WHITE GIRL DENIED ENTRANCE TO STATE COLLEGE
WRITES GOVERNOR STRONG LETTER SAYS MANKIND IS BOUND TOGETHER BY BOND AND THAT PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE "I believe that mankind is bound together by bonds so strong that hard as we may try, we can never break them. These bonds might be--should be--bonds of love. I am afraid that often they are not. "When one portion of the human family is denied fellowship with another portion, tensions grow up, fears develop, wars come. Over and over again we have seen it happen--that un-Christian, undemocratic cycle. We hate it with our innermost beings, yet we foster it here in our own State of Kentucky. "People are people, no matter what color their skin. They love alike, they hate alike, they learn alike--they are alike. Those are the words which began the letter of Miss Betty Marie Ellis, 23, a student of religious education at the College of the Bible in Lexington, Kentucky, to Governor Earle Clements and Boswell B. Hodkins, Superintendent of Public Instruction, as a protest, when her application for admission to Kentucky State College for the regular six-week summer term which will begin Monday, was rejected by President R. B. Atwood. Atwood explained to the young white student that Kentucky's "Day Law" prohibits operation of any school where both white and Negroes are received as pupils. Miss Ellis asked for instruction in "rural education, creative writing or elementary piano." In her letter in reply to Mr. Atwood, the white girl said, "I am very sorry that the answer had to be 'No.' Had I the financial and legal backing, I would like very much to contest the law as it stands," Miss Ellis declared. She said she was of "the firm opinion" that the Day Law was not in accord with democratic principles of the U. S. Constitution, "or with the personal convictions of the forward-looking citizens of Kentucky." "Governor, How Would You Like To Be A Negro?" Stating that she had to be content with protesting, Miss Ellis' letter to Governor Clements and Supt. Hodkins continues: "Governor, how would you like to be a Negro? You wouldn't, would you? You would never have become Governor. More than that, you would probably never have had the chance to feel within yourself that you were of worth. You would never have had the chance to make the friends you wanted, to eat in the (Continued on page 4)
Wife Shoots Husband
MAN IS SHOT BY HIS WIFE IS CLIMAX TO THREE MONTHS OF REPORTED ABUSES AND BEATINGS Edward Wright, 48, 714 West Liberty, died at General Hospital early last week-end after being shot in the abdomen by his wife, Violet, Thursday, June 3. Charges of malicious wounding were changed to murder. The woman was set free pending her trial, in police court Monday morning under a $2,000 cash bond posted by a professional bondsman. The fatal shooting wrote finis to a three months period of beatings and constant abuse suffered by the slayer at the hands of her husband, according to neighbors The dead man weighed 260 pounds. On the night of the shooting, Wright had been drinking and left his home to go around the corner for some undisclosed purpose. He was shot after charging on his wife as she attempted to make him come back. Wright had been arrested early in March for keeping a disorderly house. He paid a $50 fine in police court on April 13 after several continuances.
RETIRING SCHOOL PRINCIPAL IS HONORED BY FRIENDS AND CITIZENS A large audience gathered at the Green St. Baptist Church Sunday afternoon, June 6, to pay tribute to Mr. G. H. Brown, Principal of the Douglass and Bannecker School who retires at the end of this school year, after 32 years of service in the Louisville Public School system. Edward Adams, Sr., acted as master of ceremonies. The service opened with the singing of the National Negro Anthem, and the invocation by Rev. E. L. Hickman, Pastor of Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church. Music was furnished by the Green St Baptist Choir. A tribute "To Our Principal" was given in a very touching manner by Florine Fairley, a pupil of the Douglas School. A chorus from Douglas School, dressed in caps and gowns, sang two appropriate numbers. Tributes to Mr. Brown were then given by Mrs. Lizzie Fouse, Lexington, Ky., and Rev. Hickman. A solo was sung by Mrs. Alice Ellis. Tributes were then given by Miss Mary Browning, representing the Louisville Board of Education, who stated that, although she has been in the Louisville school system for twenty years, it was the first service that she had witnessed honoring a retiring principal. Tributes by Mrs. Emma Bennett, Supervisor of Jefferson County Schools, and letters of congratulations were read from Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church and from Mr. A. E. Meyeek. (Continued on page 4)
College Students For Randolph's Proposal New York, June 10. - Results of a sampling of opinion among Negro college students indicates wide support of the proposal for non-participation in Jim Crow armed services as edvocated by A. Philip Randolph and Grant Reynolds, leaders of the Committee Against Jim Crow in Military Service and Training. A survey, conducted by the youth division of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, reveals that 71 per cent of the 2,280 young men who responded favor the Randolph-Reynolds proposal. A total of 13,000 questionnaires were sent out for distribution through the NAACP college chapters to male Negro students attending 34 institutions. Responses were received from students of 26 colleges. Only 15 per cent of those responding opposed the anti-Jim Crow proposal.
MUNICIPAL'S HONOR GRADUATES [Photo] Leading honor graduates of Louisville Municipal College who were awarded degrees at the commencement exercises Wednesday night, June 2, are from left, James Robert Lauderdale, Annie Georgia Burton and Dorothy Louise Mucker. See article.
GET DEGREES AT MUNICIPAL Climaxing an interesting commencement address delivered by President Charles S. Johnson of Fisk University at Quinn Chapel last Wednesday night, President John W. Taylor of the University of Louisville of which Louisville Municipal College is a part, presented diplomas to and conferred bachelor-of arts and bachelor of science degrees on 20 graduates . In the course of his address Dr. Johnson, the first Negro president of Fisk, who admonished the graduates to carry with them the three talismans, love of truth, love of beauty and love of man, said: "One who has learned the love of truth, beauty, and his fellow man can never be 'altogether poor or lost or wretched.' "Truth is to be sought not only in college and in the laboratory," he said, "but all through life by the maintenance of an open and inquiring mind, a willingness to be convinced, and a respect for facts. "Truth also is to be cultivated in our relations with our friends, our associates, and in general with the world in which we find ourselves.  . . We have to recognize that truth today, like the other old-fashioned virtues, involves something more than upright (Continued on page 4)
RACE VOTERS SUE GEORGIA FOR $500,000 Savannah, Ga., June 10.--Damages of $500,000 were asked last week by eight Negroes from state and county officials they claim denied 1,800 Negro voters in Laurens county the ballot illegally. Defendants are Superior Court Judge Earl Camp, State Rep. Herschel Lovett and members of the Laurens County Board of registrars County commissions. Former Asst. Atty. Gen. Dan Duke of Atlanta filed the petition in behalf of the Negroes.
WRITES GOVERNOR [Photo] Miss Betty M. Ellis Who upon being rejected as a summer school student at Kentucky State College wrote a letter of protest to Governor Clements. See article.
GRANDSON REOPENS E. W. GLASS FUNERAL PARLORS IN HOPKINSVILLE Hopkinsville, Ky., June 10.--The E. W. Glass Funeral Parlors, which prior to his death in March 1941, had been operated in Hopkinsville for 49 successive years by Edward W. Glass, father of Dr. J. G. Glass of Henderson, was reopened by the late owner's grandson, Edward Kennedy Glass, son of Dr. and Mrs. Glass of Henderson, with an appropriate affair, Sunday, May 31. After his graduation from Douglass High and Tennessee State college, Edward completed his graduate work at Indiana ward's grandfather, was a native of Hopkinsville. He was educated at Roger Williams University, Nashville, Tenn. He was one of the first colored teachers in Christian county and the first Negro elected constable in Christian county. For several years he was in the Internal Revenue Service, and was the first petitioner for organization of Kentucky State College at Frankfort. He was for sixteen successive years a city councilman in Hopkinsville, and for many years a member of the colored Board of Education. He was among the first organizers of Negro fraternities in the state and was considered the leading Negro philanthropist in Hopkinsville. Young Glass is also the grandson of the late Rev. P. H. Kennedy, General Missionary of the Baptists of Kentucky for over 35 years. His widow, Mrs. P. H. Kennedy still lives in Henderson at the age of 91. Edward is married to the former Miss Mina Hughes, Louisville School teacher, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Hughes. Many citizens and friends from Henderson, Louisville and other points attended the re-opening, and many congratulatory expressions and beautiful designs were received. [Photo] E. W. Glass The Founder [Photo] Edw. K. Glass The Grandson
CONGRESS CANDIDATE [Photo] Alfred M. Carroll Who has announced as a candidate for Congress from the Third District on the Wallace ticket, under sponsorship of the Louisville and Jefferson County organization. See article. 
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CARROLL TO RUN FOR CONGRESS Alfred M. Carroll, well-known young Louisville attorney, announced late last week his candidacy for Congress under the sponsorship of the Wallace Committee of Louisville and Jefferson County. Carroll, who at the forming of the Wallace for President organization in the Louisville area became its secretary, is a former president of the Louisville Branch NAACP, and has been a militant advocate of Civil Rights for the Negro, and an uncompromising leader in the fight for integration as against segregation. Carroll, who seeks the seat now held by Thruston B. Morton, Republican, said in announcing his candidacy, that he is convinced that neither major political party intends to seriously consider the plight of the Negro with the determination to correct the inequalities. Said he, "Many of my critics argue that I've made a mistake by first being associated with one major party and then the other, It is not a case of not knowing my mind--but being convinced that both parties agree on second-rate citizenship for colored people. I know that America cannot survive as a democracy with the government for the people being selected by selfish interests who wish to enslave part of the nation--therefore I joined the Wallace group, still seeking a political party which will accord Negroes an equal chance." He added that by filing time, June 17th, he would have over (Continued on Page 4)
RACE TO PARTICIPATE IN G.O.P. CONVENTION Washington, June 10.--In addition to a number of colored persons being delegates several colored persons will participate in various capacities in the Republican national convention which convenes in Philadelphia on June 21, Perry W. Howard, Republican national committeeman for Mississippi, said last Thursday. As a member of the committee, Mr. Howard said, he secured the selection of Hobson Reynolds, head of the Elks' civil liberties department, to deliver a welcome address to the convention on June 21. Bishop A. P. Shaw of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Baltimore, will deliver the invocation at the opening of the convention on June 22. Other appointments announced by Mr. Howard include Albert Reading of Chester, Pennsylvania, as a reading clerk, and William Murray Simmons, son of Roscoe C. Simmons, of Chicago, as a page.
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