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SATURDAY, JUNE 11 , loco
3. C. Leaders
Address
121 h NAACP
t Con tin u* fi from r'age On«i
1 h from the
"'• (Wheat >n Street)
f M S’" verbal agreement
■
enif.; v i i drivers.
( lark of We t Savannah was
set.' 1 i to the audience as
i,i t N , (i driver-trainee to
employed by the Savannah
'■iv- . ("ark is pleased
the courtesy received from his
pervis,.r during this training
! hr*.
M:s. Esther F. Garrison,
hrarc : ■ ecre! try, r ead the
of ‘•traitors” who continue to
on Rrought* n Street and the
ping centers. She asked for
er - for ti ■ e who continue to
segregation.
Rev. Oliver W. Holmes,
of the First
t hatch, made the appeal
funds. Mr. Holmes discussed
significance of the NAACP.
fartl, :• aid that this is not
ilr ) a fii an, al appeal, but an
a i y, dignity and
net R"ia ntly returning
Ht ti it where he attended
' church meeting, he
was
with tire efforts of the youth
the Motor City who raised
for the Detroit NAACP
And that the adult branch
a >lf*o plate dinner and
$50,000 for the Freedom
’lire spiritual, “Jacob’s
the favorite song of the
movement, was
sung during the raising of
Theodore A. Roberts, vice
ident, revealed that he was
to’ obtain memberships from
members of a local social
Also, the Waldorf Club
payment on their Life
vh h was presented by Waiter
Bogan. The audience
M-r. Bogan’s remarks that
gr aier things are done, the
darfs will do it; when
things are done in Savannah,
N t A.UT will do it!”
iFrcsident Law presented
s&Hdent NAACP leaders from
atigebui g, S.C., who
in the now-famous
djfnonstrations. Ezra
president of the Claflin
ba^ACP end of chapter, their dramatic gave the
"C
rgjl protest marches. In
ing on the bus station lunch
t($r sit-in, Nathaniel
stated that his group was
when they were willing to
exorbitant prices. Mr.
a Claflin student, is from
1 ih and gave a humorous,
ing account.
Robert Knight, Jr., a
stuib nt. at S.C. State, told of
overflowing of the jails thus
in; the City Fathers to use
stockade and herd the
of students in a wire-enclosed
like animals. Although these
dents suffered from tear gas,
ing drenched with water in
deg i o weather and humiliated,
able youth leader said that
v ill no longer accept
du' Ms and second-class rights.”
One of the visiting student
ers told, how a blind girl
the entire group of youth
si rators. She was knocked
j by the pressure of water
1 the file hose and came in
i nt..'t with tear-gas bombs,
she refused to turn back in
protest march.
John E. Brunson,
t easiirer, Orangeburg
branch, stated that the
was long overdue and
will prevail as long as
buy it.”
The Rev. L. S. Stell presented
a recommendation from the branch
executive committee and the fol¬
lowing persons were elected as
delegates to the 51st annual
NAACP convention in St.
Minn., June 21-2(1: Rev. Curtis
J. Jackson, education chairman;
Mr -. Annie K. Jordan, member¬
ship chairman; Mrs. Mercedes A.
Wright, vice chairman, withhold¬
ing retail patronage campaign;
and Mr. Law.
Ilusea L. Williams, president of
Hj neighbors
fkk &
w*
“I’m Harold’s third-grade
teacher—and I’m here to dis¬
cuss his demands for a shorter
work week.”
Direction
Ry J. REDDICK
CLEAR VISRJX OR DISASTER
There was once a story told of
a lady who almost became blind
at the age of (2). Since she was
only “49” to other people, poor
eyesight along with natural han¬
dicaps tended to increase her de¬
fense mechanism, especially among
friends who seemed to accept her
given age. She expected many of
her friends to a social one day.
But before they came, she went
out to the gate and stuck a nee¬
dle in the gate post. After her
friends arrived, she casually said
to her little grandson in the pres¬
ence of her friends, “Johnnie, I
see a needle in the gate post; go
bring it to me so that I may
sew buttons on the baby’s dress.”
Although this “49”-year-o!d lady j
could not see well, she tried to
assume responsibilities cut out
for those who see well. Follow¬
ing this practice, we know that
she was headed for disaster.
There are many of us today
who do not have a clear vision.
This is perfectly natural for all
do not have clear vision; hut it
is not practical for one who does
not have clear vision to operate
an automobile, airplane, or train.
To exercise such practices is not
fair to those who trust us. It is
murder to conceal our handicaps
for our selfish reasons at the ex¬
pense of others. It involves life
and death, but more death than
life. We know that people who
have poor physical vision can find
a wholesome working relationship
in our society; many of them do. j
The thing that bothers me most
is that so many of us who have
poor physical vision attempt to
represent major responsibility in
spiritual affairs.
That which is, does not change
because of our poor vision. Many
of us set up our relationship b
total life situations in harmony
with that which our poor vision
of life has revealed to us and
not in harmony with that which
is. We are therefore headed for
wrecks and disaster. It is wis¬
dom to apply the necessary effort
to clear our vision before we move
on with decisions and actions.
Scripture reference: Mark 8:24.
If we see “men as trees,” our
vision is still serious, for we will
treat men as we do trees and
men are not to be treated as trees i
but as brothers. mind If there to is how a j J
question in your as
brothers should be treated, treat ,
them as you would like for them
to treat you and not as trees.
We have much evidence that
many of us have such vision to
day:
1. We cut them down: stab- j
bing them with our knives and
stabbing them with our tongues.
2. We make tools of them: tak¬
ing away their rights as men,
placing them in positions which
will serve our conveniences with¬
out their consent.
Our distorted views do not
change the fact that man is man
and not a tree. We who live as
though our poor vision is correct
are headed for wrecks and disas¬
ter. Nothing will save us but the
applying necessary remendy to
clear our poor vision.
the Crusade for Voters, an¬
nounced that through the facili¬
ties of WJIV and WSOK, a Sing-
O-Rama will be presented' on
Wednesday evening, June 8, at
St. Phillip A.M.E. Church, Charles
and West Broad streets.
The next mass meeting will be
held on Sunday afternoon, 4:00
p.m. at the St. Phillip A.M.E.
Church, Charles and West Broad
streets, Dr. John S. Bryan, pas¬
tor.
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SAVANNAH- GEORGIA
LEADERS OF THE NIAGARA MOVEME NT”, one of the first militant organizations
for full civil rights, are shown at the organizational meeting held in July 1905. Dr.
W. E. B. Du Bois is seated center in straw hat. Other delegates included Fred Mc¬
Ghee, Alonzo Herndon, John Barber, Henry Bailey, Clement Morgan, George Forbes
and Monroe Trotter. The movement later gave birth to the NAACP.
Dr. Sykes
Dies In
His Sleep
(Continued from Page (me)
made by the coroner's office.
Funeral services are
held at the First Congregation
a ] Church Thursday
at 4:30 o’clock; Rev. O.
Holmes and Rev. A. C.
right officiating.
were made by Williams &
liams Funeral Home.
Dr. Sykes was a native
Yoiingstown, Ohio. He
uated ■ ■ from - Pennsylvania —
University and the
University Medical School.
Dr. Sykes served in the U.
Arpiy during World War
with the rank of captain.
had practiced medicine in
vannah since 1951.
The deceased is survived
his wife, Mrs. Dorothy
Sykes; a son, Allen
who is a student in
iness administration at
College in Cedar Rapids,
father, Lewis Sykes of Union-
’ Pa.; five brothers,
B. Sykes, Cleveland,
Leon Sykes, Uniontown. Pa.;
fred Sykes, Youngstown,
Boyla Sykes, Connellsville,
Benjamin J. Sykes,
Ohio; four sisters, Mrs.
S. White, Uniontown, Pa.;
Gwendolyn Sykes, Chicago, 111
Mrs. Edna S. Jones, Uniontown
Pa.; Mrs. Elizabeth S. Sell,
iontown, Pa.
United Baalist
Ministers Union
The United Baptist
Union met June 7 at St.
Baptist church, Rev. B.
Thomas, pastor with Rev. W.
Daniels, vice president,
ing.
The Sunday School lesson
discussed by Rev. E. G.
Visitors present were Rev. C
Hail of Cleveland, Ohio,
Rev. Z. O. Cray of Eastman,
who delivered the sermon,
ject, “The Preaching And
ing Mission of the
Rev. L. S. Stell, Jr., is president
and Rev. G. W. Carter is clerk
of the Union.
TTTT SAVANNA!! Tit HU’NT, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
White Radio Announcer
Commits Suicide When
KINGSTON, Jamaica (ANP)—-
A popular white radio announcer
here committed suicide last week
when his illicit romance with a
,
^ beautiful colored girl went on the
rocks.
Bryan Austin, a Radio Jamaica
announcer eomrhonlv duhbed “Ra¬
dio Lion,” killed himself shortly
| after midnight last week when he
parked bis Humber Super Snipe
| sedan on Montain View Highway,
attached a garden hose to the ex-
; haust pipe with an end in the car
after turning up the glasses and
folding himself inside.
The 38-iyear-old radio ace boast-
ing three bank accounts wits a for-
eigner who came to Jamaica some
[two years ago and foil ip . ilove
with 25-year-old Doreen Qualo
whom he mef for the first time
in a Mountain View Avenue beer
* *
joint.
Shortly after the meeting, Aus-
tin persuaded Miss Qualo to oe-
cupy an apartment with him as
man and wife. They lived' on
Hope road, a slow highway 1 lead-
ing to the Botanical Gardens of
Gov. Patterson Sues
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (ANP)
—Governor .Tohn Patterson hi t
week sued the New York Times
an,i civ< “ Negro lenders for $1,000-
000.
Patterson charged that a recent
full-page advertisement in the
Times soliciting funds for the Rev.
Martin Luther King, Jr., subject¬
ed the governor to “public con¬
tempt, ridicule, and shame.”
King, now a resident of Atlanta,
was named as a defendant in the
libel suit along with the New York
paper and four Alabama minis¬
ters, the Rev. F. L. Shuttles-
worth of Birmingham, the Rev.
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Rev. Lawson
Boston
Get B. D.
(Continuen from rage one.'
figure in lunch counter sit-
here.
Latest to resign was Dr. Ken¬
Grobel, professor of New
who telephoned his res¬
to Dean Nelson from
Holland, where he is do¬
research this summer.
Dean Nelson, one of the 10
school faculty members
resigned, said Grobel’s resig¬
leaves only four faculty
in the divinity school.
The faculty resignations were
by statements from
students who were graduated
last week that they are re¬
their degrees. Fourteen
including t h e
remaining Negroes, said they
not return to the school.
The three Negro students said
a letter to Chancellor Harvie
that they felt Lawson’s
“was made at least part¬
on the basis of race and that
would be morally intolerable for
to remain.”
The Negroes were Ottie L. West
Willard, N.C.; Paul March-
of Tenn., and
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WILL ATLANTA SCHOOL CRISIS DESTROY “SOUTHERN WAYOFLIFE?”
Got the facts in the new issue of Look itself against the domination of rural
M agazine about the explosion that Georgia?
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integrate its public schools. reveals the story behind the coming
How can segregationists block inte¬ battle of Atlanta and tells how it may
gration in metropolitan Atlanta? How destroy the traditional Southern way
can this famed Southern city defend of life.
TODAY... GET
Hope.
j j suicide, A few Austin days before bad a he quarrel committed with
his heart’s delight. She moved
out as a result.
Then on the night he decided
to “end it all,” as he termed it in
a hi t love letter to Miss Qualo,
be found her staying with friends
at a Higholborn street address.
She turned down his pleas to
return. So he clouted her, drifted
sentimentally back to the beer
joint where he had met her, and
while drinking himself dizzy,
wrote a letter in which he said,
“Darling Doreen, when you read
this, I’ll be dead.”
i Austin added: “Without you,
these last few days have been a
livipg hell. ... I hope you will
find someone to make you happy
as you made me happy. . . . May
God look upon you and take care
of you all throughout your life,
. . . My whole being aehes with
love for you as I say goodbye. . . .”
And so, indeed, at daybreak,
Austin with bis letter in his. pock¬
' et Was found dead.
I. E. Lowery of Mobile, and *the
Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy and the
Rev. S. R. Seay, Seay, Sr,, of Mont-
gomery.
A white jury has since found
King innocent of falsifying his
state income-tax returns in 195(1.
He is stil under indictment on a
similar charge involving his 1958
returns.
Patterson said if he receives a
judgment, he will donate the mon¬
ey to the state “for the construc¬
tion of a modern, well-equipped
nursing home for our needy old
folks.”
Heresford Bailey of Nashville. |
Lawson, 32, of Massillon, Ohio,
an ordained Met.hodjst minis¬ !
who has served as a mission- |
t y in India.
He became a controversial fig¬
ure in February when Negro
started demonstrating at
Nashville lunch counters in an
attempt to end segregation there.
At that time it was learned
Key. Lawson had been con¬
workshops with some of
students, teaching them meth¬
of nonviolent action which he
learned in India.
It was also learned that he had
directing some of the sit-ins
offices in the First Baptist
At a meeting with Mayor Ben
at that time, Rev. Lawson
the mayor that the law “was
used as a gimmick” to en¬ l
.
segregation.
At that point West he :
that the Rev. Lawson wasn’t j
civil disobedience • for
people. Here versions of
happened differ.
Some say Rev. Lawson answered
he was indeed, advocating
Others claim that he an¬
“The students themselves
decided to disobey the law.”
Tuesday in a meeting with Dean
the Rev. Lawsoh was
a university rule governing
behavior In riotous and po¬
riotous situations.
He was asked if he would con-
PAGE THREE
himself bound to that rule
case of future developments in
sit-ins. University official*.
that Rev. Lawson did not
a yes or no answer, hut i|»^
if it came to a choice of
movement or the rule, he would
with the movement.
'Phree days later, he waa given
alternative by Vands:rbilt of ei¬
withdrawing or being di/t-
cd. He chose to make tuft
dismiss him.
O’Hara Sers
Openin? Date
Camp O’Hara, camping
center of the local Boy
Council, will begin sum¬
camps on Sunday, June 1®.
opening date had been
set for this coming
Various unit lead-
requested an extension ta
more boys to register and
allow time for the comjNf-
of some needed impress¬
at the camp.
Boys, leaders and other vol¬
are busy dressing bp
camp in preparation for
camp, one of the hap¬
and most wholesome ex¬
in the life of a bQf
The first week of summer
will be held June 19
June 25. The second
Is to 'be held Junu M
July 2.