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34TH YEAR, No. 30
Negro Publishers Announce
TALLAHASSEE
INTERCIVIC
COUNCIL CITED
In announcing its annual Russ
wurm Awards, the National
Newspaper Publisher-: Associa
tion selected Rev. Martin Luther
King, along with nine other re
cipients, to be honored for -‘out
standing achievement in making
possible a ricsie r '•onceptiom of
democratic principles.”
The awards, made each year by
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MODELS SPREAD GOODWILL —These
lovely models of the Belle Meade Model
School in Newark, N.J. made Miami a
port of call on their goodwill tour sponsor
ed bv t*£_\Wa*jonal Hotel Asspciatipn.
the Negro newspapers of the na
tion, were" announced on an NBC
network broadcast on Wednesday,
March 20.
The courageous Motgomery,
Ala., minister was cited for his
“wise and unflinching leadership
in the fight against racial segre
gation and for his contribution
of a “third force,” non-violence,
to the arsenal of democracy.”
NAACP SELECTED '
With King were selected the
National Association for the Ad
MIAMI, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1957
hirst row: Eula Garber, Josephine Queen,
Margie Lewis, Ann Jackson. Back row:
Joan Alii, Miss N. H. A.; Betty Freeman,
school secretary; Emily Miles, director of
school; Vivian Capehart and Vera Largus.
vancement of Colored People for
its continued battle against foes
of constitutional government; the
National Urban League for its.
steadfast continuance of its prin
ciples of racial progress through
interracial activity, in spite of
efforts in the south to expel the
League from communities where
it ha; existed.
GOVERNOR OF MARYLAND
GETS AWARD
Governor Theodore R. McKel
din, of Maryland, was cited for
his appointment ol Negroes to im-
Russwnrm Awards
Miami Teacher Elected
President F. S. T. A.
The 64th annual convention of
the Florida State Teachers’ As
sociation, and its 7th Delegate
Assembly, which convened in
Tampa March 13th- 16th, has
been declared by many as one of
he most sumcossful convention
ever held by the association.
oortant state and municipal
ooards and offices; Lt. Col, Dan
iel ‘‘Chappie” James, for his lead
ership in ccimm ending a jet in
erceptor squadron in one of the
mo t vital strategic areas in the
nation; Rev. Paul Turner, of Clin
ton, Tenn., for his moral and
physical coura ?e in escorting
?linton Negro hi jh school students
despite irersonal hazards involved
Rev. Robert Graetz, Montg*-m
ery, Ala., who, as a white min
i ter of a Neiro church, firm!.'*
vjpported the successful fight
igainst bus segregation in the
face of personal threats and
’.anger.
SPORTS RECOGNIZED
Two areas in ports were rec
>gnized when the newspaper
Troup recognized Althea Gibson,
>econd nationally-ranked U. S.
L. T. A. woman tennis player for
her effect upon international
goodwill during her worldwide
tennis tours; and, the Nationai
Association of Intercollegiate
A‘h!etics for it' consistent refusal
to accept racial segregation and
discrimination in its promotion of
athletics and athletes in its pro
gram conducted by the smaller
colleges of the nation.
The Negro Intercivic Council of
Tallahassee, Florida, was recog
nized for its uncompromising flight
for bus desegregation in the capi
tal city of Florida. .
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SPEAKERS
Keynote :peokers included the
lon. Thomas D. Bliley, State
tupt. of Public Instruction; J.
brocket Farnell. Sjpt. of Publ’c
T nstruction of Hi’lsborough Coun
ty; Andrew J. FerreU Pres-'dent
of District 7 of the FSTA; L. D.
Land, retiritti President of the
association; Dr. Gilbert L. Porter,
executive Sec’y of the As ocia
tion; Dr. Flemmie P. Kittrell cf
T loward University; Dr. Joseph N.
Taylor, acting Dean of Dillard
University; Dr. Vernon Me Dan
iels, President of Alabama State
Teachers’ Association; Dr. Don A.
Orten of the University of Utah,
and others.
The several departmental sec
tional and group meetings were
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Bishop Nichols and Dr. Steele To
Head NAACP $50,000 Drive in Florida
Two outstanding leaders in the
religious and civic field; will lead
Florida’s “Fighting Fund Foe
Freedom” Campaign for 1957, Dr.
A. Joseph Reddick, Miami min
ister and president of the Florida
Conference of NAACP, announc
ed today.
Chairman of the drive will be
the bishop of the African Meth
odist Episcopal Church for Flor
ida, the Rt. Rev. D. Ward Nichols.
Co-chairman will be Dr. C. K.
Steele, president of the Tallahas
see Branch NAACP and of the
Infer Civic Council of that city.
He is also pastor of Bethel Bap
tist Church.
Bishop Nichols, a ranking mem
ber of his church’s Biihop’s Coun
cil, is a world traveller and mem
ber of the World Council of
Churches. He is the youngest
member presently holding the
rank of bisha; m the AME
Church. An outstanding and out
spoken proponent for Civil
Rights, Br hop Nichols has open
ly supported the protest by Tal
lahassee’s Negro citizens against
segregation on the buses there.
Dr. Steele was, born in Blue
* ?ld, W. Va. and graduated from
the high schools of Gary, West
Va. He graduated from More
house College in 1938
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triiLUKtN OF STARS—lhese small
fry make the patio and pool of the Sir
John Hotel their stamping grounds while
their parents hold forth in the local sports
and show world. On the left are Steve and
Stephanie Gibson, children of the Red
Caps* Steve Gibson anri lkwib in n»*
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'heatrical Beauty Salon in Nqw
irk, N. J. will be the featured
stylist at the Hair Style Fiesta
I Thursday night in the 535 Club.
* The affair is an annual event
J sponsored by the Sigma Omicron
j Chapter of Alpha Chi Pi Omega
’ Sorority. (See story on ';£ge 2.)
lour oarnpanelias, children of Ruth and
Dodger catcher Roy are Princess, Tony,
Roy Jr., and David. On the right are Louis
and Dianne Sattin, children of Lonnie Sa£>
tin, featured singer In the Cotton Club
21 NEGROES
FINED IN BUS
SEATING
BIRMINGHAM So far as
Birmingham Municipal Ju<fce
Ralph E. Parker is concerned, the
United Stater. Constitution la
“null and void.”
Judge Parker Thursday fined
21 Negroes SSO each for violating
Birmingham’s bus segregation
law. In his ruling the judge
charged that the 14th Amend
ment to the U. S. Constitution Is
“null and void.”
“Southern senators and repre
entsentatives were denied their
right to participate In the two
thirds vote necessary for submit
ting the amendment to the states
for ratification,’Tarker changed.
The municipal judge struck
out what he called “the attitude
of a conspiring small group of
Negroes who defy the law in re
gard to regregation and take
matters into their own hands.”
“Defiance of the law .will con
tribute nothing toward amicable
ace relations,” he said.
The 14th Amendment to the
Constitution guarantees equal
protection under the law. It is a
keystone of many Negro legal at
tacks on racial segregation lews
'n the South. It was adopted dur
ing the Reconstruction period fol
lowing the Civil War when South
ern states .were under army rule.