Bronze Reporter [Volume: 8, Issue: 25]
. Ly ~ i=: ee 2 e st " % Tae e et OR rss oe - i) Ne = Co OMe ie Sen i. ee ~ > 3 - - ~, thtitras i ay ae inspiring Ting message to the congregation at me Oibe F Baptist Ghurcb. A prayer was offered by Rev..Grishan, also from Detroit. The Pastor, Rev. R. R. Tarpin, was delighted to _ Have them.; * *, Mr. Charles Jones and Mr. Joseph Herdon mavered to| Detroit for Tha ving. Mr: Jones. visited his sister and ~ brother-in-law Mr. and Mrs. James Kirkwood. A beautiful, most sokcrtet futnin Tea was given by the Sunday Schoel and B.T.U. Congress'in Turpin Hall at Mt. Olive Baptist Church. fs *.. Lillian (Pigeon) Mays and Sister. Phyllis: Jones spent he weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Walker, 818 E. Baker Lillian is the younger sister of Mrs. Walker through Genessee County Big Sisters Program. Lillian came. to. her en s funeral, Moses Moore. * * ok = Mrs. J. P. Bryant, 2003 Blade St: visited her daughters in Chicago, Mrs.. Beatrice Hinds and: Mrs. ivanola Duty. She had a lovely weekend and hopes to go again eeascupes sia * * * R: A Thanksgiving Party was held for Women~s~ Club at Stewart Community School. They played games, and served coffee, sandwiches, potato chips, and Kool-Aid, These attending were, Mrs. Odessa Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. James Tyiska and family, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Eagle amd family, Mrs. Queen Perry, Mts. Georgia Berry and children, Mrs. Birdell Lane and children. Mrs. Edith Bellow | afid children, Mrs. Nannie Waddell and children; Guests: Mrs, Joyce, Reaves; Mrs. Maxine Weasley, Miss Gloria Payne, Mrs. Willie Pringle, Mrs. Harriettee Walker and children. * * 6 Mr. and Mrs. Jamnes Patten and their daughter, Dente, spent the weekend: in Philadelphia, New Jersey and New York. Charlie Holly and John Brown went with them. The ~Turnpike Cruise~ was great and they all-had aswell time. Just one thing wrong, the time was too~ short. They visited the ~Showboat~ and quite a few other clubs while there. "i * * Thomas and Lois Jeffery, from Detroit, spent he pen te with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Reed. They came came te see Y-voriite and Ear] in.a sakes at Clifford Street Center. * * * The Revedattal: Sponsored a Sg mg Bounce. Sun Pg: by ttn An ee and He Bond thas tests a aad friends hed time. Members of the club are pres., Mrs. Alvida Huguley, Mrs. Vernetta Thomas, Ruby McMillan, Mrs. Lola Scott, Ernestine Blueford, Johnnie Powers Katheryn Bradley, ~Searcy Mays,. Helen Finley and Mary E. Blassingame. * * * Fitst anniversary of the Surfwood Club was Dec. 2, and they ~had a very nice affair. They served-baked ham, baked | beans ~nd potato salad. Those.attending were Mrs. Alene ak ye Mr. Ida Brown, Mrs. Olivia Beck, Mrs. Mary ~Mrs. Lee Oliver, Ocie Hill, Barbara Stein, Mr. and dell ~Owens, Mr. Sam Hunter, Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie ond and Buddy Copeland *. - All-Male Chorus Rally Day ih Macedonia Baptist Chufch, 146 Hickory St., is Dec. 17, ~1961 at 3 P.M. Come one, Come ~all. Hear your Song: Sung by your favorite male chorus. ~This is planned to be a great afternoon, featuring the Male ~Chorus from Union Baptist Church, of Lansing: Male Chor~us, Sag. Tabernacle ~Male Chorus; Saginaw True Vine Male | ~Chorus; Dozier Chapel, Foss Ave. and The Four and Twenty | ~Elders. Come early to get a seat. L. J. Beacoats, Manager. | One Out Of Eight Receive ~Reflectrization Refands pero office anagers i in all: 83. counties report that large tT) nitting | numbers. of citizens forget that its whieh have been| refund credits cannot be approvchecked and validated in Lansing.| ed in the local office but must = Rev. F. A Williams, from Detroit, ows a: sainnadite da ~him to: Tougaloo ~Southern tian de th in Mississippi for a~ threeday stay beginning pickets and epagy | Monree. where he récently was. beet asylum. $15,000 furaished. Committee ~ty Aid the | - ethers. were arrested | in bs tel 2-8 are ~now et on, preg ~the | confession, ~ Pea roe Defendants. They: are: John -C.: TS was ord cf Ws dhestiont#] tote amuoniing the baphowt fe that a white couple Was. briefly| dam Rider. a ee i Subsequently, Stack S volutibaa @ Monree Defendants, a hand the in ~the original ~by Attorney ~Lynn, which forms the basis for the FBI in Lowry, 20, Freedom Rider from vestigation of police brutality. yS2-0 to the Committee to Aid| Stat. | made the passage of second | Morrill Act possible~, the act | which. provided. federal aid ~to} higher-education for the common man and vastly improved educational opportunities for the south: ern Negro. 6. WASHINGTON, D.C Howard program litical environments. University stude nz coarad }. Harper of Detroit deft), an non $. Gill of Washington, D.C. (center) are aes conferring ~with Dr Robert - E.~ associate professor of government and director of the Citizenship Project at Howard, after, be-: ing.awarded $1/000 grants to serve as student. ~assistants in the Project for 1961-62. Harper is a senior aid Gill a junior in the College of Libe ral Arts. They will assist Dr. Martin in planning and: directing the proggram. The ~Citizenship Pr.oject, established at Howard 000 grant from the Maurice and Laura Falk Fo undation of Pittsburgh, is a political education designed to ~provide facilities for brin ging students of 5 ih spore closer to actual po T in 1958 by a $30, NEW YORK~Visiting scholar, Pandarinath Hari Prabhu, ~ will at four member schgols of. the United Negro College Fnud between Dec. 6 and 16, W. Jd. or, anno cholegy, Dr. Prabhu is on leave from. his post as director of the lagy, Gujaret University, ~India. Dillard University, New Orleans, is the first stop on. Dr. Prabhu~s itinerary. He will spend Dec. 6 and 7-on the Dillard campus. Dr. ' Prabhw~s schedule takes Chris hu is g as visiting | Noted Social Peychologist Frosh India Visite Four UNCF Colleges This Month lecture and lead discussion groups Trent jr., UNCF executive direct-' here today. An au-|: thority in the field of social psy School of Philosophy and Psycho- | | are privately supperted, accredit a ean~ ~scholar from Sierra Leone, visited~ 12 of he member colleges: earlier this. year. All costs inLeurred are met. pears spacial. grants. ~fhrough its Educational Services, Division, UNCF adminis ters central projects for its mem- |; ber schools~such as the Visiting Scholars Program~as a supple~mentary task,~ Mr. Trent. said. ~The College Fund~s primary |~ function is te raise increasingly large sums of money. for its member schools each year.~ ~All UNCF member institutions ed, southern eretionate and veo sities. lo. Piieiet | taney | Art Show ~ jat Peaneylanis oie aga | community affairs, died on Nov. | GREENSBORO, N. C.~Paint |= ~Dr. Robinson Savted LOS ANGELES ~ Funeral services wert held here at the Second Baptist Church on Nov. 29 for Dr. E. 1. Robinson, former president of the Los Angeles branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Dr. Robinson, long active in the branch and in other | Cormpletely Service your automobile. Tuneup -: e wheel balancing ie wash & greasing e Tires, tubes, batteries & accessories ~ JIM~S ~SUNOCO SERVICE 9727 &. Court t ~ington Ave. Gt * Sis ~A. |~Moore, Leading Light Chapter; ~Sis. H. Ruff. ~Light Chap he P.M. beeause Bak Sis. M. Davisy Prasat oe pt et Pit WANTED~Experienced Pianist for interview Call TORRES: * * & 2 NAACP Files (Continued from Page 1) against Negro }:CIO Metal: ~Trades Gousct: Chemical anti~ Atomic Wi International Union; and the Brotherhood of Railroad Carmen: of America. The two ~railroads are the Illinois Central ant the St. Leuis and San francisco lines. In.presenting the~ complaints to John Feild, executive director of the President's Committee, Mr. Hill. noted that: the. AFL-C1O Me fal Trades Council is directly responsible to the national labor \| federation and, accordingly, can ~lay no.claim to local autonomy. Affidavits signed by ~Negro workers i in the.oil refinery, chemi ~<eal and ~ rubber plants in the) "Lake ~Charles area charge that the companies and the Metal Trades - Council had negotiated collective bargaining agreements which previde for separate rac | ial seniority lines limiting Ne groes to mnskilled and menial jobs. Negro ~workers are organi _}aed into separate locals of the Metal * Trades Countil in this area.: Twenty -five Negro workers, NAACP members: in ~Atlanta, charge that the Atlanta Steel -dCompany, bars. qnalified Negro employees from participation in~ the in-service training program; that Negroes are initially hired in menial and unskilled job elassifications exclusively. Moreover, they allege, work ers~. time cards are coded to de ~signate tace and separate time soe eafeteria and drinking. founds. -}tions are maintained for Negro and white employees., At the General Motors plant in Atlanta, Negro workers allege that colored persons are initially hired as janitors and in other menial classifications exclusively, ~;and that they are denied ~equal prometional rights into production~ and skilled craft occupa: tion. In Cleveland, qualified Negro employees @f the Chevrolet division of General Motors charge that they. are denied admission |. into the company~s apprenticeship training program; that the company ~has a policy of concentrating Negro workers in the: lower paid unskilled jeb classifi~cations refuses to hire Negroes. on the hasis of qualification and previous work experierice. Sixty affidavits -were filed by the Association on behalf of Negro workers who are employees 1.of' the Republic Aviation Com-' ~pany in Farmingdalé, Leng Is Bias ter lactenindaalt oe yi sy gp Negroes. in em~ ployment and wpHrading.~ e ' Negro workers ~employed a Louis and San Francisco ~ Railrs| road companies in Memphis, and ~who are members of Lodge No. 525, a segregated local of the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen~s eharge that the railroad companies in collusion with the carmen~s union are violating their seniority rights because Negroes are being largely displaced and ~ their jobs. given to white workers with less seniority. African Students Are Different students in ~the U. S. feel they do not get along with American ~Negroes, a University of Michigan study shows. The. predominent reason appears to be that many of them: thad expected to have many, things in common with the American Negroes, but felt disappointed when their experience here proved otherwise, explains Russell G: Hanson, director of the study and associate counselor of the | U-M International Center. However, they say they are happy with their American education. In a comprehensive survey just completed: of more than 1,000 African students. now in this country, 79 per cent reported they were ~completely~ or ~mostly~ satisfied with their ~ oe yaa ie ude African at crimination.. ~Their biggest said is lack ~of. money for their ~ American education. ~~ ~Their general academic per-: formance is above average. ~Their image of America and Africa is influenced by their experience in the U, S. ' Bividences drawn from the survey. indicate that the education of Africans here as a whole offers ~real hope~ that the efforts invested may produce long-range benefits for ~hoth Americans and The findings are ~eautainell in an ~African.Student Survey,~ just completed by the U-M International Center, at the request of the Institute of International Education, with a $19,000 grant (Racine, Wis.). land. These affidavits further ee that ~ Oy is te DRIVE saies TINTS HAIRSTYLING BLEACHES By John T. ieeyo ce. 46-0218 KAT: MARGE BEAUTY SALON y nee Flint, = ie 4 at Thompson PH. 299-9705 ~ - ~TBACK 10 the Illinois Central and the St. _ ANN ARBOR ~ Most African ~from ~the Johnson Foundation ~ ei 2 ZH iDS ~. et me Sok S S be ei Nae Ue: od ~ IS Et ~ thE A Cagdagio
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