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'Work For Unity/ Teachers’- Black Chairman N. C. SCHOOL DOMBED-Rocky Mount: Photo above shows some of the exterior damage done to the outer brick wall and the shattered windows and blinds of three classrooms on the east side of G. \V, Bulluck Elementary School, eight miles from Rocky Mount just a mile off N. C. •43 towards Pinetops. A man-sized hole was ripped in the base of the five-story-high water tank, which a culprit climbed to plant explosives thought to be dynamite. (Photo by Killebrew, courtesy Rocky Mount Telegram), To “Save The Soul Os America” Is Aim Os Nation’s Baptists NEW OP IT AN'S, La.-The na tion’s largest Negro organiza tion has announced j “Youth for America" Day *o be held In the giant new h ivergate Audi toi ium, here, Septembei 11th. “This event is an attempt f conbine sound patriotism •it 1 Christianity in an effort to save tiie soul of American," .Dr. Joseph H. Jackson said. Jackson leads the 6,300,000 member National Baptist Con ■ention, USA, Inc., which will bold its annual convention here Sept. 9th through 13th at River gate. The convention annually attracts 20,000 delegates from throughout the United States. Dr, Jackson, president, Is pas tor of the Olivet Baptist Church, Chicago, 111. “We hope for open and free db-cussioi. and positive sug gest tor.a from out young people to bridge tie generation gap , (*»***'»* ** ** “GUILTY” OI TORTURE SLAYING-New Haven, Conn.: Black Panther Lonnie McLucas, shown being escorted to the courtroom here from the Litchfield, Conn. Correctional Center, August 28, was convicted, August 31, of murder conspiracy in the 1969 torture slaying of for mer Black Panther Alex Racklev. He was acquitted of charges of conspiracy to kidnap and bind ing with intent to commit a crime. (UPI). ‘•MISS BLACK AMERICA”-New York: "Mias Black A merlca of 1970/' Stephanie Clark, 19, of Washington, D. C, dis plays trophy after being chosen during pageant at Madison Square Garden here August 28, Miss Sylvia Alexis Smith 22, of Durham, N. C.. was first ruiuier-up, (l)PI), between parents and children, educators and students," Dr. Jackson explained. “However, the manner in which the day is used depends largely on the young people themselves. They are our guests and will be free to make such statements as Two Raleigh Groups issue Position Paper The Raleigh Branch of the N'AACP and the Raleigh Citi zens Association (RCA) have authorized the Issuance of a Position paper setting forth Hmir views on the desegrega tion crisis with which citizens of Raleigh am now faced. By resolution of Aug. 18,1970, tney feel will be of Interest and value to young people and the nation. “Y'oung leaders from all re ligious denominations, races and nationalities are invited to participate if they believe (See BAPTISTS, P 2) a convention of both organiza tions commissioned a joint committee to state and issue the convention’s recommenda tions and demands that the Ra leigh City Board of Education proceed forthwith to totally In tegrate the Raleigh City School System. The convention, byre- _llee N'AACP, RCA, P, 2) Say Migrants Are ! 'Ahorted' ATI. \NT.\-Florida’s state programs for migrant workers have been ‘‘aborted by big growei interests” and ‘‘a poli tical cynicism abetted by public indifference and the electoral powerlessness of the mi grants,” a Southern Regional Council report said Sunday. The report, in the council’s monthly publication South To (See MIGRANTS, P. 2) !! In The Sweepstakes *j I i| SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK i i Big in Size. Big in Merchandise. Big in Economy ] | L See SWEEPSTAKES Ads. ii. Read Page 10 for Winners 1 Sweepstakes Growing Sweepstakes numbers valuable this week at downtown business es are as follows: Number 087- 05, first prize, is valuable in the amount of $25 in trade at John son-Lam l>e Company, 322 S„ Salisbury Street, Number -•SSv- #### On Desegregation , jN A A CP, RCA State Views THE COROLINIAN j _____ North Carol ino's Leading Weekly VOL. 29, NO. 44 | Follow in g Rocky Alt. Klan Rally Xj-X^XV & *; t <\-C:< • ' Ks Xp*Xt* \L %-%yi> \ "Snubbed By Nixon ” Alliance President Is Heard WASHINGTON, D. C.~ Robert White, president of the National Alliance of Postal and Federal Employees, one of the largest unions of pre dominately black Postal and Federal employees said last Friday, “his union has again been ignored by the Nixon Administration in their refusal to invite him to the Presidential Dinner being held on Labor Day for labor leaders. *’ (See SAY NIXON. P. ’) Delegates At 'Power' Conference ATLAN fA, Ga. - me con gress of African Peoples (com bination of the National and In ternational Black Power Con ferences) has received numer ous requests from foreign coun tries for delegates to attend the convention scheduled to con vene in Atlanta, Ga. on Sept. 3rd through Tth. The requests have come from such countries as Angola, Ber muda, a Guyana, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Japan, Mexico, Au stralia and Tanzania. Already scheduled to speak before tire General Assembly in Atlanta are such notables as Bob Maz.a, from the Australian Aborigine Advancement Lea gue; Minister Farrakhan from the Nation of Islam; Corky Gor ales, Mexican-American leader; Evelyn Kawonza from Zimbabwe; Raymond Mbala, Revolutionary Government of Angola; Warren Furutani, Ja panese - American Citizens League; and Maynard Jackson, Vice-Mayor of Atlanta. Oth er notables included in the pro gram are Rev. Jesse Jackson, Imari Abubakarl, Mayor Ken neth A. Gibson, Felipe Luci ano, Julian Bond, John Cashin, Whitney Young, Jr.. Roy Innis, John lew is, Lerone Bennett and Fannie Lou Hamer. Registration for the Con gress will t>egin on Thursday, Sept. 3rd at 8 a.m. at the Hick man Building on Morris Brown College campus. 08615, second, will being its bearer the amount of sls in business at the Raleigh FCX Service, 301 w. Cabarrus St.; and 08907, third prize, is worth the amount, of $lO at Smith’s (Sec SWEEPSTAKES. P. ’) RA ['C l GH NC ■ SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 1970 i k .'.l7* W ■ i > HER SON LS FINALLY BURIED-Ft. Pierce, Fla.: An Army Major hands Mrs. Mary Campbell the flag which covered her son s casKet during funeral here August 29. Pondexteur Wil liams who died in \ let Nam August 8, could not be buried until iis mother went to Federal Court to rule against a mVTajV' T'' vl 0 reiused to let the veteran lie buried in all white ’ cemetery. (UPI). Africans Bury freedom ; Fighter From The State GEORGETOWN, Guyana - Warm flames of Pan-African unity were aglow here recent ly as Arch Foster, a 38-year old African freedom fighter from Deland, Fla., was laid to rest in the historic soil of Ber bice. At tills site in 1763, 37 1 years before Gabriel Prosser, the African Nationalist Cuffy led a great slave uprising which ranks high in the chronicles of the Guyanese African revol ution. It was here with a spirit of brotherhood that reaches a cross the waters and through' generations of oppression that Guyanese Aft ica:. Nationalists buried the former associate director of the Foundation for CRIME BEAT Fr.lm H-.Mch*. Official ■ ■ flic File ATTACKS three James Henry Bryant, 1008 Hadley Road, informed Officer R. Clayborne at 6:4-1 p.m. Sat urday, t! at I.uther Douglas Johnson Jr., 24, 408 Dakar Street, “started acting crazy,” then started attacking three subjects in the parking lot at 412 L. Davie Street. Bryant said he saw Johnson cut Clop Hines, 40, 1008 Hadley Road on the neck; Lee Rot Lassiter, 52-vear-old white resident of Route 3, Raleigh, then cut Timothy Dwight Lassi ter, 19-year-old white youth of the Route 3, Raleigh address, on the right hand when the youth attempted to help his father. The three iniured persons were treated at W ake Memorial Hos pital for theii wounds. Young Johnson was “hauled off” to Wake County Jail, facing three counts of assault with a deadly weapon-a knife. (Scr CRIME BEAT. P. 3) community Development (FCD) in Durham, N. C. Arch was known throughout the state as a hard, grass roots organizer. Foster’s mysterious death in a swimming accident in New Bern, on July 5 baffled the local Black community in Durham. He had gone to the Atlantic coast city with his family and, according to his wife Patricia (See BURY NC. P 2) A&T Grad Heads BMC Program GREENS BOR O- A n A&T State University graduate has been hired as director of a Special Services Project designed to provide assistance to disad vantaged students at the Univer (Sei‘ AiT GRAD. P 2) More Cusli Sought For The Wesleyan First Church Os Deliverance, Inc. For the fourth straignt week, The CAROLINIAN is appealing for more funds for the com pletion of the Wesleyan First Church of Deliverance here, pastored by the popular Rev. Sister Mabel Gary. Although several hundred dollars has been raised for the completion of the roof and oilier facilities, much more cash is needed. This amount does not include any monies sent to Mechanics and Farmers Bank, 113 E. Har gett Street, the official collec tion agency for the drive. All of Raleigh’s and Wake County’s citizens are urged to rally to this worthy cause. Many businesses have already, ex pressed much interest in the drivei' THF CAROLINIAN is hoping that the amount of $5,- (St-e WESLEYAN. P '! SINGLE COPY 15c Dynamite Used At Bullock ROCKY MOUNT-Over a peri od of six days, Edgecombe County and the Rocky Mount vicinity have been treated to a rally by the Ku Klux Klan on the outskirts of the city on U. S. 64 east; and the dastardly bombing of G. W. Bulluck Elementary School which was about to become fully integrat ed as classes opened August 31. The KKK rally and cross - burning were held Aug. 22 just beyond the city limits of this All-America City and was ob served by Edgecombe law en forcement officers and highway patrolmen as well as local policemen on the city side. When now's of the impending rally reached the Black com munity, the young adults began to organize a protest march to (See SCHOOL. IS, I*. 2) Big March Follows NC Gathering BY J. B. BARREN ROCKY MOUNT-A under termined number of Ku Klux Klansmen and KKK sympathiz ers Field a rally and small cross - burning here Saturday night, on U, S. Hwy. 64, just outside the city limits, adjacent to, or on. property occupied by Leon's Body Shop, autft wreck ers. Many in the Black communi ty became angry and active when news broke that the ral ly was to be held near the Ne gro housing project about a mile away. It was reliably re ported that among the promo tors of the rally were men who had been active in similar Klan rallies in which cause confron tations with Blacks in county farther east. Blacks here could not or refused to name the lead ership Klansmen if then 1 knew them. Likewise, Negroes declined to name their leaders who led some 65 to TO Blacks on a march or protest part of the way toward the rally sight even after local law enforcement of ficers refused to lead them or give protection in what had the makings of a confrontation ite tv. een the two groups with north (Sec B! A( KS M AUI H. I*. 2) *jjj > , wifi THE WESLEYAN FIRST CHURCH OF DELIVERANCE, above, is nearing completion. Funds are being sought at this time for its completion. Raleigh's well-known Sister Mable Gary is the pastor. Speigner Speaks In Durham DURHAM - Dr. Theo dore Speigner, Black chairman of the Dur ham County Board of Education, urged teach ers and administrators of the Durham system Monday to “work hard for unity, cooperation and understanding.” Speigner spoke at a meeting* of all teaches and administra tive personnel at Durham High School. “We stand at the threshold of a new era of education in Dur ham," he said. Durham city schools open Wednesday under a plan of de segregation ordered by the U. S. Middle District. Court in Greensboro. Under the plan students are assigned by geo graphic zoning. Eugene Causby of the Human (Sec DR. SPEIGNER, P 2) C 1 SAYS ACTION AS “SMOKE SC REEN"- Wash i ngt on: Whit ney M. Young, Jr., head of the National Urban League, accus ed presidential counselor Pat rick Moynihan Aug. 31 of a “malicious political attempt’’ to blame Democrats for foot dragging on welfare reform. Young, testifying before the Senate Finance Committee on the welfare reform Mil, sug gested Moynihan’s actions were nothing but a smoke screen to shield the “real Opponents"-- Republleans. (UPI). Sanitation Situation Still Bad Although the garbage collect ing system in Raleigh, for the past few days, has been and is still had, labor leaders for their union implied Tuesday that a “few surprises" might be in stoi c. Many of the collectors returned to their jobs, however. Reiterating the fact that the workers do not plan a strike or more stoppage of work at this time, the leaders said at a press conference other cours es of action might be taken to support the worker’s griev ances. The president of the North Carolina AI.F-CIO, Wilbur Hobby, said a mass protest march of the approximately 300 labor convention delegates and members of the local union, is possible. “Quite a few people have contemplated that action,” Mr. Hobby stated. A two-hour work delay and walkout occurred here Monday with main' of the workers re fusing to cross picket lines, formed by about 20 of the 22 workers suspended last week after they d isobe;. ed orders not to attend a union press conference on August 21. Leon Manning, a black work er, is president of the local union.
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