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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-03-02
Writing History OF
Sou. Univ. Founder

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Febru-
airy 20, 1857. B. Cade, Dean of
the College, Southern University,
who is compiling a history of Sou
thern and biography of the late
DR.. J. S. Clark, founder and first
president, is seeking old documents,
pictures, catalogues, diplomas,
news clippings from Alumni and
friends of the University and Baton
Rouge Junior College.
On Saturday, March 9, the Uni
versity will celebrate it's Forty
third Founders Day. The institu-
ton, which was established here as
the New Southern University and
Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lege in 1914, was moved from New
Orleans, where it was originally
founded in 1880.
Activities leading up to the
Founders Day Observance will in
clude a special vespers, Radio and
Television Shows, Convocation, a
Military Parade, luncheons, Band
Concert and the Annual Pilgrimage
to the grave of the founder, DR.. j.
S. Clark.
Already in the gathering of data,
Dean Cade has been able to fill in
the answers to certain questions in
the history of the institution. For
example, it was generally believed
that the University offered only
courses in the Liberal Arts up to
1890, which was the year the Sec
ond morrill, Act was passed making
it possible for Southern to become
Land Grant Institution.
However, in the administrative
minutes of the institution Depart
ment of Mechanical Industries was
established in 1884, and Mr..
Frederick Sims was recommended
for the dictatorship.
Any person having data of Baton
Rouge Junior College or Southern
University at New Orleans are
being asked to contact ]. B. Cade
at the University.
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years later.
We're Negroes people or prop
erty? Upon the answer to that
question hung the future of the in
stitution of slavery.
The anti-slavery forces, finding
a concrete issue on which to focus
their campaign, rallied to the de-
Tense of Cirque and his followers
with money and the best lawyers.
Poets John Greenleaf Whittier and
William Cullen Bryant supported
the crusade with their writings
and ex-president John Quincy Ad-
ans, then a Congressman, drafted
a message to Congress.
Despite the interference of Pres
ident Van Bureau and pressurs
from the Spanish consulate, Circuit
Judge Smith Thompson in the
hearing at Hartford on Septem-
Der II, 1889 on the charges of
mutiny and murder, threw the case
out of court, and in January, 1910
Federal Judge Andrew Judson, a,
New Haven, freed the Africans
from the claims of the Spaniards
The decision was appealed to the
Supreme Court, however, and John
Quincy Adams served as defense
counsel. In the dramatic court
battle, ON which were focused the
eyes of the country and the world
Adams brilliantly defeated the
forces of President Van Burer
and the slave holders. On March
9, 1841, Cirque and his comrades
were freed forever.
But the larger issues had yet
to be settled by four years OF
bloodshed.
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Bus Integration -.
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Southern Conference Educational
Fund. Inc, expressed concern that
the problem be solved under the
guidance of the highest type OF
moral principles" 1t called upor
authorities to "honor the supreme
law of the land and to implement
it
ITO ignore or attempt to cir
cumvent whS must come would
give strength to lawlessness
we therefore urge our local au-
thorities not to wait for court or
der, but rather to initiate a posi-
tive program of compliance
Real indifference or apathy is bound
To constitute an invitation to those
of extremist persuasion to provoke
disturbance
eve are convinced that our city
has within it the capability OF
solving this problem peaceabiy
and amicably. New Orleans Is
proud of its cosmopolitan charac-
ter. Its population derives from a
greater variety of cultural, social:
religious, economic and national
origins than that of any other city
in the South. This broad diversity
has, nevertheless, not prevented
our citizens from being able to
work together in harmony towards
the solution of common problems
and the improvement of our COM
munity life.
"This background encourages US
to hope that New Orleans authori-
ties will not permit our city to
drift into the pattern Of violence
and bitterness that we have wit
messed elsewhere, but will instead
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-03-02
On The Mississippi Vocational
College Strike

We were happy to note that the strike that started
Wednesday night up at Mississippi Vocational College
ended without creating more sensationalsm than it's
in the daily press, and that signalling its
end conditions back to normal at the college by
the end of the week
We noticed from the press reports that the chief
demands of the strikers for greater Stu
dents Government and laundry facilities including
washing machines and ironing boards.
In the matter of student government would say
right off that we, along with what believe to be
majority of the parents in the state opposed to
kind of Student Government. We say this because
the job of educational institution being not
much the giving of learning that of providing dis
cipine and inspiration And in providing the discp-
line and inspiration which we choose to define edu-
cation don't think that the discipline should be left
up those most in need of the discipline and education
In the matter of the Laundry Facilities, would
say right off that the college needs laundry which
believe would be economical and far less trouble,
than putting washing machine and ironing boards for
the of every squad section of students at the
college
We have the information good authority, that
President White has asked the State Board of Institu
tons of Higher Learning for laundry and is to be
hoped that the Board will honor this request at it's
Hest possible convenience.
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Natchez College
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sultant. Dean C. w. Salisbury will
represent Campbell College, Jack
son Miss; Mr.. B. H. Harrison, Di-
rector of Business Education will
represent Okolona College, Okolona
Miss; Mr.. Joseph r. Davis will
represent Saints Industrial Col
lege, Lexinton, Miss; Mr.. Henry
Briggs, Public Relations Director
will represent Tougaloo College,
Tougaloo, Miss; and Mr.. Horace
Wicks, Claiborne Co. Tr. School,
Port Gibson, Miss. will represent
Mary Holmes Jr. College, West
Point, Miss. This panel is scheduled
to begin promptly at 11:00 am. in
the auditorium of Natchez Junior
College.
Another highlight will be Pag-
cant depicting the history of the
College and of the Convention.
This Pageant was written by Mrs.
Zee A. Barron of Coahoma Junior
College, and is being directed by
Dean D. w. Wilburn of Natchez
College.
The climax of the days celebra-
ton will be an evening worship
program with the Anniversary Ser
mon to be delivered by Rev. c. l..
Franklin, great gospel minister OF
Detroit, Michigan. Natchez Junior
College is owned, operated and
maintained by the General Mis-
sionary Baptist State Convention
of Mississippi, DR.. H. H. Humes,
President.
The entire Natchez College fam
lily cordially invites and especially
urges its many friends and sup
porters to be present for the full
Celebration.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-03-02
New Votes For Civil Rights

For 70 years opponents of civil rights legislation
have @maintaned firm blockade in Congress. Often
Southern Democrats have been able to sidetrack pro-
posals in committee. Sometimes they have had Repub
help in voting such measures down in house
the other AS last resort it has always been possible
to stage Senate filibuster. But at this moment po
tca observers give the Eisenhower civil rights pro-
gram fair chance of success
The Presidents vast prestige is a help. So is the
fact that advocates getting their bills started early
in the first session of the Congress- But the biggest
for the changed situation flows from of the
most striking lessons of the 1856 eectionNegro voters
have become very important to both parties At
the time the civil rights question has become very
important to many Negro voters
While additionally the Republican Party had ap-
peared the friend of the American Negro all during
the New Deal period the great bulk of the Negro vote
went to Democrats For Negroes became persuaded that
the Democratic Party would do to help them
through jobs, social security or housing Particularly
for the rapidly growing Negro communities in northern
industrial cities these things often doomed more import
ant than civil rights legislation which appeared unlikely
to make much change in their situation
But there have been changes. The Democrats
have lost IS per cent of the 1852 Negro vote according
to the Galop Poll. In the North they retained major
ity in that racial group, and civil rights only
of the issues affecting those who did switch But in the
South-where about 500 900 Negroes voted-it
prime consideration in strong protest vote against
segregation In two states this vote is believed to
have tipped the scales to the Republicans.
Possibly the most significant aspect of the situation
is the growing and conscious independence of Negro
voters Their leaders pointing out that they get
more consideration from both parties II neither takes
them for granted This attitude has begun already to
produce results especially among politicians in both
parties in where racial bloc can WELD decisive
weight at the polls.
OF course the civil rights issue appeals to millions
of other voters, and the controversy school de-
segregation has sharpened it up. 1t is going to be much
difficult for either party to escape clear record
on it in Congress. Already 35 Republican senators are
lined up behind bill embodying the Eisenhower pro-
Added to the Northern Democrats this should be
enough But devices of delay and diversion could block it
fho chncfi r~oo1xy Tho
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How The Negro College Serves

The great injustice in the American racial picture
u.s. of course, the fact that the weleducaed weman-
nered Negro capable in business the professions
talented in the arts thousands of his white
counerparts is set apart by the criterion applied
or laborer.
One of the great obstacles in the way of solving the
American problem is the fact that due to the long
ipovershment of the South and to various forms of
discrimination everywhere the proportion of poverty and
ignorance within the Negro group is still very high The
economic and cultural retardaton of the Negro majority
has tendad to block the acceptabty of the advanced
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-03-02
Revolt OF African
Chiefs Son Against
Spanish Slaves
Helped To Spark
Civil War In u. ).

An African chiefs son, who
knew not a word of English, in
advertently lit the fuse that eventu-
ally exploded the struggle over
slavery into the Civil War two dec
AIDES later.
An article in the current, March
issue of TRUE, The Mans Maya
zine, tells of the little known pro-
vocative incident leading up to the
final conflict between the states.
The event took place, not in the
South nor in some town of the
fiercely abolitionist midwest, but
in the cities of New Haven and
Hartford in quiet Connecticut 20
years before the history making
shots were fired on Fort Sumter.
Although every American school
boy knows about John Browns raid,
probably none has heard about
Cirque, the son of an African
tribal chief, who led a successful
revolt on a Spanish slave ship off
the shores of Cuba in 1889.
AS revealed in an article by
David Holland, THE Slaves Who
Wouldn't Be Sold" it was Cinque's
exploit that touched off one of
the greatest battles over slavery
in this country Before it was over,
President Van Bureau, ex-president
John Quincy Adams, the Supreme
Court and the country at large
fought out a great national issue,
and the forces of slavery and anti
slavery became crystallized into
sharply defined entities.
The issue was whether or not
a Negro was a human being OF
piece CT property and it came
about this way.
Cirque, from the Mendi tribe on
the west coast of Africa, was cap
tured by a Spanish raiding party
and sold into slavery to work in
the Cuban sugar fields. But his
fierce spirit would not be broken
and he led a mutiny on the ship
that was transporting him and 48
fellow slaves from Havana farther
down the Cuban coast.
He set sail for Africa, but the
Spaniard he was forced to rely
upon to navigate the ship man
aged, by trickery, to get the ship
to the United States where it was
captured by a U. S. Navy vessel
off Montauk Point, Long Island.
Since the Navy ship was out OF
New London, Connecticut, Cirque
and the 35 survivors were taken
to New Haven for disposition be-
fore the U. S. Federal District
Court. They were sent to Hart
ford for hearing on charges of
mutiny and murder. The two
Spaniards who had bought the
slaves in Havana also sued to re-
cover their property and, therein
was created the issue that set the
stage for the great showdown 20
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DR.. SamueI...
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Birmingham Division of the Amer
lean Bible Society.
In his quarter century of Bible
Society work DR.. Stanton has been
responsible for bringing the Scrip
lures to more Negro people than
any other living man. Through his
efforts more than four million vol
umes of the Scriptures have been
distributed in Georgia, Alabama,
Mississippi, Florida, South Caro-
lima and Tennessee. Whether the
Book was given without charge or
the recipient paid the cost of
publication, with each volume went
encouragement to read.
In all this distribution DR.. Stan
ton has had the help of several
volunteer workers, whom he has
inspired with the Society's main
objective to get the Scriptures to
Bibleless people in such way that
the Book will be read.
Among these co-workers was
Samuel Marion Weeks, known to
DR.. Stanton since his student days
at Clark College and Cannon
Seminary in Atlanta. As Metho-
dist minister in La Grange, Geor-
pia, St. Petersburg and Gaines
Vile. Florida, he distributed the
Scriptures to many Bibleless
homes. Thirty-five years of age,
DR. Weeks studied also at Boston
University where he received the
degree sim, after which he was
Director of Religious Life for four
wears at Clark College. Together,
he and DR.. Stanton have worked
in Atlanta and Tampa, as we'll as
Birmingham, where the Division
office is now located, and where
last wear Union Baptist Seminary,
Inc conferred on him the degree
Doctor of Divinity.
DR.. and Mrs. Stanton will con-
tinue to live in Atlanta and will
serve the American Bible Society
in the capacity of Field Consult
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at which all members were pres
ent except Senator LANCER (R- N
d., who is in the hospital recover
ing from pneumonia, was called in
an effort to speed up the hearings.
The Constitutional Rights Commit
tee had met Thursday, Friday and
Saturday, but was able to complete
the testimony Of only a handful
of witnesses. When permission
was asked to hold hearings while
the Senate was in session, there
was an objection on the Floor of
the Senate. Under Senate rules
a Committee can sit when the Sen
ate is in session only if it receive
unanimous consent.
Senator Hennings said that ev-
cry effort will be made to hold
hearings each day, except Sundays.
between now and March 5. In this
way, he felt that it would be pos
sible to hear fully all views on the
controversial civil rights legisla-
ton, giving reasonable amount
of time to each in an orderly man
ner. He said that he and a ma
jority of Senators on the Commit
tee felt that some cutoff date was
necessary.
The Chairman said: "Of course
we can hear more witnesses be-
tween now and March if the op-
ponents to the legislation do not
exercise their legitimate right to
object to our sitting in the after
Moons when the Senate is in SEES
sion"
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WEEKLY QUOTATION: The
wicked flee when no man pursueth,
but they make better time when
someone is after them. Charles II.
Parkhurst.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-03-02

The colored race once was a race
When the Africans were all black
But the Caucasian changed his color
Now why not own to the fact.
When you changed the color of
the African
You named him a dirty name
Negro is what you are calling him
Please tell me who was to blame.
The pot ticker hounds once were
all black
But he had a good nose for to track
They changed his color with a
pointer bred dog
Now he is the best running dog on
the track.
He is known as the Walker hound
Good nose and for a running speed
The Africans will soon be a Walker
race
And for running he will take the
lead.
God gave every race five senses
To lead and to guide them right
The devil has changed the color of
the African
And it brought about hell of a
fight.
All humans have soul to save
But hatred won't get you in
We have got to love we one an
other
Regardless of the color of the men.
VII
When | was b :, black crepe was
a mourning for the dead
But the modern day has changed
the color
No black caskets can We see ok.
For a funeral we are dead.
VIII
You can change all you want here
But how will you get in
You must be born of the spirit o
God
If so salvation is at the end.
TX
It's a life we must live for Christ
He said be We all as | am
When we fail to obey the Jesus
Christ | say
Our souls are going to be damned.
X
No price, no ticket at Heavens
door
Jesus Christ is the only man
Can open the door of Heaven
For the Holy Ghost and not the
color to stand.
By Rev. John R. Perkins,
2611 Lilly Street
Jackson, Mississippi.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-03-02

Negro minority.
One of the answers, obviously, is to educate white
attitudes where they unjust because unfounded.
The other is raise the general educational level of
the Negro and thus pare down the factua basis for
much of the whites reluctance to admit him to equal
opportunity.
The key is Negro leadership-educated leadership.
And the record of the 81 colleges which make up the
United Negro College Fund long and inspiring
They have been sending out ever-ncreasing number
of the everbetter-qualfied teachers minister's pro-
fessiona and lay and women conscious of their mis-
sion to lead their people tout of the wilderness"
The fund seeks $2 600 this year to supplement
the budgets of these colleges (which 80 per cent
sef-sustaning). This will increase their capacity to
lift not only the American Negro group but also the
quality and unity of the whole ctizenry The Christian
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Jackson College
Graduates Attend
Mid-Year FoIIow-Up
Conference

Approximately two hundred
graduates of Jackson State Col
lege returned to the campus Of
their Alma Mater recently for
the first Annual Midyear Follow
up Conference. Miss Annie L.
Lloyd presided over the first gen.
eral session during which time the
group was welcomed by Mrs. Lot
tie w. Thornton and the purposes
of the conference were discussed
by Lee E. Williams, Director of
Student Teaching at the College.
A panel discussion "A Look at
Our Successes and Potentialities"
followed.
Discussants told in what ways
they had been most successful as
first-year teachers and pointed out
some barriers which had reduced
their effectiveness. The confer
ence heard Mr.. W. A. Higgins, Su-
perintendent of Negro Schools,
Clarksdale, review the progress
that has been made in school ad-
ministration over the years. U.s.
ing as his theme utilizing First
Year Experiences for Future Sue
cesses,' he said ~ look upon the
principal as a teacher trainer who
takes up the task of training and
directing young teachers where the
colleges leave off. You walk into
various situations when you accept
employment, and you must work
with them" Mr.. Higgins admonish-
ed the group to flight getting
into ruts."
Mr.. Higgins was introduced TO
the group by Miss Alean Coburn,
teacher in the Myrtle Hall School,
Clarksdale. Brief remarks were
made by President Reddix.
Elementary and secondary ma
jors discussed "a Look at Our
Problems and Their Solutions"
from 10:45 am. to 1900 noon.
Mrs. Anna w. Wilson presided over
the elementary session and Mrs.
Elaine Witty presided over the
secondary group.
Both groups were concerned with
solutions to some of their problems
and WAYS to avoid some of their
difficulties.
In the afternoon session Mr.. La
vatus Powell presided during r
panel discussion on "A Look at
the College and Our Pre-Service
and In-Service Education"
Experiences had at the College
were discussed according to their
helpfulness to them. A summary
was given by DR.. A. c. Blanks,
Chairman of the Education Area
at the College.
Panel members included Misses
Mertha Brown, B. Ruth Griffith,
DeLois Myricks, Vergie Porter,
Oracle Rodgers, Doris Bedenfleld,
Florida Catchings, Yvonne Jones,
Elizabeth Bowie, Maude H. Reed,
Vera Anderson, Mertha Lockett,
Vivian Richardson, Robbie Thomas
Mary Lou White; Mesdames Ethel
Davis, Mary Hester, Minnie Wright.
Messers. Eugene Fox, Roy Hill,
Floyd Harris, Charlie Brown, AL
phonzo Campbell, Halle Myers,
Robert Poe, Nathan Tharpe, w.
T. Allen, Clemon Baker, Johnel
Jones.
The following persons served as
observers: Mesdames Mayne Hig-
gins, Gladys Hardy, Willie d.
Blackburn, c. 3. Thompson, Lillian
Lane, Wanda Fleming, Aurelia
Young Eva Woodland; Messrs. j.
E. Hail. B. C. Price, D. c. Bass,
R. P. Greene, T. B. Ellis, L. A.
Jones, w. r. Patton, H. Nixon
DR. Jane E. McAllster, DR.. c. C.
Mosley, and DR.. V. H. Henry.
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country ever has done.
Rep. Herlong's charges were
contained in a statement filed with
the House judiciary Subcommittee
on what was billed as its positively
final round of hearings on Civil
Rights legislation.
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