Newspapers / The Carolina times. / Dec. 7, 1968, edition 1 / Page 1
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
Teacher Fired For Wor Fire Dept. Jim Crow Before N.Y. High Court GLEN COVE, N. Y. - Ar gument In the suit to eliminate racial discrimination In Gnat Neck's volunteer Are depart ment will be heard in the State Supreme Court sitting in Mlne ola, Long Island, on Dec. 19. The possibility that this action would be unnecessary was thwarted this week when the present (ire department voted unanimously against a proposal to abolish discrimination voluntarily. The plan which was rejected had been pro posed by the State Division for Human Rights. Legal action against the (ire department was started in May, 1967, when the NAACP filed a complaint with the state in behalf of two Negroes seeking membership in the department. The state unit held hearings in November and December, 1967, and then ordered the fire department to admit Leander Willet and Thurmond Green. The fire department appealed the state order, and the Dec. 19 date was set for the case to be argued. The Human Rights Division plan to end bias was advanced in the hope of acceptance as a model for combattijag racial discrimination in volunteer fire departments throughout the state. There are only 14 Ne gates among an estimated 20,000 volunteer firemen on all of Long Island. Durham Baha'is To Observe Rights Day Sun. The Baha'is of Durham will observe Human Rights Day on Sunday, December 8 at a 4:30 p.m. meeting at the Friends Meeting House, 404 I Alexander Street. Joining witlfci Baha'i communities over the nation, the program will focus on the theme "Human Rights are God-Given Rights." Speakers for the occasion j will be Mrs. Teresita Myers of , Columbia City, Maryland, Miss | Ellen Parmelle of Winston-Sa- • lem, and Dr. David Smith of ] Durham. Mrs. Myers, a Baha'i and a native of the Philippines, was formerly a dietician at Johns Hopkins Hospital; she is presently a member of the Local Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'i of Howard County, . Maryland. Miss Parmelee, a | teacher of Physical Therapy at ! Winston-Salem's Bowman-Gray J School of Medicine, served as j observer for the National Spi- i ritual Assembly of the Baha'i I of the United States to the ! United Nations and as a mem- | ber o fthe Baha'i United Na- | tions Committee, 1967-68, she ( is included in the 1968 edition of Outstanding Young Women of America. Dr. Smith, a Quaker and one of the found ers of the Duke Medical School, is a recently retired member of the School facul ty following 38 years of ser vice. He also helped initiate the Duke Quaker Group. Human Rights Day this year , marks the twentieth anniver- . sary of the adoption by the United Nations of the Univer sal Declaration of Human i Rights. In observance of Inter national Human Rights Year j the Baha'i communities of | North America issued a state ment on human rights which | affirmed that in accordance with the Teacfcinp of Baha'u'- | llah, Prophet-Founder of the i Baha'i Faith, human rights an God-given rights. The statement pronounced "The greatest challenge to this aft b the recognition of the oneness of mankind. The pain ful but inevitable broadening of each man's allegiance from 9ee BAHA'IS ISA Che Carolila Cinws VOLUME 45 —No. 47 iNegro Newspaper Man Sues Tenn. Publishing Company pf R LJK I Bb Ti I fBIIIH II LIB! H TAKIS OATH Of OWC«— —James Frazier, Jr., center is administered oath of office as Special Assistant for Equal Employment Opportunity by U. L # :_ lL.r r : |H « a "tfkH I ' f t bAk vj AfcT'S TO KllP—Fred Bat tie, left, of the Durham Coca_ j Cola Bottling Company pre-1 sents Bull-Eagle II to A&Ts ; Willie Pearson. The Aggies won 1 Wheeler, Cousin Urge Negroes To Continue Fight for Freedom By John Justice A historical tracing of the Negro's struggle for full equal ity and a passionate plea to "hold on" highlighted Sun day's mass meeting of the Black Solidarity Committee at the Mount Zion Baptist Church. "Somewhere along the way, something happened to the idea of 'one nation under God Indivisible,"' said John H. Wheeler, featured speaker and chairman of the Durham Com mittee on Negro Affairs. Wheeler outlined the Negro's role in American his tory through the yean and stated, "We have been fighting the same battle over and over again. We are just repeating history. We are fighting the battles that were fought during Reconstruction and after World Wan One and Two. "What we are fighting for Is the tdaa that freedom shall not escape from us," Wheeler ■aid. After the main address by Wheeler, the Rev. Philip DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1968 S. Civil Service Commission Chairman John W. Macy, Jr., while CSC Executive Director Nicholas J. Oganovic, left, looks on. Mr. Frazier transfer their third game in the series since 1963 to gain permanent possession of the trophy, NCC retired Bull-Eagle I in 1963. Cousin of St. Josephs A.M.E. Zion Church said he wanted to give "a few reasons why black people should hold on to the boycott." Rev. Cousin ssid, "A com munity will change its patterns only If it is forced to. A com munity must be given alterna tives If It is to change its be havior. That Is what the Slack Solidarity Movement Is doing presenting alternatives to the patterns of behavior of the Durham community." Sep FREEDOM 12A December 2 to December 7 is WINN-DIXIE "Founder's Week" See Page 7 A This Week's Issue Carolina Times red to the Commission from the Agency for International De velopment. (U. S. Civil Service Commission Photo). NEA Joins LDF In Supporting Teacher Rights WASHINGTON, D. C. - A black teacher in the South dis missed from her job because of voter registration activities ... Teachers in Alabama's "Black Belt" denied protec tion under the state's tenure law...A white southern teacher asked to resign because of afterschool association with black people in church activi ties... Black teachers told they were "no longer needed" in states which were integrating schools.... All of these teachers were backed in their efforts to seek justice by the National Educa tion Association (NEA) Du- Shane Emergency Fund and by the Legal Defense Fund of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. When the predominantly black American Teachers As sociation, with members pri marily in the South, merged with the NEA in 1966, NEA continued the Negro associa tion's litigation efforts in co operation with the Legal De fense Fund. Meanwhile, the NEA Du- Shane Fund continues to sup port other non-Legal Defense Fund cases all over the coun try. The Fund was set up by NEA to ensure the fair and equitable treatment of all edu cators and to protect their professional, civil, and human rights. It is partially supported by voluntary contributions from educators. In th« Willia Johnson case, which went to the U. S. Su- Sce NEA page 12A PRICE: 20 Cents Tri-Sfate Editor Files Action in Federal Court MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE - A Negro newspaper editor re cently begin a suit asinst Mem phis Publishing Company, pub lisher of this city's two major newspapers, The Memphis Semitar and The Commercial Appeal. Both papers belong to the nation-wide Scripps-Howard Syndicate. McCann L. Reid, an editor for the Tri-State Defender, a local Negro paper, charges that Memphis Publishing Company refused to hire him because of his race and religion. His suit was filed in federal court here by Lewis Lucas, a cooperating attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense and Ed ucational Fund, Inc. (LDF). Accordirig to attorney Lu cas, Memphis Publishing Com pany officials told Reid they could not hire him because he is a Seventh Day Asventist and therefore could not work Saturdays. However, an investigation by the Equal Employment Op portunity Commission (EEOC) revealed that the company had hired a white man of Reid's faith to do the same for which Reid had applied. ' In the suit filed recently, attorney Lucas is asking that Reid be employed by the com pany as a copy reader, the position for which he applied. He is also asking that his client receive back pay from the date of his application and that his salary be raised to what it would bejiow had the the company n'ot ! 'Tefused to hire him. Defense Of Eleven By "Attorney For The Damned" Retold Magazine Tells iOf Darrow's i Finest Hour I - NEW YORK, N. Y. - Eleven Negroes charged with the premeditated slaying of a ! white man were given little ! chance of acquittal in racially i tense Detroit - until one of America's foremost criminal at torneys stepped forward for ' the defense. This scene, supercharged , with contemporary relevancy, occurred forty-three years ago. I But the results still stand as a crucial precedent in a long list > > of legal decisions in the cause j of civil rights. j The principals in this al -1 most-forgotten drama were Dr. Ossian Sweet, a promising Ne ' grp physician who wanted to j move his family into a pre | dominantly white neighbor hood, and Clarence Darrow, | the so-called "attorney for the damned," who built a career | of winning justice for seeming i ly hopeless causes. Darrow's i masterful defense of Dr. Sweet is demonstrated in the Decem ber issue of American Heritage by Author Thomas Fleming. On September 8, 1925, the : Sweet family moved Into their -i— --\ 7 V_v % "V rW! m -M Jm m I ■W MRS. TERESITA MYERS of Co lumbia City, Maryland, who will serve as one of the speak ers programmed for the Baha'is observance of Human Rights Former Durham Citizen Elected Councilman-At-Large of Oahu HONOLULU, HAWAII - Charles Campbell, native of Durham, and teacher in the schools of Honolulu was elect ed City Councilman-At-Large in the General Election held November 5, which saw him come in the second highest of three successful candidates. The first place candidate polled a total of 97,000 votes; Campbell, the second highest, polled a total of 92,000 votes with the third place winner, polling 84,000. In Durham, North Carolina, where he was better known as Charles Black and attended North Carolina College, Camp bell received the degree of A.B. His other educational qualifi cations include: M.A., Howard University; M.A. Columbia University and a PhD candi date, New York University. Campbell is married to At torney Naomi S. Campbell, Referee of Family Court. The couple has two daughters, Lori I DR. SWEET newly purchased home on the comer of Garland Street and Charlevoix Avenue in Detroit and immediately received aevaral telephone threats of violence. The next evening Ossian Sweet's brothers and seven friends arrived at the house all armed and deter mined to protect the Sweets from the danger of the mob assembling outside. In the confusion that followed, shots were fired from the house. One man was found dead, and the Negroes were taken into police custody, charged with murder. In a city seething with racial unrest, the Negroes were considered already convicted. Enter Clarence Darrow champion of the underdog. He Day here Sunday, December 8. Mrs. Myers was formerly a dietician at John Hopkins Hos pital in Baltimore, Maryland. CAMPMLL M., a student at Royal School; I Anneve, formerly of the Peace Corps; Bogota, Columbia and j one son, Charles, Jr., of the j Marine Corps. In addition to his position ! as a teacher and newly elected councilman, Campbell is chair- i man of the Oahu County j Democratic Party. n iHEjff M 1 l WRw MAS. SWEET spent three weeks selecting a jury and his probing questions in the process were, in fact, a moving disquisition on the Ne gro's bitter journey through American history. Darrow's primary task, writes Fleming, was in "educating the jury to the point where they could feel compassion for the Sweets." Darrow summed up this goal in an aphorism: "No one evers judges anyone else without finding him guilty. No one understands another Without being in sympathy with him. A person who can understand can comprehend 'why,' and that leaves no field for condeming." The prosecution baaed Its attack on the contentions that LDF Attorney Files Suit For Relief US Court STATESVILLE - A white achooi teacher recently brought auit against the Alexander County School Board which dkmisaed her for working with Negro civic organizations and worshipping at Negro churches. Miss Ann Collins alleges that School Superintendent Dwight laenhour referred to her as sociation with Negroes as em barrassing. She said he told her she would have to disas sociate herself from the Negro community entirely or resign. When she refused to do eith er, she said, she was dismissed. Miss Collins was formerly a remedial reading teacher at Sugar Loaf School in Taylors ville, North Carolina. Her suit was filed here in the U. S. District Court by Attorney Julius Chambers who Is associated with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF). Attorney Chambers is ask ing the court to reinstate Miss Collins or provide her with a position similar to the one she held previously. He is asking that the county school board be prevented from practicing discrimination, based on race or color in its hiring and firing procedures, and that Miss Collins be award ed compensation for expenses and loss of wages she has in curred berauseofherdismissal. S. Carolina NAACP Calls For Bleak Yule- To Voice Wrath COLUMBIA, S. C. - As an expression of indignation and resentment over the failure of public officials to take action against the slayers of three students on the campus of South Carolina State College last February, the State NAACP has called upon "all people of South Carolina who share our burden to observe a bleak Christmas and join us in a no-bUying Christmas cam paign." The Association, in a state ment released on Nov. 15, by Field Director I. Dequincey Newman, also urged, "black people to boycott all public See BLEAK page )2A w») 4®' H ■V m ATTY. DARROW there was no race prejudice in volved, and that no mob had gathered in front of the Sweet house to place the family in physical danger. Darrow prob ed the testimonies of numerous policennen and civilians. He un covered the fact that many of the witnesses were members of a so-called Improvement As sociation whoae sole purpose was to keep the Negro out of white neighborhoods - by vio lent means, if necessary. It al so became evident In his cross questioning that the nuhiber of "witnisaei" alone would See OCFINSI IIA .
Dec. 7, 1968, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75