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THE NEGRO PRESS CREDO The Negro Press believes that America •an best lead the world away from racial and national antagonisms when it accords to every man, regardless of race, color or creed, his tinman and legal rights. Hating no man, fearing no man, the Negro Press strives to help every man in the firm belief that all are hurt long as anyone is held back. Vol. XIX No. 26 NECRO OUTGROWS WHITES. 5-4 SCHOOL BOARD SUBMITS DESEGREGATION PLAN STATISTICAL REPORT SUBMITTED TO VIRGINIA COURT Richmond, Va—lnstead of a plan for desegregation, as required by Federal District Court Judge Oren R. Lewis, the Prince Edward Coun ty school board has submitted a statistical analysis of the county’s school-age population and a report on parents’ willingness to send their children to desegregated public schools. Submission of the so-called plan was followed the next day, Nov. 16, by an order of Judge Lewis affirming his memorandum opin ion of Aug. 23, and continuing his jurisdiction over the issue as to whether the public schools may be closed to avoid desegregation until after the final decision of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Vir ginia on the suit filed in that court to compel the county board to re open the public schools, closed since 1959. The judge also ruled that his restraining order of Aug. 23 ban ning local and state funds for “pri vate” schools shall remain in ef fect until 20 days after the Virginia Supreme Court rules on the con stitutionality of school closing to circumvent a federal court dese gregation order. At that time, he said, the order “shall stand dis solved except upon further order of this ’Cburtf ’ - The Prince Edward County "school report of Nov. 15 confesses the incompetency of the board members “to attempt to project their minds to a factual situation beyond which these Questionnaires show exist in the county.” According to the board’s survey, the parents of 1,096 Negro chil dren and only 13 white youngsters would agree to have their children attend desegregated schools. Ques tionnaires were sent to the par ents of 1,168 Negro children and 1,229 white children. The board “supposed that any plan filed by a school board and approved by the court is a plan of some permanence and that all con cerned have some reason to place reasonable reliance thereon.” Further, the board asked per mission “to consider the matter on the basis of these things which now appear to be facts and to make a report to the court concerning what now appears to be the best manner to open public schools in the county, if funds are made avail able for their operation, for those children whose parents have in dicated that they will attend pub lic schools, if they are opened.” Following a hearing on the NA ACP suit to compel the reopening of the schools of Prince Edward County, Judge Lewis, last Aug. 23, issued an order requiring the board to submit a desegregation plan. Previously, in April, 1960, the court (Continued on Page Two) ■ ~ ■§- It . /• (H | gft ■ w ■ J| J lIL JpflL H .SB l|aEH BHlSfefe "£.a Mb .flB _... ....j^ljjjj^ MASONS VISIT REST HOME Fellow Masons from the Prince Hall Chapter paid a special Visit to the Happy Happy Rest Home at 2901 East Broadway, *1 if r); Breeay Boyer, Mrs, ?* IsMmz % lillli 4j§M«Bfl 4b SSKBSBm DEDICATION CROWDED Approximately 70 people witnessed the dedication of the New Valley Life Insurance Building gun 20 Nominated For New York Robert C. Weaver, administrator of the Federal Hous ing and Home Finance Agency, and W. W. Law, Savannah mail man and president of the Georgia State NAACP, are among 16 per sons named by the NAACP nomni nating committee for election to the Association’s national Board of Directors. Both are presently members of the Association’s 48- person Board. In addition, four candidates were nominated by independent peti tions signed by 30 or more NAACP members in good standing. Also named by the nominating committee are two who have not previously served as a member of the Board. They are Dr. Eugene T. Reed, of Islip, N. Y., president of the New York State Conference of NAACP branches, and James G. Blake of Charleston, S. C., More house College student and chairman of the NAACP National Youth Work Committee. Others nominated by the com mittee for re-election are Kelly M. Alexander, Charlotte, N. C., president of the NAACP in North Carolina; Dr. Nathan K. Christo pher, Cleveland, Ohio, treasurer, iCamper, Rep. Gilbert Gray, Mr. Hugh Goings, and Mr. Davis Jack. (SUN Photo - Cloves Campbell) ARIZONA SUN NAACP Board Ohio State NAACP; Dr. W. Mon tague Cobb, Washington, D. C., professor of anatomy, Howard Un iversity Medical College and chair man, NAACP National Health Com mittee, Mrs. Dorthea Combre, Lake Charles, La., president, Louisiana State NAACP; Earl B. Dickerson, Chicago, 111., president and gen eral manager, Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Company; Dr. George D. Flemmings, Fort Worth, Texas, president, Fort Worth-Tar rant County NAACP branch and grand vice chancellor, Knights of Pythias of Texas. Also Dr. Buell firallagher, Sac ramento, Calif., chancellor, Cali fornia State Colleges, former presi dent. College of the City of New York and Talladega College in Ala bama; Dr. Harry J. Greqne, Phila delphia, Pa., former president, Phi ladelphia branch and Pennsylvania State NAACP; Dr. tillie M. Jack son, Baltimore, Md., president, Baltimore branch and Afaryland State NAACP; William R.' Ming, Chicago, 111., member, NAACP National Legal Committee; Judge Theodore Spaulding, Philadelphia, Pa. (Continued on Page T hree) Phoenix 41, Arizona, Thurs., Dec. 7, 1961 day, Nov. 26, at 1140 E. Washington St. Photo - Clovis Campbell NAACP Moves To Protect N. Y. Negro Families New York The NAACP has moved to stop eviction from four Long Island communities of 578 Negro families who have not been provided new homes as required under existing urban renewal laws. The communities of Rockville Centre, Long Beach, Huntington Station and Glen Cove now have 578 Negro and 108 white families living in slum areas, earmarked for removal under urban renewal. Only 108 low-rent units are being built for these families, the re maining new housing is designed for middle-income families at rent als or sale beyond the financial reach of the current residents. This means that 75 per cent of the families will have to look else where, according to' Jack Wood, NAACP housing assistant. Housing officials from the four towns say that residents will be placed “in other parts of the com munities.” The NAACP asserts that this is impossible for the Negro families because they are excluded from all residential areas, except the slums. The NAACP has filed - complaiant with the New York State Com (Continued on Page Two) NAACP HOLIDAY DRIVE DOING WELL New York Announcement that SIO,OOO has been received during the initial three weeks of the NA ACP’s Christmas Card Substitute Plan, was made this week by Dr. Anna J. Julian, national chairman. This amount, received prior to Thanksgiving, represents half of what the project, launched last year by The Links, netted during that entire holiday season. Mrs. Julian, rwho also serves as national treasurer of The Links, is directing the fund-raising cam paign being carried out by 88 Links chapters in 27 states and local NAACP units throughout the country. During the drive, persons are asked to send their regular Christ mas card money to the NAACP’s Freedom Fund drive. In return, they receive attractive Substitute Cards with a “freedom message” in a holiday motif setting. CHURCHES ENLIST 5,000 FOR NAACP Washington Five thousand NAACP members, enlisted through churches, were reported, account ing for half the total number of Association members enrolled dur ing the current fall renewal drive. The report was made at a spec ial NAACP luncheon for ministres and lay leaders. More than 100 churchmen were in attendance. Rev. Edward Odom, Jr., nation al NAACP church secretary, who addressed the gathering, said the outstanding NAACP support from local churches was also reflected in the city’s church social action program organist job discrimina- The Washington churches have spearheaded a drive to end bias in local banks and business concerns. Rev. E. Franklin Jackson, presi dent of the Washington NAACP and Mrs. Blanche Carter, church committee chairman, also spoke. %? m% jjjj^ |blw Sf Jt mMmgm* IM Sm wMiSsMB „lpw P» %iW> 1m % f atKIK . i p .JML a jdM HHjf - t| -gB H^ljH MjaStij l <HV HfiilSSf 1 / MBW Mr Mi S| -|: HgHHj^H H 8 •■-.■■. | •jjgmigßßßWMs BwwjlflMMiy I® w ¥ IhßAh |BJpjr 1 1 ? s DELTA SIGMA PAST PRESIDENTS The Delta Sigma Theta Sorority of Phoenix celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary Sun day, December 4, at the Chris-Town auditorium. Honored were the past presidents. They are: U to r): Miss Arlena Seneca, Job Outlook For Young Workers Washington Establishment of a nation-wide project designed to spur interest of young persons, particularly Negroes, in the op portunities in business as urged by Julius Ai. Thomas of New York, industrial relations consultant of the National Urban League. Mr. Thomas spoke at the Na tional Urban League. Mr. Thomas spoke at the Na tional Conference on Small Busi ness in the Hotel Statler Hilton, addressing a session devoted to personnel recruitment and train ing. “Such a project might well be a joint venture of the Department of Commerce, the Urban League, the National Business League, colleges and high schools and other inter ested groups,” Mr. Thomas said. He pointed out that many cor porations and other business en terprises are providing part-time and summer work experience for high school and college students with promising abilities and sug gested that “we consider a project of this nature wherever conditions warrant it.” He further recommended that case studies of successful enter prises operated by Negroes be prepared as aids to incentive and to show how these firms conduct business. Also needed, he added, are informational materials show ing how to assemble necessary capital, techniques in market re search, product research, advertis ing, personnel development and other business essentials. “The young men and women of today are destined to take over what we, this generation, leave them,” Mr. ’Thomas sdid. As things now stand, they will inherit a thriving economy. It will not be perfect by any means, but one capable of providing this country and the rest of the world with the leadership that is sorely needed in these confused times.” The Urban League consultant, who has devoted nearly 40 years to the industrial and business re lations program of the organiza tion, voiced the opinion that the kind of opportunities most needed to be developed sre those “that give meaning to life, afford a rea sonable degree of economic sta bility and provide some assurance (to young Negores) that working careers will not become a constant series of indifferent and casual jobs.” He urged that Negro business men give impetus to incentive a mong young people toward busi ness careers by working more close ' ly with schools and colleges where they presently are in training. “During the past two decades I have participated in dozens of career conferences in which curi ous youngsters have raised ques tions about the opportunities after graduation.” Mr. Thomas told the conferees. “Relatively few seemed to have the kind of information they need regarding business.” He declared that over the years he has noted disturbing evidence that the nation is not “exposing our young people to the dynamics of our culture and economy.” “I would hope,” he said, “that this conference will help us dis cover the techniques for stimula ting and challenging the imagina tion of the thousands of young men and women who must find for themselves productive and satis fying careers in the main stream of the American economy.” Toward accomplishment of this end, Mr. Thomas stressed that “we need a new ‘image’ for Negro owned business and business lead ers,” particularly in the minds of youth. GIBSON'S CASE IS POSTPONED New York Argument in the United States Supreme Court on the contempt conviction of Rev. Theordore R. Gibson of Miami, Fla., has been postponed to Dec. 4, NAACP General Counsel Robert L. Carter was informed this week. The hearing had originally been scheduled for Nov. 16. At issue is a six-month jail sentence and a fine of SI2OO im posed upon Father Gibson, an Epis copal clergyman and president of the Miami branch of the Na tional Association for the Ad>- vancement of Colored People. Father Gibson was convicted of contempt of a Florida legislative investigating committee because of his refusal to verify his answer to questions based on the NAACP branch membership list. The case is before the Supreme Court on appeal from a decision of the Flori da State Supreme Court which up held a lower court ruling requir ing him to testify that certain per sons named by the committee were or were not NAACP members. He was originally convicted in August, 1960. ] Mrs. Aruther Rosser, Mrs. Wiliam Warren, Mrs. Hadley Murrell, Mrs. Lowell Wormley, Mrs. Finis Hardiman, Mrs. Newmen King, Mrs. H. S. Edwards and Mrs. Wallace Croomes. (SUN Photo 11 Cloves Campbell) This momentous crisis In the life ot or ganized mankind may be likened to the cul minating stage in the political evolution of the great American Republic the stage whick marked the emergence of a unified community of federated states.. URBAN LEAGUE SURVEY REVEALS 20 MILLION COUNT New York An up-to-the-minute : presentation of what underlies the . major factors in race relations in America, titled “Economic and Social Status of the Negro in the United States,” is spelled out in a bound document published today by the National Urban League. Facts set fofth in the 32-page volume are drawn from informa tion compiled by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare for use by the Urban League, and are current as of Autumn, 1961. In commenting on the publica tion, Henry Steeger, NUL presi dent, cited a number of specific areas of the documentation which he regards as most crucial to the future of the American Negro—a 20 million population facet of our national society. “It is shown in this study that in the decade just past the Negro population increased over the white growth - rate by a five-to-four ratio,” Mr. Steeger points out (Continued on Page Two) Negroe Votes Are Increasing Steadily Baltimore—Spurred by a sus tained NAACP drive under leader ship of Dr. Lillie M. Jackson, branch president, registration of Negro voters in Baltimore is steadily approaching parity with that of white voters, ... With more than 108,000 STegroes enrolled, these voters now consti tute more than a quarter of the city’s total of 407,500 registered voters. In 1955 there were only 72,800 colored voters in Baltimore. The continuing campaign to en large this vote has been conducted under auspices of the Baltimore NAACP. Negroes account for 35 per cent of the city’s total population and 27 per cent of the total registered vote. In part, this is because a larger proportion of Negroes is under 21 years of age than of whites. The expansion of the Negro vote has been accompanied by a de cline in the number of white voters. In 1955 there were 324,000 white voters. That figure is now down to 299,600. Commenting on the rise of the Negro vote, the Baltimore Even ing Sun said: “It means an in* creasing participation by Negroes in the electoral process and pro bably a rise in the number of Negroes chosen for city office. One hopes that it will also bring a wid ening of Negro interest in general politics.” PAID U. S. Postage Phoenix Arizona Bulk Rate Permit ixu. *9B Ten Cents