300 Negroes To Take Part In Democratic Natfl Convention
Integration Opposed By Black Educator
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A MATTER OF PRIDE—Labor
Secretary Willard Wirtz signs
a $3.8 million contract with
Pride, Inc., the Washington,
D. C. training and work pro
gram for young Negroes. Tak
Operation Breakthrough To
Award 6 SSOO Grants in City
Operation Breakthrough an
nounced this week that it will
award six SSOO Neighborhood
Self-Improvement grants to
low-income communities in
Durham. The money will be
used for special projects to
improve living conditions in
the neighborhoods.
The first groups whose
grant proposals have been ap
proved by Breakthrough's Ex
ecutive Committee include the
Bahama Development Council,
East End Neighborhood Coun
cil, Rougemont Community
Council, Lebanon Community
Council, Patlock Park Neigh
borhood Council and the Dur
ham Community House. All
of the neighborhood groups
will be using the money to es
tablish or improve recreational
facilities for the children in
their communities.
The individual grants are
part of a $5,000 fund set
aside in Breakthrough's 1967
Office of Economic Opportu
nity grant as incentive money
(See AWARDS 8A)
175 Black Delegates And 125
%
Alternates To Be
WASHINGTON, D. C.-The
largest number of Negroes, 300,
ever to participate in a major
party convention will officiate
in the 1968 Democratic Na
tional Convention in Chicago.
Final reports from state de
legations show that there are
delegates and 125
alternates, almost three times
greater Negro representation
than in, the 1964 convention
In Atlantic City.
The black delegates will
come from 35 states, the Dis
trict of Columbia and the Vir
gin Islands, according to Depu
ty Chairman Louis Martin of
the Democratic National Com
mittee. Michigan will have a
total of 35 Negroes, 20 as dele
gates and 15 as alternates, the
largest group from any state.
(See DELEGATES 8A)
CAROLINA TIMES SUSPENDS
AUG. 31 ISSUE FOR VACATION
For the first time in nearly a hall century
The Carolina Times will suspend publication for
one issue Saturday, August 31, to allow its stall
to take a vacation.
Many of our employees of several years ten
ure have worked without a yearly vacation. Our
publisher has been unable to take any time off
for practically forty-five years. This is inhumane.
We thank you our advertisers and subscribers
for your indulgence.
Samuel L. Briggs, Managing Iditor
ing part in the cermony are
(from left): Walter E. Wash
ington, Mayor of the District
of Columbia; Horace Holmes,
manpower administrator for
Louisburg CR Leader to Preach
At Lincoln Memorial Revival
Rev. Luther Coppedege, pas
tor Haywood Baptist Church,
Louisburg, will be the guest
evangelist for a week of re
vival services, August 19-23 at
the Lincoln Memorial "Baptist
Church, Roxboro and Moline
Streets, according to an an
nouncemnt by the pastor, Rev.
N. P. Brodie.
Rev. Coppedege, a native of
Lodisburg, is well known as a
revivalist and is an ardent
civil rights worker.
He received his high school
education at Riverside High
School, Louisburg and is cur
rently attending the School of
Religion, Shaw University.
He is active in the- civil
rights movement on both the
local and national levels. Re
cently, on two occasions, Rev.
Coppedege and his family
escaped injury when night rid
ers fired volleys of gunshots
into his home because of his
continued fight for equal rights.
Census Bureau to Study Smoking
Habits of Citizens in N. Carolina
CHARLOTTE Census Bu
reau interviewers will conduct
a survey here concerning the
smoking habits of the popula
tion during the week of Au
gust 19, Joseph R.
Norwood of the Census Region
al Office in Charlotte an
nounced. Interviewers will ask
about people's past smoking
habits as well as present habits
in order to discover whether
there have been significant
changes over the past yfear.
Interviews conducted locally
are part of the third annual
survey of smoking habits taken
among a representative sample
of the nation's population to
provide statistical data for the
U. S. Public Health Service.
the District of Columbia; Ma
rion S. Barry, Jr., director of
operations, Pride, Inc.; and
Carroll B. Harvey, executive
director of Pride, Inc.
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REV. COPPEDEGE
He led the fight which re
sulted in school integration in
his home town and spent two
weeks at Resurrection City dur
ing the Poor People's Cam
(See COPPEDEGE 8A)
The questions on smoking
will be asked during the Bu
reau's monthly labor force In
quiries. Questions about jobs
are designed to provide data
for use by the U.S. Depart
ment of Labor in determining
current national employment
and unemployment trends.
The identity of households in
the survey throughout the U.
S. is confidential, and the in
formation obtained will be used
only for statistical purposes.
Interviewers who will visit
households in this area be
tween August 19 and 24 are:
Teachers In Chapel
Hill To Attend
3-Day Workshop
CHAPEL HILL - Teachers
new to the Chapel Hill School
System will attend a three-day
Desegregation Workshop at the
School Central Offices on Auf.
21, 22, and 23. The objectives
of this program are to help
teaches understand non
school oriented students and
to become more aware of some
of the Implications for teachers
in desegregated schools.
Howsrd Lee, Youth Direc
tor of Durham Education Im
provement Project will be spe
cial consultant for the sessions.
Smith Says Goal
Should Be
'Open Society'
GREENSBORO - "Integra
tion, especially school integra
tion, is in the worst interest of
black people," according to a
Negro human relations expert.
"I am glad that Integration
has not occurred," said Dr.
Donald Hugh Smith, who will
join the administrative staff of
the University of Pittsburgh in
September. "If we had been
dispersed, we would have lost
forever our chance to gain our
freedom."
Smith said that it is difficult
for many black Southerners to
understand this matter of "be
ing opposed to integration."
He said this is because many of
the battles for civil rights were
begun in the South.
Speaking at A&T State Uni
versity, he said, "During all
this time when many lives were
lost, the goal was integration.
Integration should never have
been the goal. The goal should
have been an open society
where men can choose where
they want to live, but not have
the right to deny anyone else
that ri^it."
Smith said that integration
will never achieve that for the
black people. "You can't inte
grate two unequal thinfp," he
added. "As long ad white peo
ple have all of the power, we
are not equal."
(See EDUCATORS 8A)
Washington Mayor Slated To
Address Lott Ca
BROOKLYN, N. Y. - Hon
orable Walter Washington,
Afro-American Mayor, of
Washington, D. C., has been
scheduled to address the seven
ty-first annual session of the
Lott Carey Baptist Foreign
Mission Convention and its
auxiliary bodies, meeting at
Wayland Baptist Church, 3200
Garrison Boulevard, in Balti
more, Maryland, August 26-30,
it has been announced by Dr.
Wendell C. Sommerville, execu
tive secretary of the conven
tion.
Dr. Sommerville's report,
which shows that more than
$250,000 has been reported
by the convention's churches
for foreign missions, will be
made on Wednesday morning.
The report represents the
largest amount turned in for
foreign missions in the history
of the convention.
Opening on Monday even
ing, August 26, with a pre
convention musical and pag
eant directed by Mrs. Maude
lena Johnson, of Pittsburg, Pa.,
a historical sketch of the orga
nization will be presented, De
picting the life of the late Rev.
(See MAYOR page 8A)
Extra Force
For Xmas Mail
To Be Reduced
WASHINGTON— Postmast
er General W. Marvin Watson
said the hiring of temporray
postal employees for Christ
mas 1968 will be cut back
sharply with more work giv
en to career employees on an
overtime-pay basis..
An estimated 80,000 season
ed assistants will be employ
ed thig year, Mr. Watson said.
About 139,000 temporary em
ployees were hired to assist
with the 1987 Christmas rush.
Even at overtime pay rates,
Christmas work by regular
careerists and postal career
substitutes pays off, the Post
master General explained.
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VOLUME 45 No. 33
SCLC Holds Annual Meeting
In Memphis August 14-17
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phrey appointed Dr. Katie E.
Mrs. McLaurin Chosen to Attend
Peace Celebration in Denmark
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NBC Grants
Abernathy lime
For Peace Urge
MIAMI BEACH - The Rev.
Ralph Abernathy, President of
the Southern Chris tain leader
ship Conference, appeared ex
clusively on the NBC Televi
sion Network Wednesday night
(Aug. 7) to make a special ap
peal to the young Negro peo
ple of the city of Miami to re
turn to their homes and stay
off the streets.
Rev. Abernathy had re
quested time from the NBC
Television Network to make
his appeal.
Several people had been in
jured by rocks thrown at pass
ing cars in Downtown Miami
near the scene of an earlier
rally at a black militant head
quarters. The troubled area
was in North Miami. It wis
reported that several hundred
people had lined the streets,
and that a group of them had
overturned a car and set it
afire.
DURHAM, N. C.-SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1968
Whickam aa Co-chairman of
the National Committee of
Beauticians for Humphrey. Dr.
Mrs. Bessie McLaurin, Di
rector of the Tutorials Program
of Operation Breakthrough,
was one of 20 women in the
United States chosen to attend
a conference of the Women's
International League for Peace
and Freedom in Nyborg, Den
mark, from August 17 through
September 6.
The Women's International
League for Peace and Freedom
works for the achievement by
peaceful means of those poli
tical economic, social and
psychological conditions
throughout the world which
can assure peace and freedom.
(See McLAURIN page aA)
Black Medical Le
NMA Child Care Endorsement
NSSFNS to Host Black Counselors
Annual Session In New York
NEW YORK - High school
guidance counselors who at
tend the Annual Meeting of
the Association of College Ad
missions Counselors (ACAC)
will be welcomed to a hospita
lity suite ho6ted by the Na
tional Scholarship Service and
Fund for Negro Students
(NSSFNS). The meeting will
be in New York City at the
Americana Hotel from Septem
ber 25 through September 28.
The hospitality suite will be
available for the duration of
the meeting.
NSSFNS is inviting the col
lege advisors of all high schools
using NSSFNS services and
others identified as from high
Whlckam is president of the
National Beauty Culturists
League.
Black Solidarity Committee to
Respond to Chamber Commerce
The Black Solidarity Com
mittee for Community Im
provement will hold a mass
meeting at the Union Baptist
Church on Roxboro Street,
here Sunday, August 18, at
8:00 p.m. it was announced
here Wednesday by Ben Ruf
fin, Vice-chairman. Theme of
the meeting Sunday will be
"Wear Old Clothes With New
Dignity."
The Committee also an
nounced that in addition to the
boycott being waged against
all Northgate stores and Coca-
Cola, it has added 17 or more
stores to the list which is now
composed of Colonial, Thal
himers. Young Men's Shop,
Jones and Frazier, Van-
Straa ten's. Central Carolina
Bank, Ken Drug, Will's, Belk-
Leggett, Freed man's Depart
ment Store, Lemers, Baldwins,
Stewarts, Tom McAnn, Roscoe
schools of predominantly
black student bodies. College
personnel, speakers, ACAC of
ficials and others are to be in
vited to insure maximum im
pact of conference delibera
tions on those concerned main
ly with opening new college
opportunities to black youth.
"It is our hope," said Hugh
W. Lane, newly installed presi
dent of NSSFNS, "that new
and personal channels of com
munication between the black
professional in the high school
and those deciding admissions
in the colleges will emerge. We
are urging principals and super
intendants to support mem
(See COUMMLORS 8A)
PRICE: 20 Cents
Dr. Abernathy
To Preside at
1968 Session
ATLANTA, Ga. - The
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference (SCLC) will mark
a year of triumph and tragedy
at its 11th Annual Convention
in Memphis, Tennessee, Aug.
14-17, Dr. Ralph David Aber
nathy, President, announced
today.
"In the last twelve months,
the human rights organization
lost its founding President, Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr., who
was assassinated in Memphis
April 4, but managed to carry
on the Poor People's Campaign
and a variety of other programs
for political, economic, and
racial justice.
Highlights of the convention
(See SCLC page 8A)
Griffin, Model Laundry and
Marilyn's.
Speaker for the occasion
will be A. J. H. Clement 111,
chairman of the Committee.
He is also presently employed
as claims supervisor by N. C.
Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany.
EDITOR'S NOTE:
Full text of the most recent
memorandum to the Chamber
of Commerce from the Black
Solidarity Committee for Com
munity Improvement, is pub
lished below in order that our
readers may keep abreast of
the written communication
between the two groups and
developments.
The memorandum from
your Executive Committee
dated July 31, 1968 purport
ing to respond to ours dated
July 26 previous is herewith
acknowledged.
(See SOLIDARITY 8A)
Doctors of Race
Worried About
High Death Rate
NEW YORK - Black medi
cal leaders from major U.S.
cities, returning from a con
ference in the Virgin Islands,
announced here today that
they would seek National Med
ical Association endorsement
of recommendations for great
ly expanded governmental and
private maternal and child
health programs, including
family planning service, for
people In poverty. Most of the
Negro physicians who met at
the Virgin Islands Hilton on
St. Thomas were en route to
Houston, M delegate* to the
NMA Annual Conference then
beginning Monday (August 12).
The National Medical Associa
tion is the principal organiza
tion of Negro physicians in the
(See MCOKAL page BA>