
tion as subversive" have failed.
WJijr? The principles of this f^eat
shameful smears on the lyitem' oronUaUon haW besa raotply
this land. It has w^n great vic
tories for America and the Ne
gro.
It has fought and won' from
the high moral vantage-point at
the law and the courts. ’
Injustices settled through the
courts will lead to peace. Other
means lead to conflict, confusion,
and warfare. This > principle at
attaining justice must be applied
Ip the relations of the nations, if
we are to have peace. Peac4,
finally must rest upon Justic^.
This justice must come through
the orderly procedujK of ^ coiiH
Of jaw. oBm(i)aii^
AI^ KDlTORiAL
«Whwn tke Juittoe ’Be|ar«Ment
Miflie'tNMItt StdtW'^llMi 'a fM-
eral'Court last week to bar state
supftbrt of any pMlic schools in
Virginia until Prince 'Ekiward
County Mtiools are r«(9ned on
a rMially (iHegnted basis, the
utrfsHi cry ectioiNI tMrougtiout the
SMMe was ‘*tJnf«ir! LMk what
they are trying to do to us!"
"They can’t penalize the whole
state for what’s happening in
Prince Edward County!”
It is no uncommon thing for
every action there is a caase.
Th«i too, tliey seem to foifeet
Mat the t«w of retribution is
4tvi«e. “Mike no mistake—God
is iwt 'to kc'mocked—a man will
reap just what he sows;”—Gala
tians 6:7. Again, “Be sure yOur
kin will find you out.”—Numbers
aS:23. Finally, “If the blind lead
tlte Wind Uoth shall fall liito Ihe
pit.’.’—Matthew 14:14.
For the tJ. S. Supreme Court’s
rifllhg in 1954, declaring segr^-
gatiqp in public khools unctm-
stiitutional, Virginia officials
hivk: searched diligently and
wilt^ut oaailfig to fin^ some
Ieg«l way to by^paaa or in some
way' dreutnveitt the Suiirtme
Couit’s ruling. They have even
ena^ed a maaaiv* resistaaee
la# with tke hope of continuing
, their seglregatlon custom and law.
We*ve no record of the state hav
ing attempted to legally force
any sehool within the Common
wealth to comply with the Su-
predte Court's ruling. There is
plenty evidence that the State
Mm given encouragement and as-
slstaim to Mhools and localities
which have acted and are still
acting oth*rwis*. Therefore, Is
this not a elear case of the State
of Virginia “aiding and abetting”
wherever attempt is made with
in Her boundary tp refuse to
comply with the Supreme Court’s
ruling?
It is unfortunate thit our own
City of RoaMltie, Floyd County
Md ether sections thi^uithout
Mw SMte are exemplifying
intelligence, patriotism and re
spect for the laws of the land,
whether to them they are ac
ceptable or not, and ^ho are’
gieing about the sthool integra
tion with no unfavorable «per
enssiOns, are to be effectiW by
this strong hand of the United
States Jusice Department. But,
"If the blind lead the Mind,
(the good as well as the bad),
they all shall fall into the pit.”
The citizens of our grand bid
“Mother State’ of the Union’
have no one to blame but their
leaders who" have been crying
“peace, peace, when there is no
peace.” They have been promis
ing the gullible public that they
are going to keep Virginia seg-
gregated. They all kn># and, pri
vately they admit that racial in
tegration is Inevitable.
This new era is far from being
a Southern or even a national
movement—it is universal. The
time has come and is now, for
us to stop kidding ourselves.
Let us take our heads out of t)ia
clouds—or, like the ostrich, out
of the sand, a nd face facts. We
will realize that they are not
as bad as they have been pictur
ed to us.
Had it ever occurred to you
that each of the 19 or 20-million
American of color has friends?
In the face of the pending inter
national crisis, the very soul
and body of every one of those
heavy hearted, dissatisfied, ill>
treated millions of Americans
are needed. They could mean the
difference between success and
failure when confronted With a
beastly enemy. So let us be sen
sible and come and reason to
gether. We are all Americans—
bred and born Americans. Then
let us act like Americans.
—The Roanoke Tribune
tEIIIR 10 THE EDITOR
of court justice in this land
ours is the some four thousand
Negroes who have been lyneheid
by mobs.
Why resort to mob violenee
and the attendant disorder^ law
lessness? Laws are to maintain ^
order and peace of society. The
defensible. They have resorted
to the courts and the laws of the
land in their great struggle for
justice and freedom.
This organization has stood
boldly and relentlessly in its fight
for justice through the Courts of
anyone:
opefi.”
Aggressive invasion of t|i*
rights of others lead- to .confUbi.
Justice achieved through a cotiH
of law is the safest ineans of
peace for individuals and na
tions.
that theSetttit xta*-siek-in--smri, rnirrd—_ ^ ■ f
.nd h«H Tl.., .rh. .ha, ,h. ^ ^ EdOCatlOn 01
freedom riders saved''America’s place of lead
ership among tfie fr^ nations of the world.
Our Faith in A. i |mii
Very few, if any, Negro citizens of North
Carolina who are welf atquaipted with A. 1.
Terrell, fori^ribu^incss manager o( Wiinpttjn--
Teich^rf C^llc^«| qppD« the'lel^',
^^the fi5^-est«erii ih whicii'Mr. Terrell
lield for a ‘ long num1>er of yeafi aid tlile
faith many of them still have in his integrity,
it is hard for them to believe that ■’’the sliort-
age uncovered by state auditors was the re
sult of willful and deliberate theft on tf|e
part of Mr. Terrell. ' ' \
[lie long years of honest and fai'fhful str*
which the business manager rendered
tbe' college plus the gmall amount involved
lias raised doubt in the minds of rnany that
the shortage was a matter of dishonesty.
Judge Crissman probably took all of this
iato i^ccount when he tempered justice with
•Mrcy in the case.
Tlie Carolina Times believes that there is
mm an untold story al>out the clmrge against
Ifr. Terrell, and because it probably never
be made known we are inclined to give
Mr. Terrell 'd dean slate and accept him as
the fine, Ifpr^ght citizen we always have
believed; -to be. It is our hope that he will
ithc
Negroes in Norft Carolina
By JAMES H. BOYKIM , Training School before begin-
(Hogh Victory Brown, Author, nirig regular college work. By
RiWigh; Irying4w»4if Prass ,lne., tha^ time there were some county
1961, Pp. 176- This addition to triining schools, but they were
the long list of studies on the eofaSidered high schools, because
social history Of the Negro is they were d_esigned to train
cultural extension, nursing edll^
cation and the various generi^
hospitals in the state, and the
Negro Divisions of the State Dt-
partment of PubHe lnstruethin U
also included in this Volume.
Thus, one praiseworthy featui'e
of the book is that it hot oitty
assembles the pertinent informt-
tion about the basic history of
all these associations, but lUg*
gests some sources' from whleh
Dear Editor:
I just finished' reading the
story of the “Freedom Riders”
who have been testing the south
■and Its law enfiireement agen
cies. I Would like tt) ask the
^mistion, ai NegrMs, ire w not
"^'isntocitey.
I often uk mykelt .ttiat question.
WMrt dqeiii th^ ahtwer lie?
It’s going tor bf .up tb us to
thfit' thes4 (^thern states
Up to tb^ itaridiirds of other
pajfU 6fj the ubitisti States. We
Aav^ got to Im the White man
knoW Iriiere w^ ttahd and that
hot goijtg td fcontinu^ to
iw^lm thf juajs "orsvsfy^
tlflng. .
\irhat h«l hilMHed is that
t)^y hive bien guiding us around
so long that the# t|ilnk they
ihoulii continue to do so. My
fellow Ainericaiia, the time has
~0ueen
, ' • aucicii iiiatu*jr me »• o -- - j n * »_j' 1l
nd i»0f fecLthat he is entirely t^aiiily concerned with Negrd teachers as well as pupils. There' more detailed Womatl^
of , tho.se; w|io |»duc.ati
Wfe wd^ld
f the
fOW^.^1912
North
‘.thirty- J available..
... e-.IniaiL^
tl^Jlptivate tod'chin^ v^fl^d for
rehftflid secondary school could
earth.
rnntf lBtarti)/*at Ihirtnpi. N. C.
THaptani: CB-mS ad i»4|ia
hr Vaim PMkbm, be.
L. K. imnof. PwbUiher
• ratltr at the PWl CMk*
, «■* Carolina, vatertiM Act at
Mmh t. WI9
nmlmm. North Canina
>Mba iMalad at 4» E. PetUffwr M.
•L X. Mmtmm, CDa«M«er
WAttOk HM PKB VCAM
* « I • J ( *
Beginning. tHi6 , weelt,iriil for the next few
weeks'. ai^ c^fleges throughout our
country will Ije holding graduation exercises
for tl^ 1961 e^s: '
Our congrattmtions go to these youngsters
We have devoted a special section of this
week’s paper to graduates and tp a display
of congratulations from mercimnts in this
area. Scanning the numerous young faces in
this section, we >were struck by the thought
that soon they will go into a world which is
often vastly different from the one pictured
by their textbooks. .And under the spell of
recent events in Alabama, we could not but
wonder if these youngsters, .some of them
seemingly fr»sh with promise and ideals,
would eventually grow up to the same 'old
denials and demorsilizing frustrations which
have wrMked far too many of their elders.
Of course, we do not expect (ijor do the grad
uates) tiiat they will inherit a utopian world,
free of'prrtilems. But no sensitive Negro who
has 0rown to adUlthoot in the South can
look at the young faces in the graduation sec
tion (or in the academic processions that will
be soon forming) without feeling a new and
d«4per sense of gratitude for what the Free
dom Kittert -doing for these and future
jfenerationp.
Ngrth Carolina General
authorized > the establish
ettJf V; . }d tthe State.
‘Mr. Brown’s study also pro-
' .CQntinuM from front page .
' jv ‘ ’ '-J -
the title wi(^
Antieuiwirtijfft wlfjcttt®
WM grieted
*taio«4 IM fiadiettn
gathe^ at OralMiiii high’s au^i-
tori^n to WiUiesi ttie (tageant. '
lJnUr aoeii^te^ the robs. aqd
froin the ' “Mi«r
nonnpl schools to train t«^«*^; bwic information on "the North "carolinV aurinff tir^ ^amilncB Coun^^^^^^^
in 1877. The beginning of'; In^itutions of higher learning, but there was cotjsidefab|ir'h6i' ®
grade schwl respited froin.X« . • nast. anH nrespnt associa- fiiitv tnwArri MAom Some 17 ^irlS' iopk part in the
two4ay piiieaht. Modeled after
the Miaa America pageant, the
gh*ls had tb wade through two
days and four divisions of com
petition.
tj, ..T . * was- organizeu ai -GreeilSbSta*-K fehftfld secondary school could rnlina lone civil iTi#.
co3th ffom'th^‘T?« J't, A 5 weMMi(!r(^ »«tvlve jthe pressure of N. C. ^ft^r the War began,ta i»«
coinetn |foni the'Lord .which made heaven and e«t9hi(st»>d -tranf^ralW until ttn* WowiwiiH tn turn nv.-»r thpir ninnt.s with litertry edu^atid
its goal, led to the estibBrtii
of schools. They wne open
grade schOTl respite froin jiotl) past and present associa- tility toward Negro edu^attolli
court atrial -in which six NegW
throughout the State. Two even after War,-;be^use-Dp. ^p-
boys, taught in a school suppo(rt-j, jnjjcating unusual per- per, who founded ^haw Univer-
sistence are related in connect- sity was fcirced, fd ' bide in the
ion with the history of A. and fields all night with hii^ Wifejto
•f. pollege and Palmer Memorial escape the wwth of' hostile |oir-
ed by northern philanthropy^
could sign their names to their
testimony, while five boys wHo
were white but had attended an
eight-week public school could
not. The white people, assisted
by the Peabody Fund, decided to
open a graded school for, white
chiWren ^ 1878. j ^
Teachers salaries had Increas
ed from the usual fifteen dolr
lars during the pre-CivlI War
Days to thirty-nine dolUrs in
1886.' The amount of inoney
for the education of the ‘ white
pupils was greater tha^ the.
amount spent per Negro pupil.
The value of the white %ChaoI
Institute. A. and T. was an an
nex of Shaw University, but in
189^, fourteen acres of land near
the, city limits of Greensboro
were donated to the College. The
General Assembly appropriated
ten thousand dollars and eleven
thousand dollars was raised from
local sources for construction of
a building. When it was com-
i>1eted in 1893, A. and T. moved
ftofn Raleigh to Greensboro.
After mioving from its first loca
tlon tff its present location, Pal
mer Memorial was still outside
property in Washington dountyV ' tlie limits of any Incorporated
for example, between 'l«db and- settlement. Dr. Charlotte Haw-
1886 was more than twentj^seven kins Brown solved this problem
times the value df the Weg**’ atenring a United States post
school property.
There were no high scho«M*folf
Negroes in the sense that we
know them today before 19B0.
Some high schMl work was done
in the graded sehMls. Stadenta
usually had to spend ttifo years
in some college or aeademy such
infite largely for use of the
Mndents at Seladia.
A brief history of the orphan-
age^ the school for the blind
and' deaf, schools for delinquent
youth, the hospitals for mental
illness, the schoiol for the m«n-
lalily retarded, the North Caro-
as ‘Biddle, KittHIl, Br HationM UtM 'Faachers Association, agri-
CCS in Raleigh.
Lincoln’s proclamation in 1862
was to become effective on Jan
uary 1 of the next year. It led
the intermittent escape of slaves
to the Union lines to develop*
into a rapid influx. To care 'M
them, the Bureau of Nepo af
fairs and Abandoned Lands, totih
runner of the Freedmen’s Bu
reau, was set up..
At the beginning of Recoti-
stpuction, the situation amoag
white people was one-of helpless
ness. That among Negroes whs
more hopeful while the white
people had lost almost eyaiy-
thing, the Negro had ntfthing to
lose. Charles B. Ayetek, “the
education governor,” came father
late, but he brought with him
the antebellum notions ol the
South and considerabie rfcdn-
struction, if not actual construtt-
ioq, still remahied to M ttoAe.
He campaigned in the lii99il^-
tion on the basis of a propidsid
eomtitutloBal amendoMM^^^
The swim suit and talent divi
sions were held in Gfaham an
Friday night. A luncheon at which
the girls were under the constant
aarutiny of the judges waa held
ait th« Recreation center in Bur
lington on Saturday afternoon.
And the final competition, the
evening dress revue, returned to
}riltam high Saturday night.
Aside from the five finalists
and Elsie Spaulding, otheri who
took part in the competition, and
their parents, are as follows:
enfranchise the Negro and was
elected. Why he campaigned for
white supremacy and educa
tion at the same time can l>e ex
plained on no grounds* other
than he was a practical politician
and opportunist, a Southerner,
•M a Confederate. Nenettieless,
under his administration, the
paiteiiitic of Illiteracy «mong
Wjdpsi# declioad Jnm 47.8 per
cant to ‘SMrfWi cant '
come when we must wske up and
see reality. Let us stop this non>
sense today. Let us all stick to
gether, for the batMe for fiiU
freedom has Just begun, ^ay 1
say that the^ young people of
today sboul^ be commended ftt
the tbsy have tatosn >
iMd iri taiiiing this freedom.
I think that everyone should
sit down an(}|i^write the Justice
Department and tell them thkt
we want action on all of the lii-
justice that is going on through
out the south every day. )
Let all those who are not mem
bers of the NAACP become meny-
bers by Joining a wonderful or-
“ gahlzaflbn w^ose aiinT are ’ 16
better the Negro in all walks oi
life .
Hilliard Caldwell
309-A Sunset Drive
Chapel Hill, N. C.
Ella Moore,' Mr. snd Mrs. Clar
ence Rogers; Alice Shaw, Mr. and
Mrs. Charlie Shaw; Virginia
Springfield; Mr. and Mrs. Charll*
$iRripgfield; Louise Turner, M^,
atid M|si .Garland Turner; Faj(e
6oinsir^atra'. AfiO/ 'Lee,:
Mrs; Ervin Lee; Jimette cittr,
and Mrs. William B. Carr; H|i7
Herbin, Mr. and Mrs. S. ,JC. Slade|^
Edna Wade, Mr. and Mrs. Fran^
wftl?, Dorothy McBroom,)Mr. a'riil
Mrs. Linward McBroom; and Sah-
dra Burnett, Mr. and Mrs. Hemata
Burnette.
The pageant was sponsored by
the Alamance chapter of the
North Carolina College alumni
association. Proceeds from the
event are used for the . alumni
unit’s scholarship program. ,
This was the fourth in the Mrtes
of the “Miss Alamance” pageants.
’The alumni chapter has awafded
three $300 scholarships since the
event was started. This year’s
scholarship will be awffded to
Carolyn Anderson, Pleasant Grove
high school senior. She it the
daughter of Mrs .Althea Ander
son, of Rt. 5, Burlington.
Mrs Swannie Moore Richards
Jordan Sellers teacher, was the
key figure in inaugurating the
pageant four years ago. This year’s
pageant was directed by Mist
Speneer Thomas and Mrs. Merle
MeRae.
Officers of the Alamancfe Unit
of the alumni association are Dr.
S. B. Hiomas, president; Mrs. Gil*
berta Mitchell, victf^pMsidai(t;
Mrs. Richards, recording secre
tary; Mrs. Frances Murray, asSi^-
ant secretary; Mrs. Doris Gray,
corresponding secretary; and Bi-
«ar* MitdieU, trmum.