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The Ole Miss Crisis And History’s
Challenge To Mississippi Negroes
One of the most tragic periods in Negro his
tory, and in the history of the south is that per
iod which is referred to by one of the outstand
ing students and writers of Southern history of
the tragic era.
During the Reconstruction Era, some ten years
immediately following the end of the Civil War, the
end of which ushered in the Post-Reconstruction
Era, and what is called the tragic era, Federal
troops were sent to the south to safe-guard their
freedom and protect the newly emancipated Negro
slaves.
According to the historians and students of the
south, the ill manners and intemporate conduct of
Negroes, urged on by the carpet baggers and other
adventurers who had entered the south to exploit
the Negro issue, largely for their own benefit with
out any sincere regard for the Negroes future, was
largely responsible for the tragedy of the Post-Re
construction Era. The Era which saw the Haves
Tilden Deal and the Un-written Compromise, which
brought about the withdrawal of the Federal Troops
from the south, took away all the gains that had
been made by Negroes during the Reconstruction
Era; and made possible the total disfranchisement
of Negroes, made possible the one-party system of
politics in the south, and put upon the Negroes all
of the handicaps of segregation and discrimination.
It is pretty well understood that given similar
circumstances history has a way of repeating itself.
It is important for us, the Negro citizens of the
state, in the light of the above brief sketch of
southern and Negro history that we make sure that
nothing in our conduct and manners, and in our atti
tude and relations with our white neighbors will
contribute to another tragic era following the with
drawal of the troops and the end of the Meredith
crisis at the University of Mississippi. To us this
is the challenge of history.
Bomb Home...
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man of the Mississippi Advis
ory Committee to the Civil
Rights Commission.
Allen said the bomb was toss
ed through the window of his
glassed in porch. Damage was
slight, he said. It was estimated
at about $100.
Allen said he and his wife
were reading the newspaper
when a neighbor rushed in and
reported the porch was on fire.
The neighbor, Leroy Gibson,
said he thought he saw th»
speeding auto from which the
bomb was tossed. He said its
lights were off. however, and he
State Dept_
(Continued From Page One)
istration’s across the board push
for Negro personnel,” Ebony
says.
“A rapidly shrinking world
and a growing dependence on
the good will of the world’s vast
colored population have togeth
er persuaded the U. S. State
Department that Negro Ameri
cans will make effective dip
lomats,” Ebony points out.
Currently there are only 18 Ne
groes among the State Departments
3,719 career foreign service offi
cers; only eight Negroes among the
1,341 specialists with appointments
as foreign service reserve officers
and only 40 Negroes on the 2.20Q
member foreign service stenograp
hic, clerical and technical staff.
The U. 8. has two Negro ambas
sadors — Clifford Wharton in
Norway and Mercer Cook in Ni
ger.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk,
quoted in Ebony, says, “If Negro
young people do not believe there
is fair and equal opportunity for
them in the.foreign service, then i
you cannot expect them to apply
We must take responsibility for
demonstrating that opportunity
does exist."
Ebony says the State Depart
ment plans to intensify recruit
ment of Negroes at college level to
take examinations for career di
plomatic post*. Besides searching
for diplomats, the foreign service
Is seeking Negro secretaries, Eb
ony notes,
tag.
Coast Guard...
(Continued From Page One)
physically fit high school grad
uates who meet the necessary
academic requirements. Ap
pointments are made solely on
the basis of competitive exam
ination and suitability to mili
tary life.
There are no Congressional
appointments or geographical
quotas.
The 1963 examinations will
be held on February 18 and 19
and over 150 cities throughout
the Nation.
Applications to take the ex
aminations must be postmarked
not later than January 10, 1963
Application forms are available
by writing to the Commandant
PTP-2), U. S. Coast Guard
Headquarters, Washington 25,
D. C.
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Meredith...
(Continued From Page One)
Henry said “This is no time for
gioating and bragging.” Rut he
said they should “take pride
in the exemplary manner” in
which Meredith has conducted
himself during the University of
Mississippi crisis.
Henry said the crisis was not a
result of “the activity of the ad
ministration, faculty, and stu
dents. Some students did partici
pate in the confusion, but with the
news media and ‘ad/ice’ availa-1
ble to them, how could we ex- •
pect little else?” I
Henry calied for a meeting of i
the Coahoma NAACP Oct. 28 ask-'
ing for members and friends
of the NAACP to make a $5 con
tribution to offset the cost of
Meredith’s ppse.
“Remember, freedom is not
free! We must work and pay for
it,’r Henry said
could not Identify it.
Berl I. Bernhard, staff direc
tor of the Civil Rights Commis
sion said in Washington the
commission was assured law en
forcement agencies will act
“promptly and vigorously*' in
the matter.
Letter To The
Editor
1002 Arlington St.
Jackson, Mississippi
Mr. Percy Greene
Editor Jackson Advocate
Jackson, Mississippi
Dear Sir:
Last year and the year before
I visited the Negro Fair and
carrie away enthusisatic over
the fine exhibits, especially in
the Home Demonstration, school
and Agriculture exhibits So I
hope it will be held again this
year and publicity in the way of
editorials sucn as the Clarion
Ltdgers last Saturday aboiu
Jackson State College, be see
med.
Years ago I heard Booker T.
Washington m a lecture at
Charrtaugra assembly grounds.
He was a great man and
patroit. The more your young
people pattern their lives by his
standards, the sooner their right
goals will be achieved.
1 think White Mississippian?
have been shocked awakened by
our recent tragedy and will be
more ready to consider your
problems as well as ours. Your
Fair is important if it can be
carried on.
Sincerely
(Mrs.) Miriam J. Ezellc
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United States
Is Praised By
AfricanDiplomaf
United Nations, N.Y.
An African delegate has
praised President Kennedy
for his handling of the racial
violence in Mississippi.
Foreign Minister John
Karefa-Smart of Sierra
Leone made the first mention
of events in Mississippi in a
UN General Assembly policy
debate.
He said he wanted to “pay
tribute to the President of
the United States and his ad
ministration. and to the vast
majority of the people of the
United States, for the firm
demonstration which we
have seen during the past
week of progress in the field
of racial equality and of the
supremacy of the rule of
law.”
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Chain Unit
Rule Revised
By NLRB
The National Labor Relation;
Board has revised a 14-year-old
rule preventing unions from organ
izing only one store in a retail
chain and requiring statewide ot
divisionwide units
Four board members approved
the petition of Retail Clerks Local
1262 for an election at the Edison,
N. J., store of Save-On Drugs, Inc.,
* wholly owned subdivision of the
Kroger Co. Member Philip Raj
Rodgers dissented.
The employer opposed a one
store election arguing that the
proper unit should take in all ap
propriate. employes in nine New
Jersey and New York stores, or al
Save-On stoffes in New Jersey.
The majority upheld the un
ion, applying to retail chain op
erations the tame policy that cov
en multi-store enterprises In gen
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Somerset Elected
Hollywood, Calif. — Pat Somer
set, executive of the Screen Actors
Guild, has been elected president
of the Hollywood AFL Film Coun
'cil, composed of unions represent
ing more than 24,000 employes in
‘the motion picture industry.
Inti. Rep. Phil Fischer of the
Musicians was named - vice presi
dent. Sec. H. O’Neil Shanks, ex
ecutive secretary of the Screen Ex
tras Guild, and Treas. Edwin T.
Hill were reelected. Ralph Clare,
Elmer Ellsworth and Al Erickson
were reelected trustees.
SAFETY PAYS
It Doesn’t Cost
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RECORD OF CONGRESS is evaluated by Republican Senate
Whip Thomas H. Kuchel (Calif.) and Democratic Whip Hubert
H. Humphrey (Minn.) on labor's public service radio program,
Washington Reports to the People. They listed passage of trade
expansion bill as major success and defeat of health cars for the
aged as greatest failure.
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Good Smnsm fo ils# Soda tor Bad Sc#nfi
you aont nave to run around with a push-button can of
scent, sprinkle perfume ’round and about or burn incense to
have your house smelling sweet. Cleanliness itself has an
oddr . . . a fine wholesome one which your home can have
for the price of a box of baking-soda. Our great-great grand
mothers knew of soda’s talent as a freshener, so why not hark
back to the past and give this old time product a try. Refrig
erator, bread box, cookie jar, the vegetable bin where onions
often sprout, the laundry hamper and used ash trays can all
emit unwelcome odors and reflect on the impression others
get of your home and you as a housekeeper. A regular spong
ing out with baking soda solutions of any such odor-prone
spots in the house keeps your home sweet as a home should be.
UNITED NATIONS DAY posters, similar to the one shown above,
may bo obtained in advance of the Oct. 24 observance from the
U.S. Committee for the UN, 375 Park Avenue, New York 22.
Single copies are free; five for 10 cents and 100 for $1.50.
Jobs Drop
Persistent, high-level unem
| ployment continued in September
as the jobless rate remained un
changed at 5.8 percent of the la
bor force.
An increase in unemployment
rates for adult women and teen
agers and a larger than seasonal
drop in employment were the
major factors in the Labor Dept.’s
monthly report.
Unemployment declined season
ally from August to September by
400,000, bringing the total jobless
to 3.5 million, but the drop was
not large enough to reduce the
seasonally adjusted rate.
Seymour Wolfbein, the Labor
Dept, manpower expert, said that
while the 400,000 drop in unem
ployment and the decline in tbe
long-term unemployed was en
couraging, tbe jobless rate “hangs
high at 5.S percent.”
In answer to a question, he said
that if the rate of unemployment re
mains at 5.8 percent in Jan 1963,
the number of unemployed is an
ticipated at 4.7 million.
A breakdown of the 3.5 million
unemployed in September showed
that adult women and teenagers
constituted more than half the total.
The jobless rate throughout
1962 has averaged about 5.5 per
cent of the labor force. U moved
from 5.3 to 5.S last month, tbe
sharpest rise In 20 months.
The rate for the adult men in
September dropped from 4.9 per
cent to 4.6 percent, but the rate
• for adult women moved upward
from 5.8 to 6.1 percent and the
rate for teenagers rose from 12.2
to 13.2 percent.
Support Urged for
United Fund Drive
THE AFL-CIO HAS OFFICIALLY endorsed tbe annual fund
raising effort of the 2,200 U.S. and Canadian united funds
and community chests, and federation Pres. George Meany has
urged all members to support the effort “wholeheartedly”
Expressing endorsement in a message to the United Community
Funds & Councils of America, Meany said |ie is confident that
organized labor will again help lead the way to a record return
even larger than the $501 million last fall.
For a number of years, he pointed out, unions and union
members have indicated their conviction that “the ‘united way* is
the right way” to meet community health and welfare needs by
the regularity of their gifts-—usually by payroll deduction—and
by a year-round program of labor participation encouraged by
the federation and its Community Service Activities.
Oliver G. Willits, chairman of the executive committee of the
United Community Funds & Councils of America, is serving as
acting national chairman for the balance of 1962, succeeding the
late Lee H. Bristol, who died suddenly.
The text of Meany’s letter follows:
"It is, as always, a genuine pleasure to extend the endorsement
of the American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Or
ganizations to the 1962 United Community Campaigns.
“Over the years, organized labor has repeatedly asserted Its
conviction that the United Way is the right way to meet the
health and welfare needs of our communities.
“The 13.5 million members of the AFL-CIO enjoy a unique
relationship with federated fund-raising. Because their contribu
tions are given on a regular basis, usually through some form of
payroll deduction, they help communities to plan ahead to meet
increased needs. This continuing financial support is further im
plemented by a year-round program of labor participation carried
on by the AFL-CIO Community Service Activities.
“Because of this relationship, the men and women of organized
labor know at first-hand how their contributions meet human needs
and are able to participate in community-wide planning to meet
these needs.
“The AFL-CIO’s official endorsement of United Community
Campaigns carries with it our deep sense of involvement and 1
urge all AFL-CIO members to support this effort whole-heart
edly. Organized labor, I am sure, will once again be in tbe van
guard leading the way to a record return exceeding the $501
million raised by these drives last fall.”
10.2-Cent Hike
Averts Strike
By OCAW
Chicago, IU.—Agreement on
wage and fringe benefit improve
ments valued at 10.2 cents an hour
haa averted a strike by 4,800 mem
bers of the Oil, Chemical &. Atomic
Workers at four major plants of
the Corn Products Refining Co.
In anticipation of the scheduled
walkout, the company had already
shut down plants in Argo and
Pekin. 111.; Kansas City, Mo., and
Corpus Christi, Tex., when the
agreement was reached.
Terms of the settlement, an
nounced here by OCAW Vice
Pres. B. J. Schafer and Fenton
W. Holm, the company’s indus
trial relations manager, include
■ direct wage increase of 8.f
cents an hour, improved vaca
tions and sick leave, and optional
retirement at age 62. The two
year contract will be reopenable
at midterm for further wage ne
gotiations.
A day earlier, the union also
reached agreement on renewal of
its contract covering 800 employes
of American Maize Products Co.,
Hammondr Ind., with gains total
ing 10 cents an hour. •
The two companies are major
producers in the “wet milling” in
dustry, which refines vegetable oil
products from com.
NLRB Applies
Interest Rule
On Pay Cut
The National Labor Relations
Board has applied its new 6 per
cent interest rule to an employer
who refused to bargain with a un
ion and unilaterally cut the pay and
changed the working hours of four
employes.
In a 4-1 vote the board ordered
the Continental Bus System, Inc.,
to halt Its refusal to bargain with
Street, Electric Railway St Motor
Coach Employes Local 1468, rep
resenting bus terminal employes
In Grand Junction, Colo.; to re
voke pay and boor cuts put Into
effect In September 1961; and to
reimburse four workers for loss
of pay since that time, plus Inter
est at 6 percent.
The ruling was the third this
year in which the board has re
versed previous policies in the back
pay area.
In May it began ordering full
reimbursement of employes in
cases where a trial examiner had
found no unfair practices but later
was reversed by the board. The
second ruling last week, also in a
discharge case, added 6 percent in
terest, to the penalty on grounds of
equity. The latest decision was
reached with only Philip Ray Rod
gers dissenting.
Candidates for Governor, Senate
Herewith is a listing of major candidates for the United States Senate and for state gov
ernors in states where these officers are on the ballot for. the Nov. 6 elections.
Thirty-nine senators, 35 governors and 435 members of the House of Representatives
are to be chosen In the nationwide schedule of state and district elections. In addition, fa)
thousands of elections candidates will run for local, county, municipal and state executive
department and legislative offices.
Incumbents are designated with an asterisk (*).
STATE
ALABAMA
ALASKA
ARIZONA
ARKANSAS
CALIFORNIA
COLORADO
CONN.
DELAWARE
FLORIDA
GEORGIA
HAWAII
IDAHO
I ILLINOIS
INDIANA
S IOWA
| KANSAS
KENTUCKY
LOUISIANA
MAINE
MARYLAND
MASS.
MICHIGAN
MINNESOTA
MISSISSIPPI
MISSOURI
MONTANA
NEBRASKA
NEVADA
NEW HAMP.
NEW JERSE'
NEW MEX.
NEW YORK
N C
R DAKOTA
OHIO
OKLAHOMA
OREGON
PENNA.
.RHODE IS.
s. c.
s' DAKOTA
TENNESSEB
TEXAS
UTAH
VERMONT
VIRGINIA
WASH.
WEST VA.
WISCONSIN
WYOMING
SENATE
Democrat Republican
•Lister Hill James D. Martin
•Ernest Gruening Ted Stevens
•Carl Hayden Evan Mecham
•J. W. Fulbright Kenneth G. Jones
i Richard Richards •Thomas H. Kuchel
•John A. Carroll Peter H. Dominick
Abraham A. Ribicoff H. Seely-Brown, Jr.
No Election
•George A. Smathers Emerson Rupert
•Herman Talmadge No Candidate
Daniel Inouye Ben F. Dillingham
•Frank Church Jack Hawley
Gracie Pfost *Len B. Jordan
Sidney R. Yates ‘Everett M. Dirksen
Birch Bayh ‘Homer E. Capebart
Elbert B. Smith ‘Bourke Hickenlooper
K. L. Smith *Frank Carlson
Paul L. Aylward ‘James B. Pearson
Wilson W. Wyatt ‘Thruston B. Morton
‘Russell B. Long Taylor W. O'Hearn
No Election
Daniel B. Brewster Edward T. Miller
Edward M. Kennedy George Cabot Lodge
H. Stuart Hughes (Independent)
No Election
No Election
No Election
•Edward V. Long Crosby Kemper
No Election
No Election
•Alan Bible William B. Wright
Alfred Catalfo, Jr. *Nor »s Cotton
Thomas J. McIntyre Perkins Bass
f No Election
No Election
James B. Donovan ‘Jacob K. Javits
•Sam J. Ervin, Jr. Claude L. Greene, Jr.
William Lanier ‘Milton R. Young
•Frank J. La use he J. Marshall Briley
•A. S. Monroney B. Hayden Crawford
•Wayne L. Morse Sig Unander
•Joseph S. Clark James E. Van Zandt
No Election
•Olin D. Johnston W. D. Workman, Jr.
George McGovern ‘Joe H. Bottom
No Election
No Election
David S. King ‘Wallace F. Bennett
W. R. Johnson, Sr. ‘George D. Aiken
No Election
•Warren Magnuson Richard Christensen*
No Election
Gaylord A. Nelson ‘Alexander Wiley
•J. J. Hickey ‘Milward L. Simpson
t Subject to Oct 6 primary elections.
GOVERNOR
Democrat Republican ?
George C. Wallace No Candidate :
•William A. Egan Mike Stepovich
Sam Goddard *PauI Fannin
•Orval Faubus Willis H. Ricketts §
•Edmund G. Brown Richard M. Nixon . |
•Stephen McNichols John A. Love
•John N. Dempsey John Alsop
No Election
No Election
Carl E. Sanders No Candidate
tJobn A. Burns t*William F. Quinn
Vernon K. Smith • Robert E. Smylie
No Election
No Election
Harold E. Hughes *Norman A. Erbe
Dale E. Saffels •John Anderson, Jr. !
No Election
No Election
Maynard C. Dolloff *John H. Reed
•J. Millard Tawes Frank Small, Jr.
Endicott Peabody *John A. Volpe
•John B. Swainson George W. Romney \
Karl Rolvaag •Elmer L. Andersen
No Election
No Election
No Election
•Frank B. Morrison Fred A. Seaton
•Grant Sawyer Oran K. Gragson
John W. King John Pillsbury
No Election
Jack M. Campbell • Edwin L. Mecbera
Robert Morgentbau *Nelson Rockefeller
No Election
•William L. Guy Mark Andrews
•Michael V. DiSalle James A. Rhodes
W. (Bill) Atkinson Henry Bellman
Robert Y. Thornton *Mark Hatfield
Richardson Dilworth William W. Scranton
•John A. Notts, Jr. Johiv H. Cbafce
Donald S. Russell No Candidate
Ralph Herseth •Archie M. Gubbrud
Frank G. Clement Hubert D. Patty
John B. Connolly Jack Cox
No Election
Philip H. Hoff *F. Ray Keyser
No Election
No Election
No Election
John W. Reynolds Philip G. Kuehn \
•Jack Gage Clifford P. Hansen
Negro Voters..
(Continued From Page One)
pi and the 14th Amendment**,
Negro citizens of Ruleville who
is appointmently in the CBS
Documentary on Negro voting
difficulties, rallied at Williams
Chapel in the face of recent
shootings and continued threats,
to form the beginning of a
Ruleville Voter’s League.
Several adult Negroes pres
ent volunteered to participate
actively in the organization and
operation of a council to pro
mote voting rights and better
communication between Negro
and White citizens.
Even as they met. the can
cellation of the fire insurance
polio^a on Williams Chapel be
came effective. And at least one
participant wondered aloud as
the meeting broke up, “I guess
they’re going to burn it down
now.” The city has already cut
off the church’s free water, and
has stated in a letter to the
Board of Deacons its plarrs to
;caneel the tax exempt status
jot the church.
I The Mayor of Ruleville has
said, ‘•All ftf you (Negro citi
zens of Ruleville) might as well
go down and register, ’cause
you all got to suffer anyway
before this thing is over.”
Among the 36 persons from
Sunflower County who have at
tempted to register in the past
five weeks, their friends and
their relatives, 3 have been
foiced off their plantations, 5
have lost their jobs, 2 Negro
cleaners remain closed, all Ne
gro business is closed on Sun
illlCdl dllU lldi
have become a part of daily
living for many citizens.
The meeting progressed un
der the watchful eyes of the
Mayor, the local police, anti the
F* RT
The FBI has been in the area
for two weeks, investigating
the shootings into the houses of
j voter registration participants,
and the wounding of two local
Negro girls.
Citizens of Rulevilie have
filed statements with the Jus-!
tice Department complaining of
economic reprisals, forcing ten
ants from their plantations,
physical violence and unfair
treatment at the registrar s of
fice. They have requested im
i mediate Federal Intervention
on behalf of Negroes attempt
j ing to register to vote,
i Lawyers from the Justice De
' partment were in Rulevilie last
i week end gathering affidavits
! from workers and citizens ac
tive in the voter registration
campaign.
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American Nazi
Party Leader
Slugs Martin
Luther King
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., v. —Two
hours after he leaped from his chair,
rushed to the stage and slugged Rev.
j Martin Luther King, Jr., with his
fists, 24-year-old Roy James, a
member of the American Nazi Par
ty, was sentenced to 30 days in jail
. and fined $25.
The integrationist leader was ad
dressing a convention of the South
ern Christian Leadership Confer
ence when the 6-foot, 200-pound man
from Arlington, Va., struck him
several times before stunned mem
| bers of the audience ran forward
and subdued him.
King had just mentioned that
Sammy Davis, Jr., had said he
would perform a benefit for the
SCLC in New York. Rev. Wyatt Tee
Walker, SCLC executive director,
quoted James as saying that the
mention of Davis infuriated him be
cause Davis was married to a white
actress, Mae Britt.
King at first declined to press
charges but later testified at City
Hall.
Q. Walker said the bushy-haired
assailant leaped up from the sixth
row of the Gadston Building audi
torium and vaulted onto the stage.;
| Walker said King made no move to.
resist and that he received a bruise
; on the jaw and on the back of the
neck.
Q. A physician examined King and
| recommended that he be X-rayed.
King said he wanted to finish the
j convention before taking the exam
ination.
Q. It was the first incident of vio
lence reported in the four-day meet
ing.
Q. Police said James had been
arrested before in racial disturb
ances once last Spring when the Na
zi “hate bos” arrived in New Or
leans; once in Washington when Na
zi Party members picketed Demo
cratic headquarters; and once in Ar
lington when parents of a young
ster brought charges when the child
was assaulted for throwing stones
at the Nazi headquarters.
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