Bronze Reporter [Volume: 10, Issue: 2]

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' Published weekly at Flint, Michigan. Entered as ~Second class
matter August 29, 1956 at the Post ~~ at re: Michigan under

the Act of March 3, 1879,

GUEST EDITORIAL

By Aftorney William Price ft

Enemies ef progress can no longer openly. advocate
second-class citizenship for Negro citizens. However, this
does not prevent their constant, though not ttoo subtle, efforts to halt the march to freedom. We need look only to
the Detroit Free Press for a living example.

Clashes-of opinion and conflict between the leaders of
the 54th Annual Conference of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People were very thoroughly
covered and reported. The Free Press screamed, ~MEREDITH, NAACP IN BITTER CLASH.~ ~HOOTING NEGROES
REFUSE TO HEAR CHICAGO MAYOR,~ headlined a front

"page picture and story on a meeting where Chicago~s Mayor ~Daley and National Baptist Convention President, Rev.
Dr. James H. Jackson, were scheduled to speak. Prominent
coverage was given the walk-out led by NAACP President
Edward Turner when fellow Detroiter, James Del mo attempted to address the convention.

> The day to day meetings were ignored, ~sad the historic platform, the real fruit of the convention, was all but
buried. The reasons for magnifying the clashes anad.conflicts become clear when we turn to the léad editorial~ by
the publisher, John S. Knight, on July 7: ~Civil Rights
Cause Injured by Bellicosity and Smears.~

The foregoing headline stories and the editorial com
ment show a deliberate effort to depict the NAACP conyention as a confused mass without defined goals and without responsible leadership. Mr. Knight ~fears~ that a few
national leaders who champion the Negro cause may not
be serving, onstructively the long range objectives. they
seek.~, He ref #4 threats to sit-in, the civil rights march
on Washington, ang Aeli~f that the Kennedy civil rights
program doesn~t go far erlough as ~emotional contortions~
by the leaders.

This selective reporting and the editorial polity of Mr.
Knight is nothing more than a thinly disguised method of
saying that. he opposes first class cifjzenship for Negroes.
He hopes to disillusion the majority group by saying that
Negroes are pushing too hard and new laws won~t promote
respect and good will. He is attempting to splinter the Neyro ranks by maligning the leaders.

The efforts of Mr. Knight and other obstructionists
will fail beause they misjudge the enlightened determinations of the Negro people. We are twenty million strong,
of diverse backgrounds~labor, farm, business, professional, but with-one goal in common-~~freedom for all. This
push for freedom was started by the mass of us, not by
our leaders. The leaders came from us and serve to our

pleasure. Neither we nor they can be bought off, scared |

off, nor killed off; We recognize that discrimination takes
many forms and thust be fought in many ways, There is
room for many techniques~picketing, talking, marching,
educating, negotiating, wading-in, sitting-in, kneeling-in,
~ boycotting, suing, voting, or what have you. There are honest differences of opinion amongst us as to which method
is best to solve a particular problem at a particular time
and at a particular place, but there is- no disagreement
amongst us as to the need for meaningful attacks on all
problems. We know that freedom will be. swift and sure
if gach of us, along with men of ape: will, give his best, in
his own way, at all times.

YOU CAN TRAVEL~ |
LOT FASTER IF YOU
DROP THAT atc

Flint, Mich.|.~

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Letters To: The Siliee

724 East Hamilton Avetue
_ Flint 5, Michigan

~July 7, 1963
Mr. Melvin Banner:
Bronze Reporter ~
1301 Lapeer Street
Flint, Michigan
Dear Sir:

I always enjoy reading your column although~ I sit
confess that I am never quite sure I understaand. what you
are really saying. ~I don~t dig you, man.~ =~

But let us make no mistake about the political future
of.our nation and our (Negro) place in it. I believe we could
not be farther from the truth when we begin to buy this~
junk about the Negro vote, eapectelly _ ae to the
1964 election.

For one thing, many of us wine are eligible don't ~Yote |.
and another~ thing is the divisions among us is areal threat | Ein

to our effectiveness. t
The Black Muslims advocate not poting. It is my opin
ion that Mr. Wilkins is more of a figurehead than a leader,
so it is no telling which way he will go next.
_ Then, of course, we have Dr. King.

called white liberal because he will no longer feel the neéd
to ease his conscience in our behalf. ae
What does all this mean? It means that a man like. Mr.
Goldwater will walk off with the election and kill at least
for a time our big chance for equal. treatment hefere the
law. Bae
- Tam not advocating the Desaccvati ~ Party. cause. Kaivens only knows I have had my fill of the Bastlands, Gcorges,
Faubuses and the Wallaces, etc. The only point. is let us | ~
see this vote thing for what it is and not delude didteelves
concerning the power we don~t have.
Very truly yours,

| department stores),
que ~testing equipment, textile

Charles E. Wie ii

The U.S. Department of Commerce will present a report on
the 1963 U.S. Trade Mission to
The Netherlands at the PickFort Shelby Hotel on Monday,
July 8, 1963. The conference~
included brief talks followed by
@ question and answer period~
were held from 9:00 a.m. to
10:00 a.m. The remainder of the

~| day was devoted to private

consultations with a lunch, break
Scheduled between noon and 1:00
p.m. Featured as guest speakers
were two distinguished -m e|m'
~| bers of this trade nfission: Mr.

Edgar W. Barnwell, ~President.
of the Apex Corporation, Réseille, Michigan; and Mr. Louis

Nordholt,
Engineering

Commerce Department~s Michigan Field Office, annouiiced that
the primary purpose of this, 1 ~ was to assist Michi;
In our ~push for full citizenship ~we will Aose- he SO- | busines a

essmen in locating and: understanding ~various aspects of
sales. outlets for their products
in~ the prospering Netherlands
markets; Areas slated for chief
emphasis by this trade mission
intlude food processing and
packaging, mass general merch
~| andising (specifically goods that

lend: themselves to being sold in
laboratory

achinery~ and ~ textiles; gas~
equiptment fer space heating and

air conditioning, and advanced |

types of machihe tools.

~Freedom Now~

Dentist Ce leb

re stes 50th Anniversary

From Buckroe Beach, Virginia
in 1913 to Philadelphia, Pa. in

| 1963 marks the path taken by}

the National Dental Association
in celebration of its Golden An
niversary~fifty years ~service to

to American public.
- The Negro entered the field
of dentistry long before the Civ
il War, although it is not géner- ' Careers

ally known. At that time over a
half million Negroes were free
they have. left some very interand ~prior to the nationa conflict
esting accounts in the opens
of dentistry.

ied in Scotland and had @ large

| practice among both raees in Sa
in honor Of the first Negro den-;
tal college graduate. This sosoy tae da
ciety: egro. den at in. the;
States.

National Dental J Ass

Dental.
| by R. T. Freeman, D; A. Ferg
and % Richard~ ~Groove~ Holmes. There

The. insight, courage, perser~verance and devotion to those
ideals which ~_ the cof:,

cept, initiation. growth. of
the National

deiphia, Au 49, 1963. The

ive beard _ Sp

~ Ted the
| Heart In San Francisco,~ 1 ad*| in
| mit that I would have: only been.

|~ame on in the third. position
ee | which: would get my first place

| pressed me as being of the cal
| mind w

aoe, ~President. |
~Tempco, +. Mey by 5
Nashville, Tennolaah opk 7,

| Frank A. Alter, Director ee ~hav.

from you..
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describe;{ bination. But, then, I told you

Iie tes vidy lorpaen

IE inmost ~enjoyable to watch ~the|

cnn sat uly thea: Ane

ttl pega former tennis ~on had un

job Pere half. puns a

ae | is about the lousiest job on earth.{ ne 1. 1 1t is impossible to please every:. one or you alway make ene
When Kelvyn Veritour open-| I
show singing ~I Left: My

looking for a second and ~third
place to round: out my de
cisions. |
But, then, Charlotte. Yenking:
-and. I found myself wondering
i I naties a judge, natury:
Only ~two otter pertéeniers im
etn

iber I-would gladly spend my
money to hear~although all of
the contestants gave a good ac
count of themselves. The two in
Miss Carolyn Crawford
and Jeaunine Wafer.

How did it all come out? Carolyn and Charlotte tied for the
big first prize of $125.00 each
and a year~s recording contract
with Berry -Gordy~s Tamla-Motown Recording Company. Kelvyn ran away with the CurtisMathis sevenfoot home ertter;
tainment center that has every;
thing in it but man~s best sleet
~a girl.

Third prize, ~however, ae oenaat won
by. a dark ~horse~Ella 1.

a inde brad. I would hse
missed. my calling because I
failed ~to find anything extra special about her offering. Perhaps
this was because the tune she
picked, ~Almost Like Being. In
Love,~ is one that I feel should
only by craftsmen.
Be ~to J

4

word~ now he bike: years than
I like to think about and I have
heard~a lot of singers~all kinds.~
But your performance moved me
quite a bit because of your ap
parent ease before an audience.
and age obvious love for musae.

H eudiener reaction had played any part in the ~selection of/
winners, you would have won
hands. down. If I had been a
judge I would have held out for
acquittal~or we would ~have ue
a hung jury. But, then, Miss |
fer, you'll find the world is ull
of ~if~s~ and the race is not al
ways to the fleet, nor the battle to the mighty.

Just don~t give ~up! Get as much |
education and experience as you
can and when the tight break
comes along, you'll be ready for
it, Words can be so empty at
times like these, but words are
just about all that we have really. Good luck to you in the future; I know we'll be hearing,

2.2

Reverend Jimmy Witherspoon) ning
is conducting one of the most
successful revivals thistown ~has
ever seen. He~s currently at the
Grand Bar along with Deacon
~are no words to ~the com:
| this. last pee

There is.a cofrection to last
week~s e, though.'The drum-,
mer, Georg ~ ~Mousey~ Randall
| (not Alexander) didn't get fir

ed. He's still on the set and he) th;| 1 do, anc

| you going

Sty voor Chat Zehummy: Sing wae

down.in~ an Ohio jail.~ Snitch:
isn't my Tole and;

Toews aren~t even inwa Senne 8
evan ~ his: own Walk to mene they
I don~t believe this, Even
though ~I got ~the information
| from a very reliable source, Pll
never believe that Johnny was.

tig

ng that he ot.
wanted to

walking.down the street with ~

a sign sandwiched over him reading: (on one side) WHERE WILL
YOU SPEND ETERNITY? and
(on the other): HELP A NEEDY
FAMILY OF WHICH I AM THE

HEAD.
Johnay King is made of sterner stuff~I think.~
So much for the bums at the
Grand Bar.
* % *

_" Now, for the bums at the Minor Key. Joe McClurg,
bum, is really a mental midget!!
He thinks I come up to the Minor Key to: hear the fabulous
jazz artists he books in there. |
Verily, I say unto you he is some
new kind of nut.

When Mark Murphy and: the

head

Dee Felice Trio played there 2:

last week, there were more fox
es crawling out of their déns
than you could shake a stick at

~Maynard Ferguson opened
Tuesday night~and wow! The
foxes were everywhere..I donned
my red coat, riding boots, and
the rest of that jazz and shout:
ed: ~Tallyho!~ I could really get
inte something if Maye Hamp
ton didn~t keep such close tabs
on me. She tells Ruth everything

~this isn~t *

Ruth te
Laura
beautiful
in turn, tells my mother~and
~T--teally get it when I come

I could escape all this, however, by merely. changing my
hangout. But, how can I? Joe
has thrown out the jukebox and
has installed a mellow stereo.
tape set-up which plays FREE
music when the. featured group
is on break.

Then, too, Chris Stromberg,
the big man at Audioland, is do
cool 'b A ~i 5

sane tes her |

ing a complete new sound thing.

in there. They~re going to raise
the stage two feet, stick in jones
Paragon speakers. under re
where the rats live (thereby ridding the, Minor aN Minor Key of: any four
~legged ones if they ever had
any): paint the whole place in
dark. subdued colors except for
the stage which will be a startling white with a jazzy red carpet to draw attention to the stage.
~ All of this sounds fine, but my
mother wants to know when are

tiquated,. spine-busting,; hose-run-; Joe?

to replace those an-.

wafitin~ a few short weeks, the ~

Minor Key is -going to beat

few clubs in this city right down
to their financial knees if they
don~t start putting some of that
loot back into their money-mak
v and I was feelir