St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-05-11

record Al Negroes were seeking
public offices and 10 were assured
of election in the May 1, Demo-
cratic primary in Alabama, posi-
bly, the greatest number at any
one time since the days of Recon-
struction.
Most of the Negroes are running
for seats on Democratic executive
committees in three counties. Seven
are unopposed. In at least three
other precincts Negroes are the
only candidates.
Negroes have white opponents
for committee seats in several
other precincts with heavy Negro
population.
At least four Negroes are seek
ing election to county-level jobs in
four of the Ct Alabama counties.
None are in statewide races.
Democratic party leaders say
they don't recall the last time that
as many as Al Negroes sought pol
itical office in Alabama at the
same time.
Election to county democratic
ox,oo,,+i,,o oovoroiffaas 10 5o,a y1yifb
in the precincts in Alabama.
Mobile County has Is Negroes
seeking countrywide jobs; Madison
county, where Huntsville is the
county seat, has IA Negroes in
county races; jefferson (Birming-
ham, County has IL Negro can
didates and Montgomery County
has one Negro candidate.
In Mobile County IA Negroes
are in the race for seats on the
county party committee and one
in running for the county school
board
Seven Negroes now serve on the
Mobile Democratic committee.
Five Negro candidates are I'M
opposed in the Mobile races and
three precincts have only Negro
candidates.
Thus the Mobile County commit
tee is certain to have eight Negro
members after the election.
DR.. E. B. Goode, a Negro ply
stefan and vice chairman of the
Alabama Advisory Committee to
the Civil Rights Commission, is
opposed by four white candidates
for a place on the Mobile County
School Board. He is believed to be
the first Negro to run county wide
for an elective post since recon-
struction days.
At Huntsville, Is Negroes filed
for positions on the Madison
County Democratic executive COM
mittee. One was disqualified be-
cause he filed for a seat allotted to
Huntsville but lives outside the
city.
Ten Negro candidates are run
ming for seats on the Jefferson
County Democratic executive COM
mittee. Another is opposed for a
seat on the county school board.
However, they are in sharp dis
agreement as to what steps should
be taken to bring the recalcitrant
superintendent and weak school
board into line. This leaves I'M
clear the basis for Dawson's sup
port of the alderman's attitude.) "
In a later development, Mayor
Daley met with Negro leaders and
promised to call upon his nominal
ing committee to reconvene to con-
slider four Negroes as possible
school board appointees.
The four, whose names have
been mentioned before to be con-
sidered for the vacancies, are:
George S. Harris, president of the
Chicago Metropolitan Mutual AS
surance company; DR.. Jeanne
Spurlock, chief child psychiatrist
at Michael Reese hospital; Earl B.
Dickerson, president of the Su-
preme Life Insurance Company of
America, and Mrs. Olive H. Crost-
wait, an insurance company offic-
ial.
Eleven Negroes filed for the
committee races at Birmingham,
but were disqualified.
Ten Negroes later filed suit in
federal court here for the right to
run. The suit was withdrawn when
the Negroes were accepted as can
didates.
Two of the Negroes are unop-
posed in the jefferson County
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