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78 PUBLIC CONTINUOUS TEARS SERVICE OF volume lxxviii 5 National Sororities 50,000 Members to Join Battle for Human 9 * „. 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 ADams 4-3432 , 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. t ;............. * ’'-.' 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.” ( BOOKS H fMAKE f—, / 1 --------j—>• (HOM-Ft ___t:: \ — 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 ° ,, n ’’ 1 , , ,, , , ^ S. C. Branch, NAACP and ac- cepted on behalf of the Society x • i _—.— (Continued --- t . 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 > ' , ’ 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 ( | ;*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 j i a Catapult,” to Mi Marina Old- , f p , Mi Oldfield ‘ v ‘ * ’ j work ‘ ; ,n the London officc of thf! 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 I , 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 (Continued on Page Four; m ■ m wmm * I J H ■Wn * .Mr* WmWm .. 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 (Continued on Page Six. 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 8 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. .Continued on page three; *IH«n» 4-3431 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 NUMBER —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 (Continued on Page Three;