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THE OHIO INFORMER Vol THE OHIO INFORMER Vol. IX—No. 21 AKRON, OHIO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 22. 1955 Price, 10c State Department Invites Tucker To Visit India As Goodwill Speaker CANTON—Sterling Tucker, ter's degree from the Univer­ vice Council and Board of Di­ St. Paul's A.M.E. Church of serves as a vice-president of executive director of the Can­ sity of Akrosi. He has taken rectors of Central B o y s' Canton. He also serves as a the Executive Secretaries ton Urban League, has been additional work in economics, Branch of the Young Men's member of the Board of Stew­ Council of the National Urban invited by the Department of community organization and Christian Association. Tucker ards at St. Paul's. League. State to visit India for three industrial race relations. is a member of the Canton He has served two years ds Tuckpr is married to the for­ months beginning next July. IN CANTON he serves on and U. S. Junior Chdmber of president of the Industrial mer AUoyce Robinson of Ak­ The purpose of the visit will the Mayor's Committee on Hu­ Commerce and heads the Lit­ Secretaries Council of the Nor ron. They have one child, be to present a true picture man Relations, Mayor's Com- erary Forum Committe of the tional Urban League and now Michele Alloyce, age 4V^. of American life and to pro­ miitee on Housing Rehabili­ mote mutual understanding tation, Canton Sesqui-Centen- betv\reen our country and In­ nial Committee, Board of Di­ dia. rectors of the Community Ser- THE AMERICAN EMBASSY, in cooperation with various CANTON MAYOR SUPPORTS NAACP—Among the first to Indian organizations, will ar­ Add M0,000 To Fund join, the NAACP as the Canton Branch opened its annual member­ range for Tucker to speak be­ ship drive was Mayor Carl Wise. Here he is seen giving his check fore Indian colleges, social work agencies and civic or­ to Mrs. Elsie Early chairman of the membership drive, Looking on ganizations while on this as- is Charles D. Moore, Canton NAACP president. The drive was offi- sionment. To Aid Miss. Victims ciaUy opened last Saturday night with a meeting at the Phillips Sterling Tucker hos been Chapel CME Church, of which Rev. J. B. Harris is pastor. Donald an Urban League staff worker Jones, Cincinnati, regional secretary of the NAACP, was the prin­ for ten years and has served cipal g^ker. The drive will be in progress for two weeks with Mr. as the executive head of the Jones remaining'in the Canton area to supervise the campaien. Canton affiliate for the past Of 'Credit Squeeze' two years. $8.000,Cift By Masons Used To In 1952 he served on spe­ NEW YORK—A total of stantial deposits in savings individuals and institutions cial assignment with the Na­ $40,000 m the first week has accounts so that the Tri-State that have millions of dollars tional Urban League, where been deposited in the Tri- Bank will have the money to he did special research and State Bank of Memphis as the handle applications for loans lying in banks all over the Form New Department )rogramming in the field of result of a special effort from Mississippians. A mini­ nation," Wilkins said. "If fndustrial Relations. spear-headed by the National mum of $500,000 is being they will send only part of He is a native of Akron and Association for the Advance­ sought. t i their funds to the Tri-State To Assist Integration holds a bachelor's and a mas­ ment of Colored People to Mississippi homeo w n e r s, 'Bank the vicious and unfair NEW YORK—In an effort to ence Department will be guided by help rescue Mississippi Negroes assist Southern states in the from the "credit squeeze" im­ businessmen and farmers are Mississippi squeeze will be a committee of consultants con­ being denied credit by^ white licked and our people in the change-over from segregated to sisting of many of the nation's TO BE HONORED—J. R. E. posed upon them by white fi­ non-segregated schools, NAACP Lee, Jr., busines manager of banks in an effort to force leading social scientists, and head­ nancial institutions in the state can save their farms, Legal Defense and Educational ed by Dr. Alfred McClung Lee, Florida A and M University, and state. them to accept segregated homes and businesses. schools and to cease trying to Fund has established a new So­ chairman, Sociologoy Department- founder of the famed Orange Blos­ cial Science Department, Thurgood som Classic, will be honored by ADMINISTRATOR Roy Wil­ register and vote. They are be­ "The NAACP feels sure that Brooklyn College, Marshall added. kins announced that t h e ing turned down if they be­ Marshallj director-counsei of Legal the 100 Per Cent Wrong Club— in a few weeks between Defense, announced this week. an organization of Atlanta foot­ $20,000 of its reserve funds in long to the NAACP or sympa­ $500,000 and $1,000,000 can Akron Youf-h Council NAACP itself had deposited thize with its program.. The new department, Marshall ball enthusiasits at their 20th an­ be made available through said, will make available to edu­ nual banquet and jamboree on Jan. the Memphis bank, and that Gives NAACP $50 SMALL BUSINESSMElN are -the Memphis bank for loans. cators, school officials and civic 28 "for his continued interest in the Detroit Metropolitan Mut­ Deposits are insured up to ual Assurance Company and being asked ior cash on de­ organizations, findings and mate­ The Akron Youth Council of the athletics and promotion of the $10,000 and loans will be rials of social science which will NAACP was one of several or­ 'Classic'." Edward Kivie Kaplan of Bos­ livery of goods. Banks are re­ ton, Mass., had each depos­ fusing to refinance farm mort­ made on a strictly business a'd desegregation programs. ganizations and individuals who ited $10,000. Checks should gages or to advance money basis to those who satisfy the The new department is made contributed funds to the National Washington Bus Firm be made payable to the Tri- needed to start a new crop. bank's requirements. We are possible by an $8,000.00 grant office of the National Association from the Prince Hall Masons, Mr. for the Advancement of Colored To Hire Negro Drivers State Bank of Memphis. The Negro nrofesisonal men are asking that depositors men­ addres<5 is 386 Beal a. Dr. I. on a C.O.D. basis for suDolies tion the NAACP in writing to Marshall disclosed. The Masons, People during the month of De­ WASHINGTON—Negro drivers E. Walker is president. and some are havina their in­ Memphis so we can know during the past three years, have cember. will soon be used on buses and surance cancelled. Bier white how rapidly we are reaching contributed more than $64,000.00 The Akron unit, directed by Vir­ street cars in the nation's capital. The NAACP is oddresslnq Dlantation owners are forbid- to underwrite legal research which ginia Allen, contributed $50. The our goal. Prompt action is was an important factor in the total amount received during De­ The Central Transit Co. has an­ appeals to «sll Negro insur­ dina their Nearo tenants to go neded since farmers are now nounced it is adopting an employ­ ance comncmies. basitks, fra­ to Negro doctors and tentists. preparation of the cases presented cember was $25,279.88, according ment policy without racial consid­ seeking funds to finance their before the Supreme Court, he said. to a finance report made public ternal societies, and intexest- 1955 crops." STEBLING TUCKER erations, effective immediately. ed individuals to make sub­ "This is a challenge to Negro THE WORK of the Social Sci­ this week by the national office. Federal Court Hears Housing Case Giant Building Company And FHA Agents Face Jim Crow Charges PHILADELPHIA—^The long-awaited discrimination suit County development as early as 1951 when he opened his velopments in Philadelphia from discriminating against against Levitt & Sons, Inc., the world's largest builders of first model home and the others as late as June of 1954. Negroes. private homes, has reached the Federal District Court. WHEN THE LEVITT'S Bucks County community is This action was brought by Legal Defense attorneys in The legal action against the builders and developers of completed, it will consist of 16,000 small homes which will, behalf of J. Ralph Pearson, his wife and other Negroes Levittown, Pa., and Levittown, Long Island, was brought be sold to individual purchasers. The mortgages on these who have been refused apartments in FHA mortgage in­ in a complaint filed with the U. S. District Court of East­ homes are either insured by the FHA or guaranteed by sured developments. The Pearsons were refused an apart­ ern Pennsylvania by attorneys for NAACP Legal Defense the Veterans Administration. ment in the Olney Gardens project at Chew and Wister in behalf of six Negro veterans who were denied the right sts. by the renting agents. The suit against Levitt also seeks an injunction restrain­ to buy homes in the new Bucks County, Pa., community In the complaint, the attorneys ask that all mortgage developed by Levitt. ing Levitt from refusing to sell to Negroes on the ground that Levittown, Pa., is, in reality, a town and Le\itt's insured housing developments in the City of Philadelphia The legal action seeks an injunction restraining the be restrained from barring a person because of race or policy^ of barring a person because of race or color is a firm of Levitt & Sons, Inc., from discriminating against color, Negroes in the sales of homes in the Pennsylvania com­ violation of the Fourteenth Amendment and the statutes of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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