St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1961-09-15
New Developments
In Freedom Rider
Suits & Movement

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Washington (ANP) - At its
annual convention here last week
The Committee on Racial Equality
asked Freedom Riders to return to
Jail instead of pressing further
their appeals of breach-of-the-
peace conviction in Jackson, Miss.
Municipal court.
At the same time CORE an
nomced the launching OF new cam
paigns to end discrimination en-
ployment practices in national re-
tail chain stores, to secure unlim-
tied decent housing for all Amer
lean and to continue and intensity
its campaign for registering elig-
ible Negro voters. 1t said the at
tack on employment practices will
place particular emphasis" on
Sears Roebuck and might later
include a nationwide Negro boy
colt of its goods.
CORE also voted to begin re-
cruiting new Freedom Riders to
challenge racial segregation in
Jackson's transport facilities.
Appeals Dropped For Two Reasons
The decision to drop the appeals
was made for two reasons, accord
ing to CORE National Director
James Farmer. One, he said, was
the prospect that the appeals
would be lost anyway; and two,
ito move into the arena of nom
violent action rather than be beg
ged down in litigation"
But in Jackson, assistant city
prosecutor Bob Nichols gave an
other reason for dropping the ap-
peals. He said CORE asked the
riders to drop their appeals be-
cause it wants to get its hands
on the appeal money" About
$4,000 has been posted in appeal
bonds.
Presidents Aid Sought
In a convention resolution the
National Conference for Interrac-
ial Justice appealed to President
Kennedy to release the imprisoned
riders. The conference argued that
the riders should be freed because
they are unjustly confined and
have acted entirely within their
constitutional rights"
The conference also asked Pres
ident Kennedy in another resolu-
ton to issue a presidential execu-
tive order banning discrimination
in all housing which receives federal
aid or mortgage guarantees. 1t
urged governors in states without
fair housing practice laws to in
itiate such legislation, and asked
the AFL-CIO to end racial segre-
cation in local unions and to stop
discrimination in union-controlled
apprenticeship programs.
Two Return To Jail
Two riders-19 year-old Doris
Castle and % year-old Jerome NJ.
Smith-returned to Jackson last
week to finish serving their sent
ences, while Negroes across the
State Of Mississippi worked on
several fronts to break down the
states segregation barriers.
At McComb, Rev. James Bevel,
from Itta Bena, said "tremend-
Gus gains" were shown in a nom
violent movement in the wake of
the alleged beating of a New York
Negro by a white man.
McComb Negroes also attended
mass meeting one night last
week to protest the arrest and con-
viction of two Negroes who at
tempted to desegregate the eating
facilities at a McComb store.
Alabama Hearings, Folsom Speaks
In Montgomery, Ala, us. Dist
riot Judge Frank NJ. Johnson, Jr.,
last yeek was to begin hearings
on a Freedom Rider suit attacking
the consdtutionality of the stated
breach-of-the-peace laws. The COM
plant, filed last May following
racial violence in Montgomery, at
tackled the law under which IL
Freedom Riders were arrested on
May 25 while seated together at a
bus station lunch counter.
Former Alabama Governor
James E. Folsom last week de-
clared Il can keep segregation.
He said he would have jailed Free
dom Riders in Alabama like they