Bronze Reporter [Volume: 2, Issue: 10]

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Volume 2 - No. ox 10 Phone CE 8-6688

Flint, Michigan,

Saturday, eke 19, 1955

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Photo by Van Dyke
_- Mrs. Willie Elzy, 756 Mrrtle, is employed by -Flint~s Vogue Shop.
' She is in the window dressing depariment. Connie, as, she is known by
her many friends, is native of Flint and a Northern High School
graduate. She is a member of Metropolitan Baptist Church and she is

the secretary, of the Reckettes. social club.

Mrs. Elzy~is fond of basketball,

a> aiiemead tee

dancing. and swimming, ~however,

she is hopeful of entering the retailing field soon. She would like to
have a womens clothing stere of her own.

Texan Gets Stiff
Sentence For Attacking ~
Negro Girl

Gilmer, Texas - Luther A. Wheeler, 35, this week. received a 29
year imprisonment sentence. He
was convicted of raping a 14-year~
old Negro girl.

_ The young girl was reportedly
attacked on the afternoon of Sepiember 26, 1955, in a wooded area
"just off Highway 271, about.a mile
north of Gladewater. She testified
that she accompanied the white
man after her mother had given
her permission to do house work
for~him. The mother took down
the license number of the car the
man was driving.

Wheeler was? arrested by Longview officers ~ ~the same eyening
after they traced the ownership.
The owner said that Wheeler had
been driving y that afternoon.
County Atty. ' Ott Duncan, pro
Florida Students
Want Integration

Deland, Fla., - Stetson University
executive council of the Baptist
Student Union have begun a drive
to bring about integration at the
university by 1957.

Although final action will not
be taken until November 25, when
the student government association
will pass in it, the students passed
a resolution at a meeting of the
union.

Mass. Attorney General
Brands Klan Revival

Everett, Mass. - Massachusetts Attorney General George Fingold
branded as a ~district threat t>
our national freedoms,~ the present revival:of the KuKlus Klan
in. Georgia.

~News dispatches from Atlanta
just two weeks ago today. advised
which we hoped was dead and buried, has received a new charted,~
us that this terrorist organization,
Fingold said, ~for the avowed purpose of protesting desegregation
in the public schools.~

~Unless such activities are
checked, the country is faced with
a wave of law lessness, economic
boycotts and even murder, tha
may besmich our national history
and shock the civilized world. ~Let
there be no mistaking,~ Fingold
warned, ~Our freedom is at stake
in peacetime, too, every bit as
much as in wars, maybe more so.~

Negro Housing,,

Dilemma To Be
Examined

A conference on housing is beo ~diagnosed and recommend work
ing planned by the Urban League
able solutions to local housing problems.~ The event will be held at

ber 21.

Participating in the conference
will be expert consultants representing national and local agencies
and: institutions that are interested either directly of indirectly in
housing. This will include such
groups as the FHA, HHFA, national and local financing institutions, labor, industry, social ser
vice and city government.

The program represents an acfort to bring about positive action
celeration of Urban League~s efon the Negro~s critical housing pro
~Lblems.

Till trial. The union hall was fille:
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9 URGES ANTI-LYNCH LAW

Local 599 FEPC Rally
Attracts Overflow Crowd

By Mrs. Terrie Van Hurley.

Local 500 Union Hall - Thousands of women felt the pain and sors
row of a mother~s heartbreak Sunday, November 13, 1955,
Mamie Bradley, told the shocking and scandalous story of the Emmett

as Mrs,

d to an overflowing capacity. The

huge turnout was a definite protest to ~Mississippism~~ which has
filtered the United State. One could not help but be impressed with
the spirit and unity in the massive crowd. The rally showed that the
people are still concerned ~with individual members of the human race
Their presence indicated that we do not want other cases such as

the First Baptist~ Church, 1509 E.
Court Street, on Monday, Novem-.

NAACP Pours
Reserve Fund

Into Negro Bank

New York - According to an NA
ACP spokesman, the National Office has transferred $10,000 of its
reserve funds from a New York
bank to the Negro-owned Victory
Savings Bank of Columbia, 5.C.
to aid victims of economical pressure. '

~It has been reported that many
Negroes in South Carolina have

_|been fired or hurt economically by

sanctions imposed by the White
Citizens Council in an effort to
discourage integration efforts...,

State Police Ekanie
To Be Offered

Thanks to our State Representative Roger B. Townsend, the following annoucement was received
by The Bronze Reporter:

STATE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION announces that civil
service examination will be given.
to applicants for state police jobs. |
The test will be given December
17, 1955, -however,. applications
will have to be filed no later than
November 30, 1955. Positions ~are.
offered ubarried or. single men

whose ages range from 21 to 29.
Salary begin at $153. 20 every two!
weeks. |

In a statement, Mr. Clearence

Reeves,. FCO vice-director and
chairman of the FCO Political
Committee, said, ~The FOC is of
the same opinion as some of our
other public spirited organizations.
that we are being offered the
choice between the losser of two

J evils.~~

~We of Flint,~ Reeves pointed

secutor in the case, produced nl
eumstancial evidence as well as;
identification of the defendant by

out, ~are aware that our local in
|dustries have been steadily increasing annual profits. This is being.

done without equitable tax increa
several witnesses who reside in
Gladewater.

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ses to industry while workers have
received only a token increase in

salary. The tax burden of the

working man has been increaseing
at an increasing rate. In so much
as this is true, it would seem that
industry should carry the burden
of the tax load in this locale.~.
Reeves continued, ~The: higher
property tax plan is unjust. Corporations derive the largest profit, consequently, corporations are
able to afford added taxation.
From available information on the
pay roll tax, it seems that members
of large families hard put to make
ends met, would pay the same per
cent as those with or without de
Clarence iheves States FCO
Stand On Tax Referendum

pendants. Also even though we!

feel that workers who live outside
the city should help bear the tax

Emmett Till To happen to any individual in America.

Mrs. Bradley was praised for
the manner in which she courageously exposed a tragedy that could
have quickly silenced and forgotten, when she permitted newsmen

-|to take the picture of her dead son,

so:the world could see the mutilated decomposed body.

Mrs. Ama Spearman, The Grandmother of Emmett Till gave a
Synopsis in the life of the young
by proving that he was not a child
raised up without guidence aad
home training.

~Brendon ~Sexton-ancther- principal speaker gave his view of how
he felt being a white man toward

se that touch his soul and heart.

The définite outcome of the
rally was a resolution,

The credit for such a fine program goes to Edgar Holt educat~ional chairman, Nat Turner record.
ing Secretary, ahd John Hightower, and all the cooperation from
behind the scene.

We, the people of Flint, having,
assembled ourselves 5,000 strong,
November 13th, in a Mass Meeting
~called by Local 599, UAW-CIO in
a freedon and justice rally offer

the following resolution indicating ji
our desires for freedom and justices~

and oup demands fo ~
action.

| Whereas: Ouz attention, Agitl,
complete indignation has been focused upon the barbaric crime of
the Emmett Till.Case, and
Whereas:
stration of pretense on the part of
the authorities in the state of Miss
issippi in their sworn duty te aphold and administer the laws of the
state and respect the constitution
of the land.

Whereas: It is no longer possible
for even our children to be safe
under the law of certain states ig
our land,

Therefore.be it resolved: * That

burden of the city~s house keeping | we call upon the international une
jeb, we do not think it is fair~ to ion of the UAW-CIO afid Walter
them to be taxed as a resident ot Reuther as president of the CIO to
Flint would be taxed. If out-city'take the intiative in organizing a

furusage of city facilities, then~ it
resident workers are to be taxed
Should be a tax that will bring 2
party between city and out-cicy
dewellers. The FCO Political committee, speaking for the Flint Civic
Organization, urges the Flint voter

Mass National Protest meeting in
Washington, D.C., Under the
sponsorship of the United CIOAFL Labor movement of America,
and other interested national, organizations to demand thaé the
the congress of the United Statea
of America, enact a Federal Antix

to reject BOTH ISSUES offered
with a ~NO~ vote..

~Lynch Law at once.

thé whole incedent. He related to. ~
the audence the shame and remor--

The outrageous demon<
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