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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Sept. 25, 1962
CIVIL RIGHTS Negro Reveals Ole Miss Admitted Him as White
NEW YORK—(UPI)—A New York Negro revealed today he spent his freshman year in college at the University of Mississippi in 1945-46 and was accepted on the Oxford campus as a white man.
Harry S. Murphy Jr., a 35-year-old native of Atlanta who operates a lithograph business here, said he spent nine months at Ole Miss as a Navy V-12 student at the close of World War II.
"There was no cloak and dagger business," he said. "It was after I passed the V-12 examinations that I learned my group was going to Mississippi."
MURPHY SAID HE lived on campus in Navy dormitories, attended movies in Oxford and ate occasionally in local restaurants without incident. His records at the University list Murphy as "white" or "caucasian" and he is similarly listed on Navy records.
In Atlanta, his mother, Mrs. Harry S. Murphy Sr., said her son "looked much like the others (whites) and they (school officials) couldn't tell the difference. Nobody ever asked him his race.
"I didn't like the Navy sending my son to the University of Mississippi, but he had to carry out the government's orders. Nobody would ever know he was a colored man."
COMMENTING ON THE current racial crisis at Ole Miss, where Negro James H. Meredith is attempting to register, Murphy said "the situation is certainly becoming explosive." He said he had felt "some concern" when he learned the Navy was sending him to the University of Mississippi.
Murphy said he wanted to complete the V-12 program and for this reason did not reveal to the Navy that he was a Negro. After his discharge he studied at Morehouse College, a Negro institution in Atlanta, and was graduated in 1951 with a degree in business administration.
Murphy's Ole Miss identification card shows him in uniform and he also is pictured in the 1945-46 student year book in a group photograph.
HE WAS. GRADUATED FROM a Boston high school at the age of 17 in 1945 and volunteered for the V-12 program in Washington, D.C.
Tenn., about 100 miles north of Oxford.
Murphy said he had "no desire" to remain at Ole Miss after his discharge because he found the quality of the program there "inferior." During his time off while a student, Murphy said, he and his friends often visited Memphis, Tenn., about 100 miles north of Ox-
"This was the closest cultural center," Murphy explained, "and I enjoyed my visits there."
THE NAVY V-12 program was a combined academic and officer training course. Students were allowed to attend college, receiving commissions after graduation.
"I really don't see what all the fuss is about."
Murphy has resided in New York since his graduation from Morehouse. Commenting on his incident-free year at the University of Mississippi, he said:
USSR Explodes Atomic Bomb
UPPSALA, Sweden — (UPI) — The Soviet Union today detonated a 30-megaton nuclear bomb in the atmosphere in the Novaya Zemlya area, the Uppsala Seismological Institute said today.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—(UPI)—The anti-segregation Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), headed by the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., opens its national convention today in the city with the "worst race relations in America."
Rights Conference May Face Trouble
There were indications that newsmen would be kept from the four-day meeting whose theme is "the diversified attack on segregation."
Police Commissioner Eugene (Bull) Connor sent letters to all news media last week informing them that passes authorizing them to pass police lines were cancelled, effective last Friday. "Instruct your representatives to govern themselves accordingly," the letters said.
Among speakers scheduled at the convention are former baseball star Jackie Robinson, Rep. Adam Clayton Powell, D-N.Y., and King.
An Eighth Negro Church Is Burned
MACON, Ga. — (UPI) — The fire department today investigated arson as the leading possibility for a blaze that leveled a Negro church last night, the eighth Negro house of worship to be burned in Georgia recently.
Andrews has been active in a boycott and voter registration movement here but no meetings had been held in his church recently.
The Rev. C. J. Andrews, pastor of the St. Matthew Baptist church, said he had no reason to believe the fire was set by racial terrorists.
His 200-member congregation had been worshiping in another church while St. Matthew's was being remodeled. A former wooden structure was being bricked up and remodeled and a new brick annex was under construction.
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The action relieved the four steel-makers of demands by Sen. Estes Kefauver for the information. The steel firms argued that disclosure of the material would hurt them competitively.
Senate Group Refuses Action In Steel Case
Kefauver and four northern Democrats on his antitrust subcommittee had recommended the contempt citations. They were outvoted on the full committee by a coalition of six Republicans and three southern Democrats.
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Following his defeat, Kefauver said he would recommend against requiring eight other steelmakers to submit similar data. These firms had agreed under protest to provide the information.
The eight, including Bellwether U.S. Steel, were not required to submit the information pending outcome of the appeal by the four balky firms, Bethlehem, Republic, National and Armco steel corporations.
The decisive 9-5 showdown vote in the full committee came on a motion of Sen. Roman L. Hruska, R.-Neb.
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A hearing to determine if the order should be made permanent will be held in New Orleans at 10 a.m. Friday, Oct. 5.
The appeals court barred Mississippi officials, including Barnett, from "arresting, attempting to arrest, prosecuting or instituting any prosecution against James Howard Meredith under any statute, ordinance, rule or regulation whatever, on account of his attending, or seeking to attend, the University of Mississippi."
The Justice Department said in Washington last night that U.S. Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy and his staff were "making arrangements to complete the registration process." The spokesman declined comment, however, on possible department actions.
The court yesterday, gave the state college board until 4 p.m. today to register Meredith or show cause why it should not be cited for contempt. The 13-member board promised to abide by the order and appealed to Mississippiians to "understand that we have done our best in a most difficult situation."
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