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78 TEARS OF CONTINUOUS PUBLIC SERVICE VOLUME LXXVII! Racial Self-Defense Nation --—--- 7^-Z ...... ........ i TI.......... --------------- ‘Miss Siuma” Contestants , MISS DOROTHY .). DAVIS Tau Beta Simula Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. an nounces the contestants for thei) “Mi. s Sigma” Coni'at. The Hire* charming contestants shown above are Miss Dorothy J. Davi.., Mi Julia C. Johnson and Mi.. Jua nita Moon. Mias Davis, teacher at Toihpkiii; High School, is a native of Hir mingham, Ala., graduate of Tn kegee Institute with a B. S. de gree in Physical Education, and 2500 Attend Fourth Moss Meet The fourth mass meeting connection with the youth in lunch counter protests” local Negro students was Sunday, April 10, at the African Baptist church. proximately 2!i00 citizens tended. ~ Rjpgp Curtis J. Jackson, presiding host pastor, til ait “we have gone to point of tio return and iivovement is being py tiie action of the .Rev. B. C. Carswell, pastor Bt. Janies A. M. E. Church, emphasizing the continuance the Easter boycott reminded audience that the merchants have made Miss Joyce Lockhart The tales in “Story Book Fan tary” will be woven together by Little Miss Joyce Lockhart, gift ed daughter of Mr. and Mr. Henry G. Lockhart, at the Jabber work program to be presented at tiie city auditorium, Friday,, April 22 . Joyce, a fourth grader at St Mary's Catholic school, i; an avid reader and lias a penchant for painting and poetry. Not one 1" be easily satisfied, this little charmer finds time for piano It: sons, from her mother, inst-ruc Gobs in Spanish from Mr. Jasui anti dancing lessons from Mrs. Mildred Peguese. On Palm day. she was confirmed at St, Matthew’s Episcopal Church. A real “trouper,” Joyce lias been seen across the years in talent fashion shows and just — she was a scene stealer in tin Polio Fashion Extravaganza. With enviable radiance 11,1,1 eliarm. Joyce will guide wock goers through the bind ol “Story Book Fantasy,” the thenu of the I960 program. This will be t e nineteen p>< Mentation o tne a en ^ 0 ' p gr am bv uy the members ox tne .Continued or. Page Four; ADamg 4-3432 JL. MISS .It LI A C. JOHNSON i member of Lily Grove Baptist hurcli, Birmingham, Ala. She at- emls lie t African Baptist 'lunch in Savannah. Mi John on, elementary teacli- r at Pearl Smith School, is the 'aughter of Mr. and Mrs. J’. C. tohn.un, Sr. She attended the to a I public schools and is a grad uite "f Savannah State College. Mi... Jotucoii i a member of the Find African Baptist Church. Mils Moon is a junior at Sa money off the birth (Christ,- mas) ,and death <Easier) of Jo¬ \ sus Christ, t.hrouglh the t rade of Negro citizens than at any other of year. Therefore, in tile name of ‘“Freedom, Liberty and Justice” lie urged his listeners ; to boycott these stores that have ! segregated lunch counters and no Negro salesmen. The main address was made by Rev. P. A. Patterson, cliair- man of the legal redress cam¬ mitten of the local NAACP and chairman of tiie State NAACP Membership Committee. ] presented Attorney B. C, field who is handling the cases of the students arrested in. the recent “sit-in” demonstrations. South Africans Want to Their Cake and Have it j i MRS. H ILDA A. JOHNSON ia | j j Tribune •Imwn presenting Microfilm gift of to Savannah Dr. Wil- I on dam tali State K. Payne, College, president, Savan- j j 1 luring tile National Library 1 ,Vrtk Convocation at the regu- | | ; . r all-college assembly on to nt: r.-clay, An il 7. I,',rs. Willa A j tchr-son, editor ano publisher ( G, f the Savannah Tribune, pre- rented to the Savannah State j^uegr Library a gift of the Sa- vannah -Tribune on Microfilm from lg75 t0 The Savan- rtah Tribune is the oldest Ne- j Newspaper which has been in continuous existence in | America. t | Mjf;. Johirig) 111 iu*r prc.nen- SAVANNAH, GEORGIA SATUKJOAY, APRIL 16, 1960 | j MISS JUANITA MOON vamiah State College, a talented .ims i, member of St. John Bap- j Ui, t Church, and i. active in many .tmient, civil and religious or- J rr» ii fg.;itioii". She won the title of Miss Youth" of Savannah fur the year I''50 07. •‘Mi Sigma” will he crowned it the Scholni hip Dance given by j '.lie fraternity at Coconut Grove i in April 29, Ticket: for the dance nay be puicha:ed from the eon- estai’l or any member of the fraternity. Bot h were given thunderous ap¬ plause. C. O’. Kyats tirade tire finan¬ cial appeal The audience contributed over $1300 to aid the fight against racial discrim¬ ination. Mrs. L. Nobles, a member of Hie picketing committee, read *Le names of Negroes who were seen to cross the picket lines, or who leaded on Broughton street during the past week The list included school teach¬ ers, merchants, land laborers. Nollies pleaded that “If I .vou are not with us, please don't j ._______ Continued ..... Page ..... Four) on Lilian said, • This paper on file in the Savannah State College Library will he available to scholars and .students of Negro who will find va.lualde materials that will .Jicxl >n not only the Negro in Sa- vannah, Georgia, but also in mation on Savannah State lege, and Negro life and thought throughout tiie United States.” president W. K. Payne ac- cepted tne gift far the institu- tion and expressed his appreci- ation to Mrs. Johnson. He indicated that future scholars and research workers would have access to these materials , because of , the generosity of Mrs. Jobn.xui. NEW NEW YORK - Brightened terest in the ‘racial self-defense policy" was liihited in widespread areas of country last week. NAACP Regions II and III vening for leadership at Trenton, N. J. and Chicago, respectively, called upon the lic to picket and against local outlets of chains which discriminate Negroes in their southern stores. Region II "Protest Day” announced for April 23. The gion embraces branches in York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut, chusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island. Delegates to Region 111 conference in adopted the racial defense and called for NAACP to “institute and maintain lines in front of the local F. W. Woolworth, S. S. S. II. Erg;; :, W. T. Grant and chain stores which ervice to Negroes ill their outlets.” Meanwhile, the Florida of NAACP upon Negroes in Florida to “Racial Self Defense Month” during April by make purchases of new Easter and by not stores which ‘‘maintain a of racial discrimination in nine of their services to custom¬ Forty-six students were arrest¬ in Florida after their in “sit-in” demonstrations, ni NAACP spokesman said in In Little Rock, Negroes to withhold patronage from downtown stores which segregated lunch coun¬ The Rev. J. C. Crenehaw, presi¬ of the Little Bock branch, aid the policy will "remain In until every vestige of racial ia removed from where it is now Carl L. Weschke, president the Minnesota Conference of NAACP, called student dcmmistra lions ‘'dramatic proof that human dignity is being impressed in the South urged that the Woolworth and CAPETOWN, South lANP) The white minority South Africa could aptly be 'd to the little child who to keep his cake and at the lime eat it. fin one hand, the whites I" upper ■; and keep a rigid rier between themselves and A '•■in . On the other, they want retain the cheap, non-white upon which they depend upon perforin the menial and ■lutit-; which they feel to he neath them. Buell i ; the current .date of fairs throughout most of Onion of South Africa It all hr gan early last weak when! think dig they had the situation ulmut licked a . far as the menu’s .la lad let) “not were '•erned, police began a of “bullwhipping” African;, in effort to break up the pa wort. Luppage a postlude to o very recent massacre Shat pesvillc. Bo confident wa - the iii' • it t that it would iirreed making tiie Africans return j work, it even admitted that it ti.viog to “intimidate the dator No African whs safe from the* whip attacks leaders, a»<l even the cuiiuus were on “Reiving end. One African was killed at inontvillc and early accounts had it that 37 were injured. The as the week grew older, rose er. Principal site of the were at the African (something like the American dian reservations in the States) of Nyanga and Continued cm rape Thee* , W. T. Grant stores in downtown . St. Paul be picketed in support of the students. On Sunday, April 3, Minnesota NAACP members heard l)r. John Morsel!, assistant tu the NAAUP executive secretary, discuss the “sit-in movement as part of the whole civil rights struggle." NAACP ministerial leaders re¬ solved at its recent church work¬ shop in Chicago that ‘‘ministers should he urged to interpret the moral and economic elements,” im¬ plicit in the racial self-defense pro¬ gram. One of the most dynamic of the student sit-in leaders addressed an N A AFP sponsored rally in Gineiniiati on April 8. lie i", the Rev. James Lawson, 31 year-old ministerial student expelled from Vanderbilt, University for his part in the Nashville demonstrations. Ill Chicago, NAACP Labor See retary Herbert Hill called for all- out labor support of the student protest actions,' and urged trade unions to support “only those can¬ didate, for public office commit¬ ted to full civil rights.” Mi. Hill addressed the District I convention of )lie Doited Park Inghotise Workers of America (AFL CIO). District Director George Hayes and G. R. Hathaway, secretary treasurer of the international union, pledged "full support” of Continued on Page Four’ Bv Wilton C. Scott Tim 42nd annual convention of Georgia Teachers and Education Association opened Wednesday night, April 0, at. the Alfred E. Beach High School with Dr. Mm dcrai Johnson, president of Ho¬ ward University as keynote speak¬ er. lie emphasized the theme, ‘Pursuit of Excellence.” Chatham County Teachers As¬ sociation served as host with the assistance of Savannah State Col¬ lege. Appearing on the first assem¬ bly at Beach High on Thursday were: Charles L. Butler, president, Georgia Teachers and Education Association, presiding, and L. B. Mullette, principal, Carver High School, parliamentarian. The pro¬ gram was as follows: Organ pre lude, Dr. C. A. Braitliwaite, chaii man, Department of Fine Arts, Savannah State College; Invoea tion, Reverend G. I). Walker, pas¬ tor, A nbury Methodist Church, Sa vannah; Choral Selections, Beach High school Chorus. Departmental meetings were held at various centers: Class icontiiiuea on Page Six* PERSONALITIES of the Georgia Teachers and Education Associa¬ tion chat with Dr. Mordecai John¬ son, president, Howard University - ' ' ..... ..........'........ ..... ...................■■■' ..........—---—1----1- ZZZ -. t ., ///a .>.!<;*>‘ H e <; r o < a n n i a a i. n o TO AMERICA—Hw Laurian Rugamhwa, 17, became the first Negro card of the. Roman Catholic College Cardinal i following his investi¬ by Pope John XXIII at Vati¬ City, March 28, I960, is shown Iotas Business Week The second week in April usher ill the oli ei vaiiees of BUSINESS WEEK poll. oied nation-wide by all ehaptetd of Ibfa ('hi Lambda Sorority. This observance * is de signed to »iinut*Tte-hvlei cst, in busi ne ,k education and'to give recog nit ion to women who have made an outstanding contribution to the field of business and to community life. Current plank for Nu Chapter will expand Ihu observance of these objectives on a ’community level. Since (he Sorority and Negro Rimini's.; hould have similar in trie I. and objectives a closer working relationship among the owners and operators of businesses and Iota Phi Lambda should tie nurtured to build businesses that are financially sound and econom¬ ically cutis.tying. Ai an example of the type of cooperation that could lie fostered, I lie Sorority and Negro Busme: diniikl eo iContinued on page three; and keynote speaker of the GTEA Convention. Left to right, Dr. and Mrs. William K Payne of Savannah State College; Di. Mor¬ Price 10c AD»m» 4-3431 with members of Um White Fath¬ ers miMionary society of which he i* member during United States visit, in 1966*57. Shown with the Rnv. Bishop Rugamhwa are (I to r) the Very Rev. J. Alfred Rich aid, W.F., American Provincial of filrand Jury Probe Rocks Miami Police MIAMI (ANPt Involvement of high police officials here with the multi million dollar bolita racket is being investigated by the Dade County grand jury. A number were ordered last week fn fill out. I!) paga question¬ naires about Uiair income- and not worth after the grand jury heard Negro members of the force. Mayor Robert King High and a local newspaper were responsi¬ ble for starting the investigation after Negro officers fold how they had been frustrated in efforts to arrest characters known to la* in¬ volved in the racket ill the Negro areas of the 'city. The probe has been on lor aland, a month now under the direction of Stale Attorney Richard Der¬ ate in and a number of officers, Johnson; Charles L. Butler, GTEA; Dr. and Mrs. H Dennis of \lhany College; John W. Luwtoil, NUMBER 28 White Fathers; Cardinal Rug- anibwa; Rev. Mother Olarie Anne White Sisters, and another un¬ nun. The Cardinal is Jiown examining plaque of Our of Africa, patron saint of (Associated Negro Preat both while and Negro, have gens before the Grand Jury. News of the request for finan¬ cial statements came through sources outside the Grand Jury, where the proceedings were wrap¬ ped in tight secrecy by law. It was learned that those tohl to answer about their finances in¬ cluded Defective Capt. Raymond Tanner, unofficial “boss” of the department, Patrol Inspector John Webber and the four detective dis¬ trict lieutenants, Richard Myers, Hardy Bryan, C. O. Ilultoe and Curtis li. Newton. “I have not been asked to make a net worth statement,” Lt. Hut- toe commented. ”1 have had noth¬ ing to do with any nu tidier s racket, Continued on Page F’our elect, GTEA; and Dr. W. Davis, president emeritus, State College.