Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 July 1963 — Page 2

2—The Indianapolis Recorder, July 6, 1963

Indiana NAACP Chapters Join In March for Slain Leader

Public expression of sympathy was ubiquitously conducted in Indiana as well as throughout the United States in the past few weeks following the unprovoked death Qf Medgar Evers, NVgro NAACIf field director for Mississippi. In Indianapolis a throng overflowed, Greater St. John Baptist Churcb’s balcony and aisle to hear Evers’ contributions expounded and to map out plans for a civil rights drive in the city in memory of the crusader who sacrificed his life for the cause of freedom. Demonstrations, including several hundred NAACPers and interested persons, were conducted in Kokomo and Marion downtown districts. ©ver 200 members were accepted injfco the NAACP during the memorial service and freedom rally in Indianapolis which was sparked by congregational singing of the emotionally-filled song, "Give Me That Old Freedom Spirit” led by Rev. Andrew J. Brown, host pastor and former NAACP president. Evers was eulogized as a casualty in the battle for freedom—one of the American dream, through a resolution adopted. It further read: “He believed, he died, and by the very beauty of his life, we ate inspired. We are determined, and we are encouraged. We say to the world that “We Shall Overcome Someday.’ ” The resolution cited the “minimum victories in the fight against intolerance and bigotry in Indianapolis’’ and warned against complacency wherever found. “We must now remove and destroy every vestige of segregation and discrimination remaining in this community. We can no longer Contain the spirit of our people

who demand human dignity with slow and minimum concessions, and we advise the institution at once of whatever steps are necessary to achieve the American dream in our community,” the document further read. Others taking part in the service were Mrs. Virgia Davis, NAACP president; Father John LeBauvre, mission worker at St. Rita’s Catholic Church who worked with Evers on getting Negroes to register to vote in Greenwood, Miss., Rev. James L. Cummings, Trinity CME Church pastor; Rev. Clinton M. Marsh, Witherspoon Presbyterian Church pastor; Atty. Rufus C. Kuykendall, Atty. Patrick Chavis, Mrs. Osma Spurlock, Indiana Civil Rights Commission deputy director, and Herman Walker, president of United Packinghouse Food and Allied Workers Local 117. At Kokomo a group of 35 placard - bearing demonstrators, some wearing black armbands, staged a march through the downtown section. It was preceded by memorial services at Wayman Chapel AME Church with Revs. F. S. Kemper, Walter K. Robertson and Ronald D. Petry speaking. The marchers carried signs reading “Remember Medgar fivers,” “Support Human Dignity,” “Bury Discrimination — Not Democracy,” and “Right is Basic.” Also included in the program were group singing of patriotic songs and a solo by Miss Laura Brown. About 200 black armband wearing mourners at Marion conducted a quiet demonstration which also included two white men. The fourblock procession led to the Gr&nt County Courthouse where the crowd listened to speeches by ministers and NAACP leaders.

Local Prexy Leads Delegation To National Meet Mrs. Virgia Davis, devoted liqal NAACP president, led the Indianapolis delegation to the NAACP national convention July 1-6 in Chicago. Others are Miss Carole Stevenson, secretary; Miss JoElla Graves, Mrs. Doris Ward, and Atty. John Preston Ward. Alternates are Mrs. Jean Stephaney, Mrs. Ollie Weeks, Mrs. Lilia Adams, Mrs. Mattie Rice Coney and Joe Summers.

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tressed a strong interest in the humanities and would like to be.oiiie a professional writer and make his contribution to society by helping others. The Attucks student, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Clark, 443 W. 29th, summed up his philosophy of life with the following statement; “I believe that man must be aware of a force much greater than himself—and when he relates himself to this power, and only then, can he find true happiness and success.”

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Judge Buchanan Final rites for Judge Buchanan. 77. 402 N. Blackford, were held July 2 at Willis Mortuary with burial in Floral Park Cemetery. He died June 27 at a local nursing home. Mr. Buchanan, a retired contractor, was an Indianapolis resident 36 years. He was born at Bowdon, Georgia and was a member of Mt. Olive Baptist Church. Survivors include two daughters. Mrs. Mary Alexander and Mrs. Inez Cooper, and a son, James Buchanan III, all of Indianapolis.

DOUGLASS GETS LIGHTS: A $4,000 lighting project for the Douglass Park Little League baseball diamond has been greatly reduced through the help of volunteer skill workers. Four of the workers are shown beside a light switch. They are James M. Bradley, Scott Roberts, Mar-

shall Avery and James Byers. With the addition of the lights, the little league team can play numerous games at night. The first game under the lights has not been announced. (Recorder photo by Jim

Burres)

est number of prenatal sounds ever recorded.

Mrs. Harris was admitted to Michael Reese April 10 as a precaution to insure that she would have a quiet, uneventful pregnancy. From the’beginning she and her husband received social work counseling from a social worker to help prepare them for the impending births. Bed rest was prescribed and a special diet was prepared for optimal health during the

gestation period.

It is not known whether these are the largest quads on record or not. There is a history of twins on both sides of the Harris family. Dolores herself is one of seven children; she has four brothers

and two sisters.

Mrs. Harris’ father is Lawrence (Doc) Smith, who has been a car hiker for 33 years and is well known to many north siders. “I am just so excited and proud that I can’t say anything,” he exclaimed after being notified of

the multiple births.

Mrs. Harris is a native Chicagoan and a graduate of Engle-

wood High school.

The quads’ father Bernard, is an ! assembler for International Har-

i vester Company.

Malcolm X

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by yelling across the room. Although food, hlackeye peas, grits, sausage, bologna and eggs, was available. Miss Cohen and others in her cell immediately went on a hunger strike resulting in her losing 10 pounds. To pass the time away, they sang a lot of freedom songs, had personal discussions, played a word game they created, arid discussed Albany, Ga. She said it rained everyday so it was not too hot. She explained that a few months ago Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., protested bitterly after it was i learned girls were being made to strip naked in front of policemen | to be searched and sometin^es officers would search the girls. ; Therefore Miss Cohen said the police were careful not to touch them. She said they were not searched or mistreated, altrough j the Negroes arrested June 20 tor attempting to desegregate down1 town facilities were handled'

roughly.

Commenting on the Negro eyr.i-

i munity, she said it is benind the | | movement and is somewhat active- j j ly engaged in a boycott of down-

town. stores. Miss Cohen stayed

! with a five-member Negro lamily i in Albany whom she said wel-

j corned her wholeheartedly. She noted that the youngest

member of the family, a two-year- .

old girl, was arrested and jailed when sne was one' and a half

years old for marching with heF

mother in a demonstration. She

said an 11-year-old daughter was recently jailed for demonstrating ;

but was released.

WITH SPACE ADMINISTRATION: Mrs Dorothy Hoover, a mathematician at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is shewn against a backdrop of mathematical symbols which have been so much a part of her life. She is one of many Negroes employed by the admin-

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Henry C. Dimmitt

Henry Clinton Dimmitt, 49-year-Miss Cohen said ... A^any .a-1

cilities are segregated except tne Long Hospita | ancl wa3 | )Urk , d in bus terminal anct libraries. Sne j^ ew Crown Cemeterv June 27 folsuggested the tinal solution to the lowing services at Allen

proolem will be governmental in- church

ie !T ntl ? n ' , , Mr. Dimmitt who resided at 2038 The devoted integrationist said Bellefontaine, had worked at the she became interested in equal ( Malleable Co. for 12 years and was rights while a student at Short-’ » — * ■> >

ridge Hign School where she noted a difference made between Negro

Attendance Held Conilnurq n««m rage 1 ! worth of gasoline. In a statement Miss Lee, 1148 W. 25th, said that Spradley, who had driven her to a party, was taking her home when he decided he would stop at the station and buy some gas. She said Mullins waited on them. Meanwhile, another car containing some girls Spradley knew drove up behind them. The girl said that the victim got out of his car, walked over to the other car and began talking to its occupants. "As Sam stood talking to the girls,” Mi^s Lee stated, “the manager (Mullins) said; “Hey fellow, aren’t you going to pay me?’ ” She said Spradley walked over to the attendant and told him: “1 ordered the gas and I’ll pay for it.” The girl said Spradley - didn’t speak as though he was angry, but instead, was smiling. The young woman revealed that the two men were at the rear of the automobile and Spradley asked for some stamps after paying. "As Sam began putting the stamps away (in his pocket), the attendant shouted; “Go!” But before he could, the girl said, Mullins pulled the gun and shot Spradley's hat from his head. The victim then told the attendant he was going to leave, but Mullins fired a series of shots— some of them coming through the rear windshield, 'Miss Lee stated. One of the stray bullets struck Mis?

Lee.

i According to Miss Lee, she askeu Mullins if she could use the tele- : phone inside the station to call her

mis. 0 uu« a C. . h ® me a f. d he reportedly told her

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Continue*; I'rom rage I no basic conflict between eml rights organizations.” He said he hoped they would "move forward to a “United Civil RightsAppeal.” The various rights organizations are “more united than ever before and, with differents points o£ emphasis, all are moving the same way on the highway of freedom^.L he asserted. “There can be unity even where there isn’t uniformity,” he held. The civil rights groups are “dfi.-. ing a good and much needed job;!* he stressed. He said all had beeJi raising more money as a result of -.he “action going on the last two years.” Also during his visit. Dr. Kirig 'vent to the Antioch Baptist Church, in the Bedford Stuyvessant section of Brooklyn, where he delivered a sermon to 3,004) members of the congregation. ' MANY PEOPLE have developed a “get-by” philosophy, he protested in his sermon. He went on to say: “Just get by This is the attitude which pervades the country’s Darwin’s theory of the survival of the fittest has been replaced by i the survival of the slickest.” j Americans, he Slid, have allowed their mentalities to out-djs-i stance their moralities and have failed to use their moral commitment to make a brotherhood. “Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between ininstice and immorality,” he declared. When Negroes sit down at~~a‘ segregated lunch counter in thej South, they are standing up for; America, he emohnsized. If an individual is willing to * stand up against unjust social ‘ order, he must be willing to suffer and sacrifice. Dr. King maintained. Direct action is needed, ho said to “save the soul of America” aml“transform jails from dungeons ofi shame to havens of freedom and* dignity.” “ “ «* \

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a member of Allen Chapel.

and white students in extracurricular activities and fair treat-

ment by teachers.

Survivors incluae his wife. Mrs. [Marie Gurnell; two daughters, Mrs.. Patricia Ann Ray and Mrs. Jacqueline Sears, both of Indian-

ville where services were held June 22 at Gaines Funeral Home j with burial in Oak Hill Cemetery there. She died here June 16 at

Chapel j General Hospital.

A native of Corydon. Ky.. Mrs. j Givens came to Indianapolis from Evansville two years ago and lived with a daughter, Mrs. Loney

Richardson at 739 Ro^che.

Survivors, besides Mrs. Richardson, were two other daughters, Mrs. Veighton Allen and Miss Isner Givens, both of Evansville; a I son, Carl Givens, Marion; two sis-

She was a founder of the Short- i apolis; his mother, Mrs. Edith j ters, Mrs. Martha Winters and Mrs.

phone, Mullins, who appeared to be reloading the gun, came up and told her she could not use it and j for her to "get out.” The teenager said Mullins told 1 her to leave the scene before po- 1 lice arrived, but she just stood by ; the car and waited for police. She said Mullins said to some , other white men who were standing outside the station: "I won’t take no hack talk from no ‘nigger.’ She was with him and I’ll kill her j

too.”

The girl sa^d that Mullins, how- '

ridge Human Relations Council, an i Dimmitt, Indianapolis; two

original idea of Charles S. Preston, former sports editor of The

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broth- Nancy Thomas, both of Henderson!] ever ’ d 1 dn ot touch rer.

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Miss Cohen had left for Albany 1 Mrs. Florence Walker, Mrs. ClauJune 9. Enroute she stayed in'dean Arnold, and Mrs. Glowdean

Americus, Ga., to participate in an 1 Jackson, all of the city, and Mrs. _ interracial SNCC training pro- 1 Maxine Wright, Chicago; and three lene Rachel Johnson, 67, who died r gram. The group was prompted on 1 grandchildren. June 26 at Marion County Gen- j =

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many phases oi wnite-iNegro relations in the south to which nortnern participants are unaware. She said there were about 30 persons from various parts of ine United States at the six-day ses-

sion.

In Albany, before her arrest, she had worked in the SNCC office, located above the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs home, and talked with Negroes in the community about coming to meetings and marching lor their human dignity and the American dream of democracy.

Henry A. Walker Funeral services for Henry Addison Walker, 68, were held June 29 at Willis Mortuary with burial in Crown Hill Cemetery. He died June 26 at his home, 322 S. Girls School Rd. i Mr. Walker, born at Bridgeport, had lived there all his life. He .was employed five years by the PitmanMoore Co. and for 16 years he had been a self-employed odd jobs man. He was a member of First Baptist Church of Southport. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Edith Finley Walker, and two sisters, Mrs. Jessie Ray and Mrs. Mary Bledsoe, both of Bridgeport.

Sarah E. Dean Mrs. Sarah E. Dean, 42, 1020 W. 33rd, died June 23 at General Hospital. She was buried in Floral Park Cemetery June 27 after services at Patton Funeral Home. A native of Kingswood, Ky., Mrs. Dean had lived in Indianapolis 16 years and was a member of Christ Apostolic Church. Survivors include five sons, Morris, Robert, Ernest, Ira and Albert Dean; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Silas Dean, seven brothers and three sisters.

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Survivors include her husband, Ben C. Johnson; three sons, James T., Melvin E. and Joel L. Johnson of this city; five daughters, Mrs. Gladys Paschal, Mrs. Esther Sumner, Mrs. Mildred Strong and Mrs. Ruth Riley of this city, and Mrs. Ann Avington of Milwaukee; 19 grandchildren and two great- ! grandchildren.

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