Bronze Reporter [Volume: 5, Issue: 51]

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Herman Hamilton ~

Communistic

RIGGED NOMINATING

Conspiracy

COMMITTEE SELECTS

HOLT AS NOMINEE FOR N.A.A.C.P. PRESIDENT
~ By Roi -Marc

In an exclusive interview Herman Hamilton, fiery and
colorful Legal Redress Chief, blasted the candidacy of
Edgar Holt for President of the Flint Branch, N.A.A.C.P.
Hamilton bitterly assailed Holt: for the lack of respect
shown ladies attending the membership meetings and the
ladies on the Executive Board. Having warmed, up to his
favorite subject ~The Blasphemer of Canaan,~\obviously

- referring to Holt~s cursing and swearing in Canaan Baptist
\Church during the 1954 N.A.A.C.P.

contest, Hamilton

really took off on Holt saying: ~That man does not belive

in God.~
~The Arch Libeler of Verndin

~ Chapel,~ referring to Holt~s ar
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rest August 10, 1956 on criminal
libel charges for distributing libelous and vicious ~iterature
against a local minister, is unfit
for such a position of high dignity and respect. ~I am not a
communist, fellow traveler nor
am I a communist sympathizer,~
continued Herman Hamilton,
~and I withdrew my name as a
candidate for 2nd Vice President
because I did not want to be associated in any way with that
man of perfidy. His ~Fifth
Amendment Friends~ can boo,
hiss and scream treason all they
want to.

Did you know of Holt~s reputation in the community as ~being.a communist, fellow traveler
or communist sympathizer, Mr.
Hamilton?

Ney

that Bi a was. GaN as''a communist, but. no one seemed~ to
have definite proof ~of that ~fact.
Most aggressive ~freedom fighters~, whether colored or white,
are quickly branded as communists if they are militant fighters
for -Negro rights. I had heard
of Edgar Holt as a great fighter
for Negro rights so I reserved
-judgment on the man until I had
more positive proof.~

Are you now. calling Holt a
communist, Mr. Hamilton? Are
these charges the result ~bitter
or ~sour grapes.~ What
substance do you have for such
charges? '

Hamilton ~ ~These charges
are not based upon resentment,
but are based upon what T feel
is my duty in so far as the best
interest of the NAACP. is
~ concerned. Holt and myself have
been associated together. for the}
last six months in.a~ common
struggle, I thought, of fighting
for the rights of the Negro. Holt
had accused me of having Nat
Turner and him all wrong: I did
not. want to judge anyone to
hastily so I listened to their
~professed~ principles and ambi-..tions, but I was carefully watching their tactics, and maneuverings. His objective is now clear
although inconsistent with his
~professed~ ambitions. That is
what caused me to become sus~:picious,, and led ~me to conduct
an investigation inté Holt~s background and prior history before
~his coming to Flint.

~At a hearing conducted in
1947 by the Un-American ~Activities Committee of the House of

Representatives ~sworn testimony |:

was introduced to the: effect that
the National Negro Congress, an
organization listed: by.the Attor-ney General of the United States
as a Communist Front Organization, began recruiting young Negroes to the communist cause in
1938 with the setting up. of the
Southern Negro Youth Congress,
as the youth section of the National Negro Congress.

That the Southern~ ~Negro
Youth Congress, continues Ham:
ilton, was the co-ordinating youth
agency between the Young Communist League, The:~ American
Youth Congress (later the American Youth for a Free World) and
the Southern Conference for
Human Welfare.~

That an Edgar Holt was one
of the ambitious young communists who were~ instrumental. in
setting up cells in Rounoke, Virginia; Montgomery and Birming
ham, ~Alabama; ~Anderson, ~ Man-, t?

~ning, and Winnsboro, S. C. and
one in Jackson, Mississippi; and
in 1947 the said Edgar Holt had
risen to ~the exulted position -of
vice president of the Southern
Negfo Youth Mon donell

Apart ~from the: background of,
the Edgar Holt~of the Southern
Negro ~~Yeuth -Congress, Mr. Hami: ~ton, what personal experiences

pees: nthe ~ea

or associations did you have with
Holt?;

Hamilton ~ ~Holt worked under me in both the Smith-Bridg
man and the Protest of. Police}.

Brutality Campaigns against the
advice of ~Our Good President,~
and much to my sorrow and regreat.~

Can: you deseihe the tactics
and maneuverings that you have
previously referred to?

Hamilton ~ ~To fully under-}~

stand Holt~s tactics and--maneuverings one should read Masters
of Deceit, by J. Edgar Hoover,
chief of the~ Federal Bureau. of
Investigations. Holt learned by
via of the grapevine of my plans
to establish a beachhead on Sag-:
inaw Street fom better job opportunities. for. the Negro and -de
~This is. thie greatest ~thing

rgest name in Flint and the next
President of the N.A.A.C.P...On
- D-Day - Hamilton was ~parading~
back:and forth in front of SmithBridgman while Holt was telling
Nat Turner we have too much to
lese as they paraded Harrison
Street, so I am ~informed, trying
to see what was going to happen
to ~poor Hamp.~
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Leaves Estate

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To Howard U.

WASHINGTON, D. C.~ Judge

James A. Cobb, who died here
gn Oct. 14, left the pulk of his
astate to Howard University for
the.establishment of a scholar~ship~ fund for law school students.

He taught law~ in the Howard University Law School from
1918 to 1938.

The value of his estate has not
yet been determined. It is ex
~pected to run into six: figures.

He owned the building at 613 F
~st.; northwest, in which the offices of his law firm, Cobb, Howard and~ Hayes, were - located.
In addition, he was xnown to own
some: gilt-edge stocks.~

manded to. be let in saying: |:

Seek Liberals: Fe:

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CHICAGO'S xt

executive chau of the national body -at hee ieiearfets\

_ ape apanpin a apd
in~ Chicago. Plans were thade for ~the

forthcoming 44th general convention to be! held\in Philadelphia. Laurence T, Young, gerieral | secretary, reported. the fraternity in the best shape, fi nancially and otherwise, since it was. organized in
_ 1906, and Judge Myles. A. Paige of New York, ge netal president, heard reports from the various

committees. Photo shows, left to right: Laurence Young,: Frank Stanley, past president; Judge

Paige, and A. Maceo Smith and Raymond Cannon, past. presidents. (ANP photo)

ARBOR ~ Republicans
will a Bite ab to find some liberal
candidates to. win in 1960, four
University of cea abe professors agree. |

Voicing this opinion on a radio
broadcaast Thursday (Nov. 6)
were Prof. Preston W. ~Slosson,
Associate Prof. Henry L. Bretton,
and Assistant Prof. John -P.
White. Bretton served as mode~rator for the ~Background~ broadcast on WUOM, the University~s
radio station. 3

In an interview apart from
the broadcast, Associate. Prof.
George A. Peek, of the Department of Political Science, said:
~If the Republicans: want to win
in 1960, they will have to do it
with candidates from the WilkieDewey-Eisenhower wing.

~This makes Nixon~s role dif.
ficult because in the campaign,
he tended to identify with the
conservatives. The loss in California certainly was a set back

for him,~ he said.
On the roars White and
- Bretton said that in 1960 Nixon
may be cast as Senator Taft

and Rockefeller cast as Eisenhower~the great vote getter
who is not so popular with the

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Brooklyn; N. ~.~Grief stricken Mrs. Gertrude Lovelace, 22, cri
in room where her four children and a
smoke poisoning Nov. 20 after a fire
floor tenement flat. Fire is_ believed te

electric heater. Mrs. Lovelace said she had left chil

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orgaihination, slut is more:
ular ~with the:public. -
Slosson~ said that on the Bin

successful in this past eleetion:

ued, ~the new Congress will not.
only be Democratic in the party
sense, but will be liberal in the
factional sense. It will have a.

as foreign. aid, reciprocal trade,
immigration and civil rights.~

be ~@ strong and probably suc:

ern
who have been elected, are likely to insist on this.~

Slesson said there may even
~be an attempt to -revise the
Senate rule pertaining to the
filibuster in order to pass civil
rights legislation.

~There may be a fight on the
filibuster in the Senate. Although
T don~t expect the liberals: to
win, there will be some conservative: concessions made,~ Peek
said.

~The Southern conservatives
(might) make a trade~keeping
the filibuster and allowing some
civil rights legislation to pass.
The Southern Democrats. will
take this. stand, stating that the
civil rights measures will be
rather difficult-to enforce.
~ ~Most of the incoming Congréssmen are in their 30~s and
40~s. These younger~ members
will~ not. be~ easily handled by
the older leaders.~

Legislative measures which ithe

| various ~w foresee, in
clude:

1) Financial uss:stanee. te depressed areas, such as the Upper
Peninsula. Peek said, ~In.the last
Congress, this bill was vetoed. by |
Eisenhower, and a number.~ of |
Republican congressmen thought
that the veto hurt them in. the
election.~.

2) Federal aid to education, |

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cratic side there will be about a
dozen~ favorite~ sons whe: were}
| ones.~
~In general,~ Slosson contin

favorable attitude to issues such

White said svat ivere:, will |

cessful attempt.to enact civil |
rigtits fegislation. ~The North- |
and Western Democrats,

j/ not serious issues in some states,

large deficit. White added, ~If
| there is any redistribution of the
tax load in the coming Congress,
it will fall on the upper income

groups rather than~ the lower

All agreed that the recession
issue affected voting behavior
throughout the country. White
said that the recess-on tended
fo cut across and supplement
other issues, Peek said the one
reason the recession played a
bigger. part in this election than
many people feel is that in an

' off-year election,.it is hard to
identify Eisenhower with the
Republican Party.
Right-to-work proposals were

while in others they were ~hot~
jand definitely affected the elec
jtion, White said. For example,

Slosson added; in Kansas, it was
a. vote-getting issue, while in
Qhio, it was a vote-losing one.

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Sd ama eiget while ~Bite.
~neighborhood ~to ~keep it~ under.

x ~jrean War Veteran, ~who is par~ =} tially blind in his right eye be
The first incident occurred on
October 21 while McClendon and
his.wife were.away. They re--
turned home to find~ that rocks
had been thrown at their house,

~| breaking. the siding.

iOn: October 31, the vandals,
who are believed to be teen_agers, broke windows and on
November 15 more windows
were broken.

The night:. of November | 22,
McClendon went out, leaving

rock came: sailing. through a
window: Mrs. McClendon fled in
terror. to seek her husband.
~Upon finding him, she told what,
had happened. McClendon~ then
called Gibson. and. told him -about
the incidents: McClendon: was so
upset that Gibson made an~ emergency call te Herman Hamilton,
chairman of the Legal. Redress
Committee of NAACP and Marshall. Burns, assistant chairman.. On all four occasions of violence,

police were notified.
Gibson and Hamilton arrived
at the McClendon homie: 15. min
utes ibe A disenasis of the

surveillance. McClendon; a Ko
cause of an injury during the
war, couldn~t understand why a
man who had fought for his
country, almost losing his life
should be harassed and tormented to. leave the home he has
bought because some people do
not like the idea of, a Négro living next door to them. McClendon. was told by Gibson to go to
the Prosecuting Attorney~s of
licious Destruction ~of Property.
The company that insures the
house has. informed. McClendon
that. vandalism ~insurance: ratés
will increase.

On Monday, November 24,
Mrs. McClendon, accompanied. by
Burns, filed the complaint with
Walter P. Kuta, chief assistant
to the Proseciting Attorney.
Kuta sent the gomplaint to the
police department where the
previous complaints had been
filed. Detective Bessman was assigned to the case.:He talked: to

Law, Monday.

In effect, the decision means.
Alabama has a_ legal: "Weapon
against school, integration ~ efforts until a Negro proves ~he
has been discriminated. ~against.
Then the kaw _ undoubtedly
}would be held unconstitutional.
+. The school placement law
savoids any mention of race or
color, but gives local. school
~boards sole authority to assign
students to the. schdols they
~want them to attend.

Proof - of discriminaion~ was
not claimed <y tie four Birm~ingham Negro: parents. ~who. dp
id|pealed their~ suit to -the Su
preme Court..They merely ~said
~the law is - ~designed to. subvert
eco-} earlier Supreme Court segregation decisions.

|. Consequently, the high. ~court
~upheld a decision by a th
judge federal panel in.Birmingjham last May. that the law contains no provisions to make it
~invalid on its face..
_ But the Supreme Court reit~erdted the lower court~s warn~ing that the act might be put
danto practice in a discriminating
~ and thus unconstitutional ~

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' Without ~evidence that the ~Ne
~gro children had been treated
pay: both courts rested

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Dixie Scores Victory ~
In Integration Fight

MONTGOMERY, Ala.~Southern officials feel that they
are making a little headway in their struggle for school
segregation, indsmuch as the U.S, Supreme. Court. ruled
favorably on the face value of Alabama School Placement

their detilieas on: the presumption that. the Jaw ~will be administered in a lawful manner.~

The Rev. F. L. Shuttlesworth,
Birmingham integration leader,
was one of the.Negro parents
who sought to enter their children in all-white schools. In addition to-declaring that the law
defies integration rulings, the
Negrtes~ contended that white
schools ~were nearer than those
set aside for~ their race.

Shuttlesworth, referring to the
warning against- improper ad
ministration, interpreted the
court: detision itself as an inditeation that the law ~is a scheme
to support ~segregation.~

dents incliudés these points:.. Effect of the admission of the

pupil on ~the academic progress
of other students, psychological.
effect on the past) himself of
being assigned to a~ particular
school, and the possibility or
threat~ of ~friction of disorder
among pupils~ or others,~ and
the possibility of ill will or economic ~retaliation within ~ the

~hood about:. |Mrs.. McClendon: ~alone~ in -the}:
*}house: From; out of nowhere, a

fice to file a complaint for Ma-|

-| platforms

r hopeels To. NAACP: in: Deiperitiog Se hoo
ey ge Levon McClendon, 212 W.'13th Street, appealed

| |to Atty..Herman Gibson, President of Flint. Branch: of

NAACP for assistance Saturday night, November 22. Mc- | Clendon and his wife, Emma, bought a house.in the.?,!-.
_| white neighborhood ~predominately.southerners) of. the: 290.
| block. of W. 13th- Street on October 17, Every since ~that
_|+ime; they haye been harassed by vandals...

various people in the malbitner.

action has been taken..

Gibson assured McClendon
that every available. resource
of the NAACP would be

~and his~ ~wife.

McClendon received the Korean Service Ribbon; U.N. Service ~Medal and the National Defense Service Medal for services
rendered.

~The McClendon~ $s, who have no

home on Ww. ~18th. Street.
Flint~

prea Elisha Scott Senatad
that on November 23: entry: -was
gained. in a vacant building. at
2803% Industrial where an: electric heater valued at. $20 w was
taken. By AND
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Charles Dixon, 22; 1842 Ore

~his: car,; eae Nags
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Ollie Moore; 30, 809 E, wither.
bee, charges her husband, Roy
Moore, 33,. 911: E: Myrtle Bod
assault and battery and threats

was assaulted by him on the
22nd of November.
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Dorothy. Morris, 814 Bundy,
reports four wheel discs stolen
from her car while it was parked
in-the driveway. Value, $30:: * a HB

After several reports that juveriiles were driving the cars
parked in Victor L. George~s
storage lot, police apprehended
four Negro boys who were taken
to police station, questioned and
booked as, delinquents.

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Thelma Williams, 24, 1613
Park Street. charged that Luther
Coleman, 36, 1422 Liberty,.broke into her house and began
beating her about the face and
head. Coleman was. reported to
have forced her to go with: him
to her apartment where he held
her until time for him to go to
work. Coleman threatened to kill
her if he sees her on the street.

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reported to authorities that while
searching for missing, Adele
Wells, he discovered a sack containing a stillborn baby. The
baby was believed to be approximately 23 weeks old. Discovery
was in the 1800 block of Blvd.
Drive.

Prepare Now for 1960

New Orleans~Now is the time
to ~begin preparing for 1960,~
Clarence Mitchell,.director. of
the NAACP Washington bureau,
declared in an address at. a crusade for voters meeting here.
The NAACP spokesman analyzed
the results of the election and
warned;that ~you cannot wait
until mid 1959. or the spring of
1960 to get. citizens registered to
vote.~

In his address, delivered on
Nov. 9, Mr. Mitchell called for a
continuing drive. to get voters
registered. ~Make plans now to
elect delegates to the Democratic
national ~convention ~and to the
Republican national convention,~
he urged, ~When the civil rights
are being written
make sure that there are some
qualified, able, and courageous
pro-civil rights.delegates from

those platforms.~~.. +

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incidents; ~but no
placed at~ the~ disposal~ of he '

children; will ~remain~ at ~their.

to. kill. Complainant stated she

Robert Mance, 41, 745: Carton,.

Louisiana who will help to write