Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-05
Nabrit Urges
About Battle
On Civil Rights
BY CLARENCE HUNTER
star staff Writer

Star staff Writer
ATLANTA, July 5.-Two Or
CARNATIONS with widely diver
gent racial views championed
their separate causes here yes
terday without any outburStS
of temper or displays Of vio-
lence.
More than 1000 people sat
under trees on the campus Of
Atlanta University -Morehouse
College to hear the president Of
Howard University declare:
I'VE are here committing our
selves to an about, renewed
and relentless struggle for all
Of our rights as American citi-
zens."
DR.. James M. Nabrit, jr.,
was speaking to delegates and
guests attending the July 4
celebration Of the National As
ISOLATION for the Advancement
of Colored People. In his au-
dience were lawyers, two coll
lege presidents, and white and
Negro men, women and teen
ayers, meeting this week to
map intensified attacks against
the strongholds Of racial dis
elimination.
About 20 miles away In q
pasture near Stone Mountain.
where Ku Klux Klansmen once
gathered by the thousands, an
estimated $50 persons sat in
the hot sun to hear o leader
Of the Louisiana Citizens Coun-
Gil label the NAACP as the
national association for the
advancement Of the Communist
party"
'Racist" Speaks
The speaker was William
Rutledge, executive director Of
the Louisiana Citizens Council.
who identified himself as an
"avowed racist." The pasture
is owned by Attorney James
Venable, president Of q De-
fensive Legion Of Registered
Americans organization adver-
tized as sponsing the meeting.
Pinch hitting for Leander
Perez. New Orleans attorney
who has been accommodated
by the Roman Catholic Church
because he fought an order to
integrate New Orleans paro-
chial schools, Mr.. Rutledge at
tackled Washington, saying 1t
Is go per cent chocolate and
40 per cent nuts" an apparent
reference to the Districts ma
jority Negro population.
Mr.. Rutledge urged his lis
teners to use economic meth
DDS to fight Indignation. He
also promised more reverse
freedom rides for Negroes and
asked Atlanta residents to join
the program which provides
one-way bus tickets to northern
cities for Negroes who desire
to leave the South.
The organization had sched-
uled its week-long meeting in
opposition to the NAACP con-
vention. The registered Amer
leans meeting had been adver-
tised in Atlanta newspapers
for the Veterans Of Foreign
Wars club house at Stone
Mountain, but was switched to
the pasture when the national
WV organization threatened
to revoke the local chapters
charter If the rally-was held at
the club.
Hardest Hitting"
DR.. Nabrit's speech was de-
scribed by several NAACP MEM
bers as the hardest hitting
so far In the convention. He
told the NAACP audience that
I'VE have the most favorable
climate In America that we
have ever had for the true
realization Of our civil rights.
The Supreme Court school
decision, civil rights bill. effects
LOT the sit-in and freedom rides,
opening Of new job opportuni-
ties and progress Of Indignation
In the armed services were
cited by DR.. Nabrit as causes
for exhilaration.
; But behind these still stand
widespread racial discrimina-
! ton. unequal opportunity. poor
wages, dilapidated houses, pow
erty, contempt and the denial
of constitutional liberty" DR.
Nabrit warned.
Freedom consists of political
social, economic and educa.
tional opportunities dispensed