es Here’s Situation Same As Last Month ee My Story Fre @ adorn By PAUL ROBESON

An Open Letter to “Where there is.no struggle there is:no progress”.

Jackie Robinson 7 J NOTICE in a recent issue-ot Vol. IlI—No. 4 Sy 178 APRIL, 1953 10¢ | Mie ‘Our fos World” trunk magazine yas that toe outspoken, Certainly not many They Of our folks think share that view e like "you that the “Yankees, making many e a “buck” off

Tee Bietyn In t a an urc an fact, I know British Jail eed By ALPHAEUS HUNTON Staal Ware ftw oe ass aa Sy Kenyatta Teagues—Arkansas and Missis- Frederick Jordan and Howard African Union, is but the “legal” sippi, included. Primm of the African Metho- side of the increasingly brutal Iam happy, Jackie, to have dist Episcopal Church from been in the’ fight for real going to South Africa to pre~ ; military ed by the attacks British being in conduct- the East

I. was proud to stand with AME members there. Both assaults—through court=

fans would not only take us— Malan racists will go in their re sae } Africans who continue to dis

you, Things Jackie, about explain people trying a lot to of Churet the ban in is South given that Africa the is AME) am. | | end MEETINGS of the pass LIKE laws THIS and wanton police terror. iconvietea” along with reny~ shut up those of us who speak tiated with the Afriean Nation of seven years at hard labor, / out in many other fields. al Congress, leader of the re- Stating that “in Afriea our government is doing busl- | were Fred Kubal, chairman of ‘You read in the paper every sistance movement. ness with the white colonialists, not the African people, | the Nairobi branch of KAU and ‘These day about things “doings” are very in impor? Africa, aeiteie Tecatianeuigt in and Kenya is supporting and Riodesta,” Malan Paul in South’ Robeson, Africa following and the the British sen- | | Trade president of the East African Bee a ee arta tatody cea | Cae yee ee ia ee eee ‘Achiniy Union Ont, Concrete; eanvaltaacres Richard continent of 200 millions of Assembly sessions last Nov., in “Let us protest the jailing of the black leaders of tary of the KAU, and three folks te ocad like Goh us and Jot: ty related theses to posed explaining fun: propel why the te U.S. 4 op- UN | Kenya. Raptay Let tus us Be call Mtass upon Meee our government help iis this cone week anion to stop | other Cok leaders of the organiza= things here. Commission ae eee ap eee : , tlalaliuation” to in “study South the Atsica, ra- | | people Dur'valces who are be heard marching tn thousands iresisably of Caeerem toward freedom, ai Tet | rigs the’ deserted, OC ecu outvol-the-way IN folks SOUTH are challenging “AFRICA Malan, black {7.8 Sprague’ spokesman’ said, “My Charles government ‘A’ ||. te ths Preeiaent’is Waster ee Ps fae ‘War! eee in Kenya a ihnd of super Ku iluger’ eoppits ‘ally the Coverelgnly : ei rapes seater) tal These Africans aré refusing 10 of the great, Union of Seutn Kind Negro Americans have low him to go overseas, espe- xeNutta Poa his woteanns obey Jim Crow laws, They Africa with which it has long Ot been, welcome in South cially fh a country where stood firm and-unflinching aa Want Tap! game some freedom teeedom ke like we we Ao, d0, een been assoctatel associated In in frienaly friendly ree *e- Aftiea, Sits either unless domestic they were or oficial, serv- discrimination, there is no color bar tad and tany no the the, judge. fuses, (Manked (flanked on on. liner elther and Bee sacrifice aN for it. Malan aan» and terchange teihapes Bf of Scnvelnd travel and trade tle An And while a4 for Africans snting ans and cine other omrituas have to come Geoatwmaissee back to our guns, ene the oortaan courtroom filled ke mi with Investors would. like to shut "In talking about “steady in- 1,06, oMclal poliey was set Is a Nationalist Government Surrounded by armed miltiat) them up and lock them up. terchange “of travel” Mr, forth. three years ago by I don’t think that will be pronounced eentenes, Well, I'm very proud that Sprague apparently was think- Malan’s Minister of Labor, B. _ permitted. Meanwhile, from Mombasa these Sisters of African ours play brothers my records and ing if only ‘cabe about of the certain AME bishops whites. %- Schoeman, “T think itis who unfair said: to the The People ban Demand “against Answers ihe’ AME Cecil Sivesourgne Gregory Courier wrote (4/41/59) to the as they march in thelr pa: ig'by novmieana the frst of te Now-Europenn himoelf to als (Continued on Page 4) (Gonlguad be Page 4) des, Hr spont ‘A good a te part wank of my of time te Counc on “Atween Asta tot, Himton, geese eh Peperton on Anion Aetes, Vian Negro ge pealle Labor Cantons Pinan Council Launches Southern Drive eb gna the gon late of a arent Wiliam YMCA Hunton. 1004- soe fitai Negre tee General Labor Counell Council mapped of the. Nat out Gorchateman. Dr W. EB: of Dubois, the one Counell of «Tide Pie jane the-mlitent month for Ls labor own bodyy “Opsration whlch | ater Hie, lived. greatest We false Ameriodns funds for who; Sins Pottoniieg at improving of ‘Negro. the Workers condiicas regard and. op: i Bprammation, setront ts, moblise wep F (Continued on Page 3) pore Bris throughout, owtetn the Alten” maton pope for a. drive yp URGENT NOTICE | thousands Woe. sustont of factory. ae production Soh yobs the Sadness plate’ ea Council officers pointed out that as new nding your paper "92. or has Jan a Feb, date] | ingustries Gdopt the rigtd move sim South Crow they. hifing invariably policies Mar, ’53—your subscription} of the area, which means the total ex- has Jn expired. order to keep FREE-| ing clusion industries, of Negroes or thelr from employment new manufactur- onl New DOM NOW!’ coming in 1953 os RE- e Ree a ; : ieee pate sad pee a Cheap Labor Issue NNEC GENERAL COUNCIL members tolk over Southern drive. L. to r.: Rev. M. Fs an envelope with $1 and] | (The Association of Southern Industry Hardin, pres. Cincinnati NLC; Walter Barnett, Louisville; Oliver Palmer, Was! rend tb off recently Ree reported eat that in Mae 1952 eee industry Meany D.C, Asbury Howard, Bessemer, Ala,, natl vice-pres. of NNLC; Leroy Wilson, i St. Lous, (Continued on Page 5) another vice-pres., and Mrs. Anna S. Hardin of Ci 2_FREEDOM. APRIL, 1953 10¢ roan 1626-1953—‘Equality’ Was the Watchword ie Happened. oS SSS ‘Meanwhile the sentiment of the elective franchise. Typl- Last Month FIRST OF A SERIES against slavery had reached cal is the CAN to the New This article is the first of a such a pitch, that New York York State Convention of Ne- ad “series on the history of the finally in 1827 totally abolished groes in 1840 (two years after battle which Negroes have the institution — just’ Tour Frederick Douglass came to THE POLITICAL SCENE waged for political equality in months after “Freedom's Jour- New York City), signed by 100 Professor Henry J. Williams, America’s largest city, New nal,” the first abolitionist people, which declared: shalrman of the Vote Commis York. The sequels will appear newspaper was published in “The principal legal dis- sion of the Alabama State in each issue from now until New York City by a Negro, ability which affects us, is, the Teachers Association and also the November municipal elec John B. Russworm. deprivation of the tree exer- of the Birmingham Negro tions. For a factual background Economie Position Worsens cise in common with other Teachers Association an< of a crusade which is now men, of the elective franchise, nounced that over 60 per cent reaching new heights you may While meetings were held A free suffrage is the basis of of the 708 Negro teachers in the want to clip and keep the series. throughout the state rejoicing a free government, the safe- Birmingham public school sys at the end of slavery in New guard of a free people, the tem are qualified voters. York (the last state in the strength of the strong, the de- By FREDERICK CORNISH North except for New Jersey fence of the weak, a powerful ‘The first Negro candidate in In 1626 eleven Negroes came to abolish it), their joy was auxiliary to respectability, a Bibb county (Ga.) political fas slaves to the Dutch col- tempered with’ sorror and an- wealth, and usefulness; and Face ran third in a fleld of 16 ‘ony of New Amsterdam (later ger over the loss of the vote. just in proportion as men are contestants as William Dunn New York). Eighteen years Added to this was the pas- Frederick Douglass Geprived of this, they are put in a strong bid for city later they were freed on their sage of the Fugitive Slave Law shorn of their strength, and Water commissioner of Macon, own petition —and to the in 1850 and the Dred Scott skilled and semi-skilled jobs are. subject to. poverty, dis- Dunn polled. 460 votes to $29 struggle against slavery was deeision in 1857, which made which had been won in the, grace and abuse. for ‘Thomas Winchester, the added the fight for equal every free Negro’ in the city in course of struggle. From 1830, In 1860 a referendum was Winner. Second-place candi Political rights. danger from the slaveocrats. until the restoration of the ealled—through the consistent Gate Stuart Wind, also white, ‘When the British: took over The loss of the vote under full franchise in "1874, the agitation of Negroes and the polled 590 votes. All of Dunit New York the cruellest, forms the 1821 constitution. immedi- economic. position of the Ne- abolitjonist movement as. a Wotes were from Negroes ex= of slavery began to thrive; and ately had a deep economic as gro deteriorated rapidly. whole—to abandon the dis- cept one. by. 1604 New York's Negro well as political consequence Hardly a single meeting was eriminatory franchise, ‘The ulation — mostly _ slaves — for New York Negroes—a few

April, 1953 FREEDOM 3 _ Open Letter to Jackie Robinson aR (Continued from Poye 1) sama held good In these “And, Jacké) the success of ‘It Happene: i ee pe wht Ie atk ue < OUULed Biated Thee. ned A teeta sie en nal sapien i oniltons in Afviea — condl. see Siatiet Geet cay nation ws tate We or Ae: gee eran ah tion of oe as. tain gout ae ara as Liceccilessambibicl Last Month | tions to be compared Witt tut Americans need peace to con- grandchildren, Bee Son eee tinue the struggle for our full until our millions, won't. especially be free in (Continued' from rom Page Page 2) 2) 5 rights, And there is no need the South, have full. oppor appointments, rather than tike We bring the truth about for any gf our American youth tunity and full human dig- Kenya, for example—about o demands of the workers who man like Kenyatta, leader of @ tomb 5 be fodder used as saywhere cannon in and the nity. - make up the Reeartty party. People the Kikiyu, of centuries a proud of culture, African pom® fodder anywh ‘ se E From FIGHT my IN experience, MANY WAYS. 1 i a ppoikie st a teeta Pinon Tyeguessettirans engutte: BEES Ci High ety

nations who wanted war want- ? 8 A him “guilty” and set sentence struggles of colonial peoples, a? a a reduced to 20. as in Indo-China, Malaya, +

could clamp~down completely with war measures. (It's bad {A RIE T TUBMAN DoreNs ‘SOHATED Serves WAS SHE BY aE states, State Senator A bill Charles reduced Diggs, by eS ee Crain musemnae ce ee Siete Sete ——Detaling’ acta ot violence fee hoa certainty. thoy pelt 9 ARID THe BAU. Pa SEA RT SUB HER ating. from. IDi3, a federal ‘they saw no need f 'to die for TO ‘OF HERNEAO. SLAVERY. AS BY AN THE OveRSEeR RESULT OF Sut A BOW uns suBe ‘SDEATH NATIONAL WAS WEWS.. TREATED AS, grand a jury at Miami, tale Fla., ia re~ hes ized foreign tasen firms which thelr land, had come Zobe HECT urs TO WOKS SEIZURES OF ASA SLEEPING on Sr LINESS, a Sie, HER : seriked turned the a ragn report of lan which terror de- ber, Sarees cocoa, gold, diamonds, [NORTH QUT WRONG BUT SHE THEY COULDN'T WERE. HARRIE FORGET ESCAPED, SUWERYAND. FLEEING 5 . as “incredible"—but ingle indictment failed against to reece an luetbeoiriche SE SOON BECARE A sonDecTOR ON THE ONDER ej nee ND I HAD TO AGREE that ‘GROUND RALROAD WHERE SHE EARNED THEDAMETHOSES? the terrorists. nee’ eee it semeed to me that the (Continued on Page 4) a 4 FREEDOM © April, 1953 ‘a UN coninission was appoint peau coma ed to investigate racial condi- South Africa tions in South Africa, Not a Single meeting of the commis- It Happened sion has been held in three months; there is no indication Bans Bishops that the group plans to go to South Africa; and now Dr. | (Continued from Page 1) Ralph Bunche has asked to be (Continued from Page 3) bishops places’ three questions excused “because of other du- Negroes seeking to move squarely before the U.S. gov- ies.” Other members of the Into the previously lily-white énment, commission are Hernan Santa Northwest section of AUanta © 4. Does the U.S. govern Cruz of Chile and Henri were met with ment’s respect for the “sover- Laugier of France police inaction. The ignty” of South Africa include Was Bunche's withdrawal cently purchased by a Negro giving it the right to bar at due to the pressure of other real estate firm were burned - Will American cltizens, Negro or duties or the pressure of the IN SOUTH AFRICA, the AME Church, as well as other denamina- by race-hating arsonists, white, unless they pledge sup- U.S. delegation on the UN sec- tions, hos been on important port of the fight against the re- port of the Malan government's retariat? What are the com- pressive legislation and policies of the Molan government. Rev. ‘Though Archbishop Joseph policies? ° mission's plans? Is it going to Francis Rummel issued a pas= 2. What does the U.S. gov- make an on-the-spot investi Dr. F. H. Gow, leading AME churchman is South Africa, is shown, toral letter condemning segre- emment intend to do about the gation. If so, WHEN? We have left, at a meeting of the Franchise Action Committee colled in gation in the 160 Catholic ase of the AME bishops—es- Feceived several commu- defense of the colored vote. Others shown are: Mr. S. Pillay who churehes of his New Orleans pecially since one of the leading nications from South Africa presided, Councillor Mrs. Z. Gool, and Mr. Sam Kehn, M.P., ond Archdiocese, Negro communi Prelates of the church, Bishop asking these questions. They Dr. Y. M. Dadoo, president of the South African Indian Congress. cants still complained that B, Ward Nichols, sone of the should be answered—NOW. If they were shunted to the rear most widely publicized Bisen- Malan dares exclude the UN seats of downtown churches on Thoner supporters? commission as he did the AME meeting in Nw York on April Palm Sunday. bishops, the world ought to 20, There is no word at the UN 3. When will the U.S. gov- Know about it. as to whether the Commission Hugh Johnson, “summarily exnment speak out "against plans to go to South Africa to dismissed” by ‘the Market South Africa's racist opression? conduct its investigations. Street YMCA of Asheville, answer ‘Will Seoretary'of these questions? State He Dulles can Bellegarde in N.C,. charged. that, “certain be forced to if enough people Bunche Position Elections powerful whites prodded the @emand that he do s0—if a As FREEDOM goes to press ‘As we go to press the nation- branch's committee of manage- . barrage of telegrams and let~ al election pending in South ment into firing me,” because ters descends upon the State we learn that Dante Bellgrade, Africa is likely to have far- as co-chairman. of ‘the Bun- Department. distinguished Haitian w Teaching consequences both in combe County Committee for and historian, has been substi- terms of the form and charac- Jobs for Negroes, Johnson or- | Bunche Withdraws tuted for Dr. Ralph Bunche on ter of the South African libera ganized campaigns against dis- ‘There is another related the UN Comniission to investi- ton struggle. FREEDOM will ‘question which needs to be ad- gate conditions in South Africa, deal with the elections <1 its In an interview with the N. ¥. dressed to Lester Pearson, next issue, and in June will ‘Amsterdam News, Harlem As- President of the UN General Information from Dr. Bunche publish @ special supplement semblyman Hulan Jack ac~ Assembly and to the UN Sec- is that the Commission is (four pages) on developments cused real estate and city, state retary-General. Last December scheduled to hold its first throughout Africa. Pes nane osehe and federal politicians ' of a plot to “make small ghettos out building materials with which sack.” Of big ones.” The plan, accor he can build his own house, It ‘Once the facts are known it Facts on Africa ing to Jack, has the double- _ Kenyatta Goes not provide him with any becomes clear that no amount | Tue tacte on developments edged purpose of short-circuit food; it specifically says “No of shouting “Mau Mau” ing the growing movement for (Continued from Page'1) posho.' It restricts the crops terror” and no amount ot or | arpenys, Jin Kenya and And all all parts, parts of of adequate political representa that all of Kenya isin an he can grow on his land to British arrogance and oppres- | the Council on African Af- tion in Harlem and at the same actual state of war. Seven maize, potatoes and other sion wil settle the question ot | ye Counell om African Af- time creating small-segregated ‘thousand Africans were arrest- vegetables, It refuses to allow Kenya's future. That question | {2s 52 West 125th, Street, Pockets of Negroes in other ed in one week, a number équal him to own any cattle. ... Tt will only be settled when Kenya | is chairman; Dr. W. E. B. areas. Under It, 150,000 Harlem= to the total mimber of prison- is an agreement for 42c a week, is ruled by the brave people | DuBois, vice-chairman; Dr, ites are being moved into ers of war held by both sides seven days a week, and keep. whose country it is and when | Aiphaeus Hunton, secy. Join powerless little ghettoes in 4n Korea. Since January, when Women and children must the white settlers behave like | APhseus Hunton, secy. Join Long Island, the Bronx and General Sir Brian Robertson, work, too, and sons of 16 must guests or get thrown out for | Newsietter far aes elsewhere. ‘Commander of the British Near be prepared to work or get the wearing out their welcome, Remmi Pe aes East Ground Forces, flew to Connecticut colleges, headed Kenya to take over active com- by Yale U,, banded together to anand of the armed forces, a fight a proposal of the State buildup has been under way Civil Rights Commission for ‘Which will soon result in three Who Is Jomo Kenyatta? legislation banning diserimina- divisions of troops in the feld tion in college admissions, plus home guards, police, and JOMO KENYATTA was born lectures for the Workers’ Edu- scholarships and other opera ‘@ totally armed white civilian in 1893 in the Kikuyu reserve, cational Association, In 1942 he tions. The colleges claim there's Population His parents, who left him or- married an English woman who “no existing evil” which needs What's behind the buildup? phaned at an early age, named bore him a son. In October, correction, ‘The answer would | san Kenya 30,000 white settlers him Kamau Wa Ngengl. At the 1945, he was present at Man- seem to be, “Where there's (suhose predecessors came in Church of Scotland Mission chester, England, with Dr. W. smoke there's fire.” 1901 as “visitors” passing thru School near Fort Hall, where he E, B. DuBols, Kwame Nkrumah 0 Uganda) live as a privileged went when he was about 10, (prime minister of Gold Coast) ON THE LABOR FRONT lite. Three thousand of them he was baptized “Johnstone.” and the other 200 delegates to ‘The Iily-white status of the ‘own half the land, and all the Later in England he adopted the Fifth Pan-Afriean Con- top officialdom of the United Tichest land of the colony. The his present name gress. Auto Workers, 00, remained African is ground down under 4s a youth he learned the ‘The following year Kenyatta unchanged as Negroes were merciless exploitation in his trade of carpentry and went returned *home and entered left off all slates for executive ancestral home. to Nairobi, the capital, to work. energetically into the work of board posts and district direc ‘There in’ 1922 he identified the African liberation struggle torships at the union's Atlantic Four months ago (12/12/52) himself with the national lib- in Kenya, He became Principal City convention. Dave Moore, James Cameron, a writer for eration movement of that of the Teachers’ Training Col- speaking for five former unit the Daily Mirror, England's period, the Kikuyu Central lege at Githunguri, organized officers of Ford Local 600, elec= most widely circulated paper, Association. He served as Gen- by and for Africans in associa trified the delegates for a solid escribed the Europeans in eral Secretary of the Associa tion with the Kenya Indepen- hour as he presented a case Kenya as “a trigger-happy tion; published its organ dent Schools Association. He against the international’s ac- white minority howling for Mulgwithania, the first Kiku- then assumed presidency of the tion in removing the “Ford Kikuyu blood.” yu-language newspaper, from Kenya African Union which Five” on trumped-up_subver- And more recently another 1928 to 1930; and in the next had been founded in 1944. sion charges. But the Reuther- Britisher, Mr. L, Hale, Labor year went to London, bearing Under his leadership the KAU stacked convention voted down member of the House of Com- ‘the Association's petition for has advanced rapidly. Tt was the appeal. ‘The convention mons, described the conditions relief from the white settlers’ Teported last year to have a took a strong stand on peace, of the Africans. Addressing the expanding encroachmertt upon Jomo Kenyatta membership of 100,000 with calling om Eisenhower admini- House he said: “I have in my the Africans’ lands—the first branches in all parts of the stration to “talk it out, not hand a contract in printed of several such missions in London and wrote country, shoot it out,” and atacked form. .. . It is a contract for which he addressed the Gov- Mount Kenya (1938) a clas ‘Then came the Government ‘MeCarthy’s hysteria. three years which cannot be ernment for his people. work on African tribal life, efack-down, Several of the terminated by the worker. It After a year back in Kenya dedicated “to Moigo and Wam- KAU leaders had been arrested Clarence Mitchell, head of provides that he shall have a following his initial brief visit bot and all the dispossessed even before the Governor of the NAACP's Washington bu= piece of land not more than to London, Kenyatta returned youth of Africa.” He traveled Kenya declared a “state of reau, asked the Navy Depai two and a halt acres in extent. to England and remained away through Europe and visited emergency on October 20, 1952. meni to end segregation of At does not provide any home, from home for 13 years. He Moscow. During World War If Jomo Kenyatta was arrested employees at Nayy Yards in but does provide that the occu- studied anthropology and other he “did bis bit" for England Oct, 21 and spirited away to Charleston, §.C., Norfolk, Vay pier shall supply him with subjects at the University of as a farm laborer and gave internment in Northern Kenya, (Continued on Page's)

‘April, 1953 FREEDOM 5

Government Jails nem ‘Othello’ It Happened q Negro Woman In Harlem Last Month |

wigs Sunday, April 19, at 4:00 Peace Worker P.M,, will mark almost a quar- od / ter of a century since William A year ago Mrs. Myrtle Den- Shakespeare's “Othello” has (Continued from page 4) 4 nis made a trip to several been presented in Harlem and and all other naval establish= are

: European ments. Mifehell pointed countries as part of almost ten years since Paul out Robeson’s unequalled portrayal that Negro employees are now ‘@ group of trade unionists. of the title role in the last foreed to use separate restau Upon her return she wrote for rants, restrooms and ‘the Cleveland Call and Post an Theatre Guild Broadway pro- drinking duetion. fountains. aecount of her travels in Eng- lind, France, Czechoslovakia, ‘The Harlem presentation, a Eleven nurses at’ the muntei-

mbes concert version of the classic, Poland aid the Soviet Union. will present William Marshall pal Negro hospital in Tampa, She spoke to clubs, church as Othello and will take place Fla, sued Mayor Curtis Hixon at the Mother AME zion and the city counell. ‘They a groups, labor organizations and Church, 146 West 147 St. Others charged discrimination In pay, civic assocfations, in the cast are Jane White, “solely because of race and Many of the things Mrs. Henry Scott, Lloyd Richards color.” Dennis reported have recently and Helen Marsh, Ninety per cent of 1,229 com- been repeated by a touring

err mentalists ante tion of World War II and ere- of my true name in the multi- ‘Mrs. Myrtle Dennis has been when the N.Y, per cent; engineering, 89 per ating houses, schools, hospitals tude of other Papers they set up and is calling upon per- chapter of the Natlonal Law- ‘cent; sales, ‘and cultural centers. handled of mine.” 92 per cent, ‘A. Defense Committee sons throughout the nation for yers Guild presents its Town Last month—a year after her for support. Hall concert on April 17, ‘The Women's Committee of voyage—Mrs. Deninis, a worker the Los Angeles Negro Labor ‘and housewife, was arrested Couneil officially Taunched its and held by U'8. marshals on ‘A Pamphlet second annual Labor's Negro a technical charge of passport with the Glow of Truth’ Woman of the Year Contest on Violation. At the time of her THIS IS _MY HUSBAND, by father, a druggist in a commu- Youth Congress that made the April ist. Last year awards arrest she was ill and taking Esther Cooper Jackson. Pub- nity of poor working people; eountryside ring with its ery were given to the women writ care of her six-months-old his mother, “a gentle woman for “Freedom, Equality, Oppor- ing the best essays on the baby. Her husband, Ray Dennis, lished by the Notl. Comm. who found her greatest question, “What Discrimination international: executive board to Defend Negro Leadership, happi- tunity.” ‘Means to Me and How I Fight member of the Mine, Mill and 1660 Fulton St., Brooklyn 13, ness in doing for others,’ ‘Then came the war, service qe” ‘Smelter Workers Union and N.Y. 36 pp. 25c. ‘Then there were the tobacco in the Army, a first-hand look financial secretary of the Na- workers, thronging past the at the evils of imperialist rule ‘The Greater New York Ne tional Negro Labor Couneil, The hunted man—here is a Jacksons’ store after a long in India, and his return with gro Labor Counell was in Denver on union busi theme that runs through’ all Gay's toll at starvation pay: a strengthened yow to help called upon ‘old folk and mere children the State Commission Against ness. the Negro's"Hisfory in the Land their shoulders draped about free his people at-home. He Discrimination to “give its un- Mrs. Dennis is charged with of the Free, The first written with burlap sacks against the became a leader of the Com- qualified support and endorse- giving a false name in apply- ‘mention of Crispus Attucks—20 munist Party in the South and ment to the agreement” be- years before he died a hero- chill wind.” among the auto workers of tween the Brewery Board of ing for her passport. Denying Patrlot—was a newspaper ad- And over all—tim Crow, the Detroit. 2 Trade, the Brewery Workers

the charge Mrs, Dennis ex- vertisement urging his capture pall of a. people’ ‘oppression, In 1051 James Jackson’ was Joint Board and the Urban plained that she applied under as a runaway slave, Then a We follow young James indicted under the thought- League for the hiring of 100 her rightful name and that century later—Frederick Doug- through high school and his control Smith Act and since Negro workers in permanent “When the papers arrived I lass, fugitive slave and later a college years at Virginia Union then he has been a political production jobs. Rumors are found that several facts relat- fugitive from the slaveholders’ and Howard where he won his Tefugee: “my husband and sev- that SCAD, to which the agree ing to my birth were required, doctorate in pharmac, Abril government. Blood- eral others chose to find a way ment was referred, is contem= Dhe'ot it mtcrmation thas t Federal patrols . . . U.S, Hant student, a restless, search to continue their struggles for plating “modifications.” Mean- Si not have t sent the papers OWES» +; . county sheriffs ing spirit, it was inevitable that peace and democracy in spite while the Couneil continued its to my father in Illinois so that ++, and nowadays, the FBI, he would find his way into the Of the fascist-like law.” he could supply these facts. He ‘picketing of the Statler as part is an elderly man and through ‘This little booklet tells the student movement for peace, Esther Cooper Jackson and of its campaign for jobs and some error placed the name of story of James Jackson, a for anti-lynching legislation— her two small daughters, and upgrading in downtown hotels. my, youngest sister—there are modern Negro hero who is and into the ranks of the young her husband's family in Rich- eleven of us—on the papers, hunted by the oppressors’ Law. Communists. And it was) in- mond, have been cruelly Meeting in Denver, the exec instead of mine. When I It is the story of @ good man, evitable, too, that he would hounded by the FBI man- utive board of the Mine, Mill Jearned of the error it was too told by a good woman, his wife. turn from ‘the mortar and hunters. But she writes; “I am pestle of. pharmacy to the not to be pitied but to be con & Smelter Workers Union Jate to correct it and still leave There is the glow of truth in speakers’ platform, the union gratulated. I am proud of my pointed to the Bisenhower Ad- with the delegation.” This Is My Husband, and the hall and picket-line, husband and his colleagues!” ministration with its “Billion glow" of love, too. He remembered the aire Cabinet,” the danger of a “At no time, says Mrs. Den- ‘The narrative begins with hungry Readers of this booklet will depression “in all American nis, was there any effort or tobacco workers: he helped to be proud of James Jackson, too, industry” and the “fght-back §ntent to misrepresent any. James Jackson's boyhood in organize them. He remembered and should feel impelled to spirit spreading among work- Richmond where he was born his oppressed people of the help in the fight to repeal the ers” and said “this year, things facts in the matter, and the In 1914, We see the family that Southland: he helped organize Smith Act and win amnesty are different.” It drew up 1953 officials had plenty of proof nurtured . him: his militant and lead the Southern Negro for its victims. LLB. wage and contract demands and launched a drive to achieve them, Negro Labor Council Launches Southern Drive ‘The militant Marine Cooks (Continued from Page 1) Opening Gun, 16,000 workers will be employed, ‘Thus and Stewards union, issuing a new million dollar manufacturing plant ‘The opening gun of the Southern cam- the campaign of the Labor Counell, call for its fifth biennial con paign has already been fired in Louis which has the support of the local vention to be held in San for each working day.) j ville, Ky. There the organization's local NAACP, Urban League, church and com- Franciseo July 20, declared: ‘According to Coleman A. Young, execu- Council is in the thick of a community munity’ organizations, is for 3,000 jobs “Our strength has the the unity tive secretary of the Council, “The drive campaign to win 3,000 jobs for Negro in all categories. of all our members and offi ‘will not only open up thousands of pro- men and women at the General Elec ‘Travis Letter cials, Negro, white, Asian, duction jobs for Negro men and women trie Company's Appliance Park plant. An important part of the Louisville Latin-American. We go inte in the South for the first time in history, GE has moyed its appliance divisions An important part of the Louis- the forthcoming convention but will also force both the CIO and AFL from several parts of the country to this by Maurice ‘Travis, secretary-treasurer of with over half our officials and to deal with the question of organizing Southern border clty, set up a consoll- the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers members of minority groups millions of unorganized Negro and white dated appliance factory manufacturing Union, and vice-president at large of the and with one of our two na~ workers in the South.” refrigerators, washing machines and Negro Labor Council, to the national tional officers a Negro brother, Emphasizing the Importance of the other appliances on a 700-acre tract on Ieaders of the CIO, AFL and the inter- the other a white brother.” Council drive. for the trade unions, the outskirts of the city. Approximately national unions seeking jurisdiction at Soon after the call was issued, Young pointed out that “Through a strict 1,000 workers have been hired from the GE plant. MCS president Hugh Bryson Jim Crow hiring policy they {big busi- Louisville and the surrounding area; of Aside from Kentucky the main areas was indicted under the Taft ess] are depriving Negro workers of these 25 are Negroes, all hired” as Hartley fobs in order to insure that a cheap labor Janitors. of concentration of the Labor Couneil In act for alleged perjury its Southern drive are Alabama, South in filling out a non-communist Teserve shall be maintained in the hope Negroes are 18 per cent of the Louls- Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia. affidavit, The union's top Negro of breaking strikes and undermining the ville ‘population. It is estimated that Northern chapters are being called upon officer is Joe Jobnson, secre entire labor movement.” when the plant is completed more than {6 raise $10,000 to assist: the campaign. tary-treasurer,

6 FREEDOM Paul Robeson’s Birthday IN APRIL 9 PAUL ROBESON marked his 55th birthday. Few are the men and women of our time whose pri vate anniversaries have become so much a matter of public interest as his. This is true because throughout 'a brilliant career he has infused his every act with such love of the masses of his people, sympathy with their struggles and responsive- ness to their needs, that they count him as one of them selves and see the outlines of their future cast in his gi- gantic achievements. As is true of all great leaders he is in a sense a “forerunner’—the present embodiment of our early tomorrow. ‘Thus what in others may have been one more tale of unique individual achievement has become, in the Paul Robeson story, the confinuing chronicle of a people’s strug- gles and triumphs, personified in’ their most faithful prototype. HE GREATNESS OF HIS SINGING lies not only in the unmatched qualities of his voice, but also in the-fact that he sings the folk songs of his people, and all peoples, ‘as the folk would have them sung. His achievements as an actor rest not only on his in- “comparable “Othello,” but also on the fact that years ago hhe turned his back on a Hollywood which withheld roles that would truthfully portray his people. While others, to save their skins, would surrender our direst needs to the demands of the warmakers, he touched the deepest aspirations of his people—for peace—and bold- ly declared it unthinkable that Negroes should fight to further the aims of their oppressors against peoples who had never failed to befriend them. When, on the heels of his Paris statement, the U.S. as contribution to your out- “white supremacy” bloc and their servile dependents in our standing paper, but would like midst frothed and threatened and “disavowed” Robeson, you to use it for ten people he refused to crawl or cringe. ‘who would like but cannot, for ‘They visited Peekskill upon him, but he stood his Coast Will Help pay whatever cost required, financial reasons, buy a sub- Enclosed is a money order for Your paper continues to be a scription themselves. More ground. In the finest tradition of Negro leadership—(Tous- four subscriptions to FREE- really outstanding fighter and power to you. Saint, “The Opener,” opening new. paths to dignity; Doug- DOM. We have not yet. done I wish you further success, Mrs. L. Marcus lass, the fearless and lion-hearted; DuBois, pursuing truth as much as we must on the Caroline Paratax Canada, wherever it leads)—in this great tradition he stood his FREEDOM subscription drive; Seatile, Wash, ground. but those of us here on the Delighted West coast who do have subs Plugging in P.P. Inclosed find a money order ND THE PEOPLE, SENSING A NEW DIMENSION to FREEDOM anxiously look much First I let appreciate me say how the high very in payment for my bundle of added in the realm of Negro leadership, have responded. forward every month for caliber of the February issue 15 FREEDOMS for another he goes the people approach him—Ne- FREEDOM's inspiring message We are plugging for subs year. We are delighted with the Everywhere of peace and equality. We will through our Towa State Bulletin paper and feel it is doing a grees, white workers, youth and little children, ‘They smile, do all we can here to help make of P.P, May we run your article Bood job. We need a Negro or shake his hand; they caress him and say: “Stay ‘in FREEDOM's sub drive success- on the Puerto Riean Courts Labor Council in Portland and there, Paul, you're fighting for us.” ful. Best of luck to FREEDOM Martials? Please send us about hope the means can be found ‘The editors and staff who put out this and to the chairman of its edi- 50 sub blanks and names of all to organize same. Please excuse little paper to torial board, Paull Robeson. expired subseriptions the lateness in renewing the be an aid and an inspirer in your daily struggles. count Horace Alexander Fidna Griffin bundle order, I hope you can ourselves honored to be called upon to spread, through Los Angeles, Calif, Des Moines, Iowa send the April issue because T FREEDOM, Paul Robeson’s message. It’s Not Imagination don’t want to miss a single We seeld only to ‘The Power of Truth issue. make FREEDOM as powerful a stand- FREEDOM {s so good! I al- ‘The power of words of truth Vincent M. Howard ard bearer as he is. We seek to put it into the hands of ready got one sub. Here's $1.00, such as are contained in your Portland, Ore. the hundreds of thousands, and eventually millions who enclose me another paper with Paper are helping to free all (Note: Reader Howard cireu- know, as we do, that the people who have produced Paul the one T already get. If T could mankind from the bondage of lates 15 copies of FREEDOM Robeson cannot long be robbed of their full deliverance Yd take 100 more, The March ignorance and superstition. each month among his friends, from insult and servitude. Issue is. so inspiring. Is Ib my More power to you! With Taith If each reader would take a Are imagination progressive or my papers awakening? improv —and trusting that the new little bundle for friends exct ing?! March 5th Guardian -was world of peace and good-will month, we'd soon reach our also so good! Oh how 1 wish foward all men for which we goal of 50,000.) Unpardonable Sin I had millions to give to fight are working will soon be a discrimination, poverty and reality. How To Be a N.Y. Yankeo The Baltimore Afro-American asked whether Dr. Gene wat and its evil concommitants. Mrs. Lorena A. Naylor To be a member ‘Weltfish was fired from Columbia University because she re- Mrs, Grace Maged Vancouver, B.C., Canada Of this champion baseball {used to bow down to Senator MeCarrans’ inquisitors, or because breed, she had written a book, “The Races of Mankind, Hoboken, N.J. Pamphlet and Boo These are some ‘The book exploded the racist theories held by MeCarran and Good Start Section Urged Of the talents you need: hhis sidekick, Senator Eastland, the Afro-American explained, Tam a member of the Negro Be like Irvin adding ‘There can be-no forgiveness for those bold enough to Labor Council and chairman of Let me take this opportunity Among the highs Puncture a big hole in the bubble of white supremacy.” the subscription committee for to make a suggestion on the In collecting We agree, and we'd'like to know whether Columbia is now FREEDOM. Enclosed you will content of the paper. You Those nbs, trying to plug that gaping hole! find $5 for five subscriptions as mention in the March issue Be like Jackie a beginning of our drive. I the writings of Dougiass, a Way above would like any information or poem, and the Negro National Any second: baseman, literature to promote the drive. Anthem. On the other hand, With a bat and a glove ‘Theodore Sutton I for one would like to see a Be like Black Frederick Douglass said: Bridgeport, Conn. section of each issue, no mat- A cinch The peril and misfortune of the country ter how small a section, de- In a pinch. has been the Wants Print of voted to the theme that all Qt do a Doby deed existence among us of a privileged class of irresponsible Negro and white readers of ‘Lead in home runs despots, authorized tyrants and blood-suckers, who fasten Peace Drawing the paper should try to get In your League. upon the Negro’s flesh, and draw political power and con- I have been intending to ahold of pamphlets and books “If you can meet sequence from their legalized crimes, rather than from write to ask you if you would as often as possible on Negro Anyone of reproduce on, paper the size and history. ‘These feats, their virtues. Such a body are the slaveholders. Proud, quality suitable for framing AB, ‘The Yankee owners might grasping, ambitious, nursed in lies and cruelty, these men the wonderful picture entitled, San Frateisco, Calif, Sign you up— are fitted for their present infernal work, “For All the World's People— If you're white. Dougiass’ Monthly, August, 186t. Peace” from your December, Spreading Subs Robert Mende 1952 Issue. P would be glad to Tenclose ten dollacs not only Brooklyn, N. ¥. April 1953 : FREEDOM 7 side of Chicago or in Harlem, _ N.Y. For if he is anything at all, he Theatre Tans Enjoy ‘The Big Deal’ 4s the symbol of Wright's new ‘The problem of leadership is philosophy—the glorification of ‘one of the big questions in Ne- gro life today and it is the THE OUTSIDER, by Richard —n0thingness. theme on’ which Ossie Davis Wright, Harper G Bros, Richard Wright has been 4 has based his play N. ¥.;'405 poges, $395." avay fram home a long time, Deal The Big He has forgotten which of the Remembering Richard streets of the Southside lie . The pay is the stary of say Wileht’s Black Boy and Native south of others, an insignifi- Weatherscott (Bill Robinson), Son, certain sharp Mterary ex- Cant error, exsent that It goimta- @ popular Negro singer who is Perlences yet bang in our yp how much he has forgotten a offered a job on a major broad- minds. Experiences, etched other things. In one passage casting company. The new job hard and true by the skill of he describes in great detail means position, more fame and the young Negro writer from {he cenlemte of a eernuge ee <© & fabulous salary, And all the South. We remember, that Ana‘a stark, real’ deception Weatherscott has to do is make Whatever his weaknesses as @ it Js, But nowhere in his four » a few statements against an Wilter—he had power. He had hundred. pages can he: beine outspoken Negro leader and the ability to scoop out the filth jimselt to. deseribe—say, the read some prepared speeches and sickness of white suprem- jeauty or strength in the eyes over the Voice of America; acy and present it to his read~ Of" tng working’ peorle: af tee speeches which describe the ‘ ers realism, with And a stark we still and remember terrible forvetton, Southside. It seems that he has “free and happy” life of Ameri- how that power almost. real- ‘can Negroes. ‘zed itself once when a strong AS a propaganda piece for The. conflict begins when hint of its mighty potential the enemies of the Negro ‘Weatherscott’s own misgivings SINGER JAY WEATHERSCOTT (Bill Pobinson) tries to explain his escaped in a short story called Die, of working people and peo- of about the job are outweighed “big deal” to his wife Alice (Milroy Ingram) as his boss (Mort Bright i and Morning Star. peace, The Outsider has al- by his desire to make so much Lavnor, |.) ond reporter (Martin Slade) look on. It is 18 years ‘since Richard Teady been saluted with a ful money ‘90 so fast. fast. The TRe;author thor hi has Wright aged wonderful scenes. of (Qdllroy Ingram) a ae te that powerful werful New mass York (epreed. Times 6b vealse Sunday ay Book tae familiar rationalization, such him. who leaves . . ttle glimpse of the ‘promise S¢™, Tork Times § as" when Weatherscott_ tells Unique 4 Affair ; a human agiite'senieveat struggle. And Ruenae now Supplement has been himself and hig friends All of this i: werful and ‘eg! ol to the trash OF} hey are Jealous of ‘his good that ellevable enough. ae To Aid Africa — xichara Wright’ nas ‘written Pointed to the trash, category fortune But one en ne ane Tae Outsifer! fortune. He tells ells them them that that questi juestions the conversie unique ne or 1 oe 20-53), which. ae summed ithe ) they are “typical Negroes,” al- Weatherscott Pa at the end aia of the eee Poultice eiatarse aren Wiel Odlaider dah cfory of %, book upratninls atid Aecurabater ways pulling down a fellow play, ment will take place Thursday sheer violence, death and dis- almost psychopathic when he is succeeding, Besides, evening, April 23, when the Eusting spectacle, written by a ust Tor violence gets the better he tis argues, really an his advancement taking the job for The One Big of the finest things about. North Star Player present “A Msn whe has seemingly come fhm in this second novel and Deal is the performs Milestone on the Road to to despise humanity. ‘The hero. his story becomes as completely. 4 ~ thence ce” He corm be: ance of Bl Rebieon” nat a Sat" culfaral recepion m8 Cress Damon, a twentj-sx phony and neal cheap | lieve it any more than his real Little Simple, Swan Song, Gold honor of the distinguished his- Year old Negro postal clerk on drugstore whodunit, 7% Me counterparts believe t, but Throvgh the Hrees), This young Flan, Dr. Herbert aptheker, Chicago’ Southside. For 43 such is the pronouncement __ the Job and the money are'real actor Isa brillant and well , The program will take place at Pages Wright describes, Da- on "Negro Ameria's onetime “3. inducements that’ make him trained ariist_who knows the 8D. at the Royal Manor Ball- ™on's deterioration into a Most etomisine iter. Richard want fo believe it. And so he character of Jay Weatherscott 700m, 167th Street & Broadway, drunkard who leaves his wife Wrignt is correct in one thini TIF accepts the job. Spell na niga, Dlln teapot wl datare gcemaptianony) $5 SOUdcgn hi get ATA vita ‘Soil AB ontalde, he i oulcarh ¢ ‘ €* — That's when the other force Documentary History of the ders one of his best friends, prutality An Negro life enters the soe, Particvlatly outstanding also Necro ‘People an are United fakes a new ideniity and mur negates’ the. and nothingness; reality of our he First he loses the friendship of Alye.Weix in the role of the \ States.” Gers three other people and struggle for freedom Dis relatives, and then old Weatherscott’s maid, The play Miss Alice Childress, the out- #Rally winds up being shot in Works energetically, in and bebalt yet friends insult, him, and then ig directed by Julian Mayfield standing actress, playwright the streets by some grotesaue of our oppressors; he as lost the maid who works in his and produced by Stanley Green Nd FREEDOM columnist, is chAracters who are supposed to his 4 house tells him what own dignity and destroyed working Negro woman, she, thinks a for New Playwrights Inc. and director ers “ricyets, of the at North $1.20 Star each, Play- may PANY. Pe agents And of that the Is the Communist story. is right talent, and morning He has star—but lost the GP of him—and finally he loses 18 running at New York's Yugo- be" secured’ at 54 West 125th Cross Damon fs someone you the ‘Negro. people have. not, <4 Weve and vespyer ofa wi sla-Americn Home Their, Sh, or by phone wt LO OH, wi never melon te South un.

? Stories for Childten: Ida Barnett Fought for Equal Rights ‘One day in March, 1898, a group of con- supposed to handle such things, Keak Sogrer, 7 i gressmen were ushered into the office of Wil- thing they could to stop lynchi iam McKinley, who was then President of the But the President aid mot tell the truth, be- * United States, cause he did not do anything and the Depart- he group was led by a famous Negro ment of Justice did not do anything, and Negro woman whose name was Mrs, Ida B, Wells- people continued to be murdered throughout spe Barnett. She and the congressmen had been the country. | sent to see the President by the Negro people And Mrs. Barnett continued to write and to - #~ of Chicago. These were the times when ter- speak against lynching. She had once been the rible crimes of murder called lynchings, were editor of a newspaper in the South, the Memphi Being committed against Negroes all over the +Free Press. The stories and articles that Mrs. 6 country. So in Chieago they had called a great Barnett wrote in her paper-against lynching mass meeting to protest, and the people had and discrimination made those white people elected Mrs. Barnett to go and present their who ‘mistreated Negroes .so angry that they _. ¢omplaints to the President, formed angry mobs outside of her office and One of the congressmen, whose name was her home and threatened her life. But Mrs Senator Mason, introduced Mrs. Barnett and Barnett was truly a brave woman, and once she stepped forward and spoke to the Presi- she bought two pistols and wore them through dent. Even though she was quite angry about the streets of Memphis, and continued to write the murder of her people, she spoke calmly and her articles. clearly and told the President exactly what the Years later wherever there was a meeting Negro people expected him to do to put an or an organization being formed to fight for end to lynching. She told him that more than the rights of the Negro people, Mrs. Barnett 10,000 people had been killed/by lynch mobs © was there, since slavery was abolished 33 years earlier. For a long time she toured the country lee- She said that the United States government had turing for equal rights for all people and her always made statements against other coun- writings appeared in many Negro papers and tries for treating their citizens badly. Then magazines until she was known as one of the “she asked why the President and the govern- most outstanding leaders of the anti-lynching _ ment didn’t make laws which would punish movement. People who committed such terrible crimes Today in, the city of Chicago, on the South- right in our own country. Mrs. Barnett said, side, there is a big housing project covering _ “We refuse to believe this country is unable many blocks, where hundreds of Negro families to protect its citizens.” live. This project is named in memory of this ‘The President listened and promised. that. great woman. It is called-the Ida B. Wells he and the Department of Justice, which is Homies,

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Civic Worker - Playrights Company Ast Annual Charity Bazaar A Conversation from Life ally ‘The from_9:00 Week of April sm. 15, Ausplees: 1953 By ALICE CHILDRESS see presente... Mourned in “THE BIG DEAL" RITUAL CHURCH ‘Let him live his life’ By OSSIE DAVIS Rey. 134 W. Mother 20th Lena St, ADL Stokes, 8, N.¥.C. Pastor [_Marge, life just brims over thing In ‘this world rd_want Motor City Produced by Stonley Greene Bonstion: 80 Gents, with first one thing and then to do”... I felt like 1 was Directed by Julion Mayfield another, and if you throw all pickin’ on him somethin’ ter- troubles in a bag, there's ible but I went on. .... “Then Yugoslay-American Home 5 your no tellin’ which one will jump why don't you. listen to her?” JO BANKS out first. . .. No, I didn't have He held his head in his 405 W. Ais Sty N.C. «) ‘Crea another run-in with the rent hands for a minute and then Bet, 9th & 10th Aves., man, ... It’s my sister. . he started talkin’: “Aunt Mil- Performances every Wed, 6457 Cottage Grove Ave. Listen fo me Marge, and stop dred, I want to be free. Are Chicago 87, 1, ‘erochetin’ that dolly. . . . Oh, we tree, Aunt Mildred?” , 5 is Ita chairback? . . . Excuse Well Florence kept. lookin’ ‘for ‘Admigsion $1.20 & $180 Phone: MU 4-7365 me, I thought it was a dolly. me to say somethin’ so after Curtain time 8:40 pam, No, I don't want you to I thought for a while 1 sald— For Theatre Parties call Portraits, Photo documen- teach me how to make one “No”—And then I asked her 106-0058 between 6 10 Dm. tories on assignment, com- Yeause I got other things on ‘Are we free Florence?” And Waten newspapers for spectal mercial photography of my mind. she answered . .. “I don't want peviormances, cll. kinds. Now where was I?.. nothin’ or nobody to hurt “S right! My sister. . Bubba that's all.” me up today and says “Mildred, He was most distressed Marge I want you to come over and and the words poured out of talk to Bubba ‘cause he's after his mouth so fast, but I re- ~ PHOTOGRAPHY getting himself in trouble.” member every one of them: Bubba is her son—his name is “Aunt Mildred, I don’t have to DETROIT—Members of Free- LESTER DAVIS John, we just call him Bubba, tell you about our troubles— dom Associates of Detroit DOCUMENTARY — COMMERCIAL — PORTRAITURE ‘Well, I jumped over there- you know—we're lynched and thelr organizational sec- 94 E, 43rd St, Chicago, ML, Phone: OAkland 4-6711 on the fly 'eause I'm just crazy bombed and. segregated joined retary Mrs. Mattielee Hawkins about my nephew. shut up, and mocked. . 1 We in mourning the passing of her Marge, the long and short been hurt, bruised, threatened mother, Mrs, Elizabeth Logan of it was that Bubba has been and murdered and our pride's Saunders, who was for many JAMES WATTS ‘mixin’ in politics and things. been trampled... years an active business woman DISTINCTIVE PHOTOGRAPHY ‘You know what I mean, “Go on son,” T said. His voice and elvle worker in the Motor _ Home Portraiture — Documentary — Commercial Shoutin’ about civil rights and was loud and clear... “Aunt City. Mildred, T cannot do the popu- Mrs, Saunders was buried on ‘A Phone Calls Brings A Photographer lar thing. ... T cannot close my February 21, from St. Stephens 4, 13595 Riopelle, Detroit 3, Mich, TO 5- eyes, ears and mouth and AME Church. In 1947 she re- swallow down my own man- ceived a 25-year citation from + hood,...T cannot join the the Michigan Corporation and CAMP MIDVALE chonis of ars_singin' out ‘All Securities Commission for her MIDVALE, N. 3. Terhune, 5-1260 is well’...1 cannot crawl excellent work in the real ‘A cooperative, interracial camp. Only 35 miles (1 nt.) from § around in Jim Crow and be estate field. 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If we'd of done our living and intercultural unity in a democratic Mildred!" work this child wouldn’t have environment, ‘Marge, Florence began to ery. to do it for us now... . I tell For information write or call: "I know all that but ther you, there's a great burden on 1 Union Sq. W., Rm. 408, New York 3, AL 5-6283 oifiers wiser than you. . these little children we see We have a number of postions open for counselors 18 and over Bubba cut her off .. . “Mamma, playin’ in the streets... A they are mealy mouth liars! burden. . . . And lis cow~ Fear has put the smiles on ardly Great for us to dump it on sendin’ off petitions and their faces, fear has turned them, ... I declare it is. preachin’ against. war and their blood’ to water. .... You earryin’ signs and Lord only know I'm tellin’ the truth! -San Cristobal Valley Ranch Knows he don't think nothin’ Soon Tl be grabbed up against ‘Time to put your FURS im — Interracial — of criticlzin’ anybody's govern- my will... . They say it's to ment any time! .. . Sure you fight for the “freedoms” of COMMUNITY NIGHT RIDING FISHING COOK-OUTS can* go to jail for that! ... others... . Well, it's a poor TRIPS TO ‘That's what my sister was so plece of a man that won't fight Ickes and" stolee” at money” INDIAN PUEBLOS & FESTIVALS worried about! for his own freedom!” } _. saving prices. New Feature: Housekeeping Cabins for Rent Well, T sat Bubba down and “amen” I said... . Florence why wt Some In-and convince I says: “Bubba, why don’t you spoke up softly. ... “know... For Information and Reservations write: Behave and stop worryin’ your Tknow, I just don’t want to see Max Kuperman—Furs Craig and Jenny mother?” Marge you should of you hurt, Bubba.” 214 W. 20th STREET Vincent, San Cristobal, New Mexico seen him. . . . He started pacin’ ‘And Marge, that lovely the floor and when he stopped young man gently put-his arms BRyant 9-9138 N.Y. 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