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VOL. XXXIII, NO. 18
Kappa Sorority Opens Conclave Today
More than three hundred de
legates to the 33rd Annual Con
clave of the Phi Delta Kappa
Sorority began a four-day meet
ing at the Booker T. Washington
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MRB. MAGGIE SCOTT
Local Basileus
MRS. HELEN W. MAXWELL
lat Anti Baailaua
High School Friday morning at
10 o’clock.
The 53- chapter organization
heard the keynote message at
the first plenary session from
Mrs. Marion H.. Bluitt, supreme
basileus of the group.
Highlights of the meeting in
| elude a luncheeon, workshop and
a public meeting and reception
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MRS. ROSETTA D. ELLIOTT I
3rd Anti Baailaua
MIAMI, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1956
al workshop® will be held Mon
day before a luncheon meeting
at 1:15 closes out the sessions.
The local Alpha Delta chapter,
Mrs. Maggie Scott, basileus, is
serving as host chajfter to the
conclave.
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Dr. Arthur D. Gray, president
of Talladega College will be guest
speaker at the 11 o’clock monn
*ng services at Greater Bethel
AME Chrurch, Rev. J. B. Black
nell, pastor. All friends and stu
dents of Talladega College, and
all who are interested in the
youth of today, will want to hear
this young, energetic and dy
namic speaker.
Dr. Gray’s sermon will 'climax
the organization of the Talladeea
Alumni Gulf Costal Regional
which convenes here this week
end, Dec. 29-30, with headquar
ters in the Mary Elizabeth Hotel,
Fiesta Room. Talladegans from
the four Gulf Coastal States of
Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama
and Florida are expected to be
present.
Birmingham Negroes
Defy Bus Segregation
Birmingham—A federal court
attack ojj Birmingham’s bus seg
regation laws was indicated to
day by Negroes who defied the
-ity ordinance in mass numbers.
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Negroes here last night voted
to continue riding city buses on
an integrated basis after hearing
a telegrrsm from the Rev. Martin
Luther King of Montgomery.
King who led the yearlong boy
cott of city busses in Montgom
ery which brought about the U.
S. Supreme Court decision ban
ning segregation buses in that
city, encouraged (Birminrham
'egroees to continue their dem
on tration.
Thee Rev. F. L. Shuttlesworth,
34-year-ola Negro minister, told
Obtaining Complete Rights Problem of Negro Flemmings Warns
3 Cited at Sigma Meet
By ELLIOTT J. PIEZE
“It is now time for a militant
defense of our civil rights. We
may depend to an extent on the
growing group? of our White
friends in gaining those rights,
but in the final analysis, the prob
lem of obtaining our comolete
civil rights is the problem of the
Negro.” Those are only three of
many fiery statements made
Thursday night at Mt. Zion Bap
tist Church. The speaker was Dr
George D. Flemmings of Fort
Worth, Texas, national president
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one meeting that the 31 arrests
yesterday “gives us the right to
ask the federal courts to enjoin
thp City of Birmingham from pre
venting us from sitting anywhere
we want.’’
He then called for a halt to the
demon: traticn.
At a second meeting, however
about 490 Negroes voted unani
mously to continue the wilful vi
olation of the city’® bus segrega
tion ordinance.
Shutteworth, president of the
Alabama Christian Movement for
Human Rights, said the group
would defend any Negro charged
with violating the segreegation
laws if they sign a pledge of non
violence.
of the Phi Beta SAnna Fraternity.
The occa:icn was the public meet
ing of the 42nd Annual Conclave
of the fraternity which is now
convening in Miami.
A near caracity crowd was
present to witness the occasion.
The crowd included members of
the fraternity, members of the
several other Greek letter fra
ternities as well as the various
sororities, particularly the na
tional sorority of Phi Delta Kap
pa which opens **ts 33rd nation
al conclave today.
Speaking upon the subject
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Mrs. Malvina Libeman, direc
tor of elementary education of
Dade County School will be the
guest speaker at the public pro
gram of the National Sorority of
Phi Delta Kappa Conclave which
is convening in the city, Dec. 28-
31 Mrs. Liebman, an outstanding
educator herself, will speak from
the subject “Education for Today’s
Children.” Her s peech is one of
the highlights of the very inter
esting program which the local
chapter has planned.
Friends of Phi Delta Kappa all
over Mi3mi and surrounding areas
are invited to attend the meet
ing on Sunday, Dec. 30 at 3:30
p.m. at St. John’s Institutional
Baptist Church, 1328 NW 4rd ave.
“Civil Rights, America’s Chal
lenge,” Dr Flemming lashed out
strongly at the many racial dis
criminations which are being in
flicted upon Negroes particular
ly in the South. He emphasized the
fact that: “We must re-double our
efforts to enlarge the member
ship? of our militant organiza
tions, such as the NAACP.” He
explained that, “The problem of
the implementation of the Su
preme Court’s ruling on desegre
gation will be carried out main
ly by the Negroes’ refusal to co
operate with segregation.”
Dr. Flemmings also took a slap
at the North, especially New
York City, when he observed
Tallafia&9&£2s6y cotters
Winning Bus Fight
Tallahassee Federal District
J udge Dozier DeVane barred city (
officials Thursday night from in
terfering with operations of the
city bu« company until the courts
decide if bus segregation laws are
still valid.
The temporary restraining or
der carr.e after a mob of white
teenagers forced a temporary halt
by a grouja of Negroes to make a
mass attempt to integrate buses
of Cities Transit, Inc.
The city had attempted to void
the company’s franchise for fail-
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that: “In the South, we face seg
regation in an open and flatter*-
ing manner, while in the North
segregation is more secretive and
covered, but it is there neverthe
less.”
“If America does not press for
justice and freedom for all of its
people,” continued the speaker,
“we’ll wake up one morning and
find it in the grits of Commun
ism. Democracy is more than ma
terial progress, it is human dig
nity, human rights.’
In his very dramatic closing Dr.
Flemmings stressed the fact that
“America’s motive for giving the
Netro complete freedom, must be,
because jt is morally right.”
ing to enforce .egre*ated seating,
but com any officials continued
operations.
The bus company asked a per
manent restraining order and
SIOO,OOO damages from the city
commission. City Manager Arvah
Hopkins and city police for ar
resting the b.is company manager,
Charles L. Carter, and nine of his
drivers. It also asked DeVane to
rule if th? segregation laws here
till stand in the light of Federal
Court action which knocked out
similar laws in Montgomery, Ala.
The city filed a suit of its own
in Leon County Circuit Court
•harg ng the bus company has
permitted Negroes to ride in white
lections and that the company's
ranchise hculd be canceled in
view of the integration attempts
‘which will cause serious civil
krile.
DeVane said his personal opin
>n is that “every segregation act
f every state or city is as dead
s any doornail.” But he added
>at he would try to have the
us com.rany’s suit transferred to
Stat: Court for settlement He
aid the U.S. Circuit Court of Ap
peals had held that each state or
city had the right to litigate its
>wn segregation laws.
A crowd of aibout 200 white
and Nerro spectators were on
hand when the Rev. C. K. Steele
halted the attempt to ride the
buses with Negroes citting where
they pleased.
Rev. Steele said the tense at-'
mosphere prompted his move but
that individual Negroes would
continue to ride and sit where
they please.
“We are moving up the high
way of freedom,” he added, “we
cannot afford to slow up now, be
cause we have a date with des
tiny.”
It was a masterful address, fill
ed with much practical common
sense, and was well received by
the most appreciative audience.
Shortly before the close of the
program the Sigmas various an
nual award for distinguished ser
vices were presented.
State Rep. John B. Orr of Mi
ami, was presented the National
Social Action Committee’s arward
in recognition of his outstanding
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