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500 Hillsborough Students Protest Token Integration ★ ★★★★★ -¥•-¥• -¥- if, ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★★ AME's Re-instate Ousted Prelate; Elect 2 New Bishops Che Car|li|a Cfjw& jj"TtaThuTH~4NBRIS-EQ^J VOLUME 45 No. 20 Public Housing Protesters Clash With Cops At City Hall ESm mm ■■ wM' v>jr ■ wMB J A J V 1 nnn PROTESTERS OF THE PUBLIC Housing conditions in Durham who Were present at a meeting of City officials here this week found themselves faced with rifles, machine guns and night sticks in the hands of local po lice. In addition to the belli gerent attitude exhibited by several of the police, one was Team Of 15 M Demands on T Harsh Practices Of P. Lorillard Co. Are Exposed CHICAGO (SCLC)—The Re verend Jesse L. Jackson, Na tional Director of Operation Breadbasket, led a team of 15 ministers representing Bread basket operations in 28 cities in negotiations with P. Lorril lard Company. The team met with the tobacco industry fifth largest firm in Washing toty D. C. P. (Lorrillard's representa tives at the negotiation were: B. Lowell Jacobsen, Vice Pre sident for Personnel; Robert Spangler, Public Relations re presentative; Charles Sterling, Administrative Assistant to the General Sales Manager and Ro bert Brown, President of B and C Associates, a firm retained by P. Lorrillard to conduct part of its public relations throughout the nation. The ministers demanded that P. Lorrillard realize the fact that the practice of ex tracting profits from the black community and leaving pover ty was now at an end. P. Loril lard's representatives were al so reminded that the tobacco industry was the industry upon which black people's slavery See TIAM page 2A HILLMOftO STUMNTS IN WALKOUT —Charlie Florence, (center) president of the stu dent body of the all-Negro Central High School, li ahown talking with schoolmates after DURHAM, N. C. SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1%8 heard to hive used profanity in opposing the public hous ing attendants. He is shown ducking his head in an ap parent attempt to avoid being photographed after discovering he was overheard by a press photographer nearby. At the right Mayor R. Wense Graba rek and Major W. B. Julian of Atlanta Minister Slated For White Rock Service Sunday The Rev. Dr. Samuel W. Williams, Pastor, Friendship Baptist Church since 1954 and ProfMßor of Philosophy, More house College, Atlanta, Georgia since 1946 will preace at White Rock Baptlfet Church, Sunday, May 19 at the 11:00 a.m. Wor ship Service in B. N. Duke Auditorium at North Carolina College at Durham. He will also meet with several church groups during the day. The Rev. Williams has been in the forefront of Civil Rights Activities most of his adult life. He was the chief witness against the Georgia State Col lege of Business Administration in the desegregation case which was won January 10, 1959. He was a successful plaintiff in the Atlanta Bus Desegrega tion case which was decided January 9, 1959. He is Past President and member Executive Committee, Atlanta Branch NAACP; Form er President and member Board of Directors, Greater Atlanta Council on Human Relations; Member, Board of Directors, Georgia Council on Human Re- they had met in front of the Orange County Courthouse just after 900 of them walked out of the school Tuesday in pro test of token integration of the county school system. The the Durham Police Department are shown conversing with a young woman relative to abuse received at the hands of police officers. At her left is Ben Ruffin, Director of the United Organization for Community Improvement. (Photo by Purefoy) M m OR. WILLIAMS lations; 3rd Vice-President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference-and Co-Chairman, Atlanta Summit Leadership Conference. He received his A. B. Degree Morehouse College; B. D. De gree, Howard University; M. A. Degree, Howard University; Ph.D., University of Chicago and D. D., Arkansas Baptist College. He has also served as Chap lain and Professor of Philoeo- See MINISTM ZA walk-out was reported orderly and will be continued until Monday the student leaders atated. (Photo by Purefoy) PRICE: 20 Cents Police Display Machine Guns, Rifles at Meet Negro citizens, in a mock hearing held in the Durham City Council Chamber here Tuesday night, gave an unusual exhibition of ridicule for over an hour, of public housing hearings of tenants that have been presented to the Council over the past several months. Occupying the seats of member of the Council, repre sentatives of the tenants con ducted a "trial" of Housing of ficials who have been charged by the tenants with delaying tactics and not playing fair concerning the several pro blems and demands placed be fore the city officials. The meeting had been call ed it was claimed in an all-out effort of the City Council to arrive at a solution of the several complaints made by the tenants of the housing units. The demands presented the City Council included, as usual, the immediate discharge of Carvie Oldham and his assist ant A.,J. Walton, Jr. -Listed among the com plaints which came from hous ing projects of Fayetteville Street, McDougald Terrace, Da mar Court and Cornwallis Court were poor recreation fa cilities, poor lighting, broken tile, painting, a lack of locks for doors, air conditioning and numerous other grievances. Leaders of the group stated they would remain in City Hall- until their demands are met. At the meeting scheduled for Thursday at 8:00 p.m. to discuss the grievances, the Ne groes walked out when Mayor R. W. Grabarek would not or- See HOUSING 2A Durham Awaits Arrival Poor Peoples March Local citizens were awaiting with keen interest here Thurs day for the arrivfl of the parti cipants of the Poor People's March. It was estimated that about 500 persons would be in the group to visit Durham, which was scheduled to arrive at Durham Athletic Park, Thursday about noon. ■> Local campaign leaden stated that due to a non-co operative attitude on the part of Durham leaders the march ers may be relocated in Chapel ran. It is reported that about 90 of the march ere had been ordered back to Mississippi be cause they were aswming a role of agitators rather than actual participants. The marchers numbering over 400 left Charlotte Tues day enroute to Greenaboro, Durham and other key points. Ben Ruffe, Durham Chair man of the Poor People's March Steering Committee, See PlOm.lt 2A wf IT I Hfw{ ZeBL ft /^^R- ' p^^y I I i / / J fl HOMOftEO Shown, left to right, are honore.es at the re cent Faculty-Staff Recognition Banquet at North Carolina Col Orange Board Of Education Charged With Bias Methods ■I DR. WOOOHALL Two Noted Faculty Members to Deliver Duke Finals Addresses Two of Duke University's most prominent faculty mem be rs-a distinguished neurosur geon and a noted clergyman will be the principal speakers for Duke's 1968 Commence ment Weekend program. They are Dr. Barnes Wood hall and Dr. James T. Cleland. Dr. Woodhall, who was pro moted last summer to the new ly created post of Associate Provost of the University, will deliver the Commencement address on Monday morning. June 3, in Duke Indoor Stadjjp um. Dr. Cleland, who is James B. Duke, Professor of Preach ing and Dean of the Chapel, will give the baccalaureate ser mon Sunday morning, June 2, in Duke Chapel. Dr. Woodhall has been a M . fljj^ VICTORY DMNM-Shown in thia picture are three of the bishops of the A. M. E. Zion Church, who were recalled at the 38th quadrennial aession of the A M. E. Zion Church, held in Detroit, Mich., May IS, is they enjoy a press lunch lege: Dr. C. EH wood Boulware, Mathematics, honored for 25 years of service; James C. Blount, retiring; Earl Lee, re ■ m m ■ DR. CLELAND member of the Duke faculty for 31 years. In addition to serving as Professor of Neuro surgery, he organized and headed the neurological ser vices for the Medical Center be fore being named the second Dean of the Duke School of Medicine in 1960. At that time, he also was named a Vice Provost of the University and four years later relinquished the deanship to devote his full time to the broader tasks of Vice Provost ot Medical Af fairs. His further promotion to the position of Associate Pro vost of the University came last July. A past president of three national professional organiza tion, Dr. Woodhall currently is chairman of the Board of Re- See SPEAKERS 2A eon. Alexander Barnea, direc tor of Public Relations is shown on the extreme right as he discusses the news of the conference with Bishop W. A. Hilliard. The three preiaies (left to right), W. E. Tucker, Louisville, Ky.; W. A. Stewart, tiring; Dean of Women, Miss Louise M. Lathan, retiring and Dr. Charles A. Hay, English, 25 years. Superintendent Fails In Effort To Make Settlement HILLSBOROUGH—Over 500 pupils of the all-Negro Central High School walked out of classes here Tuesday as a pro test against the County Board of Education's plan to hold fast to the pattern of segrega tion of the county schools un til 1969 In a statement made to the Carolina Times Tuesday after noon during the walkout J. M. Murfree, principal of Central High, in which is also includ ed an elementary school de partment, stated that the boy cott of his school was 100 per cent effective. In an interview with the Superintendent of the Orange County Schools, G. Paul Carr, the representative of the Times was told that a committe of 40, 30 whites and 10 Negroes of which William C Dowd is chairman, was formulated April 8, 1968 at which time a resolution was passed unani mously which read as follows: was passed unanimiusly which read as follows: "We recommend to the Board of Education that they make every effort possible to eliminate the dual school sys tem by September 1969." Although the students knew of the action of the committee they are resentful of the ef forts of the Board to enroljf Negro students in Orange HiglC the white high school, without any white students being en rolled in Central High. In short, they see an effort, on the part of the School Board, to perpetuate segregation rath er than promote integration in both the white and Negro schools. President of the Negro stu dent body of Central High is See ORANGE, page 5A who presides over the Central North Carolina Conference (which Includes Durham) and F. S. Anderson, Louisville, Ky. Bishop Stewart was reassigned to the Central- North Carolina Conference. Final Session Held at Mother Bethel Church PHILADELPHIA—With the election of two bishops and three men to high administra tive offices the 38th Quadren nial Session of the African Methodist Episcopal Church came to a close here Tuesday as the 1088 delegates rang down the curtain on the 1968 gathering with a sigh of relief from approximately two weeks of hectic activities. Elected to the Bishop were D. G. Dewey Robinson, pastor of Metropolitan A.M.E. Church of Washington, D. C. and Dr. Hehry Murph, pastor of Grant A.M.E. Church of Los Angeles, California. Hie newly elected lay offi cers are: Dr. Frank Cummings of St. Louis who defeated in cumbent, Dr. A. G. Gaston ot Birmingham, Alabama for the position of Church Extension; Dr. Ford Gibson of Chicago, Illinois, Secretary of Foreign Missions and B. Gregg, presi dent of Payne College, new Historian. Probably the most tense moment of the entire session of the Quadrennian came last Thursday, May 9, when the delegates by a vote of 710 to 383 voted to reinstate to the Bench of Bishops, D. Ward Nichols, who was ousted as bishop in 1959 under charges involving alleged embezzlement of $207,950. Other charges were either quashed or dissolv ed in several court actions held from time to time over the past eight years or more. He was finally cleared of all crimi nal charges in 1964. The vote to reinstate the See AME'» page 2A OR. HEISKELL Time Official Is Speaker For Shaw U. Finals RALEIGH Andrew Heis kell, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Time, Inc., will deliver the keynote address during Shaw University's 103 rd Convocation for the Confer ring of Degrees on Sunday, June 9, at 3 p.m. at the Ra leigh Memorial Auditorium. A native of Naples, Italy, Heiskell was educated in Ger many, Switzerland and the University of Paris (France). Associated with the publishing company since May, 1937, when he joined the staff of Life Magazine, then six months old, as science and medicine editor, Heiskell was appointed assistant general manager in 1939. In 1940, he was sent to life's Paris office. However, when the French capitol fell to the Germans, Heiskell joined other refugees from the Paris office, who packed their can with office records and baggage and followed the French government to Bord eaux. See SHAW page 2A
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