St. Paul recorder., 1960-02-26

dl brought lut arrest OF ID 10
persons on disorderly conduct
charges, and the disqualification of
at least one-a white youth.
Police To Use Dogs
So lively was the fracas that
police had to use dogs to disperse
both sides. which had converged
upon Roses Five and Dime store
in the Mid-City shopping center.
In the arrests, police confiscated,
among other things, a % calibre
pistol from a white student, sticks,
chains, knives and razors.
A similar fight occurred in High
Point, N c., but on a small scale.
A group of Negro sitdowners,
leaving the downtown F. w. Wool
worth store, were beset by a group
of whites The brief furry was
halted by police who arrested one
of the white participants and two
Negroes.
Another fare-up occurred in the
suburban College Villege Shopping
center earlier, in which white
youths threw taunts and snowballs
at the sitdowners. Police made no
arrests during the demonstration,
and the management in self-de-
fense had to close down the store,
to get rid of both groups
Fight Follow Kings Tour
In Durham, N. c., a scuffle be-
tween store employees and police,
on one hand, with press photo
graphers on the other, broke out
after the Rev Martin Luther King
-Ir., accompanied ~ the Rev. Ralph
Abernathy had made a tour of
the F. w Woolworth store
The two ministers were posing
for pictures when an assistant
manager broke into the group and
demanded they leave. A store en-
ploye made a rush for the photo
graphers and television camera
men. In the ensuing melee, the
Revs. King and Abernathy depart
ed.
Police, arriving on the scene,
tussled with photographers, and
took the camera of c. c. Burnley,
a Negro lensman on an assignment
for the Carolina Times. However,
upon advice of a Negro attorney,
that his film could not be confis-
Gated until a warrant was issued,
Burthey's camera was returned
and he was invited to leave the
premises.
Earlier, DR.. King had told 100
students from colleges in North
and South Carolina and Virginia,
that Negroes must be willing to
fill up the jails Of the South to
gain their rights. Maybe it will
take this willingness to stay in Jail
to arouse the doing conscience Of
our nation"
Continue Picketing In Manhattan
In New York, the sympathy
picketing Of stores Of the Wool
worth and S. H Kress chains,
sponsored by CORE continued,
while in Rock Hill, s. c., support
for the Negroes protest at lunch
counter bias came from a group
Of whites known as the White
Citizens" who distributed printed
slips urging patrons not to make
purchases at any Of the stores n-
til the segregation policy was
dropped.
While the protest was halted at
Raleigh, N. c., Cameron Village
shopping center, pending court &C
ton in the case Of 43 students ar
rested, the movement was con-
tinued at the four downtown stores.
At Nashville, McClellans Five and
10 Cent Store shut down following
an interracial sitdown Of $50 stu
dents.
One of the more astute observa-
tions to be made of this sitdown
movement came from Harold c.
Fleming, executive director, South
ern Regional council, an interrac-
ial group of Southern leaders head
quartered in Atlanta, whose aim
is the improvement Of race rela-
tons.
Fleming said: The lunch coun-
ter 'sit-ins' demonstrate something
that the white community has beer
reluctant to face: the mounting
determination of Negroes to be ric
of all segregated barriers"
Lets Be Just"
AS If in echo to his statement
were some Of the signs carried BY
Negro picketers and sit-downert
in various locations. One In Raj
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