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Atlanta inquirer
"To seek out the Truth and report it without Fear or Favor"
VOL. ONE
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The Inquirer Speaks
M. Carl Holman
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HOW FAR CAN THEY GO?
Many of us got pretty excited
about the campaign which has
just ended. And certainly the de
cision to be made was big and
important enough to generate
some excitement. If only more of
us could get that excited about
our children and the bigness and
importance of their futures!
We are writing this during Edu
cation Week — which actually
goes on. or should, every week of
the year. It is being written at
the end of a campaign in which,
to nobody’s surprise, both candi
dates for the presidency of the
United States were educated men.
President-elect Kennedy and Mr.
Nixon are not intellectual giants
or “brains”. But they prepared
themselves in good schools for
that further knowlegde of people
and affairs without which no man
can be truly educated.
A well-known gentleman in this
town has a habit of saying “You
Can’t Go Where You Don’t Know.”
A plain, blunt truth spoken in
plain, blunt language. Isn’t it
time more of us asked ourselves
••Where can our children go with
the kind and quality of education
they are being provided in the
State of Georgia?”
Are they getting the kind of
training that will help them go
into the new industries of Georgia
and elsewhere as skilled workers?
Mother Says "Ho Injunction"
Student Denies Filing Suit Against
Clark Because of Sit-in Situation
Mrs. Lynell Dumas, mother of
Marion Virginia Dumas, said that
• no injunction has been signed by
me or my daughter against Clark
College last Saturday or any other
time.”
Miss Marion Dumas, according
to reports last week, brought a
suit against Clark College, naming
Dr. James P. Brawley, President
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Or to white collar jobs in busi
nesses and professions on an open,
competitive basis? Or to the State
Department, the Senate — and,
yes, the Presidency itself?
Until the answer in every case
is “Yes”, parents, teachers, prin
cipals, politicians, civic leaders
throughout the state should get.
excited enough to work long and
hard at blasting these roadblocks
from the paths of our children:
(1) INADEQUATE, AND IN
SOME CASES SHAMEFUL, PRO
VISION FOR NEGRO CHILDREN
IN THE MAINTENANCE AND
OPERATION OF THEIR
SCHOOLS.
(2) LITTLE OR NO USE OF
COUNTY FUNDS TO EMPLOY
ADDITIONAL NEGRO TEACH
ERS, FOR OVERCROWDED
SCHOOLS.
(3) A CHILD - CRIPPLING
LACK OF ADEQUATE LIBRARY
FACILITIES.
(4) INADEQUATE TRANSPOR
TATION FOR CHILDREN WHO
MUST OFTEN TRAVEL MANY
MILES TO AND FROM SCHOOL.
We understand that some prog
ress is being made in the matter
of transportation. But 98% of the
battle is still to be won.
And neither we nor our children
will get very far sitting on our
hands.
of the Negro institution, and Dr.
Edward Brantley, Registrar. Ac
cording to last week’s report, Miss
Dumas was suspended from Clark
because she refused to take part
in the sit-in demonstrations here
on the 19th and 20th of October.
Mrs. Dumas informed the In
quirer that this was false, and
“I don’t know how the sit-ins even
got into it.”
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1960
NEGRO SURGE GAVE DEMOS KEY STATES
John Fitzgerald Kennedy is President-elect of the United States and Lyndon B. Johnson is vice-President
elect largely because the vast majority of Negro voters throughout the nation preferred them and a Demo
cratic administration to the Republican team of Richard M. Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge.
9 CITIES FOLLOW INQUIRER
VOTE PREDICTIONS
Negro voters in the 9 cities surveyed by representatives of the
Inquirer cast their ballots pretty much as predicted. 8 of the 9 had
reported by press time and the material then available on the 9th
city, Detroit, showed the results to be substantially as forecast.
A summary, based on available returns, reveals the following:
ATLANTA
Atlanta’s Negroes, as predicted here last week, bucked the pre
vailing national tide and threw the majority of their support to Vice
President Nixon. All 12 predominantly Negro precincts went Repub
lican, racking up 58% of the total for Nixon-Lodge and assisting in
whittling down the Democratic margin to some 3,000 votes.
Atlanta’s Negro voting population, like the general voting popu
lation. turned out to the polls in unprecedented, history-making
numbers in the Nov. 8 general eelction. Of the record-making 109,000
approximate votes cast in Fulton County, an estimated 28,000 were
cast by Negroes, 35,642 were qualified to vote in the county, thus
indicating a 78 percent turnout, as compared with 72 percent in the
September 14th primary.
In 1956 the Atlanta Negro voters gave President Eisenhower a
whopping 68 percent of their vote to 32 percent for Stevenson, indi
cating that Vice-president Nixon’s drawing power was not as great
as Ike’s, or rather perhaps, that in spite of the vigorous campaign
for Nixon conducted by the local Republican group, more local Ne
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They Voted, Did You?
POLICEMAN KILLED
ATTACKER WOUNDED
An Atlanta Policeman was killed
Wednesday, November 9, and his
attacker wounded three times by
the dead policeman’s partner in
a northwest Atlanta restaurant.
George Gray, 35, was said to have
shot and killed Patrolman W. Dye
and to have pushed Dye against
the restaurant wall. Gray was
shot at and wounded by Dye’s
partner, Patrolman J. R. Weldon.
At presstime, an Inquirer reporter
was told that Gray had been taken
off Grady Hospital’s critical list
and that his condition was fair.
Weldon and Dye had been
searching for Gray after receiv
ing a call from 449 Northside
Drive, the home of Gray’s sister.
The call was reportedly made by
Gray’s mother, who called police
headquarters to report an alledged
attack that Gray had made on his
sister, Miss Lillian Kidd.
The shooting occurred when the
officers, after having searched the
Kidd apartment and receiving a
description of the wanted man,
went to a Northside Drive restau
rant to continue looking for him.
After Patrolman Weldon asked the
restaurant operator, Carter Jones,
if he had seen Gray, Gray ap
parently jumped to his feet and
pulled out a gun. After shooting
Dye, Gray fired at Weldon, who
fired back three times, dropping
Gray to the floor. Weldon then
ran to a police car to summon an
ambulance and Gray got up and
left the eating establishment.
When Weldon caught the wounded
man, he turned him over to De
tectives Baugh and Perry. En
route to Grady Hospital, the de
tective’s car burst into flames and
an additional car was required to
transport Gray to the hospital.
In such a close election Kennedy
could not have won without the
Negro support he received, nor
would Nixon have lost had they
chose instead to support him. Un
official count has placed the win
ning Democratic candidate’s pop
ular vote margin at less than one
half million votes. Negroes in New
York City alone cast almost that
many.
But it is the electoral votes that
decide the highest office in the
land, each of the 50 states’ elec
tors casting a number of electoral
votes equal to its number of Con
gressmen and Senators, and cast
ing them for the party candidates
who get the plurality of popular
votes in the state. Georgia and
Mississippi are the two exceptions.
These two states, traditionally
Democratic, but angered over the
strong civil rights plank in the
Democratic platform and Sen.
Kennedy’s ardent advocacy of full
human rights for all citizens, have
local laws which permit their
electors to withhold their votes
from the party’s candidates.
To win the presidency, a candi
date must poll more than half of
the total, or 269 electoral votes.
Six of the nation’s largest states,
with their great populations, hold
U. Of Ga. Plaintiff Interviewed
The “final step” in the process
of completing her application to
the University of Georgia was
taken by plaintiff Charlayne
Hunter at the University of Geor
git, Saturday, November 5, 1960.
At the previous hearing in Ma
con, Walter N. Danner, Registrar,
stated that one of the things stand
ing in the way of considering Miss
Hunter for admission in the Fall
was the fact that she had not
completed that part of the ap
plication which required an inter
view with an official of the Uni
versity.
TEN CENTS
two-thirds of these votes, and in
the large cities of these states
are concentrated huge Negro pop
ulations. As a matter of fact, it
was the Negro “balance of power”
in these states that threw the
election to Kennedy and Johnson.
Kennedy today is president of the
United States by a margin of
elector votes—as well as popular
votes—supplied by Negroes!
New York’s big 45 electoral
votes, for instance, went to Ken
nedy by 401,310 popular vote ma
jority out of its 7 million-plus
votes cast for the two candidates
Kennedy and Nixon. New York
City alone has 572,000 Negro
voters who overwhelmingly sup
ported Kennedy.
Kennedy took California by a
52,540 vote majority; Los Angeles
has 179,000 Negro voters who
backed Kennedy in large major
ity. Kennedy took Michigan by
62,088 votes; Detroit has 223,000
Negro voters. Kennedy won Penn
sylvania by 134,289 votes, with
Philadelphia’s 290,000 Negro voters
supplying more than enough of
the margin needed. Kennedy
barely squeezed through Illinois
with a 20,432 majority; Chicago
has a booming 460,000 Negro
voters who went all-out for Ken
nedy.
Dr. Morris O. Phelps, Admis
sions Counselor at the University,
Paul Kea, Assistant to the Regis
trar and Walter N. Danner, Reg
istrar, conducted the interview.
Attorney Horace Ward and Mr.
Vernon Jordan of Attorney Hollo
well’s office, who accompanied
Miss Hunter to Athens, were not
permitted to be present during the
hour-long interview.
Miss Hunter commented after
the interview that she has high
hopes of being admitted to the
University by the Winter Quarter,
which begins January 3rd.
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