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teaching Negro History Now Mandatory In Calif.
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DEAN HONORED—Dr. Al-
Turner, from !•**,
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frfrlHkd a pliflua at a banquet
«t the Jack Tar-Hfftel Wedensday
American baptist
Convention
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Negro Vice
tflgW YORK, N Y. —The first
Ntfje to be named vice
p«WAent of the American Baptist
CotiyAntion is thft Hev. Dr. Samu •
fr.Jfcoctor ot Teaiteck, N. J., asso
ejfctt feeneral secretary for com
tn»*»cation of the National Coun
cil W Church and former Prcsl
of A. and T. College, who
also be hnriored this month
by *- number of colleges and uni
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'• GJfcted last month in San Fratn-
Nteo to a term as second
■Viop Vresideilt of the Convention,
Dr. ♦f'roetpr is also the first exccu
rfvei'biE the National Council to
i&fytks an officer of this pre
drtmMjantly white 1-1/2 million
ntertibcr denomination.
■ '[At 'second vice-president, he is
iteb; a member of the ABC's Gen- j
'Xliunell, whieh governs the \
denomination between annual con-!
ENFIELD TEACHER LOSES C. RIGHTS
CASE IN UNITED STATES COURT
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REV. SWANN
Sk Joseph's Pastor
Being Considered For
Federal Position
t%e Carolina Times has learnei'
fin»» a reliable source that tlir
Hfcv. Ulelvin Chester Swann, pastor
of «t Joseph's AME Church, is be
ilf considered for a position with
Ofreration Breakthrough at an an
nWI salary of some SIO,OOO.
Htle source reported that Rev
SW«», a meeting of the
clMtth'9 stewards, disclosed the
idtyMration, and also indicated
tlfet Other pel-Sons are being con
sMnred for tl{e job.
C*(tacted by phwie, the minister
tdM tile Carolina Times that he
"tlWught it was a" distinct honor"
to fcave been to apply
Mr the position, but declined fur
ther comment.
Juna 9. Other* in the photograph,,
from laft, are Dean E. B. Laity if
the Duke Law S-hool; Dr. Turner,
Atly. W. G. Pearson 11, P' "Jiident
of the Georgj H. White Bar A3
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vendors.
Allhoug'i predominantly white.
TRENTON A former Enfield
high school teacher, Mrs. Willa
lohnson, who charged Halifax
bounty officials fired hor because
of her civil rights activities, lost
icr cav 1 this week in a U. S. Dis
rict Court in Eastern Nortli Car
•Una.
.Indue Jhn D. Larfuns. who
•tiled on the case, declared that
to hold public officials liable
vhen they are exercising their dis
•retionary power would be to place
.uch a burden on them that it
vould become hazardous to them
o exercise their discretion.
"There are no vested rights in
•pgard to re-employment of public
chool teachers," the judge stated.
Dr. A. L. Turner
Honored by Bar
Ass'n at Jack Tar
The Geor'le H. ~.'hite Bar As
->riat«on, at a banquet in the
Duke Room of the
lack Tar lintel last week, honored
*V\ Albert L. Turner, Dean of the
Vorth Carolina College Schx)l of
T-aw upon his recent retirement.
Dr. Turner, who assumed his
nosition in IMI. succeeding Dean
Maurice T. Van Hecke, the school's
first dean, 'vas honorec with testi
mon'al speeches by the following:
Dr. Helen G. Edmonds. Dean of
the North Carolina College Gradu
ate School; Dr. Samuel P. Massie,
President of North Carolina Col-
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Mann Film Laboratories
7UO Chatham Rd.
Winston-Salem, N. C. 7 /20/Coen>.
1 sociation Which sponsored the
event; Atty. W. A. Marsh, Jr., sec
retary of the organization; ant'
Desn Carroll W. Wealhers of the
Waka Forest School of Law.
the ABC numbers among its 6,-
276 churches soiut 200 Ncgre
congregations. Of these 200, most
ar affiliated with both th"
American Baptist Convention and
a historic Baptist conven
tion.
This "dual alignment" arrange
ment may he found throughout
the country, Including the south
ern states. According to spokes
men for the denomination, practi
cally rvery Negro Baptist church
in northern Caljfornia i 3 affiliated
with the American as .■veil .is a
predominantly iNcgro convention.
In addition to' th" dually aiiene-'
congregations, g handful of Negro
ehhrches arp exclusively related
to the American Convent : on. No
table among these is n. anaPJE h
Baptist Church in Atlanta,
Georgia, whos° co-pastors are the
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PROMINENT' personelities who At the bottom—right ii Rev. L. A.
will participate Inthe Progressive Millar, pastor of St. Mark AMi
National Baptist Training Con- Zlon Church and co-host to tha
grass to b« hold in Durham, Juno Congress St. Mark will be th
21-25. Mt. Vernon Baptist Church, scene, Tuesday, June 22 at 7:3 d
pastorod by ReV. E. T, Browno, it p.m. of a pro-convention musical,
the host church. At the top-left ft the bottom right is Dr. C. W.
is Dr. C. K. Offut, president; top- Green, director-ctnenl of the Con
right It Dr. W. C. Upshaw, Dean, giess.
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VOLUME 42 No. 23
Total Of 118 Registered In
One Day At Kingstree, S. C.
1,460 Negroes
Registered In
Statewide Drive
KINOSTREE. 3: C. June 10,
1965—CORE'S ration Day in
Williamsburg County, June 7,
netted according to the registra
tion board's chairman, "the big
-,cst single day's figure for Ne
»roe". bring added to the registra
tion books."
A total of 118 Negroes were
registered and 91 were rejected,
reports James McCain, director of
CORE'S statewide voter registra
tion drive.
"Of the 550 persons who con
verged on Kingstree for Regis
tration Day, over half already had
registered. But they brought oth
ers who had not. After an hour
and a half of instruction at Beth
el AME Church, those who har
. t previously registered went t
'he courthouse.
"To our surprise, there '.von
iv registrars there to process ap
olications. Previously, there nevei
'THI been more ttian three. Also
'he registrars were nyre eourteou
'han usual and the processing o!
applications went faster.
"We feel the Registration t>aj
in Kingstrce was a great succor
ih terms of the willingness of sr
many 1 to absent themselves fron
their farms at this time of yea'
and to mobilize for this occasion.'
During the first month o'
CORE'S statewide campaign, 1,46'
Negroes have been registered ir
the first, second and sixth Con
gressional Districts.
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REV. MILLER
OURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1965
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'ANTICIPANTS IN ADVANCE
MENT SCHOOL Pictured her#
r» pupils from OranM County
Schools Who were participant# In
the North Carolina Advancement
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FBI Investigating Case
qtl Missing Negro Family
ftffcw' YORK—An "all-but aclivt
toy the Federal Bu
•»0»tt;of Investigation is underway
o Itetermine the whereabouts of a
VegTo family of eight whose dis
ipt»«rance three months ago was
'trtft' reported in the National
SOWtasn May 1. A Department of
'uSffce -sp-ikesrtian said such an
instigation is undertaken only
• h»fc there is the possibility that
violation of civil
ights, or some other feeleral
rime has been committed.
The disappearance of the Acker
~»mily—l ..oron, 44, a farm laborer;
'vis wife Mrs. Zclla Mae and their
six 'dhildren—was revealed by Mis
sissippi Freedom Democratic Pan
f y -candidate Mrs. Annie Devinc in
sm Interview with William A.
Pride of the Guardian staff. Pub
'icaltion of the first story May 1
•jrov4>kcd an attack on the Guard-
OT and on the Negro freedom
movement by the Mississippi State
Sovrt-eignty Commission. The Sov
ereignty Commission charged May
7 (Jackson, Miss. Daily News),
that "Communist publications"
were "helping"the MFDP in "pl
anting distortions about Mis
sissippi to get the sympathy of
Congress."
Mrs. Devine's statement that the
family had disappeared without a
•race WFB corroborated by subse
quent investigaMon through the
See FBI 5A
NOTICE
A Bigger And Better Carolina Times
.Effective August 1, the size of the Carolina Ti~— — ! "
increased to 16 page and the year's subscription will 'be in
creased to $5.00. A drive is currently underway for persons
who wish to subscribe at the present $4.00 rate before the
increase. New press equipment is being made available to
produce the larger and better newspaper.
—The Publisher
School af "Winston-Salem. From
left to Hsht (back row) are: Tur
leton Davis, a teacher from Cen
trakl High School of Hillsborough
who accompanied the group; Ben
Odd Fellows and Ruths to Hold
Rally lor Oxford Orphanage
OXFORD—The Odd Fellows and
Household of Ruth lodges of North
Carolina will gather at the Cen
tral Orphanage in Oxford. Sunday,
June- 27. ht 11:00 P.M. in their
second joint fund raising effort
in behalf of the orphanage,
according to an announcement
made this week by Rev. T. H.
Brooks, superintendent.
Last year in the initial effort
an amount in excess of $llOO was
raised. Leader has set a goal of
§2,000 for this year's effort. A
delegation of approximately a
thousand members and visitors are
expected to converge on the in
stitution for the occasion.
The principal address '.vill be
delivered J>y Dr. J. W. Goodloe,
vice president and executive sec
retaryi of the N. C. Mutual Life
Insurance Company of Durham.
J. F. Rogers of Ayden is Grand
master of the Odd Fellows and
Mrs. Maggie' L. Strong of Ayden
is Grand Mafron of the Household
of Ruth. Mrs. Violet B. Pullen of
Raleigh is Grand Secretary.
Featured on the program will be
a concert by the Orphanage band
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I |amin D. Clark, Lacey Tlnnln »nd
I Donald Beat'ey.
Left to right (front row): Clyik
: Payne, Roger Traynham and Cor
nelius Catchart.
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DR. GOODLOE
under the direction of L. L. Bart
lett.
Mayor Grabarek and A. E. Spears
To Speak at Covenant Presbyterian
A. E. Spears Sr., executive
vice president of the Charlotte
Branch of. Mechanics-and Farm--
ers Bank, and Mayor Wensell
Grabarek will both appear as
speakers on programs for Fa
ther's Day at Covenant Presby
terian Church, Sunday, June 20.
Spears will deliver the main
address at the 11 a. m. services.
Mayor Grabarek will speak on
a program beginning at 6 p. m.
Following the mayor's address,
a panel composed of J. S. Ste
wart and Dr. Jfeck Preiss, mem
oars ,f tLe City Council;
Books Portray
Role of Negro in
U. S. Progress
LOS ANGELES, Calif. Cali
fornia has become the first state
in the Union to require by law the
teaching of NfS r o History.
Through a law authored by As
semblyman Mervyn Dymally, 53rd
District, Los Angeles, it has be
come manda'iry in the State of
California that. "The governtflg
board of each high school district
-hall include only such textbooks
which correctly portray the role
and contribution of the American
\egro in the total development of
the United States and of the State
of California."
It was Assemblyman Dymally's
•second attempt to get sr.ch a bill
See MANDATORY 4A
Says State Will
Continue Voting
Requirements
JACKSON, Mississippi Gover
nor Paul B. Johnson has called for
a special session of his state Legis
lature to liberalize state voting
laws. A statement issued by the
Governor on June 7 declares:
"Mississippi will continue to set
her own voting requirements. How
ever, with no desire to circumvent,
but to take reasonable steps to
delete some laws from our statutes,
'jve shall find ourselves in a more
favorable position to fight a strong
but fair battle when the situation
demands."
One's first assumption is that
'he "battle" referred ' $ has to do
vWt "the federal Voting r ßights
"till. However, the section of the
3ill authorizing federal interven-
See VOTING 4A
4-Year Battle for
Open Occupancy
Won In Indiana
GARY, Ind.—A four year battle
for open occupancy legislation
here ended recently when the City
Council passed a strong bill, 5-3,
with one absentee.
The legislation '*as spearheaded
by Richard G. Hatcher, a young
councilman-at-large who
storpjrifed political pros by captur
ing /fM>e council presidency his
fpar in office. Hatcher in-
continuous re-introduc
tion of the bill which had been
prpsefljtd seven times since 1961.
Coverage includes owners of
both single and multiple dwell
ings (excluding owner-occupied
buildings with less than four
apartments), real estate brokers
and agents, trusts, lending institu
tions and owners of unimproved
property.
Ordinance, said to be the strong
est of its kind in the nation, sets
up a 15-member Human Relations
Commission whose job is to en
force the bill and educate the
community. The bill also allows
fines of up to S3OO for infractions
or S'x months in jail.
While other cities such as New
York, Pittsburgh, Toledo and
Schenectady have ordinances
which contain some of these pro-
See BATTLE 5A
Cnarles D. Watts, and N. B.
White will be heard.
Presiding at the morning ser
vice will be Robert J. Coiclo
ugh, president of the men's or-,
gartizatipn of the church which
is sponsoring the events for the
day. At the 6 p. m. meeting, Dr.
Stewart B. Fulbright, professor
of business administration at
North Carolina College, will be
in charge.
The public is invited to both
programs. . ; . . _ . r