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Aretha Franklin (Ray Bryant Trio; Columbia). A first album by a new young (18) singer who came out of a Detroit gospel church with a voice of impressive size and some annoying mannerisms-aching swoops and ecstatic quavers. Included are All Night Long, Maybe I'm a Fool, Who Needs You? rendered in moods that vary from torchy to tempestuous...
...standards elsewhere, Bryant is far from a militant Negro leader. His 178 N.A.A.C.P. chapter members have dutifully passed the hat to help the national organization, protested unsuccessfully against a few race killings, held a quiet voting drive that only got 250 of Pike County's 15,400 Negroes to register. Says Bryant: "We haven't gone into any radical area...
...Thus Bryant did not encourage five young Negroes when they decided to sit at McComb's Greyhound and Woolworth lunch counters in August. All were arrested, and one, Brenda Travis, 16, was treated as an adult and sentenced to eight months in jail, where she spent a month...
...railroad yards next morning came two McComb policemen to arrest Curtis Bryant. Although he had neither planned nor been present at the students' march, he was thrown into jail on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor-Brenda Travis, who was sent to reform school for an indefinite term by Judge Hansford Simmons...
...required to sign no-demonstration pledges to get back in school, and two white out-of-state sympathizers were pulled from their car and beaten on McComb's Summit Street. With surprising candor, two of the county's top lawmen gave the real reason why N.A.A.C.P. Leader Bryant was jailed. "Bryant puts himself in the class of the white people," said Sheriff Clyde Simmons. Said Police Chief Guy: "We're trying to rook him in on the damn thing somewhere...