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Negroes Push For Freedom And Jobs In Fayette, Mississippi NAACP Branch Leads Massive Demonstration FAYETTE, Miss. Pushing strongly for freedom, dignity and jobs, Negro citizens in this southwest Mississippi town, under leadership of the Med gar Evers Jefferson County Branch of the National Asso ciation for the Advancement of Colored People, scheduled a massive all-day Christmas Eve demonstration. Charles Evers, NAACP field director for Mississippi and brother of the martyred NAA CP leader for whom the re cenQy ■ organized branch is named, mobilized community support for a boycott of down town stores after city's politi tical and business leaders re fused to grant a series of 16 demands covering desegrega tion of public facilities; upgrad ing of Negroes in public and private employment, equality of courtesy and other ameni ties. Meanwhile, an NAACP drive substantially increased th e number of registered voters to a total of 2,700, almost dou ble the 1,500 white voters in the county. In a communica tion to the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of Fayette and the JefferSon County Board of Su pervisors, the NAACP remind ed them of this new political fact of life. Although the boycott has had a devastating impact on the commercial life of the city, particularly in this Yuletide season, white merchants and political leaders refuse to grant the full demands of the Ne gro community. Evers and Fred Allen, president of the branch, have vowed to keep the boycott going until they win a just settlement of the Ne groes' grievances. The newly-won political ad vantage cannot be invoked lo cally until mld-1968 when the primary for the next munici pal election will be held. How ever, Fayette Negroes are not waiting until then to press for enjoyment of denied rights. Viet Nam War Rates Top For '65 News Story NEW YORK The war in Viet Nam "is the overwhelm ing choice as the news story of 1965 in the United States. All but a few ballots cast in the annual poll of daily newspaper editors placed the war in the first spot. A year ago it ranked fourth in inter est. Civil rights, a continuing story for more than a decade, wa# second. The 1965 category included such developments as the Selma • to - Montgomery march and the passage of the voting rights bill by congress The Negro riots in the Watts section of Los Angeles ranked third anci man's continuing as sault on space was fourth. U. S. editors top 10 for 1965: 1. The war in Viet Nam. 2. Civil Rights. 3. Negro rioting in Los An geles. 4. Space 5. Electrical power failure 6. Dominican revolution 8. Passages of th'e *me3tfcßfe" bill by congress. 9. Death of Churchill. 10. India and Pakistan war over Kashmir. MT. OLIVE MAN PROMOTED TO LIEUT. COLONEL MOUNT OLlVE—Maurice C. Lane, son of Mrs. Frances W. Lane of 128 Hillsboro Street, and the late Solomon L. Lane, was recently promoted to the rank of lieutenant Colonel in the U. S. Army. A graduate of Carver High School and A. and T. College, Greensboro, Lt. Col. Lane is currently assigned to the Army instructor unit, ROTC at South ern University and A. and M. College, Baton Rouge, La. •where he is assistant profes sor of military science. He entered the Army in March, 1950. 36 XMAS SHOPPERS DIE MIDDLEBURG, So. Africa— A five-ton truck crammed with more than 100 Africans headed for a Christmas shopping spree crashed into a wall Thursday then plunged into a revine, killing 36 Africans police re ported here. Che CarSSp CMM® IDt E VOLUME 43 No. 1 DURHAM, N. C. SATURDAY, JANUARY I,T96T PRICE: 15c Acquittal CR Volunteers By Judge Hailed As Precedent I j SOMETHING FOR CHRISTMAS —Members of the Off-Campui Womtn'i Club of North Caro liria College pitched in to con tribute « gift of food and toy* Former Durham Banker is Promoted to Asst. Vice President of Freedom Nat'l Bank, N.Y. Word was received here this week that Raymond R- Brown, former resident of Durham, has been promoted to the of fice of assistant vice-president BROWN Progressive Naf'l Baptist To Meet In St. Louis, Jan. 19-20 CINCINNNATI, Ohio Bap tist leaders from all sections of the nation will gather in St. Louis, Mo., JSrittary 19-20, 1966 at Christ Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church, 1341 N. Kings- Highway Boulevard, with? Rev. Earl Williams, host pastor, for a meeting of the Progressive —Gofly.enii®B r Inc. The meeting will have the backing of Dr. Earl Nance, President of the Progressive Baptist State Convention of Missouri as well as all the pastors of St. Louis. It will mark the first time that lead ers of the PNBC have held a Mid-Winter Meeting since the convention's organization in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1961. Since the illness of Presi dent T. M. _ Chambers of Los Angeles, California, Dr. Gard ner C. Taylor of Brooklyn, N. Y., Vice President, has been serving as Acting - President, i Dr. Chambers is reported to be I recovering nicely and informed sources say that he is both de lighted and pleased with Dr. Taylor's leadership. Progres sive leaders "will meet under the theme: "1966—the Year of Progress." There is a real con sciousness on the part of these leaders, that 1966 is the year in which great strides in growth can be made through a program of civic and religious responsibility. The eyes of the nation are focused on the group's Fifth Annual Session which is set to convene in Memphis, Tenn., September 6-11, 1966 with Me tropolitan Baptist Church serv- to • Durham family which oth erwise would have had a bleak Chrittmai. Shown preparing to pack the itami are fix of the members of the organixation. of the Freedom National Bank in New York City. The an nouncement was made this week by William R. Hudgins, president of the bank. Brown, who worked at the Mechanics and Farmers Bank here for seven years, now be comes one Of the four execu tives of the just under a year old firm. This is second promotion for Brown who has been with the Bank since its opening in January, 1965. He was elevated to the position of administrative assistant in September. After working in Durham for seven years, Brown moved north and was employed for four years by the Bankers Trust Company of New York. He left this firm in November 1965 to join the new bank. Brown now resides in Queens and is married with two daugh ters, 9 and 11 years of age. ing as general headquarters. It will be in this session that the first group of officers will be replaced under the Conven tion's Tenure Laws. Other ma jor transactions will include the adoption of a Publisher to provide Sunday School and B. T.U. Literature and the launch ter's drive. ' «. I MM 'Ave STUDRNT NIGHT Whlta Rock Baptist Church's Annual Collage Student Recognition Night was held Sunday, Decern bar 26 at 7:30 P.M. In tha sanc tuary, climaxing tha monthly Youth Sunday. A panel on, "Scianca and Rallglon," was given. Tha Youth Choir with Miss Phyllis Jeffrie*, Virginia Stata Collage, at tha organ and from lift: Hilda Aliton, Ostla Ingram, Lana Atkinson. Caro lyn Wabb, Haxal Ingram and Catharlna Jordan. - £ is i " " wit w. MISS PRICE Leontyne Price To Receive Spingarn Medal Sunday NEW YORK—Soprano Leon tyne Price will be presented the 50th Spingarn Medal of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple by the man chiefly respon sible for her singing with the Metropolitan Opera Company, Rudolf Bing, the company's general manager—NAACP ex ecutive director Roy Wilkins announced this week. Bing will make the presen- | tation at the NAACP's 1966 an nual fellowship dinner, Sunday "evening', Januaj ! y"27'al"tlte~Ncw"i Vork Hilton Hotel. See PRICE, 2A Mrt. Virginia Alston, Direc tress, rendered mutic. Standing left to right are: William Clamant, graduate stu dent at the University of Penn sylvania, who read the scrip ture; Wesley Clement, More house College, a panelist; Da vid Cooke, 111, North Carolina College, Offertory Prayer; Nat White, Jr., Duke University, a 17 Protested Chase Bank Loan Policy NEW YORK—The American Jewish Congress hailed a de cision Monday, Dec. 20, by Chief Judge John M Murtagh of the New York City Criminal Court acquitting 17 civil rights volunteers as setting a new precedent in cases invnlv. ing peaceful nonviolent dem onstrators. The 17 demonstrators were arrested on March 19 at the headquarters of the Chase Manhattan Bank in the Wall Street financial district. They were part of a large group that was protesting the bank's granting of loans to the Gov ernment of S. Africa, charging that loans were strengthening the government's policy of apartheid. The civil rights workers were charged with "disorderly con duct" -fw sitting on the side walk as part of the demonstra tion and with "resisting arrest" for going limp after being noti fied by police that they -were under arrest. Marvin Karpatkin chief de fens* counsel and chairman of the Commission on Law and Social Action of the New York See ACQUITTAL 2A KELLY ALEXANDER N. C NAACP Pres. Not Bitter Over Bombing COLUMBIA, S. C. Kelly M. Alexander, President of the North Carolina NAACP, who was a victim of the recent bombings in Charlotte, address ed a Civil Rights Meeting Fri day night, December 17, at the Second Nazareth Baptist Church in Columbia, S C. Speaking to the freedom rally thp NAACP official told of the night bombings at his home on November 22. V I should be bitter, "Alex ander said, "but I'm not. The bombings were good in a way, because they knocked Charlotte out of its apathy. They proved that "Liberal" North Carolina still has bigots, extremists and segregationists and that these have not given up. They are still trying to turn the clock back and impede justice. "Don't you think for one minute that the very same thing couldn't happen in Co "■mmtei&r-So CaiQlina t ._either,'_' Alexander said. Alexander, a member of the panelist; Michael Holt, Jr., graduate student. North Caro lina Colieg*. moderator; Chrys tal Brown, North Carolina Col lege, geve the Invocation; Rita Alston Winston-Salem State, e panelist; Amelia Thorpe, grad uate student, North Carolina Col.lege, a panelist; Llla Elli son, North Carolina College, Chairman, Interview Panelist; & ft QUARTET ON VISIT TO HOLY LAND—Mr», Carlotta R. HoLm •i. left, of 804 Price Ave., Dur ham, and three Raleighites left the Raleigh - Durham Airport Dec. 11 for a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Others in the pic Noted D.C. Minister Speaker for Emancipation Service Durham's 1966 celebration of the sinning of r the Emancipa tion Proclamation will he held at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church. 2315 Fayetteville Street, Satur day. January 1, at 11:00 A.M. The Rev. W. H. Fuller is host pastor. The program as ha* been the custom for the past several years is being sponsored by the Interdenominational Minis terial Alliance of Durham and Vicinity. Under its leadership some of the nation's most no ted personalities have been StKeduled each year to "deliver the annual message for the occasion. The Hey. L P. Perry, president of the Alliance will preside. This year Dr. E. Franklin Jackson, minister of the John Wesley AME Zion Church, Washington, D. C., will deliver the address for the occasion. NAACP's national board since 1949, promised that such things as the bombing of his home would not stop the Negro on his drive for freedom. He said the Negro must reconfirm his belief in achieving his status through legal, and democratic means. "The day after the bomb ing, the Charlotte Branch (of the NAACP) could have said the. word, and the, city would have had a full-scale riot on its hand, "Alexander said, "but our leaders took a path of reasonableness and calmness to avoid racial conflict. Alex ander said Negroes in Char lotte will not compromise on principle or deviate from the goal of complete and absolute equality. We have always used the tools of democracy. We have never lurked in the dark or worn hoods. We have not asked for special privileges— but we do reject the society That classes" a man by the color of his skin." Fern Thorpe, North Carolina College, Interview Panelist; Conssnce Jackson, Duke Uni versity, Interview panelist; Val leanne Jones, U.N.C., Greens boro, e panelist. Lorenzo A. Lynch, Pastor, brought remarks and thanked the panel and students for the program. ture are Mrs. Margaret Ouance, tecond from left, Mri. Marie Brodie, and Mri. Frances Fal vey. The ladies wil Istop in Ma drid, Spain, and Athens, Greece jjj^ DR. JACKSON In addition to being the pastor of one of the leading churches See EMANCIPATION 2A Jimmy Brown Wins Jim Thorpe Trophy for Third Time in Career NEW YORK Jim Brown, Cleveland's explosive fullback, was named recipient of the 11th Annual Jim Thorpe Tro phy Tuesday for the third time in his nine year career in the National Football League. The award goes annually to the most valuable player in the league as voted upon by the players on the active rosters of the 14 NFL teams. Brown more than doubled the votes for hts nearest competitor, Johnny Unitas of the Baltimore Colls. Brown, who has led the league in rushing all but one of his nine years in the circuit, won the award for the first time in 1958 and tied with New —fop*—ttoe honor in 1963. The trophy will be presented to Brown in Green Bay Sunday preceeding the championship game between the Browns and N the Green Bay Packers. After James Farmer Resigns From CORE to Head Literacy Project NEW YORK—A new agency to help solve minority prob lems is being organized with the assistance of the Office of Economic Opportunity and representatives of civil rights organizations, business and labor. The key figure in work ing an agreement for the new agency was OEO Deputy Direc tor Bernard L. Boutin. James Farmer, directtf of the Congress of Racial Equal ity, CORE, will resign to take over as executive director of the new corporation. The heads of all major civil rights groups or persons they select will form the board of directors of the corporation. The program of the corpora tion is designed to assist all minority groups including Mex ican Amercians, other Spanish speaking Americans, American Indians and Negro Americans bafora arriving In tha H»ly Land where thay will visit tha Btha'i World Cantar in Haifa, Israel and other point* af In terest. Thay will raturn homa early next month. Frank Sinatra Buys NAACP Life Mem'ship NEW YORK—Frank Sinatra has become a Life Member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, it was disclosed this week by Miss Lucille Black, the Association's secretary or memberships. Sajnmy Davis, star of the hit Broadway musical, "Golden Boy," presented Sinatra his NAA C P Life Membership plaque during his birthday celebration in Hollywood, Sun day, December 12, Miss Black said. Davis, a longtime friend and associate of the famed singer actor, was in California to film segments of his new nation wide network television stiff* which begins Friday, Jan. 7. Miss Black said this was the third plaque presentation Da vis has handled for the NAACP this year. Davis and all the members of his family are NAACP Life Members, she added. BROWN Brown receives the trophy, he will turn his attention toward helpinS&his teammates defend x their National Football League • Championship. FARMER in both the rural South and urban 1 ghettos in the North. See FARMER 2A