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INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA—SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1967

IPAC sets $15,000 Goal to Raise Funds For Hatcher

ALEXANDER M. MOORE Attucks Principal On The Way Out? Parents chdr(jes ena te confirms Moore drfed Marshall for withdrawn' Supre,ne Court

Lake Co. Demo }/ 0 /, [ n Detroit roars as

Brown calls for rioting

The Recorder learned through unconfirmed reports circulating in recent weeks that George F. Ostheimer, superintendent of public schools, is expected to request the immediate withdrawal of Alexander M. Moore as principal of Crispus Attucks High School. \ Since taking over the principalship of the all-Ne-gro high school located on the westside in 1957, Mr. Moore has been constantly underfire. He has been crticized by parents and the Parent-Teacher Association for his reluctance to relate with them concerning problems of the children. On occasions, Mr. Moore has also been lashed by parents due to his "withdrawn" approach as an administrator. Through sources, The Recorder found out Mr. Ostheimer will ask Mr. Moore to take leave ol absence from Attucks and encourage him to pursue work on his doctorate degree. It was also speculated that Mr. Moore might be offered a position within the city school administration. Specifically, parents point out Continued on Page 15

THURGOOD MARSHALL WASHINGTON — Thurgood Marshall, the son of a sleeping car porter and the grandson of a slave, Wednesday, on a 69-11 voted by the United State Senate, became the first Negro to be confirmed for a seat on the Supreme Court of the United

Statss.

Marshall, confirmed by the Senate 77 days after President Johnson announced the historic appointment, probably won’t assume his seat with his eight fellow justices in the tradition steeped Supreme Court chamber, until the court convenes for its next term in October. Marshall, whose accomplishTurn to Page 15

Distinguished woman educator to speak

When Mrs. Rosa L. Gragg of Detroit, Mich., nationallyknown civic, community and governmental figure, journeys to Indianapolis to speak it the Citizens Forum Inc. annual banquet Sunday, Sept. 17, she will be feted at a public reception at the Association of Colored Women’s Clubs, 2034 N.

Negro Women, Mrs. Jeanetta Greene, president, and the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs, Mrs. Sadie

Hardiman, president.

The distinguished Mrs. Gragg earned her bachelor of Arts degree from Morris Brown College from which she was grad uated summa cum laude. She studied at Tuskegee Instiute, Ala.; Wayne State University, Detroit, and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She holds local, state and national memberships in many prominent organizations and has been cited on numerous occassions for her contributions and

accomplishments.

An educator, Airs. Gragg founded the Slade-Gragg Academy of Practical Arts in Detroit. Her religious affiliation is Bethel AME Church of Detroit. Tickets for the banquet are available at the Citizens Forum headquarters 3211 N. Illinois. Chester Little is president of the Citizens Forum Inc.

organization 'ditched Negro City-wide public support is being rallied by the Independent Political Action Club (IPAC) in its door-to-door campaign to raise funds for Gary Negro mayoralty candidate Rickard G. Hatcher. Mr. Hatcher, who has been firmly ditched by the Lake County Democratic organization in part for his political independence, has both refused to denounce black power leaders by name and accept funds from Gary gamblers. After running two recent ads in newspapers soliciting financial support of his campaign, Mr. Hatcher now has only $14 in his campaign chest. He could become the first Negro mayor of a major United States city after winning the Democratic nomination for the post in Gary's spring pri-

mary.

IPAC hopes to raise at least $15,000 through its canvassing and is seeking residents to collect thefunds and distribute a “Dollars for Hatcher” button to each contributor. The organization is composed of political activitists with offices a 1654 N. Broadway where donations for Mr. Hatcher may be brought or mailed. A spokesman for IPAC said the “Dollars for Hatcher” campaign will give Indianapolis citizens the chance to ‘vote” for Mr. Hatcher with their dollars. Turn to Pace 16 Charge negKgeiice of prisoiwr is Marion Comity Jail The Indiana Civil Liberties Union this week released the results of an investigation into the death of Eddie Harris, 535 Indiana, who died July 26 in a solitary confinement cell of the Marion County Jail. Interviews with fellow inmates, deputies and medical personnel involved with the care of Mir. Harris leads the ICLU to predict that many more deaths will occur in the jail unless methods and facilities for handling sick and mentally deranged prisoners are immediately corrected. ICLU directs the following question to all those who have some responsibility for securing the health of jail prisoners, including those who administer and those who supervise both the Miarion County Jail and General Hospital. “What changes have been introduced since Mr. Harris’ death in the ficiliTuni to Page 16

DETROIT — H. Rap Brown, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, told more than 3,000 stamping, yelling Negroes Sunday that Detroit rioters “did a good job” but that this city’s riot would “look like a picnic” by the time Negroes get thru. Brown was visiting the Westside of Detroit exactly five weeks after the riot broke out. He was greeted by wild throngs who smashed a box office window and pushed thru blocked doors to get into the small theater where he spoke. Negroes hurled rocks, bottles, and bricks at a car carrying two white television reporters after the speech, but the pair scaped unharmed. Police said they had no other reports of violence.

“The honky (white man) is your enemy,” Brown shouted. Sigectators jammed in the aisles cheered and clapped. At least 2,000 more roared outside. “The brothers are now calling Detroit destroyed,” Brown said. “You did a good job here.” But the Detroit uprising, in which 43 persons died, the most costly riot in modern history, would “look like a picnic” after Negroes unite to “take their due,” he said. Brown called the riot “a war that was no accident.” He said the United States was trying to wipe out the Negro population thru the war in Viet Nam, birth control programs, starvation of Negro children in the South and an unfair system of justice.

“Within 20 years we will be just like the buffalo,” Brown said. We’re going to have to defend ourselves. The white man is not going to defend us.” After the speech. Brown went outside to address the screaming, milling mob in the streets. The mob rushed forward. Traffic was blocked for miles. Police said they had no reports of vio-

lence or trouble.

Brown said he does not preach hate or violence but: “America teaches black people violence, and we go for it.” He said the war in Viet Nam is a “racist war” and that the United States was “using black people to fight brown people

for a white cause.”

“It is no accident that 22 percent of the men killed in

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The SNCC Story: It’s becoming weaker as remarks grow stronger

ATLANTA (NPI) —The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee has grown increasingly weaker as its leaders’ threatening remarks become stronger. According to some, SNCC has become a repository, not of “black power,” but of “black weakness” resulting from its financial, organizational and psychological setbacks. For, unlike other civil rights organizations, SNCC counts its membership, not in the 10,000s or 100,000s, but in the 100s— and the number is not increas-

Its workers number 100 at the most — many of them unpaid. Other civil rights organizations derive their funds from contributions and membership fees, totalling hundreds of thousands of dollars. SNCC must subsist on honorariums from speaking engagements made by H. Rap Brown, its national chairman; and Stokely Carmichael, its former chairman. As a SNCC publication put it: “Help, help, we’re sinking fast” — financially, that is.

Mayor not enforcing city job policy: Task Force

Spirited debate in several areas highlighted Tuesday’s meeting of Mayor Barton’s Community Relations Task Force — organized by the mayor earlier this month and charged with the responsibility of studying and offering solutions to the city ghetto problems. In an unexpected move, J. Griffin Crump, executive secretary of the Mayor’s Commission on Human Rights, and a

Task Force member, charged the mayor with failure to enforce an existing Executive Order which forbids discrimination by city agencies or contractors doing business with the city. The order was issued in July of 1963 by the late Mlayor A1 Losche. Asked to comment on the accusation Bill Anderson, the mayor’s press secretary, said Turn to Page 15

Legally, it is doing even worse. Brown faces Federal charges of carrying a gun across state lines. Carmichael is hopping between Communist countries around the world — and may have trouble getting back into the country without being prosecuted. Seventeen SNCC workers face imprisonment for refusing induction into the armed forces. SNCC’s appeal increasingly became a negative one. Unable to succeed, at being the most powerful, it became the loudest. Incapable of living up to Dr. Martin Luther King’s concept of “love” and “non-violence” it turned, instead, to pronouncements of hatred and violence. Yet, its bark was worse than its bite — if it had any — and its noisiness was the emanation of the proverbial empty box. However, SNCC leaders were speaking for the frustrations and anger of the Negro masses. But in doing so, their vaporous threats of bringing the country down revealed more of their own personal weaknesses than of the Negro masses’

plight.

What they had to proclaim— from the back of the bus of their own minds — was, not “black power,” but “black weakness.” And therein lay a major problem for the Negro community and for the nation.

Post Office plans paper urging Viet revolt of Negroes WASHINGTON — The Post Office Department Tuesday banned from the U. S. mail a Peking - publicized pamphlet that urges Negro GIs to kill their white buddies in Viet

Nam.

Postmaster General Lawrence F. O’Brien said he had asked the U. S. Customs Office to “assist the Post Office Department in intercepting the Crusader News Letter at points of entry into theUnited States.’ The 12-page pamphlet would be “returned to the sender as nonmailable,” he said. “I am also asking the Hong Kong postal authoriy o assist us in cutting off the mailing list of this newsletter at its source.” The pamphlet also gives tips on how to sabotage urban facilities, sewer lines, electrical power stations and highways— without getting caught. It is signed by Robert F. Williams. Williams, a Negro, fled to Cuba six years ago and then to Red China to escape a kidnaping charge arising from a Monroe, S. C., racial incident. O’Brien said the ban resulted from a request by President Johnson that he investigated the contents and mailability of the publication.

Some 10,

are expeded at

Fairgrounds By WILLA THOMAS

At estimated 10 # 000 delegates, from 48 states and

Mexico, will begin arriving No. 35 in Indianapolis Monday to

attend the 87th annual session of the National Baptist Convention of America and its auxiliaries. Sept.

6-10.

Host for the four-day conclave will be Shiloh Baptist Church, where Rev. C. V. Jeter is pastor. Sessions will be held at the State Fairground's Coliseum and New Bethel Baptist Church. Dr. C. D. Pettaway of Little Rock, Ark., is president of the convention. Dr. J. C. Sams of Jacksonville, Fla., is first vicepresident, and Dr. B. O. Byrd of Los Angeles is second vicepresident.

A huge motorcade will leave Shiloh Tuesday evening, Sept. 5, at 6 p.m., and travel to the Coliseum (1500 E. 38th), where the convention chorus of 1,000 voices will present a concert. Admission will be $1.50 at the door for the 8 p.m. affair. Mrs. 7irgil Carrington DeWitty is lational director. Registration for delegates will begin at 12 noon Tuesday. The Childrens’ Department of the Senior Women’s National Baptist Convention will meet at Mt. Paran Boptist Church, 34th md Boulevard. Dr. C. H. Bell : s pastor. The Junior Women will meet Turn to Page 6

REV. C. V. JETER

MRS. ROSA L. GRAGG Citizens Forum Speaker Capitol. Mrs. Gragg, president emeritus of the National Association of ^Colored Women’s Clubs, founded Rho Chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority in Detroit and is active in the National Council of Negro Women. She will speak at the banquet in ♦he new IndianapoUs Stouffers Inn, 2820 N. Meridian Ol 6 pjn. The reception will b iMltf Saturday, Sept. 16, at UML npoatored jointly by . Mil stem* Gamma Rho S:: in- Mem. Gertrude Hackee, fttOMK M National Count .

BACK TO SCHOOL It will be “Back to School” for youngsters Tuesday Sept. 5. All 7th and 8th graders will report for classes at 8:15 a.m. All high school pupils except SB's also report for classes at 8:15 a.m. All pupils in grades one through six report for classes at 8:15 a.m. All kindergarten pupils report for registration only. Kindergarten pupils registered in the spring or summer must also report, since tMs d*y counts as an attendance day and cannot be reported uolMo Ike pupils report to school. All high school SB’s report for classes at 1 p.m., except those attending Harry E. Wood, Arlington George Washington, North West and John Marshall high schools who repor at 8:15 a.m. Full day sessions for high school pupils and half-day sessions for all elementary pupils, grades one through eight will be held Wednesday, Sep*. 6. Kindergarten pupils will not report for classes un- ♦ <1 Thursday. Full day sessions for all high school pupils, <r ~C's one through eight, and kindergarten pupils in mornirg and afternoon sessions fOB ho JMV day. Sep . 7-8. ' * A ' ' **01 W

DR. C. D. PETTAWAY

HATCHER GETS FREEDOM AWARD: This year's winner of the Prince Hall Freedom Award, given annually by the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Mason for .excellence for Civil Rights Leadership, was Richard Gordon Hatcher. Shown here are Ed-

gar J. Davis, past grand master; Allen B. Rollen, a member of the Public Relations Commission, Hatcher, and Booker T. Jones, district deputy for the Calumet District. The award was presented at Fort Wayne at the 111 th annual convention.

DR. M.A.B. FULLER

DR. T. B. BOYD