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Murder Lodged Against Chttdretfs Slayers NAACP Hits Anti-White Unit No Color Line I In Organization Says Branch Dir. NEW YORK There is no | color line in the National As- j sociation for the Advancement of Colored People, Gloster B. j Current, the Association's di- I rector of branches and field j administration, has informed ! C. Blythe Andrews, Jr., editor of the Florida Sentinel Bulletin, a Tampa, Fa., weekly. Mr. Andrews had been re ported by the Associated Press as seeking to establish an NAACP branch with limitations on white participation The AP dispa'.ch quoted him as hav ing complained that the present Tampa NAACP Branch has "too many whites." In a telegram to Mr An dews, Oct. 25. Mr. Current cit ed the Association's tradition al non-discrimination . policy which was re-affirmed last July at the organization's 58th annual convention in Boston. The full text of the telegram follows: Associated Press Story Oc tober 23, quotes you as say ing several hundred Negroes in Tampa planning to apply for charter because existing Tampa branch has "too many whites." Also quotes you stating: •It's all right for whites to bo members but they should stay in the back ground No white, however liberal, understands the Ne gro's problems." Please be advised that XAACP, an interracial or ganization since 1909, still welcomes white membership and financial support. Na tional board policy would not charter new branch on ra cial separatist basis NAACP policy, reaffirmed 1966 con vention. #deelared: "We, an association- of Americans of all races, colors and creeds, reaffirm our pledge to man kind, enunciated at the founding of this association . . to obliterate every trace of racial discrimination See NAACP 6A KT- jK TO SPEAK SUNDAY Dr. Lewis C. Dowdy, president of A&T State University, will ad dress the Durham chapter of the A&T General Alumni As sociation here Sunday, Nov. 5 at 4:00 p.m. in Craftsmen's Lounge, 2016 Apex Highway. y-| _ M k. ife KI H I i fl PAID IN PULL— Sunday, Oc tober 19 was a high day to be remembered at Greater St. Paul Baptist Church, pastored by Rev. W. T. Bigelow, when a check for $14,095 retiring the Ck Carwla VOLUME 44 No. 42 Judge Orders Construction Halted On Segregated School M | 1 JM « H .j»9 I|ll||l IS-f 11181 * % I m y m | ■T^ Vj^D SUPREME COURT JUSTlCE (Washington)—The U. S. Su preme Court posed recently for a picture to include its new est member, Thurgood Mar NIA Launches Nationwide Campaign from Oct. 30-Dec. 3 Dr. Kenneth Neigh Speaker At Dr. Gresham Inauguration CONCORD-Dr. Kenneth Neigh, General Secretary of the Board of National Missions of the United Presbyterian Church, United States of America, will deliver the address for the inauguration of Dr. Jerome Lynwood Gresham, president of Barber-Scotia College, on November 10th at 3 p.m. in the College Cha pel. Dr. Gresham, the youngest col ; lege president in the U. S. A., is the eighth president of Barber-Scotia College which is celebrating its cen- I tennial. > President Gresham's early educa tion was in the Atlanta public | schools. He received the Bachelor of Arts degree from Allen Universi ty, Columbia, South Carolina, and | earned the Master of Arts degree ' from Teachers College, Columbia [ University, New York City, where | he is currently a candidate for the doctorate degree in education super vision. , President Gresham taught at Di | mer's Business College, Atlanta, Georgia. From 1% 1-1963 he served entire indebtedness of th e i church was paid the Mechanics and Farmers Bank of this city. Shown receiving the check from Honorary Deacon D. J. DURHAM, N. C.—SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1967 s.iall. Left to right, seated: As sociate Justice John M, Harlan; Hugo' L Black; Chief Justice Earl Warren; William 0. Doug las; and William J. Brennan, ii 9 DR. GRESHAM as chairman of the Department of English at Sheldon-J ackson JuniOt College of Sitka, Alaska, and from 1963-1965 served as principal of Sheldon-Jackson High School and See GRESHAM 6A ; Mumford, at the right, is D. L. Harrison, cashier. Looking on is Rev. W. T. Bigelow, pas tor of Greater St. Paul. (Photo by Purefoy) Jr. Standing: Abe Fortas; Pot ter Stewart; Byron R. White; and Thurgood Marshall. (UPI Telephoto) 8,000 AGENTS TO REACH INSURED HOME A proclamation by George S. Harris, president of the National In surance Association, will launch 8,000 life insurance agents on a nation-wide campaign to reach eve ry family insured by member com panies of the National Insurance Assn., in the period October 30 to December 2. This annual campaign is called National Service Month and was initiated fifteen years ago by the National Insurance Assn., to help provide Negro families with the same insurance benefits which are available to the general population. The agents will have four major purposes: To make sure all policies are up to date and in order. To make certain that all infor mation on insured persons and their beneficiaries is correct To provide for emergency and .long-range family needs through in surance. To encourage payment of pre miums through 1967. The National Insurance Assn., is a trade group of the major Negro managed life insurance companies. It is comprised of 46 member com panies who conduct business through 500 offices in 25 states, •flcmber companies own over S3BO million in assets and have contracts for future payments exceeding S2V» billion to American families. NIA president, Harris, is also president of Chicago Metropolitan Mutual Assu rance Co. A special committee of the as sociation, headed by Rumor L. Oden, vice president, Winston Mu tual Life Insurance Co., Winston- Salem, N. C., designed the 1967 National Service Month campaign, following the theme of a spring sales promotion, "Security: Who Need It?" Other members of the commit tee include: Robert P. Lyons, a gency director, Crusader Life Insu rance Co., Kansas City, Kan., P. W. Prothrow, Jr., agency director, At lanta Life Insurance Co., Atlanta, Ga., and R. B. Sims, agency direc tor, Purple Shield Life Insurance Co., Baton Rouge, La. To climax the service campaign, special awards are presented to a gpnts and their supervisors for meet ing the campaign standards of ser vice and collection. • Only 12 per cent of Ne groes in Chicago think the p> lice treat them "very b«dly." Eighteen f>er cent in New York and Atlanta and 42 per cent in Birmingham feel they are badly mistreated by po lice. PRICE: 20c Jurist Renders Historic Civil Rights Ruling Macon-A Federal District judge in Georgia this week ordered the Bibb County Board of Education not to construct a proposed high school on a particular site because this school would result in further segregation. This is the first time that a Fed eral District Court in ? school do segregation case has issued sucn an order. The attorneys for the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund (LDF) who filed the motion for preliminary injunction, relied on a provision from the landmark Jeffer son County decision, in which the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that "... the school system as a whole, shall locate any new school and substantially expand any exis ting schools with the objectives of eradicating the vestiges of the dual system." Acting in behalf of the residents of Pleasant Hill, a predominantly Negro residential area in the city of Macon, Georgia, the LDF attorneys charged the Bibb county Board of Education, of planning to "build a Negro school in further support of the "dual system." In support of their charge that the proposed high school would further result in segregation, the LDF attorneys pointed out that the See ORDERS 6A BBH -*• 1 11 V, D|* j| iMMM|^ •*•*■ df" .IV Hptt, P\ ikki . ]ys| THE MARCH ON CITY HALL here Sunday, October 29, re vealed in no uncertain terms the united opposition of the Negro citizens of Durham to the Bacon Street Housing Pro ject. Over 1,000 persons from the various churches of the city joined in a demonstration held on the steps of the City Hall. Following several songs led by J. H. McMillan, and the opening invocation by Father Nathaniel Porter of the St. Nat'l Council Negro Women Meet In Washington Nov. 8-12 WASHINGTON, D. C.-The Na- The opening day of the conven tional Council of Negro Women will j tion, delegates will take part in an meet in annual convention at the j all-day "Citizenship Session" on Ca- Sheraton Park Hotel, Washington, j pitol Hill. D. C. from November 8 - 12. Dr. Robert C. Weaver, Secretary In announcing the convention, j of Housing and Urban Develop- Miss Dorothy I. Height, National merit, will address the convention. President, said that this year's I Thursday evening, November 9. Dr. NCNW meeting, responding to the j Weaver recently announced the spirit of unrest and problems of the i launching of an innovative approach cities, has selected as its theme: to home ownership for poor fami "Women - The Crises in the Black i lies. The National Council of Negro Community - Direction and Deci- Women is serving as initiator and sion." coordinator of the pilor Turnkey As in previous years, the dele- | I, 11, 111 project in Gulfport, Miisi gates representing some 3,850,000 | ssippi. women in 24 national affiliated or- ! This proposed development will ganizations and 107 local sections I consist of detached units designed will be drawn from all over the for large families. It is proposed to United States. I have a center for day care, recrea- llHcKldl • I PARENTS OF 7 POISONED , their small home near Arcadia | The poison has been identified CHILDREN—(Arcadia, Fla.) I October 27. Annie Mae, 29, (L) ] as parathion or malathion, an Parents of the seven children and James Richardson, 32, are j insect killer used in the fruit who died October 26 of para- j fruit pickers The children be- i groves. thion poisoning shown outside j came ill shortly after eating i (UPI Telephoto) Warrants "Child Neglect" To Be Charged In Poisoning Alamance Co. Educator Named To Two Important Positions BURLINGTON —W I. Morris, director of placement at A&T State University, has received two important posts in Ala mance County. Morris was named to a one year term as chaiman of the Alamance County Human Re lations Council and was also appointed to serve on the new ly formed Alamance County Jury Commission. Morris is the third chairman | and the first Negro to serve the Human Relations unit. The j Jury Commission, on which ! Morris serves, will prepare a I list of residents of the county j who will be placeed on a mas ter jury list. Before assuming his position at A&T, Morris served as a teacher and principal of Pleas ant Grove Union School and as field representative of the Na tional Education Association and the North Carolina Teach ers' Association Titus Episcopal Church, the gathering was favored with a most dynamic address by Rev. Philip R. Cousin, pastor of St. Joesph's A.M.E. Church. The closing prayer was by Rev. Edmund Whitley, pastor of Mt. Olive A.M.E. Zion Church. The closing song, "We Shall Overcome" was led by McMillan and was enthusiasti cally joined in by the entire gathering. Those pictured on steps of the City Hall from left to right are: Guy Mazyck, vice EjPF ij MORRIS A native of Reidsville, he is a graduate of A&T and holds the master's degree from New York University. He has also studied at Harvard University, Purdue and at the University See EDUCATOR 6A chairman, Committee On Ne gro Affairs; Rev. Irvin Knight, faculty member N. C. College; Atty. H. M. Michaux, Jr.; Rev. L. A. Miller, pastor St. Mark AMEZ Church: J. H. McMil lian. Behind McMillan, Father Porter; Rev. A. D. Moseley, pastor Mount Gilead Baptist Church; Rev. Cousin and Bish op A. W. Lawson, pastor of Fisher Memorial Holy Church. The person at the extreme left in the picture is unidentified, tion, meetings and other communi ty services. Miss Height's address to the con vention will deal with the crises in the Black Community and will un derscore, in addition to other pro blems, the importance of "Closing the Income Gap." Other convention speakers will include the well-known economist Dr. Vivian Henderson, President of Clark College. International Night, November 10 will be chaired by Lady Sara I,ou Carter, wife of the Ambassador of Guyana. A Committee of 400 will sponsor an International Boutique of Grand Prizes illustrating the ta lents and interests of distinguished See MBIT OA WARRANTS TO BE ISSUED FOR BOTH PARENTS ARCADIA, FLA.-Both the fat her and mother of the seven child ren who succumbed from paralhion poison last week were being held in jail it was announced this week by Judge Gordon Hays. Originally only the father, James Richardson, 32, had been booked on seven counts of first degree murder, according to Deputy M. G. AHbritton. Later, however, warrants were issued against both parents and the charges were changed from the original of "child neglect" to the more serious charge. Judge Hays did not state why the lesser charge was charge was originally filed. Jailing of the parents came after they volunteered to undergo lie de tector tests. Following the tests Richardson and his wife, Annie Mae, 29, were jailed by Sheriff Frank E. Cline of DeSoto County. Sheriff Cline disclosed that Rich ardson stated he had taken out a SI,OOO double indemnity policy on the life of each of his seven children whose ages ranged from 2 to 8 years. According to the agent who wrote the insurance the policies were not in force because the $4 premium had not been paid. Six of the children died within one hour after they ate a lunch composed of beans, rice, grits and hog's head on last Wednesday, Octo ber 29. The seventh child died the following morning. Prior to being jailed for the crime, Richardson and his wife worked as itenerant orange pickers. The father formerly worked as a garbage collector. The three older children-Betty, See POISONING 2A Dr. Abernathy Gives up After Toronto Speech ATLANTA, GA„ - Dr. Ralph D. Abernathy, Vice President At-Large and Treasurer of the Southern i Christian Leadership Conference, delivered a lecture October 21 at the Third International Teach-in at the University of Toronto, Canada. The civil rights and religious leader revealed to an applauding audience of 5,000 persons that he I would soon return to Birmingham, | Alabama, to serve a jail term for violating a state court Injunction in 1963. He criticized this use of the injunction as "unjust," and said he "knowingly and willingly violated it along with Dr. Martin Luther j King Jr. and six other colleagues, so that we could keep the Birmingham civil rights movement alive. As a re sult, our action brought into being the Civil Rights Act of 1964." Speaking on "Religious Faith and Revolution," Dr. Abernathy told his Canadian audience that "unjust laws and unjust court pro cedures must be violated, and those who are convicted of violations '■ must be prepared to suffer the con sequences. That is why I will go to Birmingham, after concluding ser vices at my church on Sunday, October 29, and surrender Hit sheriff of Jefferson County." Rev. Abernathy is pastor of West Hunter Street Baptist Church in Atlanta. Speaking s a founder of SCLC, | a leader of he 1955-56 Montgo ! mery Bus Boycott, and a clergyman, | Dr. Abernathy said: "I am not »- fraid of the word 'revolution,' be cause I have actively practiced it for the last 12 years. And I do not | despair of nonviolence, for I have See SPIAKS 6A
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