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" ’ - — ■ . Lincoln 3 Legal Newspaper Thursday, December 6, 1951
Segregation In III. Ci,
Scheduled ToEndlnJan.
Urban League
Fellowship
Awards Given
NEW YORK, N. Y. — Dr. Sadie
T. M. Alexander, Chairman of
the Fellowship Committee of the
National Urban League, has an
nounced the League’s four fellow
ship awards for the school year
1951-52.
Awards went to Doris P.
Carnegie, of East Orange, N.J.,
attending the University of Pitts
burgh on a joint University of
Pittsburgh-Urban League of Pitts
burgh grant; Nellie W. Hamm,
of Cleveland, attending Western
Reserve University and Maida
Springer of Brooklyn, N.Y., at
tending Ruskin College, Oxford,
England, both on grants from
Adam Hat Company; and to
Vivian G. Powell of Queens, New
York, attending the New York
School of Social Work at Colum- j
bia University, on funds from the
Ella Sachs Plctz legacy. Dr. Alex- 1
ander also stated that the League
would continue for another year
an Adam Hat Company grant to |
George Davis of Morristown, N.J.,1
and a Benezet House Association
fellowship to Della Bell of Phila
delphia, both of whom are study
ing at the New York School of
Social Work.
The League, whose Fellowship
program has been in operation
for more than forty years, is the
oldest and only interracial serv
ice agency working for equal
economic opportunity. Many men'
and women now prominent in the
field of social welfare and educa-J
tion, and many League officers!
ALTON, 111. — (ANP) — The
55-year-old battle waged by par
ents of Negro children against
segregation in the public schools
here appears to be won.
The NAACP agreed last week
| to a continuance of its case with
|
I the understanding that segrega-!
I tion in the public elementary j
school would end in January,
1952.
J. B. Johnson, superintendent ofj
Alton School District and the Al- |
j ton Board of Education, won a
continuance of the case on the
ground that at the beginning of
1 the next semester, “transfers
made, will be made without re
gard to race, creed or nationality
or color.”
W. Robert Ming Jr., and Billy
Jones, attorney’s for the NAACP,
did not object to the continuance,
but indicated that if the segrega
tion did not end in January, as
promised, the plaintiffs will pro
ceed with their suit at that time.
After segregation in schools
was established in 1896 in Alton,
Negro parents sponsored a boy
, cott and the following year
started litigation against the Al-'
ton School Board, the mayor and
' the city council. Agitation for the
' end of segregation has continued
until the present suit filed in Jan
! uary, 1950, by the Alton branch
| of the NAACP.
The public high school here xs
j not segregated.
1 and staff workers, received part
or all of their professional train
| ing under the Fellowship pro
gram.
I
Lincoln High Places Four in
First Eleven All-State Team
Ted King, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Lloyd King was among the 111
top boys choosen for All-State
high school foot-ball honors for
1951, by the Lincoln Journal and
Star.
Lincoln High, unanimous state;
football champion, gained four
spots on the first eleven, placing
End, Le Roy Butherus, Back, Ted
King, Guard, Sylvester Mendoza
and Back Bill Debus.
The top eleven is made up of
Class A performers.
King’s scoring records for Lin
coln were chalked up as Coach
Bill Pfeiff’s Red and Black
powered over nine foes. He used
great speed and a remarkable
ability to follow blocking to put
the polish on a great Lincoln team.
King’s main weakness was a limi
tation in his ability. He was
limited to running the ball,
neither kicking nor passing.
Leading the way for King’s
dashes was Bill Debus, 181-pound
blocker deluxe. A cousin of How
ard Debus, former all-stater and
Nebraska player, Bill's main job
with the Links was to clear the
way and that he did with work
manlike precision.
Richard “Dick” McWilliams,
on of Mrs. Theodore Emery,
I. for Lincoln High, was listed
on Class A’s Honor Roll.
i)ougall. Young Speakers
>r Human Relations Meeting
HUMAN RELATIONS STUDIED—Three participants in the first
annual meeting of the Lincoln-Lancaster County Council of Human
Relations study the program for the conference. Shown are (from
left) Whitney M. Young, director of the Omaha Urban league,
luncheon speaker; Willard Gaeddert of Lincoln, council president,
and Dr. Curtis D. MacDougall, Northwestern university journalism
professor, principal speaker.
—Courtesy Lincoln Journal.
Washington Signs 2 for Farm Club
WASHINGTON. (ANP). Ap-J
parently weakening under stiff i
competition and heavy pressure,'
(Clark Griffith venerable president
,of the Washington baseball club
has at last broken down his all
- white color barrier and made the
first indication of considering col-1
ored players for his team.
According to reports, two Ne
1 groes are now the property of the
i Nats’ farm system. Vice President
, Calvin Griffith stated that the
Havana club had the complete
blessing of the Nats in signing
these two players, Angel Sculli, an
outfielder, and Juan Delis, short
stop. He said he hoped theyl
I would be good enough to be
|Ga. Teacher in Africa
'On Fullbright Fellowship
I FREETOWN, Sierra Leone—
(ANP)—Dr. Catherine Duncan of
Fort Valley State college, Fort
Valley, Ga., arrived by plane from
London last week to teach for a
year at Fourah Bay college here.
Dr. Duncan who is head of the
department of education at Fort
Valley is serving on a Fullbright
teaching fellowship.
Fourah Bay college, delightfully
situation on the hills overlooking
Freetown, is an old institution
which is being enlarged and de- '
veloped as a part of the English <
university system. Dr. Duncan !
spent some time in visiting Eng
lish institutions and getting ac
quainted with the educational sys
tem under which she will work.
Negro College Fund
To Hold Symposium
NEW YORK — (ANP) — The
third annual symposium, spon
sored jointly by the United Negro
College Fund and the New York
City clubs of eastern colleges,
met at Hunter college Nov. 27,
according to William J. Trent,
jr., executive director of the fund.
Discussion at the meeting was
centered on the improvement made
in race relations in this country.
Panel participants include Mrs.
Sadie T. M. Alexander, the first
Negro woman to earn a Ph.D.
degree in the United States, and
the first to be admitted to the
bar in Pennsylvania; George S.
Schuyler, associate editor, Pitts
burgh Courier, and Ralph E. Mc
Gill, editor of the Atlanta Consti
tution.
brought up to Washington in an- {
other year. £
Joe Cambria, president of the i
Washington-owned Havana team, 1
said he bought Scull from the
Wellsville, N. Y., club of the Pony
League and signed Delis out of ;
the Havana semipro ranks.
| He thinks Scull could make
good with Washington in another
year. He hit .328 with Wellsville
last season and stole 51 bases.
Delis, Cambria says, is a six
; foot athlete, who has as mud
! range In the infield as Chico Car
rasquel of the White Sox, and will
i be a better hitter.
| With two colored players on
his Havana club, Cambria expects
to break the color line in Florida
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Guest Speaker
George Houser, executive sec
retary of Core, Congress of Racial
Equality will speak on “Techni
ques of Fighting Discrimination”
at Love Library auditorium at 8:00
Thursday, Dec. 6, 1951.
Some of the advisory board of
Core are John Dewey, E. Stanley
Jones, Dorothy Maynor, Howard
Thurman, Lillian Smith.
Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity is
sponsoring the speaker.
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Dr. C. V. White
New President
There are no such things as
white supremacy and racial char
acteristics, Dr. Curtis D. Mac
Dougall, Northwestern university
journalism professor, told some
100 persons attending the first an
nual meeting of the Lincoln-Lan
caster County Council of Human
Relations, at the Cornhusker.
It is time, he said, for all right
thinking people to think right.
“Prejudices are not inherited—
they are man-made.”
He said the problems of human
relations had a real and important
international aspect which can
not be ignored in a changing
world.
MacDougall urged a fight
against infringements on any civil
liberties, and asked for new legis
lation, as well as enforcement of
laws already in effect.
“You will never lose a fight
.over discrimination,” MacDougall
said, “because the opposition has
no concrete argument against
1 truth.”
I The professor’s remarks were
echoed in a noon luncheon ad
! dress by Whitney M. Young, ex
ecutive secretary of the Omaha
> Urban league, and an instructor
r in the University of Nebraska
e' graduate school of social work.
I “We must recognize the fact
xjthat discrimination is perpetuated
ij /criminate unconsciously, and per
imit race prejudice to continue
jj without raising their voices in ob
jl jection.”
Young said definite skills must
be developed in the community
organization to effect changes and
obtain action. Such action, he
said, must pass through three
stages. The first is the indiffer
ent stage, where problems are
ignored altogether. Second is the
talking and studying stage, and
third is the action stage.
Dr. C. Vin White, pastor of First
Presbyterian church, will head the
Lincoln-Lancaster County Council
of Human Relations in 1952.
He was elected to succeed Wil
lard Gaeddert as president at the
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