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VOLUME 7~NUMBER 37

Hobart Taylor Offered

Pres. Committee Job

WASHINGTON, D.C.~(Special)~ Executive directorship of the President~s Committee on Government Con
~tractors has been offered. Hobart T. Taylor, Jr.,

Boston Blvd., chief of the
County Prosecutor~s Office.

Wires Sent

Protesting Chain
Gang Sentefices

The following telegram was
sent to Attorney General Robert
Kennedy on February 3 by CORE

~national director James Farmer:

CORE field secretary Thomas

Gaither and eight college students

arrested and sentenced to chain
gang on charge of trespassing
in Rock Hill, South Carolina.
Their only act was sitting at a

lunch counter. We request your
intervention. Warrant of arrest

executed by W. S. Rose, Chief of

Police, Rock. Hill to protect alleged priyate interest. Text of our

telegram to the Governor of
South Carolina follows:

CORE field secretary, to the chain |

Wethary lunch ~oufiter is a
travesty on justice and equal
treatment before the law. We
believe them to have been arrésted by state officials because they
are Negroes and because~ they

were protesting segregation. We |.
urge you to do all within your

power as Governor to obtain their
immediate release and pardon.

The Department of Justice is|

being requested to investigate pos
sible illégal state action in viola- |

tion of the 14th Amendment.~

Telegrams of protest were also
sent by Farmer to John Hardin,
Mayor of Rock Hill and to Gover
nor Fritz Hollins of South~ Caro
lina. ( re

Dixie NAACP To

Launch Job Drive

GREENVILLE, S.C., ~- NAACP
delegates from six southeastern

states will meet here next week

(Feb. 16-19) to launch a jobseeking drive as a follow-up~ to
sit-in victories~ i

Ruby Hurley, the Association~s

southeast regional diréctor, said
that plans for filing job applications in business, trade, Civil
Service and industry will be mapped.

Nationally noted civil rights

leaders, slated to address this the }

8th annual NAACP regional conference, include Clarence Mitchell, director of the Association~s Washington Bureau.

Also D. L. Hollowell, chief legal counsel for the Georgia NAACP state conference of branches. Holfowell is one of the attorneys for Charlayne Hunter &
Hamilton Holmes, who recently
made.history by entering the
University of Georgia.

He is also handling the appeal
of Rev. Martin Luther King from

a four-month sentence. for partici
pating in an Atfanta sit-in demon- }
stration.

In addition, Rev. Edward J.

Odom, NAACP national church
secretary, who is conducting a

~nationwide ~Brotherhood in Ac
tion~ drive which seeks to improve employment opportunities,
along with other at -for Negroes.

Revi: Lena Babee, president

* of the Florida conference of.

Delegates, including a ~sizable a
youth contingent, are from ~:: Carolina, ~,

~The
Congress of Racial Equality ~
CORE ~ feels the sentencing of
8- students and Thomas Gaither,

M?

675 W.
Civil Division of the Wayne

The 40-year-old Detroit Negro
attorney would head the committee, charged with eliminating
racial discrimination by Government contraetors.

Soyrces say the job has: already been offered Taylor and
the~ appointment will be made
-by Vice President Lydon B. Johnson, chairman of the committee,
as soon as Taylor~s decision is
/made known. Senate confirmation
of the post isn~t necessary.

Taylor said in-Detroit, ~I have

The report is highly speculative.~

He:did admit that he had
heard ~something about it.~

Taylor is a graduate of Howard
University of Washington received his law degree from the University of Michigan.

His father, a Houston (Tex.)
businessman, was one of Johnson~s more powerful backers when
the Vice President was running
for the Senate.

The contracts committee ~was
established in 1953 by former
President Dwight D,' Eisenhower.
Vice President Richard M. Nixon

= Agere tcp a

to end discrimination in hiring
by employers es Federal
contracts,

ministration are drifting a new
directive to replace the 1953 order. The new directive may
drastically alter the committee's
method of operation.

Before he left office, Nixon
suggested strengthening the committee and @llowing it to look
into social Bias in rbad building
airport construction, housing an
other projects where Federal
funds are used.

Labor Secretary Arthur J. Goldberg probably will be vice chairman of ~the committee, under
Johnson. The Defense Department, Atomic Energy Commission
and the General: Seryices Administration representatives are
also. included on the committee.

Exploiter. of Tan
Girls Arrested

ST. PAUL, Minn., ~ A former
South Carolina man, who lured
Negro girls North through misleading newspaper ads, was released from jail here this week
after serving part of a sentence
involving exploitation of the
| magazine subscription~ solicitors.

Horace Martin ~hired Negro girls
to sell magazine subscriptions for
the Globe Reader Service via
mewspaper ads promising $60.00
per week. However, once. they
were away from home they were

what they earn.~

This came out to 25~ per subscription. In addition, Martin: assesed-exorhitant fines: for failure
to place. hotel room key on his
desk when they went to work,
$20.00; a hair style not to his
liking, $15.00; discussion of their
mistreatment with outsiders, $15.00.

Since. Martin held the key to
their rooms, the three girls rescued by the NAACP, found it.

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nothing to say about that thing. |~

was chairman of the committee|

~ ~The ~domrititten was empowered:
to USe persuasion and education |~

Officials of the Kennedy Ad
informed that they ~would make|

~|\has been appointed to the Com~Labor, land State Capitol & Pub
Cub Scout Gregory ~I. Rogers stops by & enator Philip A. Hart~ s
Washington offi~e to ask him to.join the 5ist Anniversary celebration of scouting by wearing a badge during Boy Scout Week,
February 7-13, 1961. Gregory is the son of,Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur
J. Rogers, 1513 Webster Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.

Suit Asks Bar of Federal
Fund Aiding Segregation

WASHINGTON, D. C.~(Special)
~The United States District
Court -Tuesday was asked by five
Virginia Negroes to bar Government officials from granting
Federal aid to segregated schools.

The suit was filed by Joseph
Augustus Jordan, Jr., Edward
Armistead Dawiey; Jr., and Leon:
ard Winston Holt, Jr.., all Norfolk (Va.) lawyers; John Allen
Golden, Jr., a stockman at the
Naval Supply Center in Norfolk,
and Barbara Thomas, a coed, now
in jail for taking part in a sit-in
demonstration.

Miss Thomas, a student at Virginia. Fheological Seminary College, is serving a: jay sentence
in the Lynchburg (Va.) city jail
for joining five other. students
in a sit-in demonsteation.

The aim of the suit was similar
to a recent, recommendation by
the Federal Civil~ Rights Com:
mission) which. suggested | that

Currie, Yates.
Get Appointments

New appointments on committee assi ents for the 1961-19 -62. Legislative Session have been
made for the members of the
House of Representatives.

EDGAR CURRIE (D-Detroit)

mittees on: City Corporations,
lic Buildings. The Labor Committee ~ ~is extremely important,
indicated by foot in the 1 of

FREDER ICK YATES

General Taxdtion,

yarns ak.

froit) has been~ appointed to Com-|

the~ Gdvernment exclude segregated schools from its various
aid-to-education programs.

The five declared their patience
was. exhausted; filed the | suit
asking President Kennedy: and
-other ~ Government officials to
cut off funds to any institution
engaging ~in the nauseating practices of. racial segregation by
virtue of statute,~ ordinance,; regulation, custom or usage. nad

Besides_ the ~President, those
named as: defendants were: Abraham A, Ribicoff, Secretary of
Health, Education and Welfare;
Treasury Secretary Douglas~ Dillon; and United States amish
Elizabeth R. Smith.

The suit said they are are of. |
ficials changed with carrying aa
the aid program.

Socialist ene, é

Robert Williams, president of
the NAACP chapter in Monroe,
N.C., will speak in Detroit Friday, Feb. 17, in celebration of
Negro History Week on ~The
Struggle for Equality Today.~

Mr. Williams is out on: bail
after being convicted for leading
sit-in demonstrations in his state.
He was chairman of a national
movement. that secured the release of two Negro.

|} Hope Franklin, chairman of the
~Department of History at Brookbi lyn ee and autor of From PB

i} Dr. Franklin made thé sugges
ved in the armed forces~ during

Broadcasts Mark
NAACP 52nd Year

NEW YORK, ~ A special radio
observance of the NAACP~s 52nd
anniversary on Abraham Lincoln~ Ss
Birthday, Feb. 12, was* heard
in 15-minute broadcasts over radio
stations in nearly 100 cities,

The NAACP Lincoln Day program, pre-taped in New York,
featured -Roy Wilkins, NAACP
executive secretary, and~ Dr. John

eg ry st ~~ Ste: ~ advances~ and also Noted that the
this ~year just as the nation begins| F

a four-year observance of the
Civil~ War centennial.

tion that Negroes ~might at this
time read more about their own,
history during the Civil War.
They would learn, for example
that ~over 200,000 Negroes~ ser
the-War.

Mr. Wilkins, in his ae
suggested ~the South ought
begin at this centennial of~ tte
Civil War thinking about making
voluntary overtures and taking
voluntary steps to end tensions

Enter Wilon, from ms Flint/~

Association's ~anniversary came |

and to open up opportunities.~

Appeal

By Mrs.

Board of Education gives nod
to Mildred Smith, Burnestyne
Wilson ~indicates an appeal

FLINT ~ ~Tuesday. afternoon}.
the Flint Board of ~Education
voted 7 to 1 by ~secret -ballot
of reaffirm the dismissal of Mrs.

up there:
Wilson. worked, for.
Fn Board of Edtcation -

at.- Clark of:
during 1 7, 1957-58. and;
59 school years, but her contr
of employment was not 1
mended: for renewal for.
60 school.\year. The Mi
nure Commission upheld Mrs.
Wilson~s contention that she had
tenure and the.Michigan Supreme
Court upheld the Tenure. Commission and ordered Mrs. Wilson
to either be reinstated or given
a public hearing on charges: ~preferred. ~

Mrs: Mildred Smith, an elementary consultant for the Flint

and Fayette County area.

Messrs. Carter and. Lockard
were the first. Negro attorneys
to argue a case in the rural court

house. s

Circuit ~court Judge John FKizer threw out the - breach. of
peace: vitation against Phillip. H.

Savage on grounds that there |.

was insufficient, evidence.

One white witness testified that
he filed a complaint of breach
of the peace because Savage was
questioning~ Negroes, lined up to

| register, in the court house hall
way.

The witness said he was playing
checkers in a special checkerroom ~maintained in the court
house for citizens of Brownsville.
He said Savage~s questions disturbed his trend of thought, thereby
iit him trouble in his check
Enraged, he called the law.
Judge. Kizer congratulated De
| puty Sheriff George Sullivan for |

this ~zealand alertness.as a peace
officer,~ but added that he saw
no evidence to. ae wy breach

NAACP Field Worker

Freed In Tennessee.
BROWNSVILLE, Tenn., ~ NAACP Attorneys Rotiert

L. Carter and H. T. Lockard made history here this week

when they won dismissal of a breach of peace citation
against an NAACP field secretary on duty-in the Haywens,

~for sitting-in at a McCrory lunch

on Sunday. The 300 visitors: were

| chain g

~ful to. you for the days you

and disturbing the peace.
The NAACP is, spearheading

coordination. of relief efforts of |.

twelve national organizations interested in, helping -the belea-}
guered victims of militant Jim
Crow.

60-Car ines
Visits Chain Gang

Rock Hill, S.C. ~ A caravan
of sixty cars and a bus brought
more than~300 Negro and white
visitofs ~to: the nine CORE members on the York County Chain
Gang today. The nine, sentenced
to 30 days on the chain gang

counter, can receive visitors only

allowed to talk with the ~prisoners
in groups of ten for five minutes
reach. ~;

The nine CORE members decided to serve the 30 days on the

rather than pay a $100
ged. by Recorder~s Court
~D. Hayes. They have

fine im
Judge

been on the road gang shoveling |.

snow since February ~1.

CORE natéenal director Sames
Farmer wired the nine: ~Someday. all. Americans: will be grate
~spent digging for democracy on
the York ~County Road~ Gang.
| You are not alone: all

of good will are with y you

eo} Out.

Hinted
Wilson |

School Sysiem, in a two session,
fifwwen ngur Kuck Gown ~ alid
urag Out pout, camed. out on top
of Mrs. Wusvn, | her trainee, who
had~ carried~ the two previous
cuunds with the Micnigan tenure
Nyommcarc and. ule -Muctugan

his ~administrative staff.
testified that he sat in on,
a: tentative conference with his
staff heid February 24, 1959 with-. Wilson in which, a tentative decision was reached not
to renew - ~Mrs. Wilson~s contract
and he satin on the final conferénce with Mrs. Wilson held
March 12, 1962 in which she was
notified that. her contract would
not be renewed.. ~~.

Mrs. Eileen Alward, principal
of Durant-Tuuri-Mott School, and
Mrs. Wilson's.former elementary
school consultant. at. Clark, testi-:
fied that~ she hdd rated Mrs.
Wilson average to fair to average
as a beginning teacher, but Miss ~
Dorah -Young, beloved principal
of. Clark School, now retired,
broke with the administration -
in her testimony that Mrs. Wilson
worked very hard to familiarize
herself: with Sth ~grade teaching
that was new to her, said she
showed ability to accept suggestions ~and follow them and got.
along. well with both:.teachers
and pupils, and added that class- ~
~room control and ~teaching techniques. were a comimon fault of all
veginners, _

Showing a keen insight and
understanding for a beginning teacher breaking: into a system outside her field of: study or pre' paration, Miss Young offered the
opinion that a principal would
get to know a teacher better
than an elementary school consultant Miss -Young rated Mrs.
"Wilson average.

The next witness fer the administration was Mrs. Mildred
~Smith ~ -ighing in at one BS.
degree from South Carolina College. for Negroes with a major
in home economics, one~M.S. degree from Michigan State University, one doctorate requirements, minus -thesis, one year of
teaching 2nd grade in Battle
Creek, ~one year of ~training as
an assistant traninee of teachers
ye oe and four years as an
elementary school ~ consultant,
with the full weight of the Office of the Superintendent of.
Schools behind the Slightest
wrinkling of her educated~ eye-.
brow and a self-styled authority
on -southern accents, Negro dialogues and deficiencies in speach.

Mrs. Smith took the witness
stand eager for._ the task ~and -
\half apologetic to~ Dr. Myers for
~having caused. him any embarLrassment, arranged her assorted
arsenal of ~prepared notes~ and
~calmly and disdainfully reached
fn gar gg Mr Ae