REFLECTING
ACHIEVEMENTS,
VOL. 11 NO. 13
IN TERESTS
PORTLAND, OREGON
N a t i o n a l L a b o r U n io n Exec Visits C ity
AND
PROGRESS
Wednesday, June 13 1962
Five Cents
Howard U. Bans AKA Sorority
Charged W ith Rough Hazing
WASHINGTON.—
— The founding chapter of
Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, the oldest Nepro social sorority
in the nation, has been banned from the Howard university
campus in the wake of charges that chapter members phy
sically abused 10 pledges.
The ban stipulates that Alpha chapter of the AKA
sororitv may not apply for recognition on the campus before
Pictured above are left to right, A. Phillip Randolph, vice-president of The American Federation of Labor
and C.I.O. and Pres, of International Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, talking with members of the
Union, C. Johns, Fay Gordly and McKinley Williams.
courtesy of baltzegar
A. Phillip Randolph, Vice Pres,
of the American Federation of
Labor and Pres, of the Interna
tional Brotherhood of sleeping car
porters visited the city for three
days, June 9, 10 and 11th to speak
to labor union groups, and the
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Port
ers.
Speaking before a huge audience
in the conference room at the
Porters club on N. Williams Ave.,
Mr. Randolph stated that his pur
pose for coming to Portland was
to establish a Negro American
Labor Council. The purpose of
this organization will be to work
towards eliminating segregation
in unions, and to obtain equal op
portunities for Negroes who seek
apprenticeship training, on union
jobs, that are rejected because of
racial origin. Mr. Randolph stated
that Negro progress is moving too
slow in this fast world of automa
tion, and if parents don't start
encouraging their children now,
towards acquiring education, and
seeking training in skilled crafts,
they will be left out in the field of
employment. Membership in the
Negro American Labor Council is
limited to union members, people
seeking apprenticeship training
through union jobs, and people
seeking membership in labor
unions that are turned away
because of race.
B. Johns of 4325 N.E. Rodney
was appointed by Mr. Randolph to
head the membership drive for the
Portland branch. Mr. Johns is
Pres, of the Portland branch of
Sleeping Car Porters, The
National office for the Negro
American Labor Council is in New
York City. Mr. Randolph is tour
ing the U.S. establishing branches
of the Labor Council in all states.
There are 25 Branches of the
Negro American Labor Council
established throughout the U.S. so
far, and Portland will make 26.
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September, 1966, and that the or-
canization has been suspended
from all campus activities.
The decision was made by the
University-wide Committee on
Student Organizations and Activi
ties ( t’C&OA) upon the recom
mendation of the executive com
mittee of that body.
33 Initiated Earlier
Action by the UCSOA came
¿iftor Dr. Marjorie Parker, na
tional basileus of the sorority,
initiated l’>5 pledges of the chap
ter, but none of the 10 women
vvho had complained to the uni
versity of mistreatment.
The chapter already was under
18-nwnth suspension by the UC
SUA for physically mistreating the
10 pledges in “cogrant violation”
of university regulations govern
ing pledging procedures, Dean of
Students Armour J. Blackburn re
ported.
Blackburn and Mrs. Parker de
clined lo explain the specific
charges that were made. Neither
me university nor the sorority has
acted against individual chapter
members.
fit Pledges Suspended
Events leading up to the Univer
sity ban took this course:
Late in March, the chapter sus
pended the 10 women from Its
program leading to initiation into
the sorority.
A campus scandal broke out
.vi.cn a parent of one of the 15
members of the Ivy Leaf club—
pledge organization of the AKA
sorority—sent a four-page tele
gram to Howard President James
M. Xnbrit jt\, charging that her
daughter and nine other women
had been forced to undergo "much
torment and suffering” during the
pledging.
The telegram alleged that ‘'un
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just and unfair treatment” had
caused her daughter and the other
young coeds to walk off the pledge
line.
Pledges Testify
Later these pledges testified to
the extreme hazing. Other testi
mony came from members of the
campus chapter. Both groups lrlt
that the physical hazing hud lieen
ext reme.
The 10 women reportedly sub
stantiated the charges with few
exceptions before iho executive
committee of UCSOA and Mrs.
Parker. Dr. Blackburn said that
he then asked Mrs. Parker not to
initiate any of the remaining
pledges until a full meeting of
UCSOA could be held.
UCSOA suspended the chapter
April 10, and recommended that
Mrs. Parker initiate the ".5 pledges
if the 10 suspended pledges vvopkl
he given the chance to be initiated.
Letter Not Received
A registered letter informing
Mrs. aPrker of the committee de
cision was sent to her April 11 but
was returned undelivered, Mrs.
Parker initialed the 155 pledges
April 15.
Withdrawal of recognition by
UCSOA was the result of <t "mis-
unuerstanding" between herself
and liie committee, Dr. Parker de-
elai M la>! week. She planned to
meet wit 1» Blackburn in hopes that
the committee will reconsider.
J a1. Parker said she was too busy
traveling to and from her home
here and Bowie Stale Teachers
college, where she is director of
•Indent teachers. She also i.s a
visiting lecturer at Howard.
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