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TUSKEGEE’S TRADE CENTER
its*. From The
World
Near tH# sprawling and grassy com¬
mons <^ 1( jpimmon’.s Gardens, in the heart
of Tugkegee’s fastest growing suburb,
the mnv Negro trade center, constructed
by the,,&ull interests, is doing a flourish¬
ing burgess.
Now,.ip the second year and affording
Tnskegee Negro citizens excellent trade
facilities, this center not only promises
to be' % permanent fixture in Tnskegee
life and liberty, hut a model Negro busi¬
ness venture for other communities.
TusJoagee is the seat of Macon County,
Alabama, where the Negro population
outnumbers the whites. Such a chal¬
lenge the Negro community proposed, the
County’s Representative, Sam Knglehart,
introduced legislation for the cutting up
of M»t»n County into five slices to be
handed over to adjoining counties.
The^City of Tnskegee also was gerry¬
mander'd so as to leave most Negro eit-
izens' IK out of the city limits who lived
closgjik the vu;cle while by spreading looping white out citizens with into
no re¬
gard^ w>r distance in outlying territories.
• j e^J KHRUSHCHEV NOT VISIT THE SOUTH
THANK GOD, DID
From The Carolina Times
Negro citizens of the United States and
especially those of Ihe South, need not
get too excited, enthusiastic or hopeful
over the recent Visit of Premier Nikita
Khrushchev to this country. Now that
the world’s top communist has left these
shores and the president of the United
States and its other important leaders are
getting back to earth again it might not
he.a bad idea to, do a little down-to-
earth thinking labout this visitor for
whom the red carpet was rolled out, the
strong-arm of the FBI was ordered to
protect at all cost and every conceivable
effort was made to make him feel wel¬
come. it might not he a had idea to re¬
flect fop a moment over this godless man
who turned down an invitation to attend
church because, as he said, it might be
misunderstood b\ his people.
That tPremier Khrushchev did not visit
the Soith while he was in the United
States [was probably planned or inten¬
tional. Had he come to this section of
the nation the world would have been
treated to the sorry spectacle of our
southern governors drooling at the
mouth just to get an opportunity to
“touch the hem of his garment.” For,
lest we forget, no southerner of import¬
ance has expressed more than stock op¬
position to the Soviet premier. After all,
Khrushchev right, irrespective is white of and Russia’s that stockpile makes him
of
nuclear, weapons which he has rattled
again and again at this country and in
defiance of its president’s bid for peace.
ME ANY ATTACKED THE WRONG MAN
From The Carolina Times
President George Meany of the AFL*
CIO jumped on the wrong man, so far as
Negro fit citizens of this country are con¬
cerned, .when he attacked A. Philip Ran¬
dolph list week because of his stand on
the question of racial discrimination
within the ranks of the AFL-(TO. Meany’s
inquiry of Randolph, “who in the hell
gave you the authority to speak for the
Whole Negro race?” is a question that
any intelligent Negro or respectable or¬
ganization of the race would be glad to
answer in the affirmative for Mr. Ran¬
dolph. . ) «»
There are some segments of the AFL-
CIO tjiat ktink to high heaven with dis¬
crimination a fact of which every Negro
of average intelligence in this country is
fully a wars'. As an accepted Negro lead¬
er, both within and outside of labor, Mr.
Randolph, we think, was absolutely on
solid ground when he proposed that, the
AFL-C'IO Convention take positive action
against si^h solid discrimination. ground when He he took cer¬
tainly waspn
his stand afiunst the discrimination which
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Jamaican I__.• _ Wms tlifl 3»14 J,0UU BA!!
In Soccer Pf»w a
LONDON —<ANP) — Reuben
McCatty, a 4$?year-old Jamai-
can last week won $140,000 in
a soccer pool McCatty, a 1950
National Advertising Representative*
Associated Publishers
55 West 42nd Street
New York 36. New York
166 W. Washington 8t.
Chicago 2, 111.
Mr R.obprt Whaley
Whaley-Slmpson Company
6G08 Selma Ave.
Los Angeles 28, California
Mr. Gordon Simpson
Whaley-Slmpson Company
700 Montgomery St.
San Jranctsco 11, California
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The condition brought about thfe pok¬
ing around to see what could be done in
the line of the Negro helping himself. This
idea of a trade center occurred and in a
short time, Tuskegee Negroes had some¬
thing much resembling some Atlanta
suburban shopping centers.
These shops are owned and manned by
Negro personnel, dealing in Hirst-class
merchandise, with a service far in excess
of what the Negro trade had been en¬
joying.
Simmons Garden is a Bull subdivision,
situated on Tuskegee’s Southwest side. It
comprises fine homes, modernly equipped
and near the Lewis Adams and the Catho¬
lic Schools.
The Montgomery-Atlanta highway is
an appropriate vein for outgoing and in¬
coming trade.
Many young people are being employed
in the various shops. They are gaining
valuable experience in the sales business
as well as that much denied apprentice¬
ship for the setting up and the operation
of business for themselves.
Lest we forget, Mr. Khrushchev’s white
skin entitles him to eat, sleep and get
the best in any restaurant or hotel in
Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina or
other southern state, where to be a Ne¬
gro is considered worse than being a
communist—we mean a white commun¬
ist. For lest we forget again, no south¬
erner has ever asked another souther¬
ner or white man, would you want your
daughter to marry a communist? On
the other hand, when he wishes to “floor”
a moderate or liberal of his race, he al¬ |
the nasty inquiry, i
ways comes up with
would you want your daughter to mar¬
ry a Negro?
Negroes will, therefore, need to learn
the lesson from Khrushchev’s visit to
America that one’s belief in God, one’s
loyalty to his country, one’s good charac¬
ter, one’s education, one’s respectability
or one’s cultural development cannot pur¬
chase human dignity and first-class citi¬
zenship in the South, if the possessor of
these fine traits happen to be a Negro.
This top communist, this atheist, this
deadly enemy of democracy and every¬
thing we hold dear in this country would
have gotten the “glad hand” anywhere
in the South had he visited here. Thank
God he did not come, lest its Negro cit¬
izens had been forced to bow their heads
in shame at the antics that would have
been carried on bv those in this region
who live and die bv the philosophy that
“white makes right,” even if you are a
communist.
Whether President Meany knows it or
not any Negro leader who does not take
the stand taken by Randolph may as well
“turn in his uniform,” because the min¬
ute it becomes known among the rank
and file of his race that he refuses to
stand up and be counted his days of lead¬
ership are over. Meany and all other
persons so situated may as well face up
to the fact that the day of the puppet
Negro leader is over and that only those
who are willing to pay the price are!ac¬
ceptable to sensible and respectable Ne¬
groes.
The long years of sacrifice and fearless
fighting for his race has more than
earned A. Philip Randolph the right to
speak for Negroes in this country on the
question of discrimination within the
ranks of labor or anywhere else it is
found. So far as Negroes are concerned
President Meany has lost stature as a
labor leader by defending Jim Crow lo¬
cals within the ranks of labor while Ran¬
dolph has gained stature by opposing it.
The former will be watched with an eagle
eye in the future.
graduate of Howard University
Washin&ton D c ., said he will
use his tax-free winnings to
become a doctor.
in England for the past two
1 years. McCatty has been work-
ing as a hospital attendant. Hs
has studied medicine five
n Switzerland and
his studies while in London.
The nation-wide pool is con-
ducted weekly on the results of
55 professional soccer games
The aim is too pick tie games,
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE
WHY NOT TACKLE THE PROBLEMS AT HOME
WITH THE SAME DETERMINATION?
By Dick Jarrett for ANI’
Are Negroes Americans,
are their traditions the
can traditions or should
Negro direct his loyalties to Af-
rica and the Africans? Not
must the Negro answer
perplexing question, but his an
swer is a creative one and
that demands an expanse
energy that the Negro has
previously been willing to make
The first Negro slaves
brought to this country
1610; planted here in
when there were only a
milti-colored savage Tndiaas,
few English and French
gates one step ahead of the
thorities and a colony of reli¬
gious deviates.
lt was only many years,
that the Irish. Italian.
and others began to
to this country. But due to
restrictions placed on the
gro, and the Negro’s own
tia, the Negro has been
stripped both economically
politically by other peoples.
It was easy, however, to
the Negro as a scapegoat,
Jimmy Hoffa and the Teamster
By Richard M. Smythe
Detroit Michigan is one of the
most highly industrialized cities
in our nation and also the home
of the teamster president James
Hoffa.
Bocause of this, the McClel-
lan Senate Rackets
deliberately designated Detroit
as the seat of discriminatory
union membership by the team-
sters..
Two outstanding proofs reveal-
ing Hoffa’s and the teamsters
attitude on Negro
in Detroit is revealed in a tel-
egram which read: “Dear Sen-
ator McClellan:
“This is to inform you
we, the members of Local
herewith make a formal
against the accusations
before your committee
ing our local president, Mr
James R. Hoffa. We are Ne-
°T groes 0 es and ana have nave been Deen memutus
!Vr a number of years of Local
299. We have never been dis¬
against. We have
never known Mr. Hoffa to dis¬
criminate against our brother
members.
Want Public Informed Of
Telegram
“We would like for you to
make this telegram known
the public for our record”
message was signed by H. Pat-
rick Goodyear Rubber Compa-
ny . Loren Basscr. Penn-Dixie
I Cement 'corp- T L. Edwards,
' Harbor Terminal- B
Detroit
! Stephens Lakeshore
and 150 more Negro members of
I ' 299
Another telegra mthat receiv-
Columbus might never have
' discovered the New World if
j his name had been Tom. Dick
or Harry. The World Book
' Encyclopedia reports that he
i was named after Saint Chris-
i the Negro is so different in phy-
sical attributes such as
hair, etc., which make him
[stand .out from the general
mass.
As stated above, the United
States has been settled
many peoples and is termed,
Melting Pot’ by historians.
because Americans as
cans fought against the com-
men enemy and not as racial
or nationalist groups. German
nuie.icdun Americans rnd niu German uvuuaii iltal- «uu-
ians fought against tlhe Axis
,oa, «... --- ------
Negro Nationalism are
ing a lack of tradition and
roots. Yet only a few years
ago, Negro Americans were
ashamed of the land they
lieved primitive and inhabited
by savage cannibals.
i
Children are noted for their
j imitation of adults and
tion is usually the trait
j j a childish mentality, Apes are
imitative. The Negro is im-
itating the Nationalist move-
ments as experienced by the
i Chinese, the Arabs, the Ger-
mans, Asiatics, and the
ed the ‘brush-off’ by being
buried with silence by the Me-
Clellan committee and the
newspapers was one from
ry Campbell, a business agent
for local 299 of the
teamsters union.
, , „ „
Campbell pointed out that
there are hundreds of Negroes
in local 299, and at least four
other Negroes are Teamsters
officials in Joint Council 43 in
the Detroit area. “These
cations and accusations regard-
ing discrimination against
groes by Mr. Hoffa and Local
299 are false. They are not true
I am a Negro and
proud to inform you that I am
also a business
forlocal 299.
Senator McClellan and his
C °" nSel ^ and th "
entire comr nittee—a large part
of which reactionary in its
| attitude towards labor, knew
| and were told that one of the
first acts James R. Hoffa made
1 as General President of the
; Teamsters Union policy against
i discrimination.
I 1° 1958. Hoffa
letter to all teamsters
urging the practice of
; “non-discrimination because of
race, color, or creed” throughout
the International Union. Hof-
fa also informed the entire
tional and international mem-
that “this policy
reaffirmed at the February
! meeting of the General Executive
1 Board.”
~
| topher, patron saint of sailors
and travelers. He saw in his
j name a sign that he was des-
•,______,____“ tine d to carry Christianity to
heathen lands.
in Africa.
But the American Negro does
not have the unifying and con-
crete goal that these national-
1st movements have.
cannot say as the Chinese
China for the Chinese,
the white man out; nor as
Africas, Africa for the Afri-
cans throw the white man
nor as the Arabs, Arabia
the Arabs, throw the white man
[out. For the Negro to
his ms efforts enuris on on a a nationalist nationalist
movement is to doom his strug-
-i-
Negroes are Americans
[and only as Americans
j can they approach the so-
) lution of the racial problems
As Americans and Negroes, they
j are free from the burdensome
j traditions that stifle creative
j thinking. >
They can create and at the
same time owe their sentiments
[and convictions to the United
States and a more Christian
Democratic society. Only with
this approach will the Ameri-
j can Negro avoid the blind alley
which they are now heading.
We Support Americanism
j “However, to simply reaffirm
this policy means nothing un¬
we are prepared to take
: positive action. As members
of the American labor move-
[ ment, we support every tenet of
EQUAL OP-
i PORTUNITY is one of those
Tenets of AMERICANISM,” he
declared,
In his letter to all the Locals
of the International Union,
James Hoffa further asserted
that the Teamster policy of
“non-discrimination is based not
upon our (union) Consti-
[ tution, but also upon the
11 r a d i t \ o n a 1 belief of
labor movement in
[ brotherhood of man. As Amer-
icans we should be opposed
bigotry and racial
tion at every turn, and do
erything possible to make
Bill of Rights a reality Dm
Hoffa "cites" Union
Hoffa further cited the
ster Constitution, Section 2,
ticle II which declares:
person of good moral
employed in the craft or
various employments over
this International Union
jurisdiction, shall „ be eligible
membership in this
tion.” He concluded by
| ing all the locals that “the
j eral Executive Board asks
full support in enforcing
1 non-discriminatrin policy,
behalf of the Oeneal
j tive local Board. union I urge to take each and
I ery
action in this regard.”
| The cost of
i America was about $14,000
the P rice of fitting out
three ships of
cording to The World
Encyclopedia.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1359
STATEMENT OF OWNER¬
SHIP
STATEMENT REQUIRED
BY THE ACT OF AUGUST
24, 1912, AS AMENDED
BY THE ACTS OF MARCH
3, 1933, AND JULY 2, 1946
(TITLE 39, UNITED
STATES CODE, SECTION
233) SHOWING THE OWN¬
ERSHIP, MANAGEMENT,
) AND CIRCULATION OF
The Savannah Tribune pub¬
lished weekly — Thursday at
Savannah, Georgia, for October
1, 1S58.
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of the publisher, editor, man¬
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managers are:
Publisher, Mrs. Willa M.
Ayers Johnson,
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annah, Georgia.
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Johnson,
1009 West Broad Street, Sav¬
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M. Ayers Johnson, Savannah,
Georgia.
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mortgagees, and other security
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(My commission expires July
24, 1960.)
■JRS1 NEGRO ON
MISS. GRAND JURY
'lINfT JllNLL RFPnNSTRIIPT’N KlIUcIj I I\UU 1 li
CANTON, Miss. — (ANP) —
Walter Brown, 49, a
farmer, last week was
eled on a Madison
grand jury and became
first member of his race
serve on such a body since re¬
construction.
Appointed to the grand jury
tiy Circuit Judge Leon Hen¬
dricks of Jackson, Miss,, Brown
and ether white jurists will
consider charges against
Negroes accused of brutually
1 beating a white policeman last
, July 27. The policeman, E. B.
j j with Cauthen, was and allegedly beaten
poles a piece of iron
by the group after he had stop-
ped their truck.
Cauthen suffered facial para¬
lysis and is unable to speak.
Held in connection with
beating are John Edmonds,
and his two sons, Willie
Sterling, and Hal Joe
Two others, Amos
and Jim Edmonds, are
| being sought.
1 Brown awns a 15-acre
0 miles east of here -
is in the area where the
ing occurred.
Pastor
Charged
(Continued from Pa>?e One)
for the law.
She made the second
pointment to meet the caller
Jefferson and Connor.
minister kept the date and
placed under arrest by
ing detectives. He
himself as the caller.
Police said the woman’s
ber was selected at
from the phone book.
minister has never been
ted and cannot explain
1 reason for his action He
married and lives with his
AN OPEN LETTER
Savannah, Georgia
October 5, 1959
Mr. Frank Rynes
Bynes Royall Funeral Home
Savannah, Georgia
Dear Mr. Bynes:
I am sure you are aware of
the litigation that has current¬
ly appeared in the Savannah
Morning News and Press, which
resulted in several discussions
before the Mayor and Aider-
men of City Council, regarding
the zoning of the area, known
as Addition No. 2 to Carver
Heights, in which we live and
the objections to the erection
of a funeral home in this area.
At the last meeting of Coun¬
cil on September 25, 1959, while
you were not present, the
Mayor and Aldermen of the
city saw fit not to go along
with the total recommendation
of the Metropolitan Planning
Commission to zone the area
residential, but granted the
petition to zone, making an
exception, however, to your
proposed funeral home on 42nd
and Ogeechee Road. While in
our pleas we objected to the
funeral home on the grounds
that it • would in many ways
affect the uniqueness of our
neighborhood. We now have no
other alternative but to abide
by the dictates of our city
officials. However, Mr. Bynes,
while this is all true, we the
property owners in this area
still hold and feel that the
erection of the funeral home
will in no way enhance our
neighborhood nor will it soothe
our innermost feelings.
We are wondering if under
the circumstances in some way
you would! forego the idea;
certainly since it is to the ob¬
vious dislike of so many people
who are affected and who are
some of the very people from
which you expect to maintain
your livelihood.
We realize that your boyhood
dreams were to become a suc¬
cessful Mortician in your home
j ^----- town. Likewise, " we too had Ildu
i dreams of , developing homes in
our ar0a that WQuld ^ & credi) .
to our People, unmolested and
undisturbed. Mr. Bynes, if you
consult the records, there is no
zoned residential areas in thp
city of Savannah for Negroes.
Until recently this section was
composed of emp’y lots. It has
grown tremendously into a
neighborhood that is spoken of
by many as a very nice one.
Think of the toil, sweat, blood
and many years that it took
net one but many to accom¬
plish this feat and for many of
us this may be our last oppor-
tunity t0 reach the fulfillment
° f ° Ur dreams while on th e
-
other hand, THE STABILITY
J j OF A BUSINESS ESTABLISH-
MENT IS FLEXIBLE AND IN
j MANY INSTANCES THE SUC-
CESS OF WHICH. MAKES THE
PLACE OF THE ESTABLISH¬
MENT NOT SO IMPORTANT
BUT RATHER THE KIND AND
CONSIDERATE DISPOSITION
OF THOSE THAT OPERATE
THE BUSINESS.
We are writing to you because
we feel that a man of your
accomplishments having achiev¬
ed recognition in the Military
Service, in Religion, and in
civic leadership. In fact, every
phase of life where the devel¬
opment of people and particu¬
larly people with whom you
are identified., We would expect
your earnest endeavor to sup-
oort our claim even though
having been assured the power
to do otherwise.
Our letter is not directed to
impede your progress in busi¬
ness nor to abridge your priv¬
ilege as a citizen to live and
move in any direction you so
desire, but rather it is hoped
that you would understand
that our ultimate aim has
been that of the perpetuation
of our homes and home life
which of course contributes to
every phase of peace, happi¬
ness, health and good will to¬
ward people everywhere. There¬
fore, would you in your fair
judgment think seriously of
our purpose and if at all possi¬
ble forego the idea of erecting
the funeral home on 42nd and
Ogeechee Road.
With every good wish for
your continued success in busi¬
ness and in every way that will
make you and yours happy.
Very sincerely,
Tne Undersigned:
Mrs. Dorothy Hubert Walker
Benjamin J. Walker
Mrs. Eleanor B. Williams
Ira E. Williams
Orell Webb. Sr.
Mrs Dorothy D Webb
Herbert B. Dixon i