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Segregation Returns To Burba By LYTT STAMPS DURHAM It was segrega tion all over again. The Negroes were on one side of the street; the white heck lers on the other. The Negroes had marched from St. Joseph's AME Church on Fayetteville St. to Dillard, from Dillard to E. Main, and down Main Street to Five Points. From Five Points they walked one block north to the City Hall a distance of about two miles. Vol. 74 SG Luau Planned For 6 Tomorrow By JOE SANDERS "A Swinging Hawaiian Par ty" with a menu topped by suck ling pig and entertainment pro vided the Attractions combo will be given for all UNC students Wesnesday from 6 to 11 p.m. by Silent Sam. Students pay only 50 cents for an exotic meal and live enter tainment and dancing. The fa culty and administration are also welcome. Don Duskie, assistant to the president of the student body, planned the luau with George Prillaman, director of univer sity food services. The cost per student for the food alone comes out to $1.50, but the university Attention Coeds Interviews for positions on the Women's Attorney General staff limited to coeds only will be held Wednesday beginning at 2 p.m. in 213 Graham Me morial. J. BE? - .... ' ' YOUR DATE MAY not look like Donna Reifsneider, but come on down to the Luau Wednesday night in front of GM. Tar Heel Staff Photo by Gene Wang They came to City Hall for two reasons: one, they wanted to show the white leadership of . Durham that they could stage a peaceful march; and two and more important they wanted to bring attention to the conditions in which they lived. "We want better housing and better streets in general, bet ter living conditions," one of the march's leaders reminded the group after they have re traced the two mile path from City Hall to St. Joseph's. TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1967 is taking care of the extra $1.00 for the students. Graham Memorial is sponsor ing the combo, which will begin playing at 7 in front of G. M. And if it rains, the whole af fair will be held at Lenoir Hall. Tickets will be sold at the luau itself, Duskie said, but they can be brought beforehand in Y-Court, G. M., and Lenoir Hall. He added that anyone can come alone, with a date, or in groups. The dress is strictly infor mal; girls in grass skirts are welcome. Tables will be placed close to the ground and every one will kneel or sit on the ground or on a blanket, if they bring one. In addition to the roast pig, the menu features: candied sweet potatoes, fried rice, Chi nese peas, spareribs, chicken royal hawaiian, baked bananas, and hawaiian punch. Duskie said that he expects between 800 and a thousand stu dents this year, and hopes to make the luau a tradition at Carolina. "This is the biggest event of the summer." he said," (Continued on Pare 7) 1 'I" . ' - vA. - 1 -Jf 3 Police said there were 199 marchers. The marchers moved along the street in single file. They had been instructed by t h e i r leaders to keep their eyes straight ahead and to ignore the jeers of the white youths from the other side of the street. "You were beautiful just beautiful," the leaders told the marchers after returning to St. Joseph's. He explained that a "tense" situation at the bus sta tion had resulted from march ers who were not following in TWO BLOCKS from downtown Durham "stands" and story see pages two and three, this "house." Conditions like this led to Durham's racial tensions last week. For additional pictures Tar Heel Staff Photo by Gene W ang. Friday Night In Durham: Everyone Drove Uptown By GENE WANG DURHAM There was no need to ask Dad for the car keys Friday night to go to down town Durham, because he was going too. So was Mom and Sis and Grandma and Grandpa and the family dog. They all came; it was a tidal wave of steel, rolling down East Main Street past South Dillard Street, the bus station and beyond. The parade had already start ed by eight o'clock. It was still going strong some two and a half hours later. Chances are that if you were a white citizen of Durham, you could have seen every one of your friends and most of your enemies as they drove by. They were in almost every type of conveyance, from utili tarian family sedans, to hop ped up GTO's and one vintage Jaguar convertible. One station wagon carried twelve people: six children, all under the age of five and six adults in the two seats. They came through at least twice. Another member of the "twice-around club" was a light In structions. The leaders appeared to have the marchers under control at all points along the route. They set the pace, speeding up the marchers where hecklers were more extensive and slowing it down when concentrations of The march Thursday night was refereed by helmeted city police, state troopers, Durham County sheriffs deputies and 350 National Guardsmen of the 130th Signal Battalion of Dur ham, Siler City and Burling ton. Number 11 blue panel truck. The parents rode in front and the two young children peered out the back doors. There were a number of chil dren out long after their bed time, but that wasn't surprising because the family babysitter probably was unavailable. Some parents had put car beds in the back seats, but the kids weren't about to miss the show. Youth was well represented, especially after the seven o'clock showings of the movies ended. Couples alone or double dating cruised by; one boy ask ed me if I had taken any pic tures yet, another to take one of him. Carloads of boys who normal ly would have been trying to pick up girls at Five Points were about a mile further east. They didn't seem to be too con cerned about dates. As darkness fell, white loit erers at the intersection were told to move on. The police were expecting and were doing everything they could possibly do to avoid it. Two groups of Negroes came up South Dillard, headed down town, shortly after nine. One group went into the Bus Sta Marches police and guardsmen were near by. The hecklers were little dif ferent from hecklers of any event. One had a German shep herd which he was having some difficulty controlling. At one point, the dog pulled him into a gutter and a friend had to help bring the dog under control. "Go back to Africa. . got a boat load ready We've a boat loaa reaay tor to night," were typical of remarks from the heckler side of the street. Another was: "Hey Black Boy! Come shine my shoes." One reply, spoken very soft ly, was "Come across the (rail road) tracks one night, whitey." Hecklers were in a minority Thursday night. And the po lice and bayonet - equipped guardsmen kept a close watch on both sides of the street to see that no major incidents oc curred. tion; the other was stopped and a policeman spoke to them. They returned to Hayti. Shortly after Sears closed at nine, a policeman came down from his station on the roof. He was a Negro and he wore a riot helmet just as the other offic ers did. But the most striking and most frightening thing about him was the heavy gauge shotgun with a long barrel that he carried. In contrast, his comrades on the street carried only their service revolvers and riot sticks. There were several police cars that cruised by; all had five or six policemen, some in uniform, others in plain clothes with armbands identifying them as policemen. Standard equip ment in the prowl cars was either a shotgun or a subma chine gun. On leaving, we were stopped by three men who wanted to know if "they" were coming. This trio, smelling like a brew ery, proceeded to tell us that they were going to stand on the roof of Sears and pick "them" off as they came. Did we want to bet fifty dollars on it, they asked.
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