New York Amsterdam News — 1963-00-00632
1963
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Hearings Set
For Sleeping
Car Porters
Aiming to halt the continuing
decline in' the number of Jobs
available for sleeping car port
ers on the nation's railroads.
President John F. Kennedy has
created a special hearing board
to air demands of the Brother
hood of Sleeping Car Porters.
$30,000 Each
Begin Rebuilding Bombed
Churches In Southwest Ga.
Masons Map
March Plans
James H. Johnstone, Grand
Master of Prince Hall Masons 1b
the State of New York, announced
this week the appointment of Ed
ward A. Lawrence, retired New
York City Fire Lieutenant, and a
present official of the Prince HaU
Masons, as coordinator of plans
for the Order to Join the August
28, "March on Washington for
Jobs and Freedom." _____
200. The Blayloc - McKinnon
firm is employing three crews
at each church in hopes of com
pleting all three buildings at the
same time.
ATLANTA GA., — Rebuilding
of three Negro churches which
were destroyed by bombings and
fire nearly a year ago in South
west Ga. areas entered construc
tion stages last week as build
ing materials were hauled to the
alt. of the leveled churches by
the Blaylock McKinnon Construc
tion firm of Albany, Ga. and
Jacksonville, Fla.
A. Philip Randolph, president
of the Brotherhood, aaid that
Emergency Board No. 1S6 will
conduct hearings on demands of
the union for a reduction in the
work month to 173 hours or a
40-hour week for Job protection
and a wage increase.
The three churches — the Sha
dy Grove Baptist Church in Lee
County, Ga., and the Mount
Olive and Mount Mary Baptist
Hearings will be held in the
Churches in Terrell County, Ga.
Federal Courthouse in Chicago,
were the targets of racists’
beginning Tuesday, August 20,
bombs and arson after their fa
and involving jobs of sleeping
cilities were used as voter reg
car porters of the Pullman Com
istration headquarters in mid-
pany, New York Central Rail-
road. Rock Island Railroad and summer, 1962, or their pastors
had participated in protest de
the Soo Line.
monstrations.
.
To Keep Jobs
Randolph said the
Spearheading the drive to re-
Mr. Randolph said the fight build the churches was one-time
for the reduction of the work Brooklyn Dodger baseball star
month fof sleeping car porters Jackie Robinson, in conjunction
with the Southern Christian
has been projected by the union
Leadership Conference, headed
to halt the abolition of hundreds
by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
of porters Jobs and to Improve
Co-ordinating the fund-raising
wages and other conditions for
campaign was Dr. King’s exe
these workers.
cutive assistant, Rev. Wyatt Tee
Walker.
slness firms either making finan
cial contributions or offering
their services on a gratis basis.
Among the latter, the Georgia
chapter of the American Insti
tute of Architects, led by Joseph
Amisano of Toombs, Amisano and
Wells, assumed all responsibility
for preparing sketches, drawings
and blueprints free of charge.
The Trappists Monks at Conyers,
Georgia, volunteered to provide
the stained glass windows for
the three sanctuaries.
Raise $75,000
Others, including the Atlanta
Constitution and the Menonite
Central Committee, conducted
their own fund • raising cam
paigns, with the net result that
some $75,000 was made avail
able for the church re-building
program.
On Feb. 3, this year. Dr. King
broke ground for the three chur
ches, and construction is expec
ted to be completed within four
months from the beginning of
actual re-building.
The churches will cost about
$30,000 each to re-construct and
will have a seating capacity of
In recent years, because of
the growing decline in the use
of rail transportation, several
thousand porters’ jobs have been
eliminated by the major rail
roads and Randolph’s union has
had a heavy loss in union mem
bership.
Militant Waiter
Loses His Job
AUSTIN, Texas — A waiter
who won an appointment with
Gov. John Connally to discuss civ
il rights after a 48-hour sit-in at
the governor’s office was fired
from his job in an Austin motel’s
club.
The waiter, Booker T. Bonner,
gave no reason for his discharge
Tom Castillo, an assistant man
ager of the Capri Motel's Club
Caravan, said the discharge had
nothing to do with Bonner’s civi’
rights activities. Bonner and a
group of nine integrated demon
strators conducted the two - da;
protest.
This is how It began:
Jackie Arrives
Woolworth's
Loss To Duo
Is $2,800
Police are seeking the two
men who reportedly attacked
two stock clerks of Woolworth’s
Department store, 230 W. 125th
St., Monday afternoon and es
caped with $2,800 after assault
ing one of the clerks.
On Sept. 9, 1962, the day of
the second church destruction
incident, two churches, Mount
Olive and Mount Mary, were
burned to the ground shortly be
fore daybreak. That same after
noon, Jackie Robinson arrived
in Albany, Ga., for a city-wide
registration rally. After confer
ring with Rev. Walker about the
incident, he agreed to serve as
National Chairman of the SCLC
Church Re-building Fund, follow
Ben Johnson, 30, of 795 E. 169th
ing a. long distance phone call
St., Bronx and Mortimer Smith,
to Dr. King and Rev. Ralph Aber-
nathy. who were on the West 54, of 330 E. 74th St., were on
their way to Manufactures Trust,
Coast
Jackie's first donation was a 275 W. 125th St., to make a de
gift of $5,000 from his employer, posit when they were attacked
William Black, president of New in front of 271 W. 125th St.
York’s restaurant chain, Chock Police said two men reported-
ly accosted the pair and one
vull ‘O Nuts. This was followed
oy a $10,000 donation from New’
hit Smith over the head with an
York Governor Nelson Rockefel-
hard object knocking him to the'
er.
ground. The bag slipped from
his grasp and the men seized;
the $2,800 and fled.
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your choice to wear the covet
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to right* Kay Hughes - Sheri
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Barbara Julian • Sondra Kates
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a ballot box will be placed so
that you may vote for your
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WANTED Motel Suit Victory
25 voiun*..r Mother, Cracks Renewal Bias
in eoch of the S boroughs and
The NAACP Legal riefaue
y,,,th,,2,r -Coun?
fiST&JOIXS"* Edue.UM,.l Fund, l»c h„
and means of keep,ng our children ann^nred victory Io a slut that
in school, ond to help our school establishes the legal path for
drop outs.
challenging discrimination tak-
fin. 25 voluntae, onawering thia
od will be feted with o party Pr°Krarn
at which prizes will be awarded.
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important
The decision, handed down a-
gainst a Tennessee motel chain,
goes further than President Ken
nedy’s executive housing order
of November 20, 1962, and used
the Constitution as its legal foun
dation.
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Secretary - Receptionist D« Court ruling “denies the
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lea to decline accommodations to
for Non-Profit Organization, Good Negro citizens since it is situa-
spelling. Interviews Sat. 2-4 p.m. ted on a federally under writ-
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lemrai Ballroom
“The implications of the de
ll 8-20 W. 125th St. 2nd floor eision are vast,” Mr. Greenberg
I continued, “for all the urban re-
ten urban renewal site,
newal projects constructed be
fore President Kennedy's hous
ing order and not expressly cov
ered by it.
“This decision also makes
specific Judicial relief available
in instances of discrimination by
urban renewal projects built
since the Presidential order.
' “This will affect rental hous
ing, homes for sale, commercial
property and every other facil
ity which has been built with
urban renewal aid,” the Legal
Defense Fund’s chief counsel
said.
Lawyers In Case
The complaint was filed in the
U. S. Federal District Court for
the Middle District of Tennes
see in February by Avon N. Wil
liams and Z. Alexander Looby,
NAACP Legal Defense Fund at
torneys in Nashville; A. W. Wil
lis, Memphis: Mr. Greenberg.
Constance Baker Motley and
Frank Heffron, of New York
City.
WOOLWORTH'S
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They represented Dr. Vasco A.
Smith, Jr., a Negro dentist from
Memphis, who was denied ac
commodations at the Holiday
Inn-Capitol Hill motel on De
cember 4, 1962.
The motel was built on land
acquired from the Nashville
Housing Authority in 1958 and
1959. The Nashville Housing Au
thority had condemned the re
development project area in
1962, of which 90 percent of the
land was owned or occupied by
Negroes.
Lena Will
Appear In
Atlanta
ATLANTA, Ga. — Glamorous
singing star Lena Horne will ap
pear in Atlanta, Georgia, on Aug
ust 20 at the City Auditorium
i for the first time in the more
than 20 years of her fabulous
career in a benefit for SNLC.
The beautiful song stylist, who
launched her career in 1940 ns
a singer with Charlie Barnett's
orchestra, will be the first artist
to appear in concert here in what
will be a series of "Stars for
Freedom" to benefit the present
civil rights movement. Appear
ing with her on the same bill
will be the Billy Taylor Trio,
whose pianist-leader is recogniz
ed as one of the most brilliant
Also sharing the spotlight will
be Lambert, Hendricks & Bovan
Accompanying Miss Horne will be
a 23-piece orchestra under the
direction of Mercer Ellihgton,
j son of the famous composer-band-
leader Duke Ellington.
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Oh, But When
They Learned
He Was Negro
HARRISBURG, Pa.-The Penn
sylvanla Human Relations Com
mission last Tuesday ordered the
proprietor of a barber shop near
Pittsburgh to cut the hair of Ne
gro patrons,
The order Is the result of a pub-
hearing held April 29 in Pitts
burgh in the case of Mr Gus-
sie Johnson vs. Nicholas J. Ca-
faro. individually and doing busi
ness as Cafaro Barber Shop.
The Commission accepted the rec
ommendations of its three Hear
ing Commissioners in ruling that
Mr. Cafaro had violated the Stat<-
Human Relations Act in refush'*
service to Mr. Johnson on four
occasions because of his race.
Findings of fact listed in the or
der show that Mr. Johnson re
ceived haircuts In the Cafaro Bar
her Shop at the regular price of
$1.73 on two occasions when the
barbers did not know that he was
a Negro. On each of these visits
to the barber shop, the barber
took less than 20 minutes to cut
Mr. Johnson's hair and did not'
indicate any particular difficulty
In giving the complainant a hair
cut.
After It was learned that the
rnmplainant was a Negro, Mr.j
Johnson was refused service in
the barber shop on fear occasion*, j
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