The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1957-09-07
Tuskegee Crusaders Face
Jail Says Pittsburg Courier
FBI BareS Vote Trickery

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Misunderstanding Negro voters in some Dixie towns
should be convinced that one has to be magician If one
the wake of congressional fiasco which erupted
the oothess civil rights BILL odferousy passed by the
Senate last week. the Federal Bureau of Investigation
posed congomeraon stratagems designed to keep
Negro from voting in widespread Of the United States
Many of the diaboicaly clever methods used by white
suprennacst voting officials included and out
side of the law
One in point happened in Caldwell Parish, La,
where private white challenged right of
some GO Negroes to VOTE in May of 1856
demands; they We're not published in newspaper, as
Louisiana law requires; but Negroes denied the bal
AS followup, the Caldwell Citizens Council summoned
parish police Jury and "admonished him Not long after
this incident the registrar challenged the right of 266
accented
the roll witnesses and be identified by police Of
ficer However only two Negroes of the group had re-
In many where the Negro voters had been eim-
found among white white registrans but nothing had
been done about purging them.
One of the more humorous instances of racist skull.
duggery unearthed in Colfax, La where only of
100 white regstrants picked at random in Grant Parish
could qualify to vote according to the outandh standards
imposed upon would-be citizens of color. In fact The
Chronicle newspaper reported that single member of
the Citizens Council group which led the drive against
Negro voters could have qualified.
they had written either Negro or coIored in blank
registration forms which asked for color Ac
color brown blue, red green Thus the word white,
according to the rules, correct answer.
One Negro voter produced three witnesses to identify
him but was told that the trio not acceptable because
they were Of different race In many many cases. action
w Tuskegee. Ala.-Leaders of Tuskegees Crusade for
Sordlng to Dean Charles G. Condition. president of the
Meanwhile, these other developments hghighted the
eighth week Of the crusade against the withdrawal of voting
Raids by Alabama General John Patterson
g. The Tuskegee Institute Commercial Association was
formed to aid Negro businesses merchants increasing
can't-vote campaign
3. Grocery stores and Tuskegee Negro banking inst
'0os cs m ts heavy in
department OF Justice to possible constitutional violations
5. More and more white people are attending the
weekly tuesday tuesday night Tea mass meetings.
o. Court action to protect the rights of Tuskegee Ne
groes being studied, and may be forthcoming
T. Negro Skegeeans seem united than
protest against dsfranchisement The campaign official
" declared to now be IS cent effective The goal origin
ally hoped for was 65 per cent.
Meanwhile the Attorney Generals raids continue to
harass local TEA leaders at their office they expect
the grand jury to ndct of them for their actions
The Tuskegee Institute Commercial Association was
created last Tuesday night with B. Brakeman presi-
dent Cooperation Of ali local Negro businesses has already
Sunday and plans worked out for the new body.
At the Tuesday night than 5000 per-
son, and AME Presiding Elder T. R. Newman of OpeiEa
The meeting was at Washington Chapel ANIEZ Church
Last week the meeting heard report from W. P Mitch
ell and L. T. Dorsey, TEA officers who met with nine u S.
Senators in Washington and told them of the Tusegee
situation
On the business front, j. Henry Smith, president of
the Iuskeegee Federal Savings and Loan Association
his firm had experienced increase the number of de-
postors as well as applications for loans.
When filed its last statement June 80, Tuskegee
Federal had assets of $1,269O843 1t organized in
1894, Mr.. Smith told the Courier
Meanwhile, President Luther Foster, of the Institute
SAID ne had not been subjected to outside
intimidation, unless it the overhangng threat loss
OF the requested appropriation from the state
The Courier learned this week that the total annual
payros Of the institute and the big VA hospital $8OOOOO
year 1t is this big that has been taken
of Tuskegee white merchants in this crusade for citizenship
, Meanwhile, in Montgomery, the Courier informed
that letters sent by the Rev. Martin Luther Kings Mont
gomey Improvement Association to President Eisenhower
wee President Nixon and Deputy Attorney General William
P. Rogers have been ignored.