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CIVIL RIGHTS ACT TERMED TOP ACHIEVEMENT READ THE ONLY WHILE IT IS NEWS Report On Eve Of FIRST 6 Cents IN YOUR MEMPHIS WORLD PER COPY CLEVELAND — Passage of the Civil Rights Act by Congress Is rated the foremost, achlevment In VOLUME 28, NUMBER 5 MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1958 PRICE SIX CENTS the field of human rights In. 1957 by the National Asociation for the Advancement of Colored People In its report for the year released here and simultaneously in NeW York Concerning Rebellion To Supreme Court City, on the eve of the Association's 49th annual convention which opens in Cleveland on 'Tuesday (July 8) I and continues through July 13. "Other events of the year of I, historic significance in thé strug- ■ gle for equal rights." the 109-page report. continues, "include- the use of federal troops to sustain a fed eral court order requiring the aS- m'sslon of Negro students to « previously all-white high school In Little Rock. Ark„ the enact ment of a New York City ordinance banning racial and religious dis crimination in the rental, of of private housing, the first- silch ordinance to be enacted in any ■ Butler Wants Rogers To American city; and the continuing desegregation of public schools in compliance with the U. S. Supreme Court, ruling of Mnv 17, 1954’C Enter Little Rock Case NEGETIVE DEVELOPMENTS NORMAL, III. - (ÑNPA) - Chairman Paul These positive achievements, the ■ M. Butler^ of report asserts, were-counterrbalaui- Democratic National Committee offered sage advice here ed by certain "negative develop week to President Eisenhower for solving racial problems ments feeding the flames of .facia, had no strategy for getting in line the Democratic states which strife, mocking the democratic are in rebellion against the Supreme Court decision against ra professions of our .country.” .’ cially segregated public schools. Among tjiese latter, the NAACP survey includes “the ■ challenge He urged Mr. Eisenhower to ROBERT EARL which Gov. prval ;E. Faubus -of direct Attorney General William P. Arkansas laid down to federal au Rogers to intervene in the Little FASTING AND READING—Robert Earl's attention is turned to the thority when he ordered out’ the Rock school integration case in the Bible more and more as his interest in food is decreasing. National Guard- to - keep Negro Eighth United States Circuit Court (Staff Photo) children, out of Little Rock's UèiW THE of Appeals, but he had no word of tral High School; thé continuing advice to Gov. Qrval Faubus of effort of some of the . sputhern Arkansas who used the Arkansas states to destroy' the NAiACPfrttie WORLD •National Guard last September to Relurn To Central absorption of southern legislatures keep nine colored children' from with measures to curb the NAACP 11 days more before entering Central High School in and circumvent dcsegregatiobi-JCto Deadlines to Register Little Rock. FASTING HERE the neglect of other legislâtloïK The Democratic chairman had an High Seen For Little and the disfranchisement of”Ne- To Vote In Aug. ideal subject on which to address gro citizens of Tuskegee, Alabama, Primary some words of advice to the Dixie- by‘gerrymander.” ’ -.¿S'.. crats within his own. party. He Rock, Ark. Students Nevertheless, the report main-1 Spoke at the Summer Conference Why fast—why abstain from eat tains, the overall advances madFpjn on Public issues conducted bv the ing food? There arc many reasons By LOUIS LAUTI ER ,im7 were “encouraging.”. The AQtyll . Illinois State Normal University at . perhaps as niy reasons as WASHINGTON. — (NNPA) Rights Act, the “first, such mèa? Rodgers Announces Normal. His subject was party re persons who fast. The seven colored students who at- sure enacted by Congress ln^^82 tended Central High School ln Date Of Youth sponsibility. The late Majint-nia Gandhi fas- years, provides federal proteçtlOh cd in protest against, British do Little Rock, Ark., last school year "The President , should instruct will be back in chat school at the of the Negro’s right to voterJ.Alr NAACP Meeting the Attorney General to inform the mination. Jesus Christ fast three- though the measure as passed;. ’ days while meditating in prayer'. beginning of the next school year, court that the solution to the en informed sources here believe.' not the bill originally introduced William Rodgers Jr. prestdnei of forcement of integration at Little The big question here is why with. .Administration support, "As? Robert Earl . (last name omitted) These sources, who asked . that the local Youth Council of t he Rock is not to be found in capltu< their names be withheld from pub soci.ation leaders agreed that the National Association^ for,..tlijf A.d- dating to the threats uf lawlcssnc-ita.; 1 fastinp? .. t law.was effective and would facilit-., vancement of Colored“People,': s'ilO Robert, a 40-year-c:d actor from lication, predicted that, the Eighth Saturday that the youth . gr<»UP TI)e real solution is in clear and New York City, is here in Memphis United States Circuit Court of Ap ate expanded registration and vot IT CAME TO Rfjr.AfBUS STOP The 1957 operated by’James Wood of 1380 Celia St., Unequivocal executive and Judicial peals at St. Louis will grant a stay ing of Negroes in the South,” the’ Ford stopped for a rest after it was engaged in skidded down the sidewalk about 120 feet would hold its next meeting on visiting an uncle, I. C. Norman, Wednesday. Aug. 6. restraints on lawlessness.” and other relatives at 33 Fields St. of the order, of Federal .District renort nointe out.” - from the impact. (Staff Photo). Judge Harry J. Lemley postponing a collision with another automobile at Beale Rodgers would not reveal details The actor’s fasting coincides with PRESIDENT “SERVED NOTICE” WHITHER THE REAL CALL a pattern of living he is adopting integration at Central' High for President Eisenhower’s • interven- . and Lauderdale last week. The auto, being of the July 2 Council meeting, but But Mr. Butler, failed to call up two and a half years. U------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -:--------------------------------- he did say that the group plans . , . that is nbt to eat food when tion in Little Rock "served notice, on such top figures in the Demo ever he is "mentally or physically If and when .the order is stayed that the Executive Branch of the "something big after we get chapter cratic party as Senators James O. ed." upset.” permitting the seven colored child government. was prepared to sus Clennon King Large Crowd Expected At Rogers, who is also the president Eastland-of Mississippi, Harry Byrd Robert started to fast Jjlne 15 ren to continue their schooling at tain the federal judiciary in its de of the Douglass High School stud of Virginia, Strom Thurmond and after he "became all shook-up” dur Central High, these sources believe, segregation orders.” the NAIACP re-- Olin D. Johnson of South Carolina, ing his first air-plane ride. He rode it will make no difference ho,w long ent council, said that the ¿Youth it takes the Court or Appeals to port, declares. "Tills was the Ad-, Council plans to work slde-bj'-slde" Sam Ervin of North Carolina, Rich a plane from New York City to ministrat’on’s reply to the soutlf- Returns To Voter-O-Rama Wednesday with the LeMoyne College chapter. ard B Russell, and Herman E. St. Louis, Mo., where he attended hold a hearing on the NAACP ap a Hygienics Convention June 16-21. peal from the ruling of Judge Lem ern doctrine of Interposition which? Talmadge of Georgia, and John L. if acceded to, would have meant A capacity crowd' is expected to Folks." . McClellan of Arkansas to carry out Oh leaving the convention he ley. attend Vote-O-Rama when it is Estes said "we will discuss who Mrs. E. K. Romby New came to Memphis “where it would anarchy. While the need for such Mississippi their oaths of office to support and action was widely regretted, there held at Clayborn Temple A. M. E and what to vote for. One camp defend the Constitution and laws be easier to fast.” GULFPORT, Miss. _ (UPI) - church, 294 Hernando, at 8 p. m aign "issue we are pushing is the Girl Scouts Director So Robert hasn't, eaten food since Gov. Faubus Hits was general recognition that.jihe. Clennon King, Negro minister who Wednesday. Tennessee Constitution amendment (Continued on Back Page) .(Continued On Page Three) President had been goaded Inta; tried vainly to enter the all-white One of the main items on the which would permit 18-year-old Mrs. Elizabeth K. Roiziby has taking the only stand he could by; University of -Mississippi, has re- been selected field director of the Mrs. Daisy Bates program will be the first political person to vote. We will also urge a PARAGAULD. Ark. — Gov. Orval the belligerent intransigence •.of- 'M turned to his -home here after a speach of Atty. S. A. Wilburn since more liberal old-age ^assistance law. Negro Girl Scout leaders in North Gov. FaUbus.” -two-weefc.stay*:in his native Geor ern Mississippi and south and estet Fabus, now in the thick of his he became a candidate for state campaign for a rare third Arkansas The report consists of an in gia despite the threat of charges legislature last week. Among, community leaaers who Memphis. The announcement was Louisiana Finds Many Teachers against him, it was learned today. are expected to participate in the made last week by the Tenn.-Ark- gubernatorial seat, last week fired troduction and 12 chapters devoted A request for 500 volunteer away here at Sherman Adams, aide King said he returned to Missis workers to work in a "get-out-the Vote-O-Rama are Rev.