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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
VOLUME I.XXVIII
<iiiiin»ii RrusirinU Toure Gets Warm Welcome in U.S.A
President Toure Visits N. C.
Mutual’s Home Office
PRESIDENT SPAULDING GREETS PRESIDENT TOURE From left: Arva Floyd, Interpreter,
Department ol State; His Excellency Sekou Toure, President of the Republic of Guinea- Robert
*• G ?, rng ' a "- De P ut y Chief of Protocol, Department of State; Asa T. Spaulding, President of North
Carolina Mutua , ; .an unidentified person, J. W. Gcodloe, Vice President and Secretary, North
Carolina Mutual; Major Lambert, Paul H. Clar.<e, Security Officer, Department of State.
October
lionored h^Lrt C K by r ° lina a visit \ o Ut , from Ual ^
Excellency Sekou Toure,
dent of the Republic of
Mrs. Toure, and their
a ® e -
Rock Hill CORE
Registers To Vote
Rock Hill, S. C.—More
100 additional Negroes will
eligible to vote in the
er 1st Rock Hili, South
lira municipal election
of the three-day whirlwind reg¬
istration campaign of CORE.
In a driving rainstorm
bers of CORE made a door-to-
drior canvas seeking oct those
not yet registered to vote. The
chairman of the newly
ed Rock Hill CORE group
Thomas M. Murdock, a photo-
grapher. The group was
sisted by National Field Sccre-
tary James T. McCain.
CORE workers helped in fill-
lng out registration forms
erly and provided transportation
for all those needing it. A
memtaer of CORE was stationed
near the registration office to
give last minute aid and to get
names, addresses and certifi.
catc numbers of those who reg-
, «.*«« persons
may be contacted w ^ ien
■ Continued on Page Four,
Open House at Bethlehem Center Sunday
SCENES OF SERVICES OFFERED AT BETHLEHEM COMMUNITY CENTER
1. Day-Care for Children of Em¬ 2. Community Service-Jonquil Car¬ Leisure Time Activities for
ployed Parents den Club School-Age Children
• The board and staff of Beth¬
lehem Community Center am
Day-Care Center will hold opor
house Sunday, November
from 3 00-5:00 p.m. at th<
Center, 303 West Gwinnett St
Everyone is invited.
Bethlehem Community Cen¬
ter opened its doors to 230
children and 114 adults
the month of October.
From Monday through Fri¬
day afternoons the doors have
swung wide as boys and
have come in to such groups
as the “Jack Jill Club” for
6 and 7 year olds;., or the
“Tuesday Good Time Club” for
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Following a program at
North Carolina College, Presi-
dent Toure and his party arriv-
j ed at the Home Office of North
Carolina Mutual at 11:20 a.m.
, where he was greeted by North
' Carolina Mutual’s President,
Omegas’ Achievement Week
at SSC
Climaxing the annual observ¬
ance of National Achievement
Weelt ’ the local Omegas will
sponsor a public program on
November 15 at the six
vespers in Meldrim Auditorium
Savannah State College. The
public is coidiaiiy invited.
j Speaker, for the occasion;
will be Bro. Paul L. Taylor, Dr.
Taylor is director of Guiding
j and Testing and Professor of
Education at Savannah State!
College. Born in Darien, Ga.,:
the speaker is a graduate of
Johnson C. Smith University,
(A B . l; Hartford Seminary
Foundation, Hartfrod, Conn.,
(M A ) . McCormick Theologi-
ca j seminary, Chicago <B. D.);
Western Theological Seminary,
j Pittsburgh, Pa., (M. Th.); and
j nd j ana University, Blooming-
, t nc j ,£<•[ n ,
pa5tored
Carohna and’ New York.
1 and, while Associate Professor
a year olds. A group of 19 sub-
,epn boys have come in on
friday afternoons to do worxl-
work under the direction
William Russell, a student
Savannah State college. Others
have come to cook or to sew,
to paint, to sing, to play toge¬
ther, to plan together with the
guidance of an adult worker
activities to enrich their
Six such groups are now or-
ganized. In addition there is a
parents’ club which meets
monthly, composed of parents
of day-care children
Halloween week there were
j parties . each afternoon—masks
Asa T. Spaulding The entire
party toured the building with
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I ic eS an ry
j f tour W ' ended °. 0<> ?'.° / ln e the , c ^ Home arge ‘ Ofi ? fici r hc 1
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I)r l Paul L l Tavlor ^ j
of o Education w and College ... Min-: ;
ister . , , at ... Arkansas A. M. and N.
College. Pine Bluff, he organ-
ized _______| the First U. S. Presbyterian
tContinued on Page Eight*
were made, candy apples cook-
■ ed, jack-o-lanterns molded
from paper-mache. On Friday
afternoon a group of 10 girls
with milk cartons in hand went
out in the neighborhood to
“Trick or Treat for UNICEF.”
They collected $2.55.
Volunteer workers play an
important part in the program
of Bethlehem Community Cen-
ter. Assisting with groups this
month or in some other capa-
city have been Mrs. Helen
Brown, Mrs. Ronelle Taylor, Mrs j
Sadie Chance, Mis Richard
Sheets, Mrs. Lansdeil Banks,:
Mrs. Regina Graves, Mrs. W. M.
SAVANNAH, GEOBGLA SATURDAY, NOV. 14, 1939
By Charles J. Livingston
for Associated Negro Press
CHICAGO — President Sekou
Toure, the man who bravely
led his country into independ¬
ence from French rule a year
ago, received a warm and
heartening welcome during his
three-day visit to Chicago re¬
cently.
Arriving by air from Durham,
N. C, where he made history as
the first black man to be hosted
officially by a southern gover¬
nor, Toure received full honors
reserved for visiting heads of
>tstr. The round of festivities
started the moment his plane
touched down at Midway air¬
port and continued through
early Saturday, when he de¬
for Los Angeles, the
stop on his 16-day good¬
tour of the United States.
Toure’s tour of the country
began after he and Madame
Toure were hosted by Presi¬
and Mrs. Eisenhower In
In the capitoi, the
were housed at Blair
the presidential guest
and entertained by
President at an elaborate
House dinner. It was
Eisenhower who invi-
President Toure to the
States.
Local Y Teenager Wins
at Natn’l
Miss Saundra Barnett, daugh¬
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Bar¬
nett, and local representative
to the National Y-Teen Con¬
ference held in New York City
and Washington, D. C., won
laurels for the Savannah Y-.
Teen Clubs.
She participated whole¬
heartedly throughout the con¬
ference, and while actively
engaged during a discussion
decided to close her
with an original poem
titled “The, Spirit of Citizen¬
This resulted in her receiv¬
an invitation to read her
on the occasion of the
banquet scheduled
Saturday, November 7. De¬
the fact that teenagers
from north, south, east
west to consider together
Role in National and
Affairs,” Miss Barnett
the only Y-Teen of her
to appear on the banquet
Following the presentation,
delegate was com-
highly by Miss Doro-
Woods, Consultant for
Development, _ ' . who , was
resent , . th e ... , . ™ CA
ene ™' Switzerland. , In addres-
the members of the con-
Miss Woods told her
Wright, Mrs. Dora Bryant, Mrs.
Emma Lewis. A recent teenage
volunteer is Ernest Parlin.
Adults ot our community
have come through Bethlehem
Center’s doors for educational,
social and cultural meetings.
Such groups as the Men’s Rose
Garden Cub and the Food Ser¬
vice and Management Dept, of
the State Department of Edu¬
cation have held workshops in
the ' building. '^ Tuiidi)^ Other 'have'been groups
u slng
the 0mega Phi Psi Fraternity,
j on q U jj Garden Club, the
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In more serious moments.
Presidents Elsenhower and
Toure discussed the economic
and political future of Guinea
and its relationship with the
United States.
Gets Red Carpet Treatment
In Washington also, the am¬
bassadors of the free African
countries were hosts to Presi¬
dent and Madame Toure at an
elaborate reception In Mayflo¬
wer hotel.
In fact, everywhere they
went, officials went out of their
way to give the 37 year old
Negro president of the new
African republic a great re¬
ception. Chicago was no ex¬
ception.
President Toure was met at
the airport by Mayor Richard
J. Daley and other city leaders
and driven in a police motor¬
cade through the city to his
hotel. The following day, he
was officially welcomed by the
mayor at city hall and given
the keys to the city. At city
hall, he reviewed an honor
guard composed of army, navy
and air force personnel, led by
the Fifth Army band.
Later in the day, he was
taken on a tour of the city’s
southside, predominantly pop-
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Miss Saundra Barnett
listeners, whom Miss Barnett!
had captivated, that there was \
nothing that she could include ;
in her speech on citizenship ‘
that w-as not incorporated in
the teenager’s poem from the
Southern Region.
Miss Barnett was requested
at the end of the banquet pro¬
gram to send copies of “The
Spirit of Citizenship” to The
Bookshelf, a YWCA bulletin for
teenage program leaders, and
The YWCA Magazine, which is
the national publication for
the Young Womens' Christian
Association of the United States
(Continued on Page 8j
Mr. Stanley Named
To API Seminar
Frank L. Stanley, Sr., Pub¬
lisher of the Louisville Defend¬
er, has been named a member
of the American Press Insti¬
tute's Seminar of New Methods
of producing newspapers at
Columbia University from No¬
vember 8 to 20.
The Seminar is for news¬
paper executives who publish
newspapers which have under
40,000 circulation. Twenty-five
cities in seventeen states and
two countries will be represen¬
ted.
The group will study ajll new
machines, materials, and me¬
thods involved in producing a
newspaper. They will put main
interest on (1) the reader, (2t
the advertiser, <3i production
costs, and (4) internal opera¬
tion of all newspaper depart¬
ments. They wifi visit and
study model newspaper plants
in the vicinity of New York
City and be guests of the As¬
sociated Press, United Press
International, and the New
York Times.
Mr. Stanley will be the sec¬
ond Defender Editor to attend
the American Press Institute.
The late Prank H. Gray was in
attendance about 10 years ago.
In each instance they were the
only Negro members.
Successful ’Register to Vote’
Campaign Conducted
RECEIVES AWARD—Mrs. Eve
lyn Hormcs, 218 W.
Street, is shown receiving a
$50 award for causing
highest number over 50
to register to vote. The award
There Lx usually the feeling
that too many are not bothered
about the progress of their
community. They do nothing
to improve conditions.
But several months ago some
did decide that they were NOT
satisfied and were going to
see what THEY could do to
help.
A small group set about con¬
ducting house to house meet¬
St. Louis NAACP Memorializes
of Wilkins
ST. IXIUIS — A house now
being demolished to make way
for a huge urban renewal pro¬
ject has been memorialized by
the St. LouLs branch of the
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
as the birthplace of NAACP
Executive Secretary Ruy Wil¬
kins.
An NAACP life membership
scroll commemorating Mr. Wil¬
kins’ birthplace will be presen¬
ted to Mrs. Nellie O. Wilkins,
the NAACP leader’s stepmoth¬
er, at the branch’s sixth annual
tea here on Sunday, Nov. 8.
Presentation will he made by
SSC ALUMNI PRESENT CHECK
Dr, William K. Payne, Presi¬
dent, Savannah State College,
accepts alumni scholarship fund
A Dams 4-3433
was preset)ted by E. C. Black- j •
shear for the Most Worshipful
Prince Hall Grand Lodge Mas-'
of Georgia. Looking on is!
Rev. George D. Walker who:
served as guide at the court-1
ings—their purpose to get peo¬
ple to register to vote.
At some of the houses many
people met. At other homes
there were few. Never giving
up, this group adopted the slo¬
gan: “From Little Acorns Oak
Trees Grow,” and kept working.
Borne of Savannah’s citizens
like Mrs. Laura King, Theodore
Roberts, Walter Bogan, Rev. P.
A. Patterson, Mrs. Spencer
Mrs. Margaret Bu3h Wilson,
president of the St. Louis
branch,
NAACP $501) life memberships
have frequently been taken out
Ih memory of individual per¬
sons but tins is the first to
memorialize a person's birth¬
place.
'I lie scroll certifies that an
NAAfP life membership "is
hereby vested in 2G18 Laclede
Avenue, Samt Louis, Missouri,
birthplace of Roy Wilkins,’’
The site of tiie homestead Is
within two blocks of the pres¬
ent NAACP branch ollice
Bt. Louis.
check for $4600.00 from Leonard
W. Law, president. Savannah
State College National Alumni
Association, as Prince Jackson,
Price 10c \
NUMBER C
house on several Monday., fr
3-5 pan. He also was adv<
at many block meeting., hc,d
to stimulate people to reg..,' - r
to vote,
White, S. J. Brown, Mrs. Sarah.
Vanelllson, and Rev. George D.
Walker were invited to the ;e
house meetings to teacli people
how to register.
Rev. Walker was with the
group from the beginning ser¬
ving as adviser and courthouse
guide.
A contest was started tostlm-
Contlnufd on Page ijfour)
The future NAACP executive
secretary was born at that
address on Aug. 30, 1901, the
son of Mr. and Mrs. William D.
Wilkins. His father, at th it
time a foreman in a brick I i,
later became a Methodist cler¬
gyman. Roy lived there until
he was about four year; old.
After his mother died, he ; i
his brother and sister wen' to
live with relatives in Bt.
Minn. The Rev. Mr. Wi in.-:
died in 1960.
The special life membership,
the scroll asserts, wu, pur-
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Jr., aluinni secretary, a
Prince Mitchell, alumni as;
ation treasurer! look on.