Rev. J. A. Brown Ousted As Pastor Ebenezer Baptist Church
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Morehead Avenue Baptist Calls AMEZ Minister As Pastor
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REV. MACK
Rev. 6. A. Mack
Assumes New
Post Sunday
Morehead Avenue Baptist
Church will have a new pastor,
beginning Sunday, September
24. when the Rev. B. A. Mack
will occupy the pulpit for the
first time as pastor at the 11:00
o'clock morning service.
Rev. Mack comes to Durham
from Henderson where he has
held the pastorate of the Kes
ler Temple AME Zion Church
for the past two years. He suc
ceeds the late Dr. C. E. Mc-
Lester who held the pastorate
of the Morehead Ave. Church
since it was founded in 1947
under his leadership.
Rev. Mack is a native of
Winston-Salem where he at
tended the public schools and
Piedmont Bible College. He has
studied at J. C. Smith Univer
sity in Charlotte.
Prior to taking over the pas
torate of the Henderson church,
Rev. Mack pastored the Geth
semane Baptist Church of Win
ston-Salem.
In 1955, he joined the Wes
tern North Carolina Conference
of the AME Zion Church.
Rev. Mack is married and is
the father of four children.
Court Frees
Bradens In
Sedition Case
LEXINGTON, Ky A special
U.S. court has killed the Ken
tucky sedition law in a historic
case involving five civil-rights
and poverty workers. The judg
es on the court held, 2 to 1,
that the law violates the U.S.
Constitution.
The court ordered the release
of Carl and Anne Braden from
the jail at Pikeville, Ky. The
Bradens are executive directors
of the Southern Conference
Educational Fund (SCEF), an
interracial group working to
end racial discrimination, pov
erty, and other injustices in
the South.
The ruling also stopped fur
ther prosecution of the Brad
ens; Alan and Margaret Mc-
Surely, mountain organizers
for SCEF, and Joseph Mulloy,
an organizer for the Appalach
ian Volunteers.
The five had been indicted
for sedition after Thomas Rat
liff, the state's attorney in
Pikeville, accused them of "try
ing to overthrow the govern
ment of Pike County." Ratliff
is candidate for lieutenant gov
ernor of Kentucky on the Re
publican ticket,
The federal court refused to
cite Ratliff for contempt. Such
action had been asked by Wm.
M Kunstler of New York and
Dan Jack Combs of Pikeville,
attorneys for the five. The at
torneys charged that Ratliff
broke an agreement not to pros
ecute the McSurelys and Mulloy
until the U. S. court had de
cided whether the sedition law
was constitutional.
The law had been declared
invalid in 1956 after the Brad
ens were arrested under it. At
that time they were accused of
trying to overthrow the govern
ment by selling a house in an
all-white neighborhood to a
black family. Braden served 8
months of a 15-year prison sen
tence.
In the latest case, Ratliff ac
cused them and the others of
trying to overthrow the govern
ment by organizing what he
called "our poor."
Che Ciwes
VOLI'ME 11 No. 36 DURHAM, N C., SATURDAY, SEITEMKER 23, 1967 PRICE: 20c
VP. Humphrey Backs Negro
For Mayor Of Gary, Indiana
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V.P SUPPORTS NEGRO CAtf-
DIDATE FOR MAYOR —Rich
ard Hatcher (left), Democratic
candidate for Mayor of Gary,
Membership Votes Approval
Dismissal Of Minister Mon.
WILKINS STILL IN FIRST PLACE IN
CAROLINA TIMES "LEADER" RACE
The name of Roy Wilkins
continued to hold fast to the
top position in the Contest now
being conducted by the Caro
lina Times to name the No.- 1
National Negro Leader of the
United States.
The only change in the posi
tions held last week by the
10 contestants being voted on
was that of Dr. Martin L. King
who advanced from third place
to the second position held by
Whitney Young up to last
week.
Dr. King made such an ad
vance this week over his stand
ing last week that it now ap
pears that the final weeks of
the contest for the top position
may develop into a battle royal
NAACP Files Federal Law Suit
In Behalf of Florida Teachers
ST. PETRSBURG, Fla—The
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored Peo
ple has filed a Federal law
suit on behalf of seven Negro
teachers charging Pinellas
County school officials with ra
cial discrimination.
Marvin Davies, NAACP Flor
ida state tield director, says
that the suit charges that all
the teachers, on continuing
contract, were denied con
tinued employment because of
their color.
The NAACP's suit is asking
the court to enjoin the Pinellas
School System from refusing to
employ the plaintiffs as teach
ers at the St. Petersburg Jun
ior College pending a final
hearing and determination as
to the teachers' rights.
No. 3
OFFICIAL BALLOT
CAROLINA TIMES NATIONAL
NEGRO LEADER CONTEST
I VOTE FOR
This Ballot Good for 1,000 Points
Indiana, received the enthusi
astic endorsement of Vice Presi
dent Hubert Humphrey at a
fund-raising reception for Hat
between him and Wilkins.
As the tempo of the voting
increases, the contest manager
would like to urge persons
sending in votes to mail or
bring them as early as possible
before the deadline which is
Wednesday noon of each week.
Standing of nominees for this
week at Wednesday noon was
as follows:
Roy Wilkins 127,000
Martin L. King 120,000
Whitney Young 101,000
A. Phillip Randolph . . 93,000
Thurgood Marshall 91,000
Senator Brooke 88,000
Jackie Robinson • • 46,000
Floyd B. McKissick 41,000
Stokley Carmiachel . 32,000
Rap Brown 31,000
The suit also requests that a
three-judge court be immedia
tely convened to determine the
constitutionality of a 1965
Florida law which authorizes
the firing of teachers
"without any comparison of
their qualifications with those
of other faculty members"
when schools are consolidated.
Attorneys representing the
seven teachers are Robert L.
Carter, NAACP general coun
sel; Richard Bellman, NAACP
assistant legal counsel; and E.
M. Johnson. NAACP Florida
legal counsel.
More than 60 per cent of all
Series E U. S. Savings Bonds
sold each year are bought
through the Payroll Savings
Plan. Buy Bonds where you
work; our men in Vietnam do.
cher in Washington. The Vice
President served as honorary
chairman of the . event.
Action Taken
In Meet Held
September 18
At a special church confer
ence of the officers and mem
bers of the Ebenezer Baptist
Church held here Monday, Sep
tember 17, at 8:00 p.m. Rev. J.
A. Brown, its patsor since 1951,
prominent minister and citizen
of Durham, was voted dis
charged, as pastor, effective
August 19, 1967, the date the
Deacon Board held a meeting,
called by its chairman, Howard
Williams, to consider the mat
ter of the status of Rev. Brown
as pastor of the church.
The letter addressed to Rev.
Brown dated Monday, Septem
ber 18, and signed by Williams
as chairman of the Deacon
Board and Mrs. Lillie Mclntyre
as secretary is as follows:
"September 18, 1967
Rev. James A. Brown
2515 Otis Street
Durham, N. C.
Dear Rev. Brown:
The following is an excerpt of
the minutes of the special
Church Conference called by
the Chairman of the Deacon
Board, Deacon Howard Wil
liams (That was publicly an
nounced in the church's Sun
day's weekly bulletin, read by
the announcement clerk and an
nounced by you Sunday, Sep
tember 17, 1967) Monday, Sep
tember 18, 1967 at 8:00 p.m.
' ... It was motioned and
properly second that the rec
ommendations from the Deacon
Board be adopted. It was de
cided without objections that
the voting be done with bal
lots. The recommendations
coming from the Board were as
follows:
That Rev. Brown be dis
charged as Pastor of this
church effective August 19,
1967 (This is the date the Board
held its meeting) and that the
church pay him twelve weeks
at one hundred dollars ($100.00)
weekly, providing:
(a) that he does not in any
way interfere or attempt to in
terfere with the business of
this church.
(b) that he does not disturb
or attempt to disturb the har
mony and fellowship of the
See BROWN 2A
HHH Speaks at
Fund Raising
For Hatcher
WASHINGTON, D. C. Vice
President Hubert Humphrey
challenged the citizens of Gary,
Indiana to judge the city's Ne
gro candidate for mayor, Rich
ard Hatcher, on the basis of
"his merit, experience, record,
character and his willingness
to serve, and not on the basis
of false premises.
Speaking at a fund-raising
reception for Hatcher in Wash
ington, Vice-President Humph
rey said he became interested
in the Gary mayoralty race be
cause of a moral principle.
"The race -has been made a
principle by some people
cause of their opposition to Mr.
Hatcher for superficial reasons,[
the Vice President said.
Dick Hatcher won the Demo
cratic primary, and he won it
fair and square, the Vice Presi
dent said. He won it on his rec
ord, because of his voter ap
peal, because of what he is and
I what he stands for. And it is
| the duty of the Democratic
Party leaders and workers to
back their candidate, particu
larly when they have a chance
to make national history, a
chance to elect a well-qualified
young man as the first of his
race to be duly elected mayor
of a large AmeHcan city.
Vice President; Humphrey
served as Honorary Chairman
See HUMPHREY 2A
Noted Educators Answer
Attack On U.S. Negro College
ATLANTA, Georgia Four
distinguished Negro educators
responded to the highly contro
versial Jencks-Riesman article
on "The American Negro Col
lege" in the recent summer
issue of the Harvard Educa
tional Review.
In their responses Dr. Hugh
M. Gloster, president of More
house College, Dr. Benjamin E.
Mays, president-emeritus of
Morehouse, Dr. Albert W. Dent,
president of Dillard University,
and Dr. Stephen J. Wright,
president of the United Negro
College Fund, refuted the
charge of Harvard sociologists
Christopher Jencks and David
Riesman (Harvard Educational
Review, Wintet, 1967) that Ne
gro colleges are "academic dis
aster areas" and have no future
of significance.
Describing the Jencks-Ries
man article as "irrespoWsible
scholarship," "un scholarly,"
"unscientific," "re p ortorial,"
and downright dishonest, the
four educators attacked its
manner and its matter.
Dr. Gloster asked '"here
Jencks and Riesman obtained
the information that Meharry
and Howard "rank among the
worst (medical schools) in the
nation."
According to Dr. Wright,
"the article ... is replete with
judgements, speculations-im
pressions, a good many errors,
and loaded words and phrases
which are not adequately de
fined."
Moreover, in discussing the
statement by Jencks and Ries
man that "the only new public
ly-supported colleges for Ne
groes since World War I have
been a handful of marginal,
two-year colleges almost all in
Florida," Dr. Wright noted that
since World War I the follow
ing Negro institutions have
been added to the public sec
tor: North Carolina College,
See EDUCATORS 2A
SOUTHSIDE LAUNCHES UF
CAMPAIGN—S D Cuthbertson,
division chairman, and co-work
ers, of the United Fund Cam
paign, Southside Division, met
Wednesday, September 20 at
the Harriet Tubman Branch,
YWCA, with their workers to
NAACP Dir. Blasts "Black
Power" Advocates In Speech
Hugh A. Frost GOP Candidate
For Mayor Youngstown, Ohio
> NEW YORK—Hugh A Frost,
40 year old Negro sociologist,
has been chosen as the offi
cial Republican candidate for
Mayor in Youngstown, Ohio's
'67 election campaign.
A native of this famous steel
town, with a B.A. in Social
Science from Bluffton College,
Bluffton, Ohio, Frost feels con
fident that he'll be able to
make a major political break
through in this Democratic
stronghold.
"All of my background ex
perience," stated Frost recent
ly, '"has been developed right
here in Ohio ... I know the
problems facing the Negro com
munity, especially in the areas
of social service and I intend
See MAYOR 2A
Howard Fuller Hired by Univ.
N. C. as Part-time Lecturer
Howard Fuller, a neighbor
hood organizer for The North
Carolina Fund and well known
Negro activist in the Durham
community, has been hired by
the University of North Caro
lina in Chapel Hill as a part
time lecturer in the School of
Social Work. Fuller, who has
his master's degree in social
work from Western Reserve
University in Cleveland, Ohio,
is well qualified for teaching
position, according to the
School's Dean, C. Wilson An
derson.
Although Fuller is known to
be a "controversial" figure, An
derson defended his employ
ment."We are convinced," he
said, "that his professional |
qualifications are suitable for a |
teaching position of this kind,
and that he subscribes to the !
democratic values adherent to '
President Reveals Billion Dollar
Ins. Money for Slum Housing
WASHINGTON, D. C—Presi- :
dent Lyndon B. Johnson, at a [
White House Conference Wed
nesday, hailed the insurance
industry for creating a billion j
dollar fund for immediate in- j
vestment in housing in the j
slums of America. Most of the )
money will go into rent-supple
ment housing according to Gil
bert Fitzhugh, spokesman for
the industry, who announced
the creation of the billion dol
lar fund.
President Johnson said that
kick-off the 1967 fund raising i
effort in the division. The cam- j
paign which ends November 8 I
supports 37 agencies which per- '
forms 51,000 different services
to the Durham Community.
Shown reviewing strategy
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FROST
FULLER
the process of social work." Ful
ler will be teaching an intro-
See FULLER 2A
"This initiative is more than a
vote of confidence in the rent
supplement program. It is a
major investment in improving
American life."
The new fund represents the
culmination of eight months
work by task forces led by in
surance company officials, Sec
retary Robert C. Weaver of the
Department of Housing and
Urban Development and admin
istration aides. The billion dol
lars was assembled on a pro
See PRESIDENT 2A
' planned during the meeting
! which will help the division
realize its goal are left to right:
' I R. Holmes, S. D. Cuthhertson.
i son, chairman, Southside Divi
j sion; Mrs. J J. Henderson and
J. W. Davidson.
(Photo by Purefoy)
WASHINGTON, D. C. Roy
Wilkins, Executive Director of
the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People, expressed frank dis
agreement Sunday with "Black
Power" advocates and Negro
Nationalists who want to estab
lish a separate Negro society
with its own institutions. In a
copyrighted interwiew in the
periodical "US News & World
Report", Wilkins emphasized
that progress for the American
Negro is impossible without
cooperation from Whites Sepa
ratists are attempting to buck
tile trend of history, he said
-"l'm convinced it must be
together. The whole trend of
the world is togetherness," he
further stated. "If the Negro
thinks he can go it alone and
create a separate black econ
omy, he's going against the
whole international trend of
mankind, the evidence of his
tory. He's blind."
While there is growing feel
ing that "Black Power" advo
cates are over-doing it, criti
cism has yet to gain the impe
tus of a "wave".
"The Negro community,"
Wilkins. said, "is beginning,
here and there, to ask, 'What
are these fellows up to?' And
the closer the 'Black Power'
movement gets to affecting
their jobs, their homes and
their children, the more they
are raising those questions."
Wilkins deplored violence
advocated in some Negro quar
ters as a means of drawing at
tention to Negro problems. In
the long run, he said, violence
See WILKINS 2A
NCC Has Half
Million Dollars
In 67-68 Grants
Grants and programs funded
by outside agencies at North
Carolina College total $589,-
003 85 for the summer of 1967
and the 1967-68 school year, a
report by President Albert N
Whiting reveals.
The college received $235,219
for summer programs and has
awarded $354,284 85 for the
1967-68 academic year.
Summer projects included the
Institute for Teachers of Dis
advantaged Youth, supported at
$76,021 by the U.S. Office o/
Education, and the Summer In
stitute for Educational Media
Specialists, given $61,938, also
by the Office of Education.
National Science Foundation
summer grants were for the
Institute for Secondary School
Teachers of Mathematics and
Science, $75,950, and the In
stitute for Talented Secondary
Science Students, $16,660.
Other summer subsidies were
a grant in public health nurs
ing, $2,450 by the N. C. State
Board of Health, and $2,200 for
research from the DuPont
Foundation.
U. S. Office of Education
grants for the current academic
year are for the Consortium Re-
See NCC page 2A