Bronze Reporter [Volume: 1, Issue: 28]

~A Reflection Of Negro Thought~

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Flint, Michigan, Saturday, May 29,

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Famous DuPre
Choir Te Feature
Musical Moments

The DuPyre} Victorian of
(Detroit will be presented in Corcert at the Cannan Baptist Church
on Sunday, June 6 at 3:30 p. m.
This presentation is under the, Sponsorship of the ZAGS, an orBre. work of yeung matrons who

Choir

re working to develop. cultural
*-rests e-vone Flint. citizens.
he event will mark the 8th Anual Mus:cal Moments presentation.:
Marvin DuPre, director of the
Choir, is a former member of the

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_~~~internationally known Fisk Jubi
lee Singers. The choir enjoys a
very excellent reputation for outstanding music| throughout the
middlewest. According to one
~*~ Jocal critic, ~They have no peer
in the rendition of Negro spirituals and sacred songs. | Their
music always engenders an unusual pride of the Negro~s contibution to American art.~
| The ZAGS annual scholarship
ward of $100.00 each will be
resented to two outstanding high
school students.
| The program ~will consist of:
~Bless the Lord,~ ~Lift Up Yeur
eads,~~~ ~All Ye Gates,~ ~My Heo~~, ~I Must Tell Jesus 1~ ~Feel
Noways Tired,~ ~Pray On,~ ~~Unil I Found the Lord,~ ~We Shall
~ Walk Through the Valley,~. ~Live
Humble, ~ ~Somebody~s Knockg At Your Door,~ ~Good News~
ina several solos.

The public is invited to attend |.

this program. There is no adoo charge. Mrs. Spencer
russ, 1520 Park St., is chairman
of Musical Moments and gives the
assurance that ~Flint is in for a
delightful afternoon of Music.~

Citizens Petition
' For Stop Sign

| Citizens in the neighborhood

of the Harrison St. and the Ninth

ar St. corner plan to petition the
(City for a stop sign at the interection to curb the speedsters and
the accidents in that vicinity. The
citizens complain that drivers re
[ fuse to recognize the fact that it
~is a residential district and a
ischool zone, The second accident
jof the past six weeks occurred
ast. Thursday.

I Am A Negro
By Charles A. Charles
IT am a Negro, but I can feel.
Even though my hands are as bars
of steel,
My back still carties the heavy
| load. |
~But the world says WAIT, stand
out in the coldLadies and Gentlemen, I wait and
wait and wait some more,

ty

~~ Wondering how far is freedom~s
shore.
have smiled when my heart was
- ~burning
ve said yes when NO it-should: have been.
24 've fought wars in American: name,

"na never once have I dragged the
at Flag to shame.
es. I'll admit I~m black, kind; |. and true,
Alt pant what I should do.

entlemen, remember, lose no
faith in me

or I can think.

pen your door unto my cry.

~or I am a Negro and I refuse
to hea by..

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Photographer. Threatened With

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NEW YORK me The National
Urban League todpy {May 25) is
sued an emergen~ty program fo
~ts 60 branch eifices throughout
the nation to immediately begh
conferences with officials in thei
communities to implement the histori~ Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation in~ the public
schools.

Lester B. Granger,

director of the National League
pointed out that the ~whole world
will be watching to see how this
decision is implemented, not on!y
in the 21 states directly affectcd,
but in the great urban centers of
the north and west.~

~Public school segregation ir
some of these areas,~~ he said ~is
in fact on the increase. For. example, in New York City from
1900'to 1930, Negroes and whites
attended the same public schools.
Now because of) the residential
segregation and ~inadequate, segregated elementary schools, New
York City has, in fact, not ~only
separate but aie ae educational
facilities.~

~The integration of teachers is
still a long way off,~ he added.
~Most Negro beachers teach only
Negro youths in \these ~sepd@rate~
schools of ~the North and West.~

~The Court~s decision must be
implemented not only in.the South

executive

National Urban League To Help
umplement Supreme Court Decisicn

but throughout the country on the

local Jevel in the urban; cammunities where people | have
homes and where their.children
go to school. It requires! veluntary action by men~ and women
of good-will, white and colored,
working together through loeal
interracial agencies.~

Granger congratulated the NA
ACP for its success ini the now
historic Supreme Court decision.

Lecal Man To
Participate In

Chicago Session

Frank Corbett, of our local Urban League. will represent. the
National Urban League at the
Second Community Organization
Conference to be held at the University of Chicago on June 11 and
12. Corbett~s discussion -will be
focused on community organization for child welfare. He. collaborated with Arthur J. Edmunds,
Executive of the Urban Leagte,
to write a report that dealt with
techniques for finding. foster
homes among Negroes. The. re-.
port was warmly received by s0 -cial agencies all over the country including the United: States
Children~s Bureau andthe Child
Welfare League of America.

The St, Joseph | Hospital staff
of Practical Nurges met in the
cafeteria of the ~hospital for their
Annual Meeting Wednesday afternoon, May 19.

Election of Officers was held.

the office indicated: President,

St. Joseph Practical Nurses Re-elect
Mrs. R.jJ. Pea President

The following were re-elected to}
~bie held in the fall. ~

Mrs. R. J. Pea;. Vice-President,
Mrs: Hendersen; and SecretaryTreasurer, Mrs. Videan.

Miss Whalen, Hospital co-ordinator, was presented with a
gift. Refreshments were scrved.

The next business meeting will, aest speaker,
talk was ~Foreign Travel~.

their |

|,. es
| ~1 Want $75 A Month~
j

Derents Efenor
Teachers
| A throne of

nearly 200 parents gathcred ct the Parkland
School to hots.) the teaching.
taff in their second Annual

crmal Banquet jast Saturday,
el Niolet ~T: Lewis, Founder
nd. picsidy nt of Lewis Business
re of Detroit, ch. ag
The title of her
Cther.
\peakers included Mr. Theodore
Kk. Taylor, Mr. Roy Olsen, Mirs.
H. M. Golden, Mr. John Russell,
Mr. Allen Matherne, Mrs. Lois
Holt, Dr. Spencer Myers, Mr.
w.ipirt Truemner. Vocal selecons were given by Mrs, George
McKenzie and Mr. Robert B.
fackson and The Dorothy Patton
Trio furnished the music.

Mr. Taylor, former presidcnt
+f Parkland Schoo] PTA was presented a smoking jacket by Miss
Ruth VanZandt cn pehalf of the
teaching staff.:
The guests~ enjoyed

| a Baked
Virginia Ham dinner.

| The teaching | staff consists
df Miss Myrtle Halvorson, -prindipal; Mrs. ~Geneve Babb, Mis.
Abbie Byars, Mr. Ern-st P.. Colc,
Mrs. Nola F. Custer, Mr. William

%. Fraction, Mrs, Olive Hedges,
Mrs. Tois Holt, Mrs. Doris Horton, Miss Marjorie Keeler, Mrs.
Ethel McCormick, Mrs. Ethel
Muinrow, Mrs. Ollie Pondergrass,
Mrs, Lois Riley, Mrs, Judith Salmon, Mrs. Dallas Taylor,
Sedie Thomas, Miss Jean Tomman, Miss Ruth VanZandt, Mrs.
Doris Vezina,; Mr. ~Donald Wesley and Miss Joyee M. Wilson.

Mrs. jesse Jai
McNeil Woman's
Day Speaker

Mrs. Jesse Jai McNeil of Detroit was Woman~s Day speaker
at Mt. Olive Baptist church, Sundav, May 23, at 11:00 a.m: She
was informative, inspiring. and

Mrs. |
jin another
jto turn the photographer arovnil

cdifying as she spoke from the
suljject: ~Women Were There~~.
Mis. McNeil is the wife of the|
renowned Rev. Jesse Jai MeN+ il)
of \the Tsbernacle Baptist cnureh |
in etre, Michigan.

There were significant in-!
| creases in the proportions of Ne-|

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Ordered Off Premises
While Covering Story
a On Housing Violation

The episode ger out of the
Fire Department campaign
against FiRW TRAPS, Reuben
chi: 1062- Baltimore Blvd.,
was warncd on Feb. 19) 1954, b+
tne City Fire Marshal Elwim
Ruthcriord not to rent. the gaiage located at. 1065 | Raltimerc
blvd.,, for human habitation.

On ~May 25, 1954, Mr. Dennis
Sullivan, Fire Prevention Bureau, _
investigated to d-termine whethe:
Robinson was complying with the~
previous order. Mr.) Sullivan
found that the garage cecupied by ~Mr. and Mrs. Alexanier Washington and their seveyi
children. The garag2 is) not wiicd
for electricity and there are no
toilet facilities, or running watery,
Heit, is furnished. by.a space
heater (oil) located near the
agnly exit from the building.

The Fire Prevention Bureau is
~erious about doing all within its
yower to reduce. the |threat oi
fatal fircs. A Warrant was issu~i
jJemanding Rohinson~s appearaiice
in court for, ignoring the Fs~
Marshal~s orders to keep the garage free from human habitation,

On Tuesday evening, May 25,

Pe He

sen,

was

Michiaan Housing

Law Fined
Reuben Robinson, 1062 Balti
~more 'Blvd., pleaded guilty Wed
nesday morning, May 26, before

Municipal (Caurt Judge Da'e
Shewley. Hej|was charged with
permitting (oceupancy | of con+

demned garage after he had been
warned to desist by tha Fire Pic+
vention Bureau.

Judge Showley asked) Robin: SOR.
if he wished to be represented
by coursel.. Robinson declined.
Judge Showley informed the defendant that he was entitled te a
trial. He declined. Judge Showley
finc-d the defendant $50, after
Robinson pleaded guilty to the
charges,

Robinson. procteded to evict the
Washingtons. In desperation,
Mrs. Washington called~ THE
BRONZE REPORTER for assistance as her husband had nct
returned from ~work.

BRONZE REPORTER newsmen immediately went to investigate. After they had been admitted to the garage dwelling ty
Mrs. Washington, Robinson cha:4 -ed upon the scene with a hammer in one hand and a hatchet
~ used the hammer

and drew the hatchet back as he
made it clear that if a pietme; was taken then that there won)
| bo

trouble. Fhe photographei,
a three-time! Flint Journal Golden Gloves Champion and a con-:
bat veteran, decided that dises+tion was in jorder.. The! newsrach
retreated to the street they

as; were ordered with profane land
uage by Robinson: to vacate his
property. The Police were svummoned, and the pictures wei
taken as the) officers stood ~by in
| the event of trouble.

Reuben Rebinson ~ contenic 4
that he was rot renting the pre nh

fexo workers engaged in profes-4 ises, but was ailowing the farnilly

sional,: clerical |
and in skilled factory occupa- |
ticns.

and sales work,| to stay there until

they
find another place in which
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