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VOLUME 37
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, DURHAM, N. C, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, IWl
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NAACP Calls For Action
At State Convention
Duke University Student Elected
President of State Youth HAACP
GWENDOLYN GREEN
V» AT HISTtt^y . .
Imii* of th»
annual mWMf'rf'mir
for th«
and Hiftary W-f'
iM^iirtlen ovtr'
4«m Civil War*
Ml*t»r.atian M Norfh Car»Hi«a
Catllavt thia WmL Shciwn «r«
H, Taylor, chairman > of
^ NCC .d«|Mrtm«nt of hiatory
•nd hoit’fer mMtlng; F'rMi*
,d«n» OtMrlaa H. Wtilty df Cwt^
raf Si«ta CftHtga aMl^ alM. ltraal*
dant of ASNLH and kayneta
tpMkar; PrHd«nt Alfonso
BMor of NCC; and Dr. John
Hop* Pranklin, noted hiftorian
and chairman of Hi* d*part>
m*nf' of history at Brooklyn
Collofl*, who charged in' an ad
dress that the Centennial obser
vance Is characterized by "acro
batics and frivolities" and that
the South lost the war but is
winning the Centennial.
PBIVOLQU^ pfiwaJS-iikE
Say
History was made in Goldsboro
last weekend as members of the
state Youth chapter of the NAACP
elected a white student as its
president.
Elected by a 66-6 vote was
Edward (Ned) Opton, a 25-year
old Duke University graduate
student. Opton has been active in
Durliam segregation protests antf
and serves as a student leader and
publicity director of the Durham
Youth Chapter.
Opton’s election marks the firat
time in the history of tht br
ganizatibn that a white youth has
held an office.
A native uf Hamden, Gonn.
Opton now makes Duhram his
home. He received a bach»lor ot
science degree form Yale Univer
tity and is studying for a doctorate
at Duke.
See ELECTED, page 6-A
GOLDSBOffO — Winn - Dixie
Siores, .described as "one of the
most segregated chain stores in
Uie South." ha.^ been placed on a
^t^-wi^e boycott list.
Tlte action came Saturday at
the 18th annual state eonventicKi
of the National Association for tiie
Advancement of Colored Peopip
NCC Professor's Worf( To Be
Used in NG Segregation Issue
^ JANET HILL
AWARDED DEORIB .Bishop
Bravid W, Harris, left, r*celves
a doctorate of Humane L*tt*rs
from St. Augustine's president
James. A. B.oyer at the school's
95th convocation this week.
Liberia's Bishop, Warrenton
Nathre, Gets Honorary Degree
RAI*EIGH—The Bevi Bravid
W. Harris, Bishop of Episcopal
Churches in Liberia, was award
ed an honorary degnie of Doctor
of Humane Letters at 8t. Augus
tine’s College here thU Week.
Bishop Harris, who Ml^ed 16
years in Liberia, was awijjpHlBd the
degree for hig achievements in
Liberia amoiig which included tiie
rebuilding and reopenini^ of Cut-
tington College, a ehuifch-reiated
Khool therie.
Dr. James A. Boyer, i^esident
ol St. Augustine’s, presented the
degree lo the Bishop who' was key
note speaker at the cOQvocation
which opened the 05th sie^on of
the school. ' i
The Bishop is a native Of War*
renton and .an ahimbuii' of St.
Augustine’s. '
Following the cbnvocatfp;!. a new
See DEGREE, page
Three Railroads
Desegregate
Station Facilities
WASHINGTON, D. C..-Three
major railroads which serve the
South have issued ordered to de
segregate their facilities, attorney
General Robert Kennedy announc
ed Monday night.
The railroads are the Illinois
Central. Southern and Louisville
and Nashville.
The announcement came after
a confercnce between Presidetit
Kennedy, the Rev! Martin Luther
King and the attorney general.,
See RAILROADS, page 6-A
Twg^ prominent histodang level-
ed double-barreled attacks on the
current pi>scrvance of the Civil
War Centennial in a- national
Westey Renamed
The entire slate of officers, with
Dr. Charles H. Wesly as president,
was unanimously re-elected in the
final business session of the As
sociation for the Study of Negro
Life and History at North Carolina
College Saturday.
lie ASNLH thus brought to a
conclusion its three-day meeting at
NCC, which featured major ad
dresses by Dr. Wesley, Dr. John
Hope Franklin of Brooklyn College,
and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., as
sistant to President John F.
Kennedy.
Dr. Joseph Taylor, director ot
the NCC division of social
sciences, was official host for the
meeting. Dr. Taylor made a gift
of $900 to the Association collect
See WESLEY, page 6-A
meeting at North Carolina College
WANDA MARSHALL
Homecoming
Queens
this week.
Both Dr. John Hope Franklin,
chairman* of the department of
history at Brooklyn College, and
Dr. Charles H. Wesley, president
of Central State College,' charged
that the cause of freedom for
which the war was fought is being
completely overlooked.
The occasion v/as the 46th an
nual meeting of the Association for
the Study of Negro Life and His
tory. Over one hundred historians
from throughout the country at
tended the meeting, some twenty
of them reading scholarly papers
in group sessions.
ASNLH began its own celebra
tion of the Centennial here with
a re-dedication to the task, in the
words of Dr. Wesley, “of depicting
the true role of the Negro prior
to and during the conflict.”
Wesley said, "We should bring
more clearly to the attention of
people of our day the major
causes of the Civil War and the
grave crisis of principles which
See HISTORIANS, page 6-A
Parade, Queens
Football Game
A reseach paper on segrega
tion in the National Guard by
North Carolina Professor I. G.
Newton has bten requested “for
review and study” by a federal
agency in Washington.
The paper was read here last
Friday at the 46th annual meeting
of the Association* for the Study
of Negro Life and History.
Brought lo the attention of ad
ministration officials, the paper
by the NCC professor was request^^
{tveiall wMy of the.Guard nw
underway. It is believed that Pro
fessor Newton’^ papeF'is'the only '
definitive studji of the problem in^
existence. ^ t
Dr. Newton, a professor of poli
tical science and an army reserve
Lieutenant Colonel, observed that
“unwritten policies related to re
cruiting and acceptance of minor
ity applicants” keep the numijer
Of Negroeti in the National Guard
rOOtDi
mahli
Jim Crow Rest Room Signs At
Raleigh-Durham Airport Gone
ghiight Event
Bkcitement and anxiety looms
around the Hillside High School
cmapus as some 700 students make
last minute preparations for the
annual Homecoming celebration
slated for Friday, Oct. 20.
Excited are the students, putt
ing final touches on their floats,
getting homecoming wearing ap-
pearal in order and making plans
for the victory dance following the
game.
’ Full of anxiety are about 40
young men know that on their
shoulders lie the responsibility of
making homecoming a complete
succes.s. They are members of Hill
side’s grid team who will face
probably their toughest game of
the season.
They will crack skulls with un
defeated Booker T. Washingtoi
High School of High Point all
County Stadium.
Exceptionally excited an anxious
is pert pretty Miss Gwendolyn
See HOMECOMING, page 6-A
“minute.”
He attributed this to “dual
factors” in the NG set-up which
give each state the right to estab
lish its own policies.
In tracing the history of the Na
tional Guard, Newton cited Ex
President Truman’s Executive Or
der 9981 or 1948 forbidding racial
discrimination in the armed forces
Nevertheless, he continued, 11
states, Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
NEWTON
custom” deny Negfbeg tfit right to
serve in Stiite National - Guard
units. His report was based on a
1960 survey. Texas has now begua
Reed "WINN-DIXIE BOYCOTT
CONTINUES". Pa«e 2-A
here.
Delegates to the convention
unianimousljr approved the "Selec
tive buying campaiin” and declar
ed that it would continue until
Winl^Uixie officially reveals pUuis
for desegregation m their sture^
to the sattffaction of NAACP of
ficers in NoBth Carolina.
A resolution made by the del
egates it the tiiree-day meeting
over the Aeekenu slalea that
Winn-Dixie ufficiaU in- Jacriuion-
ville, Fia., the store s beaclquarter.i.
refused to speak to .North Carolina
NAACP officials and that store
of^ieials in KaWigh "have refuse-;
to give evidence of any plans they
may have lu desegregate their
stores.
I'he rrsolutian ali>> declared
that sel^'tive buying campaign.?
have proven j^'cessful in Owhaui.
and otheK North Carolina cities.
R.C. KiKdea ^ikf Jlaleigh, vie;
president in of Wynn-
Dixie'i katoigh district, said he
did nut wish to comment on the
NAACH action at thw time.
The proposal to boycott th ’
Winn-Dixie stores was presente.l
by Ralph Lukers, a Duke Univj
sity student and memtier
Durham Youth and Colleg^
Set BOYCOTT, pagt 6-J
to accept Negroes, he said
“Oddly- enough,” Newton wrote,
“these states have a Negtd popula
tion of approximately 9,^6^,381, re
presenting in the neighb^ood ol
50 per cent of the total Negro
population.”
North Carolina alone. th« - NCC
professor wrote, “legally” excludes
Negroes; however, other Southern
states mentioned exclude them by
custom.
“We think the key lies in the
Louisiana, Mississippi, North Ca-, accepting mon into the
rolina. South Carolma, Tennessee |
Texas, and Virginia, “by law or I See GUARD, page 6-A
Signs designating racial segrega
tion in toilet facilities at the
Raleigh-Durham Airport were re
moved Saturday, officially putt
ing an end to embarassing jim
crow facilities at one of North
Carolina’s largest airports.
The “colored” signs were re
moved quietly by workmen who
.(ire currently making imprftve
ments at the airport terminal.
Much attention was given to
the matter of segregation signs
at the airport just prior to Presi
dent Kennedy’s visit here last
week.
Last Monday,, the Durham
Youth and College Chapters of
the NAACP asked local airport
authorities to remove the jim crow
signs from the rest room doors
in view of the impending presence
of the nation’s executive.
John Edwards, chairman of the
group, telephoned Airport Com
mission chairman Attorney James
Patton. Patton replied, that there
was nothing he could do, that state
law required that toilet facilities
for the races be segregated.
With this, reception from the
See AIRPORT, page 6-A
Police Dogs Attack . *
Miss. Negroes Again
JACKSON, MISS.—Police used
six snarling dogs to break up an
enti-segregat |or.’ d ?monstration
Monday, and one of them bit a
Negro bystander.
Several Ne"ro stu'lrr'is were
chased several blocks from the
main entrance to the fair ^rounds,
where they wore protesting the
segregated state fair, by officers
and six leashed German shepherd
dogs.
Seven demonstrators were jail
ed on breach of the peace charges.
MISS CLARK
Weldon Teacher
Dies After Fatal
Attack in Class ^
WELDON—Funersl services for
Miss Jessie N. Clark, member, of
the Ralph J. Bunche high school
faculty here, w«re to. be held
Thursday in Severn at' the Firsf
Baptist Church.
DR. RANDOLPH
Nedical Experts
To To Be Heard
in City Clinic
The Old North State Medical
Society and Lincoln Hospital will
sponsor the 16th pustgraduat.?
scheduled for the family cemetary' clinic in Durham on. October 25.
The Rev. A.
to officiated.
C. Matthews, was
and burial was
in Severn.
Miss Clark died in Park View
hospital at Rock Mount early Tues
day morning.
i f>eath was attributed to com
plications resulting from a par
alytic stroke.
She had been hospitaUaed a
week before after suffering a
stroke in the Ralph J. Bunche
school.
The deceased was a native of
Clifton Forj!^. Va.. where she
was born on Misrch 21. 1918. She
Registration begins at 8:30 ajn.
in Angier B. Duke Nurses’ Home.
About ISO N*|ro medicMl men
from North and' South Carolina
and Virginia are expected, to, at
tend the one day aaeetins.
...FJW.'Scott, director of Lincoln
(hospital, will weleonte the grmip
at the 8:30 program. Dr. R. C.
Dawsoil oC Duahwn will be th«
moderitor.
Five outslaodins nedk-al author
ities be heani at the pro-
noon likrti of the clinic. The sp«ak-
was the only child of Mrs. Cherry jers are Dr. Evelyn Conrad, hvuia-
Clark. now of Garysbi^, and the tolocist of Durham. Dr. Herbert
late Jesse Clark. 10. Sieker.. intemai medical spa-
Miss Clark attended the public cialist i$ DiritK Hoapital. pr. Lc^
See TEACHER, page «>A 1 SM page »A
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