Bronze Reporter [Volume: 7, Issue: 49]

VOLUME 7~NUMBER 49

RACE

Will Fig

ht For

Seized Strip

By. Chester Higgins

Determined not to take without challenge, the récent
Michigan Supreme Court decision which upheld by a four-to
four split, the annexation of a

strip of their village by Dear
_ born Township, Inkster residents of both races formed a

citizens committee last week, to lay plans for carrying their |

fight into the federal courts.

Lafayette Allen, Sr. well-; which upheld a lower court
known businessman and | ruling that the strip, about two

owner of the big Inkster
supermarket bearing his
name, was appointed temporary chairman of the interracial committee at an overflow meeting in the gynasium
of Inkster High School.

~This is the rottenest thing
that has ever happend to us out
here,~ he declared. ~We're going
to go to Federal Court and fight
it ~..we~re going to do this,because we must.~ Paul MeCartney, white, was named temporary co-chairman. The group
will meet this week to elect
permanent officers and finalize
plans for their fight.

The meeting last week was attended by more than 700 citizens,
white and Negro, all up in arms
over what one of them described
as ~the criminal grab~ of part
of Inkster by Dearborn Township. It was sponsored by the
local chapter. of the NAACP of

~which Roy Wilson is president.

~The issue. has. been. a smould a
ing one since June 2
residents of the anneked ~strip~
along Michigan Avenue~voted to
become incorporated with Dearborn Heights. The rest of Inkster
residents had no voice in the
incorporation and loss of part
of their village. It boiled up in
white heat following the recent
Michigan Supreme Court decision

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Service.

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May 12, 1961 ~ Friday ~ 9: to

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| blocks~ wide and néarly a~ mile
long, was legally incorporated
by Dearborn Township.

The overflow audience heard
various leaders, including NAACP State President Edward
Turner, urge the citizens to continue to -fight for their rights
in the annexation dispute.

Two issues are central in the
dispute. It is bitterly argued that
the portion of Inkster Village
to be sliced off and added to
the north and south parts of Dearborn Township for: the new city
is ~a lily-white district.~

The whole question of the
status of the large number:of
Negro children (about one-third
of the enrollment) attending the
recently built Robichaud High

School will be uncertain if the

annexation is upheld by federal
courts.

Some residents argue that ~this
strip is being used as a buffer
to keep Negroes out of the _proPosed new. po

member of the cobtites: ~chair-.
man: of ~the village Zoning Com-:
mission and an accountant at
Ford Motor Co., pointed out that
~this
piece of land brings in more
than $150,000 a year in revenue
right now. In a few years it will
bring in much more because most
~of the industry in the village is
located there.~ ~:

Since Inkster has recently gone
in debt to build.a civic center,
a school, etc., loss of this revenue is staggering if not dis
asterous. Both white. and Negro |;

citizens. alike know they'll be
taxed heavily to make up for
the loss. ~

Justice George Edwards, who
ruled for Inkster ~ as did Justices Theodore Souris;.Thomas M.
Kavanaugh and Talbot Smith ~
declared the incorporation did
violence to the rights of other
Inkster residents and thus was a
violation of the equal rights
provision of the 14th Ammendment the United States constitution.

Armed with this opinion the
citizens hope to get redress in
federal court.

Chief Justice John R. Dethmers

and Justices Eugene Black, Harry +
F. Kelly and Leland Carr favored.

annexation:

500 Flinties

To Attend

Jehovah's Witnesses Confab

500 delegates of the Flint area
congregations of Jehovah~s Witnesses have completed arrangements to attend a three day
circuit convention in Saginaw,
May 12-14.

Eugene~ Kohnert, presiding
minister, reported the assembly
highlight will be the public talk. ~The 20th Century in Bible Pro
phecy.~ Nicholas Kovalak,> Jr.,
District Supervisor for the
Watchtower - Bible and = Tract

Society of New York, convention
sponsor, will be the principal
speaker.

The convention theme, ~Walk
in the Name of Jehovah Forever,~
will be set in the opening sessions
Friday at 6:45 P.M.

Saturday's program at the
Saginaw City Auditorium will include dedication and baptism
services as well as house to house

visitations in fhe Saginaw area. |

18 Central Michigan congrega-tions of Jehovah~s Witnesses will

be represented. Peak Peak attendance
is to reach 1500.
~W Jarge or.small,~ Mr. |

Kohnert said, ~Witress conventions fllow the same pattern, and
are neither crusades nor revivals.

They are quiet, dignified gather- |

ings of Christians, intent upon
filling their minds with Bible
wisdom.~

~Therefore,~ Mr. Kohnert continued, ~the purpose of the assembly is to make provision for
spiritual enrichment, and is an
occasion of joy and happiness
for Jehovah~s Witnesses. Christian
men, women and children are
refreshed and built up with appreciation and: understanding of
Jehovah's eae cs and pur
Of ~51 To ~Meet

The largest. graduating class in
Howard University~s history, the

~ Inkster Group To

~

versity~s 98rd Alumni Reunion

May 6th are: Dr. Hector N. Castaneda, and Dr. Leonard Roéellig.
Mr. Walter W. Hansz, director Wayne State Fund, made the pre
sentations

Recipients of the Faculty Research Awards at Wayne State Uni
at the Sheraton Cadillac Hotel,

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lopsided. dumbell-shaped.

Supreme Court To Hear

Fla, NAACP

The United States Supreme:

Court agreed this week to hear
the contempt appeal of the Rev.
Theodore R: Gibson, president

of the Miami, Fla.. NAACP, who/

refused records to state investi-'
gators.

Rev. Gibson was eiakenced to
six months in jail and fined

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rass~ the Rev. Mr. Gibson and
force him to produce the NAACP
membership list, ~some: reasonable basis must be established
that either he or his organization
is suspect.~

The Florida State Lesisitiure
hearings had been in progress
since 1956 by a series of com
mittees looking into possible Com
munist: infiltration of the NAACP.:

NAACP officials refused to
produce membership lists on the

NEGRO TO EDIT

N.C. LAW REVIEW

CHAPEL HILL, N.C., ~ (AP)~
A 24 year-old Negro student has
achieved the highest honor at
the University of North Carolina
law school.
Julius Le Vonne Cheba: &
senior from Mt. Gilead, has been
named: editor.in chief of. the
North Carolina Law Review.
It is_the first time a Negro
has won such an honor at North
Carolina and is believed to be
the first-time in the South that
a Negro student has been so
honored at a. predominantly.
white college..

Bias In Detroit:

Schools ~Shocking~

A 36-member blue-ribbon committee will make a ~shocking report~ of racial bias in Detroit~s
public school system, according
to information published by the
Detroit Free Press last Sunday.

The newspaper quoted an anonymous ' member as - declaring
~this report will shock many of
our citizens who have turned a
color-blind eye to our schools.~

Some of the ~shocking~ ex
amples are:

1. Almost half Detroit's 285,000
public school children are Ne
groes.

2. Less than one-fourth: of the
more than 10,000 teachers are
Negroes.

3. Discrimination in hiring and)
placement, and: in opportunities}
for advancemet to administrative:
Posts, exists. despite an avowed} __.. 7 ~ 2
- SC s
lewpate appealed on the grounds} 2
that ~before ~the state can_har-|

Head Appeal

grounds this would ~impair the
freedom of association of ~
and future ~members.

In another action, the Court
~upheld~ agai~ a lower~ federal
-court. decision barring New)
Orleans and ~Louisiana officials |

~Sepport To Braden

| Biased Realty: Rule

from interfering with. the Fel

SCE Votes Foil

As Ga: ~ The board
Conference Edu-, voted full support

to Carl. ge oh and Frank Wilkin+ son who, the

directors: said,
~are going to jail to defend the
freedom that. is ~our heritage.~

The SCEF board held-its semiannual meeting here immediately,
before Braden and Wilkinson surrendered to the U. S. Marshal to
begin. serving,. one-year prison
sentences for contempt of the
House _Un-American Activities
Committee. Braden is field secretary for SCEF,

- LANSING~State Rep. George
Edwards (D.-Detfoit): led a group
of. Negro. representatives in a
two-hour hitter. and: losing floor
fight. -against a bill that wipes.out~
an. anti-discrimination - rule. for
real estate brokers salesmen:

~ House passage of the Michigan
Real Estate. Assn, sponsored bill
came - in: ~face~ Of. ~Democratic
threats. that Gov. John Swainson:
would veto. the Bilt dn order to
preserve the anti-bias rule. pro-.
mulyated last -year by former
a and. Securities Com
|i mae the final
mifi e fin
salon ina heatie Teh Goa legis

tien of ws 2 city

DEERFIELD,

Modern: Community Detilaners~
and its Illinois subsidiary, Progress - Development Corporation,
have won a second major court
victory in the famous Deerfield
housing _ controversy.

The IHinois Supreme Court has
declared that the right of public
bodies to condemn property for
public: use cannot. contravene
fundamental rights granted: by
the constitution of the United
States. The decision has sent the
case back to the Lake County
Circuit Court with instructions
that Progress be given an opportunity to show that condemnation of its two sites had as its
intent and purpose the barring of
Negroes from Deerfield.

Max Weinrib, exécufive vicepresident: of Progress, described~
the court~s decision as ~another
step towards freedom of residence
for everyone regardless. of race
or color.~

Progress~ Board chateiien Arthur G. Falls~ noted Negro surgeon who won a similar case involving his own right to build
~and live in Western Springs, Illinois, called the decision a
~heartening victory. for the right;

wish.~
MCD Board chairman David H.

MCD executive committee chair
Princeton, N.J. joined with MCD
president Morris Milgfam of Phil
action as ~a vindication of our
faith that justice will prevail in
this momentous effort. to prevent
housing segregation from nullifying, in much of America, the
Supreme Court~s decisions on integration in education.~ ~~

MCD, national building ~ye of
84 Nassau St., Princeton,

~of all people to live where ey;

man Rev. B.. J. Anderson of}.

adelphia in describing. the court}

MCD~~s integration policy became
public: The all-white village was
in an uproar, ~and the Deerfield
story was covered by TV, radio
and vadkewe? nationally, ~

Seek To ~Clarify
Baptists~ Election

CHICAGO ~ iXeverend Andrew
J. Hargrett, formerly executive
secretary for the Retirement Fund
of the National Baptist Convention has -petitioned Dr. J. H.
Jackson and Dr: Gardner C. Taylor to jointly eall a meeting for
the of Clarifying the two

purpose
elections~ held in: Philadelphia,
Pennsylvanina on September 8,

officers and two boards of directors; ~to
spiritual and mental wounds
which this conflict has generated
in the program of God.~ to make
it. less likely that this will happen again, and ~for transacting
such other business as may be
necessaryand proper therewith.~

Scull of Annandale, Virginia andj pe

sions of The Methodist

executives of the Methodist Board
of Missions, of the United States

~

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~| youth during the question and

Flint Central High School panFicked the student body. faculty

similar lectures of Flint~s South
~the year without incident was

ee Constitution. ~: Republicans Hit.
For | Failure To

~such steps to heal.

is one of ten members and staff

FLINT ~ Last Wednesday the
inflamatory remarks of one white

answer period following a general
assembly oh race relations at

and~ administrative officials. of
the school. ~

Richard English industrial relations secretary of the Urban
League of Flint, was notified
Thursday that the 2nd and 3rd
talks, scheduled for Thursday
an Friday, were cancelled.

Mr. English who had given

western High School and Grand
Bland High School earlier in

challenged by Bob Peterson,
white, on rights claimed to have
been quaranteed Negroes under
the ~Bill of.Rights in the U:S.
Peterson clamied
that the Negroes were slaves
when the Founding Fathers drew
up and adopted the Declaration
ss ~Independence and from this
fact conclueded that the historical
document on human rights: was
~not intended to include the Negroes. Peterson is alleged to have
~said Negroes are not equal to
other groups and were until to be
associated with and wanted to
know what could be done about
their forcing themselves on others
groups.

It is reported that Richard
aegis adroitly side stepped

~Youth~ ~ Remarks Panicks
| s tudent Body

education 0g mental health programs.

~Dr. Connor Smith, chairman of
the Michigan* State University
Board of Trustees, charged a
Lansing Republican - lawmaker
with failure~ to represent the interests of his constituents. Target
of Dr. Smith~s criticism-is Representative Harold Hungerford
(R., Lansing).

~This university is a significant
economic and cultural factor in
the Lansing community,~ said
Dr. Smith, ~but Rep Harold Hunigerford did not see fit to sit
with the committee during MSU~s
hearing this week nor participate
in the discussion of MSU's problems, LS

Later Dr. John Hannah, MSU
president, also criticized Hungerford. ~The..Ingham county representative en~the-eommittee was
there when we arrived,~ Hannah
said, ~but he left the room and
remained away during the entire
hour an 40 minutes of our hear
-1960, ~resultinig:'in two sets of ing.~

Students from Bay City Junior
College were equally critical of
Senator. Lynn Francis, Midland
Republican, for blocking funds
which would: have created a fouryear college in Sauinaw, Bay,
Midland area.:

Francis. is chairman of ~the
Senate Education Committee
where he killed a bill to make
the ~two-year Delta Community
College a four-year school. Francis recently admitted that he is| ca
a member of the reactionary John
Birch Society.

The students pointed out that
without a. four-year college close

'to home many of them will be

unable to continue their studies.
Francis is unconcerned with the

-| plight of the students. i

is~ 7
_.'| Republican. ~penis ~to provide
* | sifficient funds. for the state~s

And Officials

the barber to the delight.to the
assembly by pointing out the alternatives under law of learning

how to live with his neighbor or ~

fleeing, and pointed out the financial consequences, of the choice
to flee. An unidentified white
girl~s timely remarks ~is credited
an assist in stemming a mounting wave of resentment by Negro
students preserit. She: stated that
we are not hereto give vent
to our personal emotions but to

intelligently, discuss and consider

a very serious problem. ~It; is
reported that the assembly was
closed without. further incident.

Following the assembly. a group
of Negroes elosed in.on Peterson
in the corridor under the watch
eye of Stan Broome, Dean of
Boys, who broke up the crowd.
According to one Negro student
some of the group wanted to
know what Peterson meant and
Peterson is reported to have said
that he had not. meant. to ~say
what. he said; but did not get
a chance to clarify his mearing
as the Dean broke ~up the eather:
ing.

Thursday brought rumors ~of
threats; alerting of ~the police,
cancellation of the second and
third scheduled assemblies - and
parents to school in automobiles
to pick up their children.~ Everéette M. Spurlock, -Executive Sectetary of the Urban League issued
the following statement: ~
~For some reason the remaining two talks were called off.
I have reasofi to ~believe the
cause was ~the ~ hostility ~
developed between Negro /a
white sfudents -who had pelt
no common Basis - ~
they could discuss, ~mutual:

Kenya political leader Tom:
Mboya is a picture of confidence.

after winning in. Kenya~s first
national election.:

~Bell & Howell Close-Up!~ will
present: The Second of two programs on the Kenya elections~
~Land of the Black Ghost~ -Tuesday, May 16 (ABC-TV, 8:30-9
p.m.),

ADF acirecectalie To
Speak At Howard ~.

WASHINGTON, D.C. ~ Mary
Louise Hooper, American West
Coast representative of the Afri
ca Defense and Aid Fund, will
speak at Howard University, Monday, May 15.~ The publie meeting
is scheduled for 8 p.m. in the
auditorium: of. the School ~of
Engineering, and Architecture,
2300 Sixth Street; northwest. Her
subject will be ~South Africa
in Travail.~ _ -

~ Mrs. Hooper recently ~returned
from the All-Africa People~s Conference in Egypt where she was
a represntative of, the African National Congress-of South Africa.
She also was a delegate to the
first and ~second All-Africa. Conference in Accra, Ghana and
Tunis in 1956 and 1959...

Mrs. Hooper was presented the
Russwurm Award in~ March by

- the National Newspaper Publisher

Association for ~unselfish con
| tributions of- time and money
to. the cause of the advancement
of Africans.~ She was arrested
in 1957 im South Africa and
ordered deport ~for supporting
|the Anti-apartheid movement.