LDF TO FILE MOTIONS IN 100 SCHOOL CASES
Young Blasts "Black Separatism"
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Congresswoman
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John S. Stewart First Black Man
Elected Chairman of A&T Board
John S. Stewart, president of
Mutual Savings and Loan As
sociaiton, and a Durham City |
Council member, was named
recently to head the A&T State
University board of trustees.
The Durham man was an
unanimous choice for chairman
of the 12-member board. He
succeeds Robert Frazier, a
Greensboro lawyer who stepped
down from the post after say
ing he had felt for some time
a member of the predominant
race at the school should be
chairman of the board. Stewart
becomes the first black chair
man of the A&T board.
A native of Atlanta, Ga.,
Stewart received a bachelor of
See STEWART page 12A
Over 500 Expected
NatH Black Churchmen Meet
NEW YORK The National
Committee of Black Church
men, Inc. (NCBC) will hold its
Third Annual Convocation at
the Claremont Hotel, Berkeley,
California, November 11-14.
More than 500 black church
men from throughout the na
tion are expected in Oakland to
consider where the black church
is going. According to the NC
BC Newsletter, the black
church "is going to meet its
Lord in urban ghettos and
rural slums of America, on the
college campus, in jails and nar
cotic clinics, among the develop
ing nations of Africa—wherev
er people of color struggle for
identity, pride, and power."
High on the agenda for the
three day meeting will be a dis
cussion of the theological impli
cations of black experience.
According to the Rev. J. Metz
Rollins, executive secretary of
NCBC, "There is a new theolo
gy developing out of the black
experience and it needs to be
analyzed and articulated first
among black theological schol
ars. Only after this is accom
plished can this rich and vital
experience be effectivly intro
duced into the total experience
of the church at large."
Other items identified as
crucial issues are: black eco
n o m i c development, political
action and education. Working
papers will be presented by no
ted black scholars including Dr.
James A. Cone of Union Theo
logical Seminary, Dr. Gayraud
S. Wilmore, Chairman of the
United Presbyterian Council on
Church and Race, Professor
Robert Browne, Black Economic
Development Conference and
others. Presentations will be
made by local representatives
of the Alamo Black Clergy, GIG
Community Organization, Black
Panther Party, and the Oakland
Black Caucus.
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See CHURCHMEN 12A
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Press Banned
At UNC Radical
Activities Meet
A temporary statement is
sued by the Iterim Committee
of the Chapel Hill Revolution
ary Movement charged the
UNC news bureau, a television
station, and two daily papers
with violating the code of ob
jectivity in reporting the news.
The statement issued last
week was allegedly passed by
the Interim Committee Octo
ber 30, said lodges it first
charge against the UNC news
bureau for releasing two "in
accurate statements." It reads:
"The UNC news bureau has re
leased two statments which
have been carried by the state
wide press. These releases are
inaccurate in fact and biased in
the innuendos. They are in
tended to produce reactionary
attacks against the university,
the student body and the
Chapel Hill Revolutionary
Movement. They are in no
way 'objective' reporting of the
fact"
The college news bureau is
also charged in the statement
with an attempt to discredit
radicals and students at UNC
by covering over and obscuring
what they (the radicals) are
trying to do *
WRAL-TV is charged with
having hired the firm of Brown
and Root to take jobs away
See PRESS page 12A
Chemistry Bldg.
To Be Named For
Dr. J. M. Hubbard
Mrs. Shirley Chisholm, Demo,
cratic congresswoman from
Brooklyn, New York, will be
North Carolina Central Univer
sity's Founder's Day speaker
Friday, November 7.
Mrs. Chisholm, who was elect
ed to the U. S. Congress by
voters in New York's 12th Dis
trict in 1968, is the first Black
woman to serve in the Congress.
She is an honors graduate of
Brooklyn College, and holds the
Master of Arts degree from
Columbia University.
She also hat a professional
diploma from Columbia Univer
sity in educational supervision
and administration.
Mrs. Chisholm's first elective
office was the position of as
semblywoman in the New York
See CHISHOLM page 12A
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RECEIVES HONOR Joseph
Harrell (center), 201-pound line
backer from Ahoskie, received
the most valuable player award
given by Lipscomb Promotions
Urban League Director Is Cited
Whitney M. Young, Jr., ex
ecutive director of the national
Urban League was the principal
speaker and third recipient of
the Merrlck-Moore-Spaulding
National Achievement Award
at the fifth annual Founders'
Day Observance of North Caro
lina Mutual Life Insurance
Company, Thursday, October
30.
National Urban League exe
cutive director since 1961,
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VOLUME 48 No. 45
Attorneys To Ask Immediate
Integration In Dixie States
Ass'n Lawyers
To Test High
Court Ruling
NEW YORK—Staff Attorneys
who are responsible for more
than 20 0 separate southern
integration cases across the
South conferred here recently
and concluded that the LDF
should follow up the Supreme
Court's Mississippi school rul
ing immediately.
Accordingly, we will file mo
tions in 75 to 100 pending
school cases at the district
court level. We will ask for
immediate integration. We will
not wait for the close of the
school year or even until the
end of the semester. Every
southern state will be affected.
Another of our 25 cases are
on appeal from southern dis
trict courts to the appeals court
level. We will also move for
immediate integration in these.
We have 25 New York based
attorneys and 250 cooperating
lawyers across the South. Al
though they have caseload re
sponsibilities in other areas of
our program, our entire LDF
legal and 1 field educational staff
will place special emphasis on
breaking the back of southern
See TEST apge 12A
annually during NCCU's home
coming game. Harrell was chos
en the most valuable player in
the Eagles' 49-9 victory over
Shaw University. Also shown
Young has worked to win total
equality for Negroes and other
minorities and has been re
ferred to by Time Magazine as
the most effective man in the
nation when it comes to drum
ming up jobs for Negroes.
In presenting the award,
Mutual president Joseph W.
Goodloe quoted the Citations:
"...you have made meaningful,
successful contributions to
American life which have
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1969
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WARREN WHEELER AND RALPH (BUDDY) BROOKS
Durham Hative
Negro Plane Charter In N. C.
Warren Wheeler, son of J. H.
Wheeler, local banker, has
opened a flight charter service,
operating from the Raleigh,
Durham airport.
Wheeler, 26, is a commercial
ly licensed pilot with more than
10 years of flying experience.
Following his graduation from
American Flyers School after
beginning studies at the Ral
eigh- Durham Airport, Wheel
er worked with Piedmont Air
lines.
The young pilot's initial self
enterprise effort came in 1963
when he organized a combina-
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are George Quiett, ie«, Head
football coach, and Roosevelt
Lipscomb, presenter of the
award.
for Leadership
jolted your white and black
brothers to action for the bet
terment of life in our coun
try ...Through the encourage
ment of your family and your
mentors your life has become
a pathway of leaderhsip for all
America to ever wider hori
zons...By your words and your
works, people not only in
America, but around the world
have come to respect your
leadership."
See LEAGUE page 12A
tion flight school and charter
service. After another brief
stint with Piedmont, Wheeler
has taken another leave of ab
sence to go back into business
for himself.
The charter service employs
two persons full-time, andi uses
several other pilots on a part
time basis.
They use twin engine planes
capable of covering a 150-160
miles radius. Hie average trip,
however, ranges about 45 miles
according to Wheeler.
"This type of service is in
great demand around the coun-
Oliver Lofton to Address Human
Relations Commission Nov. 11
The Durham Human Rela
tions Commission will hold its
first annual meeting on Tues
day, November 11, 7:30 p.m.,
at the YWCA on Chapel Hill
Street. The annual address will
be delivered by Oliver Lofton,
Associate Director, Communi
ty Relations Service, U. S. De
partment of Justice, Washing
ton, D. C. Lofton is a graduate
of Cheyney State Teachers Col
lege, Cheyney, Pennsylvania
and holds a Master of Science
degree in Psychology from Ho
ward University, Washington,
D. C. and a Batchelor of Law
degree also from Howard. Lof
ton has served as Deputy At
torney General of the United
States and assistant U. S. At
torney General for the district
of New Jersey.
The annual meeting will also
feature t presentations of awards
to individuals and organiza-
NEW SUPREME COURT RULING
IS WELCOMED BY ROY WILKINS
NEW YORK - When the
Supreme Court ordered the
immediate desegregation of
Mississippi public schools, Oct
29, NAACP Executive Director
Roy WUklns promptly des
cribed the unanimous decision
as "welcome and urgently
needed."
WlUdns said: "The Supreme
Court's unamlous decision ter
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try, especially for business
men," Wheeler said. Though
slightly more expensive than a
regular flight, the expense is
offset by other advantages. By
using our services," he con
tinued, "the individual can plan
his schedule based upon his
needs rather than the airline's
schedule."
The charter service operates
on a seven day basis, and there
are plans for expansion in the
near future. Wheeler is a na
tive of Durham, and a graduate
of Hillside, class of '6l.
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tions who have contributed to
Human Relations in Durham
during the past year. The Exe
cutive Director, Dick Woodard,
will present the Commission's
annual report outlining the Hu
man Relations situation of
Durham and accomplishments
of the Commission.
minating 'all deliberate speed'
in school desegregation is a
welcome and urgently needed
assurance that the Court is
presently not about to aban
don its commitment to demo
cratizing the nation's public
school system in accordance
with the historic ruling of May
17,1954."
See RULING page ISA.
Urban League
Director Calb
For Realism
Whitney M. Young, Execu
tive Director of the National
Urban League banished the
idea of black separtum is a
speech before employees and
guest of North Carolina Mutual
at the annual founder's day
ceremonies October 30 in the
home office auditorium.
"Hark oeople should stop
kidding white people and fool
ing them to believe that we
are going to run away from
the problem and let them off
the hook by taking a slow
boat back to Africa," Young
said. We have been there 400
years, and our blood, sweat
and tears is mingled with every
blade of grass that grows in
this country. Black people have
a claim to America like no
other group of Americans. We
are here to stay. That is, we are
going to stay at least until the
Irish go back to Ireland and the
Italians go back to Italy,"
Young promised.
In cautioning the resurgent
black militants to stop and
examine their ideas. Young
noted that white America is
not afraid of our lung power
or our fire power.
"As a matter of fact," the
Urban League Director ob
served, "many white people
would like nothing better than
to see Black People rise up in
total revolt. Hi is would give
them an excuse to mow us
down. You cannot Tight a tank
with a beer can, nor yell pig
at a gun and expect the bul
lets to turn around and go in
the opposite direction."
Hie budding Negro middk
class also came in for a critical
See YOUNG page 12A
Ex-Servicemen
To Receive King
Fellowships
PRINCETON, N. J. Th e
Woodrow Wilson National Fel
lowship Foundation announced
last week the award of Martin
Luther King, Jr. Fellowships to.
sixty-two black ex-servicemen
and one former WAC corporal.
The fellowships provide full
support over two years for
graduate and professional study
leading to careers in service to
the nation and the community.
In addition, twenty-one addi
tional grants were made to stu
dents who had partial support
from other sources.
Otha E. Williams of Clarks
dale, Mississippi a 1969 gradu
ate of Jackson State College is
now attending Temple Univer
sity School of Medicine as a
Fellow.
According to Raymond Rich
ardson, Director of the King
Program, "whether the cry is
for community control or in
creased participation in local
institutions, it is clear that
trained Black leadership Is de»
perately needed. Everybody
from the Black Panthers to the
nation's leading graduate and
professional schools and Indus
tries recognizes veterans as a
group of great promise and po
tential for leadership training.**
King Fellowships at $270 a
month supplement G.I. bene
fits. over and above tuition
which is absorbed by the grad
uate or professional school at
tended. The combined monthly
minimum income of S4OO offers
a real option for additional
training rather than immediate
employment.The largest group
of King Fellows, eighteen, will
be studying law; thirteen are in
social work and related fields,
and five are preparing for ca
reers in business administra
tion. Among other fields of
study are education, medicine,
architecture, psychology, and
the sciences. The King fallows
will be attending 4B universities
from Harvard and Columbia to
See FELLOWSHIPS ISA