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78 PUBLIC CONTINUOUS TEARS SERVICE OF
volume lxxviii
5 National Sororities 50,000 Members to Join Battle for Human
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five national sororities affiliated
with the American Council on llu
man Rights set a precedent this
week when they urged their 50,000
members to ‘‘Sacrifice for Rights." i
At a meeting of the board of di- i
rectors held in Washington the na- |
tional officers agreed to urge their
1,000 chapters to relinquish plans
for f ee, formal social functions
until our rights are won.
‘‘Over a half-million dollars a
year are spent by college based
groups on social functions,” stated
Mrs. Aretha B. MrKinley, direc¬
tor of ACHR. “This money can
be better utilized to fight for equal
ity and human dignity and to sup
port fully the peaceful demonstra¬
tions against racial discrimination
and segregation.”
The mandate going to the chap
tors of Alpha Kappa Alpha, Delta
Sigma Theta, National Sorority of
Thi Delta Kappa, Sigma Gamma
Rho and Zeta Phi Beta was sign¬
ed by the respective presidents,
Mrs. Barrington D. Parker, Dr.
Jeanne Noble, Mrs. Helen Maxwell,
I)r. Lorraine Williams and Dr.
Deborah Partridge Wolfe.
The mandate urged chapters to
cancel immediately any free form¬
al dances Which they have sched¬
uled. Have a fund-raising func- *
tion instead, and send the pro- J I
<’Egds to the “Student Emergency
Fund of ACHR." The e fund will ;
he used to pay fines, bails and to j
give aid to students arrested or
harmed because of peaceful pro¬
test and demonstrations.
If the chapters are not willing
NAACP Launches "Crusade for Votes**
tive week of ‘sit-in protests’ by
Savannah Negro students at lo
cal business establishments op
crating segregated lunch
er facilities, the NAACP launch-
ed its ‘Crusade for Votes’ Sun¬
day, April 3 at the First Tab¬
ernacle Baptist church on Alice
street.
A receptive group of approx-
imately 2500 Negro citizens at-
tended the 4 o’clock
crowding every available
and jamming the aisles of
church while listening to speak¬
ers urging wholehearted cooper¬
ation in the current boycott ef¬
fort.
Under the chairmanship of
Rev. L. S. Stell; pastor of Beth¬
lehem Baptist church the audi¬
ence voiced positive approval
and backing for the students
who have actively participated
in the ‘sit-ins’ and who occu¬
pied seats of honor behind the
rostrum.
Representing adult NAACP
participants in the protest ac¬
tivities, Mrs. G. Hackett made a
strong . appeal . , to
women sym-
pathizers, urging the contribu¬
tion of time as well as money to
the picketing activities.
Hackett stressed the fact that
in addition to facing the issue j
of lunch-counter, segregation, I
thc fight' was an all-out one
Drive
PAIKTJN.GS AXD LI SO CUTS
made by the boys of the Prince
of Wales School in Freetown,
Sierra London Leone recently were warmly when praised j
in an ex-
hibition of tlieir work opened at
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, functions ,
they were asked by the national
board to match the dollars spent
on the dance with the same num¬
ber of dollais for the Student
Emergency Fund.
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foiego a new “spring bonnet”
ind contribute that money to
fund.” And to corral community
uppo t for this “Sacrifice for
-b'ht- ’
The Council r.opes its action will
rve as a prairie fire or g, bund
well for other groups and
(t ons to sacrifice for rights and
bat. million's of dollars will ponr
•to the “Students Emergency
und.”
The American Council on IIu-
san Rights is a federation of
ororilics whose objective is to
g'.t nibai ity discriminations and
> seek human rights through e%Iu-
ation und direct social action.
The Council initiated the na-
ionwidi “Write for Rights” Cam-
••I'gn nr tor to the opening of
:ViI rights debate. This activity
rented an awareness and involve-
pent on the part of “grass root
Americans.”
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of any
kind.
Willie Lttggen, one of the
picketing students gave a scath-
indictment of racial intol-
f ' ranre ancl Pledged the contin-
ued support of the youth group
despite the many obstacles.
i At the persuasive appeal of
Rev. F. L>. Jaudon, pastor of
st - Philip Monumental AMR.
church, the audience contribut-
ed over $1050 to aid in the con-
Unuance of the fight against
discrimination . in Savannah.
Organizations and individuals
contributed generously to the
growing fund.
Cody Thoipas, chaurtpan of
the NAACP crusade for votes
evoked thunderous applause
as he voiced the keynote of
the meeting urging the regis-
tration of every qualified Negro
voter in Savannah. He stress¬
ed thc potential power in the
ballot as a means of obtaining
legally the advantages of first
class citizenship. •
Highlight of the mass meet¬
ing was the presentation of a
Life Membership Plaque 1 in the
K * AAf ,p to the Mutual B.enevo-
lent Society of Savannah. The
plaque was presented by Joseph
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S. C. Branch, NAACP and ac-
cepted on behalf of the Society
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on page three,
th** Commonwealth Institute,
the Mini-ter of State for
Affairs, the Earl of Perth.
shows Miss Sally Foot (loft)
scribing a painting by G.
titled “A Roy Shooting a Bird
SCLC Reminds U.S. Senate
Of Voting Rights in
1 15th Amendment
ATLANTA -Stating that ninety
j (90) year is long enough to wait
for the unhampered access to the
j ballot box,” and that “time has
I run out when watered down
j ! h« h nm-strung proposals, claiming to
"“uedy violations of Negro voting
! i : chts could he considered prog-
j ws ' ! ,” telegrams were sent to load-
* ,,, s of the U. g. Senate and to the
j Department of Justice on March
I JO, hr the Southern Christian
i Readership Conference, us u r«-
minder that the XV Amendment to
j Constitution '
the ‘purporting to
; gr an t equal right to Ncg’O citi-
j > ;e ns’ was ratifiml exactly ninety
years ago in 1870.
The telegram urged passage of
1 “ n ! ' tron,r cinar l,t provision for
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fu<i,,ral n ‘ r ' r, ‘ l "or rogMrars, with
! " ow, ‘ r t0 P rntwt thc ri « ht vote
| in ilnd dec*
1 lions.” T: "' y vv,,, '“ si,!no,J h -V Miss
Elia .1. linker, executive diffftor
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| ;*f the Leadership Conference, find
| were ’ent to Vice President, Itlch-
jard M. Ni on; Majority Leader,
; Senator Lyndon B. Johnson; Mi-
I no) ity Whip, Senator Everett M.
! ?rl< « n ; and Attorney Lcnerai,
j William I\ Itoyei ■ Also copies,
• with covering letters were ent to
the, following Senators; Hubert M.
( Humphrey, John E. Kennedy, Paul
il. Doiiyhe , I lanna ; ( Hennin#,
Rev. King <o Give Founders
Day Address at
Doctor Mori in Luther King, Jr.,
F" |>u lor of E b e n e z e r Baptist
Church, Atlanta, and President of
lln* Southern Leadership Confer¬
ence, will g : ve the Founders Day
addles: at Spelman College,in ob-
''terVfinco of nr, " 7 r (l ji .anmvei ■ ary
of the founding of the institution.
He will In* heard at the three
o’clock service on Sunday after¬
noon, April 10, in Sisters Chapel.
The events of the week will open
on Friday night, April 8, at eight
o’clock in Sisters Chapel on the
Spelman campus when the College
Glee Club, under the direction of
Willis L. James, presents its an-
nual concert in connection with
Negro Qualifies as Candidate
For Co. Commissioner
HJNESVrLLE— In an unpre¬
cedented move in Liberty Coun¬
ty, Ralph Quarterman, a N'(*gro
sawmill operator, qualified Wed¬
nesday as a candidate for
County Commissioner.
There are approximately 4,032
registered voters in Liberty
County, Half of them being
Ne B rw *- The election will be
held on May 25.
Mr. Quarterman is the only
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j Commissioner (A.-seriated Negro for Press Sierra Photo). Leone,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA SATURDAY. APRIL <1, I960
Jr., Kenneth R. Keating, Jacob K.
davits, Stuart Symington, Philip
Hart, and Wayne Morse.
Miss Raker indicated that sev-
cral hundred telegrams, letters,
and petitions would reach senators
'n the next ten days, from southern
Negro leaders. She said that by
special delivery letters and tela-
phope calls, more than sixty com¬
munity leaders had been urged by
her office, to memoralize the rati¬
fication of the XVth Amendment
by calling for meaningful protec¬
tion of voting rights in the South
themselves, and by getting others
m their rommunities to do like¬
wise. She said a petition with
more than 600 names had been sent
by the United Christian Movement,
Imp., of Shreveport, La. Dr. C. O.
Simpkins, an executive board mem¬
ber of SCLC, is president of the
Shrevepoi t organization.
The provisions of the XVth
Amendment are:
1. ‘‘The right of citizen* of lire
United States to vole shall not be
denied or abridged by the United
States or by any State on account
of race, color, or previous condition
of servitude.
2. Th ■ Congress shall have pow¬
er to enforce this article by ap-
propriate legislation . n
79th Founders Day celebration.
Beginning at 9:00 o'clock on
Monday morning, April M, Jn
Howe Hall, the memorial plaques
honoring the Founders, Miss
Sophia R Packard and Miss Har¬
riet E. Giles, will be decorated.
At 10:00 a.tri., there will be a
presentation of the in ac¬
tivities representing a series of
class experiences designed to si»w
how to achieve “Figura, Form, and
Fun,” and a /report of gifts at
11:15 a-m., in Head Hall. •
The Founders Day celebration
wilt close with a Spelman Family
luncheon at 12:30 p.m. in the Mor-
gun Hull dining room.
candidate in the race. Dead¬
line for entry is April 29.
Mr. Quarterman, who daily
deals with the white citizens
of the county in his business,
is the first Negro candidate
i to enter a Liberty County elec-
tion since reconstruction days,
Mr. Quarterman is president
of the Liberty Chapter NAACP
and is vice president of the
I State NAACP.
Do you have a membership in
the NAACP? Have you made a
contribution to the struggle it is
carrying on for you? Freedom and
justice are priceless. How much
are they worth to you?
These are but a few questions
askeil the citizens of Savannah by
the variou , speakers serving in the
1900 membership drive of the Sa¬
vannah Branch NAACP. The cam¬
paign i being carried into every
corner of the city and county as
i far a , workers can be secured to
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do tiie job, but the task is so tre-
mepdous the workers may not
reach everyone. If you have not
been reached, contact membership
headquarters, 121BVb We t Broad
St. AD 4-5030, or phone the chair¬
man, AD 2-0335.
Tiie campaign committee, com¬
posed of Mrs. Ami Jordan, chair¬
man, Mrs. Mamie Felder, Mark
Edgerton and Warren Loadholt,
vice chairmen, is doing an excel¬
lent work in trying to reach every¬
one but they need your help. Wont
you volunteer your services?
Come out and hear Dr. E, C.
Powell of Payne College, Augusta,
Ga„ who will be the principal
speaker at the next mass meeting
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HIGHLIGHTS OF LOCAL “SIT-
DOWN” DEMONSTRATIONS—
More than twenty-five hundred
people gathered at the First
Tabernacle Baptist church on
Sunday and donated more than
a thousand dollars to the cause
Nr S ro children who staged
‘ sit-down” protests for freedom
for their dignity and justice.
Thc story in the above pictures
shows the highlights during the
three weeks of local “Sit-down”
Tuskegee to Observe
Founders Day
Ur. William K. Slarrniwn
TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, Ala.
Dr. William E. Stevermoh, for-
nier president of Oberlin (O.) Col¬
lege, will give the principal Tuske-
goe Founder's Day addrr , .Sun¬
day, April 10, at 1 p.m., in the
Logan Hull Auditorium.
The distinguished barrister and
former Rhodes Scholar recently
(last summer) headed an econom¬
ic development ini .-..non to Tang
anyika, Ea ,t Africa, and ha ;erv-
ed oil the President's Committee
on Equality of Treatment and Op-
poi tunity in the Armed Force ;.
A Princeton grad C22), lie was
a member of thc Olympic cham¬
pionship 1000-meter relay team at
Paris in 1924.
The Founder'* Day activities
will commemorate the work of
Booker T. Washington, who found¬
ed Tuskegee Institute in 1831, and
served as the school’s head until
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demonstrations.
Top picture on left fihow.4
the well-dresSed and well-be¬
haved high school and college
students who were arrested
and later released on bond.
Tlieir case was heard in Police
court and upon the request of
tlieir lawyer was turned over to
City Court.
Center picture on left shows
high school students that at-
JR THOSE SEEKING RACIAL JUSTICE
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Arrested
Tuesday
Will) the arreut of eight
dent “ait-downers” Tuesday
segregated lunch counters
total local arrests was
to thirty-three.
Three student arrests
made by county police at
gett':; Drug Store in the
Side Shopping Center.
attend Tompkins High
They are. Miss Mary Uiw, 115
Maple street; Kills Mobley.
Golden street; and Arthur Sam¬
uels, 232 Cummings street.
The other five students wore
arrested at Livingston's
.Sin re, 11 West Broughton street
They are Miss Joan Scott,
W lira ton street; Miss Gertrude
Frazier, 1 11.6 N. E , 3(>Lb street;
Muss Betty Patterson, 2315
cnee street; Donald Jones, M0
W\ Victory Drive, all Beach High
students; and Miss Brenda Mar¬
shall, 511 W. Gwinnett street,
a Savannah State College stu¬
dent.
The students were charged
with trespassing by refusing to
leave when asked to do so by
the store management. Three
were also charged with loiter¬
ing.
The three county trespassers
were released under $1,000 bond.
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tended police court to give their
classmates encouragement.
Bottom picture on left shows
a portion of the capacity au¬
dience tiiat attended a recent
NAACP meeting.
Top picture on rigid shows
Legree Burke, a student who
withheld his temper and refus¬
ed to fight back when he was
hit in the face by a white boy
as he departed from one of thc
down,-town dime stores.
WASHINGTON,
of the earlier statements) of agree-
merit to come out of tin* White
House Conference on Children and
Youth, in its golden
icssioli, which convened in the na¬
tion’, rapitoi early last week was
that lauding Negro youths staging
lunchroom sit-downs throughout
the Koutli.
Another wa ; a plea to legisla¬
tors to “initiate strong measures
which will lead to racial justice,”
i originally urged at a recent meet-
! ing of 100 members of the Youth
Ghristian Strident:!, a Catholic ;o
cial action movement in a mid-
western se ion at Alvei no college,
Milwaukee, Wise.
Originally, the attention of the
youth conference was to be foeu ;eu
upon religious i: ues. However,
the conference decided to divide its
j alien tion between religion and the
current, topic of note in the llnit-
j | ed storekeeper State: whether to deny it. is ;erviee right for at
a
Finch counter- to Negroes while at
tiie ame time, permitting them
lo shop in other departments of
the store.
Leadiug the laudatory remarks
a! k iut Negro youths in the xit-
dnvviis wits fir. Buell G. Gallagher,
president, City ‘oilege of New
York, sed the Rev. Philip Potter,
executive secretary, youth depart¬
ment World Council of Churches.
Both noted that the participants
were "well-mannered, courageous,
land an example to their hesitant
e ^ er •
j Raid Dr. Cnllagher, The Ne¬
gro sit-downers hud waited
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—Photo by Freeman
Bottom picture on right shows
Matthew Brown, president of
the Mutual BerteVolent Society
of Savannah as he accepts
pfaque from Joseph Orr, presi.
dent ‘ of the Fjidgeland, S. C ,
iiranch NAACP. The plaque
was in appreciation for the five
hundred dollar paid-up mem¬
bership in the NAACP by the
Mutual Benevolent Society of
Savannah.
and patiently for their elder to
, act . . . and now they are taking
matters into their own hand:.
“Wei! dressed and an fully
groomed, with good mymners and
soft speech, yet with indomitable
courage, hundreds upon hundreds
are submitting to arrest, fines,
and jail rather than remain like
dumb sheep waiting outside tiie
fold as night comes on.
“From their example, their eld¬
ers may well take courage and -
ilrus.) themselves with new vigor
and new conviction and new un¬
derstanding to the heroic task of
desegregation. It is coming, make
no mistake about it. There will
not, be a single segregated school
m any corner of this country.”
Another pointed observation
came from Foster R. Granger, ex¬
ecutive director, National Urbvi
League, who noted that the “tea. -
edy of the Southern sit-down- is
only matched by Congressional fili¬
bustering to deny the Negro his
lights.” This statement was made
on t|ie second day of ’ the meet ing
of the 7,000 delegates from all
states in the union. He said:
“Surely the tragedy of lurieh-
eounter 'sit-ins' ;3 not one-half as
hoarbreaking as that of a great na¬
tion taking time out from a strug¬
gle for world freedom and from
leadership of the still-free world to
haggle and bicker over questions
firmly decided by a majority of
thc American public and our high¬
est judicial authority.”
“Has the time not come whoit
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