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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
VOLUME LXXIV
to Resort to Courts, Not
to End Bus
Threats, Fiery Cross Fail to | i j
Stop Postman in Bus Case !
JACKIE ROBINSON NAMED 41st
SPINGARN MEDALIST
NEW YORK, June 21—For the
time, the coveted Spingarn
awarded annually to a Ne -1
American for distinguished
will be presented to
athlete, Jackie Robinson of the
World Champion base
team, Roy Wilkins, executive j
of the National Asso-
for tire Advancement of
People, announced here
J. H. Jackson, President of
Faces Jail Term
Newspapers Win Prizes
PITTSBURGH — (ANP) —
newspapers won prizes last j
in the National Newspaper
Association’s merit j
contest, with two papers
for first place and eligible
the Russwurm Trophy by rank-!
in the general excellence cate-1
Tied for first place were the
Defender and the Kan- | j
City Call, scoring nine points
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mibevs of the Georgia Dental j
ety which met at Savannah i
? College' last week. First Row, j j
o R. Dr. G. F Rivers; Dr.
3. Warren (secretary); Dr.
. Goosby (former (president); president); Dr. j
er Thompson j
iam X. Payne (president,
autiunah Sril'iinr
today.
The medal was awarded
for his superb “sportsman-
ship, his pioneer role in breaking
color liar in organized baseball,
and his dvic consciousness,” par-
ticularly his work in the efforts
to curb juvenile delinquency. Join-
* n!i l * le Hrooklyn Dodgers as an
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Two other papers also eli¬
for the trophy, but scoring
points, were the Ohio Sen¬
with 8 points and the Cleve¬
Call-Post with 7.
Judges in the contest were Arm-
S. Pride, chairman, and
of Journalism at Lincoln
Emily L. Telfel and
L. Lungren, University
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SSC) ; Dr. R C. Cornell (treasur¬
er); Dr. W. F. Clark; Dr. W. D.
Brown, Sr., (corresponding secre¬
tary) ; Dr. L. W. Williams; second i
row, L. to R. Dr. D T. Walton
(National State Dental Associa¬ j
tion vice president); Dr. J. W.
Jamerson, Sr.; Dr. Albert Lafay- I
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — (ANP) —
A Negro postman here declared
last week that neither threats of
death nor "cross burnings” will
make him drop his one-man fight
against bus segregation in Ten¬
nessee.
0. Z, Evers, who recently filed
suit in federal court attacking the
constitutionality of Tennessee's <
[ bus segregation laws, made the
! statement to reporters after a
I three-foot gasoline soaked cross
was burned in front of his mod¬
est brick home last week. Wit¬
nesses said the cross blazed high
as a nearby 25-foot tree.
Evers said he was not at home
j when the cross was burned and
j that he has been harassed by
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j 111. Methodist
Group Admits
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"BLOOMINGTON, 111. (ANP)
— Rev. Patrick Bacchus, a Pekin
minister, became the first Negro
clergyman last week to lie given
Permanent membership in the llli-
nois Methodist Church Conference.
A native of British Guiana, Bac¬
chus became assistant pastor of
the First Methodist Church of Pe-
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CHICAGO. — Dr. Joseph II.
Jackson, president of the five mil¬
lion-member National Baptist
Convention of America, Inc., who
made headlines last spring when
he refused to back Rep. Adam
Clayton Powell’s National Prayer
Day for the Montgomery, Ala., bus
boycott martyrs because “an eco¬
nomic boycott does not quite har¬
monize with my religion,” faces a
stiff fine and, a possible jail sen¬
tence for contempt of court.
Superior Court Judge Frank M.
Padden this week has ordered
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Dr. A. B. Cooper; Dr. .1. P.
Cheevers (vice president) ; Dr. E.
D. Hamlet; Dr. E. G. Boddie;
third row, L. to R. Dr. J. M.
Grant; Dr. J. H. Ellis; Dr.
Harvey Smith; Dr. W L. Me-
Crocken; Dr. J. H. Douglas;
fourth row, L. to R. Dr. P. W.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1956
MIAMI, i x a.-—According to an
announcement made this week
by the attorney handling their
fight to end segregation on city
buses, the Negroes of Miami
will resort to the courts instead
of boycotting the bu s es;
This decision was reached
Sunday following a protest
meeting of the local chapter of
the NAACP in which file 400
persons unanimously passed a
resolution to take the fight to
end segregation on buses to the
federal courts.
The arrest of two Negroes
we£ k foi lefusing to mou
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Pittsburgh
Ready For
Publishers
PITTSBURGH — (ANP) —
Residents of this city will have
their first opportunity to meet
publishers of Negro newspapers ]
from all sections of the country at j j
the 18th annual convention of the
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Pl^fepiSr ‘■r . 7 . :
DEGREE Mrs. Cath¬
Walker Williams, an instruc¬
at the West Savannah School,
the Master of Arts de- !
in Education at the eighty- j
commencement exercises j
Atlanta University on June 4th, j
above picture shows Dr. C. A.
placing the hood on Mrs.
as she holds her degree, i
Cooper; Dr. C. M. Smith; Dr. J.
W. Houser; Dr. B, H. Atkinson,
Sr.; Dr. B. H. Atkinson, Jr.; Dr.
W. Brow n, Jr.; fifth Row, L. to
R. Dr. A. V. Cohen; Dr. M. L.
Walton; Dr. Henry Wilson; Dr.
J. W. Jamerson, Jr.; Dr. Shrop-
shire; Dr. James Wilkes.
Texas School
Admits Negro
Coed to Dorm
DENTON, Tex. — (ANP) —
North Texas State College last
week became the first school in
the state to integrate Negro and
white students in the same dormi-
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HOO NAAl'P Delegates Expected San Francisco to At tend
Meet in
SAN FRANCISCO, June 21.— ,
Ways and means of accelerating
commmunity action to secure de-'
segregation of public facilities and I
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institutions will be explored at the
47th annual convention of the Na-
tional Association for the Ad-
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Mrs. Williams’ thesis was entitled
“The Relationship Between Lan-!
guage Achievement and Listening
of Abilities West of Sixth Grade Pupils j
Savannah School,”
Mrs. Williams received the A.I5.
degree from Spelman College in
June, 1936. She represented her
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Win PRIMARY ELECTION I
In the city primary election
Tuesday Mayor W. Lee Mingle-
dorff, Jr., and his board of
aldermen, running as the Cit-
izens Committee, easily won
over their opponents, the Inde-
pendent Voters League, headed
by William G. Haupt.
The M ngledorff forces co-
ralied a vote of 8,629 to 5,696
gathered by the Haupt ticket
The ctiy general election will
;e held in August.
The votes received by the
successful CC aldermanic can-
didates were a s follows:
Dr. Ellison R. Cook, III, 8.416
votes; Henry Brennan, 8,366;
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Teachers Join NAACP In
Spite of Curb In Some
Southern States
NEW YORK, June 21. — In
spite of punitive measures adopt¬
ed in some southern localities
against teachers who are NAACP
members, many Negro teachers in
the South have joined the Asso-
ciation during its spring mem¬
bership campaign.
In making this announcement
here today, Miss Lucille Black, j
TO ATTEND FRISCO M«.i. TUNG-Leri, W. W. Law, president of Savannah NAACP Branch; cen¬
ter, Mrs. Esther Freeman, secretary, and Rev. L.S. Stell, chairman of housing, who will attend
the 47th annual convention of the NAACP In San Francisco, Calif., June 26. Rev. Stell, pastor of
Bethlehem Baptist church, is now In Los Angeles, Calif., attending the Baptist Sunday School
invention. Mr. Law and Mrs. Freeman will leave tomorrow, Friday, for San Francisco.
Boycott Unity
Row Bver Finance
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -(ANP)
—An internal row over spend¬
ing of money contributed to the
Negro boycott of Montgomery
buses has temporarily upset har¬
mony in the Montgomery Improve¬
ment Association, but leaders on
both sides of the dispute apparent¬
ly have decided to iron out their
differences in private “in order
not to hinder our protest move¬
ment.”
The row came into the open
MINISTER OUSTED
MONTGOMERY. Ala,,
June 18—By a vote of 40 to
0 the deacons of Bell St.
Baptist church last night
ousted the Rev. U. J. Fields
as pastor because he iriti-
cized the manner in which
money raised for a car pool
to fight bus segregaton was
being handled.
Tuesday when Rev. J. U. Field,
resigned us secretary of the asso¬
ciation, charging misappropriation
of funds.
A flat denial of the charge:
was issued by Dr. Moses W. Jones
second vice president of the MIA
who called Fields’ charges “deep!)
regrettable.”
Fields, who had been secretarj -
from the beginning of the organ
izution, said lie was quitting MIA
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Mixed Airmen j
Ejected From
Bowling Alley
EAST POINT, Ga. (ANP) -
iecause a Negro airman wa;
imong seven other airmen in i
mwling alley here, ail were toll
to leave the premises after a
•rowd had gathered outside of th< j
recreation center.
Police last week estimated th<
•rowd at between 75 and 100 teen¬
age boys.
Capt Hugh I). Brown and Sgt. j
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NAACP membership secretary.!
said teacher enrollment in the
State of Florida “probably leads j
the nation.'’ More than 800 teach¬
ers in Jacksonville, Fla., alone j
have become NAACP members
during the campaign, she noted.
In Georgia, North and South
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Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price 10c
Enrolled In SSC
Shool
Ben lugorsoll, registrar at 8a-
State College, reports
is un approximate enroll-
of 607 students for the first
of summer school—550 in
h 1 school and 57 in
“SOLDIER OF THE MONTH”—
James F. Densler, son of Mrs.
an it- Bennigs, 827 West 44th
was named “Soldier of the
for May in a recent cere-
at Tripler Army Hospital,
lonolulu, Hawaii, He was highly
eeommended for his efficiency,
nitiative, co-operativeness and
esprit de corps.”
Pfc. Densler was also selected
work the summer months at
vileueu Military Camp, Hawaii.
Phis is the Armed Services rest
-amp in the Hawaiian Island.
lie will work as laboratory
in the camp’s dispen-
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Regent visits Savannah State
Quimhy Melton, Jr., mem-
of the Board of Regents from
is shown with President
K. Payne a.- they view the
NUMBER 37
1 evening classes. This does not in-
! elude 100 students enrolled in the
| slute area trades school, he said,
The Savannah State secondary
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GETS A. B. DEGREE — Edgar
L,eon Cocper, the son of Mrs.
isabel Skipper Sykes and the
,ate Edgar L. Cooper, received
the degree of bachelor of arts
,vith a major in general science
jn Saturday, June 9, from the
Pennsylvania State University,
Jniversity Park, Pennsylvar.-'a.
He attended the local Catho¬
de schools and completed his
high school work at Palmer
Memorial High School, Sedalia,
North Carolina.
He was ctocted a member of
the judiciary student board of
the university and was dean of
pledgees of the Alpha Phi ALpha
fraternity.
| various Savannah * State College
j buildings and departments during
j his visit to the campus on Friday.
Mr. Melton is president of tha
I Georgia Press Association.