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The Baptists’ Opportunity
(From The St. Louis Argus)
Gardner C. Taylor that he will oppose Dr.
J. M. Jackson for the presidency of the
National Baptist Convention, Inc., means
that the reigning head of the denomina¬
tional group is being challenged by a min¬
ister of equal statue.
In announcing his decision to run for
election, Dr. Taylor says he is not against
any man or group of men. He stated fur¬
ther that if the convention selects anyone
else he will support such a selection “with
every energy.” Dr. Taylor also put forth
the proposition that the day should come
when all Baptists would assemble together
in convention and that would include the
Southern Baptists.
This will not be the first time the posi¬
tion of Dr. Jackson has been challenged.
Dr. Taylor, who claims the support of 29.3
ministers and five state presidents, will
undoubtedly he a worthy adversary. It is
gratifying to note that he has pitched his
campaign on this positive note. We hope
that the convention in its struggle for
delegate support will keep it that way.
Howard Makes A Fine Choice
(From the Birmingham World)
Surely in spite of her many handicaps
and those problems affecting our educa¬
tional policies and practices, Georgia can
boast of the fact that she gave the world
the incoming president of Howard Uni¬
versity. Dr. James M. Nabrit. He suc¬
ceeds Dr. Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, the
retiring head of Howard, which reminds
us of another unique feature- both are
graduates of Morehouse College here in
Atlanta.
The Nabrit family has made a notable
contribution in the field of education and
culture in the state and nation. Dr. Na-
brit’s family hails from Americus, Geor¬
gia, from whence his father came to At¬
lanta to minister at one of the leading
Baptist churches in the city where his il¬
lustrious family grew up. His brother.
Samuel Nabrit, is president of Texas
Southern.
Howard University, named for General
Editorial Opinion of The Nation’s Press
Compiled by The Associated Negro Press
Here are excerpts from editorials ap¬
pearing in American papers on various
topics of current interest:
FIGHT AFTERMATH
DAILY NEWS, Chicago: “Johansson
has turned clown, somewhat scornfully, an
offer by Joe Louis to tell him how to win.
Louis wanted $50,000. guaranteeing the
results. No win, no pay. Johansson may
have made a mistake in turning down the
offer.”
CONSTITUTION, Atlanta: “Patterson
is a line young man. lie is the first man
ever to lose, then win back, the heavy¬
weight title. He does this nation a service
in the field of sports by bringing the title
back home.”
I HE F E N N E S S E A N. Nashville:
“Even those who underestimated his po¬
tential. however, are hailing the first de¬
posed heavyweight champion to regain his
crown. On this night, at least, he came
into the greatness that had escaped him.
“( hanging his ways and managers, he
promises to be a fighting champion hence¬
forth. he will not lack for public encour¬
agement. To all intents and purposes, we
have a new Patterson who has plenty of
time to make more ring history.”
RICHARD NIXON
THE TIMES, Huntsville, Ala. “Mr.
Nixon can campaign in the South all he
wants, and he’ll get some votes, for he is
an impressive young man. But he’ll do
well to not count very heavily on win¬
ning Alabama, or any other Southern
Bayard
Rustin
(Continued from rage one,'
the fact that on a number of oc¬
casions in recent months, Mr. Ran¬
dolph and Dr. King spoke at
length with Mr. Wilkins about the
March Movement and had cleared
t ie lament regarding the par¬
ticipation of the NAACP with the
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Too often, the struggles for delegate
power among the church conventions and
conferences, have deteriorated into some¬
thing less than desirable for a religious
body. Such secular demonstrations have
served to lower respect for the Christian
ideal among old and young alike.
Certainly persons of opposing views
ought to be heard at conventions and con¬
ferences if they are to be conducted in
the democratic process. It is healthy for
any group to have various members of its
body vying for leadership. Only then can
it be sure that such bodies are receiving
its best potential.
As the supporters of Dr. Taylor and Dr.
Jackson go into convention next Septem¬
ber it is hoped that in their spiritual acti¬
vities, the good name of Baptists and
Christiandom will prevail throughout. If
such a great body as the National Baptist
Convention, USA, Inc., can set the stand¬
ard, it will make a sin,. Jar contribution
to religious conference . f all faiths in the
years to come.
O. O. Howard, that soldier and statesman
of fame, has wielded a powerful influ¬
ence over the nation for the fine contribu¬
tion it has made in the building of char¬
acter and men.
Dr. Nabrit, an attorney and member of
the faculty, is no stranger to Howard. H >
has seen it through many of the problems
over which it has traveled to unique use¬
fulness.
Howard is truly made rich in the secur¬
ing of his services and surely Georgia is
proud of the adi need position in which
one of her native sons has be.en placed to
carry forward a cause near and dear to
the hearts of her people.
Howard is to be congratulated an 1
here’s hoping that Dr. Nabrit will enjoy
a long and useful career in this, a field to
which he is greatly attached and by na¬
tive endowments, precisioned and. dedi¬
cated.
state, so far as that is concerned.
“About the only way the vice president
could win the South is for the Democrats
to nominate flapping tongued Paul But¬
ler.”
THE CONGO
THE TIMES, New York City- “To be
sure, Patricia Lumumba is not asking for
sympathy. He is a remarkable young man
of 34, a clever, wily politician, a professed
neutralist in the cold war. The Euro¬
peans are frightened of him and many are
leaving, but he did say on Tuesday that
he hoped for sincere friendship and .eco¬
nomic cooperation with Belgium. This,
indeed, is the hope for the future. The
Belgians have courageously gambled on it
and they deserve to win. The history of
the Belgian Congo had its terrible pages,
but the ending has been clear and wise.”
THE KEDIHCK FIRING
THE BULLETIN, Lee County, Ala.
“Gov. Patterson and the State Board of
Education did not distinguish themselves
for judicious fairness by the manner in
which they dismissed Prof. Lawrence D.
Reddick of Alabama State College.
“But the time has not come--and never
will come—when public officials, giving
way to anger and hysteria, can afford to
act in any manner short of the best tradi¬
tions of our American tradition of fair¬
ness and justice. The professor was not
allowed a hearing by the board. He had
no chance to face his accusers. This right
is written deeply and irrevocably into the
American ideal.”
National Office of the
tion.”
Rustin asserted that
man Powell has indicated that
association with Dr. King is
sive of the Negro leadership. I
not permit a situation to
in which my relationship to
King and the Southern
Leadership Conference is used
confuse and becloud the basic
sues confronting the Negro
today.
“Those who hare worked
during my 20 years in
movement know that I have never
sought high position or special
privilege, but have always made
myself available on the call of the
leadership. Twenty-two arrests in
the North and South, including
time on a North Carolina chain-
gang in the course of fighting Jim
Crow, are the recorded measure of
my dedication, not to political pow¬
er, but to the ideals of our strug-
! gle.”
Concluding his statement, Rustin
! added “I sincerely hope that in the
i light of my resignation Mr. Powell
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
With A Strong Civil Rights Plank By Both Parties, Justice Will Triumph
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Adam Clayton Powell Gives Views
On Presidential Candidates
By ALICE A. DUNNIGAN
WASHINGTON, (ANP)—Con-
gressman Adam . , Clayton ,,, , Powell ,, ,,
(D., N. Y.) named Vice-President
Nixon or Governor Rockefeller as
the best Presidential candidates
this year in the Republican Ranks,
and the Adlai Stevenson of 1952
or Senator Symington or Lyndon
Johnson as the best Democratic
candidates.
In a speech delivered at a rally
in New York, Saturday, the Har¬
lem Democrat said if he were a
Republican he would favor Rocke¬
feller because of his “fresh hard
hitting partisan-free views.”
Rockefeller is “boss-free,” con¬
tinued Powell, He is emmenhy
qualified, he has never subscribed
to the reactionary school of the Re¬
publican Party, he has spoken in¬
cisively on Foreign Policy and
Civil Rights, and he has sptyil
years of training in the White
House under Roosevelt, Truman
and Ei lenhowif.
Powell questioned Nixon’s rec¬
ord by pointing out that'.he had
Louisiana Negroes Still Battling
For Life After 7 Years or. 1 )eath Row
NEW YORK — While Caryl
Chessman was making
a] headlines in his unsuccessful bid
for life, a New Orleans Negro was
waging a similar fight against the
executioner’s hand in virtually
complete obscurity.
Today—after more than seven
years on the Death Row of Louisi¬
ana prisons — 37-year-old Edgar
Labat and his co-defendant, Clif¬
ton Poret, are still fighting a grim,
unpublii'ued battle—a battle that
may well break Chessman’s death-
(11 record.
On November 12, 1950, Labat
was arrested in New Orleans and
charged with assisting Poret in a
crime most of the South considers
worse than murder—the rape of a
white woman.
Since that time, according to an
article in the current issue of Look
Magazine, Labat has been continu¬
ously in custody. For over seven
years, he and Poret have been in
death cells —at present a room six-
feet wide and 10 feet long. For 14
will now see his way clear to lend i
his special talents to the building
of such a movement and to the
support of Dr. King and the other
lenders in the South who are on
the firing line.
“May I respectfully suggest
that, as a first step, he join with
Mr. Randolph and Dr. King in urg¬
ing thousands of people in Los An¬
geles and Chicago to converge on
both political conventions and de¬
mand the repudiation of the Dixie-
erats in the Democratic Party and
the racists in the Republican
Party? This would indeed be a
show of unity!”
July 9, 1839—John D. Rockefell¬
er, Sr., who began accumulation of
world’s greatest fortune which lat¬
er benefitted Negroes and other
minority groups around the world,
born.
voted against FEPC, and anti-
Iynchlng IeKlslat,on 1 |.iH n ,i u-Mlo " h,ie in ln
House of Representatives,
Stevenson campaigned \ o r-
ly for civil rights in It•52, said
Powell, but his 195.1 c.inips’L’h w •
“totally unacceptable.”
He called the latter campaign
one of “compromise, gradualism
and completely in revive of 1952.”
Pointing out that Stevenson sold
out civil rights in 1950, Lo vell . aid
SteVeTlson would make an att.ac-
live candid;.* ■ should he see tire
'•*> was wrong in ‘56 and reaffirm
his position in 19.J2.
He referred to Senator Johnson
as “the most’able man.in the U. 3.
.Congress, and the best Teadei hat
■Congress has had in many a dec¬
ide
f Powell credited John am .’for the
passage of the first civil rights
legislation ; for 82 years. Under
this leadership, contlnm d the New
'Yorker, two bills wet; pa -1 in
1957 and in I960.
He was the one who
■the vote-' in 1957, in spile of
months, they wen- in sulil.-.iy con-
finement.
1 They have received eight stays
of execution, one of them le than
three hours before they were to be
strapped m the e 1 e c trie chair,
Their case has moved through the
courts a dozen times.
“Within this legal framework,”
says Look writer Peter Maas,
there : . tangled . , , web , of ~ strange ,
is a
contradictions, allegations ,, .. of f coer- „
..... of witnesses and , suppression
cion
of evidence, the . drama':c emei"-
ence of . new testimony , and j the ,
specter , of . double-standard , , , justice. • ..
,
Ironically, adds Maas, “Labat in
all likelihood would be a free man
today had he accepted a proposal
over eight years ago to plead
guilty to armed robbery alone.
“His lawyer frankly admits that
he advised Labat to take it if he
were guilty of any phase of the
crime. Labat replied, ‘I’m not
guilty.’ ”
As bits and pieces of evidence
mount in their favor, an extraor-
Qj. WaUgce $•
LlVll n Rights * l , r C ommission
WASHINGTON—Dr. William
-
3 L. Wallace, president of
Virginia State College, has been
appointed to the West Virginia
Advisory Committee of the
United States Commission on i
Civil Rights, Gordon M. Tiffany, , i
Commission Staff director, has
announced.
Dr. Wallace was educated at
the University of Pittsburgh,
Columbia University, and Cor-
nell University. Before join¬
ing the faculty of West Virginia
State College in 1933, he was on]
the faculties of Livingstone i
College and Lincoln Universi¬
ty. He became president of |
West Virginia State College ini
1353.
He has been active in
PETITION FOR INCOR¬
PORATION
STATE OF GEORGIA
COUNTY OF CHATHAM
TO THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
SAID COUNTY:
The petition of WILLIE C.
ROSS. GEORGE FOY, ALEX¬
ANDER SPEED, OLIVER
MOORE, GEORC-E MILLER,
GEORGE BROWN, ELISHA
PATE, and SHEPPARD BACON,
of Chatham County, respective¬
ly shows:
1. That said petitioners be¬
ing members of the SECOND ST.
JOHN BAPTIST CHURCH of
Savannah, Chatham County,
Georgia, an unincorporated duly re¬
ligious society, have been
authorized by said unincorpor¬
ated society by resolution at¬
tached, to incorporate as a
church and religious society, as
provided by law. under the
name and style of “SECOND ST
JOHN BAPTIST CHURCH OF
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, INCOR¬
PORATED.” without capital
stock and for purposes other |
than pecuniary gain or profit. j
Name certificate is attached.
2 The obieet and purpose of 1
said Corporation, shall be to
quire and administer funds and;
pmnertv. which, after the pav-
1 ment of necessary expenses,
shall be devoted exclusively to
the cause of charity, education
and religion, as a church in¬
stitution.
3. Th/e, Corporation shall
have the power and authority
to accent gifts and contribu¬
tions, whether by will or other¬
wise, provided, however, that
the Corporation shall not ac¬
cept anv contribution which is
to be held or used for purposes
other than for the promotion
of education, charity and re¬
ligion. The Corporation is to
have all the powers as enum-
l erated in sections 22-1827 and
22-1828 of the Code of the State
of Georgia.
. 4. The Corporation shall be
governed by a Board of Trus¬
tees of not less than three (3)
and not more than eight (8)
members in number the same
to be elected by the members
of the Corporation. Each mem¬
ber of the Board of Trustees
shall serve from the date of
his election until his successor
has been elected and qualified.
5. All rules and by-laws of
the Corporation shall be
| | sistent Corporation with the as purposes hereinabove of the set
out and the same shall be adopt-
ed by majority vote of the
members in meeting duly
semblea.
8. That the life of the Cor-
poration shall be for a period
of Thirty-five (35) years, with
full right of renewal as may be
provided by law.
7. Ail members of the SEC-
OND ST. JOHN
CHURCH OF SAVANNAH, pres-
ently existing as an
porated religious society in
Chatham County, Georgia,
upon the granting of this
Charter, become members of
the Corporation, and the
poration shall succeed to all of
^!_ ever p nature, ™ pe . r . t . y l theretofore ghts . °. f . wha exist ^ so -
ing in and accruing to the unin¬
corporated religious society
known as the SECOND ST.
JOHN BAPTIST CHURCH OF
SAVANNAH.
Q 8. The principal . . , place ,
business of the Corporation
shall .be in Savannah, Chatham
Countv, Georgia.
9. The names and Post Of¬
fice addresses of the petitioners
are as follows:
1. Willie C. Ross, 1013 Cope
Street, Savannah, Georgia
2. George Foy, 920 West 41st
Street, Savannah, Georgia.
3. Alexander Speed,
West 50th street, street, Savannah, Savannah,
Georgia.
4. Oliver Moore, 267 Roberts
Street, Savannah, Georgia.
1 ator Kennedy, to by-pass Senator
committee. He is the
one who, under parliamentary ma-
1 neuver, called up the I960 civil
: I; M - f ill, concluded the New York
i Representative.
Powell charged Kennedy with
being soft on MeCarthyism. He
recalled that the Massachusetts
Senator voted on 1957 to send the
j Civil Rights bill to the Eastland
committee where it would have
ihecn “unmercifully slaughtered and
' buried.'
' lie -Usn questioned Senator Ken-
j m-dy's relationship with Governor
j I';,It " s >;i .of Alabama. And ac-
cording to the Alabama press, con-
j tinued Powell, Governor Patterson
was visited by robed members of
the Kli Klux Klan in'1957. And
a newspaper article published in
1958 H. ted one of the Governor’s
outstanding workers as being a
Grand Dragon of the KKK.
So, according to the Congress¬
man, “Kennedy’s agreement with
tin Alabama Governor was “totally
| repugnant to all Negroes and right
Li nking whites.”
dinary legal battle has swirled
.
around Labat and Poret in their
death cells.
j , ^ fji . . t ,_. to the Louisiana
e ( ,„ ult _ was primari l y on
; d of „ tema£ic exclu .
j On” of Negroes from the grand
jury that indicated them.
The case has several times gone
as far as the Lnited States Su-
Court „ and , currently .. , has
i preine ,
; been remanded , . to , the ,, federal r , , , n Ihs- .
| trict Court for Eastern Louisiana . .
I
■ Gill and ,
. • where lawyers G. _ Wray ...
| Gerald Sehreiber are seeking a new
trial on the grounds that Negroes
were systematically excluded from
the trial jury which convicted
them.
“For a capital case,” says an
export on U. S. Supreme Court ac-
tions, “this is one of the shakiest
I’ve seen.”
Waiting in his death cell, Labat
declares: “The thing that keeps
mc from going crazy is the knowl-
edge I'm innocent,”
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local and state civic .affairs, is
a member of several
al associations and and learned learned
-and technical societies, includ-
----
ing the American Chemical
ciety. Dr. Wallace also has
authored more than a score of
publications in the fields of
chemistry J and education.
Ihs Old 7m&L.
“Man blames fate for other
accidents but feels personally
responsible when he make# a
hole in one.”
Former Gov. Griffin Says
| “ft’s Difficult for Ga. to
Avoid School
ATLANTA. _(ANP) Former,
j Gov. Marvin Griffin said re- j
j CPn fly he believes events since
I he was elected in 1955 have,
. made it more difficult for Geor-
I gia to avoid school integra-
! tion.
j And he said he would not
j “subject the people of Georgia”!
to a fight with federal troops
ls ls in in Little Lit tit Rctk Rcik tr prevent!
t ( Wi® integration
j of schools. i
Yet, he went on, he would not!
j Va. Whites Want to
I
i ! Reopen Libraries
on a
“Vertical” Plan
DANVILLE, VA. (NP)—A com-i
mittee of whites circulated;
petitions 'last week to obtain,
5,000 signatures calling for thei
reopening of the Danville Pub-,
iic T Library, closed , after a Fed-
eral integration order. j
|
Dr. D. Lurton Arey, a city!
councilman, said he would 1
present the petition to the coun- j
SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1960
5. George MiMer, 715 Fell-
wood Homes, Savannah, Geor¬
gia. Fourth
6. George Brown,
Street, Rossignol Hill, Savan¬
nah. Georgia. Pate, 2331 Ogeechee
7 . Elisha
Road, Savannah, Georgia.
8. Sheppard Bacon, 1321 Gol¬
den street. Savannah, Georgia.
10. Petitioners desire that
they may be incorporated un¬
der the Corporation Act of 1933,
as amended by the Acts of 1949,
Acts of Georgia.
WHEREFORE, petitioners pray,
that they be incorporated under
the name and style aforesaid,
with all the rights, powers, priv¬
ileges and immunities herein¬
above set out, and such other
rights, powers, privileges and
immunities as are or may here¬
after be conferred upon Cor¬
porations of like Character un¬
der the Laws of Georgia.
E. H. Gadsden,
Attorney For Petitioners.
^^nPCHATOAM nirnRrTA
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
° n
ber^fthe SECO. D . D JOHN
^PTIST OF SAVAN-
a [ e | u ^
cial called meeting after due
notice, a quorum being present,
authorized the following mem¬
bers: WILLIE C. ROSS. GEORGE
FOY. ALEXANDER SPEED, OL¬
IVER MOORE, GEORGE MIL¬
LER, GEORGE BROWN, ELT-
SHA PATE, and SHEPPARD
BACON to incorporate said
Church so that it may do bus¬
iness according to the laws and
statutes of the State of Geor¬
gia.
This 23rd dav of June. 1960.
E. E. Munigault,
Secretary
Sfr-ONO FT. JOHN BAPTIST
CHURCH OF SAVANNAH.
GEORGIA
CHATHAM COUNTY
TN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
SAID COUNTY:
ORDER
The foregoing petition of
wttlte n ROSS. gw>rge fov,
ALEXANDER SPEED, OT TVER
MOORR. GEORGE MtrJER.
GEORGE BROWN, ELISHA
PATE, and SHEPPARD BACON,
as members of the SECOND ST.
johr baptist CHURCH OF
SAVANNAH, praying that said
Church be incorporated under
the name a nd style as set out in
said petition, having been read
an( j considered: and it aooear-
i n „ court that said -pe-
within the purview and
"jY such cases
P? ac * e an( * Provided; and it fur-
hf T ^ D P ea rmg to the Court
,, thp Petitioners have
com-
pued with all conditions pre-
cedent and all statutory re-
oumrments applicable to such
petitions:
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ter. as may be now or
ter provided by law, as a body
(•oroorate under the name and
Style of SECOND ST. JOHN
BAPTIST CHURCH OF SAVAN¬
NAH. GEORGIA, INCORFOR-
ATED, without capital stock,
and with all of the powers,
privileges and immunities set
forth in said petition, together
with such other rights, powers,
privileges and immunities as
are or may hereafter be af¬
forded by the laws of this state
to similar Corporations,
In open Court, this 28th day
of June, 1960.
Dunbar Harrison.
Judge, Superior Court,
Eastern ~ ' Judicial Circuit
0 f Georgia.
S. P. Axson
Dep. Clerk, S, C. C. C., Ga.
be like some Georgians who
are ready “to surrender at the
pop of a paper bag.” He said
he’s for “fighting until we fall
to the ground and then pick up
foeks and throw them.
“If it didn’t involve the prin¬
ciple of states’ rights, I'd say
give some of the people in At-
lanta who have been asking for
it integration until it runs out
of their ears,” the former gov-
ernor said.
CU ’
Arev said he intended to ask
the Council to reopen the li-
Prary on a S0( ?alled “vertical”
cnairs ^ ’ Ahir and j 1 tables w ° uld and remove require the
Negro and white patrons to
stand while using the library.
Only white signatures will be
sought on the peritions the
said.