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Annual conference of the AME
church at Waterloo, Ia, the week
before.
Rev. Reddick was born in Sui
phur Springs, Texas on January
81, 1888 and was one of fourteen
children of Rev. and Mrs. John
Henry Reddick.
He served in the nations armed
services during World War I and
came to Minneapolis from Cedar
Rapids, Ia, in 1922. He immediate
ly became affiliated with St.
Peter AME church.
He studied and was licensed to
preach in 1925 and for the ministry
received his first pastoral appoint
ment to Allen Chapel in north
Minneapolis in 1881.
The deceased later served as
pastor of st. James AME church,
Minneapolis, Waymen AME Min
neapolis and st. Marks AME in
Duluth, MINI.
Mr.. Reddick married Mrs. Hat
tie Williams, who survives him
in 1852.
Since his retirement from the
active pastoring he has served as
associate minister at Wayman
AAE church, Minneapolis.
He has also served as chaplain
Of Johnnie Baker Post No. 291
of the American Legion.
Funeral rites were held at St,
Peter AME church at pm. Tues
day, September Is, with the Rev.
Mr.. Marlin Hendrieth, pastor of
Waymen AME church IN charge.
Other ministers of the Twin Cities
participated in the rites.
Johnnie Baker Post American
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called the auxiliary unions.
The resolution pointed out that
Negroes in many auxiliary locals
have the dubious right only to
pay dues and to participate on
picket lines. In commenting on the
resolution, the unions information
al president, A. Philip Randolph,
New York, also vice president,
AFL-CIO, stated:
"RaciaIly segregated unions are
as wrong morally as segregation
in the nations public schools. The
labor movement can no more
countenance their existence than a
democratic society can maintain
jim crow public schools"
NAACP Endorsed
Unqualified endorsement Of the
NAACP's policies and programs
was expressed by the Brotherhood.
Delegates, who came from every
section Of the US. and Canada,
not only endorsed the NAACP's
program, but urged each member
not only to maintain membership,
but work actively in the NAACP
branch in his community.
Black, White Race Menace
Delegates condemned the doc
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language, the use of racial epit-
hets, and the use of their night
clubs, when unnecessary, win
bring complaints and possibly law
suits against the city by the
NAACP.
10. A new Community Center
is needed which will include a
Gymnasium, Swimming Pool, other
recreational equipment and should
be adequately stated.
An all out program should be
launched to occupy the time of
youngsters during non-school
hours, especially those whose par
ents are working and who have
no supervision. This new Communi-
ty Center, in addition to Halle Q.
Brown, cost a considerable amount
Of money all Of which most likely,
could not come from the City.
All churches, civic and social
organizations have a stake in this
problem and should cooperate in
raising the necessary funds, some
Of the large Foundations or Bus
mess concerns might contribute to
this worthwhile endeavor.
IL. The st. Paul Branch, NAA-
CP calls for an end to the double
standards of Justice. Discipline
should be meted out to those found
guilty of violating the law COM
mensurate to the crime commit
ted, without regard to race.
In connection with suggestion
No. 10, branch president Leonard
Carter appointed a committee to
be chairmanned by Robert Patter-
son to initiate that program. 9th
ers named to the committee were:
Rev. Floyd Massey, Jr., Ernest
Cooper, John Patton, Bud Gold
berg, John Sims, Mrs. Alfred
Williams, Norman Davis, Leroy
Lazenberry, Jesse Miller, Mrs.
Janeabelle Taylor, Mrs. Maurice
Bellamy, Theodore Allen, Mrs.
William Brust, Robert Lppert,
Arthur Mcwatt, William Jones,
Mrs. Alice Onque and Mrs. Fran
ces Humbird.
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passers by an B II. renee.
Public Works Commissioner
Adrian Winkel who personally
witnessed the damage wrought on
the homes of Charles Rogers, 395
No. Oxford; Mr.. and Mrs Cor
nelius Benner, 1887 w. Central
promised a delegation of so resi-
dents of the Rondo-St- Anthony
area who visited the council Aug
ust 18, that he would personally
attempt to temporarily alleviate
by seeking the construction of the
pounding area"
Permission had to be secured
from the state highway commits
sion because the pounding is bull
on property owned by the stat'
and upon which the freeway viii
be built.
Helping in getting the project
moving was Frank Marzitelh dep
uty state highway commissioner
who was appealed to by Ahct
Onque Of Halle Q. Brown anC
Leroy Lazenberry who served a
chairman of the group which Sc
cured over 800 signatures to &
petition requesting relief and ar
ranged the council hearing OF
August 1S.
The pounding area" viii take
off excess sewer overflow which
occurs during storms. After thu
overflow has subsided the over
flow will be released back intc
the regular sewer system which
is not now large enough to tak'
off storm water without overflow
ing into the Easements Of the
homes in the area.
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Anniversary Event:
Golden Ayers
Are Guests of
Emporium Teo


Special guests Of honor at the
Emporium's annual anniversary
tea held Friday. September IL
were Golden-Agers, all married
more than 80 years. The affair
was held in the Gold Room at
the Emporium with Bob DeHaven
WCCO radio announcer as master
of ceremonies for the program and
song fest.
Among the crowd of more than
200 couples were Mr.. and Mrs
Joseph Combs of 9S5 Thomas Av.,
st. Paul, who will celebrate their
seth wedding anniversary Sep
tember 80, 1859. They were mar
ried in 1908 in st. Paul by the late
Rev. w. d. Carter who was the
pastor of Pilgrim Baptist church
at the time. Following their mar
riage they left Immediately for
Duluth, MINI. In Duluth they
stopped at the home Of the late
Mr.. and Mrs. John A. Glenn. They
resided in Duluth for IL years and
then moved to st. Paul.
The oldsters were welcomed by
Russell Hunsinger, president of
the Emporium and they were
greeted by Mayor Joseph Dillon.
Mr., and Mrs. Combs were selected
as one of the eight couples who
were interviewed by Mr.. DeHaven
and each couple who were inter
viewed were presented with a gift
Mrs. Combs received a Quaker lace
table cloth as her gift.
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trine of white supremacy, white
chauvinism, racialism and nation
alism. The resolution submitted by
Randolph stated that all types OF
racial nationalistic supremacy are
the enemies of democracy, freedom
and human equality.
ExpeIl Biased Unions
The expulsion of two AFL-CIO
unions was called for by the Broth
erhood. The porters' union is also
an international affiliate Of the
merged labor body. The firemen's
and trainmen's unions expulsion
was called for because both main
tain in their constitutions a prov
ision denying membership to Ne
gro workers.
Randolph pointed out that the
color bar in these unions violates
the letter and spirits of the AFL-
CIO constitution.
The resolution, in strong terms,
instructed the sleeping car porter's
delegates to the AFL-CIO's forth
coming convention in San Fran
cisco, to make a vigorous fight to
have the two unions with color
bars expelled.
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NAAcP Moss
Meeting Topped
Report Continued

Below is printed the fourth
installment of a taped report of
the August 10, mass meeting in
st. Paul called by the NAACP
to air the causes for the Aug
uSt Is disturbance in which 40
policemen and fire hoses were
used to disperse a crowd at Kent
and Rondo and six persons were
arrested,
This installment includes the
final remarks Of Rev. Walter Bat
ties and the opening statements
in full Of NAACP President Leon
ard Carter who presided at the
mass meeting.
Continued From Sept. IL Issue)
Reverend Walter Battles: I'll
have to quote you the bible. The
bible said they are ministers of
God. There is need for adjustment
not only the police force and
citizens, not only you and me but
there is an adjustment needed In
many of our personal homes
May I say this in closing? sat
right here some two and a half
years ago with Mr.. Proetz, Judge
Gingold when you had this trouble
at Marshall School. The kids came
home - they were fighting. The
police force was running all around
trying to stop them from fighting.
They were only antagonizing the
kids so they could fight worse.
asked them to keep the police cars
from running around only antagon-
izing the kids. They said yes, sir,
wen stop this afternoon. 1 said
some of the children from Mar
shall School they have to go four
blocks before they disperse where
in the white children go right home
soon as they get out of school. I
said the only way to remedy this.
and I'll say it tonight, is to find
more places to live.
Rev. Battles last sentence was
inaudible).
Chairman, Leonard Carter: Our
time has lapsed. We are going to
close the meeting but before clos
ing the meeting we wanted to
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him as the modern saviour Of his
people but who wouldn't eat at the
same lunch counter with him.
Don't Mess With My white Folks
Williams said, DIR. jackson has
told the Negroes Of America, Don't
mess with my white folks. Dey
know what dey's doing and dey
sho' is good to me- So friends,
you can have DIR. jackson from
here on in. II you think like him,
you'll act like him. So make up
your mind"
Other statements in DR.. Jack
sons speech, which lasted 80 min
utes and has since elected nation
wide condemnation, were:
mo American Negro has the
right, under the laws Of our land,
to seek to force himself upon a
congregation of white Christians
who do not invite or welcome his
membership among them. The
struggle for first-class citizenship
is not a struggle for so-caIled race
mixing. The mixing, or better still,
the fellowship among peoples Of
different groups and races must
always remain a matter of per-
sonal choice and group preference.
LAW Never Dictates"
In a democracy like ours, the
law never dictates who shall be
your companion. your friend, your
associate and your house guest.
The struggle for first-class citizen
ship does not involve the right to
worship in a church that has a
tradition of racial segregation or
discrimination. Under the laws OF
our land, churches may, If they
viii or wish, draw the line as to
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visitors and lay members in Civic
auditorium, DR.. Jackson surprised
his audience with this astounding
statement.
The truth is, under our form
of government, it is no legal Of
fense to practice racial prejudice.
There is no law on the statute
books of the United States of
America that can prohibit one man
from thinking that he is better
than another, and from feeling he
has the right to discriminate
against other races, so long as said
practice is restricted to the field
of private associations, clubs and
fraternities.
1T is not legally wrong until a
person attempts to have his pre-
iudices condoned by law and sup
ported by the government"
Call Speech Racial Treason"
As news of DR.. Jackson's defense
of prejudice and Jim Crowism
flashed over the wire services to
all sections of the country, a tidal
wave Of resentment came from
both Negroes and liberal whites OF
all religious faiths, many of them
who called the jackson speech
racial treason"
A former Chicagoan, A. Phelps
Williams, now living on the West
Coast and describing himself as g
"disgusted Baptist" attended the
Civic auditorium meeting. Onct
outside, he voiced his disgust in nj
uncertain terms.
What do you expect Of Jack
son." he told a rapidly-gatheIint
crowd. He thinks he's a 1ittl,
Jesus (Napoleon), lording it ovel
nearly five million Baptists, bu
selling out to the Negro-baiting
race-hating Dixiecrats who hal
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a solution of the various ills which
it says effects the city Of st. Paul
and its Negro citizens:
/. The Mayor should establish
a Commission to study the prob
lem of discrimination in Housing
as he announced was his intention
nearly two years ago and that the
commission be directed to make
recommendations for a solution.
2. That a Slum Clearance OF
Urban Renewal program be i'm
mediately initiated with adequate
plans for relocation of those eff.
fected.
8. That an adequate Building
Code be enacted.
4. That a vigorous Law En-.
forcement Policy be established
by the st. Paul Police Depart.
ment. The curfew on teenagers
should be strongly enforced. The
routing Of the many lawbreakers
from the city should be carried
out with all deliberate speed.
5. Those dealing in the unlaw
full sale of liquor should be prompt
ly forced to close.
6. No new liquor or beer lie
enses should be granted any per
son to operate a business in thc
middle of residential areas. tn,
only streets not predominantly oc
cupied by home residents in tn
so-called Rondo District are Univ
ersity and SeIby Avenues.
z. The development Of the Hol
low Playground into a first clas
park should proceed with all speed
8. Persons presently holdinI
liquor and beer licenses in the are
should be warned that they mus
operate a desirable place Of bus
iness, which will not cast unfav
orable reflections on the citizen
or they will face the revocation
Of their licenses. Vigorous en-
forcement Of the prohibition of tn
sale Of liquor or beer to minor
should be effectuated.
8. Police Officers in the Rond
Area should be reminded that i
carrying out their duties, obscen
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nored or not talked about.

nored or not talked about.
"Yes! The Moslems are a threat
to all the things the us. claims to
hold dear and sincere. What ]
wonder is why no such group has
come along before now. us. his
tory recalls occasions where the
Negroes were frequently regarded
as savages and subhumans.
There is but one solution to
combat the Moslems and any of
their kind: To hasten in removing
the nourishment on which such
groups feed-the hate, fear, deceit,
hypocrisy and all the rest that 60
to create undue tensions"
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In U.S.A.:
Former Legislator Thinks
MosIems No Threat;
Cites Denver Progress
BY CONRAD CLARK

Denver (ANP)-Former state legislator Earl W. Mann,
letter recently to the Denver Post in which he said he
failed need for alarm of Negroes becoming members
of the MoSlem cult.
The former Negro member of the states legislature
replying editorial Threat America Negroes which
had appeared in the daily three weeks earlier.
Answering the question, Need We Fear Moslem Cult
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Jackson Baptist Leader
Criticised For Defense
OF US. Race Bias
BY ALBERT ANDERSON

San Francisco (ANP)-Ahough Dr. Joseph H. jackson of
Chicago reelected Thursday for his sixth consecutive term
as president of the National Baptist Convention, U.SA Inc
largest Negro church organization in for sharp crit
members and nonmembe for advising Negroes not
themselves white people who discriminate against
them in various sections of the country.
Delivering address before 10000 delegates
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FORMER MINNEAPOLIS AME MINISTER
HENDERSON REDDIcK DIES IN SLEEP

The Rev. Mr. Henderson Reddick former pastor of two
Minneapolis AE churches and Duluth church found dead
5 Friday morning September II by his wife Hattie in their
home at GIG Aldrch Av. N
While the 1-yearod minister had not been i'll he did
suffer from high blood pressure but his death totally
unexpected He had Just returned from attendance at the NV
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Eleven Point ProgrGnI:
EIeVen POINT PTogTum:
St. Paul NAACP In
Declaration Of Policy;
Sets Forth It's Goals

The St Paul NAACP at membership meeting held
Sunday September 49, forth program of II objecves
towards which feels should be the goal of the organization
and the community in the coming months.
The obJectves were set forth in declaration of policy
which called Housing discrimination against Negroes the No
problem facing the city
The branch proposed the following program bring about
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Business Career
Day Az Halle
Saturday, Oct. 3

business Career lay II Bcneuu1eo
for Saturday, October 8, at Halle
Q. Brown House, 553 Aurora Av-
enue.
Mrs. Ermon Hogan, general
chairman of the affair, said that
early demands for reservations
have caused the committee to
request accommodations for 200
persons. Mrs. Hogan also stated
that leading people in the business
field have consented to act as
workshop consultants.
The list Of consultants includes:
William L. Becker, Coordinator
Business Distributive Division,
Vocational Evening School; Rob-
ert Marien, Personnel Department,
Remington-Rand Univac; Donald
]. Brady, Jr., Office Staff Super
intendent, Mails, Main Post Office,
Minneapolis; Mrs. Ruth Judy, In
structor-Supervisor, Medical Sec
retaries, University Of Minnesota
Hospitals; and Mrs. Ethel B.
Blackwell, Bio-statistician, Mime
apolis Health Department.
These consultants will conduct
workshops dealing with: Sales
Techniques, Preparation For a
Business Career, General Office
Practice, New SkiIls and Techni.
ques, How To Get Ahead In The
Business Field, Advanced Business
Careers, and specialization in the
business field.
Mrs. Jewell Taylor Gibbs, Mar
ket Research Field Administra.
tor, with the Pillsbury Company
will be the keynote speaker at the
noon luncheon.
Henry Teipel, Personnel Direc-
tor, Piggy Wiggly will collabor.
ate with Mrs. Edna Latson, Prag.
mateia Sorority member, to pre-
sent a most amusing portrayal OF
a girl seeking employment.
Representatives of various bus.
mess companies will be on hand tc
display the newest machines.
Miss Mary Curley, Director OF
Special Events, at the Emporium
will moderate the style show which
will feature fashions for busines.
women.
Richard K. Fox, assistant dir
ector OF the Minnesota Fair EN-
ployment Practices Commission
and chairman of the Leagues Vo
cational Guidance committee, will
summarize and present attendanc,
certificates and gifts.
The objectives of the Caree,
Day are:
/. To aid the entire business
world in obtaining more well-in
formed, talented and competen
practitioners by workshop orienta
ton as to business career oppor
tunities;
2. To cause, through workshop
exposure, a. Those who are alread,
in the business field to seek furth
er training,
b. A curiosity among those who's,
careers are other than business
and,
c. To encourage youth to con
slider careers in business as theil
profession.
Tickets for the luncheon may b,
obtained from any of the sororit,
members or at the office Of the st
Paul Urban League.
The Pragmateia Sorority is 6
group Of civic-minded women wht
have selected the business field a.
their vocational and professiona
choices.
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Post members served as active
pall-bearers.
In addition to his wife he Is
survived by a brother Clark Of
Minneapolis; two sisters Berry
Lee Robinson of Eldorado, Kans.,
and Ira Bailey of Enid, Okla.
Interment was at the Fort
Smelling National Military ceme-
terry with the usual military hon.
ors reserved for war veterans.
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NO DRIVERS LICENSE

NETS 30 DAY TERM
Claude L. Brown, Al, address
unknown was arrested Sept 10
for driving without a drivers lie
ense and was given 80 days in the
workhouse for tampering with
auto.
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-18
In NafionuI Convention:
In NGfonoI Conventions:
P0rterS Brotherhood In
Attack On RR Unions
Jim Crow Policies

Chicago (ANP) - The AFL-CIO asked Friday to ban
all affiliated local unions that segregae members the basis
of The resolution unanimously adopted by the
than 200 delegates the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
Porers Third Trennal convention pointed that in most
segregated unions Negro members play part the formula
ton of policy and Such organizations commonly
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ARRESTED FOR NON

James L. Franklin, 26, of 1905
Iglehart Av., st. Paul was arrest
ed Sept. IL, on a non-support war
rant. He will appear in municipal
court Sept. to enter plea.
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feeling OF Gvik

Speaking in terms of ethics, our con-
science in America has become corroded
and encrusted with bitter feeling of guilt
because we profess a belief in justice and
equality Of opportunity, but we practice
injustice and discrimination against the
members of minority, racial, religious, and
national groups in every one of these United
States. The outlawing of discrimination in
employment by effective legislation is .
a step that should be taken in every city
and every state by the Federal government
as clear and unequivocal statement of
national polcy."-SenatOr Hubert II. Hum
phrey In I949.
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Mann wrote:
your editorial savors of an
mwarranted fear. That the Negro
people would align themselves be-
hind any spiritual doctrine con-
trary to the evangelical religion,
despite its failure to cry out
against social injustices of which
they complain, is untenable.
No Need For Alarm
If but 10000 Negroes out
Of a population of Is million have
evidenced interest in the Moslem
faith and the leader Of the cult,
Elijah Muhammad, fail to see any
need for alarm.
'Denver's contribution to better
human relations and racial peace
has been remarkable. When I was
discharged from Fitzsimmons hos
pital in 1919, Negroes could not
play golf on our public links. One
tennis court was allotted them at
City park. Their seating in our
movie houses was limited to q
segregated area called the buz-
Yards nest I recall the bombing
of a home on Gilpin street by
reason Of Negro infiltration, and
Negroes dared not purchase homes
east Of High street.
Restraints Gone
But today? Gone are those re-
straints. In our public schools there
are 118 Negro teachers. There are
Is Negro policemen. There are Ne.
groes in both branches of our state
assembly, Negro municipal judge
Negro attorneys in various depart
ments of our state and city govern
ments.
Negroes own billions Of dollars
of immovable property, earned the
hard, but honest way-in America
It cannot be transplanted to Rus.
sia, Asia, Africa or elsewhere
where racial prejudice is not sc
apparent.
These Negroes do not agree
with Moslem prophet Elijah Mu'
hammad that our objective should
be to overthrow the white man."
A Rebuttal
However, Mann's thinking was
rebutted by another Denver cit
izen, Fred Perry, who saw in the
ex-legislator's thinking "a threat
to America"
He said, IT read Earl Mann''
letter with misgivings, fol
it exemplifies the type of thinking
by too many people in the us
that groups such as the one led by
Elijah Muhammad are not danger
GUS, that If we preach against then
in church on Sunday, they viii
inevitably go away; that such or
ganizations should simply be ig
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about the only thing you're
sure TO get just by asking for II
10 trouble. Carl EIlistam.
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British Education

We are often told in America that
British education is superior to ours and
that we should emulate some of their prac-
tees. Many of these so-caIled educated
Britons, the university trained men, seenr
to have an enormous conception of their
own worth English education is well suited
apparently to turning out class conscious
functionaries who follow traditions like
servants in a royal household. They learn
protocol and good manners which have their
place in the world, but they seem to have
an emphasis that tends to develop more
cOoltie-pushers than men.-LOuis Martin.
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-18

Defends Church Segregation:
Smyrna times., 1959-10-01

powered Middletown last week
in romping to four tbs and
gaining a total of SO yards in IL
carries, an average of 8.9 yards
per carry. Cole also ran IL
times, picking up 81 yards for
a 7.3 yard rushing average. Top
ping the list of ground-gainers,
however, was quarterback Lar
ry Dickerson, who carried twice
for Is yards. Overall statistics
revealed that the Eagles record
ed 385 yards gained, 283 rush
ing and 102 through the air.
They completed 4 of 7 passes
attempted. Kickoff for tomor-
row nights battle is 8 pm. The
new football stands seating an
additional 600 persons have
arrived, but erection has not yet
been completed.