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GOING SOUTH TO SCHOOL
The New
A few Negro parents in New York City
are sending their children to schools in
the -Aggregated South, but any attempt
by Southerners to exploit this fact as an
argument in support of school segrega¬
tion will misinterpret the real signifi-
cance- pf the New York situation as re¬
ported in The Times.
The number of Negro children who
have left New York to be educated in
the South is very small, and their per¬
centage of the total Negrp school popu¬
lation here is infinitesimal These young¬
sters have been sent South, generally to
live with relatives, in order to escape
slum conditions and slum schools. This
is the heart of the maf ter.
The ' question is not of New York
schools versus Southern segregated
schools. It is rather a question of se¬
rious New York problems of blighted
neighborhoods and of urban deteriora¬
tion. a problem which New' York faces
in common with most American cities.
Within these deteriorating areas the
children are in trouble, and this kind of
trouble knows no color line.
BLOCKADING CIVIL RIGHTS
ye.
(From The New York Times!
The time has come — in fact, is well
past — for action on civil rights in both
the Senate and the House in Washing¬
ton and for public identification of those
who are responsible for inexcusable de¬
lays.
Last February President Eisenhower
sent to Congress a seven-point program
to further the progress already made in
securing equal rights for all Americans.
The proposals were moderate indeed.
They included extension of the life of the
Civil Rights Commission for two years,
making obstruction of desegregation
court orders a Federal offense, preser¬
vation of election records and the right
to their inspection by the Attorney
General, aid to communities in solving
desegregation problems and a Commis¬
sion on Equal job Opportunities under
Government contract.
Six months have now passed and no
bill along these lines has yet been clear¬
ed for action either in the Senate or the
House. Formidable road-blocks, manned
by those opposed to any further civil
rights legislation, are standing in the
way.
Tn the Senate Judiciary Committee its
chairman, Democratic Senator Eastland
of Mississippi, and the Southern Demo¬
crats on the committee are stalling off
Speaker Calls World Too Small for
But
NEW YORK. N. Y. (ANP>
—-“The world is too small for
anything but brotherhood
too dangerous for anything but
truth,” declared Golden
captain in New York City’s de-
partment of correction, in his
address Thursday to the Cath-
olic Interracial Foriim here.
Calling for each person to do
his part in the necessary “un-
No Clue to White Twosome :;
Who Raped N. C, Girl
By Victor Calverton
SANFORD, N. C.— <ANP>—
Wadesboro police, working with
Sanford and Lee county au-
thorities. had not apprehended
^ e w * lite tnen charged
with . kidnapping . and raping
a 17-year-old Negro girl — de-
scribed as “one of the nicest
girls in town.” For two weeks,
the men have been sought by
police.
Though Negro and white
residents are disturbed over the
Incident, it appears little effort
is being- made hy officials to
locate the two “trashy-looking”
men charged with the crime.
The charge was made by Miss
Juanita Palmer, a hghiy respec¬
ted high school student with an
excellent' reputation a m o n g
To these facts parents react as parents
—not as white parents or Negro parents.
Their parental instincts know only one
motive: to protect their children. Some
parents react by moving into other neigh¬
borhoods. Others try to escape to the
suburbs or enroll their children in non¬
public schools. And the great majority
of parents, it should not be forgotten,
still keep their children in the local pub¬
lic schools.
There are many flaws in the New York
schools, and the school authorities them¬
selves are fully aware of them. They
don’t like double sessions and substand¬
ard facilities any more than do the par¬
ents of the children w'ho suffer as a con¬
sequence. Many parents, understandably,
refuse to he put off with promises of
future improvements.
The flight from city slums and teen¬
age crime is not an endorsement of school
segregation in the South. Rut parents,
regardless, of color, are deeply worried
over conditions in New York, and the
plight of the city spills over and becomes
the plight of the schools.
making a report which a majority of the
committee wants. And they are doing
so in spite of a plea from their subcom¬
mittee on constitutional rights that a
civil rights measure be promptly sent to
the floor of the Senate and in spite of
Senate Democratic leader Lyndon John¬
son’s pledge that such a bill will be pass¬
ed before the present session ends.
The House Judiciary Committee final¬
ly approved a diluted version of the
President’s program a couple of weeks
ago—one which left out desegregation
aid to communities and the Commission
on Equal Job Opportunities which the
President had called for. This bill must
be cleared by the Rules Committee be¬
fore it can go to the floor of the House.
Rut Representative Howard W. Smith,
Democrat of Virginia, chairman of the
committee and bitter foe of civil rights—
seems to be in the extraordinary position
of being able to block any such action,
with the backing of Southern Democrats
and some Republican members of the
committee.
This sort of fiddling with basic human
rights that are part of the American
ideal does no credit to Congress or to
those who engage in it or tolerate it. We
cannot believe that such conduct is good
politics any more than it is good morality.
glamorous” job of working
I better race relations.
pointed put that America
set an example that will be
lowed by the world. “What
{going next decade to happen in here in
| race
j j will determine the course
not only our own history
that the world histroy will
“If we are able,” he
of both races.
Miss Palmer reported that
men, in rough clothing.
her as she was leaving
restaurant where she
They drove her into the
to a secluded spot and
raped her.
She said one of the men
about 250 pounds, wore
clothes and called the
“Mac.'’ The smaller one.
about 150 pounds,
a T-shirt and dark pants.
Dr. J. H. Byerly, Lee county
examined Miss
and said she could have
raped. He said the girl.
he has known since
is of excellent cha-
! |
Ao in many cases of rape
“to show the world
here the humblest citizen
this our Democracy can
stand free; that he can
to all that is lawful, just
I someone highborn, then
other nations of the
many of them uncommitted
wil1 have their most
answer.”
Negro girls and
case is giving people
with, justice and
interest in the final
There is nice t»aik
girl, but not enough
among public
in seeing that the guilty
and punished.
in the back of the minds
concerned with this
is (the fact that no single
man has paid the death
males* oCieThand'
have been
lynched, without proof
they were guilty of raping
white woman.
M r ^ 0 ^P C„„„l, eak At A*
‘ ”
^ 8. C. Confab
COLUMBIA, S. C. (ANP)-
McBride Dabbs,
“The Southern Heritage,’
president, Southern
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE
THE NEW GOVERNOR OF THE STATE PROMISES PLENTY OF BOTH
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AJC URGES PREVENTION OF ‘OUT¬
RAGEOUS’ DENI AL OF NEGRO VOTING
RIGHTS
The American Jewish
gress this week called for
establishment of a
Civil Rights Commission
urged prompt Federal
tion to prevent the
denial of voting rights to
groes as practiced in
Southern states.
In a statement hailing the
port of the Commission,
Polier, chairman of the
Congress Commission on
and Social Action, declared.
“Our Republic came into
ing because Americans were
ROY WILKINS WELCOMES REPORT
RIGHTS COMMISSION
NEW YORK, Sept. 10- The
report of the United States
Civil Rights Commission has
been “welcomed” by the Na-
tional Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People as
“an important advance in the
continuing efforts to extend the
frontiers of freedom."
In ,a statement on September
8. NAACP Executive Secretary
Roy Wilkins said that the
Commission’s recommendation
for the appointment of feder-
al registrars to replace , preju- , ,,,
diced state officials who
to register Negroes is “particu-
larly significant.”
If acted upon, Mr. Wilkins
asserted, this recommendation
„ may piovide + the , „ answer or, emor tn to
present vexing evasions through
which registration of Negro
vo ters is kept at the minimum
in some areas of the South,
This should be imme-
i i MANY RICH NEGROES OWNED
SLAVES IN 1850
By Victor Calverton
' ■rtpttmond KIUHMOINU, Va va. (Anri
people in America, white
black, know the history of
groes in America. How
for example, know that
| seventh of the Negroes in
United States were free
in 1830? How many know
; Negroes not only owned
| plantations in the South
, before the Civil War. but
[ thousands of slaves?
!
1
j pd gt a ( ' PS is contained in
' Carter G woodsoiYs book
titled “Free Negro Heads
Familips in in the the United United
in in „! 1830.” 830 '’
The record shows that
goodly number of Negroes
Ssp^t r ,S C
J ern ference Christian when it Leadership Oct.
convenes
Dabbs, a native of South
olina. is one of the
ing number of white
ers currently
niec! the right to participate
their own government.
right to vote is the very foun-
daticn of our American democ-
racy. When certain states are
j derelict in their letter obligation and spirit to
carry out the
jof the constitutional right
i vote, the Federal government
j has the responsibility to inter-
vene for the protection of
right.”
Mr. Polier said that
; anteeing the rights to vote is
, the most important and effec-
I tive way of ensuring equal treat-
diatlely implemented in order to
assure southern Negroes the
j rig k t to vote in presidential
and congressional elections next
year.’ 1
j The housing and education
; recommendations of the Com-
mission, the NAACP leader said,
are helpful and an advance
, resent pract alth0U ^
I P ces
th «T do not go far en ° ugh -
j While recognizing the validity of
the Supreme Court rulings in
1 the school segregation cases and
; Calling compliance, ,, th the
for
j Commission governmental proposed action no “ef- to
fective
secure” compliance. The re-
pQrt failed t0 men tion “mea-
* empowering wupuweiuig the unc Atty.
; General to initiate action to
egregate te scnools schools „
“ -
j Even under the proposal (en-
dorsed by the three northern
members of the Commission and
the South ~~ "I owned ” ----- slaves. Some |
I of these 'j Y free t~ Negroes were rich,'
owning 0 Wn ne vast as tracts of land and
, .
j ca ttle and ten ........... to 200 slaves on
eacn , oi f thi men plantations. l tti ,
One Negro in Lexington, Ky., j
^ 000 h ahol
aL C10S f a laat tne ncnest mer
cbant in Macon . Ga., was a free
Negro ' A Negro named Thom-
S as Lafon in New Orleans had a |
million in real estate, _______ and an-
othor Negro of the samf> state '
,C,pri, " ~~ n Ricard. J paid J *' *225.000
: for an estate with 91 slaves ' I
j Other facts revealed by Dr.
Woodson Woodson in in a a book book that that wuold wu
be enlightening to both Negroes
a and white people include the [
startling disclosure that a Ne-
“* lu,tlce ,nthe
j j During the meeting, a Cru- j
sade for Citizenship dinner will
be held in honor of the Rev.
Martin Luther King Jr., SLC
!
areas
The report of the Civil Rights
Commission, he added, made
j it clear that a permanent body
to protect this basic right was
,
needed as part of our govern
mental system.
“The problems raised by the
Civil Rights Commission will be
J with us until fully equality is
< achieved for all racial and mi-
, nority groups,” the AJCongress
spokesman said. “The report
‘hus marks the beginning of
the true work of the Civil
1 Rights Commission, not its end.”
opposed by the three southern-
ers) to withhold federal aid
from institutions of higher
learning which bap Negro stu-
; dents, segregated elementary
and secondary schools “could
| j con ti nue to receive financial as-
, istance from the federal gov .
j ernment; - Mr wilkins pointed
j 0U {.
The report recognizes the ur-
1 nt need for and better
ge more
housing for low and midd i e in-
! come minority minomy group grojp families Iam »- ies -
However, Mr. Wilkins noted,
- ei e is need a so for the elim-
mation of ethnic ghettoes which
breed prejudice and
ance . The Commission’s re-
commendation ... , for presidential .. ,. T
ac ac t tl0n ion to t0 secure secure eaual onnortu- °PP° rtu
j | nity f m housing could contn-
j bute significantly to the estab-
j lishment of freedom of resi-
dence for all Americans.
JeSU I° ne f’ ° wned tbc bes *
, in Charleston, S. C., and
“ ther property worth at
$40,000. A Negro in St.
., _ Parish, . , S. „ C„ had .00
back Jn 185?
A reasonable estimate is that
least 49 ' 000 fr ee Negroes
in 1830 owned almost 100,
slaves. ‘ Of the 340 free
j, in Charleston, 130
them paid taxes on 390
Incidentally, South Car-
in Sent m ° re Negroes to the
~
states in the South. Eight
represented that state
the House of Representatives,
at one time ail the con-
from South Carolina
Negroes.
Urban League
NEW YORK (ANP> —Robert
president. City Invest-
company, has been
head of a committee to ar-
a for the 50th
SATURDAY, SEPT. 19, 1959
Between The Lines
By Gordon Hancock (For Associated Negro Press)
SHOW
There are two pressing
tions for the higher-ups of
nation, namely, what kind
weicome to give
and what to show him?
Some suggest we accord
a luke-warm welcome only.
writer cannot see the wisdom
inviting a guest and
a luke-warm welcome. It
seem the height of folly to
Khrushchev any but a
welcome” as we are
to give to foreign
We welcome him not as a
tator, but as the leader of
cr<?at Russian people, who
the same now as they
w hen they were our comrades
arms.
It would amount to
rudeness for us to “pout”
fore our invited guest. If
w r ere not willing to give him
creat welcome, he should
have been invited In the
place. For us to accord
less than our usual
welcome” would be beneath
dignity of our great country,
The Russians have just as much
right to their Khrushchev as
we have for our great Eisenhow-
er. The luke-warm
i suggested in some quarters is
strictly out of order.
The second question .as to
what to show the Russian die-
tator is highly important. If
we- just mean to show a few
things as a kind of window
dressing, there are many won-
to be found in this great na-
tion of ours. But a nation is
more than its natural
and technical achievements of
which we abundantly boast
with a pardonable pride. The
real boast of a nation is in
social, moral and cultural
achievements of its people. This
then raises the question of
where we shall turn to find the
greatest evidences of this na¬
tion’s greatness.
When it comes to the highest
exemplification of the possibil¬
ities and potentialities of de¬
mocracy, we would turn to the
Negroes of this country and. if
we would see the Negroes of
this country at their very best
we would be compelled to turn
to the Negroes of Atlanta. , Here
in the heart of the South where
fffl!!?™ l n hn- e
to great . . heights . . .
l <rroes rising
| in wavs that show democracy’s
''Possibilities in spite of its short¬
i “omings. And nobody can deny
that democracy has some seri-
ous defects, but the Atlanta Ne-
gro shows its great possibilities.
Let us show Khrushchev Ne-
gro Atlanta, with its Atlanta
N. J. Solon Pleads for
, |
j ^ lOHrldlltc 1 iVlCdllJ* Anmiliv
_ . .
^ LP^IOllliaiFfiS ^
--WASHINGTON (ANPi—One of
the greatest attributes of the
democratic way of life is the j j
willingness to judge a man on
the basis of his individual mer- (
I it and ability, regardless of
race, color or creed, declared
Senator Clifford P. Case, Re¬
publican of New Jersey.
In a speech prepared for de-1
livery before the New Jersey
! department of the American Le-
j gionat Wildwoon, N. J.. Thurs-
j day ,the Senator blasted Amer-
lea for its failure to put the'
[Democratic ideals into practice. 1
“Without such practice we I
cannot hope to influence the i
four-fifths of the world’s peo- [
I pies who are not of the white!
. race,’ ..... he "" -------“ warned. We cannot :
remain a leader of the free
world engaged in an all-out!
struggle for the minds of men
as long as we labor under the
handicap of racial discrimina¬
tion.
Rwa ,„ r
Discrimination
\ Obviously recalling that Cong. |
Diggs resigned membership in;
; the Legion recently because °L
! Eight. discrimination Senator in the “Forty pointed and j j
Case
• out that “there are now vast- [
j stirrings within this country, as [
more and more people awak- j
en to the importance of the
principles so clearly stated by[
our forefathers. One such
anniversary celebration of the
National Urban in 1960.,
NEGRO ATLANTA
i Life Insurance built by Negroes
who gave the lie to the preach-
1 ments of white insurance com-
panies that the Negro is a bad
insurance risk. Here is a great
pioneer organization of Negroes,
by Negroes and hitherto for Ne-
groes.
Then there is the great Ne-
8 ro bank with assets running
: into the millions, a monument
to the Negro’s faith in democ-
i racy and in himself. Let Mr.
Khrushchev see the Southern
Regional council, an organi a-
tion founded by Southern whites
and Negroes who had faith in
the possibilities of interracial
cooperation, the finest organi¬
zation of its kind in the world.
Interested individuals and foun-
dations have invested more
than a million dollars in its
program and its possibilities.
By all means have Mr.
Khrushchev see the world’s
j finest center of education for
Negroes with its Atlanta uni¬
J versitv, its Clark College, Soel-
man college. Gammon seminary,
; Morris Brown university and
j Morehouse college. Morehouse
j is the mother of college pres-
idents with one of her sons pres-
jdent of Howard university, the
Icanst.one of Nearo er’I -ntion,
nd our only honest-to-goodness
1
Negro university.
Then there is Morris Brown,
founded and supnorted bv the
AME church, a church of Ne¬
groes, by Negroes and hitherto
for Negroes. Morris Brown re-
j presents the finest exprr^ion
0 f the self-help impulses of the
j j Nesro race,
All of the other schools of
j this fine educational center
were founded and for the most
j p ar t financed by philanthropic
whites of Christian persuasion,
but Morris Brown alone gets
its major financial sustenance
from Negroes. A miracle of the
Negroes’ self-heip aspirations.
What Morris is doing today
the Negro race will have to do
tomorrow, if our highest intel¬
lectual ambitions are to be
achieved.
Let Khrushchev see the hous¬
ing of Atlanta Negroes. In all
, our great cities, the Negroes have
] teken over the housing leavings
Qf the wWte ,. Jn Atlanta , Nc _
1 * roes have built miles and miles
of the finest ranch-type hous-
ing to be found in this coun¬
try. Just as Morris Brown
was built by Negroes themselves
so the Atlanta Negro’s fipe
housing was built by Negroes
themselves.
If we would show Khrushchev
j something to v'ritc home about
i show him Negro Atlanta.
gtirring was reflected at
American Legion’s national
vention in Detroit last
Case expressed pride in
ing that the New Jersey
aetion to the national
tion voted overwhelmingly
permit racial integration in
cal units of the “Forty
Eight” Society,
He praised the delegation
his state for showing a
that can strengthen the
pollcy of this country.
am confident c that this
will be found to prevail
the rank-and-file
of the Legion over the
country,” he concluded,
1 L R aS an
tion will soon bring its
policy for the Forty and
into conformity therewith.”
Stenin Fetchit
Refutes Newstory
CHICAGO
chit, well known comedian
bygone days ' said m a
^® v ^ 1 ° n fc J oad( ’ a ^ \ bat hc _J
not cad ^ NAACP “an organ-
ization of Reds.”
Currently making his home in
the Chicago area Fetchit,
an appearance on
Herb Lyons’ “Tew or
sa j d his attorneys would
a retraction from a
newspaper which
carried the story that he
red the