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C A ii O 1 i ' K a 'x_jrt ■. _ I I in HM ■ ’ time—TEAMWORK—JUSTICE —r! N c. S/kTURDAY JULY i«, iv* The Presidential and Gubernatorial Campaign I'rotn a national stand^Joi^l.t ilu nomination StnAtipr 'Barry GoWwatcr us tlu- Kf|)nhli- 1 c^dklate for President of lITe United 'ite» leaves the self-respecting Wf’Vn voters thU country but one alternative and that to cast their ballot for Lyudon R. John- i in the' General Election in X'oveniher. ould the Deoiocrats' fail to nominate I\esi- it Johnson the situation would hiTome even >re complicated for those Xej^ro voters who self-respect above party loyalty. As it *V stands w^e cannot visualize a N'etjro with e ounce of race |)l'ide or self-respect, what- .:t his party affiliation, casting his ballot • Golwater in Xovenibem. 'hould President Johnson become the choice the Democtats it now appears that the il rights issue is. certain to become the ninating factor of the presidential campaign reality snich a situation actually forces the ;e issue into the campaign with the south- 1 white voter and the reactionary northern •he voter allied behind (ioldwatev against fohnson supporters. I’nder such circum- n cs the campaign could develop into a ■ situation. On the state level Xegro deino^atj of Xorth CaVolina find themselves face to face with the (juestion of voting lor a gubernatorial candidate whose catnpaign utterances were not only anti-civil rights but anti-Xegro. Here again the XegW voters will have the hard choice of placing self-respect and race |>riile above ]>arty loyalty. Relore the campaign ends the gnljernatoVial race in this state may develop into a situation somewhat similar to that of the |>resideutial race with the civil rights or race i.ssue the douiiuating factor. SucU is certain to happen if the Republican candidate lor governor proves, to be less anti- civil rights than the Democratic nominee. We urge and we crtiitend again that Xegro leaders should call a state-wide meeting be- fi.Ve it is too late. This should be lone so that a united front for Xegl-o voters in Xorth Carolina may be fomiulated instead of a divided front which is cevtain to destroy or weaken the influence the Xegro vote was able to show in th« guberrtatorial catu|taign of 1960 when it actually decided the choice fgr governor. lalbge of The Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina i 'o\i rtpd in last week’s issue of the Cavn- a Times, and other Xegro newsjiapers ol ■ state, the accotrnt of the Ku Khix Klan rniog a c^ss outside the home ot a Xegro lool teacher, M»s. A. Reed Johnson, in En id and the subsequent firing of the same cher by the Halifax County Board of Edu- lon and the Xegro principal of the school M’hich Mrs. Johnson worked fov twelve \rs or more. You also read that she has ered snit in the United States District urt CS{ System Xorth Carolina to recover magw in th* sum of $2.''0.000. \Ve think the case of Mrs. Johnson jire- nts a challenge to every law abiding citizen both, races in Xwrth GaVolina who btMeves fairfday..,intertaciil g(iod will anl common clrcttmstauces swrt-onndiug the ;e (|«itiaa) that Mrs. Johnson be given the iral ai¥i Jinancial .su[)port of the entire iti that the action she is bringing is not y, fgr her personal (•ights., but for “others school teachers of Halifax County, ,..{h C^roliiia siI^1liariy situated." cc4r^ii]|( to evidence we have received s.. JohnMD has been made a target of the Klux Klan simply b«ca«se of her activity a leader in the Halifax County Voters Jvemei^t which solicited and urged Xegro izens to register and vote. '.\II of such ;tiyities w^e iu support of the efforts of .ffto ci,(izens of Halifax County to exercise eir rights under the statutes and the Con- ituti'on of the United States. The recorel of Mrs. Johnson shows that TMi^ ^thaye years she spon.sored the school's society, organized its first Student .'uncU, serredF’trs'-fertthv'adviser-to the stu- -Ut iit'ts{iafets for three years, assisted in the preparation of the schoors Handbook for Teachers. servel as a member ot the school’s Ways and^^Ieans Committee, served as chair man of its Scliolarship Committee, chairman of the English Curriculum Study Group for the Xegro Schools in the county, chairman of the High School Teachers Study Group for Xegro .Schools in the county, and was instru mental in obtaining the only two college scholarships awanled to students of the school. It seems rather strange that after 12 long years as a teacher with such a fine record, in the T. S. Inborden High School at Enfield, the Roard of Education and the principal ha\’e suldenly discovered that Mrs. Johnson has been negligent in her, work to the extent that her contract, has not been renewed. It is >hvi»^us. th«f«(efer that tbef** more at state in the Enfield case than appears on the surface anl more than, the .nuve employment of Mrs. Johnson. Coupled with it appears a deliberate attempt of the KKK to intimidate, not only the Xegro teachers of the county, but every other .Negro who atteinpis to ex ercise his citizenship by registering and vot ing or by urging others to do so. Because of the situation in Enfield we call tipon the State Teachers Association. Xegro fraternal organizations, churches, clubs, busi ness institutions, and individuals to stand up and meet the challenge of the revival of the Klan and its apparent control of the Board of Exlucation in "Halifax County. We call upon them to provide the fund^, not only for legal aid, but to replace the salary Mrs, Johnson will lose because of being discharged. This should be done until the case has been de cided in the federal courts or. iititil Mrs. John son has found employment elsewhere. f ti ♦1 ROD SPIRITUAL INSIGHT REV. HAROLD ROI,ANU Man Without Reverence is Headed For the Shambled Ruins of Despair "Rcvermc* for Sod doo« not •nler thoir thouflhts." Rom. What is a man without this noble uplifting quality called reverence. Under the deceivisg charms of illusive pursuits ot the vanities of this life we may lose our sense of reverence. Is it not reverence that raises a man above the state of the animal? What, really, is man more than an animal without this sense of Maa without reverence is head ed for the shambled ruins of hopelessness. Man has no future without' this essential spiritual quality called reverence. All of man’s long, tedious struggle to achieve his moral-spiritual sensi tivene.ss adds up to reverence. Thus reverence adls beauty to the life of man. Reverence gives meaning to the life of man. This quality called reverence makes life worth living. The imprint of Divinity gave man his sense of reverence. We see at times peo ple in '.vhom, .seemingly, all of the spiritual grandeur is gone. They seemily have no revei-ence for God, life nor man. And such life ends in a deadend of use lecss futility. Let us nurture this a place in our homes. Let this sense ot reverence. Let it have a place in our homes. Let this reverence be interwoven into the very fibers of the personalities of our chcildren. Reverence stands, ,in essence, at the very heart of the moral beauty of the Ten Command ments. Here we have reverence for God and man. The life of man, demands this reverence, And without this reverence 'man’s individual and social, life would have little or m> meaning. Who would want to live in a place where all reverence has been done away? No one cherish es such a state of society. We must respect the beauty of Holi ness. As men, life is made richer when there is proper reverence for God. So man’s reverence for God should ai'lse from that in ner spark of Divinity siven by God in the creation. Yes, for life to have meaning we must have reverencc for God and man. Reverence is a precious, indis- pen.sahle gift of God to you sec any signs of gro'A’ir.g irreverenee in our nation? Is not the growing rate of crime in our land a possible sign of a laek of reverence? What about the in creasing number of divorces? What about the growing signs of di^onesty and graft? Reverence should be considered as a most precious spiritual ingredient of our individual and national life. To escape the crash of a total disaster, we must restore basic reverence for God, man and life. Why. If we lose our sense of reverence, we have lost every thing. Finally, all of our material resources will be unable to save us, if We let reverence lose its important place in our national heritage.- A recent edition of THH* NKW YOKK JOURNAL — AMKIUCAN front-pii«ed an article announcing (ho plan of ex Bluck Muslim Malcolm X to “take over” the civil rights leadership. Malcolm, it ap pears, has made a move to establish a national organiza tion and has selected lenders In several cities who will be his lieutenants or co-leaders or whatever you choose to call them. The organization, he says, will be religious, politi cal, economic, etcetera, etcete ra, etcetera. Along the econo mic front, members will be re quired to pay one dollar a week. With the civil rights bill now a law, our troubles as a race have iust begun. I believe the new law is a big move nlonft the path to true oqiiall- tv nut things will get wor'se hf>forc thcv get better. We would really be cutting our own throats if large nuntbers of our neople listened to and followed the confused and ron- fii.iing leadership which Mal colm projects. Yesterda.v, he owed “all T am fn life” to the Tfonorablp Kll- iha Mohammed. Today The TTonorable El’iha is not so honorable in Malcolm’s hook. Yesterday, he vigorously deni ed that Muslims teaeb hatred. Today, ho tolls the white press that he became di.senchanted with the Muslims because "they teach hate,” Yesterday, to Malcolm all wh'te folks were devils. Today, after see ing some startling vision dur ing his travels, Mr, X has di.. elded that some whito loiks are all right. What doea this mean really think? What is h« really after'’ How does he Intend to spend the funds coming in from all those thousands of people •»(> feels he can persiMide to comp lip with a dollar • week? Will he get a salary as head ut this new organizatloR? If jo, how much? In my view, U Malcolm wer* sincere and honest In his new visions, he would reflect on how harshly and unjustly he has belittled and sought to discredit our responsible na- tional leaders who have been working In the struggle so long. It is true that our pro gress has been slow but you have to say, if you’ speak truth that the NAXCP, URBAN Lea-, cue CORE, SCLC and SNCC leadership have given great de dication to a difficult task. 1 shudder to think of what would happen to our peonte and our country if some mira cle placed a Malcolm X in command of our flest'ny. Of course, this will not happea Perhaos some few thousand! moved by Malclrom'j bombastic eloouence and by the fact that he is the fair-haired boy of the white oress. will go along w'dh him. I have too much faith in the common sense of the ma jority of the Negroes to believe that Malcolm’s new organi na tion will ever amount to mu/’h. Know fk Negro Aiding Integration of Schoob A Necessity Onslow Speech Teacher Holds Classes In Bus “Isn’t It wonderful?” I ex ulted. “We’re gonna be free. They-ve passed the civil rights bill!” “When?” my Big-Mouthed friend demanded. I stared at him. “You’re not going to stand there with your bare fare hanging out and tell me yo\i don’t know the civil rights bill is now the law of the land,” I said indignantly. “Fool! of course I know they passed the bill,” Big retorted. crackers in Mlssldamssippi. 1 mean we ain’t free and no civil rights law has made us free.” “You cannot expect things to change overnight.” I re minded Big. “I have been free for three hundred years, “Big shouted. Not only that, 1 have not only been free for three hundred years, I have also been lied to for one hnudred years. Vou call that overnight? I don't dig why we needed any civil rights VVe.are ^t a loss to determine what can be i» |o encourage a greater number of Xegro pil»' to apply for enrollment in the iute- at^ ^choojs oi Durhatp, It is. discouraging tend them.sclvos to help providt'ftiore pupils fot the schools ah'cady integrated. eel. .SOr/i •'4iUgei is not g «&k«’n of them. Thir iin* Record made by those Xegro pupils ho. h^j'e already enrolled in predominantly discloses that the fear of not not be necessary- before soinc niov« is made in all phases of the work and by school officiab to integrate th«;faculties in Students are frequently late Reviewing the past school of a middle-aged or old woman, coming to the classroom, but In yej,r which -was a trial period Usually I got slapped or had to at least one North Carolina com- fg, rolling cla.ssroom, Kfrs. faiut.” She calls her rritJSt vvk‘1 ^ 1.U i. £ • r • i munity its conceivable that the j^evels says, “We weren’t able memorable part the lead role in White we are on the swbject of aidmg inte- classroom could be late coming to use the bus in the dead win- “Trip to. Bountiful,” becau.se grat^n in our public schools, we would like the student. ter because of the cold. How- “it was the first time a student |tbf school o(^th#-.city and speech therapists evti/’ she declares^ "that is be- actress hud ever been presented D(ifKa|n that as we have Owfiw’CTunty, Mi's. Glaciys jii^ taken core of/* adding that ro.ses for a performance, heeii ali^e #o discover tu»t one QUigfe move has Revels» works out ol she is getting another bus whicli With the first year rufflps been made toward iategtaiinf the faculties Jacksonville and serves the will be oil heated and air con- ironed out, the bus-classroom in the public school* ot eUher tbe city or the will be under observation by ^ j remodeled bus equipped as county. It IS our hope that le^l action will dassroom. the integrated schools is unjusti hIc : Ai* implied in an avticle published in iss*e of the CaroJwia TimeW)oth u fifett^lty n)en}be»-s and the white students V*. bfcil above reproach in their attitude \Y9fi K«gro pupils. ,W«; Itertfait* urge parents as well as pupils ) cA-Of*r»(e more fully with those who are to provide the best education for I tf^ citizens of Durham. In spite of the ip|i9y^9ieat in facilities of the Negro schools > Uve fine qorps of teachers generally U9(| iiK tlNWk truth of the matter wilt scIbM tkst » niA>ority of the integrated hool» iMwe move and better facilities, gen- Currently a member of North , I, . j i. Carolina College’s nine-week the public schools as well *s the student Education Workshop, a bodies. It w also our feeKng th»t faculty program sponsored by the integration would be beaeficial to the pupils Southern Education Foundatton, of both races as well as the schools in general. Mrs. Revels is among 23 reci- plents of grants to the work- ■hop. How does she feel other school offic'als when it begins teachers would react to a bu.« its second .sesison, and Mrs. Re- classroom. She believes “they vels points out: “If am able to would enjoy It once they got have cla.sses in the bus all year "! just asked you "when?” Not AiU anyhow unless it was Just when did they pa.ss the dam fa p. s. to the Declaration of bill but when are we gonna be N^ndependence, the Bill of R'ghts, The Emancipation Pro clamation, The Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Ammendments, the 1934 Su preme Court Decision and JFK’s speeches - a p. ». saying colored are Americans too. “You have a point In what you are saying.” I admitted, but I still think the civil rights law Is a giant step forward." “Maybe so, “Big admitted" But white folks have taking so many little titiy fiaby steps where I am cowfipl’ned free? “What do you mean?” I de manded. Big looked at me with a contemptful sorrow. “I mean I am still living in this same slum, paying luxury rent. I mean I am still paying more for a pound of coffee than white folks pay for the same brand in supermarkets in white neighborhoods. I mean my boy baby brother Is still going to a segregated school and getting an inferior educa- over being alrald as I did.” long, the State Department ot tion. I mean I am still the first that it's hard for me to Mrs. IVcvelB, wlw was voted Education is going to use this the best actress at Southern Uni- tvpe of classroom for all specliil versity during her student day;, ednca'ion teachers who are in was an extra in “Band of need of space.” Angels,” a motion picture star- Ail her students, according to ring yMantut DeCarlo, Clark Mrs. Revels, are “quite happy ’ Mrs. pevels, a graduate of Gable adB Sidney Poitier. She with the bus. TWOJrEKD IF YOU put a smart boy and a dull boy Univerrity, Baton also haa worked on the sets of When school opens this fall in a schoolroom together amd educate them atrnMphere *for teaching”"*®" *n! Ji*’* in fkr.o ‘ • > j 11 K u K t „ imospnere lor teacnmg. «e Untouchable* at Desilu Studios Jacksonville area might slSP5 m the three r s, the dull boy w.ll be less com- fore getting the bus, she Indt- culv« Ct*y, Calil. in wonder if he hears a child petent to compete with the smsrrt boy at the cates, the lack of space forced “Usually/' she laughs about cry out gleefully; “Look! Here end of a yeat than he was at the start. her to hold classes In whatever her underi^edwte acting ex- comes the classroom, rolling 1b other words, education nu^^s the smart could be secured at the j«rienc«, "I had to play the part down the highwayl” a lot smarter and the dull just a little smarter. *’’°'rient. She even used a stage This has been pro.ved to the satisfaction of other than those to be found m .scientists by meanj, of experiments conducted S,ronly bu^'^classroL’’to^the » \T.„yA Imt.l ,nterr.-,tion taWea on by Columbia University. ,Ute. Those with high intelfcctnal/ physical and Contributing to the “atmos- moral en^owmentft iovarisbly respond to op- pbere for teaching" la tii* fact portunities more readily than, the hrss natu- that “the children have a sense rally fottuoat* Wings, a3»A tKoa the •*»«cuTity,” ih« says, “ialivow- guU b«twwft the fit Slut th* waiit i« widwed. ***« ‘*’7 * *‘Wte plac* to Heary Ward B^he,., told IK^ot Newell f” Dwight liiMis, when th/fr latter was starting effect.” out to preach, to studiJt the hptsea ip a com- qj t^e four schqols the e Ne^n> |£bools. Until integration takes on le lornt' oi ^ two-way stireet and white stu- enU ffU|o|A*4 in [ifedoininantly Negro .'hfiols, M: well vice versa, both Negro arents aak MMkntg ate going to have to ex- 1 mi Heroes of the American Revolution MMNiV Hftl*.TOPHB America’* struggle for its In- dependeM» wm aided by free dom tovlas pee^tes aU over the werML Maar to this coun try t» HWelv* tbeneaWes person ally ia tk* mtlitaiy eHort; some same battle in which Christophe was wounded. On September 8, 1779, a com bined PMneo-AnMrioan fleet ar rived off the approaches to Sa- vannak intent on regaining that important Georgia city from the day at Durham, If. C. IriiiUshcrt, Inc. f, Publisher Dwkaoi, N. C„ R4kTB» 09 M vMr tas hi N. C.) tnjWhm In I VJ., to4 I* MrvieemMi Ov«H*m Miil, |7.l» m fimti eopy Me. (W iwiN * w e. HWFW a eoMCIaap P to return to tkai* reapecttve coun- '''‘tiritiah^lncluded In the French tries '#Uk new coMepts of Uber- contingent of 3,600 soldiers were ty an4 jMstlte; otkeea to give Stf Haitian free Negroes formed to be fired although I am the last to be hired. I mean my folks down in Mississippi are still not going to be allowed to vote. I mean that the ink was not dry on that bill before three kids were snatched and most likely murdered by them failed to dislodge the defenders, D’Estaing determined that the city could be taken only by storm. The land assault took place on October 9, 1779. But a strong British counterattack was so successful the entire landing force was faced with annihilation. A general retreat was ordered and the Fontages Legion was as signed the t«4k of stemming the British onslaught. In what was called the “most brilliant feat of te day,’’ thie liegro detachment contained the British attack and permitted their comrades to car- ry out an orderly withdrawal. Christophe’s role in this action was cited in the official rails of they are ever goinf tjo catch up.” 'V Tii “They will,” I procS^led “I hope you’re right;'*- Big said gloomily. ‘But until tl»ey do, you will not catch me danc ing in no streets over no civil rlgthts law.” pacifies, which prevented thvr admission to the Cincinnati, but who subsequently attained high rank. . . . Henri GbristiotkA . served as a sergeant in the lie- gion of Mulattoes and Free He- groes, commanded by the Vta- count de Fontanges a^t tte seige of Savaonah, Ca., in 1779t wkAre he was wounded, and . . . subse quently became General In Chief In Heyti, and then President (or life aitd finally King of Hajrti.** Ghristophe learned h i i ftnt lessons in war and freedom it Savamish and leturaed to- his island home to become a conli- dant and then successor to XoM- salnt L.’Ouverture, the ‘.Geocge munity first iiwtea4 oi tbe paopbi. He said, visits twice a week, two Bel- theto VW«» tai tk* c(Mia* ef Amerl-^^n 'what was known as the Fon- the Order ot the Cincinnati, the Washington” of Haiti •H Henri Chclatophe they have fine spick-andrspan hc;ws«s, le Fork Elementary School uid can fr those people b^ve high ideajp %(^d ]foii can do Georgetown High School., are weat keipa to become a leader them % lot oi good au* il ttnw’have poor, J#cksonvllle. The others are in (WU’i »iht tor l*a Indepea- get out o S«verDale Blemenfry School d«iee. iafcretta »etu«i«t to W»en WWB, iwt MMva^ get out ot jack*onvllV», «nd Franc* UbIhmiI fcmocratie thMC. You c»at akv* thai*f40V)** *®*l* ke- Woodaon Elementary Schdol, It ideal*, tut CslMr Pulaski, the cauM no m mm." oUm «mn tewn. HeU* walkUM !■ tMcs Legion, -“Volunteer Cha.s- ^ur^i^Thc alHed force, which also Rntakied an Irteh brigade and a Polish legloa, was under the cemmairf of the French ad- lakat, DlMalag. AlUir a naVal bemkartaent Military society oi American and French officers who served in the tuar: "DarlBg the War of American Independeaee a large niunker of persons served either under Count* d’Bstaing or da Beckamkeaut ki aoboMUata u- Some sorry occasions should be forgotten and, like ohii aangi, should be discarded. AbUUy ud aeeaailt» itiMU Mt eack. ethw. PylMtpit
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