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SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1960
NAACP
Labor Sec’y |
♦Continued from Page c>ne>
“The time is now where we as
a people should take a stand
for freedom,” he said.
Mr. Lav/ spoke o' the petition
that was sent to Mayor
dorff signed by 25 persons ask-
ing for use of recreation facil-
ities owned by the city. An-
other petition was sent to
Mayor Mingledorff as chairman |
of the Bacon Bark Commission.-;
He further stated that Satur-
day morning a group of good
supporters of the Branch went
out to the West Side Shopping
Center and the Traffic Circle
Center to picket. Two of
them were arrested. Judson 1
Ford, one of the young men
who was arrested, told of thej ar-|
events which led to t eir
rest. Mr. Ford said that ‘if
it takes going to jail to gain
freedom for the Negro people,
I shall go again.”
Mrs. Ann Gary, a local laun¬
dry operator, rendered a sold,
“Open The Gates of The Tem¬
ple.” She was accompanied
by Prof. Elmer Ruffner.
Mrs. Mercedes A. Wright, the.
vice chairman of the Boycott '
Committee, read the traitor <■
list. Mrs. Wright reiterated
the purpose of exposing persdris
who ignore the boycott. She
suggested Negro businesses, that we because boycott they twoj |
either refused to accept a pos-
ter advertising the NAACP mass
meeting or the owner contin-
ued to shop in LEVY'S. The
Mrs. crowd Wright’s wholeheartedly suggestion. endorsed! I
Elder Lawrence Shepherd, as-1
slstant pastor of the Seventh
Day Adventist Church, fender-
ed a favorite hymn of th p hVW-
ment, “Precious Lord Take My
Hand.” , 1
Sawyer, local ’N. 'A. 1
George W.
A. C. P. Labor Committee,
Chairman, introduced the
representatives who were pres-j
ent.
Rufus K. Bryant, vice pres¬
ident of the Longshoremen’s
Union, introduced the main mam;
speaker, Herbert Hill , vor-j
’ w NAACP, a a op New Y
Clty Secretary, * * W|
'
distinguished labor ,
The sec-
retary began his speech by say-
ing that the National office
pledges its full resources to 'tHo of!
heroic fight that the people
Savannah are ddirig. “The;
Negro people of the South have
nothing the to be white afraid , people of. How-j are]
ever,
afraid when the city fathers j
pass silly laws, knowing that
these silly ordinances will be
knocked out.”
“Something new is happen¬
ing in the South, and it is that
the Negroes are new telling the
truth and white people don tj
like it. When you engage in
a sit-in, when you boycott picket,, the j
stores, and When you
you are telling the truth, and
they don’t like it.” What are!
you afraid of? “Are you gain- j
ing to lose these little two cent,
yxmMfls
'P&ULj, firm PsrM^
@■'1 to r„r( ha- -c nr:~d complexion and would like to
► jr K .; .•'makeiup oculd help conceal
itcest. *
^..You'll be wise ifyoii depend on cotor rather
‘ maie-up to fate +re J
ihan heaviness m
appearance of your blemishes A thick,
cto.jo ng cesn’et ? -cask n-ijhf or y send
. to irritate your skin.
SSuMBI
Choose a powder and foundation* 'h-one - in other
words acompressed powder that gives total
covering powder with on* s'ery light app cation.
Snades with tan undertone § Witt hdlf mase
blemishes less noticeable.
Cn special occasions, match your powder a-d
V •foundation■ in-one with a tinted liquid base in
exactly ihe same shade. Apply it over your ^
enfire face, smooth it in with your fingertips,
then f at on gout temp Msci paeuPerOj
. Copyright i960 Itrrici 9}
in the lanes that
should not he called homes in
the U. a A. in the IMO’s.”
“'The heroism of the young
Kegroes is in telling the white
people that they are lying when
they say Negroes don’t want in-
tegration.” The White merchant,
of the city are, very afraid, be-
cause they know something
that the Negroes have just be-
come cognizant of, that is. i f
every Negro in the South would
make a decision at 10 a. m. one
morning, the mere ants would
have to go out of business from
Canada to Mexico. These mer-
chants arc ready to find a good
Negro to try to buy off, but
they sniker and sneer at these
good Negroes, ‘‘when they leave
them.
Wf> are now entering into
111,1 ^ 'make sure that every
Ne " rn ’ male aild female from
age rp S ister anrt vntp Y ° l
m,,st win Politically! For the
few W 5 ' KAACP has
won great battles, but you
must transform this victory in ¬
to an every day living reality.
The burden hgs fallen upon
little children in Little Rock,
Ark., and Port Royal, Virginia,
You cap do something about
the situation in Georgia by
volin 8- This can have a de¬
cisive effect regardless of what
party wins the election.”
“I’ftl Jure' in some areas in
the"South, some heroic thing'
have taken place. In Mississip-
Qi> wh en Negroes try to register,
they have been literally shot
down. When we have gained
new voters ,we will have a new
balance of power.” “What is
politics?” The speaker answer-
ed by saying “power.” Negroes
use d to s^y that politics is white
folks business. If this is so.
j-p U will let. white folks run your
life. Politics, is colored folks
business,” the speaker said.
. tVadeP uhlofi
“The
is "{ai’nl'ed."' til Savaflnah, the
white Cttizens Council meets
„ tbp ^fffdes Of 'the Carpen- ;
ters’ Union. The racial
lines in unions keep Ne- 1
groes in low positions. The -...... Tn-, ,
ter national Union- Salpfelte
111PP »ng in Glen Falls, ’ 1
J^regated t iooals; as L a-result „ rac „n „f of
; ^^ sppakpr
Mill,.. Raising the econom-
, N 0ommuni .'
; ‘ "eradicate'
tv 2 mnph t0 I
social '“You . , " llIs * ' ? the' |
must build NAACP. i
white phople will not give upj . j
their choice positions, because; ,'
they . see the .. light. .. All ... of . the
advances made by the Negroes,,
the Negro has had t0 flgh
hard for.”
continued that !
FrIderi C k P Sougl a r S Tidlhat''“It j
was a question of saving white j
men’s bodies? He ended by
, a ying,.Uiat the fight that the
jc waging Is a fight tc
cave AmPr } Ca j n these perilous
times.
Mrs. EthM Luten, president of
the NAACP Women’s Auxiliary
made the appeal for funds. Rev
Curtis J. Jackson, pastor of
Things You Should Know
w tu ‘ " A
The hero of thehegro
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Islam and Africa
ISA SE. WAI.I
PART THREE
of a five-part series
For centuries, Islam has been
a dominant force in Africa. Be
cause of its very nature, and be¬
cause of the fact that it had been
Africa for many centuries, it ha?
come to be regarded as an African
religion, so much so that it can
now claim the following of more
than 80,000,000 Africans.
Among the Arabic-speaking
areas of Africa there are today
over 40,000,000 Muslims,
ed as follows: Egypt, 20,000,000;
Morocco, 0,100.000; Algeria, 8,-
000,000; Tunisia, 3,200,000; and
Libya, 1,100,000.
In Cent-al Africa, the Republic
of the Sudan has 7,000,000, while
French Equatorial Africa contain?
East Africa has over 6,000,000
Muslins, not counting those in the
Rtf, P of the area -fetching into
th ^frica, comprising
000 in Ethiopia, 1,800,000 in Soma-
and 1,500,060 i ’ ouu ’ uuu in. J "
Next tu the a ™ S >
Africaicomes Af sei-ond with its Mu-
Um popl,lntl ° n ° f ov *' r 23 ’ 000 ’ W0 -
Nigeria lepds w.th over 13,000,-
000 - The official report of la t
y car ’s commission mqu.ung into
the question of minorities in
gerla gives the topal number of
Muslims in Nigeria a? 13,345,000
nrail)Rt 6360 ,ooo Christiana
^ 2>000 Animistg . The number
Muslims is composed of
(or two-thirds) in
Northern region, 1,970,000 in the
Western region, and 23,000 in th<
Eastern region
The Gambia'and other two British
(ories, Sierra Leone,
have 246,500 (00%) and 588,000
(25%).
French Western Africa contains
The recognition by the Islamic
inheritance law of the value of
blood relation and family bond
conforms with the African’s strong
First African Baptist
announced the Crusade
Y'oters meeting to be held
First African Baptist church
Thursday night, July 29,
7:00 p. m. Atty. John
bertson, a white attorney
South Carolina who has
cated his life to fight for
gro rights, will be the
The mass meeting next
day will be held at
Bantist church, Park Ave
Cuyler street, Rev. L. S.
Jr., pastor.
Green Grove Bant.
Services were well
at Green Grove Baptist
Sunday, beginning wuth
Sunday School. The pastor.
Rev. R. L. Lee, used for
subject of the morning's
sage “Show Me The Way,”
for the evening services, “Is
I,”
Sam White, a deacon is in
Georgia Infiirmary, Room.
104.
Register
To Vote
For
Election!
TTTT. SAVANNAH TRIBUNE, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
feeling of : -p , t h r hi-; h!ood-re-
over 8,000,000, or 18 per cert,
[ compris ng Sudan, 55' Republic ; I of
Volta, 17'.; Lie new
Guinea, 05G ; Ivory Coast, 15G ;
Niger, 85',; Dahomey, 17%;
Senegal and Mauritania, 7KG,.
The United Nations Trust tend-
tones of Togoland and the Ca¬
meroon? under French administra¬
tion muster 50,000 ( 571 1 and 750,-
J 000 (19.5' ) rrspect'vely.
The two mdepender t stilt- s in
West Afr> i Char.i :.-l Liberia,
1 -ontain 300,000 (or 6.5%), and
I 100,000 (or 30'.; ) -.-;pee( ively.
j p ); p -ucce. ;lnd in A.'iif -i Ke¬
j muse of many fa -tor • inherent in
; ; t or i ■■<>.hated with it.
p;, t, unl:k< (5 • t -nity; it did
' the hr. "cap t-f being
not ntfr’er .
1 a We- tern nd'rnn, md was there-
f 0 re nm r , rd-1 •" . T-n”.
j | R religion, was was regarded regarded propagated as as by nn rn 'Afr^an 'Afmean African
agents who lived arid woHit-d a -
African , married Africa* Women
iano and ra./n ' 1 1 «i. A ■ ean can ' hl’cs. M .« in;, my
the ;( ■-? ■ e ; t on-y L n-
\ ,pfmit L' ” !
; the Yf. >'<‘ t
f vV '" " ; ! ,v " >,; ' y
„r of <c>.
wl.Vh it h;. ....... at h to implant
a „d Africa nine them.
I’eatures of T ;'aai 'vhn-i are
common '•> AI nc n i io and cii-;-
toms h ' el ' ,;h ' ~ D'aditiona!, cere
moni " 1 and courteous
8 ™ 5 ? tie3 alld the f f Lr)K of rP
^P°nsibility f >r ones extended
H aTl111 ' ’ * mutual help,
like ^ polygamy and bride-price, 'Z in-
tegration of society,^ the authority
’ r y 1 fuiK ' lkm '\ of ,lhicf? - thl ' a(J -
' min!st dion of law end vespeet tor
traditional standards.
Islam’s conception of ..imJi.
system, and its regulation fall
within the framework of the Afl'i-
I can idea of “extended family” ■—
I as a safe refuge which provide?
i support ih every need, arid to
| which is resorted in cases of cmiir-
I gency, wherein respect for the old-
and wi ■st member of the fam-
il ! father , aut , maty , (or ,
v ’ an ?
-
defe It that of the eldest
ai?- pi e - at ?e ' : ar
L \\t> f&i ' &
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At all services at FAB
Sunday the attendance
good. Pastor Blacks’
vice. Several visitors
ed with us including Mr
The Sunday School picnic
be held at. Fernandtna,
August 17. Shu tins an- Mrs
Carrie Jack rn. Mrs. I?
Jones and Ben Baker.
Jackson worshipped with us
ter several months illness.
Mrs. Mildred Sanders’
'er-', Beverly, returned
from the hospital Monday
ter a serious accident
Jack-Tone playing.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
ward’s son. Otis,
for the ll S. Army and has
for Ft. Jackson.
Mrs. Mnrgrnt, < Monro i ^
informed us t-hat her fister.
is, Is the proud mother of
baby boy, Gregory Mack.
1s now living in Monrovia.
beria with her husband,
Alphonso Powers who Is
“d there.
Mrs. Mary Stevens and Hen¬
ry Ilanshaw were married
the home of the bride last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Joscnh Baker
and son. Mr'. Janie Bowers an I
daughters, Lynette and
motored to Philadelphia two
weeks ago to visit tlieir broth-
er, Elder and Mrs. Robert,
er. Mrs. Maggie Baker t”'d
MarilynBaker are extending their
vacation two more weeks. The
ofeers have returned home.
Mrs. Edith Stevens and baby
who are visiting her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Daniel I/idson and her
aunt. Mrs. Ida Brown, will re-
turn to Florida 71 ext week.
Seaman Geo. M&pigault spent
the week end with his wi r o, Mr ;
cnrlnthla Manlgaiilt, after trltv
eling three months tn
gmynt, and other foreign ports.
He has returned to Baltimore
” ere his sliiu is loading cargo
for other oorts in Asia.
Mrs. Lottie Ladson and ”rand
children Pn T i’v'r.i 0,1 ( *. ’
/. ■■
are visiting her daughter, l^rs.
Mary L, Cohen in New York
eitv. , •-
Mr. and Mrs peray Aik p ns
have returned to Newark !
J., after Visiting - her
and Mr. and Mrs. Geo, Moni-
St. (Mary’s A ME church is
snonvoring a Woman's Day 'rn 1 -
ly and program this Sunday at
3 o’clock at FAB church. Rev
Chas. Fogle is pastor.
the coherence of the family group.
! 1,stives arid his practice of marri-
witoin the family particulaily
j j in rural areas, African practices,
Traditional
such a concern for funeral and
j death rites, child-naming cere-
| mony, circumcision and excision
have all been given religious sanc¬
tion by Islam.
It I a adapted them where nec-
ary and integrated them into
it canonical social cihics. “Afri-
j can' with ed” offering Mam immediate contented values itaelf
| •-iflim.t Lying to displace the old
ones. j
;
The ea e and freedom of the
methods of I tunic worship in de-
. nd ; n , r no more than proclama
j t - on of fa ith and performance of
e , lfiy re |i g j 0US ritea _ daily
t , raydf . q . be aid anywhere, and
pwr) f , vfn if jf a ;i . Mnsqua jiosqjue is needed,, one
< ho ilv j mprnvis ed bv mnrk-
j n
inR olU a rpctangle with p{ «. ea 0 f
tone? and branches of leaves —•
of appeal to the
Ar ,
p.iestlv '
^ la-'K « hierarchic
. ,. m makp jt look more like the
-‘layman'r religion”, while its ril¬
-*,,, taboos give it a distin-
., ui:;h : riir ma „jf Pr .tatlon of a corn-
mon social pattern.
Institutions such as Friday eon-
. rP! , tt fo n al p'ayer, pilgrimage,
ff; t - nB( f( . rivals, and so on, bring
tOKPther people of various and dif-
ethnic stocks and affirm in
: (; keni a fp P |ing of belonging to a
! un i, )ue rP ]igjt,n.
SimU:i !' ly ' th °. .^^ious preserip
t ; . ons and prohibitions link believe-
prs and differentiates them from
believers, while its regulations,
•jeh a? that no Muslim may be
I enslaved, lead to the recognition
j of w j dpr right and obligations.
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WHOLESALE OISTRJBUTOUS
Between The Lines
Rv Dean Gordon B. Hancock for AND
v I* »!• *1* *1* v %* *•* *«* ‘''T"*?* 'I* *** ->-!*
Sizing Up Kennedy
The Democratic National Con-
\ niton of liniO history. It re-
ultra.I in the nomination of John
Kennedy anil Lynwood Johnson a
candidates, oeetlvcly, for the
me i h i ••,- and i re-p.i iJ« i <-y in
>!»• coming U — ,-!
As was mentioned t mo and
again in the convention, that we
are fa,-a to face with o* a of the
mo t critical hours of American
hi toy. There nio tlirie m.ijoi
j i : ues that must be fa a 1 .,n i er-
' iously.
^ The first is the state of the I
I
court y. This point, was almo t 1
completely ovet looked in the ova-
tory and excitement of the onnven
t on. Inflation nod a now-hall- |
ing national debt oT nearly $ '00,- I
()ft0 0flfl dmand notice at lea com-1 . ;t>
lind ,, !ld saVi p was almost
I p j pto ] y by-passed by the off'ce-
hungry w«>ul d he candidates. Our
| mounting national debt i like;
! termites in n mansion.
The second bristling issue is 1
'race relations in this country; and I
the mere insertion of a race re¬
lations clause in the platform. )>v
j iu) means settles the grave issue
of race ' relations. Race lire judiee |
an insidious and dnngMou evil I
Ul ti)is ,-y and the figl i th<> I
Southern states , tates , made made . on «« ,, the the , r
n„ or (i f the eonveution *' j. I
whereof.
. 'n,..,, finally there is the grave J
; relation . WRh
( -, lha iUld lhe R..|gia„ Con - cry I
, ing for Pa. inn help and inter-J
vention, and with Nikita Khru h
chev bramti.diing hi? atomh liomh;
and hi. iinliniited mi ih' pmvrr,
J and with Dm delegat. openly eon-
fc ing on the floor of Die Con
v tnD that, ve a <• ••cond to
i tin: in «lm*)‘d every imfiortant
j fudd. foreign ndat mis bo-eme a
't'nginir I ue Doit d<mand at tee,
1 on
J” «Hwr wordr fa 1
j we are
Vp,T , , ;” V•*»V I •*" 1 MV Weaie !
.. :
Uy^^ficatTourjCve if mde,e,I wo
‘curt he axtriffute.Ws e.xti iffnte.l-is going going to to de- de- I
^ t(„,-pipi.cM aiativ-mdriHhip, -tah-mflnsblp. j I
''Jiarti'lav'to • im neo inir rn fho t nn'ti :e Wh6 imin f*uri can .1 laugh miiirn i i
Mo-tivu,. h"l a f m t.
j ^ iluiun n't the
Hz" ’ ''
\' (yVO
five As-, thi* cojwwtv is con-
, "fined there' i? Pothihg funny
Tj,.;,, \U. p.o.pecL e?owing out
»#’ t to af-wnmentiooed grave issues
vhich'ho-'e tMii t t:,.-a.--.lv. • into
forefio.i c.r tV> nation and i
i| )P world. j
I What ohout. John K-unedy in |
c ■■ r*’•'< 'fi r? V/hen I' ■ K< miedy I
J •• ” ’• • ‘ f f * ra *' " ni
FA OR
under way, He betook himself to
New Orleans and was feted there
n a big way; and what is more,
he ,t’d did not provoke the
1 tllity of those rabid anti Ne»gro
Southerners. - • t<«
Not a Southern newspaper feack-
hd Keur.eiiy and this column has
iften wondered why. Here itv a
> el ion of the country where - the
civil right; is ue provokes tiitter-
i e toward its advocated, John
I < i nedy can go in and out with-
ml hitter castigation. oue
In one of the convention caueus-
es, an Alabama delegate wai’aSk-
cd whether Kennedy would rPCPiVe
the -import of ttie Southern strifes.
The Alabamian was quite sure the
South would go all out for Kets-
nedy in the coming Noveknber
election.
With its civil rights plank stick¬
ing out like a sore thumb this
rabid Southerner concluded fWat
(he South would string along With
Kennedy, even with the much
opposed civil rights plank in 'the
platform. * ’•*
Shire when did the South hoVbme
willing to accept anything that
remotely . , advocated , civil rights Aia as
' h, ‘ y *?* NeRiroe s * pTf"
the tfl ° most ""‘ :l RU 1 ’ ^ 11111 . Sl ! T.l rt
something ... irregular . , when , South- uuin*.
erners do not fly into the face'‘of
, , , ... .. . .
j’.',,’ , ‘ ^ "
Th( n ll( .| lni vx a \] c, ov m { or
, ( .
A , ilimil , thrPW ,’ hf . fa »
fi) „ whpn h( . tldd the
that in their talks together “Ken
nedy tafrd liis fundamental Mn-
victiom and they are not any 1 de-
jiiirlure froni principles Virgiiitans
(and for.”
Ma ive resistance is the prin-
e pie which nurt white Virginians
land for and we aie wondestog
here wbeth«r Mr. Kennedy Mtwtds
for the .line. Then again Govar-
nor Almond is quoted as saying
I at Kennedy ‘‘is deeply tihinkiailJt'VSfrd concerned
for our w.uyncf
the the world world 4 knows Now* j,st i»st .yvtmt Wftat ' ^ .tte ’
South •nriicil ’• ,i way of thinking v is
We are hdgiMntrtg
itv t what , (amimitmeut Kennedy
)n made to make him sd sttiqpg
with the South. ‘ 1,1 Kith
IntePigcnt Negroes and whites
no longer look to the presidency
for the settlement' <tf interr^pial
i- ■««’”• l’>“ i'h’nt? are in n^ny
"“’.vs I'mJed in what they cun do,
! ut th ' ,,0 ' M not erH#e the
11 't pro Jiicnt? can he tiemendpiis-
I.V effective in tin intriHMia si
uni on. Faeenhower or ms MK*i
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