THE SOUTHERN COU \ 'L II, \0. Weekend Edition: February 12- 13 , 1966 TEN CENTS Federal Judges Rule: Lowndes Must Mix urles;•
omen to Serve as urors BY ROBE RT E. SMITH MO~TGOMERY--Alabama law says that the Southern lady may not serve on Ju Mobile Negro Leaders Press ries. Local practice in Lowndes and other counties keeps the ~egro man off ju ries. In 15 typewritten pages. a three-judge federal court ended all of that this week. They ordered Lownc es to throw out its entire list of names in the "jury box" and Registrars to Speed Up Lines start over again witn a list that includes a fair number of Negroes. B\ DAVID R. UNDEHHILI most of the timl'. And, in the same opinion, they declared that women have a right to serve on ju
"I aln·t got nuth!n' to sa~ aboot any ries in Alabama. MOBILE--For the sec thing," said bead rl'glstrar Jesse Mc ond time in five months. a Connell when a reporter tried to ask him After June of next year. they said, Remember Them? Alabama's law allowing only male ju Negro voter registration about extra clerks. McConnell's comment appl1edalsoto rors is of no effect. drive has made people ask a letter written to him last week by John The Southern lady and the Negro mB;n
whether federal voting Lenore of the Non-Partisan Voters pictured here first appeared with a re examiners are needed League. Leflore's letter listed three port about the written arguments pre here. addltlonal problems:
A drive in September and the current 1.) Many working peopll' can't get to sented to the federal judges. In it. lawyers for Lowndes
one, which started In mid-January, have the oftlce to register by the 4:30 closlRg county residents compared the way women--whlteandNe
made leaders and registration workers time. gro--and all Negroes were excluded from jury dUty in that
claim that thp local registrars are not 2.) Registration only at the court county.
40lng their jobs properly. house In downtoVin Mobile Is Incon No Negro has e\'el served on a jur, in l.owndeb Count\ .
On the heaviest days of the September venient for man} people. with the exception of grand Juries (which decide onl}
drive and 01 the presentone.manypeo 3.) The tax collector's office Is not whether a person is to be charged with wrongdoing).
pIe who stood In line for hours outside open on Saturdays and so people who The judges said Monday. "Jury duty is atorm ot partici
the registraUon office dldn·t get 10 by register on Saturdays can't pay their pation In the processes of government.aresponsibihty and
clos1og Ume. poll tax at the same time. a right that should be shared b} all citizens, regardless ot Negro leaders pointed out1oSeptem. The board replled If ••• It will be ut sex." ber that one third of the office was not terly impossible to meet (your) re Only South Carolina, MISSissippi, and Alabama have all being used. They asked that the board JOHN L. LEFLORE ques!," hire enough clerks to keep the whole of Mobile Housing Board male Juries. Leflore hasn't decided what to do The judges--Rlchard T. Rhes, Clarence W, Allgoodand flce In operation. next. In September when the board of Frank M. Johnson Jr.--added, "Sevl'ral practical prob The Mobile County Commls&ion of registrars tailed to act on repeated re Mobile Mayor lems. including a determination ot whether service is to be fered them the money to hire extra quests tor Improvements In Its proce compulson or \oluntary and theavallabillty otphyslcalfa clerks but the board said that the one dures, Leflore wired the Justice De cllltles, reqUire that the Slate of Alabama be given a rea week ot registration In September would partment In Washington and asked tor Names Leflore be over before new clerks coUld be sonable time to compl}." federal voting examiners. BY DAVID R. UNDERHILL trained. Thus, the} said, male alldtemale mixed jurie& wlll be re The department didn't send any. al When the present drive began to build MOBILE -- John L. Leflore, a clvll quired onh after June 1, 1967. though it has sent examiners Into Mont up big lines at the office last week. that rights worker in Mobile since the 1920s, The order about placing Npgroeb on Lowndes Counh ju gomery and Birmingham since that empty third of the office stayed empty has been appOinted by Mayor JosephN. ries Is immediate. time. Langan to the five-man Mobile Housing Federal examiners will come to Mo The court said M r s. KlOlh Coleman as clerk of the jury Board. bile It the local board does not tulflll commission must, within 30 days, make up aUst of names Leflore's appOintment makes him the Confusion Leflore's latest requl::st and If U.S.At trom various sources, Including names taken b~ federal tirst Negro In Moblle's recent history to torney General Nicholas Katzenbach voting examiners In the count\. serve in a high, policy-making position. really meant what he said In a Mobile The housing board controls. about The jUr} commls!>ion must pick at least 1000 names from On Poll Tax speech a month ago. ~100 million in public housing and urban that list for possible jun dull. Katzenbach said that the 1965 voting renewal projects In the city. Moblle has And the commission mu !; t regularl) give to the Lowndes rights law requires local registrars "to Slows Pace seven large housing prOjects, and live residents who took the matter to court a accommodate (Negroes) through extra BY RICHARD J. VAUGHN more are either underconstructionor report proving that the commissioners registration days, extra registrars. being planned. Three urban renewal are obeying the law. BIRMINGHAM -- Confusion over the Dan River Mills Charged eveDing hou rs, and precinct registra projects are also under way. The judges ordered the jun commis poll tax deadI10e has been blamed for a tion. Lan..~ pOinted out in making the ap Sion and clerk not to engage "in am act drop-otf In voter registration by work If the registrars will not do that. he pointment that "Negroes now occupy or practice which Invoh'eb or results in ers here and In other counties. said, II the law calls on me to send In some two-thirds ot the uDits under the discrimination b\ reason of race or With Job Discrimination Under state law, Feb. lis the dead federal examiners who will." supervision of the Mobile Hous1og color In the selection of jur ors ••• in BY JOHN KLEIN out, however. that the company did not line for paying poll tax. More than 10.000 Negroes registered Board, and In the past they ha ve tound It Lowndes Count y, Alabama." promise to hire anyone who completed However, under theVotingRigbtsAct with the tederal examiners during their SEL'IA--A complaint otdlscrlmlna d1lficult to communicate their problems Furthermore, 11 Lowndes oftlClalS do tOr} hiring practices Is being prepared the course. one indicated that the train ot 1965, a person may pay the poll tax first lJ,.days otworklnJeffersonCoun with the board." In not comply "Immpdiately and good by the local office ot the Southern Chris Ing course alone dId not meet all the hir up to 45 days before the election. That ty (Birmingham). Leflore said, II Itrust that my service taIth with the reqUirement,> ot this opin tian Leadership Conference (SCI C) a Ing requirements. means that In counties with federal ex The Mobile registration drive isnow In this unprecedented capaclh for a ion," the court said It Villi appolntlts gainst Dan Rher MillS. Inc. One trainee who applled for work at aminers, people have until Mar. 18 to about one month old and has brought In meMber of our group will be to the own agents to do the Job. The complain t concerns the compa Dan River saIdshewasgivenahalldoz pay the $1.50 tax to the examiner In onl} about 2.000 new voters. cred!t ot the entire communlt}." Three weeks ago, Judge Johnson ny"s new spinning and Viea\'lngplant east en ,ptltude tests including tests of eye time for the May primar} election. (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX, CoL I) (CON11SUED ON PAGE TWO, Col. 3) (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO, Col. 5) sight and manual Skills, but that they Even local tax collectors were con ot here In nearb } Lowndes county , were the same as those she had taken In fused. where cloth for bed sheets Is made. According to SCLC county project di training. Attorne) General Richmond Flowers rector Shirley Mesher, the complaint She also quoted the Dan River official
has advised them to list the name of any The Braves Are Here Will charge that the com pan" has violat to whom she applied as saylDg that "ll newly-registered voter who attempts to we had done good on all the tests. he still BY DAVID R. UNDERHILL ed the 1965 Clv IlRlght&Actb ', tu rning pa)' the tax before Ma r. 18. down trained Negro spinners and weav wouldn't have had no openings for us." This means that in countie!> without When she had applied for training. MOBILE -- This week, ers and hiring untrained while!> instead. federal exam1oers, persons ma y still while lawyers in Wiscon The Negroes were trained by Dan Ri "They didn't definitely tell us we would register and offer to pay the tax. The sin were argUing wheth ver Mills Instructors in a 12-week get a job .... They sald If you learn the payment wlll be retused, but the local trade and do good. you will get a Job." er the Braves would play cour!>e run b ', the local school board and tax collector has been Instructed to re paid tor b ',' the federal government un During the course, the tratnees cord the name ~ ot people who offer the their baseball season in del the 'Ianpower Development and worked a 40-hour week at machines set tax. Milwaukee or Atlanta. the Training Act of 1962. up In the National Guard Armory. There Flowers said, "We'regolngtoadvlse Braves were inAlabama. Miss Mesher said the tra10lng pro was no pay. although those who were the probate Judge 11 those on the tax col The} told the tolks Itdoesn't matter gram was started alter a similar com heads of households received a small lector's list attempt to vote. let them what the court deCides. because theY're plaint was flled with the U,S. Depart allowance from the government, Work
vote." going to pIa} in Atlanta. And the} want ment of Labol' b',' a numbe r oflocal civil er ,~ trained at the Dan River plant re During their tlrst week in Jefterson lots ot Alabamian , to come over and rights groups. ceive a regular bourb wap.
County. federal examiners were doing a , ee them. Of a total ot 23 persons enrolled In "A lot of tolks told me they wouldn' t land-office buslne ~ s. The :, llsted more Five Brave pIa', ers and assorted big the course IncludIng four white ~ . sev take the tra1n1ngfor nothing." this wo than 8.000 appl1cants. shots flew into Birmingham and then eral oS them were hired b~ Dan River man said. "But Ijustwentuptotalce the
By the end of last week, the exami Mobile and Montgomer) to autograpb before completing the' course, and sev traiDlng, thiJlklnS I'd eet a Job after
ners had signed up about 11.000 people. baseballs, talk to kids, answer news eral were dropped from the course for ward."
More than 10.000 of these were Ne men's quesUons. appear on TV, and do PQOr work, according to one of those en The SCLC complaint ls,lneffect, a
groes, according to the U. S. Civil Serv anything else to remind everybody that rolled. request for aLaborDepartmeat Investi In of ice Commission, which is charge the deep SOuth IS getting Its first big Three Negroes and two whites out of gation I1Da11RlverMlllsandcould re the examiners. league team. 23 are now employed at the Dan River sult In leraI action. The county board of reglstral " was Other bunche& of Braves.ue doing the plant, she said. At leabtlO Negroes who also registering large number :; of new same thmg In other parts of the South. have tlnlshed the course satisfactorily voters. More than 5,500 people &howed They want people to think of the Braves weI e not hired, she said. though other Pronounce It up at the county court house during a as the South's team, not Just Atlanta's whites have been hi red since then and two-week period endIng last saturday. team. trained at the plant, coy- no- nee-ah But reglsh aUon had dropped off The pla yers who came here could al One Dan River employe, who dId not sharply since Feb. 1. [.ast week, the HANK AARON, ATLANTA BRAVES STAR OUTFIELDER, SIGNS AUTO It's spelled Koinonia, (Jl Greek. most have been called Moblle'steam. want to be idenUfled, confirmed this: federal examiners noted a decrease GRAPHS FOR NEW BRAVES FANS IN MOBILE, WHEm . HE GREW UP. It means "communi!}." (Jl south Two ot the five. All·Star outfielder HanIc "TheY're actually hlrin, people out from their previous week's total of we ·. t Georgia. It means a cooperative Aaron and glue-gloved second baseman And then sat down, having proven that Joe Torre why the Braves leftMilwau there who have never seen those ma about 5,000 and the county registrars' farm. organized to practice Chrlstl Frank Bolllng, grew upplaylngbaseball he may take over the retired Casey kee, and be Said, "We had a ground rule chines before. and they don·t hire the 1000, anlt,. in Mobile. Stencel's position as phDosopher-co last years any foul ball that hit a spec colored folks that have been traIDed," Part of the decrease wa!'> due to the That has turned out tobea danpr SO, a big mob of newsmen showed up median of major leape baseball. tator was a home nln." This worker said at least five wbites bitter cold weather. Butanothe n eason ous purpose. In 24 )ears, !be resi at the Brave" pre" conference Tuesday Then the players came 011 to answer When pitcher PhD Nlerko was behind were hired In Januarlt as spinners or for the drop was confusion o\er the poll dents of Kolnon1a Farm have had to noon. all the IIBual qll8stions about which pit the mike. quesUons turned to the Illegal weavers In the part 11 the plantflthat's fight hard for their WIlY 11 We. tax deadline, accordIng to an SCLC staff Eddie Glennon, general manager of chers are bardest to hit aplnst, wblch spit ball pitch. He said he'd like to see close to my machlDe. member worklni In votei' registration. They've been been hauled Into court, the late Birmingham Barons baseball major league Is better, where the fans It legalized. after he learns to throw It. "The place Is so big I can·t see every threatened. bo)cotted, dylWDit«t. The county tax collector Said. "We team and now a Braves offlclal. ,ot up are loslnr Interest In baseball. how well But that might be some time, because, body. are accepUnr poll tax paymenta from and pelted with rocb. to Introduce the players. He talked Atlanta 18 cotnr to do, etc. Theyenter "I throw so slow, it dries up by the ClEver y time colored folkacomeout newly registered voter" until 45 days But they CO rlght 011 lovlnl tbe1r about poUtics, the Pope, elepbanta. talned the audience almost as wen as time It pts there." there. they tell them they haven't allY belore the Ma) 3 prlmar~." enemies and tniDC to do rood to baseball. athelsta, lawyers, football, Glennon dld. Som~ asked slugger Aaronll Los more Jobs." those who hate them. See pap Foar. (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE,Col. 4) etc. Somebody alced mountalnous catcher (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE. Col. &) Dan River personnel ofttcials point
PAOB TWO
THE SOUTHERN COURIER ROOM 622. FRANK LE U BUILDING A Night of Speeches at Tuskegee l\IO~TGOMERY. ALABA MA 36104 PHO~E: (205) 262-3572 Till Mlt'IIIlI' S <. 1)lll .....II!'ol'ubh!'oht'd~l'eold) b).l nm-ploW. non-sharl'edu l' Jtlllll HII ~llli ,J 11"11. tlll Ihl' :.tUd.1 _IOlt dllo"~l\lJllat101l ,'I. accur .lte inlormallOll about MILITANCY NOT MODERAUQN IS nIEME "I d n't want defense" said ZeUner t'H'IlI, ,\0,1 ,Iff,IlI lo In tht, fleld ('I hum:m rl'latloos. BY MARY Et LEN GALE Uon ' that promotes (' i' 11 rights leglsla- either." U J Alabama. "u I" It t ,: 111I, I't I 'lIP ' , ~ 5pel 1'.11 III Ihe South, :FlO per }ear el' l'where In the U. S•• lion. "White - have pia , ed a magn1!icent 'll>ho IS a whJte naUve TUSKEGEE--"If the bIact man lb "But that's the road to racial via- role in the civll r1ghtsmovement,espe- a white person in the BIact Belt wu " .I ll on ,. ul'''' 'III'lIt''I .. 25 1It'I ' ' eo.lI, uloed todtoh Editor; Robert E. &mlth Sick, soon to be- the new naUonal dI- so clearl', estabUshl'd that people on Negro minister trom Tuskegee. "Pm f'red Gra}, a Negro attorne; who has Fdllor: Man Fllen Gale Executive rector f1 CORE , the other side know the~ can't get a- cUsturbedby this uncontrolled hosWlty." qualifIed to run for the state House as a Photogr aph , Editor: Jame, H. Peppler "No one ever gave away power. Tbat wa, With violence. Dem/ICI at, , uggested that dlssatlslied La .. -cl Ut Editor: Am ', R. Peppler Just ain't politics. We're goIng to the "A right e \ercised In fear is no right ~egr "e - could use their new poliUcal Business \Ianager: James \I. s Ims polls and take that power." at all," Rauh said. He proposed a third power IDS Ide the Democratic Party to \ 01. II, !'foe 7 Feb. 12-13. 1966 Four hundred civil rights workers tederai clVllrlghtslaw"tomalteAlaba- get what the}' want. and their friends burst Into applause. ma safe for democracy." But one white lady got up and walked out The law would give thefederalgov- "People ain't going to vote lor that white rooster' no more," replied Wen Editorial Opinion of the audltorium. ernment power to integrate Juries, dell pariS, a leader of the TUskegee In That was the wa) thingswentforn1ne move cMl rights trials to lederal stitute Advancement League (TIAL), a hours at the all-night Conference on courts, and stop "anyone, including the militant student group. "The whole Alabama Justice at TUskegee InsUtute poUce, who does awa} WIth the civil One Good Reason last week. rights c:J. others," Rauh said. The pro- thing IS corrupt." Nearl) all the speakers praised mill- posed law would also provide for the "Without an mdependent organiza To run for office as a Democrat this year in Lowndes tant civil rights actlvl ty and condemned victims of racial violence, and force tion, you're backing the same old sys- County, a candidate will have to pay ten times what the moderation. Nearly everyone in the state and local governm£>ntstofollow (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX, CoL 3) entry fee used to be. racially Integrated audience seemed to fair emplo \ ment practice ... The qualifY~'lg fees for sheriff, tax assessor and tax agree with them. But e\'ery now and Rauh criticized the JusllceDopart- collector have been increased by the Democrats from then, someboting civil The Ad Hoc Committee tor Justice In rights law/;. Bl!t Bob Zeilner ,ofSNCC, $50 to $500, and for board of education from $10 to Macon Count), a faculty -based group, said Raub didn't place the blame where $100. sponsored the conference to bring to- It belonged. Zf'llner quoted a mf'!>sage The county party chairman said that the increase is gether a number of experts on justice from President Johnson to Gov. George necessary to add to the party treasury for the 1966 po and how to get it. C. Wallace. requestlngcompl1ancewith "The federal government has the tederallaws. JOSEPH L. RAUH JH. litical battles. "Now we've got a lot of opposition and the party needs more money to combat it with." he idea: deai \lith Civil rights slowl) ," "ThIS IS ndlculous," said zellner . l eadenhlp Conference on (lvillHghts said Joseph L. Rauh Jr., attorney for "Wallace isn't gomg tobelnfluencedby said. This may be true, but the big increase also ef the Leadership Cooterence on CivU the 'sincere wishes' of LBJ. The Pres fectively eliminates any hope that a poor man can run Rights, agroupof50natlonalorganlza- Ident has made the old mistake ofset Court Rules as a Democrat in Lowndes County. tlng the fox In charge of the chickens. For at least half of Lowndes County, that $500 fee "What we're talking about is power. represents about half a year's income. This} ear, in this count}, we have vot on Juries If anybody was wondering why a third party is neces ing power. We have to translate this ,CONTINUED FRO:\I PAGE ONE) power and anger in terms the PI'esl sary in some Black Belt counties, there's one good dent wlll understand." alone ordered Macon Counh to deseg reason. When the Thursday nlght-to-Frida} regate it.!> jun lists, but hI' did 1101 men morning conference split up Into dis hon that the court would do the job 11- cussion group., \f~er midnight, other sell, if not sati~fied with the local effort. SEVERAL OPPOR11JNmES SN('C members made It clear what Jolinson's rul1ngwa~ the flr!.t oulla\\, t'LOYD B. !'.lcKISSICK terms the\' thought the President would in ~ general racial dlscrim ~ natlon m the IN GIRL, BOY SCOUTS· understand. ' selection of Alabama June.,. National Director. CORE "We're 85 pel cent Negro In Mdcon What Will be the effect of the three- Sermon of 'he In' BY PAT PRANDINI tend four troop meetings, and must pay a Count }' ," said Ronald William Woodard, judge rlllmg" School-age children of all back $1 yearly membership fee. III. "Democrat and Republ1can--damn If the l.owndes (ounl\ Jur, COmITlIS Methodist Preacher grounds are offered several different The age range for the bo} scout!> is all that. We're black folk. politiCians is slon doe~ not appeal to a IlIgb p.. coun, activities in the Girl scouts and BOy eight ,ears through the senior :;ear in USing us all. It'll be the sampunless we the county will mo'>t lik4>l\ h,ne jun Scouts of Amenca., hJgh school. The membership fee is 50~ Opens a 'Venture' get a black government." lists at least half Nl'grOlD till!> spring'!> Both groups have special programs a } ear. Woodard said onh a Negro govern- term. Lowndes is 80 pel (,pnt !IIe~ro. !'.IOSTGOME {Y--Falth mu st be the for different age groups. For example, a The boys are celebratlng Boy Scout ment, elected as mp.mbers of a third La\\'\ ers disagree abO'Jt the effect of ('orner~fone of the church, the vlslt1ng boy who is eight }Oears old becomes a part~, would look after Negro poor peo Week this weelc. women on 'jurle". :\lost wouldprobab:} Cub Scout. HIS groupls called a "pack" ple. "YOU got poor white folks, too," he prl'acher at W~dfleld Mf'moria1 Metho Scouts do such things as hike and BOB ZELLNER say thatfemale Juro' " gn e other women wlth a leader called a "den mother." added. "To tell ,OU the truth, I don't dist ( hurch !>ald Sunda" "even in tlme~ camp and stuclv nature. The boys can SNCC a fairer shake. Garl~ eight tolhears old have the care about that. But the, 're not free or cn!>I!>, e"peclalh 10 timps of crisis." learn woodworking and other craftsj and Chal'les !\l',rgan Jr'., the law~ er who same sort of arrangementj the\ are The He\. Charle~ Betts, of Besse the girls learn sewing and other sk1lls battled the case 10 federal court, said called "Brownies." mer, began Wlutfield's partin the Meth of Interest to girls. Tue!.da~, "Southern wompn have tradl To join the Girl Scouts, a girl mustbe odist "Venture in Faith," a litate-wide Scout troops are usuall} centered at Keeping Wann Enough tlo!lall~ been m"~e attuned with the seven through 17 )e3r~ of age, must at- evangellshc c-rusade. More than 500 churches, schools, or communit y cen changmg I1m('s than men. In civil rights mim!>ters IR the state are visiting other ters. This means that, although white ca!>el> the\ Will have mc,re compa~- :\Iethodlsf ch lJ'ches this week. and Negro \ oungsters join the scouts, SlOn." :\11. Bett~ lold the congregation that there ate lew integrated troops. InAla. Presents a Prohlelll Hobert L. Cheek, a :\Iontgomer~ law true faJlh mal bring scorn or unpleas balml, the onl} troops With both white ver, called the dpclsion "a breathe of BY DAVID H. U~DEHIIILL Somp ot the mf'n around the fire Ii H' antnl.'~' 10 the Christian. He recalled and Negro chlldren are found on mill frp"h all' ID thl.' courtl oom." m the few old shacks that haven't been the pl'r~ecution of earl\ Christians. tar} bases. MOBILE -- Alabama's recent cold "Wompn will make excellent JU torn down yet to make W31 tor anaddl But, he said, "Uke Martin Luther, One of the most important aMual snap made trouble and headlines all rors," said Mrs. John 1.. Cashin, wife of tion t8 the project. In cold weather, each of us must sa\, "Here I standj I events In a scout's life is summer over the state. Crops froze, water a Negr 0 leadf'1 m IIlmts\llle. "The\ "you Ju!>t bundle up Ught and sta) in can do no otherwise.' WeareChristians camp. SWimming, hiking, fiShing, out pipf'.!> bur!>!, house heater~ wouldn't ha\e nhJrp timp to take It senou"h." Side," one of them ~ald. "Its rough first, then Americans, and Southerners, door games and other summertime and work right, a BaldWin count\ man froze man. But we'rp makin' 11." She feared "token'lom" at first. "\ ou and whatevpr ne xt." to death when he fell asleep ID his car countn aclivitie!> are available. won't see an~ womE'n on jUrJe~ and ask Henry W1lliams suggpsted over the Mr. Betts was formf'rly minister to one night, and Russellv11le in Franklin whv. Thev'll sa\' the sam(' thlng--thelr At summer camp in Alabama, in radio that school children boll an egg !\It'thodbt !.Iudents at the University of Count} set an all-timl' Alabama low nam(>s haven't come up \ et." tegration Is rare. In the 16-count} dis or bake a sweet potato just before leav Alabama. trict served b) the \lontgomer) scout temperature record of 24 degrees below ing for .!>chool, and theon "put It in ', our oUice!>, for example, the Girl Scout zero. pocket and 1t will keep } ou warm 01\ the camps are ownedprivateh. The owners But all the people and place!> that way." have said that both Negro and whJte didn't have great trouble (lr make big At least one man in Mobile had no children rna} use their camps but at dU headlines still had losolve the Simple complamt about the weather. He is ferent times. problem ot Just sta, 1n~ warm. Charles Aleman, whosell!> the Mobile The two Bo} Scoot camps In the !tlont In and around !l.tobill', the m o, in solu Register all mght long six nights a week gom~ district ha\e alwaubeen seg tion was to ~ta, aW3) trom the cold as at the Intersection of Broad and Govern much as pos.!>ible. regated, too. Negro bo) s have gone to ment streets. "1 didn't go outside an} More than I Tuskegee and white bo, s to PrattVille. But thJs summer for the first time, had to," sal s Lout!> Robuts, of Mt. "Its nothing tome," he sald, standing out m 15-degree weather late Saturday according to Jack Grady, director of the Vernon. Sta}ing inside dl':!n't !>ohe nigh I. He was born and raised in Mon BY MARY MOULTRIE Tukabatchee Council in Montgomery, ever) thing, howe\er, because most just delivered toanartlstbeingusedln Boy .,",roul Week treal, Canada. boUI Lamps will be mtegrated. house~ In Alabama wpre no' builtb~llt stead of paint on the canvas, 9:00 p.m. "I got u .. ed to II, and I know hO\l to All sorts of peopll' ',vatch lY, and lI.ith lealll told weather ID mml. C hannpl -1 m Dothan, Channel 19 in dre" for II. SomptJmp, there,1t would among the , e man ) different personali "WI'ar sOmt·thlD.' e tra t mght," Hunt ',ll1e, an I Channel 20 in Montgom get wa\ bt:lo\\ lelO and thewJn,j would ties ~ ou'll fmr! odd and unu"ual viewmg ero, • Letters to the Editor Robert ad ,h . be blowing 65 miles an hour." tastes. During the coldest davs, thl? ml'n who Not onll is he used to cold weather but For those whoprefer the twogun-hol To the l':dI tOI': To the Editor: build Ihe nlghtl\ bonfire althe unpaved he might even wplcome It. He sa\s'he ~ter, ten-gallon hat bit, then' are .!>how!. In our edillon for Jan. 29 - 3D, On Jan. 29 at 1:30 p.m. one of the \l()~D , \ Y, FF B 14 Intersection of !'.larlon and ( lalborne sells a lot more IrJperS on r ealh cold there I <; a clln ous ell 01 , which ga '; e doctors an Jack ~ on, Ala., turned like "Gu ~l ' moke." "Branded," and streets next to !'.l"blle'" Oranl' I ' Gro', e u, great amusement here at the mghh . "The people, the\ come b, ani "Bonan/a" to kt'e" them I' ontent In theu C I:\I KEI I \ IN ~I' W ... OHK--A mu down a ~en III lad} • She could have project made thetlIe a llttle bl!'I'er than C h'lrch of the Good Shepherd. Ma} I, sa) all the mf'n who sell down the street ea ~ , chairs. sical speCial featurIng Gower Champion l~t her life. u'>ual. as Rector of the parish, set the re are inside drinking coffee and keeping The /;ame goel> fo 1 the "whodunits," and Gene Kelt} \n theirttrstappearance At first the nurse wanted to know cord straight. That was enough to keep thl' regular warm." the "howllng-wolve~,,' the "tear-Jerk together. Also Woodv Allen and the whether the woman had a big in crowd around despite the cold. "We've er!>," and the" misfit!>." In hiS account oftha recent Epis British dancer-singer, Tomm~ Steele, surance. The lad}' didn't have any had a fire here even mght as lon :: as I Ph~nix City Hirps f rom time to time, no matter what copal convention an Birmingham, 9:00 p.m. ChaMel 4 In Dothan, Channel because her husband was out of a Job. ~ our tas te, } ou'l1 find .. our favorites ,our correspondent reports: "Bish can remember ," says Nathaniel Woods. 1 ~ I 10 Huntsvllle, and Channel 20 in I have somt'mone} in the bank, and have been changed,or entirel} replaced op carpenter has not commented 'On He was bOI n just acro~!> the ~treet in Negro Poli('~m~n \lontgomer} • I asked what would be the bilL The b\ something that I~n't at a1110 \our the refusal of the white Church of the 1918. nurse wanted to know if I had an} liking. Good Shepherd in Mobile to admit PHENIX CITY --John Allen and Jim mone}.1 told her r did, in the bank. Now he l1\e.!> a couple of blocksawa~ m\ tee Long have begun work as Phenix Occasionally a ~unel Is taken to try ru~ , SDAY, FEB. 15 Negroes ••• " This caml' as a sur Then she wanted to know what bank In the project, where" all the heat goe!> Clll'S fIrst two Negro pol1cemen. to determlDe jusl what kind otprograms. prise to us, since GoodShepherd lor and m, name. After, she found out straight upstalrs. You almostfreeze." They Joined 30 whi te officers 01\ the the general publlc enjo) s. It is at such PE. T rICOAT JUNCTION- -A Jury of the past III \ears has been a com my name atld reallzed I had been force. Ma}or John W. Barbee said they a Ume that the viewj!r's likes anddts gluttons runs through Bradle)'s food pletel} Negro congregation. In fact, working In the movement, with m; probably wllI be appointed tull-time likes are considered. SUPP1} after Uncle Joe has the Shady only in the past lew weeks have we brother. LEFLORE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONF ; Presently the science-fiction fanatic:. Hest Hotel named off1ciallodginghouse received our first white member. policemen at regular salaries after the 1,9 belng left out altogether b~ TV ~ta The proportion now stand/; approxi Then the nurse went to talk to the Most Negroes were ver} pleased standard six-month training period. lor the county court, 8:30p,m. Channel tions in Alabama. Where there used to mately 99.5 percent Negro. doctor and he sent her back to tell about the apPOintment. Lenore re 4 in Dothan, Channel 19 In HuntsvUle. "The city has been considering and be a choice of at least two sCience-fic ThJs parIsh has never regardl'd us that he would not see her and to cei ved two standtng ovatlons trom the 25 and Channel 20 in Montgomery. tak~ her to another doctor. plaMing thls for more than a }ear," tion features a week, there was lett one. race as a factor inmemhership. This or 30 people at the Non· Partisan voters Mayor Barbee sald. "It just took time is me church where anyone may Well, we left and went up the street League ml'etlng last SUnday evening. And now there are none. to work it out." The -saturday night science fictioo come, without quesUon as toraceor about three blocks to another doctor. A lew Negroes, however, teel that Le W. O. BuUer, President of the Russell theatre on one channel has been re WED;IIESDA .... , FEB. 16 mottvatton. May I extend this invita He cUdn'task anyth1ngbutcarried the tlore has sold out to the power struc County Democratic OrgantzaUon, I Ne placed by the ordinary dragged-out tion to all your readers, lady to another room. at ture. "It sounds like they got him," one gro group, spent several weeks tratnlng LOST IN SPACE--PeMY Robinson How can Nerroes have a big 1DBur movies YOU can see any other day otthe Unfortunate!}', there is an EPis sald. the two men to JllUiS the Civil Servlce and Debbie, the Bloop, disappear Intoa ance when we doD't have a Job topt week. copal parish in Mobile whl('h is very qualifying exam. In November, the Phe magIc mirror, where they find a dark, food, much less abiglnsurance? SCience fiction fans are broken hear 't /;queanllsh about lettUlg Negroes In Leflore sa,s the appOintment w1l1 not nlx City Betterment ASSOCiation, headed weird world inhabited by an alien boy, Then you say the United states Is a ed. "Frankenstein" has been rep laced at all. It was this partsh to which restrict his Civil rights work: "It's not by Arthur SUmbry, asked the city Com 6:30 p.m. Channel 3 in Pensacola, F~j land of lreedom. Do you call this a by "The Egg and I," "Dracula" by your correspondent had reference, a paying positioo, and Mr. Langan as mlssioner to hire the ftrsttwoNegroes Channel 19 in HuntsvUle, and Channel land of freedom when you stand up "Five Guns West," and "Thing From not the (hurch at the Good Shepherd. sured me that 11 wouldn't1nterferewith 20 in Montgomery. for your ript and you getk1l1ed? who passed the exam. Another World" by "Has Anybody Seen my other acUviUe/;." "White supremacy," gel ott the sumbry said the group would picket My Gal?" John W. B. Thompson Negroes' back and let themllve. the city hall if the Commissioner did not So, this week's schedule Is more fact Mobile some whlte~ voiced approval of the "White suPremacy" has a way to do so. than fiction: appointment, but most apparenUy didn't FRIDAY, FEB. 18 keep h1a foot 011 a Nep'O'S bact, wilen Asked If civll rtgllts pressurelnflu 'l'IIl SOU1'JlUN COUlllElt wel- notice it or didn't care. 1110"" letwl's from anyOlle on an) It loots as if !bey would Ilve and let enced the eommla,iooer" dec18lOll, "AN EVENING WITH CAROL CHAN Tbe Moblle County Citizens Counc.1l l-ub)l·rl. I,OItt'rb Dlustbeslped,but llve. Barbee sald, "Not a bU." He sald the SUNDAY, FEB. 13 NING"--A WIY h'ee-whHlinI bour 01 neUced It immediately and accused ) Cit.. Il.IlIIl' WillI/I! wlthlleld \IPUll r e hirinr 01 more Herro pOllcemen will de music and comedy, '1:30 p,m.CbuIlel LaDPD at II dI,crlminat(lDI) qatnst 'llk..~t. (Name withheld) pend "GIl boW UdI wora out. We're CANDID CAMERA--A delivery boy" 4 In Dothan, CbanDel 19 III HlatsYWe, JaWoa, Ala. wblte people." not lowertac our .tandarda." he aid. • bocked wbeIl he ,ees the fOOd he has and Cbannel20 in MOIItpmery• B A S K E T, B A ,. L ,"\ . L PART TWO a look at the sidelines Photography by James H. Peppler PAGE FOUR McGEE READS TO NANCY AND JANET HENRY. SUN RISES OVER KOINONIA FARM AND COW WAITING TO BE MILKED. Koinonia Is A Way of Life TEXT BY PAT PRANDINIi PHOTOGRAPHY BY JAMES H. PEPPLER luctant to discuss the farm's charitable activiUes In completelY destroyed. AMERICUS, Ga.--The Koinonia detail. After both attacks, the farm rananadin the local Farm was founded 24 years ago and "It looks lilte we're trying to show ott good paper. Kolnonla publicly forgave Its assailants, and still runs today on the Christian deeds," he said. asked for the opportunity to remain gcxx:\, Chrlstain principles of peace, brotherhood, The farm bas always been open to all races and neighbors at the people of Americus. and the sharing of material goods. creeds alike. But integration was not the first A few dayS after the January bombing, a vacant On 1,000 acres offarmland a doz source 01 trouble. The cO'mmunity's support for tenant house at the farm Itself was mysteriously en roUes southwest at Americus, the fam1liesat peace during World War n caused the first uproar. burned to the ground. Mr. Jordan and Mr. England, exempt from the The whole town turned against the farm. Local Koinonia have tried to create a community based on dralt because they were ministers, tried to get their merchants wouldn't sell Koinonia feed for the anI love. But their neighbors have not made it easy for the farmers to sUck to the fundamental teachings at classification changed. Opposed to war, they never mals, or gas, oil, and parts for cars and farm REV. JORDAN PONDERS. MRS. HENRY EMBROIDERS. Christ. theless felt that DO Christian ought to be given spe machinery. The local banks closed the farm's ac Koinonia practices instead of preaching racial in cial consideration. They' wanted to go to jail for counts. (The farm still hasn't been allowed to re tegration and opposition to war. Many of the farm's their refusal to fight, sume banking in Americus.) The large eggbusiness neighbors don't lilte it. They havefooghtKoinonia But draft alficials disagreed, and the ministers was forced to close. with lawsuits, boycotts, and even bombs. remained draft-exempt. (Mr. Jorclanpolnts out with On Feb. 21, 1957, the publisher 01 the Petal "It's a strange thing," said the Rev. Clarence a wry smile that clergymen are classified 40, along Papers, p. D. East, wrote: Jordan, founder and director at the farm. "People with prisoners and the feeble-minded.) "Actually, the Koinonia Farm Is composed of a lynch you if you don't believe in Jesus, but they Koinonia's neighbors didn't understand the minis group of pacilists, which, as I understand it, are lynch' you quicker if you do what He says." ters' feellngs. The locaI'residents called thefarm practicing to the letter the teaChings ofChristiani In 19-12 Mr. Jordan and the Rev. Martin England, ers names and hurled angry accusations , But there ty. It seems they may finish up like the founder of both Baptist ministers, founded Koinonia because was little violence. the religion did." they felt none of the churches were fulflll1ng their Racial trouble began around 1955. Mr. Jordan East praised "the complete lack of hatred by the commitment to Christ, had been considered a leader In the community and Jordans. It Is, to me, amazing thatlDlyone can take With World War n raging across the world, the had organized inter-racial activities In Americus such anattltudelnthefaceofwhat'shappened to him ministers resolved to bear witness to the principles back in the 40's. Then came the 1954 SUpreme and his friends," he said. they felt the war vlolated--love of enemies, recon Court ruling against school segregation. But others felt differently. A leiter to the editor of cil1ation, peace. The men wanted to do something SUddeniy, Mr. Jordan said, people realized that the Americus Times-Recorder In July. 1956, called constructive. They felt, Mr. Jordan said, that "It the solid lines at segregation they relied on were Koinonia a "group who have established themselves wasn't enough just to throw stones at the church." really about to break. As the fear of change spread as menaces to democracy." The letter charged that "Koinonia" is the Greek word for community. to Americus, violence broke out against the Jordans, the Kolnonians had done the bombing themselves "to against Koinonia, and against the com munity's way Over the years, there have sometimes been as many obtain the sympathy at the general publiC," which, it of life. as 80 residents. Today there are about 25 or 30 claimed. was a well-known subversive tactic. people living and working together 011 the coop The first target was a bi-raclal summer camp at In spring, 1957, the Ku Klux Klan "held a r egional erative farm and sharing Its small pro1its. meeting and rally In Americus to discuss Koinonia. Koinonia. Local ctticlals tried to get the camp Mr. Jordan said the farm tries toserve two reli closed 011 grounds of violation of public health. But After the cross burnin g and speeches, the Klan gious purposes--bearing witness to Christ's teach Jordan gave evtdence that each child was required formed a 93-car motorcade on Dawson Road along Ings and spreading its Idea of Christianity to others. to present a health certificate signed by his doctor the farm's vast acreage. He speaks and writes about the farm, and encour before being admitted to the camp, and the state Klan spokesmen, robed but without hoods, got out of the two lead cars to present the organization's ages groups and Individuals to visit and talk with health Inspector gave the farm and camp faCilities a him. gcxx:\ rating. , proposals to Jordan. Jordan say s they "weren't nas As a Greek scholar, Mr. Jordan also publishes The charge was changed to one of'corrupting the ty, weren't abusive, they were very kind. They just New Testament translations in what are called morals of children. Mr. Jordan testitiedat a hear said that they wanted us to leave." "cotton patch" editions -- the gospel in modern' ing that he didn't know what the charge was all The Klan even offered to purchase the .farm and language. about. He asked the court to explain to him how the called a few weeks later to ask for a reasonable The farm spreads practical knowledge as well as children were being led astray. price. Jordan told them he'd sell "fo r a milUon dol Christi:m ideas. Koinonia developed methods and As Mr. Jordan tells It, there was an embarrased lars." equipment for raising gcxx:\ layi ng hens that are now silence When a local farmer stcxx:\ up and accused "That's not reasonable," said the Klan contact, used by egg far 'mers throughout southwest Georgia. him of letting children see sows giving birth to their The transaction was never carried out. Most farm Income now comes from beef cattle. litters. At that time, the farm was doing a large The relationship between Koinonia and Americus Three great Santa Gertrudls buils (bred by crOSSing business In hams, and had hundreds of pigs. has since improved. M'any white Southerners have Texas short horns and Brahma;ls) keep watch over a Mr. Jordan told the court that perhaps God and stopped by the farm to assure Mr. Jordan of their YOUNG BULLS EAT HAY FOR DINNER. herd of Black Angus, Hereford, and Santa Gertrudis not Koinonia Farm should be charged with Immoral quiet support. otfsprlng. Ity, because the birth of baby pigs was His Idea. But there are still problems. In June, 1964, the Combining agriculture and broth erl y love, the The farmer said there was noneed to let the chil Jordans' daughter, Jan, was graduated from Ameri farm provides a milk cow for every poor local fam dren watch. cus High School. But she refused to partiCipate In ily that needs milk. The OIIl y condition Is that the Mr. Jordan explained that his pigs were native graduation ceremonies when a Negro resident of family return the cow's first heifer to the farm. Georgia pigs, and stupider than most Georgia pigs Koinonia, Collins McGee, was denied entrance to the The farm the n gives that heifer to another poor fam at that. He said that it was Impossible to teach his audi tor ium. Il y. sows modes ty , and that they were likely to "drop Gregor y Wlttkamper, another farm reS ident, said Half the land is now used for timb er. The farm their litters" right the re before your eyes while you he would have done the same at his 1965 graduation. also raises Muscadine grapes, and has a pecan were talking to them about it. But this ti me McGee was allowed to attend the cere shelling and packaging plant that gives jobs to local No one laughed. Andalthoughthechargesagalnst monies. As the Kolnonlans lett the auditorium, how workers. Koinonia uses some of the pecans to make Koinonia were dropped, the local people had won, ver, local residents pelted them with rocks. fruitcakes, sold widel y to friends around the United KoInonia, not wanting to stir up hate, reluctantly In elementary school, Wittkampe r sald,hehadno states. canceled plans for the bl-racial camp. trouble being accepted by hIs fellow students. "When Although prodUcts have changed over th e years, But aU the attack5 on Koinonia were not within the they got mad at me," he said," they'd call me 'nig profits are always used to spread the word 01 God relativel y safe walls of a courtroom. When Mr. ger lover,' but It didn't mean anything to them. It and to help the poor. This Christmas the farm Jordan signed the applicatk>ns ct two Negroe5 for was Just a word they'd heard their parents use." bought second-hand bicycles, which had been re the Georgia State College of Busines5 Administra High s chool was different. His former friends stored by an area association at the handicapped, tion, he brought a storm down on the farm. "said they never knew me." His teachers treated and gave them to local children. On Jul y 23,1956, the farm's ham store 00 U.S. him fairly, he said, but the teenagers would rough "When you seldom get a blscuH, a bicycle is a Route 19 W35 bombed. {twas reoom and dynamited hIm up between classes. CALF GETS A FREE RIDE. real treat," Mr. Jordan explained, Burhe was re- aga.ln on Jan. 14, 1957. The second time, It wu (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX, Col. 6) MeGE! AND WITI'KAMPER LOAD PECAN TRAYS ON DRYING RACK. ONE EMPLOYEE SORTS PECANS. PAGE FIVE Walker and SCLC Seeks Winston Get Binningham U.S. Grant Un~ty Effort BIRMINGHAM--SCLC leaders here CORDOVA -- The Community Action are planning meetings In the future to Committee fo r Walker and Winston get more response from \he local com counties has received its Ihlrd grant m unity and to bring the civil rights trom the feder al Office of Economic 0P group and local leaders closer together. portunity, SCLC is seeldngbroad-baseds upport The latest grant at $249, 227 Is for a for its current voter registration drive. neighborhood youth corps project, The money will provide work experience for One such "unity" meeting was held last week at 16th Street Baptist Church. 200 youths be tween 16 and 21 years 01 age, " This was held for the express pur pose of br1ngtng people together," said In July, the Walker-Winston commit Stoney Cooks of the SCLC VISION office tee received $91,548 to finance a neigh here. "We hope to get atleast tolerance borhood center at whi:h poor people can from some individuals for our drive." tind out about help avallable.lnAugust, II As far as I could see," sald the Rev. the counties received $190,461 tor a first youth corps program. Joseph E. Lowery, "there wasn't much unit} Ing that needed to be done among Winston, with 99,5 per cent white pop ulation, and Walker with 89.6 per cent the people present." white population, are two north central "It was not a particularl y fruitful BEFORE SPEECH BY MRS. FRANKIE M. FREEMAN OF THE U.S. Alabama counties that worked together meeting," sald the Rev. John T, Porter, COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS, U.S. ASSISTAN T ATTORN EY GENERAL " Ever} one wanted Dr. Gaston to be FRANK BOLLING, WHO PLA YS SE COND BAS E FOR THF ATLANTA on their anti-poverty program. BRAVES, RE TURNE D TO MOBILE THIS WE EK WITH A FE.W OF HIS FOR CML RIGHTS JOHN DOAR (AT RIGHT) RECEIVE D COUNCIL PLAQUE. there. It seemed they wanted to bring The neighborhood youth corps pro TEAMMATES TO INTRODUCE THE BRAVES TO THE SOUTH. BOLL Dr. Gaston into the fold." vides needy students vdth part-time ING, WHO WAS RAISED IN MOBILE, SPOKE TO REPORTERS TUESDAY. "Apparently, without the influence M work so that their education may be re Dr, Gaston, they (SCLC leaders) feel sumed or continued, For those who have Students Debate Need that their drive won't be successful," The Braves Are Here already left school, it offers a job and continued Mr, Porter. "Dr. Gaston is gone on all afternoon, except the Br aves training in work skills, (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) not against the drive, he's not working The Walker-Winston program Is try- had someplace else to go, For Bi-Racial Group agalns t it," Angele s Dodger pitching star S andy ~ ing to bring the economy of the counties Tuesda ) night the} went to Municl pal BY PAT PRANDINI One of the goals olthe meeting was to Koutax has been telllng the truth lately back to llfe. A few years ago the local At the aMual meeting at the councll Audit.orlum to meet an yone t ha t car ed t o bring Dr. A.G. Gaston, the mllllonaJre when he says that Aaron Is the only bat mines and cotton mms meant steady MONTGOME~Y--In alettertoa Uni itself the next day , there was a sharp come. Hundreds did come, to get auto Negro busine ssman, and SCLC closer ter who gives him trouble. jobs for thousands of people. Then the versity of Alabama student written In opposition between the older generation graphs, to get advice, or just to see real together, said Albert Turner at SCLC, Aaron answered, "Koufax has been demand for coal dropped off, and scores 1956, shortly atter that school had ad and the young civil rights workers. big league ball players. But, he said, this was not the primary spread!n' this wild rumor around. I of mines had to close. mitted Its tirst Negro students, the late During a workshop on voter registra The Braves ought to have a great year goal at the meeting, think he's settin' me up lor somethln'." Last spring Citizens who were wor author William Faulkner said, "Ican tion and education, Wendell Wllkerson in Atlanta, If their reception In Mobile "The primar y goal was toget more So someone asked if any batter could ried about all of this met In Jasper, the think of nothing which would do more to of TIAL accused the older people at Is any Indication. participation trom the local community, hi t Koufax, and Aaron said, "I don't Walker County seat, They decided to hold Intact integrity and decency and moving too slowly and giving In too easi A dlfferent line-up of Braves showed We wanted to setUe any differences any think nobody can claim him as a cou launch an effort to get government anti sanity In this matter (desegregation) ly to white authorities. up In Montgomery the next night, but ot us might have, sin." poverty money, By July they had their than a sort of interstate university or Most of his remarks were aimed at less than 50 persons came by the City "We haven't been getting the type at The press conference might have first grant. They setup headquarters in ganization for simple decency and ra the Tuskegee Civic As sociation and Its response we felt we should be getting Auditorium to see the players In person. an old union hall here and they were on tionality among southern college men . preSident, C, G. Gomillion, political from the community," Turner sald. their way .. and women, young men and women. A science professor at Tuskegee Insti confederation of older men like me tute. Choctaw Students would Dot carry hall this weight," BIRMINGHAM During the morning, HumanRelaUons Some Alabama college students (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Council delegates took part In separate Seek Integration meeting at the invitation of the Alaba workshops on comm 1mity organization, BUTLER --Several students at the ma Council on Human Relations have education, employment, lederal pro Although the confusion may have left Negr~ Choctaw County Tralnlng SChool taken a first step towards just such an grams, health and hospitals, and hous the minds of county officials, people who have demanded that they be admitted to organization, ing, as well as the one on voter reg can register were still unaware of the the white Choctaw County High SChool At a meeting last Friday night at the istratlon. new deadilne or unsure about it. here. Jefferson Davis Hotel. students from "People don't know they have until The latest announced plan by the colleges all over the state talked about Gomillion Elected Mar. 17 to pay their poll tax," saldAl county school superintendent Is to open problems they all face. bert Turner, SCLC's stat~f1eldsecre the white schoolto "freedom of choice" Two of the biggest dlfticullles they tary, who is directing the voter regis transfers Feb. 28. On that date the sec had In common were, first. how to get tration drive here, ond six-week section olthesecoodse the commUnIty they worked in to accept To inform people, SCLC passed out mester begins. them as friends; and second, once start thousands of leaflets last weekend in the OD the first day otthesecondsemes ed, how to keep the work (and the group) Birmingham area, ter, Jan. 18, 12 Negro youngsters went going, He expected more people to register to the high school; they said they wanted Students from Auburn university, this week than last because of warmer to go there for the second halt at the Birmingham-Southern College, and weather and greater knowledge about school year. There was no school de MUes College said that their civil rights the poll tax deadilne. segrep-tton last fall in this southwest groups were small, andtbMtne,dtdn't But on Monda y examiners 1lstedonAY. rural county on \he Mississippi state always know how to go abouthelplng the 350 people, about halt the number listed line. local Negroes, in one day a week ago. The students were sent to the super Another problem was thaUull- time The county board of registrars dso Intendent of education, W. M. Wimberly. students don't have much spare time. Al noted lower registration figures OIl who asked them why they wanted to go to Ulmer, at the Southern Reglonal Council Monda y. There were only 175 appli the high school. staff, pointed out that at least one or two cants Monday, said the board. They replied that the equipment was full-time workers are needed in each To combat slow registration SCLC better, for one thing. "We think we can community. plans to push Its drive harder during go to either school, Both are public Ulmer suggested to each of the groups the weekend, their officers said thIs schools," one of them told Wimberly. that they" talk about a state-wide organi week. Turner said their were about 24 TIMES HAVE The superintendent took their names zation of students, C, G, GOMILLrON SCLC staff members working in various and addresses and sald that the students Student Non - violent Co - ordinating MO NTGOMERY -- C, G, Gomllllon, places in the Birmingham area, would be notified when a desegregatloo Committee and Tuskegee Institute Ad professor of political science at Tuske plan was approved, They were sent vancement League people argued lhata gee Institute, has been elected president CHANGED, BUT ... back to the traJning school. formal organization would just get all of the Alabama GolIncU on Human Rela This week, the stUdents read in the tied up In itself. ·They said it would WRMA Gospel local paper that the desegregation plan spend so much time holding elections tions. the old-fashioned qualities of depend Th e bl- racial council seeks "to at called for opening the top four grades to and planning meetings that It wouldn' t be ability and thrift still guide us here. transfers Feb. 28, able to do much for civil rights. tain, through research and education, Caravan Special equal opportunities for all,Pe ople of The students from Auburn, Birming presents Alabama." ham-Southern, Miles and Spring Hili Tuesday, February 15, 196 6 Stillman Starts Gomillion has been a civil right s College, on the other hand, felt thatthey Montgomery, Alabama leader In Macon Count y for more than a MAK. OUR .ANK YOU. really needed some form of organiza quarter ot a centur y, Heispresldentot 8 p.m. City Auditorium Tutor Program tion just to be able to keep In touch with PIII.MeIAL H.ADQUAIIT••• I the Tuskegee Civic ABsociation and a other student groups around the state. THE SWAN SILVERTONES TUSCALOOSA--The beginning the member of the count y board of educa at After the separate groups met, Uley THE MIGHTY CLOUDS OF JOY spring semester for students at Still were supposeclto get together for a gen tlon. THE BLIND BOYS OF MISSISSIPPI ~BAMAEXC~(.E B~K man College marked the beginning cI. the II w as Gomtllion who battled in court TH E BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA eral session, But they never did. The spring semester for VISION. agains t Tuskegee's plan in 1958 to re THE SW ANE E QUINTET Member formal conferences broke Into smaller, VISION is the tutorial service for high draw the City limits to exclude Negroes. Federal Reserve System and informal groups and the talking went on school students. In the famous Gomillion vs, Lightfoot Admisslon--$I,25 in advance; past midnight, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation VISION was started in Tuscaloosa Ulmer said that although nothing con case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled two $1.50 at the door and a halt years later that the bounda last June, co-sponsored by the St. Louis crete had been decided by the students, Conference and SCLC, The purpose of ries were discriminatory and Illegal. P.O. Box 728 Tuskegee. Alabama Just the chance for them to meet and ex Mr. Ralph Featherstone, M,C. the program is to help high school stu change Ideas was an important begin dents prepare lor college by intensive ning, tutoring in the subjects in which they He said that the work would soon be feel they are weakest, Tutors are stu gin on some form of communication dents at SUllman College, among the scattered campus groups, Ten students have registered fOJ: ~ Earlier that evening, Cortland Cox of I courses in chemistr y, biology, mathe SNCC spoke to the assembly of collegp ~ Historic Items Available matics. Engl1sh. histor y and French, people about their part in the movement covers A total 01 25 students are expected to lor civil rights, Next 7 cacheted covers commem Approximately 250 Vinyl Seat Cushions carrying this register by the end of the week, They "We as young people are going to oratlnc only the major U. S. space amusing, but.prophetic 1965 emblem of the Alabama will be taught by siX Stillman College make a commitment In terms of the achievements for $5.00 advance de Democratic Conference, Inc. stUdents, The ninth through twelfth world we live in •• ,we are going to de posit, SPACE CRAFT COVERS, grade students attend DruidHigb, which fine that world In pOlitical terms", we P.O. Box 229G, Huntlncton, W. Va. is all Negro, and TUscaloosa and Holt are the visible people,. .... he said. High Schools. The classes meet three 25724, U,S,A. In GlorioU3 Red, Wliite, and Blue Cox works In Dallas County, nights a week for three hours. Ninety per cent at \he tutors' salaries NO MORE WILL BE MANUFACTURED. , • THEY are pald by the lederal government un HA VE ACCOMPLISHED THEIR INTENDED P UR ------, der a work-study program, with the • I POSE. Seen Your Picture in other 10 per cent being supplied by TUs Also Avallable I caloosa C1t1zens for Action Committee (TAC), the local afflUate of SCLC, THE SOUTHERN COURIER $2.50 each, plu1=> .>O~ for packlng and maillng o! .each Lately? order up to 5 cushion~ ••. • \dd lOS· for each addltional CU1=>hlOn up to 20. Your Message Buy a Print For Yourself or 8 Friend On boxes of 20 cushlOn1=> - v.e pay p01=>tage. Money SEND 75¢ for each 5x7 inch picture order, check, or currency MUlT accompany order. in this space, With description, date, and page number rIH~T COME, FIRST ::;EH\ hD .•. l\IoneY\\iill be re Official License Plate turned after .,upply runs out. $3 a week TO: (Blue on White Enamel) JAMES H. PEPPLER, PHOTO EDITOR Alabama Democ.-ratic Conference Call 262 - 3572 THE SOUTHERN COURIER ROOM 622. FRANK LEU BUILDING In Montcomery, Ala. ·,1.25 each 507 79 COMMERCE STREET Gallatin Street S. W., MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA 36104 Postpaid Huntsville , Alabama 35801 PAGE 511' • Hulett Wins His Case Picketing Starts ·lll Tuscaloosa BY DAPHNA SIMPSON classes ott. The man threw them tothe Grant from the Rev. T. W. Linton. !!Ie Rev. T.Y. Rogers, president at Against Lowndes J.P. ground, stepped 011 them and walked Mr. Linton, who ts pastor ~ tbe TCAC. TUSCALOOSA--"You can't hi r e us, we can't afford tu buy here." Thus away. Cumberland presbyterian Church and Mr. Horers has said that other stures is enough money ther e to cover his fees. HA YNEVILLE -- When John Hulett reads a picket sign in front 01 theW. T. Many people who started to enter chaIrman of the selective buying com may be picketed in the Mure, although was taken before Justice at the Peace J. Hulett got himself a lawyer and asked Grant sture on Broad Street. Grant's have been stopped by the plcket mittee of TCAC, requested that Mc no particular stores have been singled B. Julian of Lowndes County lasUall, be the federal courUn Montgomery to pre Picketing began last saturday as part en. After a few moments d expla Bride hire Negroes in his sture as cuh out yet. thought somethtJIC was wrong. 01 the selective buying campaign started nation., they turnedtuleave, even some iel's and salesladles. McBride tule Mr. vent Judge Jullan from hearing Hulett's Hulett was arrested for reckless case. ot the white people. Linton that be could not afford tu hire students at the Tuscaloosa Vocatloo by the TUscaloosaCIUsensfor Action driving last Oct. 1. One Negro woman who tried to enter a ny mC/re employees at this time. al Tralnlng School st&yedaway from Hulett told the U. S. court that he Committee (TCAC). class~ He figured that the justice ~ the Two pickets move up and down the Grant's explalned to tbe man who A letter was sent to McBride a tew and marched in front d the came to federal cou.rtbecause there was peace had a tinanclallnterest In whether sidewalk In front of Grant's, and others stopped her at the door, "I was just go days later, again staling TCAC's re school" this week. no legal protecUon in this matter from walk the length of the block handing out Ing to pay my bm." quest, He was Informed that he had from They protested what they said was a Hulett was found gulIt y or Innocent, Un "Mall it In," she was told.. She smlled that day, January 18, until February 1 lack 01 equipment tor instruction. WbUe der Alabama law, the justice takes his leaflets explalnlF the reasons for the fees and costs from thennes imposed picketing. and walked away . to make a decis ion. they were protesting, equipment tor au Tbe plckeUngand boycotting w1l1 be in tomobile repair classes showed uP. on persons he convicts. Many of the pickets are students at February 1 marked the date of the Stillman College, although the group in effect Indefinitely, according to TCAC. boycotting of Grant's, and the following About 40 to 50 youngsters were in U the accused Is found Innocent, the cludes high school stUdents, parents and It all began with a telephone call to Saturday picketing began. volved. They also want to integrate the justice cannot collect a tine to cover his teachers. Tbe picket begins every John McBride, the manager d W. T. The Drotest I~ untl .. , ' .... lqadershlp of county's two tralnlng schools. fee. But he is allowed to take his fees morning with the opening of the stor e from non-traffic violation fines it there and continues through the day until clos KOINONIA Ing time. (CONTINUED fROM PAGE FOUR) Registrars Several people have been roughly The Rev. AI Henry restened his pulpltatPllgrlm pushed by passers-by. There hasbeen Congregational Church, in Mountain Brook, aplush some name-calting. Birmingham suburb, to come to the farm. His wife, The most serious incident Involved a Pressured carol, sald he came "for the freedom." wl,1rte youth, David Bremer, a student at Although Koinonia works indirectly for clvll Stil1m!lJl College. Bremer was ap rights and brotherhood, she said, the farm's major In Mobile proached by a white man who Jerked his accomplishment Is " In Cbrlstianlty. People come here and get away from the pressures and the values (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) TUSKEGEE of everyday ute to make decisiOns about what direc tions their llves should take," she explained. At a Non-Partisan voters League (CONTINUED FROM PAGE TWO) Afler he bad been at Koinonia for a While, Mr. meeting two weeks ago John Morris and tem ," said William B. Kunstler, a white Henr y wrote a leiter to bls former congregation to Henry Williams pOinted out how regis clvU rights attorney. "Negroes have a tell them as best he could what the farm means. tration in Birmingham shot up as soon JOHN HULETT better chance In Alabama poll tics if they "Kolnonla .tollows the Blbl1cal principles that the as the examiners arrived. any state court. have freedom to show their strength.' sons or the : Father wlll Increasingly become par Tbey said that sometblng needed to be takers of His nature: redemptive love," Mr. Henry This week, a three-judge federal Gra y pointed out that 11 the Democrats done here, because the current drive wrote. "He is not a God of violence, hate and re court agreed with Hulett's claim. The and a third party split the Negro vote, had brought In only about three per cent venge •••• He Is a God d peace, of steadfast love, of court ordered Julian not to try Hulett on white Republicans could win 10 the 31st of the unregistered Negro adults In the unfalllng good will. the reckless driving charge. House District, made up ofMaco'l, Bar county. "To Koinonia this means renunciation ofwartare bour, and Bullock counties. The judges quoted an earl1er case that and violence, and a dedication to love, peace and C. H. Montgomery, chairman of the said: "It certainly violates the 14th "I'd rather see a split than support of good w1ll. Koinonlans desire an increasing measure Mobile County coordinating committee, Amendment, and deprives a defendant In the rooster and white suprema::y," re whJch Is also participating In the drive, PICKETING BEGAN THIS WEEK AT GRANT'S IN TUSCALOOSA of the Father 's lovewhichw1l1enable them to con a criminal case of due process of law, pUed another s tudent. "Unless we crush good agreed that federal examiners would tinue to love their enemies and to do to them." to subject his liber ty or propert y to the it now, we never will." help get more Negroes registered. And judgment of a court the judge of whlcb Several TrAL members accused Tus he said they would also help whites be RED BELL CAFE AND POOLROOM has a direct, personal, substantial,pe kegee's middle class Negroes of not cause "everybody is sutferlng" as cunlary In teres t In reaching a conclu Enterta1nment as you like it. POOLE',,) things are now. caring what happens to poor people In sion against him In his case." the rest of Macon county. Last week when Montgomery made 138 Monroe SI, "You're creating anlmoslty --setUng this remark, the suffering was much The three judges' deCision applies Montgomery, Ala. PHARMACY the middle class against the lower m ore obvious than it Is now. Then, peo onl y to Hulett's case, but it might cause class," replied a Negro resident of l019W. Jeff Davis ple were comingby the hundreds to reg a change In the state's whole justice of Tuskegee. "Wbere are you going toget CLUB ~IEETING ? Ister and pay their poll tax before the the peace set-up. MO :1tgomery, Alabama ANNOU NC EMENT? money? How are you going to unlte us ?" tradlonal February 1 poll tax deadline. Attorney General Ricbmond Flowers FUND RAISING? YOU CAN CHARGE IT AT POOLE'S. "The question of how to unite Is j our had joined the case in behalf of the jus MEMBERSHIP DRlVE ? JUST CALL US AT 265-7097 AND The registrars' office w1ll be open problem," said Michele Moreland, a tice of the peace for that reason. WE WILL DELIVER YOUR ORDER until Feb. 19. But after Feb. 1 registra SNCC worker . "There are more of the EVERYBODY WILL SEE tion '·'cut off just like a faucet," says IMMEDIATELY - -FREE OF CHARGE. The decision was announced in fed poor people than of you." A NOTIC E IN Joseph Malone, a Negro registration eral court on the same day that the . When some Tus kegee residents de THE COURIER worker. court ruled that Lowndes County must fended their past r ecord of civil rights a·a.m. to 9 p.m. weekday. Integrate its juries. $1.00 an inch for non-profit groups Leflore sa ys the big drop In registra acti v ity, TIAL leader Wendell Wilker 9 a.m. to 2 p.rn. SUDdava tion "badly weakened" our case against . John Hulett was one of five Lo wndes son exploded angrll y: "I ain't Interest Write THE SOUTHER)! C OURIER D., the board. Efforts are being made to Room '3 22, Frank Leu Bldit. Count}" reSidents who brought that case ed In what you did. I'm Interested In i\, 265 ~ 709'l revive the drive, he said. to the federal court. what you're going to do." Montgomery, Alabama 36104 00 "DOC" JOHN M. POOLE JR; NIXON ELECTED MONTGOMERY --E,o . Nixon, wboas NAACP president in the 1950s organized Montgomer y's bus boycott, has beene lected president at the NAACP here. Hear the BEL AlRE BOOKSTORE THE 847 Thurman Street Montgomt'ry, Alabama SOUTHERN 8 A.M. to 9 P.M. Daily on Just Opened COURIER Books and MaglUUaet l4Dof NoUJ ' • • he Time 10 Gel .ha. Boole JfJW·· WJLN·lM .ill Birtningham You Have Bten Won.ins RATES For February Only A FULL-YEAR SUBSCRIPTION --83.50 MAILED TO YOU'EVERY WEEK REGULAR RATE IS $5.00 a year PIGMEl.T MARKHAM RATE FOR NORTHERN SUBSCRIPTION -- $10.00 The Packers THESE STARS! 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