Brownsville Weekly News

e ACCURATE
e LOCAL AND
e NATIONAL

Si.

NEWS |

VOLUME ~ NUMBER

FLINT, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, ixccwtins 14, 1942

Hampton Freshman Paints Murals For Fort Eustis Soldiers

LEADS

Great lecrsaea

fey

Revealed In West

WASHINGTON, D. C.~(SNS)~Georgia, with a total.f 1,084,927 led all other states in Negro population, it was
fevealed Saturday by the Bureau of oe

a geass wt

~tood second with a total of 1,076,578.
disclosed

The census director

~}that the population of the United

~Btates shows Negroes representing

198 =e cent of the total with a
fig of 12,865,518, an increase of

5 over the number seconded in

during the 1930~s from the south

Whites Protest

zz. Retum Of Homes
To Race Tenants |

Art Center, depicts a scene from southern Negro rura} life, In the left
corner foreground is a mother singing to her sleeping baby, and ground
the log cabin in the upper left corner background are singing workmen,
Miss Jennings, whose home is in Victoria, Va., is a freshman in the division of general studies at ~ Institute, This is her first year of

the north and west, probably out
of the rural areas in the south to
the urban areas of other parts of thus
the~ country. Over three-fourths of
the Negro population, (77 per. cent)
still lived in the south in 1940, but
this represents. a.slight.. decrease

HAMPTON INSTITUTE, Va.~(SNS)~Persis ~Jennings, shown here,
perched atop a ladder, at work on a mural in the Hampton Institute Art
Center, is one of cighi students from the college who are painting murals for an army recreation center at Fort Eustis, Va. Miss Jennings~

mural shown above one of several by students on the walls of Hampton's
painting.~ (Hampton Institute Photo.)

Race Relations Honor Roll
Is Released By Dr. Reddick

Randolph, Louis, Powell, Just
Among Eighteen Given Citations

NEW. YORK CITY~(S N S)~
The names of the twelve Negroes
and the six white. persons who
made the Honor Roll in Racz Relations: of 1941 were announced. ~y
Dr. L, D, Reddick of the New York
Public Library Saturday.

Each. year a nation-wide poll is
conducted by the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literatrre of The
New. York Public Library to deter-: the dozen Negroes (individuals, organ~.ations oc ins*ituticns),
who have most distinguished themselves during the past year in
terms of merit and social value to
the race and humanity; also~ the
half dozen white persons (individuals, organizations or institutions),
over the same period, who have
done the most for the improvement.-of race relations ~~in terms of
- yeal democracy.~~

This is a feature of Negro History Week. No attempt was made
~to rank the names.

Dr. Reddick, who js Curator of
the Schomburg Collection, said in
the course of the announcement
that the efforts of those named

~are indeed worthy contributions
to national urity in that they
en morale and quicken the
faith of the whole American people
in the democratic ideal.~

The citations are as follows:

NEGROES: ~
JOE LOUIS, an Americalf hero,

sity and patriotism.

A. CLAYTON POWELL, Jr., for
his election as the first Negro to
the New York: City Council.

DEAN DIXON, who made his
as the first Negro to. conduct

for equality of job opportunities for
Negroes in detense industry),

DR. E. E. JUST of Howard Uniersity whose death on October 27,
1941 brought to a close the | career
of a distinguished biologist

OLLUE STEWART of the AfroAmerican newspaper for his articles, the mest extensive of several series, which reveaied the actual conditions of life for the Negro soldier in che army training
camps.

* DR. AMBROSE CALIVER of the

~U 8. Office of Education for con
ceiving and supervising the Series
of radio programs ~Freedom ~s People~? which depicts the role of the
Negro in the building of America.

THE NATIONAL Association for
the Adancement of Colored People
for leading the general fight for
Negro civic rights and ~winning
notable court. victories in the
equalization of Negro teachers~
salaries in the public schoo: system of the Southern states.

DR. CHARLES 38S. JOHNSON,
director of the Department of Social Science of Fisk University, for
his books and scientific papers
which attained new heights of
scholarship and candor.

~WINGS OVER JORDAN,~ the
choral and_religious-educational
broadcast, under the direction of
Rev. Glenn T. Settle, which have

~yeached more listeners in this coun:

try and ebroad than any other program of its kind.

RICHARD WRIGHT for _ his
book, ~12 Million Black Voices,~~. his
Broadway play, ~Native Son,~
(starring Canada Lee), and his
song (in collaboration with Paul
Robeson and Count Basie), ~King
Joe~ ~a tribute to-Joe Louis. -

THE UNNAMED NEGRO
MESSMAN of the U.S.S. Arizona,
who during the Japanese attack on
Pearl] Harbor: manned an antiaircraft gun-and fought the enemy
until his ammunition was exhausted
~another example of the loyalty
and devotion of Negro Americans in
an arm of our national defense for

which training. is denied them
because of color. F
WHITES::
PM, New York newspaper for

conspicuously fair treatment of the
Negro in its news, editorials and
pictures.

MRS; ELEANOR ROOSEVELT,
who, as first lady of all the land,
has repeatediy used the weight of.
her position to speak and work for
social justice for all Americans, Ne~
groes included.

MARK F. ETHRIDGE of Louis
(Continued on Back Page)

Undertaker Caught Paying Off
To ~Dead Body~ Solicitors

FLINT, Mich~(SNS)~The Stateit has long been rumored that he

Board of Funeral Directors in Lansing has been busy. recently dealing severely. with an undertaker
who was caught buying bodies for
burial.

The case is not yet ended. It may
come to past that this undertaker
will lose his license and perhaps pay

1a fine too. It so happens that this

undertaker is in business in Detroit,

~fand has been in business there for

a very long time. He is one of the

oldest undertakers in that city. But |

was in the ~racket.~ Offenders like
this undertaker ought to be apprehended and their license should be
taken away from them. Such undertakers are those who keep

profession down in the doldrums of

the

Negro And White

Soldiers Fight,

Die Together
Fighters Are
Exploding Nazi

Inspired Myths

WASHINGTON, D. OC. -=(8NS)
American soldiers, Negro and
white, together with their brothers
in arms,, Filipinos and ~Chinese,
are fighting as a solid unit under
General Douglas MacArthur, and
daily making history~ in - ~ their
heroic defense of n Peninsula in the Philippin
The ~detailed. story -of wt iy these

men~black, -

brave white, yellow
and eh 9 for freedom~
are def this American outpost located thousand miles

from the proportion of 78.7 per cent
in.1930. The north had 21.7 per
cent of the total Negro population
in 1940 as compared
cent in 1980, and the West has 1:3
in 1940 compared with 1 in 1930.~

Divided into sections, the tables
show the following:

The north, white, 73,206,738; Negro, 9,790,193.

The eri white, 31,668,578. Negro, 9,904,61:

The wee ~white, 13,349,554; NePetal 106. $21

white, 118,214,870; Negro,

12,865,5.

By states the Negro population
for 1940 census is as follows:

WUOINE oo ea ad 1,204
New Hampshire..... wi dasle 41d
WORM 2 ood. ost onnedcces 384
Massachusetts............ 55,391
Rhode Island.............. 11,024
Connecticut _..,........... 32,982
New Work....)...ccccces. 571,221
New Jersey............ ~++ 226,973
Pennsylvania............. 470,172
a) oe a ae Ree ee re 339,461
Ep@iawe. 52. che ice 121,916
| ees ret 387,
Wisconsin..../........... 12,158
Minnesota................. 9,928
aa, te EES Vie, oa Ape 16,694
Missourk.. 2... oc. ce. ces 244,386
North Dakota |...-.......... 201
South Dakota............... 474
Nebraska........... RE ee 14,171
WOOO ks Fo a nse cain 65,138
Delaware...............:. 35,876
pare et eae penises 301,931
District of Columbia...... 187,266

with 20.3 per}

a

+4

protests
project. Not content with this, they

ignored ~promised and barged
into. the council chamber and
forcé~ an~ diate~ hearing.
nding his opinion of the
project Negroes, Co

t asso
~Mile Fenelon Improvemen
Soe ee

asserted:

tafe
Ha

i;:
e

each year since 1911, That year the ieyetla
~ Battle Creek sanitarium with ~. A. Chandler, a

but water for the~inext thirty days, tle mebjp'Whind Jack B em
not fight wil lose ~ of is 260 pound, and gal Hatt & c
three montis, bchole