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The Detroit tribune., 1963-03-16
Will Robinson
PSI "Coaeh
OF The Year"

Coach of the Year award goes
10 5l-year-old William j. Robin
son, cage mentor of Pershing
High.
The reasons are m a ny and
varied. Most prominent was the
Job he did in bringing the first
first PSI championship TO Perish.
ing High in 33-years after losing
three of his top boys due to grad
uation. Some though that the loss
of these three would kill Pershing
chance to win.
But the old cage fox was TN
daunted. He took this set back
in stride like the true champ,
that he is; he reorganized his
squad and moved on. Therein lies
the Will Robinson story.
Robbie, with his extraordinary
coaching ability, moved the
Doughboys into the championship
game against Southwestern and
beat them for the PSI title.
This is the same Robinson that
took old Miller High and put
1t on the PSI cage map. While
at Miller he won no less than
six championships. Four league
titles, one post-season game and
the first PSI and Parochial Lea
cue Championship ever played
was won by Robinson.
A twenty.one gun salute to this
quiet unassming, dynamic man.
Will Robinson, cagey cage tutor
lof Pershing High.
The Detroit tribune., 1963-03-16
CLARENCE WILSON
CLARENCE WILSON
MobefyOtters Return To
Detroit!s s Olympia, Mar: 29

dcrful funmaker; Murphy Sum-
mons, the dribbling marvel from
Detroit's Northwestern Hight; and
Nat (Sweetwater) Clifton. whom
Saperstein calls the finest ball
handler he has ever seen
Other stalwarts on the club are
James Tim Robinson, Willis
Thomas, Hubert f. Ausbie, Hers
chell Turner and Mel Davis.
The Detroit tribune., 1963-03-16
ey Walt Hoye

! IltAGO-Bcforc a crowd of
/ eager fans. Dctroit-the
fplacc of world boxing cham
won the u. S. Golden
r. team title for the first
~ 2lycarS. Not since the
4 avs of the immortal Brown
zen Joe Louis and Sugar
son has our fair city won
4 p crown.
4 'olI placed three entrants
tournament of Champion
AZ cago Stadium to nail
the title.
plrs Detroit gain tbs COW
nonor were Emanuel Stew
Ne lib POUND titlist from
hecreaton where Bill o.
and L. Sobczynsk coach.
VI defeated Frank Glover,
Columbus, ihc 1862 runner
me National AU meet.
Harrls, of King Solomon
II mere Taylor Smith runs the
osl a very unpopular de-
Chicago's Nick Petrecca
l26-pound title. The ver-
Justly booed by the large
narris. a l6-year-old sax
Playing high school stu
IDS developed very rapidly
lows great promise.
ing Billy Newsome from
recreation. where Jim
ana and Festus Twice ti-
lads, is the third member
Team. Newsome, a IT'S
Joey Maxim Award" for
also, won the highly
outstanding athlete.
'act that we placed three
The Detroit tribune., 1963-03-16
Detroit Wins Golden
Gloves Team Title

boys in the finals is a great tri-
hutc TO our coaches, Taylor
Smith and Russ Gilbert. We had
little competition for the boys IN
The open class Of our own Gold
cr Gloves Program and the coach
es did "a wonderful job getting
them ready" said Frank Connoi-
Iyr. manager of the Detroit team.
The Detroit tribune., 1963-03-16
THACkER IN EAST-WEST
ALL-STAR GAME

LEXINGTON, Ky. - (HAP) -
Tom Thacker Cincinnati's Bear
cat cage ace has been named to
play for the East in the East
West all-star college game on
March 80.
St. Paul recorder., 1963-09-12
The March" Was The American Way
editorial in Milwaukee JOURNAL, Aug. 20, 1859

Editorial in Milwaukee JOURNAL Aug. 20, 1859
quarter million Negroes taught other Americans their
meaning amendment fright the
people peaceaby petition the
redress Of grievances"
Wednesdays huge Washington added
dignity onrn struggle Negro equality
the sesciphne of the marchers with
slightest spontanty and fervor purpose
The compacent granted
thinking watched listened Wednesday, must have
thrilling
it indeed what it Is.
great triumph
roung fringe Negro leadership Randolph Wilkins
King leading against democracy
followers
capital good Americans wanting to be whole Americans
perfectly expressed struggle
democracy Addressing sypathecaly south
congress merely vote
all jest:
freedom for their
cizensfreedom fears and Determinations that
deny it to others.
earbenng prominent religious of all faiths
tendency legislation only the
call to national conscience
thrust in Randophs phrase to stir the whole American
people righteous imperative achieved
that effect dramatically.
country hardly
pathetic forebong Of
leaders, inincvey mouth
tired old about how won't be ntd
comparatively well off American Negroes
settle back with sigh
isn't it has just begun
before democracy will
act to cure tSefH
St. Paul recorder., 1963-09-12
The finest effc

by Negro magazine publishing
September Special EBONY edition published
Anniversary Emancipation
years ahead will be collectors item.
The page page a
drawing Frederick Douglass exsave who
helped the slaves who called the Father of tho Negro
Movement
Johnson EBONY publisher and useful Citizen and his
staff should extremely proud special
tent and does credit to the American magazine publishing field
as
messages living
have occupied the Kennedy present
meth Clark, Louis LOmax Thurman Wilkins Whitney M
Young Jr Sarah Patton Boyle NGc AL
Ian Morrison, Hope and others.
scope subjects
Negro History
Desegregaton Nex?"
Role of the NddCaass Negro Negro Literature Today The Ne
Woman THE Sports
uS edgar EVers why Live in Mississippi Last VIE and
Testament of Mary Mcleod Bethe" Negro
cne THE Crusang Press The Business other
formative articles
1t will take a single sitting September
EBONY because its huge SIze and the well written articles
Publisher JOhnsOns opening Oeys
'The Constitution thrilling
tell how far the American Negro
the future.
every Negro home and every white home In
Minnesota a copy
every public library the area also obtains copv If thew do not al
ready have Reading magazine regular
y is always nice experience but the
thrilling compelling experience that the reader will not soon for
get We anticipate that the
suggest that those who copies
immediately.
We have received THE Learning Minneapolis
resident Gordon Parks 1908
not had time to read it, but
gave good sendo in the Usually a
gets favorable review in TIME it worth
remember Gordon Parks the LIFE photographer dining waiter
ps IN night club Mother Cares) circulation for this
paper ambitious amateur photographer
become of the worlds greatest developed
into writer whose appeared connection
with Photographic subjects
1T would large his book The
Learning for it ait farite
booI-store.-Ceci Newman.
St. Paul recorder., 1963-09-12
WiIIiom (. B. Dubois

I'VE claim for ourselves" Dr. William declared al
most 60 every right that belongs
political civil and social get rights never
America with the story o it's
shameful deeds
Out of this concept of Negro equality sprang NAACP But
Dubois his patience thin progress turned
to communism and finally US This
week. at 95, the brinian Africa citizen Of
His tragedy Hamlets he had been born
out of joint The principles been
ed by Negro leaders men like
Roy Wilkins James Baldwin King deliberately
chosen democracy
freedom The difference in the strategy be-
tween the past present-N.Y POST
St. Paul recorder., 1963-09-12

are two young people who found ourselves In love
and did what felt Is required Of people when they
In love and want to spend their lives together.
We got married"
Whatever the circumstances, Miss Hunter and
Mr.. StovaI did what they wanted to do-something
that individuals are entitled 10 do in the US, de-
spite some unconstitutional state laws to the con-
trary We proud Of them: Instead Of maintaining
illegal relationship as many white men have
maintained with Negro women in the South, the
couple became man and wife and now face up cour-
ageously to the crisis of the race hating pack
Whenever these people who are against inter
marriage, the simple constitutional right Of
Americans to select the mates of their own choice
begin to deliver structures 'miscegnation" we are
forced 10 remind them that less than Is per cent Of
the 120 nhlHon American Negroes Of pure Afd-
can blood The S5 per cent who make the balance
and majority of the Negro have the blood Of Africa
Europe and the American Indian coursing through
their veins This IS per cent did not get that way by
relationships between Negro men and white women,
but usually and almost always by association be-
tween white men and Negro women.
These facts may be unpaEatable to many people,
but they are the truth People crcisng the Stovalls
of Georgia ought to stop and think about the whole
story-Nwhich is often ignored.
Like any two people-decent citizens who decide
to become and wife we say TO Charlayne
Hunter Stovau and her husband Walter stovall.
You are brave people We hope you real good luck,
We hope your welded life viii be bhssfll and sue
cesful and we hope people will leave you alone"
These young people had courage. They simply
dared to do something that other Americans have
done would like to do namely: exercise their In
herent right to marry the person Of their choice
regardless Of currently accepted taboos or the big
otry of parents and public.
St. Paul recorder., 1963-09-12
Letters To The Editor

us telegraph the PRESIDENT"
So we did last evening. She
wrote an impassioned night letter
urging President Kennedy to Eek
tend every effort" for freedom,
social rights, civil rights!
also wrote a night letter to
him saying, Ought not the best
minds in the country be consider
ing the great problem of unem-
ployment ?" and adding this heret-
ical Thought:
ut seems far-fetched; but would
it not be just action if profitable
industry should contribute to pub
lie works to provide jobs for des-
pairing men and boys?
read your paper every week
and admire the effective, enlight-
ened way with which you produce
it!-GratefulIy and sincerely yours,
Eva Jerome, S1SS West OwassO
Blvd, st. Paul. Minnesota, Aug.
20, 1868.
St. Paul recorder., 1963-09-12
Our Post This Week

September l, 1922 - Hiram
Revels of Mississippi, first Negro
elected to the US. Senate, was
born a free man In Fayetteville.
NC. Served 41st and And MS.
Congress, 1901.
September 1, 1895 - George
Washington Carver began his re-
markable career as an agricultural
chemist at Tusl0egee Institute,
Alabama. From the peanut he
made more than 800 products. He
made more than 100 products from
the sweet potato. He made syn
thetac marble from wood shavings,
dyes from clay, and starch from
cotton stalks.
September 8, 1895 - Charles H.
Houston, onetime dean Of law
school at Howard university, was
born in Washington, DC. He
gained nationwide prominence as
general counsel for the NAACP.
He was a member Of Phi Beta
Kappa and the American Academy
Of Political and Social Science,
Houston US. Negro leaders would
face death in the equal rights bat
tie.
September 4, 1915 - Associa-
tion for the Study Of Negro Life
and History was organized by DR..
Carter G. woodson In Washington,
DC.
September 4, 1908 - Richard
Wright, novelist, was born in Nat
chez, Miss. He was author Of Ma
tive Son, Black Boy, Twelve Black
Voices, among other works.
September 6, 1883 - Joel Aug
ustus Rogers, author and news
paper columnist, was born in jam
aica.
! September 9, 1899 - Slave re-
volt at Stone, Ca.
September IA, 1895 - Bert Will
liams, teacher Of entertainer Eddie
Cantor, started successful Broad
way career.
St. Paul recorder., 1963-09-12
TV Withers
The Dixiecrats

Televtsion is merciess instrument. 1t exposes
the worst phonies in public life to critical exam
ination by the public 1t destroys the most carefully
wrought images" of counterfeit statesmen, heroes
and heavy thinkers. By the same process 1t frIs-
trates the most industrious efforts to msrepresent
and destroy genuine leaders and statesmen.
Senator Richard Russell Democrat Of Georgia,
upon whom prodgious press and radio build-up
has been lavdshed 10 set him up as a WISE moderate
statesman isn't quite the moderate the statesman
or the intellectual that he built up to be, since
his recent TV appearance. He's Dixie politician
full of prejudice and hate. He proved 10 be not
enough of thinker to voice his prejudices in
fresh original way, but obliged to fail back
on the tired platltIdes and stereotypes which have
become DiGdes case in the court Of public opinion
for its crimes against large section Of its people
Teevisfon didn't leave much of man, by the time
it was through with Senator Russell
On the other hand, consider the Rev DR.. Mar
tin Luther King. He has been television several
times recently. To put it most chartaby, the Dixie
politicians cannot stand this kind Of competition. 1t
wfthers theI makes them look even smaller and
meaner section Of the press has been at pains to
co-workers in the cause Of equality and civil rights
create a image Of Dr. King and many Of his
as OF violence and responsibility David
Lawrence the widely syndicated columnist, and seq
regationiSt apologist described the Washington civil
rights demonstration thus: The march will go down
in history marking a day Of public disgrace" He
described the city beset by terror and called for
a march on Washington by rape victims.
At about this point gentle breeze Of reason,
tolerance and humanity UP and blew all this
corrosive hate and hysteria away. Mr.. Lawrence
should listen to DR.. King:
'I have dream that one day even the state Of
Mississippi state sweltering with the peoples in
justice sweltering with the heat of oppression, will
be transformed into oasis of freedom and justice
Il have dream that my four little children will
one day live in a nation where they will not be
Judged by the color of their skin but by the content
Of their character.
Il have dream that one day every valley shall
be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made
low the rough places will be made plain, and the
crooked places will be made straight, and the glory
Of the lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall it
together"
St. Paul recorder., 1963-09-12
Large Handwriting
On A Large Wall

When people petition their government for the
redress of grievances this exercise has been
panied more often than not by violence This is the
experience of history, and it is the experience of
people in most parts of the world today 1t is the
experience, today, in our southland.
And more often than not, If not almost always
the violence is initiated by the government. In Po-
land and Hungary; in Mississippi and Alabama. In
China. Our southern demagogs fond Of shout
ing Communism at the drop of the Civil Rights hat,
But these same demagogs have much more in COM
mon with the communist governments than any
other force in the officially free world.
The Civil Rights demonstration in Washington
the first exercise there of the right of pe-
tion but it was by far the largest and most sgnihc-
ant and by far the most likely to win far-reaching
results Moreover it is the first notable one in
Washington to be entirely free of violence.
In 1897 Coxey's Army, converging Washing
ton to petition for measures to relieve unenploy-
ment, was broken up by the arrest of leaders "for
walking the White House lawn" In 1882, the
Bonus Marchers seeking immediate payment Of
World War I bonus certificates a depression
measure driven out by military action ord
cred by President Hoover with General Macarthur
directing the gassing of the petitioners and the
burning of their encampment-a disgraceful brutal
operation.
How different the atmosphere in Washington
today. We be proud of the discipline and re-
straint of the demonstrators And we can be proud
of the spirit shown by government. We can be
especially proud of the send-off given the marchers
by our own Minnesota State government on August
IT, with high public officials joining in wishing them
we'll, and in pointing out the significance of this
demonstration petition for the redress of g1ev-
ances.
We are sure that the tyrants and demagoges Of
Dixie do not like this We are equally sure that the
lesson cannot be entirely lost upon them The events
in ST. Paul, and the events in Washington, put some
very large handwriting upon a very large wall
Dixie demagogs and tyrants may not be able to read
too we'll but you can be certain that the message
was not entirely lost upon them.
St. Paul recorder., 1963-09-12
Two Young Americans
Exercise Their Basic
Right To Marry

The marriage of Charlayne Hunter OF the
first two Negro graduates of the University of
Georgia to Walter Stovall, 25 senior journalism
student at the school Is attracting great at
tenion in the nation and especially in Georgia and
the South.
The principal reason for the great public inter
est is because Miss Hunter, the Mrs Stovall is
a Negro and her husband is Caucasian.
OF course the marriage caused a storm in the
South not only among whites opposed to school in
tegration but also among many Negroes, North and
South who thought the marriage would be used as
natural propaganda tool against whites and Ne
groes attending the same schools
We understand, but not agree with either
viewpoints The racists of the South have COM
planned for years that school integraton will bring
intermarriage. We do not deny that this is true but
we know from experience that the number Of such
marriages will be small Negroes and whites have
been attending school together for years in the
North and the number Of intermarriages infin-
itesimal although it is admittedly growing slowly at
the college level.
The feeling Of Negroes and liberal whites that
the HunterStova marriage will be used against in
tegration Is true, but the threat of intermarriage
has always been propaganda device by the white
Supremacists In this however the tune will
have to be changed from the need for protection of
young white wOmanhood" to that of protection of
young white manhood" The appeal will lose some
Of It's power because the women supposed to be
the most defemsless against Negro males but Stovan
apparently rs no weak character and we imagine
that this Is marriage in which the man took the
initiative.
Most certainly Mr.. Stovalrs statement as
ported by the Associated Press whose reporters
worked overtime trying 10 learn whether the couple
were in fact married not was a dignified reply:
He stated 1--WE have not wanted to embarrass,
humiliate disturb our families or anyone else We
St. Paul recorder., 1963-09-12
Fifteen Year Old B
Grandmother Wrote Kennedy
AGk~. NEs.,..s.s. BAA.,-.kT ~

SronomoTnSr "FoIS Nenneoy
After Viewing "Mureh"
Editor: I read with sorrow of
your affHction which prevented
you from going to the March on
Washington! Two friends Of mine
have suffered from the annoyance
and the pain of this disease,
shingles, so that I am keenly
aware of what it means. I hope
that your doctor, and you, with
your wonderful strength Of soul,
may overcome this enemy in the
shortest possible time!
My granddaughter Ellen Lewis,
IS, Of this house, and I, thanks to
television, were able to see and
hear every speaker at that marvel
Gus demonstration yesterday, and
to read the eager, earnest faces
of many of the listeners.
We were so deeply moved that
Ellen said with vehemence, Let
St. Paul recorder., 1963-09-12
ISSUES: GOOD
AND BAD
BY P. L. PRATTIS


Children are regarded as the
most precious product Of any gen
Grafton. There is nothing under, on,
or above the earth 50 fun of pro-
mise as they.
They come into the world en-
dowed with their share of the
power, might and talent Of the
Great Creator, God. Children grow
into Millions, Shal1espeares, New
tons, Ben FranlIlins, Voltaires.
The progress OF the human race is
nothing more than the greater and
greater Identification Of the power
Of God in men.
Those who believe in a just God
must also believe that, except for
mans own frailttes, God shares his
talents with all men alike. II 1t be
said that all men do not have
equal talent, the fault or the in
equity cannot be aScribed to the
Creator. A child may be handi-
capped before or after birth.
The issue Is important because
now, all of a sudden, we are
hearing and learning SO much
about the unpreparedness Of Ne
gro youth.
Whose fault Is that? OF youths
themselves OF their parents ? Or
is it all to be ascribed 10 racial
discrimination and it's concomitant
frustartion?
Are we to blame the labor un-
ions, the employers, inferio +
schools, ghetto conditions, rejection
by others? Are we to blame every
body and everything but our
ourselves?
know full well what racial
discrimination means. have
worked for fifty-five years without
ever drawing pay check from a
white man. I know that the years
through which I lived did not de-
mand as much as the year Of to-
morrow.
1 have had the help Of neither
mother nor father. From the age
of thirteen, 1 have had to fend
for myself in a society which
denigrated me. And so have
many other Negroes in the past.
James Nabrit, president Of How
ard university, was not born with
silver spoon in his mouth. Nor
S. B. Fuller, nor A. G. CASTOR, nor
Walter Aiken, nor Thurgood Mar
shall, nor John H. Johnson, nor
hundreds of others who have at
tanned proud positions in Amer
ican society despite racial discrim-
ination.
However, I must confess that
these men came from two genera
tons of forbears whose principal
interest was in education and
achievement. They came from par
ents and grandparents who ignored
the handicaps and made their own
way.
have a friend who is perhaps
the outstanding tailor In South
Carolina. How did he learn 10
be a tailor? Fifty-five years ago,
he went to q white tailor and
told him he'd like to work around
the shop.
Said the man, "Okay, Hop, but
I amt got nothing to pay you"
That's all right" rejoined Hop.
For years he worked in this white
mans shop without pay, but HE
LEARNED A TRADE.
The finest people in South Car
oHna, including the governors and
senators, come to him for their
clothes.
Much of the fault for this gener-
ation's plight, I believe, can be laid
to parents and the kind of homes
they provide for their children
When so-called rumpus room Gel
lars" are fitted out with whiskey
rather than books something has
gone awry.
St. Paul recorder., 1963-09-12
No Place For Abraham Lincoln


rampant seregaios dried for the Demo-
crat usual The Republican nominee Rbe Phillips is irving to
make himself appear even 1907 anNego Kennedy
One Phillips technique coatta riding Senator Codwater the
souts hero The Republican committee has furnished
photograph Of the two shaking hands a
in the background For Mssap conSption an
artists air brush has carefully eliminated Lincoln Dwauee
JOURNAL.
St. Paul recorder., 1963-09-12
Americas Leading Enemy
Of The Test Ban
Reveals Himself

Lawrence D. spivaclt. questioning DR.. Edward
Teller on his opposition to the test-ban treaty on
Meet the Press September l: Are you afraid that
the Russians will honor the treaty you afraid
that they will not? Which is 1t that bothers you
most?"
Dr. Teller: II don't l1now!"
St. Paul recorder., 1963-09-12
ALL NEGRO POLITICAL PARTY
(THE TINES, New York;

plans for organizing aNegro political party national
and local candidates in the 1854 election dsserc to the
Negro and TO the Of civil rights
ent an end to racial discrimination tnegron Negro
into all spheres Of American life equality
Negro political party the opposite would
tend ram into politics. play same vsve selfetet
ing role that the Black Musms already religious sphere
The result can only be the strengthening Of the
South ana elsewhere whites against Ne
Rroes and their rights"
St. Paul recorder., 1963-09-12
DRY POINTS
BY FRED GRAM

Money, they say, Is not every
thing. But there are those who are
willing to argue that, as a sub
stitute, 1t has certain desirable
points.
The ultimate marvel In electron-
ic computers win be a miniature
Job into which a housewife can
feed data off the supermarlcet
shelf and learn Instantly what
she's paying for a package Of soap
or a box Of flour.
The human race Is capable Of
astonishing versatility, such as
the development Of the most in
trIcate social relationships, and
breath-taldng individual achieve
ments and heroism. Also appalling,
craven conformism, and egregious
egoism.
The decline of college athletics
may be partly due to the fact that
we never can be quite sure, at the
inevitable banquet to honor the
coach, whether to chant Hes a
Good Egg" or Hes a Good Yegg."
Poverty, says the government,
Is subsistence for an individual on
less than $3.50 a year. Hunger,
say we, is the $10O-plus bite the
government takes before the pow
! srty-s64cken can begin eating.