New York Amsterdam News — 1963-00-00480

HOR % 7^'** J ”» • M9W \ > / sew-^ JFK Team Goes All Out For Civil Rights A Profile Of New A Negro’s Answer: Afford Down!" The Odds Were Against Him! National Cry Is "Go! Go! By JAMES BOOKER “We can’t slow down or stop now, these demonstra- tios will continue and will spread, wherever, and whenever there is a racial condition that is not cor­ rected,! ”... ' name of Red Haired Christine Keeler which already has sha­ ken the foundation* of several more than 30 Negro mg through Harlem flUs aUftHtp&r a* Car Porters Call * Nationwide Strike i * , Kennedy ' last week and *] were giving to government. officials in many cities and ' states throughout the na­ tion to pleas that demon­ stration end. The big five, the NAACP’s Roy Wilkins, Rev. Martin Luther King, Dr.’ James Farmer of CORE, Whitney Young of the Ur- - ban League, and A. Philip I rianaoipn, were united in their rejections of slow down pleas sod returned to their home cities to plan new massive assaults. Farmer, after returning vice president at the ** stop the 130.000 marching Ne- the Rev. Dr. Martin groee who paraded here last King ia the targeat dec week under the leadership ef tfcm of H* kiid ia US Sugar Ray Has A Hat With Christine Keeler “My new career will be launched in Paris,” Sugar Ray Robinson told this re­ “I’m going to France within a fortnight to discuss a picture with lovely Chris­ tine Keeler with her producer Francois Gergely. Sugar Ray handed this reporter ' ’ "You know something, Hiram contest in Philadelphia, The letter in- that Christine Revela, Blanch K. Bruce, two ~ a letter from Pari* signed by history. You must not look back. ’ his pride, was injured after the Francois Gergely "The punch In the face that formed Robinson Negroes were Senators from the stung was when I learned that Keeler, who has gained inter- the Government attached my national fame during mouth, will star in a picture representative*, from the State purse. I fought for nothing Mon- titled "Champ* Elysses”, which of South Carolina were Negroes, day night. I don’t know where will be produced by Gergeley. Today they kill you for trying they got the story shout the The letter asked Robinson to sc- to vote in some of those States. Government releasing 3160,000 of my money to me. I haven’t re- cept a role in the film. "About the fight, well. Joey Sugar Ray’s left eye had a eeived a cent of that half-million the past State of Mississippi and all the You cannot look back." to New York, headed for CORE’S convention in Day- ton, Ohio, where he will plan strategy for new sit- ins and for an all-out July 4th offensive against seg­ regated facilities in hotels and lunch counters In the South, and for a major campaign against economic conditions i n Brooklyn, Wilkins, who told the (Continued on Page Two) Giardelio defeated me. He gained the decision. He was the best man in the ring Monday night. No, I don’t want to talk about bow I used to fight. Thafsaneient - » # ; Adam Praises Dr. King The highest tribute paid any American Negro was given to Freedom Fighter Martin Luther King Jr. by the most powerful Negro in Congress, Rep. Adam Clay­ ton Powell, Democratic sachem of Harlem, when he said of the integrationist: "The greatest living Americas, with all due respect to my be­ loved President Kennedy, to Mar­ tin Luther King.’’ Powell, chairman of the Hone* Education and Labor Committee, Everybody’s In The .let! Lenox Terr Burglary Burglars looted the Lenox Ter­ race apartment of buatnesawotn- an Fannie Pierre, proprietor of the Dawn Cato, sad lad with more than 38.000 worth of tars and cash, Monday morning. Miss Pierre, who Eves on the 17th floor of foe 3138 Fifth Aw. building, told the Amsterdam News that the buM«rs took three mink states veined at 33.960 and 34.257 in cash. The tors were in foe closet and I had placed foe money on the window siU In an envelope behind the drapes,” foe Mid. Police said the burglars appar­ ently entered the apartment from the roof. How they got there no one knew. Police said they re­ moved the terrace doer and for­ ced their way into the apartment Miss Pierre, who hee been livm< In Lenox Terrace five years, told Harlem Is Bracing For Muslim Rally i - Harlemites tightened their belts and braced them­ selves this week with the announcement by Muslim leader Malcolm X that the Muslima will stage a masa outdoor rally Saturday, June 29 at 116th Street and Lenox Avenue, at which Mr. X himself will be the principal speaker. The rally begins at S p.m. A cpokesman for the Muslims told the AMSTERDAM NEWS that "the site of the rally ia in totfoe M visible day the heart ef the worst part of T*** Harlem, where dope traffic, *1- (Continued ouPggeTwo) *”***“3 ■*•*’**- «• ««oy The Last Interview With Medgar Evers By SARA SLACK £ (JACKSON, Miss. - This writer waslheTast newa reporter to interview Medgar Evers before he was assasinated in the dead of the night his wife, Mrs. Myrlie Evers, confirmed Sunday afternoon, as she sat in a folding beach chair on the concrete driveway out­ side of her kitchen door talking with this reporter and Jet Magazine newsman, Larry Still. Splotches of her husband’s blood were still visible on the concrete pavement where we sat.) Medgar Ever* wm a man with ( . .. two mission*. They were, to free nQw the Negro end to convert the . C(Bpe Wri|| taking four ef our boys downtown to ptckfoXC. white man.” Medgar had hoped to fulfill Continued on Page Tw« both missions without violence —dtoaSm PRESIDENT KENNEDY Up To Congress ‘ (An Editorial) The President of the United State* has spoken out more eloquently against racial injustice in this country than any other Chief Executive in the history of this nation. But he has not stopped there. After speaking out on the subject, President Kennedy has submitted civil rights legislation to the Congress which if passed will provide more jobs, better housing, integrated education, equal voting rights and access to all public facilities supported by tha state, to all citizens of these United States. And anyone familiar with the problems of minor* Ity groups in this country will readily see that the President’s program to Congress strikes at the very. the solution to the problem squarely at the feet of This is as it should be. This is the way ofir gov­ ernment works. The President can initiate legislation — and he has. But he cannot write his proposals into law. That’s the job of the Congress. And that’s exactly where the matter rests today —It’s up to the Congress. » ■ V % We hope the Congress fully realizes what the President has placed before it. For the way the Congress responds to President the future course of the United States. By this time it should be plain, even to the Congress, that the 20,000,000 Negroes of this nation are not going to settle for anything less than the first class citizenship to which all Americans are en­ titled. President’s program into law, America is destined to flower and bloom in a new birth of freedom. But we don’t hesitate to say that if the Congress filibusters this legislation to death — if it stumbles and eventually fumbles away this golden opportunity for Americanism, then America is in for some dark days which nobody, including the Congress, would like to see. This newspaper has previously said editorially that Negroes today are solidly lined up behind Roy Wilkins, Dr. Martin Luther King, James Farmer and other moderate leader* in their demand for full free­ dom, but at that time we did not hesitate to also say that if Negroes don’t get what they seek under these “moderates” they will turn from them and seek more extreme leadership elsewhere. That extreme leadership is lurking in the wings right now and we might as well be honest about it, it is not exactly a lawful non-violent leadership. But America cannot expect the Negro to con­ tinue to be forever law abiding when the very of­ ficials who make our laws are the first to break them. President Kennedy, as the nation’s Chief Execu­ tive, has done his part and we congratulate him and offer him our sincere appreciation for what he has done. We offter the same hearty congratulations and the same sincere appreciation to Vice President Lyn- dor Johnson and the President’s brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, who already have proved themselves lions in the fight for human rights and in­ dividual decency. • We repeat — the Executive arm of government T has done its part. .. . It’s now up to the Congress. ____ News Of The Week National If Congress gives it to them by writing the porter Tuesday afternoon as his personal tonsorial artist worked on his hair. Democrats and Republicans began to square away for .the 1964 Presidential race as the Republicans chose < San Francisco to hold their nominating convention and the Democrats selected Atlantic C^y., ' President Kennedy’s civil rights bill appeared to be headed for a long haul as Senators were counting noses of possible supporters and Dixtecrats were plan­ ning a filibuster. Negro leader* have threatened a mass demonstration in Washington if a filibuster de- ding a tear of wbtmpertog once - while her mother painted stgM •Nor ktodent pickets to wear downtown on segregated Capitol Street At the time this photo wm snapped NAACP integra­ tion giant Medgar Ever* was Closed and without bloodshed. I know because Medgar told me SbflllltfMWt so eighteen days ago while I was riding in the front seat of his Ta ■VVAI'fil car between him and George cw Raymond. C O RE, youth field worker. Medgar was driving. _ spingaru Medal wM be ‘ * w aeukd iHrTimuwl to Ml It happened this way. I had trailed Medgar around _>r Fv_, XAAO7MtoeM «e/retary whe was emfoar O the NAACP office for three days trying to pin him down tor an Interview, when shortly after 3 p.m. Medgar said to me: "Com* on with me Sera, I know I’ve treated you badly. 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