New York Amsterdam News — 1963-00-00347
1963
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Negro Troops In 'Bama; King's Brother Here
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Defiant Governor
Vol. XLII, No. 20
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N«w York IT. N. V
SATURDAY, MAY IS, 1963
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Alabama Demonstrations
Unless Pact
••SICK” GOVERNOR — Ala
bama Gov. George Wallace,
forced to remain at home be
cause of a cold, declares at
news conference that presence
of federal troops in Alabama
was an ‘•invitation to open re
sumption of street rioting by
lawless Negro mobs.” He
claimed Negroes could figure
on rioting under “the protec
tion of federal forces.” (UPI
Photo)
King’s Brother
At Rally Here
By MALCOLM NASH
Once segregation is defeated in Birmingham, seg
regation in the South will ultimately crumble, the Rev.
Alfred D. King predicted Tuesday.
“Birmingham is the hard core
segregationist city in the South.
If segregation is defeated there,
the battle (in other parts of Ala
bama and the South) will be
easier,” the brother of Freedom
Fighter Rev. Martin Luther King
declared.
city in the world,” he told re
porters at a press conference at
13 Astor Place, headquarters of
District 65 of the Retail, Whole
sale and Department Store Union.
W‘I don’t think there is any,
ter city as mean as
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A
“Birmingham is the meanest
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News Of The Week
National
Racial tensions were rising in many Southern cities
as a result of the Birmingham crisis.
Atlanta Negroes declared that Birmingham would be
just a minor incident if desegregation were not started
there soon. In Nashville, Tenn., Negro students clashed
with police for two hours in demanding desegregation
of all public facilities.
Negro residents of Albany, Ga., scene of bitter racial
incidents last year, promised to renew demonstrations
in a few weeks.
• • • •
The Justice Department filed suit in Jackson,
Miss., seeking release of five Negroes jailed in Holmes
County on charges they set fire to a home owned by
one of them. The government said the charges are
“false and baseless.” Meanwhile, Jackson Mayor
rejected an NAACP request to meet to end discrimin
ation in public accommodations.
• • • «
International
Racial violence in Birmingham, Ala., has become
the major topic in African and European newspapers
and is seriously hurting United States prestige abroad.
American diplomats were wiring home bitter com
plaints to Washington of the serious effect of the racial
tensions. Nearly all African newspapers were bitterly
denouncing the Alabama situation, diplomats reported,
■-'-'o' ’ •
.
British Guiana’s Premier Dr. Cheddi Jagan, faced
with the crippling general strike throughout his coun
try for the fourth week, announced that he would re
sign his post and call a new election if the British
would grant independence as part of the election.
• • • *
City and State
Republican leaders throughout the state were re
portedly angry over Gov. Nelson Rockefeller’s order
freezing the filling of all job vacancies unless they are
proved essential. Some 6,000 jobs a year become va
cant.
• a • a
Newburgh, N.Y.’s controversial City Manager Jos
eph Mitchell, who won acquittal In a bribery case a
few weeks ago, has been handed an ultimatum to re
sign by May 27 of be fired. At a Newburgh Council
meeting this week Mitchell was accused of fostering
bitter racial prejudice in urban renewal programs.
Terming Mayor Wagner’s goal of a “slumless
city,” as mere political sloganism, State Housing Com
missioner James W. Gaynor charged'that New York
City is losing the battle against slums.
Bemoans
Anti-Jew
Negroes
By JAMES BOOKER
“If there is any anti-
Semitism among Negroes
against Jews in the United
States, then it is tragically
misguided,” a nationally-
prominent Jewish leader
told the Amsterdam News
this week.
Dore Schary, national chair
man of the Anti-Defamation Lea
gue of B’nai B’rith, and one of
the uatioo’s outstanding play
wights ..ixl film producers, made
the comment in an exclusive in
terview with this newspaper.
If you have a bad feeling or
experience with a landlord or a,
merchant, one has a right to be
angry with the person as a hu
man being, but don’t aay it
is typical of any racial group
ing,” Schary said in the inter
view on the net of “Act One”, a
Mom Hart book he is producing
for the movies.” It is tragic to
hate in the plural,” b
> Urgent
civil rights progress In the
country in recent years, white
Americans must respond with
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Boo Eart ha
As Speaker
At Rally
“The only way we are going
to get what we want — equality
— is with the help of the white
man, and not by abusing him,
internationally-famed singer Ear
ths Kitt told the Amsterdam
News on the heels of her un
pleasant greetings by a Harlem
crowd Tuesday night.
Miss Kitt, who had gone to a
rally to aid the Birmingham
movement to tell the 4,000 per
sons that she was donating her
full week’s salary at the Apollo
Theatre, estimated at $5,000 to
aid Dr. Martin Luther King, said
the nasty and insulting remarks
didn’t bother, however.
“They’re angry with me be-
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Jamaica
Alabama Courtesy
Allow 60 Days
For Integration
By JAMES L. HICKS
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—-The Reverend Fred Shuttles- i a
worth, the indestructible spirit of the new Negro, told
the Amsterdam News Tuesday that if the white people
of Birmingham do not live up to.their agreement to
integrate in 60 days he would again start demonstra
tions here all over again “with an intensity never seen
here before”.
Shuttlesworth, racked with
pain from being slammed against
a brick church wall from 700
pounds of pressure from “Bull"
Connors’ fire hoses, made the
statement to this reporter in an
interview in his room at the
bomb-razed Gaston Motel.
The statement came after
Shuttlesworth became furious
over another statement made by
white real estate man Sidney
Smyer, leader of the white team
of businessmen who negotiated
the highly publicized “truce”
with the Negroes which brought
the uneasy peace to this town
of turmoil.
One Negro
Smyer was quoted as having
said that the agreement called
for one Negro to be hired and
integrated into the sales force of
a downtown department store
within 60 days and that If thatl
Negro was found to be unsatis
factory he would be immediately
fired.
Shuttlesworth told this report
er that that was not the agree
ment at all.
He said, on the contrary, the
agreement which was drawn up
and witnessed by a representa-
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Negroes
With Troops
In Bama -
By JAMES L. HICKS
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. —
If Federal troops are call
ed into Birmingham to put
down racial disturbances,
they will include Negro
troops, and some of them
will be under the command
of a general who earned
his star commanding a Ne
gro regiment in Korea.
Brooklyn-born Brigadier Gen.
John T. Corley, who command
ed the famed onetime aB-Negro
24th Infantry Regiment in Korea,
is already in Birmingham, ready
to take command of the Federal
troops if they are ordered here
from where they are now based
at Maxwell Air Farce Base, 75
miles from Birmingham.
Corley, whom this reporter
(Continued on Page Two)
Peace Hinges On
School Children
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The continuance of the un
easy racial peace hinges on whether white officials
of this city will dismiss charges against thousands of
school children who participated in the demonstrations
and permit them to return to school with unblemished
record.
This is one part of the so-called “agreement”
which neither whites nor Negroes who drew it up are
willing to talk about.
An informed source admitted to The Amsterdam
News Tuesday that this part of the agreement hasLthe
Negro leadership in a “box.”
The source said both white and Negro leaders
agree that it was the pressure and wide demonstrations
of the school children, many of them 8 and 9 year olds,
which broke the back of the white opposition here and
TASK MASTENB — Birming
ham workmen begin repairing
the side wall of the Gaston Men
tel, bombed Saturday night
along with the home of Rever-
end A. D. King. Bombing of
the only Interracial motel In
Alabama triggered massive
Negro retaliation. Buildings
were burned, cars stoned and
numerous persons injured. The
wreckage behind the workmen
Is that of a trailer home com
pany destroyed in the racial
rioting. — (UPI Photo)
—
T
Jackie, Floyd Cause Happy
Pandemonium InBirmingham
By JAMES L. HICKS
BIRMINGHAM, ALA. — Two hours after Jackie Robinson and Floyd Patterson
addressed two rallies in Birmingham Monday rilght, a Negro man was shot in
the jaw by three white men, and a white youth was stabbed in a fight with a Negro
youth.
«L
In spite of these incidents how
ever, Birmingham woke the next
day to an outward calm born of
the uneasy peace negotiated by
Dr. Martin Luther King and a
group of unidentified white busi
nessmen.
The shooting took place when
fifty-three year oid Prince Green,
a Negro, went to a nearby ser
vice station to buy some ciga
rettes. As he left the station in
his car a group of white men in
another car drove past and shot
him.
The bullet, an unusual steel
ball one half inch in diameter
was removed from Green's Jaw
bone at the Carraway Methodist
Hospital, and Birmingham police,
in what undoubtedly was the mis
statement of the year, said Green
appeared to have been shot “with
a strong slingshot”. Other
sources, however, said the bullet
came from a pellet gun.
Over Phone Booth
The youth stabbing involved
two colored and white youths
who became engaged in a fracas
over a telephone booth.
Green's ambush and -the stab
bing of the youth served to under
line the tenseness of the situation
into which Robinson and Patter
son flew here Monday with a
party of thirteen from New York,
which included this reporter.
The New Yorkers arrived by
(Continued on Page 42)
NAACP To
Appeal Case
Of Teacher
By SARA SLACK
Rev. Richard Allen Hildebrand,
pastor of Bethel A.M.E. Church
and president of the Manhattan
Branch NAACP, said that the
NAACP will take the responsi
bility of appealing the case of
Mrs. Josephine Jones, the Har
lem school teacher who charged
the Education Board of Examin
ers discriminated against her be
cause she is a Negro. .
He further stated that:
“Once and for aH, we will
show that this community is
solidly behind Mrs. Jones and
supports her in her charges that
Wide Wide World
1-
By C. B. and LENA POWELL
One derives the keenest pleasure in the observance of healthy and successful
growth whether it be in a child, tree, animal or nation. That pleasure was en
hanced greatly upon our recent visit to Jamaica and was in fact the crowning
satisfaction and highlight of our tour of the West Indian Islands.
We have visited Jamaica
several times (our last
visit being in 1958) and we
have watched with keen
interest and much grati
fication the emergence and
growth of Jamaica as a
free nation.
Let us try to explain why
we consider Jamaica the
highlight of our trip.
C. B. Pewrll
developed and controlled.
Today the result of that
training period is a glowing
tribute to a job well done.
The Black Man is running
the island most efficiently.
Jamaica today is boom
ing. There has been a great
____ advance in industry, agri-
the white *offlclaS|culture and tourism. New
You see, when we last
visited Jamaica it was a
colony controlled by Brit
ain’.., At the time it was
undergoing a five-yeaxr
preparation training period.
The Negroes were
“stand-ins” or “trainees”
observing and ^earning
from.................
how
a nation should be I Contitmed on Page Three)
Hoodlums
Try To
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Riot
Harlem hoodlums — both
juvenile and adultvused a
“Back Birmingham” Rally
Tuesday night to start an
incipient riot on West 125th
Street. Police moved in
quickly and broke up the
disorder—but not before 11
plate glass windows in
shops were smashed and
some stores looted.
The disorder was quelkd about
11 p.m Four arreata was made,
a woman waa injured and a
CBS-TV newsman waa beaten at|
the Hotel Thereaa. A bomb w»rn-
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Police Greeting
ON THE DEFENSIVE—Po
licemen and firemen duck the
barrage 6f atones and bricks
being burled at them from
demonstrators in Birmingham
after violence broke out Mon
day. Some of the officers are
shown reaching for their pis
tols in self defense President
Kennedy kept Federal troops
poised and ready
Ry, ready to movi
new outbreak of racial
in the strife - torn,
stronghold. -(UPI
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