Bronze Reporter [Volume: 10, Issue: 3]

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VOLUME 10~NUMBER 3

~Flint News Briets

NAACP MEMORIAL ATTENDED BY 2500

CHARLES EVERS and GOV. ROMNEY. -
Two thousana iive hundred Negroes stood in a drizzling rain last Saturday..night, faces upturned toward a plat
form in front of the Flint City Hall. Charles Evers, brother
of the slain Medger Evers, Mississippi N A A C P Leader,
spoke in urgent tones as he told the assembled crowd;
_ ~When they killed one Evers in Mississippi, they birthed
_ thousands of freedom fighters over the country.~ Evers
said that Negroes in Mississippi have awakened to two facts
which the white man can understand. ~He has learned to
keep his money in his pocket, and he has learned the power
of the ballot!~ At the greatest peril to their lives and liveli
hood, they are registering to vote. The Mayor of Jackson has -

warned that integration will never come while he is mayor.
Negroes have informed him that he will not be mayor another term. ~In about ten years all of you who left Mississippi can come home,~ Evers promised.

Turning his attention to Flint, Evers observed that in

a city of 38,000 only one Negro sits on the Board. of Education and pne on the cat Sopiiones. Bon are dy!
in: gy. 4 ney pht ae ore.

j in this sonphnallge The vote is jour

~vote. You; re a power
greatest weapon.~

With a challenge in his voice, Evers added. ~Where
does the American white man go from here? He has lost
prestige in Europe, he dare not look to Africa or the Middle
_' East, he is losing in America. He has lost Cuba and Central
America. Like all other powers in history, if he does not
change, he will crumble.~

In a private interview with the Bronze Reporter Evers
was asked what he thought of the. apparent split of Negro
Leadership. ~They are not divided,~ he replied earnestly,
~merely using different methods to achieve the same goal.
The white press tries to blow up these diflerences to cause
confusion. We are more united than ever~~!

Asked about the militant spirit in Jackson, Evers said,
humbly, ~Medger was h leader in the movement, but no one
man is responsible~it is a response of the people to the
times.

When asked how people manage when they are fired
from their jobs for registering to vote, Mr. Evers explained

that nrany Negroes are in business and able to help others.

Then, he added slowly, ~The Lord finds a way.....~

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~URBAN LEAGUERS OFF TO CONVENTION

Several Flintites will be on their way to Los Angeles
this week to the Urban League National Convention July
26 to August 2nd.

-From the Staff:

Ted Cobb, Executive Director, Urban League of Flint
and Ozie Grady, Administrative Secretary.

Representing the Board: Mrs. James Randall.

Volunteers: Mrs. Thomas Harris, 1963 Champien Saleswoman and Mrs. Wilbur Schannon.

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JACKIE ROBINSON AT QUINN CHAPEL ~

~Fhe Men~s Club of Quinn Chapel is having an Emancipation Proclamation: Banquet. Presenting Jackie Robinson,
baseball great and leader a sour principal speaker, to be
~held Saturday Evening, July 27th, 1963, at Quinn Chapel
A.M.E. Church, 2101 Lippincott Blvd., Flint 3, Michigan.
Reservations may be made by calling CE. 8-2092 or contacting any member before July capes 1963.

The Trades 'Union Losdership Council election was
held Sunday. The following officers were elected: pres:,

John nHightower, V.P., ohnny Tucker, Séc., Evelyn Tucker,

Treas., Russell Keyes, Direstor of Organization, Coburn Ferrell, Parliamentarian, Jack Turner and Sgt-at-Arms, Archie
-- Bibbs, Jr. Committees will be selected at a later date. An

ANGERS Bctic han, Reon Senene.

NAACP POTLUCK
_, The membership idcling ie tha Wile WANED Gaal 4,

Mesto obse: EOT IAI SSO te a ~

in a4
oi oy ett x

SINGLE Seed TEN CENTS: PER YEAR, $5.00

ended Fr, dune 14th with
a report of members and
$2,973.00. Mr. William Steele,
of St. Paul AME Church was
the top individual solicitor in

Memberahip seen which: | 5. Pi
~also of St. Paul, receiving~ tro

phies from Mrs, Alma Boge
who made the presentations.

Theatre, 401. Adams, corBee of Brush, Friday, August
9. Pas eat 2

pet ge

handsome~ half-leather - -bound
scrapbooks covering the career
of' heavyweight champion Joe
Louis from 1935 until 1941 have

ANN ARBOR ~ Ninty-three,

been donated to The University
of Michigan Historical Collections.

~ The notebooks illustrating the
the career of the ~Brown Bomb
' New-York, N. Y., New York
City, -known throughout the
nation as a citadel of > human

with a series of anti-segregation
demonstrations, pointing up the
city~s unhappy record in the
areas housing, employment
and school desegration.

In the Bronx, pickets have
been walking since Saturday,
July 6,.in front of the White
Castie diner at Allerton and
Boston Roads. It is~damanded
that the White Castle chain grant
equal employment opportunities
to.minority groups. At this
moment, the chain has 7 nonwhite employees (all in unskilled
jobs) in a total of 126 employees.
The petitioning is for 25- minoriemployees. The reaction to the picket lines has
astonished New York civic~leaders. Roving bands of white teenagers sporting rebel flags have
jeered and physically attacked
the demonstrators and a number
of arrests of hecklers have been

made. Pushing, spitting, kicking,
Molotoy Cocktails, and
abuse have | | the as
sault on the pickets. The lines
have grown and there has been

rights, has suddenly been rocked~

New York City Rocked,
By Sit-Ins And Pickets

path of cement trucks, have been~
arrested in their effort to halt
construction until the city: grants
equal employment opportunities to minority groups and. act
ually hires a substantial number.

of non-white workmen. The
second demonstration is. being
staged in front of the New Downstate Medical: Center,

At this site, another city-funded construction operation, pickets have been arrested for passively blocking the entrance to
the site in an effort to halt. construction. operations.

It has become more apparent
each day in New York that the
city and state must take vigorous
action to improve: employment
opportunities for lits non-white
citizens. The demonstrations are
at least bringing this issue home
to the North.

Gadsden Protests
To Resume

GADSDEN, ALABAMA ~Antisegregation demonstrations are }

io 1941. -

Joe Louis Scrapbooks To U Of M

er~ were sives by Saha Roxborough, Louis~ manager during
these years. The lead which resulted in the. acquisition came
from John~s brother, Charles
Roxborough, a penapest Detroit
lawyer.

+ Beautifully arsaied the serapbooks- consist of clippings~ from
the principal papers.of the country as well as. sports columnists~

~comments on highlights of Louis~

career. Eight of the. scrapbooks
are devoted to Louis~ fight in
1936 with Max Schmelling, Hitler~s. fair-haired boy, a German

national of Aryan descent, and.

another eight cover the second
fight with Schmelling in 1938.
In _the - first fight Schmelling
knocked Joe out;-the second time
Joe knocked out Schmelling in
the first round. The headlines~

~An Aryan gets licked~ and Hit
ler comforts Schmellings wife~|

~indicate the political overtones
of the fight. At the time of the
second tight with Schmelling,
Joe was world champion and
was defending his title.

Commenting on the unusual
donation; Kooert Warner, assistant director of the collections,
said, ~JOe was as important a
sports figure as ever came from
Michigan. One of the all-time
poxing ~greats~, he held the heavyweilgat crown longer than any
other champion. No other major
sports figure is represented in
the Collections.

Louis~ full lide was Joseph
Louis Barrow. Born May 13; 1914,
in Alabama he was one of eight
children on a small tenant farm.
He.was four Years oid when his

~| father died. His mother remarried and in 1926 the family came| rs

to Detroit to try to better their!

fortunes. Joe, who hadn~t had|
mice Schooling up to that time, |
attended. Duffield ~School in De-|
| troit. Louis~ Sister, Vunies Bar-| \
row, \received a master~s ~Gegres 4 z

'|5 OTHER CITIES
ARE INCLUDED

| HL; Bostee,

s,~ feo. Big rong ee 4

Racial and religious discrimination by private employment
agencies is ~shockingly widespread~ despite state laws forbidding bias against job ap
| plicants on grounds of creed or

color, the American Jewish Congress charged in disclosing the
~findings of a survey of 385 employment agencies in six major
cities. across the country.

More than 90 per cent of all
the agencies covered in the survey~351 out of 385~agreed to
fill. telephone requests for a
~white Protestant stenographer~
although prohibited from doing
so by state law, the group re:
ported.

- The survey Crete private
commercial employment agencies
in Detroit, Mich.; Los~ Angeles
and San Francisca, Cal.; Chicago,
Mass,; and Phila.

F Ange!

eae~ Cet in Philadetphia, according to Ephraim London,
chairman of the Commission on
Law and Social Action of AJC.
The Cémmission carried out surveys in the six cities outside New
York during February of this
year.

Commenting on the findings,
Mr. London declared:

~The fact that the agencies accepted the order without -even
commenting on its
further indicates that requests
specifying job applicants of particular races and religions. are
placed regularly by employers.~

Mr. London said the data contained ~in the survey had been

missions administering fair employment laws in _the states
covered. ~We are~ gratified, that
these commissions are making
renewed efforts to curb these
abuses,~ Mr. London declared.
He revealed that following the
Detroit: survey, _the Michigan
Fair Employment Practices Commission called a meeting of local
employment. agencies and worked out a non-discrimination agreement covering order-taking, classification, ~referral proceedings
and employer contacts.

In Detroit; 53 agencies were
called and 46 gave usable iresponses, Of these, 91.3 per cent
said they would fill the discriminatory request. Michigan has had
an anti-discrimination law covering employment since 19565.

~The AJC leader cited the example ofa Detroit employment
agency that explained, ~Our
code for white is ~IS.~~ One Los
Angeles ~agency said: ~We can-.not write ~white Protestant~ on
the request form. We would have
to say ~all-American girl.~~~ A
San Francisco agency suggested
the term ~someone to meet the
public~ could be used to evade

state anti-discrimination reirement.' One
ry in Boston replied that

enced white stenographer to fill
e job; it could not ask the
og religion since this is
| a free country.

_

e ind. ngs s ranged -
to a ay ~of 97.11. =

illegality

submitted to the various com
employment.: it could send an experi
ToGoFrom City

from the lips of the Rev. Martin
Luther King, Jr., president of
the Southern Christian Leadcrship Conference, at the Cobo.| Hall Walk to Freedom Rally, on |

June 23rd, when plays were being formulated~ in Detroit to Waik
in Washington, to protest against
racial relationships in the United States and the possible {iiduster of President Kennedy's

civil rights recommendations advanced to Congress last month.

A spokesman for ~The: Freedom Train Excursion Committee said, ~our first meeting con
July ist the District Manager,
Passenger Sales, of. the- Baitimore & Ohio R.R., gave a tentative commitment contingent upon_his consulting the traffic <ecpartment of the company: The
o.k.. came shortly thereafter.

~Dr. Martin Luther King and
the Southern Christian Leadership. Conference; Rev. Fred
Shuttlesworth of the Alabama
Christian Movement for Human
Rights and Southern Conference
Educational. Fund, CORE and
SNCC have been notified of the
Wednesday, July 17 meeting at

oat red things from ce

~camp ign Pa, ~as a lar a train
as possible from Detroit will,go
into full swing at once.~

Fel Tine Task
Force Launches

NEW YORK, N.Y. ~ Task
Force ~Workets, volunteers from
various sections of the nation,
assembled July 15 at Judson Memorial,Church for a final orientation on their summer program.
These volunteers will be working
on a full time basis in the communities of Newark, New Jersey and Bedford-Stuyvesant, in
Brooklyn, New York with the
CORE chapters in these communities. The summer program in both of these communities in which the task force will
be involved concerns:

1:; An attack on~ slum landlords with the aim of not only
preventing rent gouging but also insisting on adequate building maintenance and upkeep.
Through establishment: and coordination of tenant councils and
block units, a community structure will be advanced to pursue this community program.

2. The second phase of the~
community program will apply
direct action techniques te situations of employment discrimination. The program will focus
attention on the acute problem
of the job shortage in Newark
and Bedford-Stuyvesant. which so

shoulders of minority group workers. A special rolé in community protest will be provided: for
the numerous young people, both
~Negro and white, who have been
denied employment. -:

This effort to iieilitaie: the

~tT have a dream this after:
noon... March on Washington.
100,000 Strong~, had barely died

cerning the Freedom Train~ Excursion was held June 24. About,

Fisher ~Y~ and I am sure they ~.

far has fallen hardest on. the.

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