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. +‘. . THE STORY OF JOHNS ISLAND School boards listen to voters, sheriffs don’ - judges don’t railroad voters. Carolina, are registering To vote. t pistol-whip voters, The Johns Island Citizens Club sent its president, Mr. Esau Jenkins, to Highlander for o workshop, and when he returned to the island he started a registration campaign. Only two hundred and ten Negroes had ever registered in Johns Island over the period of nearly one hundred years since the Civil War. Now, after an intensive campaign, one hundred and Six per- Sons were registered in a two months period. Every member of the Citizens Club had’ to be o registered bring in one or more voters at every meeting. And they made their voting rights count by tuming out to vote on election day. For the first time in the history of the island, large numbers of Negroes turned out for the Democratic Club reorganization ond voted in the Democratic primary. Mr. Jenkins ran for the school board. He lost the election but won a much greater victory, as all but a few of the Negroes eligible to vote cast their ballots for him. Next time there will be more Negro voters—officials listen to voters. Mr. Beau Jenhing and Mri. Beatrice Jeahina ot Jd lend Citizena Ciub hare. Rese Parks (right) ot Mightender Workshop THE MONTGOMERY STORY “Qur people are not going to take it any more.” In December, 1955, Mrs. Rosa Parks hod been shoved just obout as far as she could go. In Montgomery, Alabama, the pretty seamstress had known a lifetime of standing, standing regordiess o how long she had worked or how tired she was, standing, even when there were empty seats in the white section of the bus. | After sewing all day long on a heavy winter coat for a society woman, Rosa decided she had stood long enough. She refused to obey the bus driver when he ordered her to give up her seat to a white man. Forty thousand men and women walk and share rides today because this mild-mannered seamstress refused to pay for segrega- tion, Yes, the times are with us, 2s all across the South people are holding firm against hate and int-lerance. And the empty buses ratife by in Montgomery as the people sing: “Walk together children, Don't get weary!’