AT HOWARD UNIVERSITY FINALS
LBJ Announces CR Conference For Next Fall
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TWO PRESIDENTS President,
Lyndon B .Johnson and Howard i
University president Dr. James |
Nabrlt are shown at H. U.'s com-.
14*000 Hear President's
Speech At H I/.
LARGEST CLASS IN
SCHOOL'S HISTORY
IS GRADUATED
WASHINGTON, D. C. Presi
dent Lyndon B. Johnson said last
week that he will call together
next fall Negro leaders and offi
cials at all levels of government
for a conference that would help
bring about the full realization of
civil rights by ail Americans.
The announcement was made at
Howard University, where the
President received- an honorarj
Doctor of Laws degree during the
school's 0 7th Commencement
Other honorary degrees went to
NAACP executive secretary Roj
Wilkins, Doctor of Laws; Tuske
gee. Ala. educator and civic leadei
Charles G. Gomillion, Doctor of
Laws; and Michael M. Davis, »
pioneer in medical economics in
the United States, Doctor of Hu
mane Letters.
Speaking to a ciwvd of some
14.000, including 928 seniors, the
largest graduating class in How
ard's history, Mr. Jphnson said
the theme and title of the pro
jected parley will be "To Fulfill
These Rights." Scholars and other
experts also will be invited to the
njeeting, according to the Presi
dent.
The object of the conference
will be "to help the American
Negro fulfill the rights which
after the long time of injustice
he is finally about to secure," the
President declared.
The President said recent court
decisions and civil rights legisla
tion have opened the gates of op
portunity for the Negro, but add
ed: "It is not enough just to open
the gates of opportunity. All our
citizens must have the ability to
walk through those gates.
"This is the next and the more
prpfound stage of the battle for
civil rights," Mr. Johnson said.
"We seek not just freedom but
opportunity, not just legal equality
b(it human ability, not just equal
ity as a right and a theory, but
as a fact and equalit/ as
* result."
j .foe President said that the na
tion's 20 million Negroes must be
givfn the same chance as every
Other American to learn and grow,
to work and share in society, and
to develop their abilities.
Of the fall conference, he said
it will have three purposes, name
ly:. ,
• to move beyond opportunity
to achievement.
• to shatter forever not only
the barriers of law and public
practice, but the walls 'Aliich
bound the condition of man by
the color of his skin.
• to dissolve, as best we can,
the antique enmities of the heart
which diminish the holder, di
vide the great democracy, and do
wrong to the children of God.
"I pledge this will be a cheif
goal of my administration, and of
my program next year and in
years to come," Mr. Johnson de
clared.
mencement exercises at which
i Johnson delivered the main ad
dress. Making frequent references
■ to civil rights in his speech, the
Bishop Burton to Speak at Russell
CME Dedication of New Building
The official opening of Russell
Memorial C. M. E. Church's ne.v
Educational Building will be held
Sunday, June 13, at 11:00 a. m.
This building was begun Septem
ber 19fi4. Rev C. R. White is the
minister.
The Right Reverend H. C. Bun
'on, of Washington. D. C. Presid
ing Bishop of the Seventh Episco
pal District of the Christian Met
hodist Episcopal Church will be
the guest speaker.
The afternoon service will high
light N. H. Bennett, Vice Presi
dent of Actuary of the North Caro
lina Mutual Insurance Company,
as guest speaker at three o'clock.
Asa T. Spaulding. president of the
N. C. Mutual Insurance Co., and J.
J. Henderson. Treasurer of the N.
C. Mutual Insurance Co., will al-j
so bring greetings. Music will be '
ROY WILKINS RECEIVES HONORARY
DEGREE AT HOWARD UNIV. FINALS
WASH., D. C.—Howard Uni
versity conferred an honorary
Doctor of Laws degree upon
NAACP Executive Director Roy t
Wilkins at the commencement
exercises here, June 4, where
President Johnson delivered his
great address calling for Fed
eral action""to fulfill the fair ex
pectations of man."
The Howard degree was the
fourth of eight Wilkins rece
ives this season. Previously de
grees were conferrd upon him
by Oakland University of Ro
chester, Mich.; Atlanta Univer
W. J. Walls Center Dedicated
Livingstone Col.; Broyhill Speaks
SALISBURY The W. J. Walls
Center of Hood Thoological Semi
nary was dedicated here on the
Livingstone College campus last
veek amidst glowing tributes to
Bishop W. J. Walls, chairman of
the board of trustees of the col
lege. The North Carolina native
who makes his home in Yonkers,
Now York, was praised for his
many activities on behalf of Liv
ingstone College, the cause of
higher education and Negro peo
ple.
North Carolina's republican con
gressma nfroiifi the 10th district,
the honorable James T. Broyhill
of Lenoir, flew in from Washing
ton to lead the tributes and eulo
gized the honoree as one "whose
giving of his substance, time, en
ergy, inspiration and spirit for the
development of his people made
him a philanthropist indeed."
He gave a brief running account
of his life from birth in Ruther-,
ford County to his schpol days ai
Livingstone and his present sum
mit of acclaim ancPrenown.
"We have gathered here," he
President pledged himself to "shat
ter forever . . . the walls which
bound the condition of man by
the color of his skin."
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BISHOP (PUNTON
furnished by the Choir il
the church.
sity, Atlanta, Ga.; and I on a
College, New Rochclle, N. Y.
1 On Sunday, June 6, Notre
i Dame University, the famous
1 Catholic institution at South
Bend, Ind., conferred the hon
orary LI-. D. upon the NAACP
| leader. Swarthmore College,
I Swarthmore, Pa., conferred a
| similar degree upon him the fol
lowing day . And on June 8
he was to receive the Doctor of
Humane Letters degree from
Manhatten College in New York
City.
I \.-l
said, "to honor an unusual and
great man. A man born in adver
sity but who did not allow adver
sity to defeat him." He spoke in
glowing terms of his "personal
creed" by which he lived and de
scribed the many dimensions of
his life and work, adding "his life
has transcened what most men
could not match in five lives."
Others paying tributes to the
b'shop for whom the building was
officially named included DT. Jas.
W. Eichelbcrger, secretary of
Christian Education of the A. M.
E. Zion Church, Chicago, 111.; Mrs.
James W. Watson, president of
the Woman's Home and Foreign
Missionary Societies of the de
nomination, Fayettevjlle; Dr. John
H. Miller, president of the Hood
Theological Seipinary Alumni As
sociation, Louisville, Ky.; Dr. Lon
nie Carpenter, President of the
Salisbury-Roman Ministerial Fel
lowship and minister of the First
United Church of Christ, Salis
bury, and -George W. Maize, 1111.
representing the students of the
Hood Theological Seminary.
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VOLUME 42 N0772 — 'DURHAM, N. C.—SATURDAY, JUNE~I2, 1965 PRICE 15 Cents
AT SILVER ANNIVERSARY
Negro Publishers Association
To Meet In Louisville
LOUISVILLE, Ky. Over 250
Negro editors, publishers and their
Anniversary Convention of the
National Newspaper Publishers
staffs will journey to Louisville.
Kentucky June 16-20 for the Silver
Association.
They will hear some of Ameri
ca's leading public figures includ
ing: Carl T. Rowan, Director. U.
S. Information Agency; Lisle Car
ter, Jr., Assistant Director, Anti-
Poverty Program; James Farmer.
National Director of CORE; J.
Montgomery Curt i s, Director
American Press Institute; Barry
Bingham, Chairman, International
Press Institote: Kentucky Governor
Edward T. Breathitt; Louisville
Mayor William D. Cogger; Jeffer
son County Judge Marlow Cook
and Maurice Henry, Kentuckj
Press Association President.
Other convention speakers are;
Norman Isaacs, Executive Editor
of the; Louisville Courier Journal
and Times and Warren Abrams,
Promotion Manager of the two
newspapers; Tom Hamilton, Gene
ral Manager, Franklin (Ind.) Dally
Journal; J. E. Hankins, President,
Mammoth Life Insurance; Dr. Ken
neth Clark, New York City Col
lege; Dr. Hyland Lev/is, Howard
University; Dr. C. H. Parrish, Uni-
of Louisville; Dr. Carle
ton Goodlctt, Publisher, San Fran
cisio Sun Reporter. John H. Seng
»Rcke. Publisher Chicago Dailj
Defender; William 0. Walker,
Publisher Cleveland Call-Post and
Thomas W. Young, Publisher
Norfolk Journal Guide
Social highlights include a re-
Sce PUBLISHERS 2A
SCLC Deplores
Gov. Wallace's
3-Day Press Tour
SELMA—The Dallas County
Voter League, the Selma taffili'
ate of SCLC today depflored an
Alabama sponsored press tour
for "Editor's Of A Free and
Responsible Press."
Objections to the three day
Press Tour were expressed by
Rev. Frederick D. Reese, and
Rev. Harold Middlebrooks to
the head pf the allied Civil
Rights groups here.
Rev. Middlebrooks charges
that Governor Wallace had con
ceived and is now directing the
editors on a "propaganda tour
which will not show the true
Alabama to the nation through
men responsible for processing
accurate and fair news to the
American public."
Rev. Middlebrooks said: Since
Negroes in this state pay taxes
which partially support such
public shams, then at least they
should reap the benefit of hav
ing their plight brought before
the public.
"We don't mind the editors
viewing the many good features
of our state but they should be
fair and insist on seeing how
black folks live who cannot
shire the state's ostensibly 'pro
gressive image."
Rev. Reese asked that the
editors arriving here today from
Montgomery examine their col
lective consciousness while at
tending a planned Barbecue and
picnic here in their honor.
"I asked these editors," he
said, "to think of the hundreds
of Negroes hungry because they
were taken off welfare rolls
simply because they sought the
right Jo vote.
"Enroute here, you have tra
veled over one of th.e most
infamous highways in America.
U. S. Highway 80. It was on thi*
54-mile strech of road that Mrs.
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B»ffy Foster, centw, who recently
r *^# d from Pearson School after
a teaching career which spanned
Sigma Gamma Sorority Hits
Negro Teacher Firing At Meet
WIN STON ■S A M .Nearly 200
Jorolily y passed resolutions last
week lo send telegrams to state
tc|iopl and government officials
Renouncing the repotted firing of
Negro teachers in Vnrfh ■f&rolina
because of school integration.
The action was taken at the
23rd annual Northeastern Regional
Conference of the sorority, held
over the Memorial Day weekend
downtown in the Hotel Robert E.
Lee.
Signed by Mrs. Naomi W. Sat
chel! of Philadelphia, regional
syntaktes, and Mrs. Annie W. No
ville of Rocky Mount, grand basi
leus, the resolution said:
"Resolved that the Northeastern
Regional Conference expresses
hereby its grave (intern regard
ing the reported imminent dis
missal of a large number of Ne
gro teachers in the state of North
Carolina allegedly based upon the
integration in schools therein ac
cording to the law."
In other resolutions the sorority
praised President Lyndon B. John
son for his support of anti-poverty
and voting rights legislation and
the appointment of Mrs. Patricia
Harris Reed as the first Negro
woman ambassador for the United
States.
Delegates elected the following
officers:
Miss Laura J. Hawkins of Phila
delphia. regional syntaktes; Mrs
Inettie Edwacds of Newport News.
Va., grammateus; Mrs. Mabel Roul
hac of Portsmouth, Va., anti
grammateus; Mrs. Emily Bryant
of Baltimore, Md., epistoleus; Mrs
Alma Hawkins, national nominat
ing committee, and Mrs. Satchell
ind Mrs. Mary Backus of Rocky
Moqnt, regional board of directors.
« The sorority voted to meet in
Washingtn, D. C. in 1966.
Mrs. Ardelle M. Grav regional
hostess for the convention, was
honored as "Sigma Woman of f.ie
Year." She is a member of the
hocse*B chapter. Alpha Mu Sigma
of Winston-SnlTn. She is a native
of bapville, Va. |
Mi 99 Frances Coplin, h student
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sented a citiation by Frank Bur
nett, principal of the school. On
Negro Minister Named Mayor j
Protem In Lumberton Election
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LUM UEIWyW- V*4et>an_iwmliw:.
of the Lumberton City Council Dr.
E. B, Turner was elected Mayor
Pro-Tenr by the City Council last
week after he recieved the high
est vote in a contest by eighteen
candidates for eight seats on the
Council.
Dr. Turned, a graduate of Shaw
University a n d Shaw Divinity
School holds a Master of Theo
logy Degree from Midwestern
Graduate Bible School and an
honorary Doctor of Divinity De
gree from Friendship College.
Ifc is moderator of--the Lumber
River Missionary Baptist Associa
tion, a member of the executive
committee of the General Bapt
ist State Convention of North
Carolina, Chairman of the Board
of the United Baptist Christian |
Education Fellowship and pastoT
of the First Baptist Church of
Lumberton.
He is mariied to the former
CATHOLIC COLLEGE GRADUATES HEAR
WILKINS LAUD YOUTH RIGHTS ROLE
NEW ItbCHELI.E, N. Y. The
concern of today's college students
"for justice and equality and
against racism" was praised by
Roy Wilkins, executive director
of the National Association for the|
Advancement of Colored People,
in an address delivered to the
graduating class of Vina College
here, Saturday, June 5.
The Roman Catholic college con
ferrcd upon the NAACP leader
the honorary degree of Doctor of
Laws. Presentation of the degree
was made by Francis Cardinal
Spellman. who presided at the
exercises.
"The student aid to the civil
rights movment" Wilkins said in
his commencement address, "is a
proud page ir. our nation's history
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loresider.t of the Pearson School
Parent-Tcacher Association.
DR. TURNER
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Miss Gcorgianna McNiel of Clark-1
lon, North Carolina and they are
the parents of two daughters; An- j
drea Lisa and Kojalyn Arlene. i
'■ inks of the Negro community.
The nation to which these young
people have restored its priceless
heritage owes them ... its deep
thanks."
Wilkins reminded the gradu
ates of "the heroism cf the Ne
gro Americans who have been the
testing point of our nation's soul.
Ijhey have suffered long and -fork
»d hard, and their ordeal is not
yet ended. Ip. the face of persecu
t'on and humiliation and burdens
almost too heavey to bear they
have persisted to this day when
victory over the crude barriers Is
so near and so sure."
The crusade for freedom "by
black and white, by pulpit and
pew. by town, and gown, by youth
and age. by severeTient and peo
:ec Y?!LX!NS, IL.
Local Baptist
Churches to Host
National Me6i
The Baptist Churches of Dur
ham Will be host to the J. 965
annual session of the Progres
sive National Baptist Sunday
School and Baptist Training
Congress, it was announced here
this week.
Headquarters for the meet
ing will be the Mt. Vernon
Baptict Church, 1000 S. Roxboro
Street. The Rev. E. T. Browne,
pastor, will be the host minister
for the seat of the uession.
President of the Congress is
Dr. G. K. Offutt. Dr G. Upshaw
is dean.
According to Rev. Browne,
many of the outstanding person
alities of the Baptist Church
throughout the nation are ex
ported to put in their presence
during the meeting which opens
on June 21 and ends the 25
The opening program will be
held at Mt. ,Vernon. Monday,
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NCC Summer
Enrollment May
Exceed 1964's
North Carolina College's 1965
\ summer enrollment is expected to
i equal or slightly exceed the 1964
enrollment, Dr. Cecil L. Patter
son, acting director of the Sum
mer School, said this week. En
rollment for the 1964 session
totaled 1434, the second largest
1 in the college's history.
I The 1965 session, which began
Monday with registration from
H:3O a.m. to 4 p.m., will have two
sessions, orie for six weeks end
| in-? July 14 and one for nhte
weeks ending August 2. Classes
. 8 a.m., Tuesday. .
Patterson indicated that some
75 teachers, thirteen of them visit
ors from inslitut'ons throughout
the country. will offer 155 courses.
1 many of them on the graduate
| level, along with ten workshoos
1 and institutes and other special
I prnqranls.
The special institutes and -.vork
| hops, bv. the National
I >c'ense Foundation tKd Southern
I Education fwind'ationj; and the
' college, wiir attract more than 300
! |raohcr.s .specialists, and secon
dary student."#) who qualify for par
| ticination in thorn.
National Science Foundation pro
i urams are a woi kship fo rpsychia-
I trie nursing, two weeks: an insti
! stititfe for hi ah school teachers
of science and mathematics, six
weeks: an alcoholic 4 udies work
shop, two weeks; an institute for
1 college teachers of microbiology,
five weeks; and a program in
econdarv science and mathemat
ics for hish ability secondary Stu
dents. six weeks.
Southern Education Foundation
programs are an institute for the
study of the deprived learner,
three weeks; an institute in newer
instructional media, six weeks: a
leadership in rpadirg institute, six
weeks; and a speech institute, six
weeks. The college will continue
its complete sponsorship of its
reading clinic, scheduled for' six
weeks.
Jack & Jill Meet
To Be Held In
Norfolk, Virginia
NORFOLK, Va!- -The Jack *nd
Till M'd-Atlantic Mothers' Region
al Conference will, be held here
June 18-lft with Mrs Elizabeth Co
'ielcl, regional director, of Bal
fi'h. presiding.
Conference headquarters will be
thn Admiralty Motor Hotel *ith
the mothers of the Norfolk Chap
4er of Jack and Jill of
'ne., as hostesses- Mr». Jacqueline
RMiinsoft. national i vice president,
of Washington. D. C., win be the
banquet speaker on Saturday.
Theme of the conference will
ht) "World Demands— Jack and
Jill Plans."
Registration for the two-day
meeting will be held from 12 noon
to 9 nm. FrHav. ' Hello "Jimp"
•.vill he from 3 p.m. to
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