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Pirketfiiig ISfgiiis As Strike Spreads RALEIGH STUDENTS PICKET AFTER ARRESTS Fh« shove photo*- show vatiout seem which have taken place Cine# The CAROLINIAN went to press last Wednesday. The top right photo shows a picket scene on Raleigh's Fayetteville, Street Tues day a! noon. Top two left photos record three college coeds be booked at the Wake County jail after 43 student s were arrested in Cameron Village last week. Sot tom photo was taken as un identified cameraman took photo on street and tvas menaced by white spectators. In left inset is local attorney George R. Greene, who vowed to take the 13 arrest cases all the way to the U. S. Supreme Court if necessary. Right inset shows Dr. Martin Lu ther King, fr.. who spoke in Durham Tuesday night. (PICKET PHOTO BY CHARLES R. JONES. OTHERS BY UPI). Powell Comments On ‘Racism* In Gotham NEW YORK—Hep. Adam day ton Powell (D-N.Y.) said Sunday that New York is a “city of ex treme racism." The congressman and minister said “there is a planned premedi tated attack on the Negro and Puerto Rican people" in New York by high city officials and tiie press. Evangelist Billy Graham Now Resting In Nigeria KANO. Nigeria Evangelist Billy Graham Saturday took ad vantage of a week long break in preaching engagements to catch up on some 'badly needed rest and get a tourist’s eye view of Africa. \ Tne American preacher, who was 7 warned by his doctors to slow ** 1 s J \ SNOWSTORM CAUSES DAMAGE Thtt snowstorm which descended upon Raleigh last Saturday, accompanied by sleet and rain s caused the above damage to the residence of William Fain at 820 Cotton Place hers late Saturday afternoon. Heavy ice, which clung to the trees, broke large limbs on a tree near Fain's residence, and they fell on the home No estimate of she d&magf reported. (STAFF PHOTO BY CHAS. R. jONES). Powell hold the assembled con gregation.- of the First Hungarian Reformed Church and the Bal- Shem Temple that “the program ,of vilification against them con tinues.” Powell, minister of the Aby ssinian Baptist Church, was inl.ro ! (CONTINUED ON PAGE 25 | down after suffering 3 serious eye | ailment last year, is now one third j tin-mum his nine-nation African crusade, Friday nlchl in Jos, Nigeria, he spoke to a crowd of some iCONTINUED ON PAGE 21 43 Arrested In Raleigh; Students Picket Stores By St ass Writer The bid of students of Negro colleges, located in the south, together with those of some of the high schools, struck a new chord in Raleigh Tuesday of this week when pickets were thrown in front of the stores that have been affected by the so-called sit-down protest to gain first-class citizenship for members of -the Negro race According to a survey made by the CAROLINIAN, a large number of welt dressed students were seen marching in front of Woohvorth's, McLe Han's and Kress Stores Their vigilance also carried them to Ecberd’s and Writ green's Drugstores. This means I that the students begin under the "shadow'’ of the capital building at the extreme end of Fayetteville Street and contin ue for two blocks, through the main thoroughfare of the state capital. The white posters, with red and blue Utters, read; "You Just Can t Lump Justice." “O Southern Heart, Where Is Your Justice?" "Just A cup of Coffee, ' "How Do We Oct. Invited to Lunch?’’ “Jus tice Where Art Thou Hiding?" and "Do We Eat Today?" One poster asked; “Aren’t You Ashamed of These: Kress, Wal greens. Wool worth, ETC., Who Hate Justice?" The pickets remained on the sidewalks, declining to enter the stores where seats to the counter NAACP | To Hear | Rev. Cox John Williams, Jr., president, of the local chapter of the Nation al Association for the Advance ment of Colored People, reported to The CAROLINIAN Tuesday that the Rev. B Elton Cox, of High Point, will be the featured speaker when the organization holds its regular monthly meet ing here Sunday. ?e.,v- street Baptist I Jhurch vdli play lost. to t h e ; nee ting at 3 p. | n. Tne Rev. Cox I s pastor of High ! J omt's Pilgrim | Congregational Thurch. He led he students of Sits ■ city ir, a unch counter ltd own strike this week. The ItEV. COX minister has spent 16 months in High Potnt, during which time he has become chairman o( a registering and voting campaign, chairman of the NAACP branch in High Point. which has solicited 727 new mem bers. Both buses and libraries in High Point have been integrated since his arrival. He is a graduate of Livingstone College, Hood Theological Semi nary and Howard University, The (CONTINUED ON PAGE 31 stool? have been removed or roped off or where "No Trespassing” and "Closed In The Interest of Public Safety” signs have been posted. One free-lance colored photo grapher reported Tuesday being asked not to take photographs in a . Fayetteville Street chain store He said the manager informed him that the store didn't want “peoph with prejudiced minds taking pic tures here,” Many persons feel that this ac tion strikes at the core of the sit uation. due to the fact that most ! of the business done by the so-call ] cd dime stores come from Negroes. !It was also learned that many j While people have joined the fight i and are in sympathy with the ?tu ! dents It could not be ascertained | whether the picketing would spread to .other North Carolina ci ties or not. The militant Rev. Martin Luther King did not damage the fight j when he spoke at White Rock Bap- I (CONTINUED ON PAGE 21 or ! X WILLIAM EARL HUNT W. E. Hunt i ■ Succumbs At Hospital Funeral services for William Earl Hunt, 57, of 115 N. State Street, were conducted from the First Baptist Church here Wednes day at 4 p.m. with the Rev. Charles W. Ward, pastor, officiating. He succumbed Saturday night at St. Agnes Hospital. Mr. Hunt, who had served as am Instructor In the Wake Comity schools for many ypars. was principal of the Holly (CONTINUED ON PAGE, 2! State Hews -IN— Brief RESERVISTS COMPLAIN TO ARMY GREENSBORO —The local chap ter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple announced Saturday its find ings concerning Negro reservists’ complaints, to the Third Army of Racial Discrimination. A number es Negro Army reservist* from here and Win ston-Salem, including officers | and enlisted men. claimed that i white reservists were, being j (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) ! Cops Say He Admitted Crime: NEWSMAN’S ROBBER IS OAUGHT + + +•*■ + -!- 4- *4 Civil Rights Debate Opens; World Eyeing Lawmakers -- —; — . VOL. 19. NO, 20 Set Fir** IVi Mirli&timm? Six Die. Man Accused Removed From Bed To Cell MANNING, S. C, A 51 -year old tenant farmer, still recovering from serious burns suffered when h's horns burned Jan. 24, was in the Cl&rendoti County Jail Tues day charged with murder by ars on in the deaths of six others In the fire. Lee Tlndai was moved from a hospital to the .tail Monday after Coroner Joe Thomas Bradham released the results of a Feh. 5 Inquest. TinrisS had been In the hospital since the lire which took the lives of six, two of them Tindsi's grandchildren. Tindal’e son, Kaiser Tinclai, 27, and Sammy Coleman, 25, were sti'l in the hospital but a spokes man said they were out of dan- ICONTINUED ON PAGE B) Guilford Resident Charged .__ . ! GASTONIA Officers jailed a Greensboro man on armed rob bery charges Saturday after a Charlotte newspaperman identi fied him as the bandit who poked a gun in his car and forced him to give up a wallet containing *B4. Cromer Odell Speaks, 38, who told Officers he had re cently spent II yean in pris on ok ac earlier armed rob bery oonvietiosij was picked (CONTINUED ON PAGE 31 CAROLINIAN ADVERTISERS n - linr -„.. T .. BUY FROM THEM _— PAGE * Horton’* Cash Store PAGE 3 Goodman's Ladies Shop Speedy Wash, Inc. Washington Terraco Apartments, toe. The Shoe Mar* Watson’? Restati, ant Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company Federal Acceptance Corporation Community Florist PAGE 5 First-Citizens Benk &. Trust Co. Raleigh Furniture Company Capital Ice A Coal Company GrsiSis Food Store Hurison-Beik Store Gus Russos Hatters ft Cleaner* PAGE 6 Mechanics A Farmers Bank O. K. Clothing Company Umstead’s Transfer A- Giocere torreil Coal Company L. * W. 'fire Compaoy James E. Shepard Davie Street Coin Laundromat Electrical Wholesaler*, Inc, PAGE 1 Avoir urn Pontiac, Sne. Sanders Motor Company Sanders Tractor Division O’Neal Motor, Inc. FAGS' 8 Colonial Stores, Inc, Public Service Gas Co, of N. € Taylor Kadio A TV Service C. K.trk Lichtman Modem Finance Company ft. si!. Quinn Furniture Cotnpsnv PAGE o AAP Food Stores. Inc. North Carolina s Leading Weekly RALEIGH, N. C„ SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 20, 1960 HONOR UNCOLN Larry Ad. Solomon (left) make* his II(h annual pilgrimage from his Harlem home in New 'Fork City to Newark. N. j., Feb, 1 i th to place his customary floral piece in the arms nf the statue of Abraham Lincoin in front of the Essex County Courthouse. He was marking, a day in advance, the 131 sf anniversary of the birth of Lincoln, \bth president of the U. S., who is often called “The Great Emancipator With Solomon is Roosevelt Brown , star tackle, of the New York Giants, who came from hi s Teaneck. N.home to take part in the ceremony , (UPI PHOTO). Citizens’ Committee Reactivated In City BY STAFF WRITER Spurred on by the gallant and unrelenting protest that. Shaw Uni versity and St, Augustine’s College students have made here during the past week against rada dis crimination in public eating places, a group of outstanding civic-mind Dr, Hampton Dies, Mourned By Residents Os Greensboro Firestone Stores, Inr. Jerome’* Tourist Home Famous Bakery J. C. Raines. Esso Oil Eflrd’s Os Raleigh PAGE 1« Sioo,. worth Street Tourist Home Ridgewa... Opticians Caro.ina Builders, Inc Cavenes* Insurance Company 7-tIP Bottling Company Bill m Motor Finance Company Watson’s Seafood Sr. Poultry Co Bankers Fire Insurance Company Warner Memorials The Pepsl-Coia Bottling Company PAGE 11 Sure-Fit Scat Cover Center Wrenn Pharr Joseph Winters’ Promotions Clvella’s Beauty Shop Consoldated Credit Corporation PAGE 13 Ambassador Theatre PAGE IS Harmon-Dale, Inc, PAGE 16 Standard Concrete Product* Co. Hunt General Tire Company Gem Watch Shop Raleigh Seafood Company Acme Realty Company Southern Wholesale Furniture Co. Odom Cut Raft Clothing Company 3. M. Young Hardware Raleigh Funeral Home Puna’s Esiso Servlccnter Smith Ooa! & Oil Company •I. C. Penney’s Department Store Branch Banking & Crust Company ed Negroes met at the Blood-worth St. YMCA Thursday evening, Feb. ruary 11 to consider what action they might take to encourage and aid the students in their fight for equality, and also to express their (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) Dr. William Mtlford Hampton, 47, the first, Negro to be elected to the city council In Greensboro and a city school board member’ up to the time of his death, died on Wednesday, February 10, A memorial service, attended by 400 persons. Including the May or and other city officials of Greensboro, was held amid sleet and snow at the St. Matthews Methodist Church on Saturday. Mayor George Roach, referring to Dr. Hampton as “our beloved friend,” urged (hat ‘‘we take a page from the life and good works of this man that we might better serve our God, our country, our profession.” Words of high commendation were also heard from city school board chairman Thornton Brooks who said Dr. Hampton had fought, a good fight and had kept the faith Rev. G M. Phelps, pastor of Union Memorial Methodist Church, gave the eulogy. Rev. Jt. E, Brower, St, Matthew’s Pastor, presided and also read the burial service, held in the church on account of the had weather. His body was to have been buried later. Dr, Hampton is survived by his wife, the former Miss Wilhelme rua Ford: two children, Wilhci mcnia Delores and William, Jr ; his father; two brothers, and three isters. Southern Senators Vow Fight WASHINGTON The senate Monday began it* election-year ; battle over clvU right*. Under an agreement reached last year. Democratic Leader lWt: - don B, Johnson (Tex.) was ready to start debate on the civil rights issue after the senate disposed of tobacco and water pollution bills Little action on civil rights was expected in the opening day skir mish. Most observers felt it might take weeks to fight out the issue against a, backdrop of presidenti al politics. Because no civil rights bill Is on the senate calendar, Johnson may cal! up a minor house-approv ed bill—possibly one commemo rating the founding of Land Grant Colleges—as a vehicle to which civil righto proposals could be at tacked. BattSellnes for the hot. drawn-out fight were formed over the week-end, Southern ers served notice they would fight the civil righto proposal* 'CONTINUED ON PAGE iU , ■■ mm . i WMMm ■ -ihf MRS. MILDRED T. JAMES Kirs. James ’Woman Off The Tear 5 Mrs. Mildred Taylor James of 310 Heck Street, ha* been named Raleigh’s "Woman of the Year” for 1959. Mrs. James is a religious and civic .worker. Graduate of Si. Augustine's Junior College; Shaw University; the University of Pennsylvania, and did farther stu dy at North Carolina College, Durham. She is now a teacher at Crosby- Garfield School. Her membership* include: National Educational As sociation; American Teachers As sociation; Board of Administra tion. Sojourner Truth YWCA; Omtcron Seta, Chapter of Seta Phi Beta Sorority, In 1959 Mrs. James organized and conducted a tons for this group to California. As a member of the First Baptist Church, she is a teacher in the Young People’s (CONTINUED ON PAGE t) PRICE 15c
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