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VOLUME 4~No. 40

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Flint Citizens Pro
Against Racial Ad.

In a recent edition of a

He promised himself that he
would write a letter to the Edi
*-tor of the Bronze Reporter. Sev
eral days later, William Hardy,
Jr., wrote the letter and it was
received by the B. R. June 26.

The letter read: ~Dear Sir: I
am writing in regards to the
enclosed help wanted ad, which
~as you will note specified ~white

" only.~

~I am aware that a number

i of inequities exist when it

Wil Rights

~Stand

~We in.Michigan are very
proud of the outstanding record of Governor iWlliams~ ad-, ministration in the field of civil.

rights,~ declared Lieutenant and
Acting Governor Philip A. Hart
in welcoming the convention
of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
~Pope to Detroit ast week. The
N. A. A. C. P. wound up its
48th national convention Sunday.
having gotten underway on
Tuesday in Detroit~s Civic Center.:

Hart spoke as Acting Governor due to Governor Williams*
absence from Michigan to attend the Governors~ Conference
at Williamsburg. Virginia. ~I~m
sure many of us read with great
interest the press reports from
Williamsburg which quoted Gov
ernor Williams as clearly indicating he wil never comprise
his strong civil rights position
i norder to win Southern support in any future election,~
Hart said. The Ford Auditorium

~capacity crowd of 2.900 respond
ed enthusiastically.

The Lieutenant Governor said
there is much yet to be done
even in Michigan on the civil

igre ~ Bey

Hart said he was ~proud that
Michigan is the home of the
United Auto Workers, long in
the forefroyt of the American

labor movement~s. struggle.

~ * ra
Gtizens Committee
A state citizens commission
will be organized next month
to study discrimination in hous
ing in major metropolitan areas.
The anno was made
i chairman of

by
~the Fair Employment Practices
_ Commission (FEPC). Shevitz

* said he will meet with Governor

5 to decide the scope of
and.to
name its members. eee

st

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local dhily new.

ience proferre, at nit

a Negro. settie ~ A

wspaper, read ~this
~, ee

fair employment;
many of our local

mh

buliieg, there.
appeaed a ~want ad~ in the employmént section w. ch ive é
as follows: ~YOUNG.WOMAN (WHITE)~to opera
Queen afternoon. and evenings, Ex
not neecessary,. Apply in person, 101; E. Stewart?~

This location is in. the heart
citizen, while looking through. his ~
advertisement. His reaction was
should be done about this,~ he th

ge baer toes but |

~ + % wake j +
realize ~from whence cometh~
their support.~

Sincerely, ~

John Gibson Jr., and J. Malcolm Branch were invited to
Hardy~s- home to a meeting
where this particular practice
was discussed by,a. group of
race-minded individuals. The
Maines Street Block Unit, active
in the vicinity of the Dairy
Queen, was contacted and an
effort was made to notify the
Flint Branch of the vee wait of
the situation.

Herman Gibson, president, of
the local branch, was attending
the recent NAACP convention
in Detroit.

J. Gibson and Branch contacted Mrs. Doris Wittaker to
get a statement. They were
informed that she and her
husband leased the busineess
and, that her husband had put
the ad in the paper, but she
hastefied to add that no offense was intended.

She said that she was expecting another child and needed
someone to replace_her. A dairy
official, according to Mrs, Wittaker, had told them to hire a
white girl.

The matter was turned over
to B. R.~s editor, Mrs. Glenora
Roland. In attempting to establish certain facts, a continuous
flow of denials as to who was
responsible for what was offered~ her. However,.the dairy
official ~in question informed
Mrs. Roland that they had no
connection with the Dairy Queen
other than keeping the machines

in working condition for a two 7

mnoth period.

Wittaker, apparently desiring

to maintain a good public rela-}~

tions in the community, insisted

that he nor his wife intended 7

any. discriminatory practices}

against the people supporting his |
busineess and decided that ac-|
tion was better than words,

The Dairy Queen is leased by]
the. Wittakers from a Detroit | ~
resident, who in turn leased it}
from Taylor of Taylor and Sons}.
Grocery. Z

Shown above are Daniel Neusom. Attorney D. ~, Neusom,
Wilkins and Attorney
~Thomas G. Neusom as Wilkins, National Executive Secretary of NAACP, presents a
life membership to the distin-. guished Attorney Neusom. The
$500 membership was paid
jointly ~in the Rouge-Ecorse-.
S. W. Detroit and the Los Angeles branchs of the Associa-_
tion, All three of the Neusoms
shown above are past presidents of branches. The cccasion of the presentation. was
the Breedom Fund Dinner at~
the, Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel
last Thursday evening.

Pelham Retained

Wayne County will enter into
a $5,000-a-year (contract Sept.
2 with. its budget director Alfred M. Pelham, as consultant
in the county~s $76,000,000 capital improvement program.

Pelham will ~retire July 26
after nearly 33 years~ service
to become an associate professor
in Wayne State University~s
political science ent.

The contract was authorized
Wednesday by. the Board of
Supervisors. It continue during

do's

~Can- Gan~: Gomes
= to Musical Tent

~ The vogue for Toulouse-Lautree posters that first gave

interest to the Jose Ferrer m

ovie about Paris*in the 1890s,

~Moulin Rouge,~ gets another theatrical reflection in ~Can
Can,~ the Cole Porter mus;.. e iJ
Record in Prizes

7 ~ *
Offered By State Fair

An all-time high of $140,000
for agriculture~ and | livestock
premiums will. be! offered. at
the 1957 Michigan State Fair,
General Manager Donald L,
Swanson has announced.

Swanson also announced that
entries for the State Fair. Aug.
30 through Steptember 8, will
close Friday, August 9~a day

earlier than last year.
Premiums have #een increas
ed by $9,000 during the past

two years.

Swanson urged farmers
make their entries as early as
possible to avoid the last minute
rush and to keep from being

~shut out of the State Fair be
cause of lack of space. In-recent years, practically all categories have been filled to cap
the construction) program, es-|acity~many lon before the dead
c
coc ae

timated tq run four or fivelline for entries.

oe

to;

& in
a Bay City;

}\~Out of the clear blue sky~
~Vissue injected into the Hoffa)

f-}bribery trial this week. The
- | Government~s star witness, John

a ge

ical comedy opening at~ the

Musical Tent on Monday, July 8.

For the setting of this ory
written by Abe Burroums of
~Guys and Dolls~ fame, is far
from the Times Square of ~Guys
and Dolls.~. It is the Montmartre
of Paris. Naturally with a title
like ~Can-Cén,~. the coming musical can be expected to Have

of France~ such as the feminine
chorus who refer to themselves
as that in one of their ~songs
as they kick heels above their
heads, showing a _ considerable
amount of usually hidden ruffled in the dance that shocked
France 5.years ago. ia

Mary Harmon, singing comedienne, who had the lead.in
~The Pajama Game~ will -also
play opposite Paul Ukena, baritone, her partner in the former
play. Sandy Kenyon, whose face
is known ~to millions as ~Des~
of the nationally syndicated
film series on TV, ~Crunch and
Des.~ is 2 member of the cast.
This also includes Judy Guyll,
petite dancer, Alex Palermo,

| talented. choreographer and

~dancer, Jack Anderson, Fred
'Glihe, ~Alston Barnard and Ro~bert Turoff.

Tickets are at~ House of Music

Saginaw; Music Center in
Hetfield~s -Musical
mt Record Shop in Flint or

~lithe Tent office whose phone

~read is NU: -1. 5531.

coveted medal was

The;
to the ~youthful

~presented

ae clergyman by. the Right Rev.

Richard 8. Emrich, Protestant
Episcopal Bishop of Michigan.
at the 48th annual convention

of the National Association for

the Advancement of Colored
People ~which ended its six~day session here Sunday.

Dr. King was cited for his
~ereative: contributions to the

af Fight for Freedom and his out
standing leadership role.in the}

}successf{ul Montgomery bus P: ot
j test.movement.~

~Also addressing the. more than
3,000. persons.wh

a good~ many ~maidens typical}

~away: ~here: in the limited | wo,

capacity ~of the auditoriurn.
~There, is. an
urgency about the problem
which confronts us,~ ~Dr. ~King
declared, ~We must recognize
that both~ our self-respect and
the prestige of our nation are at
stake. If we slow up at this
time we would not only be betraying the best interest of pur
of our nation. It is one of the
race, but also the best interest
ironies of present history that
the Negro, in his struggle for
freedom, is no longer struggling
for himself alone; he is really
struggling to save America.~
The eyes of the world are.
upon this nation, he asserted:
Millions of colored peoples are
deeply concerned about what's
happening to Negro citizens
in this country. Enactment of
civil rights legislation, he.indicated, would be a partial
answer to their. questions,
~The passage of the pending
civil rights bill would do. more
to increase the prestige of our
nation in international affairs
than all the billions of dollars

inescapable

|that we spend dor defense, We

can expect a filibuster in the
Senate. But if the senators in
support of the bill are really
committed to the ideal of civil
rights they: will extend this session of the Senate; and stay in
Washington all summer if necessary, until the filibustering tactics have. been pes and the
bill passed.~ ~

The NAACP, Dr. King asserted has* proved to be one
of -América~s best friends, for
by fighting ~so persistently for.
the rights of Negroes, purely
within the framework of legal |
democracy, it has saved the Ne-,
gro ffrom turning to some foreign ideology for the solution

|

of his problem.~ The NAA
has given hope and: courdge |
a disinherite people who dared

o: packed: the
é Ford Auditor:um to witness the |~
'}eeremony ~ tee oleh (June

Accepting the. 42nd. Spingarni Medal: oni mi
50,000 Negro citizens of Montgomery, ~Alab
Dr. Martin Luther King, leader of the: bus protest n jovement
in that city, warned that there can be ~no rest until segregation and discrimination have been ~ o~
-|area of our nation~s. life.~ ia Wee aee s

only to dream of freedon: ~There
are some of us who will never
forget this. I would urge~ every?
freedom-leving peste oe
~of

make it clear to: shrte~ pre

seeking to outlaw. thé ~NAACP
that.we.will stand: by, this se
ble organization. Jt ~would not
only ~be: passing: aetemet oe
tragic ee We.

ms. In:

cial differences: to: $2.0
ness ag Atnericaiys~ and
drén. of God, oe giving.t
Spingarn honnp we
are ~oladdinast his
~struggle for justice,
wise, gentle, Forcttes undfying
method which he. has. used.~ ~
Lauding the work of the NAACP in the Fight for Freedom,
Representative | Diggs: wartied:
~Let those misguided individuals who~ would outlaw. or -restrict NAACP activities beware
~of the danger inherent in 'removing the. Negro~s... muscle
which the NAACP represents.
Let them beware Jest it might
expose the Negro~s_ sensitive
nerves and drive him to secure
his rightS outside of the peacefu], methods. traditionally~ ~employed by the NAACP. The new
Negro~ is no longer: afraid. The
new. Negro is no longer afraid.
The new Negro, ~with the Supreme Court now committed to
his heaven-rescued cause, bristles. with. the. smniticlence, of a
champion.

the cost may be.~ aay

The Democratic congressman
praised Vice President Richard
M. Nixon for ~the excellent public relations job he performed~
on his African tour last~ March
and.for his role, as presiding
officer of ~the Senate,~ in helping to circumvent successfully
the committeé headed by Fastland, ~of Mississippi, putting the
civil rights, bill..in a position. to
ibe debated in~ that body.~

~There ~is, little ~wonder, he
added, that Democrats with
large numbers of Negro voters
it their districts..are distinctly
uneasy about the ~prospective
election Tesults in 1958: and
1960.~ f.

WASHINGTON, D. C. (CNS)

jas the saying goes ~ the race

Cye Cheasty, was suddenly cross
examined by defense attorney; Williams with
~ which it. was

race questions: b:

Pie sacs quiition. habia~
link with the iria] at all. For
three and a halt days Cheasty

obvious that-the real intent was Che, Chesty and his testi- pa Wet

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cooperated ~with the in
stead fo catch Fissee

handed, _ a3 if.
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Théreupon.
Cheatsy -about ~whén you -were|"

employed by the:~eity, of Talla:
hassee -to. inv
NAACP to break a us boycott.~

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