Bronze Reporter [Volume: 5, Issue: 12]

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LITTLE ROCK~ Surrounded t nhat we ware hee~ fellow students a dedabageined Cates | 5 eos <a
Scheol, Minnie Jean Brown, 16, says.goodbye. for semester, been ex- | This was: onfoane
led February 17: from Central High, after five incidents. She. left: ~February 622-on a hoe was:
Penclerchiy to the New Lincoln High School in New-York, Her dopurtice Ws was rt peePo
ee the plane was searched for a bomb. (United Press ee tee: tan eee

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St. HE mS? ORY: =

ag pee Of segregation may be distinguished. The Soitherners: and. otter Abie s
first type isa. voluntary or passive segregation, arising cans.of middie age or even old
conciously or unconciously, wherein individuals band together apart frori other individuals because. of common
~interests; language, cultural heritage; of mufual~needs.~
Typical. of ~such segregation are the foreign sections of
large.cities where ethnic groups voluntarily establish corhmunities, maintaining their own social life and: preserv?
ing their. national tradition.

The second. type of. segregation
is. active or. forced: segregation,
whereby a~ group: of individuals

maintenance of. strict residen~tial - segregation in white~ and
~Negro ~living: steas. are sharply:
ees. ele Soe de

| captecrs are as SURG ae foc
dragging Conservatives when con:
frohted by some: of the little
known history of Jim Crow. The
fact seems to be that people
ef all shades of opinion-radical,
liberal, ~conservative and ~ reactionary,~Negro ahd white -have
often _ based. their. opinions. on
shaky historical foundations or
downright misinformition.

or the desire i a; group.
| in cominance: or: control,
may: be. enforced. through legal
of economic measures, or by: social pressure.

_ The- most outstanding example
cf: farced ~segregation in the
United~: States is that~ arising
from the racial conflict of whites
and - Negroes, espécially in. the

southern states. Here the segre-| The period of history that give
gation of the Negro has meant rise to the lgws cf segregation
the abuse of civil rights;-the}which we fll the ~Jim Crow~

throtigh the éstablishment -of ~separate schools, amusement cen-| good deal obscuritysFof ~all
ters, ~Jim. Crow~ transportation! but. the eld dies below the
ps Secs and the like and the threshold of living memory.

Dr. Freshe To Address
Human Relations Group

Rev. Alexander Miller, ~Chairman of the lint Human-Relations Council today announced that the fifst Organization
Delegates Meeting of the Council, on M@nday, March 3rd
at 8:00 P.M. Pierce~ Community School, Will be addressed
by Dr. Robert M. Frehse, Executive Director of the Detroit

Round Table of Catholics, Protesta and Jews.
Frehse~s keynote will be the| s Be ee ||
services performed by Human j =
Relations Councils in numerous}
other American cities, in foster- ing intergroup relations and co~operation ~on a voluntary basis.|.
He has served as a minister of;
Presbyterian and Congregational
Churches, is now Chairman of}
the Detroit Coordinating Coun-;
cil on Human Relations, Vices).
President of the Family Service},
Society and a member -of the}

Board of Directors of the ~Coun
cil of Churches, International In-|
stitute and Michigan Cees

system ~ is i 2 wrapped in a

7 ~ fof Parents. and Teachers.

anization
| meeting; in addition 150 leaders
jin~ business, labor;

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trine of Herbert Spencer in their
4and reform. Leave everything to|M
Sai all. will be well.

Br ay for thirty
A tend

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eorpe mi ticenses
Of 7
er are re is tai of Jim au
Crow. Unable~ to remember at |
time ~when seg on: was not)
the~ général~ rule. amd ~paactice, |
they have. mutually assumed tlist |
things have always been that way.
Or if~ not: always, then ~sines of, which: would.
vette: 3

P Flint:

or ~since. Reconstruction, ah
Some ~even think of the~ sys+|.
Pt as existing along vate peg a., Few mare a Fas ~

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lbh: Jetter is as follows:: vaib ae

~ seative to your application. for vending
e inquiry~ and proper investigatides; to refuse the Cooper-Pope Vending
were. allowing you a period of five days
ending machines located. swithin~ the

with this ~regulation wilt mean arrest |
Ponfisication of the machines.

nding Com

paddieeding Machine. Service of Detroit was |~ ~
te-in the Flint ~city

~fh. a letter sent to Pnarles Hughes, |,

e's Benéral manager of the Flint area. "|

~limits this wek.

Koh teicns
cigarettes *macbines ~in:

to operate vending machines

be ~Saturday, March 1, ~to~ teVery truly, yours, -

(S): Harry K. Cull. >
City Clerk > '

~a full ~stale vending: ~ war ~ vl hee

arose: There. is nab aT ng ord oe
Riso books that gives them | gees age
uch~: ~help, and,: cepa ee 3
derable. in books: that likely Gi
mislead. an2 sahite~ ~them. f
The. ~distoritions.- ant: perver
sipns- that -have taken, Place ia
Jim Crew* ~history. aré all inh:
nore regretable in view of ~the yl
urrent debate that wages over:

8 egation. The Esa ope wa 1S- + INEW YORK~
ion over the questig-S of oni, Va., as N
how \deeply rooted, how.; dheradic

able,
ch

and~ how ~gathendable to

retary.
ge the se ation practices
bein

~In making -the atineusieement,

are| b ~conducted against a| Mr. Wilkins said that. Mr. Brooks
bac! ~of faulty or inade-| would ~head the Agsociation~s
q historical _information.| Southwidesdrive to. reach: a.igoal

/And -some of the mest widely:
widely held sociological ~theories; regarding segregation are,
based upon erroneous history.

Andrew Carnegie said in 1886,
Qh, these grand, immutable, allwise laws of natural forces~
how perfectly they work if hu-man legislators would only let
them alone.~ For a long time
this has been the: classic ~appeal
of those who want to be left
alone by meddling law makers
and courts. Defenders of segregation like defenders of the status quo in other fields, have
appealed to the, laissezfaire doc:

of: 3,000,000. registered Negro.
voters in #he region by.-1960. He
will be:.assisted by existing /NAACP personnel in the.region and
such ee personnel as may
~be needed.

Mr: Breeks comes: to his. new
post from. the Virginia State
Conferenee of NAACP branches
where he.was employed.as.-political action director. and as an
assistant.to the executive. secretary of the conference,W. Lester
Banks: - Previously: he: Ahad: been
executive secretary of the Crusade for:Woters of Richmond, a
non-partisan organization set up
to increase the Negro.vote.

> veteran. of World War Ii,. Breoks. was trained at Vircite Union University.in Rich[mond and West Virginie State
' College in: Charleston, Following

in their fight against innovation

~natural forces,~ they argue and

(Continued next week)

1's Sought
iolntinenk of John M. Brooks of Rich
registration director, was announced
ere today by Roy Walkins,. the Association~s executive sec-. }cigarette machine, six flashlights

~sparkplugs valued at $30

his honorable discharge as a
first lieutenant after three years,
including 18 months of combat
service, he became manager of
Aroy~s Department Store~ in
Richmond.

In addition. to. his effective
work in increasing the Negro.
vote in Virginia, Mr Brooks has
engaged in a number: of other
civic activities for which he has
heen cited by the Afro-American Newspapers, Omega Psi Pn.

HOLLEY'S GULF ROBBED.

~ According to ~Harley Holley"
owner of Holley~s Gulf 5S rvics
Station, 4116 St. John S~,

amount of change taken fkom the
valued at $6.00, three
Entrance was made

ing a 12x18 inch wind )
garage last Tuesday, Web.

On Wednesday nite, Fabris~..26, ~asa;
thrown Wille a window at Geo ymcts Aveoue, home

aSito have the 1

ae
Be

i

his: |.
station was looted-of an u#known

ga F

~cooling: ~off~ period and the
studenits: to ~be:

~rm HOCKA PS pioups of. white Cicaowes 1
fessional: and civie leaders of Little: Rock met this wee
discuss thé récent events brought about -by, the ee
of the Central High School in Little Rock..

~The. group ~voted. to. ask the. Federal Government 8

right to ask the ~

~transferred ~out~ of the scent. make

over sont the real Corea is any
one at all~

obviously~ teferred: tr ~at

r; M
| serles of clashes between white

anid: Negro. students. at~ Central
liigh. Several ~ white ~ students
wave heen ~suspended, ~ Minnie
can Brown, one of the -nine Ne
ral, High Sept. 25~ under fed
ixpelied for~ the rest of this
semester:

Gov. ~Orval ~ Faubus, informed
of the she i letter said its contents sounded ~pretty much in|:
conformity, with what 1 have
urged ih the past.! think it is a
very ~good. statement.~

School Supt. Virgil _ Blossom
~said he -saw~nothing: wrong. with
the group~s suggestion for going
back into~ federal. court.. Wayne
Upton;. president of the school
board, declined.comment,,. ~

~It"is this determination that
the opponent of the Negro~s as
The BA, ice Botermans, minister of the Unitarian Church of
Flint, in a. statement to ~the
Bronze Reporter, deplored the

| burning of. a. cross. in front of

the home. of Negro family who
A -into a-home ina...0es. who started attending Cen- |.
ral troop~ protection, has ~been |

ieee ml ona the NAACP~ and Negroes

~Seherally are ~pushing too hard~
hin the ~drive for: ~desegregation.
Asan example of the: ~admon-"
~ition to ~slow de the
NAACP leader cites. an: article
by Mrs. Agnes E. Meyer pub:
lished in the January Atlantic
Monthly. tn. her article, Mrs.
Meyer cautioned ~make ~ haste
slowly.~
~ ~There has been. no pell-mell
rush toward desegregation, ho detnand for. instantaneous. ange,~
Mr. Wilkins writes in his article.
~Certainly the ~NAACP has ~;not
advocated overnight alteration of
school patterns.

~However, both the NAACP
and Negro citizens gencrally have
insisted'that school boards eome
to grips with the.question ~and
that beginnings in good faith be
made.~ The essential. thing, he
asserts, if that=there be consis:
tent movement toward integration.

Mr. Wilkins cites a statement
hy Dr. Channing H. Tobias,
NAACP board chairman, in a
message to an NAACP southwide
conference following the Supreme
Court ruling of May 17, 1954.
~It is important,~ Dr. Tobias said
in that message, ~that: calm~ reasonableness prevail, that the dif
and that,. withoutu ~any sacrifice
of basic ~principles, the~ spirit of
give and. take characterize the
discussions.~

ficulties of adjustment be realized..