A Beginning Is ade Tile Civil Rights Bill Is Still in Jeopardy But tile Power anti tile Grace of Yesterday's Freedom Mllftll Was Felt Tllruout tile land NORTHWEST DEFENDER UNDERSTANDING AND EDUCATION WILL LEAD TO THE TRUTH Vol• .1, No. XXX xn Portland. Oregon.s Cents Per Copy TIIURSDAY, AUGUST 25. DG3 EXCLUSSIVE ISS Weary NW Marchers Start Return; Bus Due in Portland Sunday A.M. By ALLEN HOFFARD Reporter'• Washington 8ure1u WASHINGTON, D.C. - Forty weary Pacific Northwesterners boarded a homeward bound ahtartered bus at dawn Thursday after participating in Wednesday's historic march on Washington. The civil rights demonstrl!ltors assembled at 5 a.m. for the return trip in the same bus which was plagued with mechanical difficulties and other delays on its eastbound journey. They expect to arrive at their starting point, HighIan dCongregational church in Portland, Sunday morning. Fifteen wil continue on to their homes in Washington state. Marchers We d n e s d a y night got their only chance of the week to sleep in beds, as house guests of members of the Christian F a m i I y movement, a Catholic group, in suburban -Washington's northern Virginia commu- , ni'ties of Arlingtan and Alexandria. The early reveille made the visits very brief, however. The hospitality, which had previously been scheduled for Tuesday n i g h t, was arranged by Jam~s Hunt, manager of Portland's Catholic Bookstore, who served 3JS "advance man" for the bus riders. Having arrived more than 12 hours late, the Portland contingent entered Washington just in time for the march and went directly to the assembly are a. They carried signs prominently identifying them as Oregon citizens. The march itseff was unmarred by violence or other incidents, and was adjudged a major triumph for its sponsors. ing, but arrived too late to keep the appointment. Sen. Maurine Neuberger was in Oregon. The bus riders were joined in the march by State Rep. Howard Willits (D-Gresham), who flew in fro rna Methodist church meeting in Chicago. Pastor Ralph Moore of Highland Congregational, chairman of the race relations committee of the Portland Council of Church~ es, W3JS chief organizer of the charter, but didn't make the trip himself. John HoUey of the Urban 1e ague and Rich\al'd Celsi, a school teach· er, were co-captains of the journey. Hunt told the Portland Re· porter Washington bureau that the Oregon ml!lrchers retained their good cheer despite the disappointments which had beset them, and the fact that a round trip cross-country bus journey in one week by no stretch qualifies as a vacation. E Rally Due Sunday Busload Returns; S. Oregon Race 1 'Problems' Seen A rally will oe held Sunday for the busload of Portlanders who traveled to Washington D. C. to participate in the Aug. 28 civil rights demonstratron, The Journal learned Friday. Mayfield K. Webb, local president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said the rally will be held either in In keeping with its practice of giving its readers the best and most comprehensive coverage of big events, the Northwest Defender has this exclusive issue of the mammoth demonstration in Washington, D. c. The Defender Publisher, Terry L. Black, and Editor, Jimmy Bang-Bang Walker, went to the Nation's Capital and wired special stories on the big event back for this big special issue. Readers patronize the advertisers in this, your greatest weekly. #l The oldest Negro Newspaper in the Northwest; #2 The greatest and oldest Litho newspaper in the Northwest; #3 The only 6 columnNegro Newspaper in the west; #4 The only newspaper in the world, where you can read, "Bang-Bang Talking". Our aclvenisers make this exclusive issue Edition possible. They provide much of the moneynecessary to underwrite this special repon. When you want some service or goods, first consult this newspaper. Be sure to tell the advertiseryou saw his ad in the Northwest Defender. If you don't find the goods or service you want, advertised in this Newspaper, tell the company from which youbuythatitshouldbe listed in the Northwest Defender. Arrange for an ad from them for your greatest newspaper. Only in this way the Northwest Defender merits the continued suppon of our advertisers. Buy from them and they will buy from us. H i g h I a n d Congregational Church, 4635 NE 9th Ave., or in Dawson Park. " It depends on when the group arrives," Webb said. " If they get here in the afternoon it will be in the park. If they arrive at night, it probably will be in the church." SEVERAL hundred are expected to attend, he said. Arrangements for the rally are being made by Rev. Ralph Moore, pastor of H i g h I a n d Church. Webb described the Aug. 28 demonstration in Washington as "just great," but said there are no plans for a similar march on the capital at Salem. "There's no need for it," he said. "However," he.. said " I am somewhat disappointed that Gov. Mark Hatfield issued no statement on civil rights on the day of the march as Mayor Schrunk did. But I am not critical of the governor because he has been on our side -for civil rights-all along." WEBB WARNED, however, that the NAACP intends to take action soon on what he termed racial problems in the Medford · Ashland · Grants Pass area. He did not specify the problems he had in mind, nor the type of action con· templated . He said an announcement on the subject will be made within a few days by the local NAACP's executive board. Rep. Edith Green greeted some of the Portlanders Wednesday night at their suburban assembly point, Blessed Sacramnt Catholic church In Alexandria. The marchers were to have met with Sen. Wayne Morse in his office Wednesday mom· OFF WITH A SONG go riders mi SNCC's "Freedom and Jobs" bus to mammoth demonstration in Washington, D.C. Wednesday. At extreme right is the Rev. Ralph Moore, 27, pastor of sponsoring Congregational Church.
NORTHWEST DEFENDER Published at 3928 ~. Williams BE 4-7265 Circulation by Mall -Newsboys . Bualneu Please Forward All Mail/Advertising To: Northwest Defender, P. 0. Box 1874. Portland, EDITORIAL March Stirs Conscience of the World Freedom-the sound and spirit of the word alike-reverberated yesterday across the grounds of the Washington Monument. At the end of the Mall, inside the great Memoria•! erected to his memory, the gaunt, grave, silent figure of the Great Emancipator sat and listened, remembering, perhaps, the words of other maTchers for freedom long, long ago: "We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand strong." Surely Abraham Lincoln yesterday heard the voices singing "Glory, Glory, Hallelujah," demanding fulfillment at last of the promi3e for which he lived and died, and shouting with simple faith in themselves and in <their fellow Americans: "We sha:ll overcome ..• We shall overcome." They came from every portion of America. California had a throng there under a proudly held banner of the state. There was a delegation from West Memphis, Ark. The NAACP of Evansville, lnd., turned out in strength. So did the NAACP of Shreveport, La., and of Erie, Pa., and of Pittsfield, Mass., and of an endless catalogue of the towns and cities of the land. Every kind and class of American was there. The Vermont Stone Cutters Association formed a goodly group. The Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workers of North America, the UnHed Automobile Workers, the civil libertarians of every hue, the Protestants, Catholics and Jews, white men and black men, black women and white women, children and their parents and their grand· parents, the humble and the great-all were present. America sent to that great meE!ting in her Capital the represent·atives of every one of her manifold aspects and estates. It was part picnic, paTt prayer meeting, part political ra:lly, combining the best and most moving features of each. It was a happy crowd, much more gay than grim, full of warmth and good feeling and friendliness, instinct with faith and high hope, united in a sense of brotherhood and common humanity. It was a most orderly malfch, not wi·th the precision of a militaTy parade but with the order that grows ou:t of a clear sense of common purpose, a fixed and certain destination. No one could view that vast sea of faces turned upward toward the Lincoln statue without an awareness of commitment and dedication. No one could hear the scourging words spoken yesterday by A. Philip Randolph and Martin Luther King and others without a sense of guilt and grief and shame. No one could hear the tones of Marian Ander· son's deep and beautiful voice singing, "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands," without profound emotion and involvement. If the words spoken yesterday were heard by Abraham Lincoln at one end of the Mall, let us h~pe that they were heard by the Congress of the United States at the other end. For this was something much more than a mere outlet f~r emotion. Dr. King was altogether right in saying that "Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the Nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizen· ship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will con· tinue to shake the foundations of our Nation until the bright day of justice emerges." There is a magnificent opportunity at hand to cut ~t once and for all a cancer in America demeaning and degrading to all Americans. Not Negroes alone, not white libertarians alone but Americ~ns in general marched yesterday-and must marrch in unity and in brotherhood tomorrow and tomorrow. 'Jobs And Freedom' Bus Begins Long Trek To Washington
Sen. Morse, Rep. Green at Freedom March Mahalia Focuses SI'ATEMENT BY SENATOR MORSE ON THE MARCH FOR FREEDOM AUGUSI' 27, 1963 On Other Stars The whole movement for fulf1llment of Constitutional rights has been brought to its present head by demonstrations, sit-ins, freedom rides and all the other exercises of the right of petition. This peaceful march on Washington cannot help but impress Congress with the necessity of adopting the pending, civil rights bilL "justice delayed is justice denied," says the old legal adage. In this case, the political and economic justice promised by the Constitution has been delayed and denied to colored Americans for 100 years. The March, and the demonstrations that have preceded it, are fair warning to .Congress. If we do not act, the struggle for equality will be taken out of the halls of Congress and put back in the streets, where not all demonstrations will be peaceful and where force and violence will prevail. GOSPEL SINGER Mahalia Jackson, whose swinging renditions of spirituals had the thousands of Marchers swaying and clapping along yesterday at the Lincoln Memorial was on the lookout foJ' celebreties herself. As she waited to go on, Miss Jackson operated a motion pictu~e camera. Sitting in the VIP section on the Memorial steps, she focused her camera on the other stands below and, at one Delegations Represent Many Areas of Nation ·. W·E SHALL OVERCOME 0----.----------------- l do b ... - - u "..----------------- \J ~ 1 J_ ) 0! -=="_d___ P I ~ -el---1 Wo •hall ~-Ter ca.o----·-saa..----- day, ·------ olay ------· point, broke off her enthusiastic comments on the March to say, "Wait a minute-r have to get Sammy Davis Jr." as.she spotted the actor through her camera, MEMBERS of the enter· tainment world who flew in from all parts of the United States yesterday to lend their support to the March for Jobs and Freedom made it clear that they came as citizens, not as performers. "The actors in town, this week," said Charlton Heston, "are members of Congress. The play is 'Democracy.'" Heston also read a statement from all entertainers. It was written by Negro author James Baldwin, and Heston said, "It represents the way we feel." Freedom is not licensed, read Heston, and no one i~ licensed to depress or demoralize another. He mentioned several ways in which the Negro is depressed, saying that it "varies in degree, but never in intent." The stars of stage, screen, TV, radio and night cluos came here, Heston said, to protest this evil. He added that the "energies of these people to whom we have so long denied" equality and freedom are needed. "The American Negro has endured for many years, in this country which he helped to build, terrible injustices ... In cutting ourselves off from them, we are punishing and diminishing ourselves." Harry Belafonte repeated the group statement later in the day at the March program at the Lincoln Memorial. Josephine Baker, the St. Louis Negro singer who helped bring the jazz age to Paris, was among the celebrities who came. "Why am I here? There are so many reasons," said the blues singer who in the past has bitterly critized America's t r e a t m e n t of members of her race. "Say I am here because I believe in the rights of man .. in the dignity of human beings." Miss Baker flew in from Paris Tuesday evening, i& returning this mornin&. "I am here just for the March," she said. "This is the happiest day of my life," the 60-year-old Miss Baker later . -told the Lincoln Memorial throng. Referring to the White and Negro crowd -as "tb· gether as salt and peppe1, just as you should be," she said, "You are a united people at last. FROM THE OFFICE OF REPRESENTATIVE EDITH GREEN (Democrat-Oregon) When Americans of all races and creeds travel together thousands of miles - it•s demonstrably clear that we have reached the place where neither a wall of bricks and stones nor a Congressional wall ofcomplacency will stop the march to freedom. I regard today's demonstration as a commendable. logical and traditional avenue of protest. The demonstration would not be taking place here today if White America were treating Negro Americans in the work-a-day world in the same manner it expects and demands that it be treated, Congress has before it meaningful Civil Rights legislation which should be passed. After that first but important step, we then must try the even more difficult task of applying the Golden Rule in America to Negro Americans just as we expect Black Africa to apply the Golden Rule to its white minority. And in step with this obligation, we must continue our fight to achieve real freedom and jobs for all. "I'm glad that in my walk to the Memorial in such homeland this day 'has come to pass. Today you are on the eve of compl1:!te victory. Tomorrow time will do the rest. The world is behind you." Going to France as a member of a Negro revue soon after World War I, Miss Baker soared quickly to popularity, and during her many years in France was known affectionately as "La Josephine." During World War II, she served in the French army and in the Free French forces. Yesterday, while she and other celebrities were being inlNviewed at the 1\IATS terminal, she wore the blue uniform of· the Free French, along with five decorations including one to show that she was a knight of the Legion of Honor. She took flying lessons during the War, and said yesterday, th::tt she still flies. Her adopted children now number 12, added l\I iss Baker who started adopting <"hildren of different races some years ago as an interracial experiment. The~· all live with her at a chateau near Paris. Sammy Da1·is Jr. flew in ftom Detroit wh:>re he has a night cluh f'ngGgement and said he planned to go back 1 as t night to "do two shows." "We all paid our own way to come here," Davis said. "And we are not here as eel· ebrities. We are .Negroes and we have a stake i1~ this." I!\ ANSWER to a reporter's question, "What do you think the March will accomplish?" the tall, beauti· ful singer Diahann Carroll saicl. "It is almost accomlished already by the res- !JOnse. People want to come here to show how proud they are to be part of the Civil Rights movement." Miss Carroll wore a print linen suit designed by Bill Blass and a trim pair of beige pumps-the kind she wears every day. Could she fra~ile shoes? "If I can't," stated Miss Carroll, "I'll get there barefoot." Burt Lancaster flew in from Paris with a freedom proclamation bearing t h c signatures of some 1500 persons overseas. The actor, who is making a French film, read the proclamation later to the audience at the Lincoln Memorial. He will fly back to Paris today. "It is unthinkable that all these rights are for us and not for them," said the movie star. '"There is great sympathy in Paris for the march." Marchers Asked To Make Pledge Each individual who participates in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom will be asked to pledge his personal commitment to the civil rights strug;l'le. This is the pledge they will take: "Standing before the Lincoln Memorial on the 28th of August, in the Centennial Year of Emancipation, I affirm my complete personal commitment to the struggle for Jobs and Freedom for all Americans. "To fulfill that commitment, I pledge that I will not relax until victory !s won. "I pledge that I wm join and support all actions undertaken in good faith in accord with the time-honored demccratic Lraditlon of non-violent protest, of peaceful assembly and petition, and of redress through the courts and the legislative process. "I pledge to CalTY the message of the march to my friencUI and neighbors back home and to arouse them to an equal effort. I w!ll march and I will write letters. I will demonstrate and I will vote. I will work to make sure that my voice and those of my brothers ring clear and determined from every corner of our land. "I pledge my heart and my mind and my body,_ unequivocally and without regard to personal sacrifice, to t h e achievement .of soc1al peace through social justice."
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