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EMPLOYEE OF YHfc YEAR—
Shown with Gov. Dan K. Moore,
Howard C. Barnhlll, laft cantar,
Charlotte; and a f'aduate of A.
and T. Collage and National Presi
dent of the Alumni Association,
was last week invited to visit with
Gov. Dan K. Moore of North Car
Gov. Geo. Wallace Meets
With Group On Ala.
MONTGOMERY, Ala.-i-Governor
George C. Wallace met a group of
educators, mjrilstcrs, and business
men Tuesday v*#io presented grie
vances over the state's tur
mqil regarding voter registration
and police actions.
m 15-mcmbet group had stated
grievances in the ,form of a
pctytiqn. Among those present
weije several members of the
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference of wfych Dr. Martin
Lus,er King Jr. is president. King
was jlp Detroit for the funeral of
Mrs. yiola Gregg Liuzzo, a white
civji rights workeir who was mur
dered March 25 on a lonely read
near Sfilma. Mrs. Liuzzo was shot
while drwjßfr aloßg_ *~r high vay
wish a #ho had ac
companied her to make out re
port forms while she transported
participants in the march on
Montgomery in hpr car.
Meanwhile, several of the na
tion's leaders questioned the wis
dom of a boycott of all of Ala
bama's products ajf' called for by
Dr. King, j.j
Whitney Young Jr., heatf i)f'the
National U+toan League, Said) he
preferred a plan which \fbuld 'not
penalize who had been, fair
in the civil rights movement.
Sen. Jacob Javits, R-NY, said
the boycott as suggested by King
might do more harm than good.
Sen. Lister Hill, D-Ala., declared
King's goal "seems to be to wreck
the state's economy, to hurt every,
body, the Negro and white—this
certainly is an odd '*ay to pro
mote brotherly love »nd better un
derstanding baleen the races."
Rep. Chester Mize, R-Kan., said
King's proposalrfo?s damaged the
civil rights movement and threat
ened further'thfe South's problem
of providing sufficient jobs.
DCONA to Meet
At Ebenezer
Sunday Evening
]Nic 30th annual meeting of the
Durham Committee on Negro Af
fairs will be at the Ebenzor
Baptist Church, located on Glenn
Street, Sunday/ Ajiril 14, at 5:00
P.ty. The Rev. tames A. Brown is
host pastor.
meeting will be called to
orser by Dr. C. E. Boui'.vare, ex
ecutive secretary of the Commit
ter. invocation will be by Rev. A.
D. M'ostley, pastor of Mt. Gilead
Baptist Church and president of
th^' Durham Ministerial Alliance.
church chdjr will provide mu
siy for the meeting.
Sub-Committees that will make
reports during the meeting are:
Tlm Civic-Committee, L. B. Frasler
ana J. Fred Pratt, co-chairmen:
Legal Redress Committee, M. Hugh
and Wfn. A. Marsh, co
chairmen; Education Committee,
Dr! Howard Fitts and Rev. James
A. Brown, co-ch»irmen; Economic
Committee. F. B. MeKissick and
N. B. White, co-chairmen and the
Ppjitical Committee, Ellis Jones
ars Walter ODaye, co-chairmen.
offering will be taken by
D? Grady Davig and T. R. Speig
net The annual address of the
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olina, as further tribu:e to his
, having been named Mecklenburg
County 1944 Employee of the Year
. by the Charlotte Chamber of Com
merce.
In the picture with Gov. Moore,
center, I. to r: the Barnhill chil
dren, (linton ind Angela; Barnhill,
Inauguration of Dr. Lewis Dowdy
Set for A. & T. College Saturday
GREENSBORO—The Lieutenant
Governor of North Carolina will
head a group of prominent govern
ment and education officials to
participate in inaugural ceremon
ies for Dr. Lewis C. Do\ydy, as six
th president of A. and T. College.
. The ceremonies are scheduled
fot the A and T. Charles Moore
Gymnasium on Saturday, April 13,
beginning at ft:00 a. m.
Lieutenant Governor Robert W.
Scott wijl appear on, the program
as the official representative foi
the State of North Carolina. Ite
will be joined on the platform also
by David_ Schenck, mayor of
Greensboro, snd Dr. William C.
Archie, director. North Carolina
Board of Higher Education.
More than 200 official repre-.
sentatives from leading colleges
and universities from about the
nation, learned societies and edu
cational organizations, will also
attend the event.
Main speaker for the occasion
is Dr. Raymond C. Gipson, Blom
mington, Indiana, professor and
chairman of the Division of High
er Education, Indiana University.
The formal inauguration for f)r.
Dowdy eomes within a week of
the first anniversary of his service
as president of the college. He as
sumed the post on April 10, 1964,
following the resignation of Dr.
Samuel D. Proctor, who had held
the position since 1961.
The 47-year old president of
A. and T. is a native of East over.
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IN FIFTH RENDITION The
Whit* RocV Baptist Church will
present the fifth annual rendi
tion of The Sevan La»t Words by
April 11, «t 4:50 p.m. in the
i Mi i, Martha Evans, j.ate Senator
I from Mtclclenburg County; Dr.
- Lewis C. Dowdy, president of A.
■ and T. Collegs and Mrs. Barnhill.
Thre Barnhill children were also
introdktted Bt a session of the
state senate and were named hon
orary pages.
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DOWDY
S. C. He Is a graduate of Allen
University, holds the M. A. degree
from Ihdiana State Teachers Col
lege and is a candidate for the
doctorate degree at Indiana Uni
versity.
Prior to coming to A. and T. in
1951, Dowdy had served in the
public school system •of South
Carolina as a school princi
pal for seven years and as super
vising principal for four years.
At A. and T., he was first pro
fessor of education and director
of student teaching and in rapid
promotions became dean of the
School of Education and General
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church »*nl;tuary. The preaente
tlon Will bo under the direction
Theodore Bußois on Sunday,
9f John H. Oattis, director of mu
Protest Refusal
Of Registrars to
Register Negroes
MONTGOMERY, Ala.—Between
150 and 200 students are fasting
in jail and prison in Montgomery.
Alabama jn support of the protest
in Sclma, Alabama.
The news media and public of
ficials are blocking out news of
this action and your help is need
ed to break through the paper
curtain.
The students are from Alabama
and many other parts of the Unit
ed States. They are refusing to
eat until federal authorities and
state officials take steps to pro
tect their right to picket and
demonstrate in support of the
march from Selma to Montgom
ery. They have not eaten since
March 18.
The Montgomery protest start
ed March 10, the day after march
ers from Selma were turned back
by state troopers at the bridge
over the Alabama River. About
500 students from Tuskegee In
stitute were in the forefront of
the demonstration in Montgomery
which took place in front of the
State Capitol Building.
They were protesting refusal
of registrars in Selma and sur
rounding counties to register Ne
groes to vote and the refusal of
state officials to allow Selma peo-l
pie to march to Montgomery in
protest.
The March 10th demonstration
was broken up and the students
were forced to take refuge in a
nearby church. Since then many
demonstrations have been broken
up by city county and state po
lice supported by mounted posse
men from the surrounding coun
try-side. These horsemen have
beaten the students with clubs,
bullwhips and ropes, injuring
many of them. City police used
the same tactics to break up a
(ally on the campus of Alabama
tate College.
AOn Thursday, March 18. groups
of 50 and 60 students picketed in
front of the State Capitol and
, vfr« arrested on various charges
su"h as loitering. About 300 were
taken to Montgomery City jail and
to nearby Kilby State Prison
where they immediately began
fasting. The number in custody
'\is steadily fallen until it is now
between 150 qnd 200.
The hunger stt-ikers corttend
that the federal government his
the power to free them under the
Civil Rights Act on the ground
that they were arrested while
exercising their civil rights. Suits
are being filed in federal court to
set an order restraining police
from making further arrests for
demonstrating and picketing.
Public officials have made
great efforts to confuse the issue
and to say that the students in
Montgomery are not supporting
the march from Selma. This
charge is not true. Ho-vever, the
propaganda by the opposition is
having its effect. The news media
—the press, radio and television—
have had a virtual blackout of
the events in Montgomery.
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Petition N. C. Governor To
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EXCHANGE STUDENTS Four
exchange students from WlllUms
College, William it own, Mai*., art
b«if»- shown about th« North Car
olina campus In Durham
Negro Methodist Bishops Hold
Meet On Merger March 30
LQfUISVtLLE, Ky.—Bishop C. E.
Tucker, president, Board of Bis-
A. M. E. Zion Church, on the
eve of leaving for a special meet
ing of his colleagues at Lane C- M.
E. ,Church, St. Louis, Mo., March
30, sitid that the special meeting
wps called so that the bishops of
his denomination could go into
the ajgenda of a meeting of the
of all Negro Methodist
bodies which would be held Wed
nesday.
This is believed to be the first
meeting held by the three tlenomi
nations in a long time, with an
eye toward a mer«?r. Talks have
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from left, ire: John K. Henki,
tenor; Mr*. Ruth G. Reeves, *o
prerte; and Joseph T. Mitcell, barl
tone. Cettij is pictured below.
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DURHAM, N. C.—SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1965
by Richardson. The stu
dents, from left, are Clarence
Wilson, sophMWore of Brooklyn.
N. Y.; Gsort'i Plendak, Junior of
David 1 Sfith to Seek Seat on City
From The Third Ward
David W. Stith. President of
Southeastern Business College, an
nounced this week his intentipn
to seek a seat in the City
from ,War 4 Three."
The municipal feiection will be
held on May 15.
Slith Is President of the Neigh
borhood Council, a cemmunity im
provement group made up of
some 400 persons in the North
Carolina College Area.
The 35-ycar.old educator, speak
ing on radio station WDNC, had
this to say:
"My indention to run for a seat
on the City Council is not a snap
decision. I have considered this
step for a number of year. I have
felt and continue to feel that the
Third Ward has not been ade
quately represented or the City
served by the incumbent City
Councilman.
"Although, I live in the geo
graphical district, the Third Ward.
I feel I if elected, serve the
interests of the entire city to the
best of my ability.
"If Elected, I will work for (1)
a continual and orderly expan
sion of the city through annexa
tion (2) a stepped up program of
internal city improvements (3) a
fair, yet very firm enforcement of
the city housing code (4) a limita
tion on the number of terms one
can serve on the City Council.
"I will make a step forward bet
ter representation of the people
by establishing" regular; weekly
office hoots, making myself avail
able to ell *0 JiwM mjty better
represent them on the Council.
"Our present City Councilman
has not effectively represented
either the Third Ward or the City.
He has not shown initiative in
proposing new programs for the
city or for the geographical area
of the City 'vhlch he represents.
Frequent absences from Council
Meetings have further limited his
effectiveness.
these reasons I am an
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New Britcn, Conn.; Bob DuPlessis,
junior of Croton-on-Hodson, N. Y.;
»nd Allan Stern, sophomore of
Chicago.
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LAYMEN'S GROUP
TO HOLD MEET
GUILFORI) APR. 25
GUILFORD—The Laymen's Or
ganization of the AME Church,
Western North Carolina Confer
ence, will hold a meeting at Per
simmon Grove AME Church, Guil
rord College Station, April 25 be
ginning at 2 P.M.
Among major items on the
ngenda will be financial reports
of Laymen's Day celebrations
which are to be held in each
church in the Second Episcopal
'District as outlined by Bishop
George Wilbur Baber, presiding
prelate. Each church is being
asJced- to sand jt least one dele
gate to the conference.
Along with financial reports,
other items to be taken care of
at the meeting are the election
of officers for the biennium, and
the election of delegates to the
Conncctional Laymen's Convention
to be hooted by the Second Epis
copal District, August 2-8 in Wash
ington, D. *C. The convention site
will bf»'Metropolitan AME Church
Persimmon Grove is pastored
!>y tUc R«v. ii. L, Jofcusou.
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Atiy. McKissick
Heads Group in
Visit to Capital
lIALEIGH Durham Attorney
Floyd B. McKissick headed a dele
gation of lawyers which Monday
asked Governor Dan K. Moore to
appoint qualified Negro lawyers to
judicial positions and staff attor
, ney jobs in state government.
' The eight-member group repre
sented the North Carolina Lawyers
[ Division of the Southeastern Law
yers Association. Besides McKis-
I sick, others present for the • 20-
! minute meeting were Samuel Mit
chell of Raleigh: L. C. Berry ot
Wilmington; Don Pollock of Kin
ston; and M. C. Burt, C. J. Gates,
W. G. Pearson II and C. C. Ma
lone, Jr., all of Durham.
McKissick said Gov. Moore told
the group he would "consider our
requests." But the Governor, Mfi
Kissick added, "made no further
comment."
The group reminded Moore that
Negro lawyers arc not represented
on the N. C. attorney general'*
staff, nor are there any Negro
superior court judges or Supreme
Court justices. It indicated that
there is an opening for a lawyer
oh the staff of the State Board of
Elections Which, according to Mc-
Kissick, is "a vital board in view
of the imminent passage of the
voting bill by Congress,'' which
could affect 34 North Carolina
counties.
Reform legislation now pending
in the General Assembly was also
discussed by the committee with
Moore', and the delegation asked
Negroes be appointed to the
State Board of Bar Examiners and
;ther state licensing boards. Mc-
Klssick pointed out that the North
Carortha Bar Association, "the
main legal organization of the
state,", does not accept Negro
members.
NCC Alumnus
Gets Honorary
Doctors Degrg?
Francis A. Kornegay, a native
of Mt. Olive and a graduate of
the North Carolina College Class
of 1935, was awarded the honor
ary degree Doctor of Humanities
Thursday by Wilberforce Univer
sity, Wilberforce, Ohio, at the in
stituUon's Founder's Day observ
ance.'
Kornegay, -aho is executive di
rector of the Detroit Urban Lea
gue, joined the League's staff in
1944 following a one-year appoint,
ment.in the U, S. Treasurer's of
fice, a seven-year period as a
teacher In Downington, Pa., and
a year of advanced graduate work
at the New York School of Soc
ial Work where he is a candidate
for the Ph. D. degree. Earlier,
he liad been awarded the M. A.
degree in guidance and personnel
work by the University of Michi
gan.
f Active in Detroit church and
civic affairs, he has made, two
European trips—one in 1952 as
a delegate-lecturer at the youth
camp of the graduate school,
Klrk-en-wereld Birebergen, Hol
land, and one in 1955 as the Nat
ional Baptist Laymen's Convention
delegate to the World Baptist Al
liance in London
Wilberforce University President
Rcmbert Stokes, informing Korne
gay of the honor, said: "Tlys de
cree is proffered in recognition of
youf outstanding contributions to
human relations and economic ad
vantages to all people.
"We feel that in honoring you,
we are adding stature to our
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