Bronze Reporter [Volume: 10, Issue: 5]

VOLUME 10~NUMBER 5

Aint News Briefs~

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Mr. William Weatherford, Rev. S. A. Mitchum, and Mrs.
Herman Gibson greet Jackie Robinson at =e Airport |
in Flint.

CALLS ON NEGROES TO ~FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT~

Speaking at~an Emancipation Proclamation Centennial
Banquet at Quinn Chapel last Saturday, Jackie Robinson,
former baseball hero, called on Negroes in-Flint to ~join
in, and fight the good fight,~ lest we let our children down.
~We are in the most critical period~ he stated. He gave
recognition to Negro leaders, he urged more~selectiye buying, boycotts, and urged Negroes to spend
where they can have equal opportunity at a job. ~

Mr. Robinson told of an incident when he was asked
why he bothered to get into the integration struggle which
might damage his popular image witth the Ametican public. ~You have it made~~,, he was told.

No Negro ~has it made~~~ until every Negro in America is accorded FULL RIGHTS.~ He said that: ~As soon
as a Negro accumulates a few worldly possessions he is
apt to think he has it made and is inclined to disassociate
himself from the ~problem~. He pointed out that Lena

Horne, Nat King Cole, and Willie Mays, famous d weal: |: n-subjected to 1 serim-:}\;

thy as
ination.~ *
Mr. Robinson deplored the~ fact that only 45% of
the people in Flint are registered to vote. ~We are the
balance of power~ hestated, ~Let the politicians know
that you do care.~~ Dr..E. G. Rodgers chaired the banquet
with his usual good humor. He welcomed ~city dignita
are,~

ries~ whom he stated ~included every one present~. He

introduced Jackie Robinson to the many children present
as all the adults in the room were already well acquainted with the famous.baseball star.

Floyd McCree received a warm ovation as he) presented the key to the City of Flint to Mr. Robinson in the absence of thhe previously-committed Mayor Poulos.

Mrs. Marjory Robinson brought a hush to the audience with her moving rendition of ~My Hera~.

Interviewed at the airport by the BRONZ REPORTER Mr. Robinson stated that he believes the current unrest among Negroes represents a moral awakening. He
feels that the Negro Church has now come to the front.
On his recent trip to Birmingham, Ala., he found the. Negro there as determined as ever to achieve ~freedom now.~
He sees. some awareness of responsible citizens and business leaders in Jackson, Miss. that segregation must go.
Mr. Robinson is in complete agreement with the planned
demonstration in Washington. He stated that ~If a filibuster develops, we can~t just sit idly by. My entire family |
and I intend to pares,~

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OPERATION ~TALENT BANK~ URBAN LEMCUE PRO.
JECT UNDER WAY
The Flint Urban League has initiated an exciting new; program ~Operation Talent Bank~ under the direction

of Willie Packer who is a Western Michigan student doing
field work at the Urban League.

The idea behind ~Talent Bank~ is to corral the potential of Negro Youth by finding out what their aims and
aspirations are,- finding out whether these goals are realistic, and following up with a person-to-person ~counseling program between the youth and an adult in the young
person's chosen field.

This is accomplishhed through interviews with young
people at twenty participating churches. They are asked
such questions about their job aspirations as; if you could
have any: job you wish, what would you choose? What
would you need to do to achieve this? What are you doing? What would you like to do?

An important factor in this project is to determine
the moral of the students involved. The student rates a

~series of fifty jobs according ta whether he conainers it |.:

excellent, fair, or poor.

When it has been determined what
will be ~apprenticed~ to some one wo}
who. will take a special interest

Further interviewing of
Thursday. August 1, 1963 a
Church, 1083 East Stewartof the church who have not yet t ia tate
vited to be at the neha 5:0 Fa.

ig goals are he

their Lami

Intergroup ~Relations: officers of Region IV, Housing

who attended a week~s confer
and Home Finance Agency,

ence in Wasttington to be

~employment. From left to
right:: William E. Hill, Howard D. Roberts, DeHart Hubbard, Napolean P> Dotson.

sibilities
Executi
opportul it r

thelr new ~respon: |
tinder the President~s
Orders on equal
in housing and

A war of utmost ferocity is

in Africa. For more ~than two
years, now, the impoverished
dictatorship of Portugal ~ has
tried to contain a rebellion in
the northern province; Angola.
The death toll, which rises daily, has passed 75,000; more
than 225,000 refugees have fled
to the nei; Congo.

For Angolan rebels, this has
been <a shoe-string ~war. Initially, rebels" fought with.mai ~te 4 oje

irom the

1962, rebel- leader Holden Roberto announced the arrival of
the first shipment of arms from
Algeria. Today, Angolan natiohalists have been given a

modern training base by the
Congo Government and are beginning to receive arms formerly used in the struggle for
control of Katanga. The Portugese have most modern weapons at their disposal, including planes and helicopters. Portugal receives weapons ~from
the United States under~ the
NATO agreements. Some shells
recovered from sites in Angola
indicate that American supplies
have been used for suppression
of the Angolan revolt.

Primary victims of the war
have been the African peasants.
Some sections of Northern Angola are practically uninhabited
today. Portuguese planes and

sands of peasants in attempts to
flush out partisans. Others are
perhaps more fortunate in being held in the newlybuilt eoncentration camps in the Cape

have sprung up on the Congo
side of the border.

Many Angolans, deeply attached to their land, secretly
slip across the border to take
care of their gardens. A number
have been killed and wounded
by hidden land mines placed in
the jungle paths vy tae Portuguese..

Little aid comes to the refugees from the~ outside worid.
A handful of missionaries ~expelled~ from Angola pride,~
what relief they can.~
these is Dr.- Iro Gil ris
in Angola, now
the auspices
Relief to

stillet r

iat

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- Death Tol |

being waged by a NATO. power} |

arms slain or)
~defeated Portuguese.~ Early in|

land patrols have killed thou-|.

Verde Islands. Refugee villages!

gs before the foun ~Conkernties: on ~Altheha
ee on Foreign rela-unity agreed to give: all possible}
5 = to the rebel: Htensive.

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Applizations must pa pein ~by the. Michigan Civil.
~Service Commssion no later than 5 p.m. August 5, 1963.
Positions in this class are located in various institutons neil the ~state.
~ DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS.
EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION: Completion of the
eighth school grade.. LAUNDRY WORKER B - School for the Blind; School
for the Deaf;. Veterans Facility Social Welfare; Mental
Health; and Health.

NOTE: ~Additional credit will be given for paid laundry experience.
CLERICAL POOL SUPERVISOR |
to $236.80 *
~ FINAL DATE OF ACCEPTANCE
Applications must be received. by the- Michigan Civil
Service Commission no later than 5 p.m. August 5, 1963.
Positions. in this class are located in ~ Pontiac, and Detroit: |
DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS
EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION: Four years of office. experience, preferably involving typing and/or shorthand, including one year of supervisory experience, and
*graduation from high school. ae
HOUSEPARENT. B ~$158.40 to $183. 20
FINAL DATE OF ACCEPTANCE: Applications must be received by the Michigan Civil
Service Commissio#-no later than 5 p.m. August 12, 1963.
Positions in thig class are located in the Michigan
School for the Blin 7 Epnelng and. Michigan School
for the Deaf in Flint. ~
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
AGE: You must not be under 21 years nor have
reached youf. 56th bithday as of August 12, 1963. ~
AGING COMMISSI REPRESENTATIVE ll.........

- $220.00 eo an

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$191.20

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AL DATE OF scenes.

___ Appl must be received by the Michigair iyil
ce Commission

no later than 5 p.m. August 5, 1

NEW YORK~Children: as
young as two years old were

taining more construction

y police.

ildren in answer to a Team
ears a agé, sat down in front
f a dump truck trying to enter
construction site of the Downte Medical Center in Brooklyn?
They were picked up by poce and taken to a megeinict staOA. 4)
| The children looked 6n appresensively as police. approached,
em, but broke into grins when
~they were B ccs lifted into unb Cars, - of the

eries at construction sites.

~We will not ally ourselves
with frustrated malcontents who
get emotional kicks by throwing
themselves in front of trucks,~
he-said..

The children, however, blocked the~ truck for several minutes

| until police could clear ~the en
trance.
~Naturally, we are not order
~| ing our dfivers to run anybody

down, particulaly childen,~ a
a Teamsters spokesman said,
The demonstrators demand

Jewish Community
Aids Rights Drive

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS ~ Lead:
ers attending the National Cath-Olic - Conference for Interracial
Justice were told there today
that the. American Jewish Community has developed a. ~sense
of urgency~ in actively aiding
the Negro drive toward achieving
equal rights.

In a prepared address as the
representative of the Jewish
community, Rabbi Balfour Brickner, Director of the Commission
on~ Interfaith Activities of the
Union of Hebrew American Congregations, told the Catholic
Conference that ~While many
~Christians~ and~ ~Jews~ did not
and do not like having the precepts of their faith hurled so
realistically into their faces, especially by colored people, so
os nthe movement maintain
cleafly religious tone,
ooo thes who opposed to it
| could find no legitimate basis for

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used to, block trucks Tues*}
day in a. continuing racial]
| demonstration aimed at ob
jobs for Negroes. Eighteen |
oungsters were carried away |;,

~| Demonstrators used th @| ~Tuesday

tah

shots sprayed
Albany office of.an~ integration
organization Teneaay Two~ workers, asleep when ~the shooting ~

+but were ~Gaelile to identity the, assailants.

Perdew said a detective from: the Albany Police Department

investigated the scene of the
shooting later in~ the morning,
about, 9:30 a.m. Perdew added
that. he would ask for police
protection.

Last September, field workers were injured when whites
shot into the home of a woman
in Terrell County. Jack Chatfield, a white student from Trinity College, was shot twice in
the arm about 45 minutes after \
he came to Southwest Georgia.
An English student, Chris Allen,
was also injured,

Last summer, four Negro
churches were burned fo the
ground in apparent sauicledt
against a voter registration drive.

In the past month here, 22 workers, including. Charles Sherrod,

project director, have been arrested, on a variety of charges.
Six workers ~remained in a
church for over a week when
their arrest ~seemed imminent.
They appealed to Governor

Carl E. Sanders to ~lead us out

of this sanctuary and accompany us as we go into the community~. to urge voter registration? 3

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Atlanta Judge
Orders 101 To
Face Grand Jury

ATLANTA, GEORGIA ~ Ful-.
ton. County bp Mabon Court
Judge Durwood _T.. Pye has or
dered Solicitor. Bill
Boyd to prepare ~ for presentation to a grand jury ~ in
dictments on 101 arrests resulting from sit-in cases dating
back to November, 1961.

The Judge~s~ order listed
tie, of persons arrested,
vioiations are ai
ge a al; son