Bronze Reporter [Volume: 5, Issue: 41]

_ of Science degree from Fort Val
-rell County who holds a Bachelor

- a schoo] teacher in Terrell Coun
~ing for @ Master of Arts degree

FLINT PUBLIC LIBRARY
301 E. KEARSLEY

FEP Report:

Meeting in Lansing Wednesday, August 20, the Michigan
Fair Employment Practices Commission heard reports from its |
staff that three recent claims
adjustments. provide for. offers
of jobs to the claimants. The
Commission learned that the positions. -were as -welder for a
construction firm, key punch operator in the offices of a major
industrial employer, and as a
wirer and solderer for a firm
making aeronautical instruments
for the Government. In _reporting on~ the settlements, Deputy
Director William M. Seabron
commented ~on_ the promptness '
of the claimants -in filing with |

the Commission, and the neg & wel up often as the leaders in

diate willingness of the respond

ent~s personnel staff to ~take
another look~ at the claimant~s
qualifications and at. how personnel practices had operated
in their cases,.

Michigan~s retail industry
was the subject of a report
given the six FEP Commis:
sioners.

The area of retail sales employment was described to the
Commission as ~the point of
pressure~ for non-whites_ seeking entry into the industry.

Staff surveys have also revealed what the Commission
termed ~interesting and- sometimes inconsistent patterns.~ Examples: Large department stores
work
developing integrated

Georgia Refuses Negro
Teachers Voting Rights

WASHINGTON, D.C:~The
new civil rights: division. ~of
the Department of Justice
has moved: into action

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Act. of i8 57
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of Negroes. es the South, The
action calls for an injunction
to end discriminatory practices of election. registrars
and deputy registrars in Terrell County, Ga

The, complaint was filed
in the U. District Court
for the Mikidie District of
Georgia. It charged the defendants. with ~the arbitrary refusal to register
Negroes who demonstrated
themselves to be fully qualified to register.~
The Negro citizens

live in Dawson and
County, Ga.

According to the complaint, on
April 7.a number of Negro applicants appeared to register, but
none was registered by the defendants.

Among ~the rejected ~applicants
feréfétr school teachers.

One~ was.Edna~' Mae Lowe, a
teacher of mathematics at Carver
High School of Dawson, Terrell
County, Ga., who holds a Bachelor

involved
in Terrell

ley College and a Master of Arts

frem New York University.
Another is Janie Breedlove, an

elementary school teacher in Ter
of Science. degree from Albany
State College.
A third is Davey Loulé Gibson,

ty, who holds a~ Bachelor ~ of
Sciencé degree from Albany
State Callege and is now work
at New York University.

by | holds sa pase of axiches de-;

_ And the fourth is Grace Boyd
Gibson, an elementary - school
teacher in Calhoun County who

py Radiien. ~the. pare stated, that Eddie George Lowe, who
is attending Tuskegee Institute
and is employed at the U. S.
Marine Corps Supply -Center at |.
Albany, was also rejected..

The four teachers, all of whom
were reportedly better educated
than members of the Georgia
Election Board, were rejected because of alleged ~inability. to
write correctly and intelligently.~
Lowe was rejected because of alleged inability to write correctly
and legibly.

Assistant Atty. Gen. Wilson W.
White, in. charge of_ the civil
rights division, under whose supervision the case was investigated and prepared, stated that
the investigation ~began in April:
it covered registration activity in
Terrell and other counties.

A.F. SCHOOL
JIM CROWED

NEW YORK~The Little Rock
Air Base~s decision to allow segregation in a new off base federally financed elementary school
for airmen~s children was branded by the American Civil
Liberties Union this week as creating confusidn and providing
~encouragement to those advocating segregated schools.~.

The union~s executive director,
Patrick Murphy Malin, wrote
Secretary of Defense Neil H. McElroy urging that he reverse the

Air Force decision. /

"The action: the. Jeader |
in the community Yongved such'| '

Retail Sales Jobs Termed As -
~Point of Pressure~ for Non-Whites

forces; retail Chains sometimes
have minority group workers in
one city and not in another, and

within one city such persons} -

are found in one store of a

chain but not another. There is}

sometimes a pattern ~of using
non-whites only in ~areas. in
which such persons constitute a
significant portion of the~ population. This, the Commission
commented, was not equal job
opportunity within the. meaning
of the FEP Act.

The Commission sexbct stated
that interviews - with _ retailers
had disclosed that among the
reasons. for integrating were:

1) Community relations ~ mii-|_

nority group purchasing power
has grown dramatically and
~such persons comprise an
creasing percentage of the
stores~ clientele 2) The better
way to go about FEP is to institute progfams of employment
on merit without waiting for a
elaim 3) Stores that |were willing, to move in the;FEP. area
did- not train their help, could

not~ employ minority group
workers until the (action of
larger, trade leaders ee F

action from the, realm of the
novel; other firms were then
willing to follow the ~trend.

Sarah Vaughn
Gets Married

CHICAGO ~ Sarah Vaughan
took the musical world and her
legion of fans~ by- surprise
Thursday when she married star
athlete and Chicago businessman
Clyde Atkins in a surprise ceremony.

Sarah, who. only last week returned to the U. S. from Europe where she spent several
months fulfilling singing engagements, was married in a civil
ceremony performed by Municipal Court Judge Fred ~Duke~
Slater:

The bridegroom, 30, is the
owner of the Atkins Cab company, and is one of the few
men. ever to beat track star
Claude ~Buddy~ Young in a 100 -yard dash. Atkins played professional football with the Green

Bay Packers. In 1950, he set a/- ~

Big Sever record by scoring 14
touchdowns in the season. A
shoulder injury forced him to
give up pro football.

The marriage was the first for
Atkins. Sarah. was formerly - wed
to George Treadwell who acted
as her manager. -

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Conveatioh ~of America. thes
eral secretary; S. M. Wright, devotional lea der, Dallas, Texas; Dr. G. A.
chairman; J. C. Sams first vice, Jacksonville, Fla.; C. A. Holliday,

ee ema

ional Baptist
are: R. E. MeKeen, Galveston, Pent D. C. Cooksey, gen
Long, general
Fort Worth, Texas;

ef B. Dailey, ci nae, Ind.; and F. N. Williams, Houston, Texas.

ins |.

|| right to vote and have- that: vote

~tion concerning legal develop
~der. the Constitution; and

_| tion.~

investigate violations. of voting~

DR. G. A.
president~ of the

LONG, host minister arid pastor of Gechter | Mt. Tabor
Baptist Church; congratulates Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., vice
National Baptist Convention, U. S. A., Inc., on

~What is the Commission

parts of the country.

sibly do. In other cases: There

cannot do.

WASHINGTON, D. C.~For the
first time*in history Congress has
set up a Commission to study.
how the civil rights of American
citizens guaranteed by the Constitution are being protected
nearly 100 years after adoption
of the 14th and 15th Amendments. -

That body is the new Commission on Civil Rights, author-,
ized by the Civil Rights Act of
1957. The six commissioners
and a> staff director were. appointed by President Eisenhowr and confirmed by the Senate earlier this year.

It is not a Jaw enforcement
agency; it~ was given no police
power and therefore ean exercise
none. It is mainly a body to
gather, appraise and report facts.
Its duties are spelled out in the
Act creating it, which ~
that

~The Commission shall~,

~(1) investigate. allegations in
writing under oath or affirmation
that certain citizens of the United
States are being deprived of their

counted by reason of their: color,
race, religien, or national origin,

which writing, under oath or. af-| '
firmation, shall set forth the facts
upon which such be:ief or beliefs
are based;

*(2) study and collect inferma
ments constituting a denial of
equal ~protection of the laws-.n
~(3) appraise the laws and polsos of the Federal Government
with ~respect to equal proteetion

cf the laws under the Constitu
The Commission~s authority to

rights may be used only when it
is claimed the denial is ~by reason of color, race, religion; or
national origin.

ING ~UNDER OATH OR~ AFFIRMATION.~ No form

publishing ~ of ae new book, ~Stride Toward Freedom.~

ve Fem

es: Program.

on Civil Rights doing about

these things?~ a disturbed citizen might ask after reading
or hearing -of violations of civil rights reported from distant

The answer in some cases is: Everything that it can pos
is nothing it can do.

The answers do not always satisfy. But that is because
all too-often the average citizen just does not know what
the Civil Rights Commission is, what it can do, and what it

This newspaper will attempt to supply the answers to
those and other questions about the Civil Rights Commission
in a series of three articles. The first of these appears be. below.

upon which- ~such belief or or beliefs are based.

The Commission has until Sentember 9, 1959 to complete its
studies and make its reports %
the President and to the Con!
gress.

These reports will be of preat
importance, especially if as a result of the Commission~s findin;ts
and recommendations signif.cant
changes in Federal laws and policies are made which will better
protect-and sectire civil rights.: * * I

The second article in this
series explaining how the Commission operates as a fact-gathering body~through research,
hearings, State Advisory Committees and otherwise~will appear in this newspaper next -
week.:

~: BLUE ~SUEDE SHOES ~
hold them. stilt long enoygh and
we'll photograph them too

By, Van Dyke Photographers

~doubt the man who has caused:-|Rock schools, saying that he did

Schools Closed In
|[Arkansas, Va.;
Arrests Possible

LITTLE ROCK (Special)}~Both ~sides of the school dntegration battle girded themselves for what:may be one of

this country~s most disturbing
Civil War. Last week the U.

internal problems since the
S. Supreme Court, holding

special session, ruled that the Little Rock school integration

must go on without delay. The
reaching effects throughout all
parts of the South as the fall
semester began.

The Court did not render a
decision on its former ~with all
immediate speed~ decision. However, it gavé indication that this
will be spelled out shortly.

The Justice Department joined

with the legal department of
the NAACP in. arguments of
urging the Court's affirmative
decision. As the Court met, U.
S. Marshals were entering the +,
City of Little Rock, preparing
for what will be a possible show
down in the school equality
matter. ~

Gov. Orvil E. Faubtus; without

more conflict in school mixing
immediately closed all four Little

so to prevent violence.

He put the State and city police
on alert call and stated that the
presence of 150 U.S. Marshals has
stirred the city. to jeuld il id

All of the he schoo? ee

in white and Negro schools have

been stopped. It is possible that

high school education for over

3,000 children will. not be available until further court action
is taken.

School: officials and the Gov- |
ernor have toyed with the idea of
giving the students lessons via
TV ard radio. There has also
been talk of opening the schools
as private.institutions.

However, Federal Government
sources see this action as in di
Discuss Student
Leadership
GREENSBORO, N. C.--A continuing search for areas providing
greater opportunities for unity in
the total education. of Bennett
College students was one of the
goals agreed upon the annual
faculty-staff fall conference came
to close here last week.
Following the theme: ~Strengtheulug the College Program
through Faculity-Staff effort,~ the
conference, with members of the
colleges Danforth Foundation
Workshop team as consultants,
explored the possibilites of improvement in six core groups of
the instructional program, with
stress upon inter-core cooperation
There was. general agreement
that students of college age need
need not be considered as adolescents. and that it is the responsibility of the college to teach them
how to think rather than what to
think. Greater..wse: of the area

High Court~s ruling had far
rect violation of ~the U. S. Constitution and feel that it would be
declared illegal.

Faubus. has called for a special
election of all qualified voters of
the Little Rock school district on
October 7th to decide if they
want -the schools to re-open
mixed. Observers say if this action is done the. Governor will say
he has the public approval behind
him when he would not. allow
further integration.

- This~ Wovid.prove interesting
for it would place Faubus- in
direct violation of the High
Court order and could arte
about his arrest.

In a surprise. move a Little
Rock housewife and mother filed
a suit in the local court asking
for a decision of Faubus~. right to
close the schools. This move was
an apparent legal move to best
the Justice Department and eg
NAACP..

lecal jude
action is a ~slowing~ process with
appeals and counter appeals~ in
the making and would give Faubus another excuse to keep the
schools closed and unmixed.

In Richmond, Va., Gov. J.
Lindsay Almond closed the high
school at Fort Royal, Va. He did
so under a similar state law
passed to prevent race mixing.
Under this law schools ~in Charlottesvitie; Norfolk and Arfington may be ~losed. All four
schoo! districts had been ordered to admit Negro students
ty Federal District. judges.
President Eisenhower, discussed

on last Tuesday with; Attorney
General Wm.. Rodgers the next
federal moves in the Southern

NA ~ACP
HAILS
COURT
RULING

Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the National Association

of recreation as. an educational}for the Advancement of Colored

experience was another idea advanced,

Tan Pupils

4 New York Schools.

Boycott _

NEW YORK, N. Y. ~ Twentyone Negro: pupils refused to attend four schools in Manhattan
and. Brooklyn. on ~the opening
day of school~ Monday, because,
their parents contended, they
would receive an inferior education in non-integrated. schools.
The boycott, which affected three
junior; high schools in Harlem
and one elementary ~ school in

Brooklyn, was ~arried out quiet-|~

ly without picketing or demon
stration at any of the schools. Vs
The largest group of fifteen| sc

was in. Harlem, where parents
of children entering the seventh,
grade (first year) refused to allow them to go P. S. 136 for |
girls, at Edgecombe Ave. and

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136th St., and P. S: 136 for boys,

long as it sets forth the facts at 139th St. east of Seventh Ave.

100 Percent Seg

Mrs. Carrie. Haynes, of 2
Madisén Ave., spokesman for.
the fift mothers, said \of
P. S$; 139 and P. S. 136:

~These ~schools are 100 ~per
cent non-intégrated. They suffer

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Park Ave. who

and has a son Aho was assigned to attend P. S. 139, declar
from a _ watered-down curricu- | jp -s
~bis

formerly:
ed in the Women~s Army Corps | wi

~People, today issued the following

statement on the Supreme Court~s
ruling in the Little Rock school.| integration Case:

'| JNaturally, the Supreme Court's
~umanimous decision greatly
| pleased us, and all believers in
~constitutional government,

} since it umakes clear that: the

basic héman rights, of "ahs
ual citizens. cannot be abridged
or, denied because~ 6f threats

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these who uphold. racial ae,
_ ~rimination ands

ed:

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ste atoey forthe woman

~the t ea omlened: for

the Governor~s ~re-election. This |