Bronze Reporter [Volume: 9, Issue: 35]

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Published weekly at Flint, Michigan. Entered as Second class
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SATURDAY, MARCH 9,. 1963

Heroes of Emancipation
A Weekly Feature by The NAACP

CHARLES BENNETT RAY -

_ It~s heen a whubaigal~ week.
ee | Everybody has been coming out |
'}.of a humor bag and I have been
' iaughing so hard that 1 forgot to
my rent. I probably wouldn't
4 ihave given it another thought if
2 the landlord hadn't ehanged the
Flock on me. -
| Ethel ~attractive waitress at the Grand Bar, commentimg on last week~s dig at Doro@ jthea Brown, also a Grand Bar
-) waitress, said: ~Roland Kirk
didn~t give DB any of her money
_ | back that she has spent playing
~ ihis records, but he did play
~j*Three For -The Festival~. four.
~4 times in one night just for her.~
~| Roland~ tells me | that everyM \time he plays ~You Did It, You

{to Toni Roberts and) Grayce Howard, barmaids at the Grand.

~?1~ Speaking of Toni: she~s a gem!
-y j1 didn~t knew a manzello from apizza until she identified the different instruments for me. ~The.
manzello,~ she said, ~is just an:
alto sax that didn~t, quite grow
~lup. And. the strich,~ she added,

BkAeK - aRown -Y ELLOM -,,: PEopLes OF THE WORLD

Did It,~ he secretly dedicates it j

Jette commercial on T.V. where
all the goodies purchased with _
coupon suddenly disappear? Well,

jif the same thing happened in.

the: Ealy household, there would
not be anyting left but a couple
of lightbulbs~and Edison would
-soon get these because she dosn~t
~pay the light bill. Edison dosn~t
give stamps! |

Last Tursday, she was lickin~
and pastin~ stamps for an hour.
Sitting at the table im her tennis
shoes~chat~s all, just tennis shoes
I~ watched old sticky lips fill up
four books, then say: ~With only
70 more books I can get mea.
wallto-wall salt shaker set.~ ~
How about ~that?

*

Siac ie have asked mé:
why I cali John ~MD~ Sullivan
~the Mad Dancer.~ It~s simple!
When he enters a club;-he grabs
the first available female, and
doesn~t stop chopping until the
man throws him out at 2 a. in.
Of course, he complains all: day,
that his ~feet hurt~, so he doesn~t

~ Charles B. Ray was born in Massachusetts in 1807. He
was graduated from Wesleyan University in 1832 and _resided in New York City where he became a successful merchant.

He exemplified those free Neprobe of the North who, diligently assisted the cause of Abolition and who. partici
pated in every enterprise whieh would in some way undermine ~the slave system. Free colored men, such as he, provided most of the Negro leadership in the struggle against
Slavery.

Like many Abolitionists, Ray was both a minister and
a newspaper editor. He was pastor of the Bethesda Congregational Church for twenty-two years. He was also the
editor of The Colored American, a weekly newspaper, 1839 -1842. The columns of this paper were filled with excellently selected and original material on the Abolitionist movement. It boldly advocated emancipation and the elevation
of Negroes to full citizenship status.

Ray served as chairman of the New York City AntiSlavery Vigilance Committee and secretary of the New
York State Vigilance Committee. He was conductor on the
Underground RaiJroad in New York. When the Liberty |
Farty was organized by a group of Abolitionists,.Ray was
en enthusiastic supporter. At their Buffalo Convention of
1843, he was elected one of the Convention secretaries and

~~ appointed to a Cons ntittde | Which drew up the Liberty Party~s program. Ray was also~mvolved in the Negro Convention movement in the years preceding the Civil War. A list
of the multiple activities~in which Charles B. Ray spent
his life can only do partial justice to this minister, editor,
lecturer and Abolitionist leader.

Like so many others in the anti-slavery movement, his
commitment was both intellectual and emotional, for he
firmly believed in freedom and in his country~s future. He
died in 1886.

Do's And Don'ts |

a J THATS WHAT f ae
FINK. / WHAT: %* ~gram is part of SCLC~s goal of

Mansi 2] ~:4 | achieving, integration of Negroes
a | into all aspects of American life.

ATLANTA, Ga~The Southern
Christian Leadership Conference~s
Citazeénship Training Department
in a report for the last six months
of 14962 announced that it has
trained 212 people at the Dorchester Center in McIntosh, Ga.
In five one week monthly training ~sessions, participants irom
nine southern states were taught
how: te~ organize communities at
the grass-roots level to work toward ~full participation in civic
life, and-to help others qualify to
register nd vote. ~

~The 22 trainees from Dorchester~ have set up 104 citizenship. schools in their home towns
which operate two nights a
week, two hours a night for three
months. ~hese schools have in
turn. trained approximately 2,091
people.

The citizenship education staff
found from figures sent in from
the field that the students in
community schools and others
~who. have been influenced by
the teachers have increased. votoe registration in their home area
y 6,78 people.

ie try to give people at Dorchester Workshop a basic understanding of the political processeé, and teach them ways in
which they may become contributing ~citizens in their communities.~ Explains Rev. Andrew
Young, administrator of the. Citizenship Schools. He said the pro
#4|m any.educational institutions
sponsored by the American Missionary Association division of
the~ American Missionary Associaton dvision of the United Church
of Christ which shares jointly
in ~the: Citizenship Program. The
program is made possible through
a grant from the Marshall Field
Foundation, and is in its second
} year: of operation. ~

Teachers trained at Dorchebier
return to their communities to

Dorchester Center is one of

SCLC Gitizenship Course Trains 212 In Ga.

work ~with local organizations.
Some of the activities reported
have been working with other
civil rights groups such as the
NAACP and SNCC, canvassing in
voter registration campaigns, getting food for children who are
left out of welfare programs by
prejudiced officials, and direct
action programs.

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is a civil rights
organization with headquarters in
Atlanta. In addiiion to its Leadership Training Programs in Direct
Action, Nonviolence, and Voter
tegistration, field secretaries and
iifiliates operating throughout
the deep South help implement
he program.

State Constitution On TV

A series of four programs concerning the background, structure,
and implications of the proposed
new Michigan so argh makes

M-.ch 17:. The Judicial Branch
Participants: The Honorable Horace Gilmore, Judge of the Third
Judicial gmt and Professor

its debut on, W~ channel aries, Associate
on Sunday, Marc at"'7:30 p. r Saco School.
Produced by Wayne State Uni- pda hg The Legislative

versity, the programs will be
moderated by Prof. Sol Bienenfeld of the university~s Law
School.

Topic, dates and participants
for each program are:

March 10 ~ackground to the
State. Constitution; Participants:
Dr. Alfred H. Kelly, Chairman,
Professor. Charles Quick, wsu
Law School.

Branch; Participants: Ann Donnelly, Delegate and. Tom Downs,:
Vice President, Constitutional
Convention. Paap

March 31: The Executive
Branch; Participants: John Martin, Chairman, Committee on Executive Powers fer Constitutional
Convention and Professor Charles
Schutz, WSU Political Science Department.

You Neeu

Boat traifers no longer need be
reweighed for owners to purchase
their 1963 license. plates.

This was made effective today
by a directive from Secretary of
State James M. Hare to license
plate ~branch offites throughout
~Michigan, relaxing re-weighing
regulations for all trailers.

This applies to any boat, or
trailer, regardless of weight, or
to any other bady style trailer
weighing up to 1,000 pounds.

Owners must present and -surrender either a previous year~s
registration, a manufacturers
statement of origin, or a copy
of a dealers bill-of-sale. giving
the weight of the trailer.

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wave

Reweigh Boats.

-This new directive, will come
as welcome news to thousands~
oi boat owners who have put
off purchase of the 1963 plates
because they were faced with
the problem of taking their boats
off the trailers to have them reweighed.

Deadline~ for purchase of | the
new plates was midnight, February 28... and this applies to auto
plate. tabs as well.

Join The
NAACP

~is only a clarinet | with gland
trouble.~

Thanks, Toni.

Johnny. King reminded me that
kiddies are going to be tne houored guests Sumuay, ifom 4 to 7
at the Grand Maimee ~where the
smali-fry with get a chance to
see Roland Kirk in act.on.

Lucille Miller, holding down
the cneckroom, sort} of summed
it up when she said: ~What Ray
Charies is to piano, Roland Kirk
is to ail them metal things.~

> * * * |

Did you hear about the big:
fight over at Shirley~s Beauty Sa-_
lon, 17593 Dequindre at Minnegota? It started when Jocelia
Byrd, Gwen Morgan, both operators, and Shirley Meeks, the proprietress, tried to snatch off my
beard!

I.didn~t mind that as much as
{ did their attempt to shampoo,
cold. wave, and Ever Perm aiy
tace fuzz. Of. course,-I put my
foot down~on their heads~when
they tried to tie on hair ribbons.

Beeause of the awful way they

me, Ym going to pull aj.

treated

~June Brown~ ard let a closely

guarded secret out of the bag. *
Girls, if you want your hait

beautified and your mind stupe
fied & the same time, go on Ov-|

ez: to Shithey~s just berore clos:
ing time. Every night, it seems,

they have one ~more bottle on|
absolutely: neces
hand than is)
sary for the purpose ot setting
and curling hair.

Naturally, though,. this ~odd
bottie of~ ~shampoo~ doesn~t last
long because so many, must share
So littie..

By ali means, ~don't call and i
jmake = an appointment because

they wiil oniy ~share~ the extra
~shampoo~ a bit faster so that

it will be all gone by the time | _

you get there.

Then, too, if they have just |
about depleted ~the contents. of
the bottle, they might answer the
phone and teil you~-in no uncertain terms~~Ain't nobody
here. We~re closed up. This is a
telephone answering service. Call
back tomorrow mornihg.~

If you see me ra Around |
the Town with braided, be-ribboned beard, then you'll know
they jumped me when I was help-~
ing them share their ~Seagram's
Shampoo.~ |

do much work.

When 1 asked the ~MD~ what
he was giving up for Lent, he
replied: ~I~m giving up baths,
baby~the boss baths.~ ~

Howéver, Ronald Driscolt, a
~mad dancer~ of the teen set,
says that John isn~t sacrificing
anything because he really doesn~t
kuow the joy and comfort of soap
and hot water, anywheré.

At any rate, it should be pretty
ripe Around the Town in a few
weeks.:

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The only reason I ain running
Versalle~s picture again so soon,

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is because everybody dug it: They

said it added class to Around the
Town. Besides, maybe she'll let~
me have her phone number~if
her husband doesn~t mind.

Motrie Baker, manager * and
booking ~agent over at the Grand,

'}wastrt joking when he~said Ver
Salle is fabulous!) Many, - many
people have contacted Arourid
the Town to find out the definite
date of her opening. All I can

VERSALLE
~The Golde n-Girl...~

tsay to you anxious ones is: Keep
digging the column: and we'll
let you~ in an the exact date as
soon as the contract is firmed up.

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