Bronze Reporter [Volume: 9, Issue: 41]

Pe er te: As,

VOLUME 9~NUMBER 42477

Flint News Briefs

SID FINLEY NAACP FIELD SEC. TO SPEAK HERE
NAACP Launches Drive For Members d

t.

of the Ill. State Conference of NAACP branches. In his
present capacity as Field Secretary it his responsibility
to initiate programs which will effect a stronger and more

dynamic NAACP program.

The Membership Drive will feature a ~Miss Flint NAACP~ contest and will culminate in a style show in May.
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NEGRO MEMBER OF AIA O SPEAK ON PANEL
Mr. Francis E. Griffin, member of the highly-touted
AIA or American Institute of Architecture will appear with
four others in a panel discussion at Quinn Chapel Sunday,
- April 21. He received his BS in Architectural Engineering
from the U of M in 1935. He served two years at A&T in
Greensboro, N.C., as Instructor~ of Architecture. In 1939
he joined the faculty at Howard University and remained
seven years as assistant professor of Graphics. Mr. Griffin
has created the nucleus of an organization that will provide
professional services to those involved in the Urban Re
newal projects.

~The ~co mbined bioir of ci voices at the Metropolitan Baptist Church will present a musical recital, Sunday
evening, April 21, at six o~clock sharp. There will be a |
variety of music to suit all musical tastes.

~
Sid Finley, Field Secretary NAACP, for the State
of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin will be
the speaker at the membership meeting of the
Flint Branch of the NAACP on Sunday, April 21.

The:meeting will be at
3:30 p.m. at St. John Bod
Community Center.

will mark the kick-off aor
the annual membership
drive.

Mr. Finley, a native of
-Iil, is a former president
of the Galesburg, Ill. branch
of the NAACP. He has also served as Regional Director and _ vice-president

a ee aa

Flint Journal Picket Averted

A. threatened picketing and
boycott of the: Flint Journal was
averted temporarily through the
mediation of circuit Judge Stewart Newblatt. At a meeting
Saturday, in Judge Newblatt~s
chambers representatives from
interested groups expressed their
views on the subject of racial
designations on houses advertised
for sale inthe ~Want Ad~ section of the Journal.

The NAACP has protested use
of the word ~COLORED~ in advertising certain houses for sale
indicating that this restricts the
housing market for Negroes. The
Journal had declined to accept
responsibility | stating that they
were merely selling advertising
space. The Flint Branch of the
NAACP, in a letter to it~s membership Saturday, called for a
boycott of the Journal and promised to begin picketing on
Tuesday, April 16.

Meeting in Judge Newblatt~s
office Saturday afternoon were:
Mr. ~ Carl tLaiddington and
Mr. Ed Mitchell from the Journal
Mr. Ted Cobb, Mr. John McEvoy
and Dr. T> Wendall Williams
from the, Flint Urban League.

LATE BULLETIN

THE BRONZE REPORTER~A
spokesman for the Flint Branch
of the NAACP nofified the Bronze
Reporter that the Flint Journal
has adopted a resolution calling
for immediate elimination of racial and religious connotations; from housing adverting.

The resolution was endoresed

~by ~the Flint Branch of the

NAACP, the Urban League of
Flint and the Flint Realtists.

by those news media now using

| One on problems in Negro educa
Mr. Richard Traylor, Mr: Robert
Rawls, and Attorney Glen _Epps
from Branch of the NAACP. Mrs.
Bertha Simms and Mr., Wilson
Tweedie from the Flint Realtists, Mr, McGinnis, Mr. Robert
Demock, and Mr. Harry Rapaport
from the Genessee County Board
of Realtors.

After some discussion the
group decided upon the following
proposed resolution: That racial
and religious designation, in advertising ought to be eliminated

it. That ~this elimination should
be done within a short time after the community has an opportunity to be in formed of this
evaluation of good faith, |

The group is to meet.on Wednesday, April 17, for final action
on the proposed resolution. For
this reason the NAACP agreed to
postpone the pickets.

Editor~ s Mail

April 15, 1963

Dear Editor:

~Thank you very much for your
exceilent announcements of our
coming Folk Music Fesiival here
at the college. 1 was also very
favorably impressed by both of
your editorials this week~the

tion in Flint, and the one on Ur-:
ban Renewal. I couldn~t agree
with you more, in both cases.

Keep up the good work.

Cordially yours,

ARTHUR JORDAN FIELD
Assistant Professor

of Socio.ozy

Ed Marciniak
To Speak At

Relations Forum

Detroit - Special:

Mr. Edward Marciniak, executive director of the Chicago Commission on Human Relations, will
be the main speaker at the Community Relations: Forum: 8p. m.,
Thursday, April- 18, in Denby
High School, Kelly. Road near
Hayes...

Mr. Marciniak, will talk on
~Housing~Everyone~s Unfinished Business~ at the Forum, the
fourth and final one of the 1962 -33 session,~

The Forum is.sponsored by
the Coordinating: Council on Human Relations, a @ group of more
than 70 social service, civic, labor,
business, church and ~government.
al agencies affiliated for programs
cf education and research with
the Commission on Community
Relations. ~

EDWARD MARCINIAK

Featured at this meefing wm |
be an extended question period
following the speaker~s-presentation. Besides Mr, Marciniak, ~several experts in the field of human relations, including area residents, will answer the audience~squestions.

Mr. Marciniak is a former college instructor, and was the editor of ~Work~ magazine. At one
time, he was an international
vice- president ot the American
Newspaper Guild.

He has also been a member of
the U. S. delegation to the annual conference of the -International Labor Organization, and a
past president of the Chicago~
chapter. of the Industrial Relations
Research Association.

Currently, Mr. Marciniak -is: a
member of the Advisory Committee of the Institute of- Labor and
Industrial Relations of the University of Illinois.

~Lhe Commission on Community
Relations seek through education,
negotiation and research to
achieve equalily of epportunity
in all- areas of life. by removing
barriers to understanding based
on race, religion or nationality.

Michigan Vote
On Constitution.
Is A Close One

The cliff-hanging finish to the
vote on the Constitutional proposal seems to prove once again that
every vote counts in Michigan.

Secretary of State James M.

~ments, and ~halting urban 1

| conscience

tees |

the President and Congress,

- The President ~was pressed tot.
make sure# ~American citizenship | '
will not continue te-be degraded |
Mn. geoarg tl
F:. jeral IFunds to Mississippi
in _the~ 1 ths ~ending June
30, 1962, totalled $650 million.
These finds ar~ in the shape~

of ~lean programs, civilian ~and
military reels: grants-in-aid,
and mili contracts.. The mission. said this

meant ~t@e. lawless conduct and
defiance of the Constitution by
certain ele! in ope state are
being. subsi a by) the ~other
States,~

~Lhere ~ Fwas ho invkedinte reaction ffom the vacation White
Howe ip~ Palm Beach,:-Florida..

The group said. Mississippi has
~placed jtself indirect defiance
of the Gonstitution and- Federal

4 oe

~ing Federaf arte Soddotata tor children ~affronts' the~
the nation,~ the U.S. Commission ~on Civil
~Rights told/President Kennedy
| elitting off all Federal funds to ~: ~Open ang flagrant violations of constitutional guaranréached ~the: point-of crisis,~ the Commission, {
an agency created ~by Congress~ to~ investigate an, sere:

| the land.

~ {been received since October, 1962,
{alleging denial of Constitutional:
w jrights in Mississippi,

/|@ ~Citizens of the United States |. ~jailings ana withhold-'

fh asking. that: he. consider
~Mississippi.

said.

wourt orders,~ wt eo

~As examples, the Commission
said the Federal Aviation Agency
}is granting $2,180,000 for the construction of a jet airport in Jackson; Miss., despite the fact that
eating. and restroom facilities will
be: segregated.

The Comission grateGali the
| Administration for: ~strong and
vigoreus action~ in prosecuting
~Frderal law violefors in Miss.~
But it expressed concern that
~the pattern of unlawful activity
shows.no sign of abating.~:
+The Commission | added these
eomplaints:

-@ Nine years after~ the ~Supreme
~Court. school ~desegregation decision, Mississippi ~has taken no
step to comply ~with the law of

~@ More than 100 complaints have!

power. ig Hee ph invelle |
injustices. as

Monday~s meeting ~aise ~dads
with training for Negroes. Experts
trom the betroit Public Schools,

~the Urban Leagut; and the Michi
gan Employment Security Commission ~contributed their advise.

A third meeting is planned for
Sunday, April 21, from 3 to 5 p. m.
at Central Congregational. This

Meeting will deal with jobs, bias,

and a new plan to end unemployment. Look for more information on this.

LANSING~School authorities
throughout the state were asked
today to. circulate new federal
regulations governing the firing
of unmanned rockets.

State Superintendent of public instruction Lynn M. Bartlett
said in making the request that
schools should take an active~
part in publicizing thte new reg-:
ulations since many of the ama
tew~ rocket builders are students..196~.

{have been shof,

tin, ministers have (aa shemale

and the hone ofthe vice: chair-.
- | man of the Commission~s~advisory
~| Committee in Mississippi has been
fi | bomved. Another member and

bagi gel by. vi

His wife were jailed on. trumped.

~] up charges after their home had

et Loge defil

~or | @ Mississippi officials have de
-}mied Federal surplus foods to|

hice at the brink of starvaon.~

Dodge Car
Sales High

DETROIT Dodge dealers
set an all-time sales record during the first six months of the
1863 model year, Dodge General~
Manager Byron J. Nichols reported today.

Nichols ~said the. Sealers sold
172,752 cars from October 1
through March 31~the highest
~number of sales for this period
in Dodge~s 49-year. history.

By comparison, Dodge car
sales totaled 104,826 in the same
period ~of the~ 1962" model year,
126,496 in 1961 and 146,252 in
1960. The Dodge sales record for

an entire model year was set in,

(he explained - the
mood~ of Negroes in their desire

oup asks Rar of St:

ce

Wi ilkins In
=: Sout |

~old officérs attending the South
--| ern~ Policé Institute here ~today | ga
that improved ~treatment of Neg: |

roes by police, on the local level,
is a prime NAACP target.
~~~We ~intend to enlarge and in-|
tensify this ~program, *Secretary |
Wilkins said in his talk: in which
~impatient

for human rights.
He ~cautioned the oficers that

in the nation, in the South or in~

~the North, until segregation and

inequality are gone.~

The NAACP~s chief spokesman
then stressed several. factors:

~ Southern law officials must
realize that ~the Negro ~citizen
has -rights.under the Constitution which: may not..be restricted or denied by loca] and state
laws and customs, no-matter how
long sueh: Practice. has been. in
vogue. |:
~Ne
ly. ~aware of

~ Saas
nd employment especial:

mand at ~ation and still more
acceleré tion.

~He is impatient. - ~He is in,
a hurry. He will.not be satisfied
with normal movement because
he has ~been, subjected to abnormal dénial,~ he said.

~ - Negro citizen does
not subscribe ~to violence as a
method of securing his rights.
But he hag come to the point
where he is not afraid of violence.

~Always, of course, ~there are
those who are not followers of
the non-violent philosophy. If the
campaigns go on long enough and
the resistance maintains itself,
the preachers of violence could
gain followers. There could, then,
be trouble and.tragedy,~ he said.

~Mr. Wilkins. said that southern law~ officials ~will have to
bring extra measures of understanding and restraint... especially since they will be subject
to pressures from the stand-pat
white community.~

He also warned of officials
themselves ~who become white
men first and law officers second.~

Mr. Wilkins also cited the ~Ultra respectable Americans~ who
signed. the- call that brought the
NAACP into being in 1909. He
said that they; as the people in
the NAACP teday, were -~dedi
cated Americans.~ ~

He concluded by pointing out~
that the ~new- industrial~ South
cannot afford. racial repression
and violence. |. ~Law enforcement can then become (as it. should be),.an extension of the Constitution, rath
er than. (as it-so often hag been

with the Negro) a roadblock to
his rights.as a + stipes and a human being.~ Rae

~ LOUISVILLE, Ky-Roy Wilk-j ~
ins, NAACP executive secretary, |.

~there. will be no racial peace; #

Pons:

ly, ~have, forced: the ~Negro..to. de
AACP. Legal
Defense d. attorneys today
filed suit against the university
of. Alabama in Tuscaloosa on behalf of. three Negro: plaintiffs.
The suit. was filed in the Federal District Court for the Northern Disrict of Alabama ~in
Birmingham by Attorney Fred
Gray of Montgomery, Alabama.

The University. of Alabama
was. previously sued by. Legal
Defense Fund. attorneys in 1956
for Negro student Autherine
Lucy. Miss Lucy~s admittance was

-ordered by the Federal District

Court, but after a period of
roiting, she was expelled ~ for
allegedly making derogatory
statements about University officials. She never attended classes at the University.

NAACP Legal Defense \ Fund
attorneys for the Negro plaintiffs
are Fred Gray of Montgomery,
Alabama, Jack Greenberg, Constance Baker Motley and Leroy
D. Clark of New York, City.

Project To Curb

~ Detroit - Special
A new pilot project aimed at
eurbing recurrences of crime by
youth has been announced for

~a section of inner Detroit where

600 boys, aged 10 to 16, came
to the attention of the police
last year.

With a financial grant from
the Sisterhood of Temple Beth
El, the project will soon be
launched under the supervision
of Family Service -Society of
Metropolitan Detroit in cooperation with the -Youth Bureau

of the Detroit payes Department.
Its objective is to provide immediate ig aid by a 5s0 -