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DESERTERS-BOLTERS
We do not know what to call them.
Whether traitors or self-seekers or op¬
portunists or birds of prey are more ap¬
propriate titles or labels for classifying
such as the three Mississippi Negro lead¬
ers who are undercover men for the Miss¬
issippi State Sovereignty Commission, is
a matter of doubt. When this commission
was authorized by the legislature, it was
stated openly that some of the $2S0,0(K)‘
would be used to employ Negro agents
who would spy on Negro activities and
keep the commission informed about them.
We viewed with cautious pessimism the
possibility that Negro leaders would be
found who would be engaged in a business
of such infamy, shall we say. We remind-^
ed ourselves that we knew of a few such
Negroes who have lauded segregation;
who “have taken a public stand for segre¬
gation,'’ with all ol’ its viciousness, its in¬
dignities, its inequalities, its damage and
hurts to the souls of Negroes, and its bat¬
tle to brand Negroes as beings somewhat
less than human beings. This battle, hiOL.
been carried on for three hundred years.
vannah Furthermore, Negro we preacher recall . , that told , here , ,. in ....... atidi- felt-,'
a an lt
ence of 5(H) persons not to pay attention
to drives for registration. We have *beehj
informed that "dodgers" from a Negro
source advising have thpjp tried not to hope register
scattered, We to t<h<A
alty to tht* aspirations pt Negroes to be-
come iull-ficdgcd citizens would keep Nb- (
gro leaders from yielding to the Jshrry ry
business of trading in segregation, or in
anything which seeks to perpetuate it.
Their position is not justified by say¬
ing every man has a right to have ait
opinion. We doubt whether an opinion
that does violence to the rights of a na¬
tion or it group of people is ever justified.
Judas and Benedict Arnold exercised the
right to have their opinions which they
attempted to implement. They pa'fd 'the
price society exacts in such cases;' Trid
Mississippi Negro leaders have been paid
for “advertising and investigations” the
princely sum of $1,485.90 front the fund
of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Com¬
mission. There is no doubt as to their
leadership: two of them are preachers and
newspaper men and one is the editor of a
newspaper. Could there he better or more
advantageous positions from which to ad¬
vocate segregation? It is a tragedv yjTu that
men could be found to accept pay lor
championing the,cause of segregation' and
its attendant evdso-ra thing that is vkd-"'
ous. un-Christian and undemocratic in
principle, on whiqH there can be jh> "com¬
promise.
THE CLINTON CASE-• V ,
The anmnmcemeht that a jury it}cd , i‘t)TT'-'
victed seven of those who were v'h'ttrgi'tf
with violating; a court order was,puwwed
upon by segregationists who are opposing
the civil rights bill in the Senate as proof
of their contentidh that souther^ .j.m'itts.
can be trusted to render just verdicts in
civil rights cases and as proof that a civil
rights bill is not needed, “that existing
state and federal laws provide ample pro¬
tection for the civil liberties of,ad the
people." The Clinton case did mot' di¬
rectly involve the civil rights of Negroes
nor did it involve segregation or Integra-;,,
tion. According’ to the judge, the issue
for the jury to decide was whether the
law should lie upheld. The Clinton cakCij
just one instance, protested and opponents
rights have vehementlviagainst
taking an isolated (?) case of violation
of the civil rights of Negroes as a just
reason for condemning the whole South
and perpetrating a slander agafhst ,ll Tts‘
fine people. Negroes have been jn’oteAf-
ing long and loud against the practice of
judging a group.by the ads of an iudf-
vidual. They have believed alWavs"th}tt,
one swallow dries’ not make a slirt/mer.
Almost another simultaneously which with did the Clinton
case, vase involve civil
rights was taking place in North Caro¬
lina, and Alabama was taking legal’ (’?),.
steps to violate the voting rights of the
Negroes of Tttskegee. The opponents of
AME LEADERS RAP
COLLEGE PREXY
•Continued from 1-age one)
action of our fellowship through¬
out the State, I would say that
these reports give us great con¬
cern in the light of the marked
contrast to the position taken here-
tofore, anil the fact that I have
always felt free indeed on the
campus of Allen University.
“If Negro young people in our
cliurch and private schools are
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the civil rights bill did not know about
these cases, they said.
A sample of how well and ample pres¬
ent and new state laws, and federal laws,
are to protect the “liberties of all the peo¬
ple,” is the action of the Charlotte board
of education in assigning Negro pupils
to a white school and the reaction of a
member of the Patriots of North Caro¬
lina, Inc., to the board’s decision, ile
said:
“ ‘You have put on yourself the blame
for mixing the white race. You mean
to tell me you can’t get around this
little-handful of niggers?’”
Uuwev'er, referring to the admission of
Y2 Negro children to white schools jn
Ualeigh. Greensboro and Charlotte, the
Greeiusboro Daily News comments:
" *?f<abbdy can foresee how they these do ex¬
periments will work. But pro¬
claim to the world that North Carolina
at least will try to take the first step
toward complying with the law of the
land. She will not, through lack of suf¬
ficient forethought and planning, for¬
feit ner moderate leadership to the ex-
• tremists on either hand who want all
,;|The,.Ukieigh or pothing.’ " News and Observer
, 'With: says:
,“ all deliberate speed the sen-
siblo South is showing that it can and
wil],Mbey jftitr'of'cKuoii § the law of the land without
in its human relationships
.... t , The small voice of Southern good
good will has been hard to
hear fie above the clajnour of the Kluxers
the defiant, ^ingprn.C in North the Carolina demagogues the true and
voice of the best South has made itself
heard.’ ”
North Carolina is just one of nine
southern states six of which have been
adamant in their resistance to the law of
the land. Its stand does not represent the
seven others. One swallow does not make
a summer.
ic, i,
A SUGGESTION
Some of the southern states—nearly all
of them—have passed laws to curb the
activities of the NAACP and have threat¬
ened to charge it with barratry. If these
laws hold it will be difficult for Negroes
in many cases to take their grievances to j
court. Probably most of them who need j
to go to court are unable to hire the serv-
vyywfudt ipps ,t>f .£»•«*») a,lawyer. securing If the lawyers NAACP for is such pre- I j
people, no matter what their grievances
nr . ( , thfcy tfl( -'t , heir wjJl rights be unable before to the get redress courts will for
i
suffer Without' the assistance of the j I
NAACP it'is doubtful whether most of
the cases' it has taken to the Supreme ;
Court* would have been won. The fact is, !
thewwould never have reached the court. j
Mi;. B. L. Prattia of the Pittsburgh Couri- 1
ci'.^njakes quote follows: a suggestion from which we I
as
t 1 Y 1 /. Barratry is committed when a
la wrier Apes a chance to start a legal
action, seeks out a client, induces the
client to retain him and starts the ac¬
tion. it might be said that whenever a
jawyer goes out after trade he is com-
,, nlifting barratry . . . This old law is be¬ i
ing revived against the NAACP in the
*Bduth . . . Negro leadership in the South
must educate itself and its followers as
U> ways of beating the barratry rap . . I
> , the first place, an aggrieved per¬
son should not go to the NAACP office
fur hqlp. Such a person should go di- I j
ncih/ta a tamjer. It makes no differ¬
ence ‘whether the lawyer is a member I
or officer of the NAACP. Any person
who wants to institute a case has a right
to retain the lawyer of his choice. The
lawyer so retained has the right to seek
additional legal help, or means to pay
for the case if the client is unable to
do so . . . The NAACP stands ready to
carrv individuals titt the fight in the South. But
and organizations, must
first go to counsel.”
As far as we know these suggestions
are sound. It is necessary that these sug¬
gestions are followed by individuals or
organizations, if the NAACP. is to con¬
tinue the fight to secure full citizenship
for Negroes.
to lie allowed to think freely and I
expVess themselves fully op all is-
| sues, where m God s name can
| they do )*o? Who is supposed to I
j control tlib st'htSkls that Me gig
support, anyway? *
i "Li .a registered letter to the
Right Rev. 1. 11. Runner, Bishop
^is diocese, have urged that
j the' unswerving civil rights stand
j of Allen'University, the most out-
standing educational institution in
! the connection, lie maintained as
it was for years under the mili-
tant and dynamic leadership of
Bishop Madison Reid in his unre-
lenting struggle for full citizen-
s i 1 jj, here in South Carolina.”
“GOLDEN BOOK”
TAXIMAN DOES A
(Continued irom Page One*
put it to good use. Petrie, whose
daily earnings amount to about
Hi 10. stands a chance to collect the
of 1,120 days’ pay.
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE
HIS IDEA OF A CIVIL RIGHTS LAW WILL DESTROY OUR WORLD
LEADERSHIP
m 1S6‘
Miss. White Woman Editor
Comes Out For Civil
I5y O. < . W. TAYLOR
For Associated Negro Press
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. — Mrs
Jeanette C. Carmichael, white wo¬
man editor of the small weekly
newspaper here, “The Light.” ha.
come out in an editorial in n<
mistaken terms for passage of
the civil rights bill.
Mrs. Carmichael has alway
been a fearless editor and hit -
spoken her mind on all things, not
being fenced in by custom, geog
raphy of expediency.
She bus been operating a news
paper on this basis since the death
of her husband in 1944 and whil
her paper is not the largest i
size it is well read on the Gul
Coast.
Mrs. Carmichael’s editorie
states, in part, as follows:
“The Civil Rights Bill will un
doubtedly pass. This in spite o'
Senator Eastland and other s’ud
selfish Wen. To hear him talk two
thirds of the United States Sena
tors are Communist tinged liecausi
of their favoring the Civil Right;
“The real truth is that the Sen
ator, himself, leans far far to thi
right of true American beliefs.
“Wo have read with a lot o
interest the series of articles in
the Saturday Evening Post
John ‘Bartow Martin, and feel
ashamed that so many of our olh-
erwise finer and just people of
South have such warpeel views
the civil rights question. We have
dyed in Central American coun-
tries and have seen a lot of
same sort of people npx and
gle, socially,’‘with the people of
mixed bloods who. predominate
these same countries. We
Young Farmer Credits 4-H
for Start
SYIA'ANIA, Ga. — A you»g
Negro; farmer of Screven County
credits bis 4-H Club work with j
to .finish high school |
and make a success, with farming. |
Cliffdrti' I.ovette is still stick-
ing Jo fhe 4-11 motto, “To Make !
the Best Better,” according to
Alexander Burse, Negro C 1 u b
Agent. ! J
Profits from his New liamp-
shire Red hens, a 4-11 poultry !
project, helped I.ovette through j
school. After graduation he farm-1
eds^n partnership with his ktep-
father, ruittiflg into practice some 1
of tiW'.(Irmeiplex he had learned
in -t-H-wsueh as crop rotation, soil
conservation and land manage- !
ment, and better livestock prac-
tices. I
After I.ovette married and start-
ed a family of his own. he took ;
emjUiiy ment at the near-by Atomic
Meharry Med. Grads In
Widespread Internsh i ps
NASHVH.LE (AND.—The 53
Meharry Medical College grad-
UMt»s»\im' the - Medical Class of
19R7 achieved the distinction of
beii)}' assigned to internships in
22 iiiVspit.Ms in 1?) states.
The .wide distribution of these
interns in hospitals all over the
country is especially significant.
Formerly Negro interns had diffi¬
culty in securing assignments out-
side restricted areas. New Negro
hospitals are hard put to find
seen men from Mississippi and
Uuhamu and Louisiana marry the
native girls and bring them an!
heir children hack to the st.les
ind no questions asked. Person
ally, we have no objection to thi
f it is the wishes of those involv-
■d, hut we do feel it is rank
justice to accept foreign born
) pie of mixed blood and then to
tepri'-e our own American
neople of the same sort of mixed
dood of the right to vote and ail
ithcr civil rights .
“I ' believe when the South awak-
■ns to the fact that . second , class ,
■itizens are a detriment to
regress, that prosperity and
■liness should be shared by all,
hat no person is inferior to an-
ithcr unless they themselves ere-
ite that inferiority by their own
nisconduct. That all are the
Iren of God.
"We believe there is a solid core
f white people in the South who
leheve this. Far more than dare
o express themselves in public.
i hese with the colored citizens of
he South make a majority, even
lore. And a majority is the ruling
orce in a real democracy.
“The House of Representatives
voted by about two-thirds major-
ity for the Civil Rights Bill. The
Senate is about the same ratio.
according to public statements b>
the Senators. Then by what rule
j of right or justice has some opin
ionated handful of men the
j to attempt by tnek this Lull or by from Wibust- being
er, to prevent
voted upon?
“We hope Right and the Civil
Rights Bill will prevail.
Enegrv plant across the Savannah
River in South Carolina.
But his heart was back on the
farm, i.ovette saved enough money
to buy ten acres and to build a
home on it. Although he continued
his public work, his poultry, corn,
swine, and garden projects provid-
ed the major part of his family’s
food.
Clifford, his county agmit. and
neighboring farmers explored the
possibility of selling vegetables,
watermelons, and other truck crops
to truckers along U. S. Highway
301,
An agreement was made with
several truckers and they set out
to give the plan a try. I.ovette
and Cleo Roberts, another young
farmer with 4-H experience, pa' 1 -
ed the way by loading trucks with
1,300 melons for a price 7 per-
cent above local prices.
enough interns to carry on
essential work.
Diversity of its graduates’ ori¬
gin and services has always been a
significant feature of Meharry’s
history. Since IS.it, it has grad-
unted more than 6,000 men and
women from 17 states. 12 foreign
countries and 22 different religious
affiliations. Its living alumni now
reside and practice in 39 stales
and 17 foreign countries.
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(Continued from Page One)
oeisivip in the seminar is by
; a t;an and will be limited
a j out twenty United States
5 .notaries plus six or seven
Canadian colleagues.
Darir.g the month of August
! Joseph R. Jenkins will attend
he 47th Grand Chapter meet-
ir g of Kappa Alpha Psi frater
;l :ty in Lus Angeles, California,
August 18-22, of which he is
Ae p. ovineiai Polemaroh of
,^e southeastern Province.
i The weekly USO dance will
'\:e . for all
i given, servicemen at
the . xr Y Saturday . . night . , . . begm-
8-aft ° clock. All dan-
|dre sponsored by the USO
j mvmittee of which Miss Met-
ell a Marce is, chairman. Mrs
I Frances Johnson will be in
charge.
j ^ Leadership and Human
( R;Lltions In3t itute meets at the
j eyery Pnd at 7:00 p.
Jhe ject being st udied
presently ,, is Credit _ ... _. Unions. . W.
j M. Bowen, director of the
j Center, savannah State
I j .ViP-'oo '-olcge, is i< sorviniz serving ns as COnsul-
j .ant. Mrs. Thelma Lee of
1 Tompkins School serves as re-
j ; qroe person. Arficr.g those
,. ; 0 are participating in
nstitvtc are Mrs Rinelle Tay-
1 , jj j^. L Boyd, Charlie
Qr ^ r , ; ary .
w Greeue ; Rev Mack Lewis,
A ^ c; , t c - a k> and Mrs . Eliza .
Jeakins . JjseP h R. Jen-
Y? * S serve as coordinator
tills . Program. Wilton C.
|£cc;t, member of the boaid of
;v nagement cf the Y, in
charge of the institute.
Racial Bias
• ^ v_Y5 Jill Til it
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fer requests and reassignment to
white schools nearer their homes
were sought by Negro children and
j studied by the school boards,
Forty-one of these applications
were turned down with this city
j spurning a total of 35.
IOTAS TO MEET
AUGUST 10
iContmueO from Pace One)
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the year which is a national proj-
\ ect of the Sorority. highlights of the
j One of the con¬
volition will lie the conferring of
an honorary membership upon
Mrs. Irene McCoy Gaines, noted
civic leader of Chicago. This honor
will lie bestowed by Mrs. Lola M.
Barker, also of Chicago, Founder
President Emeritus of the soror-
ity.
The hostess chapters are Alpha
Ivho t'f New -Orleans and Beta
Theta of Baton Rouge.
the social events planned for the
visitors is a lawn party on Sat-
nrda; evening, a luncheon, and a
picnic at the Gulfside Hotel
Waveland, Mississippi.
As is the custom, the conven¬
tion will close with the closed
formal banquet and installation of
„,Y U , :s 0 . Wednesday night, Au-
gust 14.
$ATU*DAT, AUGUST S, 1957
Between The Lines
By Dean Gordon B. Hancock for ANP
SOUTHERNERS IN' SADDLE !
Southern Congressmen who are
fighting against civil right* leg-
i.slation look like big leaguere,
while the supporter of the legis-
iation looks pitiful. We have to
hand it to the southerners, they
are fighters and little by little
they are emasculating the civil
Tights bill.
“How Far The Promised Land?”
asked the late Walter White in
his last hook, becomes more and
more a bristling whose answer is, !
it is difficult to determine. One
day hope is flooding like the tide
and the next, hope wanes like the
setting of the sun at evening.
It all goes to show that we must
be patient and cautious lest we
become victims of despair. The
fight for civil rights is not mere*
ly a battle, it is a war; and wars
are won the hard, long way. That
we shall win there is little room
to doubt for God and Time and
Right are on our side; but we are
told that God is never in a hurry!
And as to date the Senate has
killed that section of the civil
rights bill that would permit fed¬
eral injunctions to enforce school
integration and the southerners,
victorious thus far in their every
contention, are freely predicting
that the trial by jury will go the
way of the boards next week.
So it sees that if a civil rights !
bill is passed it will be the mere'
shadow of the bill passed on to
the Senate by the House. The 1
southerners are jubilant and well
they may be, for they arc win-1
ning the congressional war against I
civil rights for Negroes.
We are just face to face with
the serious question how much
does this country want the Negro
to have civil rights? What more
comfort do the Russians want
than the spectacle of the destruc-
tion of a hill of civil rights.
Giving comfort to the enemy
has long been held in derision by
the patriots of this and other coun¬
tries. What about the comfort that
is given by the destruction of a
perfectly good civil rights bill?
But the Negro must take flesh
courage and press on. That there
was a civil rights bill to be de,-
stroyed is more significant than
its destruction. ,Y-
The truth will make us free. We
must look in various places to
Seek Enlarged Integration
In North Carolina Schools
CHARLOTTE, N. C., July
-Parents of 3(i school children
whose applications for admission
to previously all-white schools
were turned down by the Char¬
lotte school board were scheduled
to meet here today to prepare an
appeal to the school board for re¬
consideration of the rejected appli-
j cations. A
voteii ° n to '* ll * y asslgn t * (<’ ,c white sdjoolbokijd schoo.s
ilve ,,f the 41 c ” ‘ ron ap ‘
plied. Similar action was taken by
school boards in Winston-Salem
and Greensboro in accordance with
the state’s pupil assignment act
permitting local action to inte¬
grate the schools. Winston-Salem
reassigned one child and Greens¬
boro six. A total of 51 pupils made
application for reassignment in the
three cities.
The decision to admit 12 of the
applicants to “white” schools was
the first voluntary step towards
integration of the elementary and
secondary public schools in North
Carolina and the first break in the
TO ATTEND STYLE
SEMINAR
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modern haircutting techniques.
fashions in coiffure design, and
•yling for the individuality of
he patron.
Mrs. Myers plans to bring the
nost advanced hair fashions
ack to Savannah as a result
f this visit to New York. Only
.'xperienced hairdressers are
eligible to attend the institute,
i post-graduate hair styling
■enter which is under the per-
onal direction of Robert Fiance.
j | Mr. Fiance, a well-known au-
! hor and lecturer in the beauty
| field, has also taught hair de¬
j sign at the University of
Maryland and the University of
Miami. Many of the country’s
leading hair designers and
prize-winning coiffure stylists
have studied with Mr. Fiance.
Mrs. Meyrs will be part of an
ernational student body at
the institute, whose post
graduate students have includ
ed representatives from Lon-
don, Paris, Vienna, Thailand.
.
Trinidad, the Philippines, Union
ci South Africa, Isreal, Austral-
in thi * t r»f ilfl
This writer finds it in pleri-
Vy papers. in one The Richmond of Richmond News s 21
the evening paper, in yester-
issue, had this lament: The
news, let us face it squarely,
almost unrelievedly bad for
those persons interested in the
survival, of the South and the
preservation of the Constitution,
In Clinton, Tenn., a jury con-
victed seven defendants of con*-
spiring to act in comtempt of a
federal injunction. In Texas, an
appellate court overruled Judge
Hawley’s decision in an integra-
tion case and ordered Negro plain-
tiffs admitted to a Dallas schooh
In Florida, another appellate
Federal court reversed a district
court and ordered race-mixing in
jdiafni schools. And in Charlotte,
Greensboro and Winston-Salem,
NYC., pupil assignment hoards di-
retted the admission of 12 Negro
pupils to previously all-white
Schools. Each of these events is
a blow. ...
Distressing as these decisions
may be, the news from North Car¬
olina is in some ways a deeper
blow. Until today it had been
possible to say that eight South-
ern states had held the line abso¬
lutely. Now there are seven
North Garolina has cracked, and
of course, there will be no stop-
ping of 12 Negro pupils there;
they arc the vanguard of thou-
sands whose petitions r— not that
the principle of race-mixing has
been accepted — North Carolina
cannot deny.
And so the most rabid and the
most radical of the Negrophobes
weeps and gnashes his teeth after
the manner described and because
of his deep distress Negroes can
take heart for the war for the
tiyil rights of Negroes is far from
lost.
When a Southerner laments, thus
things are not all safe for those
who would eternalize the Negro’s
second elate citizenship. Just as
the Negro must worry about what
is taking place in Congress so are
the Negrophobes worrying about
what is-taking place in the South.
This writer is chiefly concerned
ovei; the fact that Congress is
giving comfort to our enemies the
communists. The South in the
Saddle.
hitherto solid defiance of the Su-
prenif fourt’s ban on segregated
education by authorities in eigljt
southern states. In addition to
North Carolina, these include Yir-,, .
ginia, r South Carolina, Florfdp.
Georgia; Alabama, Mississippi and
Louisiana.
_.*! !
Coihnjenting on tlie action of
the three school boards, Kelly
Alexander, president of the North
Carolina Conference of NAACP
branches, said: “It is encouraging
to see North Carolina move into
the Class of respectability as to
implementation of the Supreme
Court decision in the field.of pub¬
lic education. The school hoards
of Charlotte, Winston-Salem and
Greensboro are to he commended
for . . . approving the admission
of Negro pupils to previously all-
white schools. The NAACP in
North Carolina had predicted that
school boards in the larger cities
of western North Carolina would
take the leadership in the dcseg-
1 rogation of the public schools of
the state.”
a, New Zealand, Brazil, Hong
Cong, and Istanbul.
MAT! FUNERAL
DIRECTORS TO MEET
(Continued from Page One)
‘S also treasurer of the Central
Uife Insurance Company of Flor¬
ida.
Other awards will be presented
by the St. Louis Undertakers As¬
sociation to John Kirkpatrick, edi¬
tor and publisher of the East St.
Louis Crusader; Nathaniel Sweets,
editor of the St. Louis American;
and Mrs. Nannie Mitchell Turner,
president, St. Louis Argus Pub¬
lishing Company.
The main highlights of the con¬
vention will he the change of the
Association name, dropping the
word "Negro.”
STONE LODGE TO
MOTOR TO
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> a. m. Tickets on -sale at 541
W. Gwinnett street, phone AD
2-9961. The motorcade is spon-
sored by lodges 1, 3, 8 and 10.
Charlie Stone is president:
Alonzo Adams, vice president,
and Bro. Lewis, chairman.