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THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1956
NAACP
Convention
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At the- opening of the conven-
tion the delegates were welcomed 1
by Mayor George Christopher; C.
l. Dellums, chairman, the !
XAACP’s West Coast Regional 1
Committee, and II. .1. Reynolds of
San Francisco, who served as gen
chairman of the branch’s con-
vention committee. ;
LOREN MILLER NAMED j
Loren and Miller, head Los of the Angeles NAACP at- j
torney |
West Coast legal redress commit- j
tee, was named to fill an unexpired
term on the NAACP national 1
Board of Directors at the Board’s
meeting here during the conven-
tion. |
The Board chose Mr. Miller for
the vacancy created by the death
last month of Dr. Joseph A. Berry
of Tuskegee, Ala. Dr. Berry was
re-elected to the Board last year
for a three-year term. Mr. Miller,
a member of the NAACP National
Legal Committee, was one of the
atJorneys who successfully argued
tl\I destrictive covenant eases be¬
fore the U. S. Supreme Court ii.
1948.
PRIZES, PLAQUES
More than 700^ NAACP dele¬
gates crowded into the luxurious
Gold Room of the world famed
Sheraton Palace Hotel here for the
annual Freedom Fund dinner at
which branches contributed $38,-
580.03. This sum, added to con¬
tributions previously sent into the
national office, brought' to a total
of $110, 551.07 the Fight for Free¬
dom fund raised since January 1
by local units of the NAACP
throughout the country.
In addition to Freedom Fund re¬
ports submitted by regional rep¬
resentatives, the dinner was fea¬
tured by the presentation of the
Thalheimer and Ike Smalls awards
and life membership plaques. A
special feature of the festive af¬
fair was the presentation of a
beautiful loving cup by Roy Wil¬
kins, NAACP executive secretary,
in appreciation of his 25 years of
service to the association. The pre¬
sentation was made by Edward
Turner of Detroit, president of the
Michigan State Conference of
NAACP branches on behalf of the
presidents of the various NAACP
state conferences. Carl Johnson,
president of the Kansas City, Mo.,
NAACP branch also presented
Wilkins with a gift for
in Kansas City.
On behalf of the Texas State
Conference, U. S. Tate,
southwest regional counsel, pre¬
sented to A. Maceo Smith, the re¬
tiring executive secretary of the
conference, a handsomely hound
booklet containing testimonials to
Mr. Smith’s twenty years of serv¬
ice in that office.
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Kivit- Kaplan, co-chairman of
the NAACP Lift' Membership
Committee, presented life member¬
ship plaques to Thurgood Mar¬
shall, New York; Franklirr H.
lianiE, San Francisco; Matrons
Civic League, Berkeley? Calif.,
resented by Mrs. E. Tucker, presi-
dent, and Mrs. Frances Albrien;
Jones, Last St. Louis, llli-
nois aml Dr - Ed H ar v - Woodson,
East St - 111., whose plaque
was acc ®Pted by Dr, John Eubanks
,llat
Presentation of the Ike Smalls
awards was made by Ur. Naihan
Christopher of Cleveland. Pre-
tilting the Thalheimer Awards
were Dr. J. M. Tinsley of Rich-
mond. Va.. Mrs. R. P. Beshea*"*
St. Joseph, Mo., and Samuel Wil-
bams of East Orange, N. J.
For increasing its membership
by 822 per cent during 1955, the
largest percentage increase in the
association, the Albany, N. Y„
branch won tlie Ike Smalls tro-
phy. The branch increased its
neinbership from 50 in 1954 to 461
iy the end of 1955. Ike Smalls
awards for youth work went to the
Dallas Texas, youth council, and
its adviser, Mrs. S. E. Craft. A
itution was also given to the
Uimbia University Chapter of
NAACP.
The following
iwards were ma le for
ichievement to branches
paid personnel; San
’’exas, first prize of $100 for
cess in -breaking down
in public swimming second pools;
iHe, Ky., prize of $50
retiring the opening of state
without racial restrictions;
ce, S. C., honorable mention,
nr recruiting 100 new
“despite tremendous
mil for helping various
members; the Hillsboro,
iranch for success in a school
segragation case; and the
branch for exceeding its quota
10,000 members.
The branches with paid
nel: First prize of $100 to
troit and second prize of $50
Baltimore. The Detroit
(he largest in the country
cited for its victory in a
segregation case and for its role
securing enactment of a
FEPC law. The Baltimore
was instrumental in securing
abolition of segregation in
parks. kOR
PLEA POLITICAL
In an open bid for the
of Negro voters in the
presidential election a
for each of the major
parties addressed the
and claimed for his party
for civil rights advances
j blaming the other for failure
Congress to pass a single
rights measure in nearly 80
Addressing the Friday
session of the convention
closed Sunday,
Hugh Scott (R., Pa.) and
Yates (D., 111.) laid before
NAACP Delegates from 38
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MARTHA KITT, brilliant American nite dub singe.- and actress, is 1
shown here in a scene from her first “live” appearance on BBC Tele-
vision in (he strong dramatic part of a prisoner awaiting
for murder. The play, written by American authors Holsworthy Hall
and Robert Middlemas, also stars Bill -Nagy (left) as prison chaplain
and Natalie Benesch (center) as warden. Earthn plays the role of
Jane Dyke, a convicted murderess in an Oregon penitentiary. (ANP)•
the dvil rights records" o7 their
respective parties. Each told the i
delegates that his party would
have passed urgently needed civil
rights hills long ago had not the
ither party blocked such efforts, i
cion And each of his gave assurance in 1956 that would flee- J j
party
enhance the opportunity for en-
j aetment of such legislation.
WILKINS WARNS PAKI1LS
With the conventions of the m.a- ,
! jor political parties at hand, Roy
Wilkins, NAACP executive seme-
(tary, warned that Negroes would ’■
demand “strong civil rights plans j ;
j in the platforms of both major
parties” in an address at the ctos-
I ing session of the convention.
“Hecause much has happened
since 1952, these planks must be
much stronger than those of four
ycars ago.
“We now have the Supreme j
Court decision in the school cases,
and the ruling on public yecrea- !
lion and travel discrimination,”
.he NAACP leader pointed out.
“We have had Montgomery, Ala.,
with all of its implications. We
have had open defiance of the
Supreme Court and the Constitu¬
tion. We have hail nullification
resolutions and a congressional
manifesto insulting the highest
court ' n the land and advocating
virtual rebellion.
“We have had U. S, Senators
traveling up and down the land
urging the people not to obey the
supreme Court. We have had vali-
ication,-terror and violence visited
upon sections of our population
who have asked merely that the
law of the land he observed.”
These developments, Mr.
:ins declared, have created a new
ituation calling for affirmative
lctior.. “No party piatfoim that
: gnores these developments and
n-etends that 1956 is the same a *
1952 can command the allegiance
of Negro voters and of other
Americans who love their coun-
ry,” he lie asserted. asserted.
It will not he sulficient to state
i-hat the Supreme Court ha*
spoken and that its decision is the
Gw of the land,’ he warned.
‘There must he a declaration
dodged affirmative-action to see
‘.hat the court’s decision is made
•ffeetive, that prompt beginnings
m good faith are made toward
chool desegregation. The use of
the power and prestige of the fed-
oral government, especially those
if its executive.
'‘In this election year, we have
a right to ask the major parties
and their candidates what they
have done and what they propose
to do for civil rights. For some
of this information wc do not
have to depend upon their smooth
statements. We can go to the roe-
:>rds. The record shows that neitb-
er political party has passed a
single civil rights bill— not the Re-
publicans when they controlled
43rd Congress, and not the Dcm-
ocrats thus far in their control of
the 84th Congress.
THURGOOD MARSHALL
Keynoting the six-day conven-
lion, Thurgood Marshall, the As-
sedation's special counsel, review-
ed the year’s legal, political and
serial developments in the area of
! civil rights and submitted a series
j of recommendations to speed up
the desegregation process. Here
Mr. Marshall denounced the “open
j attacks upon the Supreme Court”
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« alien.,,I*. “to de-troy the vali-
of the Supreme Court’s
cision” i,t the school segregation
cases for “the sole purpose of try-
ing to sell to the normally law-
abiding southerners the impres-
sion that there is still some pos-
sible validity left in racial seg-
rogation.”
During the past year, he pointed
We ... have ....... been ............ witnessing _—
»mst unbelievable types of cv.ti-
° f <>*«-’ C ‘ )U,t ran * ln S fr0tn
political tirades by southern sena-
tors to deliberate distortions by
southern governors and attorney*
general. Countless words
been written in magazines of na-
tional ciidilation, indue ing one
V(1, V recent ai tide »\ Imimi tiov
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lhis &rtick ‘ wa ' s ostensiMy written
by Mr. Byrnes as a ‘former justice
of the Supreme Court,’ a reading
of the article demonstrates that it
was not written as a legal docu-
mint, a law review article, or the
type of critical legal analysis cus-
tomary for former members of any
bent'll. It was ... in fact, an art-
icle not by a former justice . ,■ of ,
Supreme Court, 1>„! but rather rather an an
article by a former governor -
South Carolina and a leader in
Dixiecrat movement who is,
present, an exponent of white
premacy, come hell or high
In an effort to cripple
NAACP, Mr. Marshall
j “ sou thcrn politicians laid out
• pattern af j state
J us ng
j aml , | 1( . , st ate courts either to
law tile NAACP” or to make
1 difficult to continue
| .< I!y ( j 0 ; nft - this they
! i ec . 0 g n ize the effectiveness of
NAACP as an organization
catL>< j to enforcement of the law
^ _ Despite this elaborate stra-
tegy, the proponents of these
|. I10W t | iat ,-aeial segregation will
eventually be jomoved from this
country.”
Warning against the new Com-
munist party line of “sweetness
anil i i( , h t,» Mr. Marshall urged
lhp convention „ti (m delegates ddeeatts to “ex-
amine this new effort of
Communists to infiltrate our
g. an jzation. We must continue
our membership abreast of
new tact j cg of infiltration.
mugt cont i n ue to make it
lhat , hen . 5s )K) p i act . 5n
„.. in j f . at i 0 n for Communists
those wJl0 fo j| ow the Communist
u ne ”
The NAACP chief counsel call-
ed for an accelerated registration
and voting campaign, continuation
of efforts to secure voluntary
pliance with Supreme Court de-
segregation orders with
to legal suits only as a last
“re-examination of our strategy in
cases on, the university level,
vdopment of a “more
campaign against the
, badges of slavery wherever
exist,” a study and evaluation of
the Montgomery bus protest
nique “to determine to what
1 tent it may be used in addition
: our other means of protest,” anti
intensification of the drive
eradicate residential segregation,
Among the other prominent
speakers to address the
were the Rev. Martin Luther
who is spearheading the
cry. Ala., bus Boycott which
now in its sixth month, and
Philip Randolph, veteran
leader, president of the
hood of Sleeping Car Porters and
a vice president of the CIO-AKL.
1957 Meeting in Detroit
The 48th annual convention
of the Association will be held
in Detroit next June. Delegates
to the San Francisco conven¬ i
tion chose Cleveland as the site
of the 49th annual convention
to he held in 1958.
ATA To Meet
In Atlanta,
July 29
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ATA projects are scheduled oi
that Monday morning by Dr Wal
ter N. Ridley of Virginia Stnt
and Dr. L. I). Reddick of Ah.
bama State College.
Dr. Martin 1). Jenkim, Presi
dent of Morgan State College, wi
address the general session on tha
Monday evening,
-pi,,, climaxing banquet sessioi
on Tuesday evening will he feu
tun'd by the address of Dr.
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There will be departmental , d,s-
. Tuesday
cuss.on groups on morn-
-ng as well as the reports and
business deliberations on Monday
( j afternoon and on Tuesday after-
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i The Georgia Teachers and Ldit- ^
j cation Association is serving as
,............... the host and will have - the shared
assistance of the Atlanta colleges
| » ntl local teacher organizations
, of Atlanta and Fulton County,
The convention headquarters and
! the majority of'the sessions wil
| w at Clark College. The meal
service will he at Morehouse Col-
lege.
i p or this 1955-195(5 ATA year,
i the president is Principal Limn
T. Hawkins of Garnett School at
Chestertown, North Maryland. Dr. T. R. j
Speigner of Carolina
lege is the general vice
Dr. II. Councill Trenholm of Ala¬
bama State College and Dr. How¬
ard II. Long of Central State Col-
lege are continuing their extend-
led period . . of , . executive
service as
1 sem ’ ta *y and treasurer, respec-
tively. .Dr. Miles W. ^Connor of
Baltimore is the chairman of the
six-member Board of Trustees.
There are the additional regional
vice presidents and secretaries for
the six ATA regions along with
state directors who thus share the
responsibility for this organiza¬
tion which wilt report 20,000 in¬
dividual members for this year.
NMA To
Fight To
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are still too many Medical Col¬
leges that do not accept Negro
applicants. Meharry and Howard
ire able to take less than one-tenth
-f the applicants.
At the convention, special hon¬
ors will be accorded those doctor,
who have served or are serving in
(he Armed Forces. Also the diplo¬
mats of the various Specialty
Boards and those who have been
icocpted by various accrediting or¬
ganizations will he specially lion -
nred.
All sessions will be held at the
Hotel New Yorker, 34th street at
4th avenue.
Among some of the social activi¬
ties will he a smoker at Small’s
Paradise, a free boatride around
New York Harbor and a banquet
uni dance on the last night.
The Woman’s Auxiliary will lit*
cepl busy with various uplift pro-
-ram meetings, luncheons, parties,
tc., to he tendered by the Man-
haltan Central Host Society aml
its Auxiliary.
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Music will be furnished by the
young People’s choir. The
morning message will be deliv-
orec’. by Rev. R. M. Williams,
pastor.
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payioll.
Bngley said the cut leaves the.
company with 37 drivers, five -
| fj,. 0 workers, and a maintenance
clew. The company had about 701
drivers when the boycott started
last December 5. # |
Only about a fourth of the 51 j
forced the second officer
up his artillery and budge,
then used the police cruiser!
make his getaway.
The police ear was found wreck-j
about 30 minutes later, and a,
with city, Mecklenburg
and state highway patrol
all joining in, was launched.;
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Scott, signed with Baltimore Mon-
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Described as "batty afoot and
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Rol|inson> ttu . 220-pound ex-
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nny - n fi0 ,. U8hing cfforU
i as ). fall
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vied and has three children. He
played high school football ut 1. M.
Terrell in Fort Worth.