Bronze Reporter [Volume: 5, Issue: 50]

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VOLUME 5~NUMBER #8 30

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Election Hate

Pleas Announced

DETROIT ~ Printed handbills
expressing racial and religious

bigotry against several Democratic candidates.are making
nightly appearances in the

Northwest and Southeast
tions of Detroit.

The pamphlets urge the defeat of candidates who introduced or supported ciyil rights legislation in Lanszng.

The State Fair Elections Practices Commission condemned the
handbills in a statement Tuésday:

The State Chairmen of both
Democratic and Republican Parties supported the Commission
by urging voters ~to be alert

New Flint Public
Library To Have
Active Program

The new Flint Public Library
with a present shelving ~capacity of 248,000 volumes, will offer exciting new facilities and
services~ to Flint citizens. The
new facilities will
centrally located loan _ desk,
card catalogue, and information
desk. The Children~s Department will be graced by glazed
ceramic tile panels. depicting
spam story char ~ give

the~ Oak Grove Club~ and}

sec
te
pals Association.. It will also
have a separate room for book
displays.

There will be a Teen-Hi De-. partment; a_ general~ ~reading
room with lounging furniture,
listening units to accommodate
24 people as part of the Art Music, and Drama _ Department,
smoking rooms, and elevators.
_ Other new features will be a
hookamatic livrary card similar
to the ~charge-o-matic~ - cards
used in department stores, coin
typewriters, many new _ books,
and separate stacks for the
School. Services Department
which supplies classroom book
collections to schools without
branch libraries.

The total shelving capacity
can be raised to, 400,000 vol
umes by adding more shelving

at a later time.

The Flint libraries with a rec-'

ord 1,364,322 book and magazine circulation last year can
look forward to even busier
years as Flint citizens take advantage of the new facility located on East Kearsley Street, adjacent to the DeWaters Art

Center.

A downtown branch library on
Harrison Street near Kearsley is
contemplated in the near future
~o Flint~s ~very active library
rogram.

include a

~lementaty cena Princi- ae

for last minute attempts by bigots to inject race and religion
into the 1958 campaign,~

The Third Legislative District
(Wayne County) - incumbents,
Representatives William. Ryan,
Robert D. Mahoney and E. D.
O~Brien, are criticized by the
Gratiot-Chalmers Home: Owners
Association for supporting a civil
rights bill which eventually died
in committee. Another organization, the National Civic -Association which has offices at 114%

defeat of Representatives Joseph
J- Kowalski, sponsor of the civil rights bill whic the Association felt would ~result in mixed neighborhoods.~

A recent handbill attacks
Democratic Representatives Joseph G. O~Connor and John J,
Fitzpatrick, both of whom voted
in favor of releasing the civil
rights bill in~ committee. These
pamphlets are ~sponsored by a
Ruritaf Park Civic Association.

The Rt. Rev. Richard Emrich,
Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese
of Michigan and chairman of
the Fair Elections Group, made
the statements by the two State
chairmen
G.O.P. chairman Lawrence R.
Lindemer said the Commission
condems as unAmerican ~any
practice which appeals for voter
support on. the basis of racial

to hatred and bigotry unfortunately have been made in _previous elections and we have received scattered reports. that
they are taking place again.~

~The Democratic Party,~ he
said, ~utterly rejects and renounces appeals to racial or religious prejudices and we will
condemn them wherever and
whenever they occur.~

Branches To
Meet In Jackson

The regular meeting of the
Michigan State Conference of
N.A.A.C.P: branches will be held
Sunday, Nov. 23, at 2:30 p.m. at
the Young Women~s Christian
Association Building, 298 West
Michigan Avenue, Jackson, Mich.

All members are urged to be
present and bring interested
friends and neighbors: Parking
facilities are available at the
rear of the Y.W.C.A.

The meeting will act upon a
report of the Budget Committee,
Michigan State Youth Conference
as well as reports in the areas
of fund raising, housing, mem
bership, legislation as well as

ug State Conference planning.

E. Seven Mile Road, urged the}:

aid.* ~fuck 1ith Woah gpernanon ge

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17~Ten Russian educators cae an extensive dhebountey tone of American
schools and colleges here Nov, 17 with a visit to the Brightwood, ~Elementary School. They are repaying a visit by a group of American educators to Russia last Spring. A. D. Smirnov inspects a desk
while sitting behind one is D.\N. Taptykov. The children are 7~ Rock, 11 sia and Reginald mah,

11, (right).~UPIT.

Federal Group To Probe.
Denial Of Voting Rights

WASHINGTON, D.C.~All six members of the Commit

sion; on Civil Rights will be present f

ing rights complaints from Kisbama which
or religious prejudice, vas ee aul on December or

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2 oe Rb game eh

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Sorcery of Labor for Internataional Affairs. 'The other
include two Midwest college presidertt

hearing on sf 4
has been schedbry, the~ State

Hest Wilkins, Ass

By a Texas law achogy

dean and two Southern ex-governors.

The Alabama hearing was voted unanimously by the. Commis
sion at its regular monthly
meeting in Washington last
Thursday. On the preceding

Monday, the Board of Registrars
in Macon County had refused
to let two representatives of the

'Commission staff see voting rec
ords. Tuskegee Institute is located in Macon County.

County officials said they
were acting on advice of Alabama Attorney General John
Patterson that under State
law these are not public recerds and need not be turned
over to the federal agency.
Under the authority and duty given it by the Civil Rights
Act of 1947 to study ~legal developments~ and to appraise fedéral laws and policies with respect to equal protection of the
laws under the Constitution, the
Commission also voted to hold
a public, hearing on the subject
of housing. This will be held in
New York City beginning next
February 2.

A statement approved by the
Commission explained that Con
gress imposed upon it ~a duty
to investigate every valid alle
U. Ss. JOURNALIST WILLIAM GORDON (center) receives welcome from Acting Premier Mallam:

Ibrahim Musa Gashas (right) during recent tour.of Africa. Stopping in the capital city. of Kaduna,
Norther nNigeria, Gordon, a lecturer on journalism, at Atlanta~s Morris Brown College also met M.
DiLegge (left), American Public Affairs officer. G ordon stopped in Kaduna to observe development
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gation that certain citizens are
being denied the right to vote
and have that vote counted by
reason of their color, race, reli
gion, or national origin.~

The Commission also received at its Thursday meeting
preliminary progress reports)
on investigations authorized
in September of voting.complaints from Mississippi and)
Florida.

It also acknowledged rece
of a voting complaint from 4
Northern State. However, Gor;
don M. Tiffany; staff director,
explained that this complaint alleged a denial by reason of national origin rather than race
or color. This will be studied
to determine whether an investigation is in order.

The refusal of Macon Coun- |
ty officials to let Commission |
investigators see their voting |
records came in the course of
a preliminary survey of several complaints received from |
that State alleging that Ne- |

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groes were being denied the

~right to register and vote.

Records indicate that the>
Negroes outnumber whites 6 -_ tel in soem County, mat Bd
Bie ph aoe Se " _ ef

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The ~Act: choking: the Counts:
sion gives it power to subpoena
witnesses and records, and provides: for contempt proceedings
in Federal~ District Court when
subpeonas are disobeyed.

Chest X-Ray
Schedule

insurance. By spending a few
minutes of your time, you are

have a healthy chest X-ray taken
yet? Make it a point to visit the
Christmas Seal Chest X-Ray
Trailer that will be located at
Beecher. High School, Flint,
Michigan, to X-ray the community:

Nov, 24, 1953~Monday, hours
~9 to 12:am. and 1 to 5 p-m:;
Nov. 25, 1958~Tuesday, hours 9

1, 1958~Monday, fours 10 to
1 Yan. and 2 to 7 p.m.; Dec, 2,
1958+-Tuesday, hours 10 to 1
p.m- and 2 to 7 7); Dee. 3,
1958~Wednesday, hours 10 to
1 p.m. and 2 to 7 p.m.; Dee. 4,
1958 ~ Thursday, hours 10 to
Shit and 2 to 7 p.m.

Eisenhower

WASHINGTON ~
Wilkins~ ~resignation~ as assistant secretary of labor which
was announced last August and
then allowed to lie dormant
during the political campaign
was formally accepted by President ~Eisenhower two days after
the November returns came

in. He was replaced by the son

of Henry Cabot Lodge.
The president said that he
hoped Wilkins will cofitinue his

activities as a ~member of the}
Civil Rights Commission while

the air was thick with talk}

about a ~deal~ in which Wilkins.will ultimately get a federal judgeship. It is an open
secret that he was forced out
of the job due to the hostility
of Secretary of Labor * James
Mitchell.

Wilkins~ Resignation

J: Ernest.

~fired by Sherman Adams, who
~usually handles these matters.
~He argued that as Assistant
Secretary - of Labor,. appointed
~directly by the President,
had a right to state his case
to Ike direct,~ Pearson wrote.,

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Accepts

GOP publicists sang his virtues and hailed the president
for his appointment.

Drew Pearson, nationally syndicated columnist, said that Wilkins wept when he was told
Jast August that he had to go.

According to Pearson Wilkiris, asked to resign by Mitchell, ~took his case direct
to President Eisenhower and
a pathetic scene followed during which the~ Negro leader
wept over the idéa of.leaving the ~little Cabinet,~ ~

~Wilkins had rcfused to be

he

CHURCH BELLS MAY
RING.
Don~t forget we take those

BY

{Equal Opportunity Day,

integration, or feel its efforts

Negroes were even more emphatic in their views: seven out
of ten feel. the government
should do more in this area,
while less than five per cent
said it is already going too far.

~At least so far as Detroit
is concerned, we find no suppert whatsoever for the claim
that Negroes as a group, desire separate school ~facilities,~ Sharp said. About four
out of five Detroit Negroes
were born in the South, he
noted.

Sharp based his findings on
interviews with a~ representative
sample of 600 families in Wayne
County during 1957.

When asked which political
party most closely reflected
their. views on school integration, a convincing majority of
beth whites and Negroes did
not know which party was
closest or could see no difference between Republicans and
Democrats on this issue.

Among those whites who expressed a preference, both major geben? claimed about the

ame number of. pahetonte, "But

ny atiradted Ghnost half again
as many adherents on this is
sue as did the Democrats.

In a 1958 study of Wayne,
Macomb and Oakland Counties,
the DAS analyzed attitudes toward_ residential integration.
Sharp said these showed that
most white Detroiters who oppose movement of Negroes into
their neighborhood cite two
main arguments for their beliefs:)1 fear of loss of social prestige and )2 conviction that property values would decline.

~These people tend to leave
the impression that they personally see nothing wrong

u of Michigan Surve y Shows
Residents Favor Equality

DETROIT ~ An ~overwhelming majority~ of Detroit
residents favor governrent action to provide equal educational opportunities for all, Director Harry Sharp of The
University of Michigan Detroit Area Study declared.

Sharp told the City of Detroit~s Coordinating Council on
Human Relations that two out of three white residents a})prove what the government is now doing to enforce schonl

should be increased. Slightly

less than a third felt ~the government was doing too much.

with residential. integration,
but are afraid they will be
looked. down upon by other
whites if they have Negroes
as neighbors,~ Sharp commented.: );
~Acquaiantance with the fact
that a reduction in property val
~ues is not a necessary conse
quence of residential integration could~ conceivably change
the opinion of many white Detroiters on this matter.~

When attitudes toward school
integration are _ compared by
place of residence in Detroit
metropolitan area, Sharp reported, substantial miajorities of
the white population in the inner city, nearby areas, and outlying suburbs all favored integration,

~Bécause of the generally
low. educational level of inner city residents and the very
high proportion of southern
whites who
might expect that white residents of the inner city would
be much more firmly pro-segregation than other
ers," She had a~

BAN

case.
~Social Serine ite
found that intimate. contact between groups generally reduces
the amount of prejudice which
each holds toward the other.
Perhaps this is what happens.in
the inner city. Although. many
persons come into this area with
deep rooted hostilities toward

live there one ~

the Negro group, they are:forc-~

ed to reconsider their attitudes
when they work and live in close
contact with Negroes. The close
ness of this contact is emphasiz-.~

ed by the realization that approximately half the inner city~s
population is Negro.~

The Flint Urban League participated in the third annual observance of Equal Opportunity
Day Wednesday, November 19,
the ninety-fifth anniyersary of
Lincoln~s Gettysburg Adress.

The day, sponsored by the Na
tional Urban League, an interracial educational service agency,
was initiated for. the first time
in. 1956 because urban League
Jeaders believed ~it/ would be fitting, one day eac hyear, to focus
attention on positive efforts to
insure fair and equal treatment
of all citizens, regardless of race,
color, religion or national origin.~
The day was proclaimed by
Governor. G. Mennon Williams
an dformer Mayor, George M.
Algoe, President Eisenhower
who has issued a message on
each observance.

Allen C. Pohly, league director in charge. of the local observance, stated that all churches in the
assist this program by messages
from pulpits- In addition, more
than 1000 posters for display
were distributed to leaders of
jusiness, industry, labor and
tovernment.

As President Sisenhower point
od out: ~Only if each individual
is encouraged to develop to his
or her greatest capacity can this
country realize its full potential.
For the strength of the nation
and for the hope of the world,
America must continue to grow
as the land. of the free and with
equal opportunity for all.~

National chairman of | Equal
Opportunity Day is Frederick W.
Richmond of New York City, industrialist and president of the

_|company bearing his name. Hail
third observance of
Mr.
~America is now

ing the
Richmond. said:

4 faced with a challenge ~ the

challenge of world leadership. To

bi

lint. were asked to}

Urban League Participates
In Equal Opportunity Day

meet this challenge every fiber,
every. sinew, every brain and
heart must be utilized or we
may ~see the ending of the
~American Success Story.~ We,| are wasting the productive man
power and brainpower of the
bulk of more than 17,000,000
people if we do not eradicate
discrimination. and unfairness~

~~ we do not abolish ~man~s in
humanity to man~.~

The National Urban League is
~an interracial~ educational service -

agency established in 1910 to
foster equal opportunity for Nezroes in employment, edueation,
housing,, and social welfare. The
Flint Urban League has operated
in. the community for 16~ years
as a member of the Red Feather
Fund of Flint and Genesee ~
County,

Kasper Found
Guilty Again?
4

NASHVILLE ~ John Kasper, -

racist demagogue wha was described by. Prosecutor Paul
Bumpus as. a ~serpent of vio~ence and discord who once
again is ready to: strike,~ was
found guilty ef inciting to riot
by a jury of 12 white men here
Saturday.

~It is the second time Kasper
has found juries hostile to his
srand of haranguing. He was
also found guilty of contributing to the riots that flared at
Clinton (Tenn.) High School in
the fall of 1956.

Judge Homer Weimar had told -
the jury that Kasper has a
right to make speeches, but
must be prepared to take the
consequences. The jury deliberated a little over two hours
before reaching a verdict.

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