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. . one grows only as one is free
grow, and free to help others to grow;
free to follow the promptings of
sal love and the urge for understanding;
free from obligations of senseless con¬
formity to the world; free to become
transformed by the renewal of one s
mind. This—the urge for spiritual growth
is why we want democracy.” Williams
—James M.
Jn The Churchman.
A NEW APPROACH
It is gratifying to note that a group
of citizens is making a new approach to
the problem of getting Negroes in Chat¬
ham County to register up to their high¬
est potential. It is assumed that there
are between fifteen and twenty thousand
persons of voting age, in the county, fig¬
ures recently released in Atlanta show
that Negro registrants in Chatham ( oun-
ty have dropped from 9,905 in 1952 to
9,712 in 1956. This means that our as¬
sumption that there are 15,000 or 20,000
indicates that wneed to add to the list
between six and ten thousand. 1 his will
be a tremendously difficult job but not
insurmountably so. It will involve a well
organized plan of instruction both for po¬
tential leaders and followers as well, be¬
cause much of the proble m is due 1o ig¬
norance of our democratic way of life
and form of government. Perhaps the
most difficult part of the problem is root¬
ed deeply in the feeling that government is
the business of white people, in the feel¬
ing of distrust in leadership of past ex¬
perience. Lack of aspiration to partici¬
pate in government and to be represented
in it accounts for indifference to voting.
This, of course, is still a matter of edu¬
cation and instruction. Perhaps the point
at which we are most to be blamed is
the aloofness of those in our community
who are best fitted for leadership, who
can, if they will, take an active part in
awakening the ignorant, indifferent and
the misinformed to their
as citizens in a democratic community
where it is their duty to give their
to be governed. that the
We hope very fervently group
planning a new approach will be possess¬
ed of patience and faith in the
achievement of their aims.
A GREAJ RACE
Those who try to reduce Negroes’ re¬
sentment to segregation by charging us
with lack of race pride, waste effort that
could be more profitably spent in some
other direction. A people who have pro¬
duced in ninety short years members of
their race who have won national and in¬
ternational acclaim have no reason not
to have race pride. It is precisely because
they have race pride that they feel the
time has come to assert their claim for
equal opportunity to realize their best
selves. Their right to this claim can not
be justly refuted. A sports writer in one
of our daily papers referred to the Red
Cross blood bank, the very mention of
which brought to mind the fact that it
was Dr. Charles Drew, a Negro physician
who developed the blood bank during the
recent war, which increased many fold
the ability of the Red Cross to furnish
much needed blood to the soldier boys
whose lives could be saved on bloody bat¬
tle fields. Who could not be proud to be
a member of a race to which Charles
Drew belonged?
But he was just one of many who have
made significant contributions to Amer¬
ican life. The list is long and notable. Dr.
William H. Borders, one of our country's
greatest preachers, says “ours is a great
race. Who would not be glad to belong
to such a race?” Sarge Plunkett of more
than a generation ago and William Faulk¬
ner, the famous Mississippian, recognize
the fact that Negroes have made remark¬
able progress in 90 years, which entitles
them to “equal right and opportunity to
make the best one can of one's life with¬
in one’s capacity and capability, without
fear of injustice or oppression or vio¬
lence.” There are Charles Drew, Percy
Julian, Carver, Hinton in medicine and
science, Washington and Allison Davis in
Education, Walter White, great leader
and author, Ralph Bunche in government,
FLA. A & M PROF.
FELLOWSHIP
TALLAHASSEE. —
Miller, an assistant
political science at Florida
M University since
has been awarded a Ford Foun¬
Fellowship for
for the coming
Profzssor Miller, a native
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Marian Anderson and Mattiwilda Dobbs
in music, and an increasing number in
sports like Althea Gibson, Jesse Owens,
Jackie Robinson, Mai Whitfield, Louis
Jones, and Thurgooc! Marshall and his as¬
sociates in law. Even this brief list would
be incomplete if we did not name great
preachers like Howard Thurmond, C. T.
Walker and William Holmes Borders, and
organizers like Alf Herndon of the At¬
lanta Life Insurance Company, the Wal¬
kers of the Pilgrim L>fe and Health In¬
surance Company, C. C, Spaulding of The
North Carolina Life Insurance Company,
and Al Lewis of the Afro-American Life
Insurance Company. Who would be
ashamed to belong to a race that could
show such accomplishments in ninety
years in spite of many handicaps? It is
precisely because of their pride in these
achievements that Negroes resent segre¬
gation and its implications, and petition,
and sue when they have to, for equal op¬
portunity to enjoy thq^ rights and priv¬
ileges which American democracy prom¬
ises.
NEW STEREOTYPES
We can believe that the South actually
wants to be understood by the rest of
the country. It wants the non-South to un¬
derstand why it believes in segeegation.
It really wants agreement. To most re¬
actionaries this means it wants to deal
with the race question and Negroes in
terms of subordination, of master-slave
relation, of paternalism. To get its posi¬
tion before the non-South in its own lan¬
guage and slant it has manufactured new
talking points or stereotypes. High on its
list of evils to be destroyed is the
NA^CP. It’s the number one because villain that is
ought to be put into jail it
misleading and exploiting Negroes, be¬
cause it is trying to destroy the South’s
way of life; because it is disturbing the
naturally affectionate relationship exist¬
ing between Negroes and white people in
the South. Now it is our belief that no
well-informed, honest person in America,
in the South, really believes any such
thing about the NAACP, who privately
says he does, who knows what awaits
him if he dares to-be so free.
The next victim is the United States
Supreme Court. It has been charged with
being influenced by the Communists, that
it has recruited "from the rank s of
politicians, influential, professors or friends of the
that it is brain - washed,
floundering; that it has usurped au¬
thority. Some seventy odd bills have been
proposed, most of which are bad ones,
with little likelihood of passage in the
foreseeable future.” A desperate effort
is being made to establish the impres¬
sion that good relations existing between
the races in the South are being disturb¬
ed, that if “left to ourselves we would
have no trouble solving our racial prob¬
lems in an amicable manner.” Everybody
knows what part Negroes have played
in arriving at “an amicable” solution in a
climate which forbids the meeting togeth¬
er of whites and Negroes on equal terms,
or meeting together at all. unless the
meeting together is to determine ways of
maintaining segregation.
One letter writer has boasted that “We
of the South have nothing to apologize
for in our racial relations.” This asser¬
tion does not represent the feeling of
every southerner. Writings of some of
those who are endeavoring to state the
position of the South, convey a different
impression. Their authors state quite
plainly that the South has wronged Ne¬
groes in many areas many times and
that it should be willing to make amends
for having done so.
The NAACP is a bad influence and
should be banned; the Supreme Court
has based its decision on social science
and psychology; it is chosen by a bad
system; the justices are - novices; amic¬
able relations have been worked by the
races who hold each other in affectionate
regard hut have become embittered to¬
ward each other because the NAACP has
shown them the way to the courts for a
redress of grievances. These are the rfew
stereotypes that will be said over and
over until somebody believes them; until
the non-South is ding-donged into agree¬
ment. We wonder.
Montclair, N. J., was giaduated
from Obevlin College with the A.
B. Degree in 1960 and from the
University of Wisconsin with the
M. A. Degree in 1961. His area
of specialization at Wisconsin was
in international relations and his
thesis subject was “Constitutional
Development of Puerto Rico ”
Prior to joining the A and M
staff in February, Professor Mil¬
ler taught for four years at Cut-
tington College in Suakoko, Li-
beria, West Africa.
He is a veteran of World War
II, having been inducted in Au¬
gust of 1943.
On Monday, July 2. 1890, the
United States signed the Gen¬
eral Act for represssion of the
African slave trade; July 3, 1810,
Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse en¬
dorsed smallpox vacillation.
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE
GRANDMASTER DOBBS ANSWERS DR. McCLAIN
Dr. Roy D. McClain,
Pastor, First Baptist Church
Peachtree St., Atlanta, Ga.
My dear Dr. McClain:
Today’s newspapers carry
count- about your ermon to
3,000 worshippers Sunday
ing, June 24 “IS RACIA1
TEGRATION THE ANSWER?”
First, I want you to know
I am an humble Georgia
born in Cobb County, and
who has lived in Georgia all
life. I missed the Institution
Slavery and the Civil War by
seventeen years; but, I thank
mighty God for those
years. Those few years made
big difference in my life and
lives of my wife, six children,
fifteen grandchildren.
Despite the fact that 1 have
ed my life under the yoke
racial segregation and
ation, I can say, in my heart,
without bitterness, that 1 hate
human being on eaith; neither
I hate anything in this world
cept EVIL, itself.
I am proud of the fact that
was born in America and in
Golden Age of progress. I
America arid the ideals for
she stands. I believe America
the greatest government ever
ganized by human beings. I
lieve America win yet give to
world a new meaning of
and Freedom. I love America
I love my mother virtues
faults wrapped up together, in
lovely bundle of dignity, I,
sing—“My Country ’Tis of
—I have given my country
stinted loyalty and support;
turn, it has given back to me
opportunity for the happiness
now possess and enjoy. For
great privilege, I am
grateful.
Plea: e permit me to express
criticisms about your sermon.
take emphatic exception to the
kind and deragatory
about my racial group. Alfred
nyson once made Ulysses to
“1 am a part of all that 1
met. I realize that you, too,
a part of your social,
arid religious experiences. Well,
am I. We see things differently
cause we have lived and faced
differently. These attitudes are
hard to understand.
1 want you to know that
am a Christian, I believe the
en Rule is the very basic
of our religion; and that the
mon on the Mount is still
greatest message ever delivered
mankind. But as a.disciple
a follower of Jesus Christ, and
Apostle . , „ Paul, , I tail , , to ,
your interpretation of the
of Christianity. Jesus Christ
plained to a troubled world
true meaning about
of God and Brotherhood of
He stood before the
Court and proclaimed that God
His Father, and man was
brother. He gave us the light
call God Father, too. Because
such bold utterances of Truth,
infuriated mob led Him away
nailed Him to a cross. .But
know, sir, that the mob did
stop God’s Truth. Jesus turned
world upside down; now, we
time from the birthday of
lowly Nazarene.
The Apostle Paul, who
saw Jesus, became converted
turned in one grand job for
doctrine of Fatherhood of God
Brotherhood of Man. Take
writing out of our new
and the Boqk, itself, wifi
fall down. Paul, too, paid the
preme penalty for preaching
God’s Truth. The masses did
want to hear the Truth at
time; neither do they want to
it today. But. my dear sir
brother, how can you profess
follow in the footsteps of
two Great Souls, and then fail
preach God’s Truth?
It appears to me that the
issue today is plain: —
LOVE and JUSTICE on
side; HATE PREJUDICE,
INJUSTICE on the Devil’s
It has ever been thus;—and
Dr. McClain, it is up to you
choose which side you will sup
port. It is your right to make
decision for yourself.
Yes, these are serious
“We do have hard work to do,
loads to lift";—“The times
strong minds and willing
1 think that the decision for
and your ministerial friends,
make is whether, you will
Jim Crow and Segregation on
one hand; or stand up for
CHRIST and BROTHERHOOD
the other hand “Choose ye
day vAiom you will serve—."
We know that during 250
of chattel Slavery, my people
subjected to the vilest kinds of
pravity and degredation. Our
al shortcomings today are,
the result' of these vile,
living conditions to which we \v.
subjected by your Master
As a child, I sat at the feet
ex-slave relatives and heard, first
hand, their woeful accounts of
man’s inhumanity to man. They
told their life stories, without bit-
teiner ; and of times, while sing-
mg their . weet songs of Zion. My
wife and 1 have oeen privileged
to raise a little girl whom God
endowed with sweet strains of mu¬
sic. God made her out of the suf¬
ferings of a sorrowful past.
In spite of all handicaps and
roadblocks along the way, our boys
and girls, touay, are stepping on
tar and fast. We have come a
long way in three generations; yet,
J realize that we still have a long
way to go.—In God’s name, just
why aie you, and your Christian
it lends, not w illing to help us l
Why do you desire to continue
the denial of higher education to
usDo you realize that, despite
the fact that we constitute one-
third of the State’s population,
not one Negro boy or girl has
ever been permitted to attend the
University of Georgia? Do you
realize that no one Negro doctor
ha ever been graduated from that
institution which is supported en¬
tirely by taxpayers money? VVe,
too, pay taxes—directly and indir¬
ectly. 1 ask you, then, kind air,
is tnis lair? Is this Christian?
I’m told our country badly needs
young engineers; m case of war
we will need their services for de-
len:.e; yet, not one Negro boy has
ever been enrolled at the Georgia
•School of Technology in Atlanta,
i ask again—Is this fair? Is it
right? Is it Christian? In our
forty-eight States, we are denied
University education in only five,
of which Georgia Is one. How long
can five States hold back the Un¬
ion J
Colored people are American cit¬
izen.', too; we have been here just
as long as anybody else, except
the American Indian. We, too,
helped build America VVe bled and
died for her ideals, all the way
from Bunker Hill to Tokyo. The
U. S. Constitution recognizes these
rights, and guarantees their pres
C | vation and enforcement. Please
tell me, then, kind sir, just how
a Christian can accept these rights
for himself; and at the same time,
deny these rights to his fellow-
man? To do so, would not be in
keeping with the spirit of Jesus
Christ, nor the spirit of American
Democracy.
Now, Dr McClain, why should
you be afraid of the National As¬
sociation tor the Advancement of
Colored People? Why try to find
wlth thig plain , simple> patri .
otic otic . American . Organization . . that ., .
,
has for its only purpose the ad¬
vancement of a minority group of
citizens ? White people are 90 per
cent of the Nation’s population.
You know, they will be treated
fairly. They are fully able to de¬
fend and protect themselves.
The nine (9) Judges on the U.S.
Supreme Court bench are all White
men of un-impeachahle character;
all confirmed by a majority vote
of the U. S. Senate; three of whom
are Southern born gentlemen, fully
conversant with Southern customs
and traditions. Also, their recent
decisions have been unanimous.
They have been interpreters of our
U. S. Constitution and its mean¬
ing, today, and for this age in
which we now live. The majority
of American people are willing to
accept and obey these decisions.
The Light of Justice has turned
from RED to GREEN. Shall we
move now, or shall we continue
to create a traffic jam? As I see
it, sir, there is only one thing for
good Americans and especially
( hristians to do—and that is (o
OBEY the laws of our land and
to start moving. Move slowly, if
you will, but the green light means
move—now.
In conclusion, I would like for
you to please read the 6th Chap¬
ter of Paul’s Epistle to the Gala¬
tians. Read all of it; read every
I * lne; read slowl - v - prayerfully, and
j with understanding. I am sure you
| believe in God’s Eternal Laws of
j Compensation: eventu.illj. punished — “That by we Bins, are,
i our
j and not for them,”—“That this
World, somehow, rests upon Moral
Foundations; and that in the long
run, it is W ELL with the GOOD;
j and in the long run, it is EVIL
with the WICKED.”
Sincerely yours,
John Wesley Dobbs.
Sav w Detroit
Hospital
(Continued from Page onev
hospitals professed a policy of
non-discrimination, only a few put
the policy into practice.
The report proposed that a citi¬
zens’ committee undertake further
| action into situations where dis¬
crimination was found.
TO ALL POSTAL
EMPLOYEES
I, George M. Robeson, President
of the Savannah Branch, National
Alliance of Postal Employees, urge
all Postal Employees to become
members of the N.A.P.E. It is of
interest to note that one of the
founders of this organization was
Edward W. Sherman, a Savannah-
ian. He died a member. The ma¬
jority of the members of the
N.A.P.E. today are mostly retir¬
ed men who will soon be no more.
They will soon be gone and for¬
gotten. W’hen the first president
of the N.A.P.E. attended his last
National Convention, he was old
and feeble, got lost upon reaching
the Convention Hall. W’hen called
upon for remarks he said in tears,
“Boys, keep the faith of the found¬
ing fathers! Boys, keep the faith
of the founding fathers!”
Will the boys in Savannah keep
that faith ? Stand up and be count¬
ed, please. We beg you to do just
that.
In the March 1956 issue of The
Postal Alliance, the N.A.P.E. or¬
gan, Kermit Scott of San Fran¬
cisco, California, comes to the fore¬
front in a brilliant and an elo¬
quent presentation of the N.A.P.E.
in all of its phases, the same be¬
ing printed in full for the benefit
of present and potential members:
“Forty-three years ago the Na¬
tional Alliance of Postal Employ¬
ees was founded. Some twenty-
eight determined, far-sighted men
decided on that day to organize to
hold their jobs in the Railway Mail
Service. Indiscriminate, wholesale
dismissals in that department forc¬
ed these men to the realization
that if they did not organize to
hold their jobs they would soon
have no jobs for which to organ¬
ize.
“The N.A.P.E. has a long rec¬
ord of achievement and is right-
fully proud of its membership. But
it would be prouder still if this
membership were doubled or tripl¬
ed because the need for the Alli¬
ance is just as great today as it
was on founder’s day, back
1913.
“Because the Alliance has work¬
ed so quietly and efficiently all
these years defending the rights
of civil service employees its good
work has been taken more or less
for granted. Countless numbers
civil service employees have bene¬
fited enormously and continuous¬
ly by the quiet, diplomatic action
of ... the Alliance. .... _ But . they ., , have
failed to join the organization and
give it their moral and financial
support. Why? Well, for a variety
of reasons, none of them sound.
“Perhaps they were indifferent
to their obligations while hungrily
accepting the fruits of the labors
of others. It could have been
these outsiders knew so little about
the Alliance that they did not even
realize where the good help was
coming from.
“The impression is inescapable
that a very great many civil serv¬
ice employees are not members of
the National Alliance of Postal
Employees because they actually
know little or nothing about it.
“The controlling purpose of this
little talk is to place squarely up¬
on you, the members of the Alli¬
ance, the full burden of seeing to
it that every civil service person
who is not a member is urged to
join, and at once.
And this can only be done by
making this potential member
aware of the essentiality of t h e
Alliance yesterday and today and
its enormous potentiality in the
days just ahead.
"On a world-wide scale the most
significant word or ideal confront¬
ing mankind is world peace. On the
national scale the objective is eco¬
nomic security for ail people. And
for the Negro, public integration.
“At all these levels the N.A.P.E.
has directly or indirectly an im-
portant part to play. It represents
the foundation of the entire struc-
ture.
“It helps to make a citizen se-
cure in his job and secure for that
job. No sound family or home life
is really possible without this foun-
dation and no nation is
whose citizenry is not generally
composed of economically secure
family units.
And so it logically follows that
when toe Alliance helps a
man to be economically secure it is
contributing heavily toward his
sound family life, toward a heal-
thy, happy nation or people and
in diverse ways toward world
peace.
“The N.A.P.E. is a proud con-
tributor to Negro history and his-
tory in the making.
“Ali over the nation, North as
well as South, for white employ¬
ees as well as colored, the Alliance
has taken a forward position in
the fight against indiscriminate
and unwarranted demotions and
dismissals throughout civil serv¬
ice.
“Any employee, whether or not
he is a niembsr of the Alliance
/
ROBERT MeFERRIN, Metropolitan Opera baritone, opened his
first European tour at Naples, Italy, July 4. by appearing with the
Teatre San Carlo opera company in Verdi’s “Aida." The engage¬
ment ends July 22. McFerrin made his Metropolitan debut Jan.
27, 1955, becoming the first male Negro to sing leading roles on a
repertory basis. This spring he bowed as Valentin in “Faust” and
sang the title role in “Rigoletto” at the Met.—(ANP)-
may appeal to our organization
for help whenever he feels
heiis being unfairly dealt with
his supervisors.
“No case is too trivial for the
attention of the Alliance to give
aid, comfort and counsel to an
j individual employee and defense
the case seems to justify
action.
“The Alliance asks only
clean hands which means a rec¬
ord of honesty, industry,
cy, cooperativeness and
for fellow employees and
visors.
“Because it 'must be
ed that the N.A.P.E. is just
much concerned with the good
welfare of the Post Office
, partment as it is with its mem-
|
that the Alliance does not
to play a lone wolf part in
work for employees. It is not
up in opposition to any other
ganization of post office or civil
service employees. This Alliance is
I Hhvays read - v to work with an >'
I ^“frnized group of civil service
I f both m U°y ees betterment of
the employee and the serv¬
ice.
“I once met a man who told
me unequivocally that he would
not join the Alliance because he
didn’t need the Alliance. He said
that he was top man for years
in his department in points of
efficiency and that he was daily
complimented by his supervisors
for his outstanding work.
“Ten days later this very same
man was in trouble. He was a
postal clerk and was supposed to
have misdirected a sack of first
j class mail to Honolulu which in.
| | fact had just been received from
Honolulu. All this happened dur-
] ing a Christmas holiday season
j when the post office was filled
I with temporary help and this post¬
al clerk had been working many
hours overtime during the rush.
“To make matters worse the su¬
pervisor in charge was new in the
department and unknown to the
postal clerk.
“The postal clerk was arbitrar-
dy given 500 demerits and demot-
! ed from special clerk to regular
on a night shift.
j “This clerk, although not a mein-
I her of the Alliance, appealed to
the organization. Through its ef-
j forts in his behalf the 500 de-
merits were removed and lie was
j restored misdirection to his regular post.
“The of the sack
of mail in question was finally
held due to purely accidental
means and not due to itieffi-
j riency.
j "This postal clerk soon joined
Alliance.
i “Now this true'story is very
j significant. It shows that the
j iiance is a continuing benefactor
j a one “ d feels that on 110 his matter job it how be secure
can ex-
! tremely comforting to know that
there is a strong and
organization standing ready
help in an emergency. Get every
one *-° i°* n the N.A.P.E l Paid
According to the 50th Amii-
versary report of the Boys’ Club
of America, a Boys’ ChAi be¬
comes established and qualified
for membership on an average
THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1956
MAN FALLS L 0
BJ.AZlNfj FURNACE,
iejn UY i ll/t’C r ’
PORTSMOUTH, Va. (ANP) —
There is a Portsmouth Negro who
can just about match (he story of
the three Hebrews in the fiery
furnace of Babylon’s Nebushhad-
nezzar. .He is Franklin Hicks, 23.
He and Shadrach, Moshach and
have survived exposure to a fiery
furnace.
Hick miraculously escaped with
his life last week when he fell
through an open manhole into a
sheet of flames at th^ -city incin-
erator. Hicks’ story is as follows:
He was pushing refuse into one
of the manholes about 3:30 P.M. • \ i i
when he suddenly .lost his balance ...r.
and dropped some 15 feet into the
flames below. - ! 4l
Luckily, a door at the bottom •.....
of the furnace was partly opened.
Had the door been closed as it
normally is, Hicks would have been L
cremated.
j In an interview ' ‘ ^ident",'Hicks', at his hospital
af t er the . ’i
a husky six-footer, smiled and iflH
said: nett:
When I fell into the hole the . m .!. ■
fire was blazing all around me. I 'A
covered my head and hit the door.”
He said the first time he hit the
door it failed to open, but gave
way on the second try.
Hicks, who has received congrat¬ *
ulations from many of his friends
and acquaintancewhite and col¬
ored, said that whe he fell “I kept
a cool head and I didn’t become
panicky. If I hadn’t I’d still be in -1
there,” he added.
Hicks started to run after he
. i
fell out of the furnace before
employees could grab him and
get him to the city garage nearby
from where he was rushed to
j King’s Daughter’s Hospital in the
police ambulance.
His injuries were described as
third degree burns of both hands
and both arms up to the elbows
and left leg at the knee and sec¬
ond degree burns of the right
knee.
DESEGREGATION PRO-
DUCT ION AMONG IV
AWARD WINNERS
NEW YORK (ANP) — “Deseg¬
regation,” a documentary report of
how the city of Baltimore handled
desegregation in its schools, was
among the three Robert E. Sher¬
wood award winning TV shows
that shared $55,000 last week.
Sherwood television awards were
established by the Fund for the
Republic for programs dealing
with the theme of freedom and
justice.
Awards of $D(LOO0 each went,
to the Armstrong Circle Theatre’s
“I Was Accused” and to the Al-
coa Hour s “Jragedy in a Tem-
j P orar y I own.
A $15,000 award went to “De¬
j segregation: The National Baltimore Report.”
[ Broadcasting Com-
the first two
shows and “Desegregation” was
viewed over an independent sta-
Hon.
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* lan 4(, 0 000 boys are members
at Boys’ Clubs.
Since 1942 the budgets of
Clubs have tripled.