SATURDAY, OCTOBER M, 1M3
DURHAM, N. C.^1-t
Ex- Teacher Leads S. C. Anti-Segregation Drive
Pretty Young Sdiool Marm Fired
From School Job for Race Action
®MILES to light up the wftre diplay^d at halftime of the j Alltn, "Misi Homecoming'* ancT
MIGHT — Hilliide high school homecoming game here lecenlly. | Jacqu»Iine Brown, attendant,
homecoming queeni flash pretty ^ Left to right are Cynthia { —Stanback Photo,
•miles to add color to Dur-^ Smith, atendant, Janie *MaTie
h«m ichooTs fwlrylEes a*~ they
Career Guidance for Boys Offered at Raleigli "Y"
RALEIGH —Beginning with the
opening session on Tuesday at 4:00
P.M. the Bloodworth Street YMCA
in coepcration with the N. C
State YMCA Volunteeifs Scrvice.'
Commission will spdfisor an “Op
portnnity Club" for boys 12-16.
J4hn Graham, a graduate at the
collcge, will serve as committer
chairman and with the assistance
of athcr graduate specialists wih
seek to acquaint bojs with new
career opportunities and the skill?
necessary for .success in new tech
nical vocations along with the es
sential attitudes and aptitudes.
Activities will be organixed to
help boys acquire the basic skills
as an answer to the vocation prob
lem in a society in which its tech
nology has undergone fast change.
These activities will include ele
ments of electronics, photography,
public speaking, journalism, drama
and other arts and sciences along
with opportunities to speak frank
ly and freely with people of dif
ferent racial ethnic, vocationll
and other backgroun^.
Boys interested im Joining tM
"Opporunity Club" are invited to
call the Bloodworth Street “Y
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ORANGEBUAQ, S. C. —
Under leaderthip of Mrt. Gloria
B. Racklty., i>«wly elects co
ordinator ot th« NAACP'iponaor
«d Orangeburg Mov«mettt, Ne
groes In this university town
ttaii week girded for a show
down in th« iittti-blas itruggif
which toin^ 1,900 Arsons
have already been arrested.
Among these is Mrs. ftackley
who was (ired from her ^tttoa
as an elementary grade school
teacher because ol her partiel-
jMtlon in the anti-discrimli^ation
demonstrations. She was notifi
ed of her diamissal on Oct. 7 b]r
A. Marshall, Superintendent
o^ Diatrict 9 .spools.
Shortly . ttVti ',iMr^ disihislirl
froin bar teaming pOfition s)te
arteatCjl and j tiled ai she
a^a^te4 i4ieAri)t$ i|i ^yVetifik
|Ck!rt fdn iSiyaa^ da Aniigh
,an| *,(>thBr ^c)^iiI^en| tt-
reited iheVd^mobstr&Uona."'
^ Mrs. Racljtoar’4 nf^t rtieent of-
fe^e was osiog « rutrpoqa* i^
the ’courthdu^ “W,hltt
Woipen." The NAACP has poi^
fd bond for, her. ,
The attractive teacher> .dls
mllaal ahd[ sUba‘qqent trrest hai
rdsed a storm of fdror th the
Negro community. As a resul)
df her arrest over 80 pep c^nt
oi tnore than 9,000 Negro sch^l
children walked out of theli
classes to demonstrate their pho-
test. Joining the children wete
most of their teachers, cafeteria
and nvaintenance workers and
some administrators.
The 1,900 persons arrested and
waiting trial pledged to go to
en on-integration iind the char
ges I «gai|ut Mrt. Racltley wer«
droi>ped. ‘
addition, those arrested
agreed to demand individual
jury trials which would quick
ly exhaust the jci^’s list of ,po
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tantial Jurors and would put a
s*vere strain on the city's fundt.
At a meeting th^ evening ol
Oct. S, Mrs. Rackley was nam^d
coordinator of the NAACP-spon-
sored Orangeburg Move^nent.
The teachers and patents fur
ther have, voted t(Tsubmit a peti
tion to School Superintendent
Marshall protesting her firing
and demanding the restoration
of her teaching position.
tor 4 month prior to the de
monstrations and full-scale ar
rests the NAACP attempted
fruitlessly to discuss its griev
ances with city officials.
NAACP Field Secretary Rev
I. DeQuincey Newman has de
>6Hbed the situation as “really
explosive. Neither I nor anyone
«Is« can say what may happen
l^re now.*’
Mayor S. Clyde Fair announc-
cfd wbbti demonstrations began
that all demonstrators would t>«
jailed. Highway patrolmen shel
riffs deputies and local police
pouKd intc the city.
“Sometimes they outnumber
ed our dennonstrators,” Rev.
Newman said.
At the meeting on Oct. the
teachers votqd to respect picket
lines bebfore the schdols. On
Oct 10 police surrounded the
schools.
Mrs. Rackley reported, “The
areas around the schools looked
as if martial law had been de
clared. Officers were every
where on hand turning back and
arresting pickets and ushering
the children into school.
“Tho*e who hesitated were
to go into their classes
or depart inunediately lor home,"
she added.
With the removal of the
ket lines by police most of the
children «nd teachers entered
the buildings.
IflMNii
TOP MASONS—Top ranking offi
cert of the United Supreme Coun
cil, Scettiih Rite of Freemasonry
Prince'Hall Affiliation, Southern
Juriidiction, met in New Orlean
bottom row, are Atty. Amos T.
Hall, Tulsa, Okla., iieutenan'
grand commander; Dr. Charles H
Wesley, Wiiberforce, Ohio, grano
secretary-general; Federal Appealf
October 20-22 at tha Longshora | Judge Thurgood Marshall, New
Auditorium. Shown left to right York City, grand minister of state
Top row, center, George A. Farrar,
Washington, D. C.. grand treasur
er-general. Th« southern jurisdic
tion covers all states south of th'
Mison-Dlxen line including Cali
fornia, Arizona, New Mexico and
Hawaii. (ANP
Liicille Black, Durham Girl, to be Formally
Crowned Miss North Carolina College on Friday
flidrict48Miieslion$
PTA fundi for Sclwol Equipment
MOCKS VILLE — Tha ID-
county Eighth Diitrict PTA Coh
gr6Ss held its ant^ial meeting
her* Saturday at. Mocksville’s
Central Davis High pshool.
of the onewaywa| “A
'«nc«^, Chil'
viile'f Second" Presbyterian
Church; and greetings by fitayor
Matido, Davis County Board
member G. R. Madison, Siipef-
jnt«odM>t W> l!. iBird. and Celt*
tr»l Dkvii Hlgii sbhoAt t^Hncii^
al C- tC *Kargr«vs. Rbitw^e .ta
J|D«|il gratil|rt|i Waii Made
mc^t bf.1^4b.lclMbJii:rt^ T
. nted'ii Qi^. ;(*i»tHct-heiiljij Schbdl. Music was furnished by
propuMlls r#cdte’the endbr- ihe ,C^tral Davie Elementary
H^ifnt.of Mk# ,|t^.ub./ 1 (teho^l Choir, under direction of
’.Hie "flrtt'fwai, thlt'thg'woipa!'W- J. Buie. Miss P L. Allison
was the accompanist.
yera^'hundj^ Wpye^^v^
PriAeimil 8. o, jTonei bt Sal^
iluHlar
ofH
‘colored’’ be dropped friJm tne
organization’s designation as th*
North Carolina Congress ot
Colored Parents and Teachers"
and 'th^ kecond Was to ask the
State Board of Education to in
clude Negro History as a part oi
Mrs. Beatrice C. Powe, presi
dent of the district, appointed
• cofTunittee to study both pro
posals for furtiter action.
The district president refer
red to a third propsoal as a local
problem and asked individual
PTA’s or PTA Council to confer
withi their local superintendents
or boards of educatlen for clari
ty. Thts had to do with boards
of education’s responsibility for
the provision of certain equip
ment for schools.
T)te latter proposal was a out
growth of report from most of
the (10 schools, representing over
4,odo PTA memtoen, of some
of their financial and profession
al activities during the year.
These reports revaalad that
PTA-'a spAt money for aueta
things as ealetaria equipment.
•foott>k.| 1 eqiui|iRM|lt Ubra^
books, paving of playcourts,
stage curtains, educational film-
stripe, reading machines, deep
freezers, choir robes, ban4 uni
forms and duplicating machines,
among others. Just what tHI
boards of education’s reponalbill
tiea are in this connection were
not nwde clear; the practicf
serais to vary i|rith each local
aituation. Thene was j^nera)
agreement, however, that this li
an area that tarttaer cUrir
flcation.
The first genera) laasion «f thf
district congrcaf opeaed thif
morning at 10 o’clock with Har
old Wilson, vice prMldent of th»
CeAtral' D«yi« IttA. preMifig
Thia sesslaB ibdludM a musiM)
prelude by ikt*. A. H.' Johnaol|;
•criptUTf ini VfiyV bjr JUv. f,
p. 3tilntiB6A, oUAiater ot itocjcs
Three business sessions were
held. The final one Included •
forum on the topic: “PTA Re
gponsibility in Providing Solu
tions in the Following Areas—
IV-iancy, Job Dpportunltles,
Citizenship Respo^billy, Teen
age Problems and Home and
Famllly Life.”
Mrs. P. L. Johnson was pan
el moderator. Participants in
eluded K. T. Wooten, Winston-
Salem Attendance Officer; Jo
seph C. Mills, Veteran Employ
ment Representative of the Em
ploymMit Security Commission.
Winston-.Salem B. T. McCallum,
principal of Y adkin County
High School, Boonevill^; Misc
EUeabeth Boyd, Teienage Pro
gram I7fi%gtor, Winston-Salem
YiWCA; and Mrs. C. I. Martin,
former Family and Home Ser
MM Sp^ciaUst, Winston-Salnm.
Music for the final session was
furnished by the Central Davit
High School Cttorua.
A code's fondest dream will
come true for Constance Lucil
le Black, a senior psychology
major at North Carolina College
when she is crowned “Miss
North Carolina College” Fri
day, October 25, on the Durham
/'afwpiitt
Coronation ceremonies, sched
uled to begin at 8:15 p. m. will
be held in the college’s B. N
Duke Auditorium
The coronation ceremony will She is an honor graduate of
precede by three days a week ^ Durham's Hillside High School
of Homecoming aclivitios which | where she was active in the con-
wili feature pep rallies, a band | cert and marching bands, the
concert, a bot’fire,, dances and j student council, and the Nation
"jam sessions'’ by ocal orchest
ras.
Homecoming, ig scheduled fot
al Honor Society. Also active at
NCC, Miss Black is a member
of the Psychology Club, Alpha
KBppa Mu HorioF SoicTeTy aPF
the Alpha Kappa Sorority, Dur
I ing her junior year she reigned
■ as “Miss Alpha Phi Alpha Fra
I ternity.”
Called “Polly” by her friends
Saturday, November 2, when the j
North C.'frolina College Eagle.‘
meet the Shaw University team
and will beat 1:30 on NCC's O'Kelly Field
highlighted by the crowning -of | The only cliild ot the late Wet j
the queten by NCC President lington Black and Mrs. Lucille
Samuel P. Massie. C. Black, of Durham. Mis.>-!.she enjoys sports, music, cook
Fraternity queens and class! Black became the first Durham ing pastries, working with chil
attendants will comprise the \ ite in recent years to win tlif. i dren and camp life. Her plans
court. The North Caroina Col- I coyeted title when she was clios-1 for the immediate future include
lege band Will frunish music forlen in campus wide elections last I pursuing graduate work in psy-
the occasion. I spring. | choloyg.
Medical Society
Endorses Suit
PETERSBXTRG, Va. _ The
Baacutiv^ Committee of Ihe
CM Dominion Medical Society
vigorously endorsed the action
ot tit^ NAACP and Dr. George
C. Cypiieaa, a Negro physician
who receatljr filed suit agalut
the Riveratda HoepiUl in New-
p«rt Newv Mr ttM hosptal’e dii-
eriminatieq against Negroes.
The ehderaament by the eom-
mittfc took place at it» regular
meeting «Meh was recently
held at ViifMria SMte College.
The conunHt4e also passed a
resolution to aioourige iU citi-
sn«s oC U taka tn4 (M-
P^iiQ)«ytetis>ac0iBa.
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