U. S. Supreme Court Upholds 1965 Voting Rights Law
Humphrey To Attend NCM Dedication Rites
Vice President
To Speak Here
Sat., April 2
Vice President Hubert H.
Humphrey will speak during
dedicatory ceremonies for the
North Carolina Mutual Life In
surance Co., home office build
ing here Saturday, April 2, ac
cording to an announcement by
A. T. Spaulding, president of
the company.
The Vice President will make
his address following a service,
set for 12 noon, during which
State Seals will be unveiled.
The program will begin on
Friday, April a key
note address by Dr. Andrew
F. Brimmer, Assistant Secre
tary of Commerce, Washington.
Afterward, a symposium on
"The Negro in the American
Economy," will be field.
Other outstanding leaders
who will be present include:
John T. Connor, Secretary of
Commerce and Robert C. Wea
ver, Secretary of the new De
partment of Housing and Ur
ban Development will partici
pate in. the event. Secretary
Connor will be introduced by
former Governor and Secretary
of Commerce Luther H. Hod
ges. Assistant Secretary of La
bor George L. P. Weaver; As
sistant Secretary of Commerce
Dr. Andre-* F. Brimmer, Bri
gadier General R. Wetherill,
Chief of Staff. XVIII Airborne
Corps of Fort Bragg represent
ing the Secretary of the Army;
and John A. Lang, Jr., Ad
ministrative Assistant to the
Secretary of the Air Forces,
Department of the Air Forces,
Washington, D. C., representing
the Secretary of Defense, Rob
ert S. McNamara, have also ac
cepted an invitation to attend.
4 Negroes Seek
Office in Wilcox
County, Ala.
ATLANTA, Ga.—Four Negro
candidates seeking elective of
fices in Wilcox County, Ala
bama's third poorest, said this
week that they were seeking
election "to give the people a
choice."
In a news conference held
at the headquarters of the
Southern Christian Conference,
the Negro candidates told of
their aspirations to help not
only the Negroes but also the
white people, 'aho they de
scribed in some cases as be
ing "just as poor."
Meeting the press were Lon
nie L. Brown, 34, candidate for
State Senator from the 19th
District; Walter J. Calhoun,
30, candidate for Sheriff; J. H.
Perryman, 50, and Ddnnie V.
Irby, 27, candidates for the
County Road Commission.
The political fate of the Ne
gro candidates will he decided
on May 3rd.
The candidates were Intro
duced by Daniel Harrell, SCLC's
Field Secretary in Wilcox
County. In his introduction,
Harrell said he was telling a
brief story of how more than
14,000 Negroes in his county
"have overcome the crippling
shackles of political disfran
chisement."
Harrell declared that just
one year ago there were no
Negroes registered in his coun
ty, and it was through an in
tensive voter registration drive
conducted by the Southern
Christian Leadership Confer
that there are now 3,700 Ne
groes on the registration rolls
compared to some 2,100 whites.
The four Negro candidates
from Wilcox symbolized the
opportunities and aspirations
of at least 60 other Negroes
who are seeking elective offi
ces. In Barbour, Sumter, Ma
rengo, Dallas, Green, Bullock,
Butler, Autauga, Mobile, Choc
taw, Perry and Hale, they are
seeking state and county of
fices ranging from State Sena
tor to tax assessor and seats
on county Democratic execu
tive committees.
There are, 14 Negroes seek
ing political offices in Barbour
County, and nine from Perry
County, In most of these coun
ties. the Negro voting age pop
ulation exceeds that of whites.
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H^The Truth UnbriqCep
VOLUME 43 No. 11
Reginald Dalton Named 2nd
Vice Pres. GOP sth District
A Durham Republican. Reg
inald W. Dalton, has been
elected by acclamation as sec
ond vice chairman of the sth
Congressional District, thus be
coming the first Negro in mod
ern history to hold a sth Dis
trict GOP office.
Dalton, - Aho is supervisor of
the central records division of
North Carolina Mutual Life In
surance Co., a position he has i
held 15 years, has been men
tioned as a possible candidate 1
for Congress from the district.
He was elected. at the recent
convention in Madison.
Stating that "The plan of
organiaztion of the Republican
party only calls for a chair
man and one vice chairman, a |
secretary and treasurer," Dal- j
ton indicated that "a resolu- |
'ion was offered in the form ■
of an amendment to the plan j
if organization to create the j
office of second vice chair- j
Human Relations Group Reaffirms
Stand Against City*s Racial Bias
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INSTITUTE PARTICIPANTS— ,
Shown above are some of the
participants in an "Institute on ,
the Elementary and Secondary
School Act of 1965, held March j
6 at North Carolina College,
Durham. From lift are J. H. 1
Lucas, principal, Hillside Hiph
Discrimination Charged By
NAACP In Public Housing
NEW BERN—NAACP Legal
Defense and Educational Fund
attorneys this week filed suit
in Federal District Court here
seeking to prohibit New Bern
public housing officials from
arbitrarily denying housing to
Negroes.
Fund lawyers oontend that
New Bern policies deny due
process and equal protection of
the law, violate the intent and
purpose of Federal public
housing laws and deny ade
quate housing to needy women
and children.
In a complaint filed in be
half of a group of Negro wom
en, the civil rights lawyers con
tend New Bern public housing
is segregated, Negroes are
charged higher rents than are
whites in similar circumstances
and Negroes are denied due
process of law in application
and eviction procedures.
The suit also seeks to enjoin
officials from barring women
from public housing because of
the birth of illegitimate chil
dren.
Named as defendants in the
suit are the City of New Bern,
the New Bern Housing Author
ity and the executive director
DURHAM, N. C. SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1966
DALTON
man." Party bosses had
planned for the newly-created
office to be filled by a Negro
Dalton in order to increase
See DALTON 2A
School; Dr. L. H. Robinson, di-
rector of research, A. and T.
College; Dr. Frank B. Weaver,
Supervisor of Ele m en tary
Schools in the State Depart
ment of Public Instruction;
Miss T. Lorraine Cumbo, Su
pervisor of Guidance, State De
and individual commissioners
of the Housing Authority.
One of the plaintiffs alleges
she has been denied admittance
to public housing because she
has had children out of wed
lock, two others are facing
eviction because of the birth
of illegitimate children.
The complaint also charges
that another plaintiff has been
told that her grandchildren,
who live with her in a public
housing project, must either
move, or she will be evicted.
Still another was evicted
from a public housing project,
after having lived there five
years, because of the birth of
an illegitimate child. Two oth
er plaintiffs were evicted in
the last week for the same rea-
All the plaintiffs complain
that the management of the
pu,blic housing projects re
quires them to sign leases that
require them to vacate their
homes, without opportuniy for
hearing, in the event of the
birth of an illegitimate child.
The leases may be terminat
ed on 30 days notice by the
Housing Authority, but tenants
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SRC Hails 1966-67 United
States Education Guideline
ATLANTA, Ga—The South
ern Regional Council this week
described recently announced
U.S. Office of Education school
desegregation guidelines for
the 1966-67 school year as
"realistic tools with which to
-implement genuine desegrega
tion of southern school sys
tems." The Council further
urged southern coriimunities
voluntarily to put the .govern
ment directives to work with
out the threat of federal fund
c£it-of(s.
The guidelines, announced in
Washington March 7. imply "a
resolve on the government's
part." SRC said, "to push be
yond token integration and
partment of Public Instruction;
Mrs. LaMyra Davis, Asst. Pro
fessor of Child Development,
A. and T. College; and Dr.
A. Ray, chairman of
the Department of College In
struction, the North Carolina
Teachers Association.
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PATTERSON
J. E. Parker, Director of the
NCC Audio-Visual Center, and
Dr. C .L. Patterson, (above) Di
rector of the Summer School
and Professor of English, dem
onstrated aspects of utiliiation
of newer instructional media at
an institute designed to pro
vide information about the Ele
mentary and Secondary School
Act of 1965 at Njrth Carolina
College Saturday. March 5. The
institute was co-sponsored by
the North Carolina Teachers
Association and the NCC De
partment of English.
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put school boards on notice
'hat hereaftei "the burden of
"-ompliance will be upon them
retiqtg ai . bg iMSo' Up hta
■ather than upon students seek
ing to attend integrated
schools."
SRC. a critic of federal de
segregation efforts in the past,
nraised the Office of Educa
tion for "what appears to be
an earnest effort tosecure good
faith compliance with the in
'ent of the law." But the At
'anta-based bi-racial organiza
tion sounded a note of caution
"The years since 1954 have
demonstrated time and again
that good words of high re-
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Report Read
By Chairman
To City Council
Dr. Harmon'Smith, Chairman
of the Durham Council on Hu
man Relaions, Wednesday read
a report of the organization to
the Durham City Council re
affirming the former organi
zation's commitment to work
for the end "of racial or other
prejudice and discrimination
as practiced by the City in its
employment and advancement
policies and procedures."
Appearing with the delega
tion, headed by Dr. Smith and
speaking in behalf of the peti
tion were N. B. White, vice
chairman of the interracial or-
Kaniaztion; Dr. J. J. Blum, Dr.
Alfonso Elder, Attv. Moses
Burt, H. M. Michaux, Jr., Eric
Michaux and Dr. Charles Watts.
The five-page report petition
ed the City council urging "re
dress of these wrongs and the
improvement of these condi
tions because we stand for hu
man dignity and self-respect
and personal privileges and re
sponsibilities irrespective of
race or religion . . . "
Earlier, on February 17, J.
S. Stewart, a member of the
City Council, had told the coun
cil in an executive session call
ed at his T.request, that there
are "certain discriminatory
practices going on in the city
that the council should be ap
crised of "
At a regular meeting of the
City Council the following
Monday, February 21, White
and Dr. Robert Eisenberg. indi
cated the human relations or
ganization was in accord with
Stewart's views.
"There is no evidence," the
report stated." that the City
intends to alter its traditional
pattern of racial segregation in
the staffing of its fire depart
ment and in the employment
of men to fill job
There is no evidence, further,"
the paper continued, ."that the
City intends to use tax funds
in a deliberately non-discrimi
natory way."
Dr. Smith, who is professor
of Christian ethics at Duke U.,
noted in the report he read
that Durham "continues to
maintain a segregated fire de
partment," and that Negro po
lice officers "are restricted al
most entirely to the Negro com
munity." «
In an afterword to the re
port, White said:
"The document that we have
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MAKING PREPARATION FOR
THE BALL—Mrs, W. Willard
Wirtj, (center) wife of the Sec
retary of Labor, is assisted by
Mrs. Hobart Taylor, (left) wife
of the Director of the Export-
Import Bank, and Mrs. Mrs.
George LP Weaver, (right)
wife of the Assistant Secretary
of Labor for International Af
fairs, in preparations for the
Riirht of Congress To Protect
Right To Vote Sustained
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THE WINNER —Emma Steph
enson displays her trophy after j
being named "athlete of the !
year" at the annual Women's j
Sports' Day Association held at |
H. M. Michaux, Jr. Announces
Candidacy N. C. Legislature
H. M. Michaux, Jr., has an
nounced that he will be a can
didate for the Democratic
nomination for the North Car
olina House of Representatives
subject t'i the May 28 primary.
Michaux, who is executive vice
president of Union Insurance
and Realty Co., said, "The de
cision to make this step was
predicated upon Vnanv factors.
One of these was the hearten
ing vote I received in the last
primary (May 1964), which in
dicated that with a little more
effort, success would be
achieved."
The Durham native, who
holds a B.S. degree from North
Carolina College and an LL.B
decree from the NCC School.of
La" A', indicated three major
items would comprise his plat
form:
• an increase in personal
exemptions for state income
tax purposes to a level com
mensurate wjth the federal
level.
• repeal of state sales taxes.
• renewal of state aid to
See MICHAUX 2A
"Bal du Futur", to be held at
the Washington Hilton Hotel
on March 18.
The annual Ball of the Fu
ture is for the benefit of the
D. C. Association for Metnal
Health and proceeds will be
used to staff a mental rehabil
itation center for the District
cf Columbia Mrs. Wirti is
Chairman of the Ball's Advis
Bennett College, Greensboro. A
' senior at North Carolina Col-
I lege, she's a physical education
| major from Coway. N. C.
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ANNOUNCES CANDIDACY
Subject to the May 28 Demo
; cratic primary, H. M. Michaux,
Jr., has announced that he will
be a candidate for the North
I Carolina House of Representa
| tives. He is regional vice presi
dent of the National Associa
: tion of Real Estate Brokers
I (Realtists); treasurer of the
I Carolina Brokers and Builders
I Association: and the Durham
Committee on Negro Affairs.
cry Committee, Mrs. Taylor and
Mrs. Weaver are Committee
members.
The desert about to be sliced
by Mrs. Wirtz is Golden Souffle
Glass, shaped into a ball, the
symbol of the National Health
Association, by Chef William
Fleisehmann of the Washing
ton Hilton.
Warren Speaks
For Court; S.
C. Rebuffed
WASHINGTON The Su
premo Court declared, {here
Monday by a unanimous vote
that Congress has the right un
der the 15th Amendment to
protect the voting rights 0 f all
American citizens.
According to the Voting
Rights Act, Congress has the
power to suspend literacy tests
and to order federal registrars
into the deep south, Chief Jus
tice Earl Warren announced
Monday. This decision by the
United States' highest court
aims "to banish the light of
racial discrimintion," he fur
ther stated.
"Hopefully," the spokesman
for the group continued, "mil
lions of nonwhite Americans
will now be able to participate
for the first time on an equal
basis in the government under
which we live."
The tribunal upheld the vot
ing law just four months after
giving South Carolina the pri
vilege to file a suit. Even
though some 20 other states
joined forces with Atty. Gen
ral Katzenbach in defending
the law as a constitutional ex
ercise of Congress' power to
enforce Americans' rights to
vote. South Carolina and six
other southern states disagreed
with this approval.
The five southern states,
Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana,
Mississippi and Virginia, joined
South Carolina's argument that
the law was unconstitutional.
South Carolina, which along
with the five mentioned states
and North Carolina
prime targets for the voting
law, was given permission by
the Supreme Court to file a
suit with the court instead of
waging its attack up the judi
cial ladder.
Justice Hugo Black proposed
the only slight resenment to
the decision read by Warren.
North Carolina's Governor
Dan K. Moore stated after the
court's ruling that "North Car
olina shall abide by the law.
We have insured that every
qualified voter be allowed to
vote."