New York Amsterdam News — 1963-00-00522

1 4 JA t 1 fehp* BACKING DR KING - The above picture will raise som? eyebrows in Baptist Church cir­ cles. It shows Dr. Thomas Har­ ten, Brooklyn pastor and long time vice president of the Na­ tional Baptist Convention hand­ ing a cheok for 81,000 to James L. Hick* of the Amsterdam News for presentation to Dr. Martin Luther King and his Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Amsterdam News church reporter Malcolm Nash looks on. The eyebrow raising comes because Dr. J. H. Jack* N. Y. AMSTERDAM NEWS, Sat, July «. 1MI • Ith some 5,000 homeless, helpless le- men, women and children.’* . of Finally, the report Included , several cases of extreme and ( needless brutality. They were: , c. Abraham Franklin, 23 years old, , ry crippled coachman. Murdered J ry by « mob at 27th and 7th Avenue . Q(j then hanged in the presence of Id. Ms mother. Augustus Stuart, beaten by mob . at 35th and 7th Avenue, married. 1 y Died at Bellevue Hospital. i Peter Heuston, 63, Mohawk te Indian mistaken for Negro. Beat- en and died in Bellevue Hospital. er Left widow and 8 year old girl. Jeremiah Robinson. Chased by ut' mob at Madison and Catherine sir Streets. Beaten to death. Body irn tossed into river. William Jonea, beaten to death, til- Hanged to a lampost on Clarkson as Street.' Body badly mutilated, ed. William Henry Nichols, visiting ob from Philadelphia at 147 E.28th >ut Street. Appealed to police for be help. Was shooed off and told he was frightened without reason. E. in this house, mob tossed three ct- month old baby from window his into basement. They then cut lly water pipes. Nichols died from he beating. tith Joseph Reed 7 year old invalid living in same address above . fi- beaten to death, iras James Costello, 97 West 33rd aif, Street. Went to drug store to illy g®t medicine for child. Beaten she and killed. ind Joseph Jackson, 19 lived on West 53 Street near 6th Ave. Killed er near foot of 34th Street and body lid’, tossed into East River, in Samuel Johnson, lived In Itoos- be- evelt Street, killed near Fulton sh- Ferry- out Mrs. Derickson, white, married les. to Negro, lived at 11 York Street, in. beaten so severely, she died a Anti'TB-Drive In Uptown Area Twice each week, from 11 am. to 7 p.m., the Project oponsorg offer free cheat X-rays to any­ one 15 years of ago and over. The X-ray bus will be at the following locations this week and next: PLEASURE WMREN COVINGTON MOL POPULAR-PRICED EVENINGS OF PHILHARMONIC HALL LINCOLN CENTER (Continued from Page One) i S * ' place, considerable commotion was stirred up. The drawings J were held s* 47th Street and 4th Avenue (now Park Avenue) on Saturday morning, July Hth. There was an air of Jubilation, but this soon changed. Behind the unrest were the “Copperheads.** These ware' Northerners with deep sympathy for the South. And this was a golden opportunity to help the 1 South. ' Prominent "Copper' i heads'* were Ben Wood, editor of the New York Daily News, and his brother, Congressman { Fernando Wood, former Mayor of New York City, who had been ' defeated by Republican George Opdyke. As Congressman, Wood’s cv-n- stituency included the Irish dock workers, those Who lived in the Bowery and the . teeming slums ' of Five Points (that cesspool in lower New York where Worth, Pearl, Baxter and Water streets ( came together). The brothers urged open rebellion. Adding ' fuel to the unrest, they blamed ? the Job shortage among the t Irish on the Negroes, telling the Irish that the Jobs that “right­ fully” belonged to them were being usurped by Negroes, flock­ ing to New York from the South. These “rightful” Irish - Jobs included the lowest, hard­ est and dirtiest 'work in the city — longshoremen, dock wal­ lopers, construction work, jani­ tors, porters, cleaners, scaveng- ' ers and other menial labor. v 1 15,090 Negroes j Census figures said there ■ were only 15,000 Negroes in New t York in 1863. The total popula- . tion was 800,000. Of thia num­ ber, 400,000 were foreign born - and one half of thia group was Irish. As more Negroes arrived from the South, they were given work similar to that done by the Irish. The latter didn’t consider the shortage of jobs in the first place. All they could see was negro workers going about their son, president of the National Bapti?* Convention has stoutly opposed the actions of Dr. King in the non violent movement. Jackson recently denounced a march on Washington. Harten Is known as a man with a mind of his own. Hearing Set For Teenager Percy Williams. 17, of 2713 Ozone Park anc Eighth Ave., charged with as- 2713 Eighth At sault and violation of the Sullivan morning in froi Law, is free In $1,000 bail for a Ave. bearing in Youth Part of Crimin- Police said 1 others, accostec al Court July 8. William is accused of assault- woman In fron iag John Sawyer, Mrs. Luis P. Ave., and rej Phillips of 138-08 106th Ave., South ed money. ped, It was set afire amid the Wl maudlin shouts of the frenzied mob. , . At the police station, the or- J eelr^ater. phans, herded like animals, slept on the floors or on hard benches I —-making out the best they could, f Their only food was smuggled into them by a kind hearted I ■ Roman Catholic priest. World famous same price as your favorite fifth! full quart __ business. Three days later, a Federal regiment of Zouaves (they wore th i There had been several fights , brilliant costumes, red pants, le between the two groups, but they ■ were sporadic and unorganized. , But the outbreak of Monday. , blue coats, the pants a baggy ra type tucked into the shoes) res- A: cued the orphans and with fixed c( July 13th was different. It was thoroughly organized. And New York’s 800 police were powerless to stop them. Mobs swept Into Negro neigh­ borhoods with one purpose — ex­ terminate the Negroes. ------------ Early in the morning, the first such mob marched down to the docks carrying banners proclaim­ ing “No Draft." The mob beat up every Negro In sight. When the fleeing Negroes sought refuge in police stations, they were thrown out. On E. 28th St. Negro tenements were fla­ grantly invaded and the occu­ pants brutally beaten and killed. In one instance, at a bouse in East 28th Street, the Invading fiends tossed a three month old baby out of a window down to the basement. The Infant was kill­ ed instantly. From a low tavern at the cor­ ner of York Street and West Broadway, a crowd of 100 drunk­ en Irishmen swarmed into the neat block-long street, running from West Broadway to a lane in back of St. John’s Church,' demolishing and destroying the Negro occupied small wooden and brick houses that lined both sides of the streets. The occu­ pants managed to escape but their property was destroyed. In lower Manhattan where many of the city’s Negroes lived in segregated areas like Clark-; son, Thompson, Sullivan and Roosevelt Streets — on* Second _ Avenue and In East 28th and 29th Streets and even higher up­ town, rioters were free to loot * Negroes* homes besides beating and murdering any and every Negro in light. Orphanage Burned Moat dastardly was the burn­ ing of the Negro Orphanage. This institution, located on Fifth Ave- bayonets, defying the mobs, mov- ed the children to the safety of the hospitals on Blackwell’s Is- land. During the four days of looting 11 and killing, the vicious mobs de- ( stroyed property valued at over two million dollars. The end came Friday, July 17th. e During the four days, the death v toll was close to 5,000. Negroes cornered in streets near the wa- t • terfront where they worked, knew they had no chance against t the armed mob. There was scant help from the ] police., So^ather than fare the mob, Negroes chose to .’eap into t the river and try to swim to : safety. Numbers of Negroes died t by drowning. The week following the riots, 1 a Merchants Committee for the Relief of Colored Riot Victims > was formed. Over $40,000 was raised to help needy victims. t When the Committee wound up its activities, the final report said that almost 12,000 victims of the mob had been helped. Three E Negro ministers were of great ~ jheip. Their names: Henry High­ land Garnet; Charles B. Ray and John Peterson. Reporting the event, the Com­ mittee stated; “Driven by fear of death at the hands of the mob, Who this *, week previous, brutally murder- ed by hanging on trees and lamp posts several of their number and cruelly beating and robbing many others, burning and sack­ ing their homes and driving nearly all from the alleys and docks upon which they had pre­ viously obtained an honest though humble living, these people have been forced to take refuge on Blackwell’s Island, at Polfre Station.s on the outskirts of the City in the swamps and woods. . . J Wed. Night is Freedom Night at Wells SPONSMEO RY mt FOLLOWING ORGANIZATIONS JUN1 IMh. BIBMINGHAM NIGHT THE ALABAMA ABM COLLEGE ALUMNI nm seat. mmuwiffi might _________ - . thh bab-mobm JULT M. OIOMU MIGHT ,-------- .------------------------------- ----- CLUB IMOEMITK THE MEW YORK 0TATE REALTY JULY IMh. TKMXEMRE MIGHT r CULTVMIST ASSOCIATION JULT 17th. 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