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RESENTMENT RISES AGAINST BRUTALITY IN ALABAMA
Selma Police
Briitalify Draws
National Fire
SELMA, ALA.—Law officials
Wednesday vowed anew to ban
furthej demostrations for voting
rights iji this strife-torn town but
Negro' leaders indicated they
would march anyway.
Mayjr Joe Smitherman, who
said tie march ban was the re
sult ot a joint agreement between
city, bounty and state officials,
had earlier announced that be
cause Negroes had been angered
by the beating of three white min
isters vho supported their cause,
any march would be "unsafe."
the march-ban directive
was some 60 state troopers
took positions one block from the
church'which has served as march
beadqi(trtcrs. But the expected
confrontation with demostrators
did no), appear imminent because
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the
loader,ihad not appeared by noon
at the j church.
Suncfcy some 2,500 citizens were
teargaacd and beaten as they at
tempted to march from Selma to
Montgomery. The group, led by
Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committer chairman John Lewis
and llbsca Williams, was stopped
on a V. S. 80 bridge by about
200 state troopers, 200 sheriffs'
possenjen and hundreds of whites.
At qbout 3:15 Selma time, just'
after Lewis led the group in pray
er, law officers fired tear gas bom
bs and began clubbing the march
ers. In the melee, some were tram
pled by officers' horses, others
were tycatcn with whips and ropes.
As t result of the brutality ex
hibited by Selma police thousands
of telegrams, and letters poured
into the office of President John
son from all over the nation as
evidence of the mounting senti
ment -agatasj. the -of Ala
bama continued to rise. Rumors
See SELMA, 4A
English Institute
Set For Mar. 27
At N. C. College
More than ICO high school and
College teachers and students are
expected to participate in an En
glish Institute at North Carolina
College on Saturday, March 27,
Dir. Sylvia L. Render,
English ot NCC and directory of
tht; event, indicated recently/
According to Dr. Render, the
institute, sponsored by the com
mittee on Higher Education of the
North Carolina Teachers Assoc
iation, has as its purpose, "the
achieving of better articulation
between high sch&Bi and college
English curriculums." The inst>-
tute, which will serve high schools
and aolleges in ten Piedmont
counties near Durham, will be lar
gely exploratory, Dr. Render said,
adding:
"We hope that by this means
wc will be able to identify the
more pressing problems of stu
dents and teachers alike and will
be able to attack these problems
through future institutes."
(Gonsising of an openiDg sess
ion, panel presentations, discus
sion groups, and an informal
luncheon which will feature a
speaker, the institute will In
cludc as resource participants a
number of experts in several dis
ciplines.
A session devoted to research,
VISTA, and North Carolina views
will have presentations by Dr.
Joseph 'P. McKelpin, director, NCC
Bureau of Educational Research;
Fclton Gibson of VISTA field sta
ff; and Dr. James E. Stone, assis
tant director, North Carolina Boa
rd of Higher Education.
Participants in a panel on the
curriculbm will be Dr. John Craw,
ford, chairman, Department of En
glish, Bennett College; Mrs. Jean
liunt Newman, the Stale Depart
ment of Public Instruction; and
Mrs. Coley. teacher of Eng
lish, Dijdley High School, Greens
boro. i
College admissiors standards
will be discussed by Charles Bern
ard, director of admissions, the
University of North Carolina,
Chapel If ill; and Mrs. Martha W.
Wheeler, registrar and director of
admissions. Shaw University, Ral-
L>ee NCTA, 4A
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FACULTY PfcEPS FOR SCIENCE
INSTITUTE—FacuIty mimbtri of
th«, Sixth Surrwne* Science Pro
gram for high ability eleventh
student*, to be hold at
Nketh Carolina College Juno 7-
Ju|y 17, r» shown at the collage's
1 620 IBM Computer, which, with
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Challenged By CR Act
City-wide Prayer
Meeting to Be
Held March 15
The Durham Ministerial Alli
ance announced this week that a
city-wide prayer meeting will be
held at St. Mark AMEZ Church
Monday, March 15, at 7:30 p.
The prayer meeting which will
be participated in by ministers
and members from all of the
churches, along with students
from the colleges and public
schools is being held in support
of the Selma, Alabama protest
movement now in process and
headed by Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr.
Rev. Lester Perry, present,
stated here this week that the sit-' 1
uation in Alabama demands the
full participation of all members
of the race in response to the re
quest for prayers by Df. King.
He urged all ministers, officials
and members of all churches to
live their full support to the
scries of prayer metings that will
be held during te next several
weeks. ,
,The first meeting #as held at
St. Joseph A.- TO.~E. Cfctttxh
day evening, March 8 with Rev.
Melvin Chester Swann, pastor, pre*,
siding. Marching and ringing in
side the church was preceedlng
the prayer meeting which was
participated in by a large nUm'
ber of persons present.
Talks were by J. H. Whefeler,.
president of the Mechanics and
Farmers Bank, and Attorney
Floyd B. McKissick, CORE chair
mjia. _ . i
other \i-qutji nwnt, wIH- fee '4a, i/*»
during the Mission.
Seated is Dr. C. Elwood Boui-
War*, associate professor of mathe
matics and director of the pre
■ram. Standln-, from left, arr
Irving A. McCollum, assistant pro-
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MRS. SMALL
Last Rites Held
In Chatham Co.
For Mrs. Small
FRANKLINTON Mrs. Roxi-\
Small, superintendent of the Ush
ers Home, near Franklinton died at
Dulrt Hospital in Durham at 2:45
Saturday, March 6.
Mrs. Small was born in Chat
fn&rfi Cftuntv where she had lived
up until about two years ago
•vhtwt she accepted Ihe position
wltff the Ushers Association as
superintendent of home.
Coincidental with her illness
was the fact that she took scri
ousiy ill on the same day license
was issued the Association for the
operation of a home for unwed
mothers. ,
the funeral of Mrs SmMl was?
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ny, rtfistant profassor af bloUgy,
- and Dr. Ndrmari Paditas; aatiatant
profaastfr •'! chamlatry.' th* ' Na
ional Scienca Foundation wlfl un
lerwrif# the major portion af Hit
• arOßram'j coat.
WASH., D. C.—The Department
of Health, Education and Welfare
today received its second group of
complaints—this time against 29
southern hospitals, under Section
VI of the Civil Rights Act.
This group like the first (Feb
15th), was filed jointly by the NA
ACP and the NAACP Legal De
fense Fund, two separate, but
closely associated organizations.
Jack. Greenberg, director-coun
sel of the Legal Defense Fund and
J. Francis Pohlhaus, counsel of
the NAACP's Washington Bureau,
again filed the complaints.
The attorneys asked to be in
formed of results of investigations
"as well as opportunity to parti
cipate in hearings and other pro
ccedings held to effect' full com
pliance.-'
The 29 hospitals construction
programs, all administered by
HEW.
Under Title VI, HEW is expec
ted to take affirmative measures
to end racial discrimination in
southern hospitals.
A summary of discriminatory
practices accompanied the com
pliants:
• At the Morton F. Plant Hos
pital in Clearwater, Fla., the
Negro ward has been placed
in a basement, which has
been declared unsafe.
• The St. Joseph's Hospital in
Augusta, Ga., will not accept
Negro maternity-patrents and
children,
• Negroes are denied admis
sion rather than allowed to
share a ward, if ont 'tflfite
person is in it, at the Uni
versity of Virginia Hospital
in Charlottesville, Va. .
■ it Negro patients arc allowed
> one v'fhing hour a day, com
pared w'th. three visiting
hours 0i t white patients, at
See HOSPITALS, 4LA
GREENSBORO—Some 500 Ne
gro parents petitioned the
Guilford County Board of Educa
tion stating that they do not want
their children to attend school
with white students because they
feel immediate integration would
cause their children to have soc
ial and educational adjustment
problems.
i The petition, which has the sup
port of the supervisor of Guilford
County's Negro schools, J. Earl
Whitley, some Negro principals
and some teachers, was presented
ta the hoard by J. Sam Johnson,
j white attorney, in behalf of the
the |roup.
According to Johnson, his cli
e»ts do not want "pressure gro
ups'' which urge rapid desegrega
tion te represent them, but would
rither have freedom to choose
which (segregated) school their
children should attend. The par
ent* also indicated they would en
riH thtir children in the consoli
dated Negro high school—which
hiw been in the planning stage
since 1937—whenever it is built.
"However, plans for Ihe new
school have been at a standstill
site* last month when the pro
txxad school site was rejected by
the State Board of Health because
»f inadequate sewage disposal fa
cilities in the area.
The petitioners' request for
"freedom of choice" is in keeping
wltli a plan worked out
Board Superintendent E. P. -Pear
fiP, *ld the board's attorhey, John
Hardy, which would allow volun
tary desegregation.
Hardy informed the board of
three alternatives for compliance
With Title VI of the Civil Rights
Bill': '
1.) Giving assurance of compli
ance with the educational pro-
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MRS. MEYERS
Mrs. Meyers Lists
Six Major Points
In Calii. Race
Klr». Mattie Burton Meyers, a ns-
HW of Durham, became ths first
woman in history to run
Ipr the affice of mayor when she
fMxi papers of candidacy recent
ly in Fratno. Calif.
FftESNO, California—Mrs. Mat
tte B. Myers, ir canrtWatc- -for elec
tion .as Mayor of Fresno, has
tut**! six issues which she believes
t* be of particular importance.
"The - future of Fresno as a
Ktjor metropolitan community
ctiiflot be divorced from the
kind of leadership selected to
guide its development," she stat
ed. "This selection can be made
only by the,voters, so it is to their
•dv«ntage that the proper selcc-
S?e MEYERS 1A
it
20 YEARS OH SERVICE Mrs.
Caiiileen Mack, daughter of Mrs.
Sarah Allen, of 1019 Kent St. was
was recntl/ honored with the pre
sentation of a 20 year Ssrvic* Cer
U. S. Supreme Court
Makes New J
Durham Mother Doubts Suicide
Ruling In Death of Her Daughter
Acting coroner Dr. R. B. VVil
kins, ruled suicide in the death
of 17-year-old Jeanettc Blue
Strickland, who was found dead
Sunday of a shotgun wound in her
stomach, but her mother has in
dicated she suspects foul play and
that someone jelse was involved.
Mrs. Emma Blue Strickland, the
mother, returned to her home at
806 Matthews St. Ext.. Sunday and
found her daughter on a bed and
with a biology, book and a .410
calibre shotgun beside hop, ac
cording to detectives E. A. Allen
a'hd Clyde Cox.
Police, who were called about
4:30 p.m., said the door ftfiss
Strickland's room was locked knd
her mother had to
a second door which was unlock
ed hut blocked by furniture The
girl had reportedly been despond
ent recently.
Among survivors are five sisters,
Mrs. Thelma Stokes and Mrs. Mar
jorie Jones, both of Method, Mrs.
Ur S. Agriculture Sect'y Freeman
Appoints Civil Rights Task Force
WASHINGTON, D. C. Secre
tary of Agriculture Orvillc L.
Freeman this week annunced the
appointment of a task force to
supervise the implementation of
'he recommendations of the Civil
Rights Commission in its report
on the U.S. Department of Agri
culture.
Making up the task force are:
Deputy Assistant Secretaries Trie
nah Meyes, chairman; Alfred L.
Edwards, and Arthur Mead; Assist
ant Director of Science and Edu
cation James H. Starkey; James
T. Glenn in the office of Congres
sional liaison: and Elmer Mostow.
Director of the research and ope
rations division in the Office of
the General Counsel.
William M. Seabron. Assistant
to the" Secretary for Civil Rights
coordination, is to oroviile staff
assistance to the task fores.
The Secretary told the group
that it should analyze and review
in depth the findings of the Civil
Rights Commission so there will
-will be-rwj --nKstn*dcrst««d-ine
among Department agencies as to
these findings.
Further, he directed the task
force to develop a statement as
to precisely what each agency is
to do in order to comply with
the recommendations of the Com
mission and how each should pro
ved in the implementation of
them.
Secretary Freeman ha" already
;:ksd ail USDA to rtpe.l
tificate by Len Rokaw, Informa- |
tion Officer, USAECOM, of Fori
Mammouth, N. J.
j Mrs. Mack is a former Durham
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MISS STRICKLAND
Mattie Aiken of Honolulu,
and Mrs. Geneva Jones and Mrs.
Lillie Blue, both of Hoffman; and
one brother, James Blue of the
home address.
to him the present status of their
compliance with the Civil Rights
Act and the additional steps they
plan to take to bring their pro
grams into complete alignment.
These reports, he explained,
will be assessed by the task force
which, on the basis of its own ana.
lyses, will assist the agencies in
correcting any shortcomings in
their plans of action.
Out of the task force work, the
Secretary said, is to come the
basic material for the progress re
port the President directed to
be prepared by the end of th£
month stating actions taken or
contemplated by the Department
in connection with recommenda
tions of the Civil Rights Commis
sion.
PUBLISHER TO
ADDRESS PITT
COUNTY NAACP
GREENVILLE The United
Pitt County NAACP - .vill hold a
Mar*h 14 dt 7:45
P.M. at Sycamore Baptist Church,
with L. E. Austin, publisher of
The Carolina Times, as speaker.
Theme of the program will be:
"He who would be free must work
to free himself."
Herbert Green, branch president,
will lead the call to "irif>r, the
Rev. C. R. Gray, will read tnc
scripture, and the Rev. C. R. Mos
ley is to lend oraver.
See STEAKER, U
citizen where she attended the
public schools end also Cortex
Peters Business College, Washirg
ton, D. C.
WASHINGTON The Supreme
Court ruled Monday that defend
ants in criminal eases are not. ac
cording K/ the Constitution, en
titled to demand that their jury
or juror roils include a specified
number of persons from their par
ticular race.
In the 6-3 opinion, speaking for
the majority, Associate Justice
Byron K. White said:
"Neither the jury roll nor the
"venire need be ki perfect mirror
! of the community or accurately
| reflect the proportionate strength
.if every identifiable.,racial group.''
The opinion was delivered in
the appeal of Kobert Swain, a 19-
year-old Negro who was sentenced
to execution in Alabama on be
ing convicted oi raping a 17-year
old white girl.
The majority opinion said fur
ter: "We cannot hold that the
Constitutpn requires an examina
tion of the prosecutor's reasons
for the exercise of his challenges
in any given case."
Chief Justice Earl Warren,
along with Associate Justices W.
O. Douglas and Arthur J. Gold
berg, joined in a dissenting opin
ion. They contended, speaking
through Goldberg, the majority
ruling "seriously impairs" the
court's previous decisions on jury
selection "and creates additional
barrit'fs to'the elimination of jury
discrimination practices which
have operated in many communi
ties to nullify the command of
the equal protection clause."
Young Urges
Passage of Vote
Legislation
NEW YORK. N. Y. Whitney
M. YOung, Jr., executive director
of the National Urban League,
Monday urged Congress to enact
a strong and comprehensive voter
registration law which would en
able Negro citizens to vote without
intimidation,
"The shocking police brutality
against the participants in Sun
day's Freedom Walk in Selma,
Ala., provides incontrovertible
evidence of the need for a Federal
voting law guaranteeing citizens
that rieht regardless of race or
place of residence.
"I believe. Young continued,
'that the .conduct of state troopers
at.
, Cpco. C.) Wallace-—hardly speaks
for the majority of white people
in Alabama. Many a-e shocked by
the denial of the rights of Negro
citizens to participate fully in the
democratic process."
The Urban League director said
the Urban League will appeal to
congress > n to enact an air-tight
\'jj?r registration statute which
would prevent tie kind ol "morfc.
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