The Hilltopper (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, April 24, 1964 Page: 3 of 6
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HILLTOPPER
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April 24, 1964
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In an attempt to view both sides of the civil rights issue in Austin,
a member of The Hilltopper staff interviewed Mr. Volma Overton,
president of the Austin chapter of the NAACP, and Mrs. Emma Long,
member of the Austin city council. The interviews were conducted
in the subjects’ homes and identical questions were asked each of
them.
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The group of SEU faculty mem-
bers interested in the cause of
racial justice conferred with the
Most Reverend Louis J. Reicher,
DD, Bishop of Austin, for more
than an hour last week on the
Bishop’s position in the present
civil rights controversy in the city.
Three representatives of the
group, Mr. Peter Pesoli, associate
professor of English; Dr. Claude
Nolen, associate professor of his-
tory and Mr. James Koch, assist-
ant professor of economics, stated
after the Friday, April 17, meeting
that “The bishop was impressed
with the laymen’s reaction and
encouraged them to continue to
be involved in the civil rights
problem.” The meeting was said
to be very profitable.
On Tuesday, April 21, the entire
group met with several leaders of
the East Austin community. Rev-
erend G. M. Releford, pastor of
Rosewood Avenue Baptist church;
Reverend J. E. Obey, pastor of
David Chapel Mission Baptist
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pany and the Proctor and Gamble
company. The expressed purpose
of the journey was to coordinate
textual knowledge with actual
business practices, said Frank
Bratina, president of the SEU
Commerce forum. The forum
toured the Texas Instrument com-
pany in the morning and the
Proctor and Gamble company in
the afternoon, returning to school
that evening.
VOLMA OVERTON
Mr. Kraus: Are you willing to meet with the city council outside
of the council meeting in order to settle this issue?
Mr. Overton: We will meet with any group to discuss the problem
that is before the city council today.
Mr. Kraus: What is your personal opinion of the El Paso plan?
Would you suggest any modifications?
Mr. Overton: It is workable without indifference, strife, embitter-
ment or concern. There can be no modification of man.
Mr. Kraus: Do you feel the city council has treated the integration
leaders tactfully and justly?
Mr. Overton: We feel that the council has acted naively, unintel-
ligently, and has not fulfilled its promises politically.
Mr. Kraus: Why aren’t the Negro ministers behind you?
Mr. Overton: The Negro ministers feel that this is a political prob-
lem and they probably don’t understand the moral significance of the
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EMMA LONG
Mr. Kraus: Are you willing to meet with the Negro leaders out-
side of the council meeting in order to settle this issue?
Mrs. Long: Yes, I’ve always been willing to meet with the Negro
leaders. In fact, just before the mayor became ill w had discussed
having a meeting with them and we’re planning to have one, but we
feel we need a full council to act on this matter. We need the mayor’s
thought and action along with our own. After the mayor took sick
I suggested we wait until the mayor came back and Mr. Overton and
Reverend Sims said they would wait if the council would not carry
on any business until we settle this question. I felt that was unrea-
sonable because there are a lot of other people who have business
which needs to be attended to. The reason we stopped these meetings
was because some members of the council thought that by demon-
strating during the talks the Negroes weren’t showing good faith.
Mr. Kraus: What is your personal opinion of the El Paso plan?
Would you suggest any modifications?
Mrs. Long: I feel the El Paso plan is not complete. It only deals
with public accommodations and there are so many other things
which the Negroes are also in need of which are far more important
to me such as jobs, education, housing. All of these things need to be
taken into consideration when you’re trying to deal with the civil
rights problem.
Mr. Kraus: Do you feel the city council has treated the integra-
tion leaders tactfully and justly in this matter?
Mrs. Long: Yes, I feel that the NAACP and other people who are
working for civil rights have been treated fairly. I don't think they
have always responded fairly, particularly when the mayor became
ill and we tried to postpone the hearings. I think that we have been
quite fair with them, except that I think the council was far too long
in coming to a decision on this public accommodations ordinance
which was brought to our attention.
Mr. Kraus: Why are the Negro ministers not behind Mr. Overton?
Mrs. Long: I frankly can’t answer that; however, I do believe that
the NAACP is a very vigorous, pushing group and that the Negroes
as a whole have felt that we have gone forward, and that they want
an ordinance to pass, but they just' don’t quite approve of the tactics
that the NAACP are using. I believe that they are willing to be
patient just a little bit longer and give this council a chance to act.
Mr. Kraus: Why is it that Huston-Tillotson is not backing this
move?
Mrs. Long: Again I don’t know, but I don’t think that they are
quite in sympathy with the tactics used by the NAACP.
Mr. Kraus: Why is it said that the NAACP is not representative
of the Austin Negro community?
Mrs. Long: I think that has been demonstrated thoroughly, be-
cause the average Negro worker has not joined hands with the
NAACP. They are kind of in the background. When you have a bellig-
erent force pushing on, trying to make fast gains in a city this is the
rule: that the Negro teacher, lawyer, worker remains in the back-
ground. Here in Austin I think the people are fairly well pleased
with the way we have gone along with the civil rights move, and
they have no ill will toward the whites. They hope to move faster, but
without the tactics the NAACP is using.
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us, I think, because of the attitude of the president of the college.
Mr. Kraus: Why is it said that the NAACP is not representative of
the Austin Negro community?
Mr. Overton: This is said because they are trying to kill the
movement. The people in power want to stay in power. There are a
lot of stars and they would like to remain so. There are Negroes who
admit to this because they have certain positions which could be
taken away if they step out of line.
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church, and Reverend Maxim
Williams, pastor of Holy
Cross church, represented the
ministers of the area. Mr. Volma
Overton, president of the local
chapter of the NAACP, spoke for
that organization.
Brother Joseph Cain, CSC, in-
structor in biology, said that plans
for coordinating the Negro and
white community in their efforts
for settlement of the civil rights
controversy were discussed. He
said that the two factions came
to essential agreement on their
differences and that hopes for a
united front were raised.
Reverend Releford expressed
the attitude of the ministers when
he said, “. . . there was a strong
leaning toward unification, and
this is important.”
Reverend Obey said that the
ministers are in agreement “with
the purpose and objects of the
NAACP.” This agreement is
looked upon as the way to suc-
cess in the present controversy.
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