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PROTEST AGAINST SUICIDE
(From The Oklahoma Eagle)
The Padlines made much of this: that
a white '.store keeper had to back down
on histyan to build a home for his fam-
ily in a Negro neighborhood in Jackson,
protested Mississippi that after they 82 preferred Negroes formally
segregated
housing.
Now men like Percy Green, the pseudo-
editor of what he chooses to call a news-
paper in Mississippi and self-styled lead-
er of some organization banned together
to keep alive the delusion that Negroes
don’t want integration . . might point to
this incident as Exhibit “A”—proof that
Negroes prefer segregation.
But to anybody who knows anvthing
about Mississippi and who has followed
the story of the Federal Governments
tragic failure to protect Negro citizens
under the Constitution, it is clear that
these 82 Negroes registered their protest
against this white store keeper moving,
because of the two alternatives thev pr f >-
fer to be segregated, second class, deoriv-
ed, discriminated against and expected—
learning to committing wholesale suicide. And
from the brutal murder of a
young ‘"Till,” a Negro boy and an ex-sol-
dier. named Thomas dragged from his
cell, lynched and left dead in a swamp—
the\ khow that this is what any decision
other than the one set forth in their pro-
Tneir ll L^ foot m oan. grinded by the liyht of
ex-
perience, they know that its still territo-
rial That d%vs the m the badlands of Mississippi.
justice there is according to
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STRONGER PUNISHMENT FOR YOUTHFUL CRIMINALS
(From Ihe ( arolina limes)
A ; MHKn0lt “
Battle tieek, Michigan, gets our nod ot
approval and a glad hand for the kind
of punishment he meted out to a 16-vear
old boy who has admitted a long string
of crimes. In addition to slapping a
45-day jail sentence of solitary confine-
ment, a bread and water diet on the boy,
the judge has ordered that he is to have
no visitors except a minister, an attorney
or a physician, and no reading material
except the Bibm and religious literature,
He can have no comic books.
After serving the sentence the youth
willJ>e placed under five years probation,
which if broken, he faces 15 years ini-
priscmment. Along with the punish-
menlj handed ihe young defendant, his
parents both of.whom work,were lectur-
ed :jnd advised to “mend your ways of liv-
ing and look after your home.” Judge
Magfeotta suggested that one of them
give up work and charged that they
were partly responsible for their son’s
crimes.
Me are of the opinion that if more of
our courts would follow Judge Magnot-
ta s lead in dealing with the growing
number of young hoodlums that this
country would soon witness a sharp de-
DISAPPOINTING RECORD
(From The New York Times)
One of the valuable by-products of the
Civil Rights Commission’s report is the
light it throws on the performance of the
Justice Department’s new Civil Rights
Division. The division was created as a
result of the li)57 Civil Rights Act, and
its i aost important job was to enforce the
voting provisions of that act.
In what must be classed as an under¬
statement, the commission report says
the work of the Civil Rights Division to
date has been “disappointing.” The
blunt fact is that not a single Negro has
been enabled to register or vote as a re¬
sult )f any Justice Department action to
enforce the 1957 act. Only three voting
cases have been brought. Two were dis¬
not missed \jet by been the tried. trial judges; the third has
vote Overcoming Sn Southern resistance to is the Negro
ejisy some areas of course
no task. Nor do we question the.
wisdom of the Justice Department’s gen¬
eral Position that Federal power should
be irvoked with restraint, lest it stir up
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base white men—with low desires, and
a bigoted concept of humanity,
They know that there in that land
they’ve made their home, the law of
club, and gun and lynch rope is in the
ascendancy and to cross it is to invite
disaster.
They know too, that for all practical
purposes in relation to the Federal Gov-
ernment the Dred Scott Decision still ob-
tains — the Negro — is, sub-hu#m,p, a
ehattle for the white man’s use -rphe has
no rights which the white man, is .bound
to respect They know this is thy way it
is in Mississippi and to expect, protection
from the Federal Government is j#st,too
much to expect, if you live in Mississip-
pi. ,,,
They live there, they realty, ^know.
They remember that the Federal Gov-
ernment orders all discriminatory*signs
down in public buildings •—"railroad
station and etc. — They remember-also
that the white folk in Mississippi
promptly tacked them back up.
They remember, the hustle and bustle
of Federal agents in the lynching of the
Negro soldier, and that just when the
trial got hottest the Federal agents sud-
denly withdrew and decided that there
were no such things as clues in Mississip-
pi when a merp Negro is murdered,
And so when this apparently civil
gesture is made by a white man, these
82 Negro home owners, reasoned that
in a land of fools, ’tis folly to be wise,
Within the borders of the uncivil it is
fatal to entertain the civil.
dine in youthful violators of the law.
Parents, courts and often well-meaning
/ d ° ne ^ ly . t . °?. mu j; . h
of youngsters.- As
H reHuI * the natlon !f " ow '’tailing a wave
° , f committed by delinquent
y0Un *' sters that 1S «t«^ermg. j
of In the placing part of the responsibility |
boy’s crimes on his parents, Judge |
Magnotta once again calls our attention
to the sad fact that many parents have
put fine homes, clothes, automobiles and
other luxuries above the rearing of their ^
I
children. Delinquent youngsters are j
more often the result of delinquent par-
etits. Such parents must be made to
understand that there is no possession as
great or important as that of a noble and
respectable son or daughter even if it
means sacrificing many of the fine ma-
terial things which both of them desire.
Solitary confinement for 45 days on
bread and water may seem a, little harsh
but it is not as harsh as seeing the life
of a son or daughter snuffedtftptiin the
electric chair or gas chamber, A If such
punishment can halt the growing wave of
crimes now being committed bg,youthful
criminals in this country, we ,fifty let’s
have more of it now. . n<i •
more resistance and sap statd hnd local
responsibility. But even gittn these
factors the Civil Rights Division has sure¬
ly done less than it should. It has been
plodding when it should have been imag¬
inative, timid instead of courageous,
sluggish when swift action was needed.
Its legal work on behalf of the commis¬
sion has left so much to be desired that
the commission now earnestly asks Con¬
gress for the right to represent itself in
Court.
In many respects the present Attorney
General William P. Rogers, has compiled
a superior record. But there is nothing
on which history will judge his tenure
more than the justice Department’s use
of its new civil rights powers. It is time
for Mr. Rogers to see that the Civil
Rights Division begins living up to its
promise. The prospective two-year ex¬
tension of the Civil Rights Commission’s
life gives him a chance for a little closer
and more enthusiastic cooperation in the
fight against prejudice and injustice.
| this racial hot spot, took time j
° u * k° and say a
prayer with each of the men
| accused of setting off a series
of bombs on Labor Day in pro-
test of integration
The youthful minister said
he went to the jail at the re-
quest of a committee member
which brought him to the city
After talking with the accus-
ed, Graham said he found
them “very humble, and
pentant.”
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Booker T. Washington’s Sept. 18 Speech
Still ‘Notable Address’; But Widely
Misconstrued
ATLANTA, (ANP)—The 64th
| anniversary of the
: about address perhaps that any
j Negro leader ever delivered in
America occurred on Friday,
September 18. without hardly
any notice of it in this city
where Negroes in many respects
have profited greatly by the ad¬
vice in this historic message.
The address w-as delivered by
Booker T. Washington on Wed-
nesday, Sept. 18, 1895 at the
Cotton State Exposition in Attan-
ta A highlight of this address
was the widely quoted hand and
fingers illustration which the
founder of Tuskegee Institute
conceived jo be the proper re¬
lations between the white and
Negro rgc.es in the South. It is
as follows:
“In all things that are purely
social we can be .as separate as
fingers, yet one as the hand
in all things essential to mu-
tual progress.”
Dr. Washington has been mis¬
represented by his enemies who
have taken certain statements
in his addresses out of context
to make it appear the apostle
of industrial education was in-
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sensitive to the injustice suf¬
fered by his race in the South.
In his closing statement at
the exposition. Dr. Washington
made an eloquent plea for pa¬
tience, good race relations bas¬
ed on “absolute justice” and
“obedience among all classes to
the mandates of the law.”
The influential Atlanta Con-
stitution carried an
on Friday, September 20,
on the address entitled “A
table Address.” The editor
made these significant state-
ments on that address:
“The vast audience at the ex-
position . . on the opening day
expected sensible, eloquent and
brilliant speeches, and they
were not disappointed.
•But it is disparagement ’
no
Dr. Shuttlesworth Speaks j
At CORE Mass
— Greater Miami Commitee on
Racial Equality was the object
of praise and calls for support
at a public meeting today, with
Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth,
veteran fighter for integration
in Alabama, as guest speaker.
Rev. S. A. Cousins, pastor of |
the Greater Bethel AME church 1
where the meeting tok place,
welcomed the audience saying;
he “loves CORE because
stands for the same things as
his own AME Church.” He ex-
pressed the hope that CORE
can make Miami a place where
a person c.an call another bro-
ther, and mean it.
Daniel H. Lang, executive
secretary of Miami Urban
League, told the integrated au-
j dience of some one thousand
people that CORE can stand on
record of effectiveness
has seen a CORE group in
j to the others to say that,
things considered, Booker T.
| Washington’s speech was
hit of the day. This
I and progressive Negro
J spoke briefly but to the point,
| He did not waste words. He
] went to the marrow of the
subject. After showing that
is to our interest to trust the
loyal and thrifty blacks among
us, he said:
“In all things that are
purely social we can be as sep-
- -
arate as the fingers, yet one
as the hand in all things es-
sential to mutual progress.
“Again when he was demon-
str.a^pg the folly of racial
equality and the importance of
industrial education and
„„„ gres.s, vip ne said. sairi-
' “The opportunity to earn a
dollar in a factory just now is
worth infinitely more than
opportunity to spend a dollar
in an opera house. No race
can prosper until it learns that
there js as much dignity in till-
ing a field as in writing a poem.
It is at the bottom of life that
we must begin and not at the
top. Nor should we permit our
grievances to (overshadow our
opportunities.’ ”
The editor then went on to
say:
“In all respects it was the
most remarkable address ever
delivered by a colored man In
America, for it was the first
time a member of that -
ever took so prominent a part
in any great national or inter-
national affair not of a politi-
ca i character. The speech
stamps Booker T. Washington
as a w ise counselor and a safe
leader . . .”
The editor added:
“It was a very dignified and
eloquent oration, and if it could
reach the hearts and the minds
of the colored people, it would
undoubtedly accomplish great
good. *
Detroit open up the restau¬
rants on Woodward Avenue.
Rev. Father Gibson, popular
Episcopalian minister and pre¬
sident of Miami NAACP. quip¬
ped: “Because you have well
come into Miami, you are wel-
come.” He went on to say that
CORE had awakened the con-
sciousr.ess of people in Dade
county by confronting the man
who is doing wrong. “Now is
the time to choose sides,” Rev.
Gibson urged. He pledged the
support of NAACP to CORE.
'We are all interested in the
same goals. There is no compe-
tition.”
Rabbi Jonah Caplan, of
American Jewish Congress, de-
dared: ' Democracy is indivis-
j ible. It applies to all or none,
We cannot be half a democ-
racy Ail minorities suffer
i ail are not free.' He
Between The Lines
By Gordon Hancock (For Associated Negro Press)
The Mighty Dollar Or, The Rockefellers
And The Rasmussens
The world was recently stirr- j
ed by the marriage of one of,
the scions of the mighty Rock- 1
efeiler family to a Norwegian
beauty of humble birth. In
its heart the world regarded
the marriage as a condescen-
sion of Rockefeller, a son of
wealth and affluence, while as
a matter of fact it may not,
have been a condescension at j :
all. Rockefeller has no
claim to greatness nor superi¬
ority save that which comes of
his being the son of a multi¬
millionaire, a dubious distinction
■after all.
The young man has accom-
plshed nothing aside from being
a Rockefeller whose grand¬
father amassed a vast fortune
by his shrewdness in manln- I
ulating an oil empire. The :
stir created by the marriage of |
a wealthy Rockefeller to the i
humble Rasmussen maiden of j
Norway just goes to show how
tremendously powerful is the
mighty dollar.
So mesmerized is the world
over the dollar, it would ex¬
ceedingly dSfficult tfc> find a
i person who does not feel that
the Rockefeller heir actually
condescended when he married
the Rasmussen girl. Good luck
to them, for young Stephen
Rockefeller is not to be blam¬
ed for having been born the
of millionaire, must 1
son a nor
his bride be blamed for having
| been born beautiful-and lucky.
1 The point being made here
is to call once more the .atten¬
tion of the Negroes to the im-
oortance of the dollar in to-
I day’s world The fact remains
| that the dollar is going to play
tremendous part in this whole
process of desegregation and
integration about which we
hear so much today. Young
Rockefeller is Import-
ant am today toaay because Decause his grand-
father made a sacrifice and
lived small yesterday.
It Is all right for the Negroes ,
to press for their rights and
for ■ the privileges pertaining
thereto, ' but unless the Negro
can somehow strengthen his
economlc . P° sltlon ... in the na¬
tion and the world, his full cit-
lze " ship , . W1 ... . be indefinitely . .
P" s * poned n ‘ s just as wel1
that we faC , ® the fact n ° W aS
later that unless the Negro
can some how find larger eco-
nomic opportunities and the
dodars Drat go along with
them, he is still a long way
from the Promised Land.
The Twentieth Century cul- ,
. , helps , the Negro, r. as others, ,,
fix , his . gaze on the stars, , . but ,
unless . star-gazing , . is . somehow ,
tied up with dollar-making
thg q jg j lost ' ,
Thig wr ter hag a d _
in Harvard univerS ity.
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, to Negroes not ... being able ... to,
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sit down to eat. 2. The necess- 1
j or shoppers, Negro shop-J
with packages and child-
pen have the comfort of,
sitting down for rest and re- j
freshment. In conclusion, Mrs.;
Bodan invited all present to
join in a mass sit-in demon¬
stration at Grant’s lunch
counter on Saturday, Sept. 19.
The guest speaker. Rev. Fred
L. Shutitlesworth, famous for
his courageous leadership in
Birmingham, Alabama, and for
his personal role in the strug-
gle for integration, received a
standing ovation. Looking at
the interracial audience, he
said that it is good to see in¬
tegration at least in churches.
The basic theme of his ad !
dress was that we need action
now, not tomorrow We need
implementation in deeds for
America’s creed. He felt that
in the contest between Com¬
munism and American demo¬
cracy, individual freedom is the
decisive factor. To gain the
support of uncommitted na¬
tions, we must act as we ask:
1. How fast is slow? 2. If not
now, when? 3. If not here,
where?
He challenged some popular
arguments: “We cannot accept
token integration because tok¬
en democracy is no democ¬
racy. We do not ivant to put
a place out of business; we
want, justice in business. We
do not want things to be equal;
we want them the same. That
we know they are equal. Wc
i are not trapped by the argu-
“And yet it was an address
leveled at the whites. It will
reach these and will go far to-
ward narrowing, if not solving,
the great problem known as the
Negro question.”
The .auditorium was packed
, with white and colored people
when Mr. Washington
his address. The fact that he
would be one of the speakers on
the opening day of tlw
tion was widely publicized.
j |, press, . educators, —, South ------ and
North: politicians, government
officials, particularly in the
South, looked forward with
] great expectancy on what Book-
er T. Washington would say in
his address.
T he editorial in the Atlanta
(Constitution is an example of, „ !
| how the press North and South
: reacted to this address.
was some criticism from Book-;
er T. Washington’s enemies,' ;
particularly those who had ;
some misgivings about) his
great stress on the importance ! i
of industrial education and al.
most no mention of higher ed- j
ucation
Then, too, there were critics ... ;
who , felt . Booker T. Washington! . . , i
was too anxious to appease
South „ ,. on the ., question of NE- |
mnumuTT™ 1* a ” j P ° 1 ' <>a it 1US
tice. for . he : I
; had advised . Negroes
j not in legislative to be too anxious halls when for seats, 1Jieyj
j were not properly qualified for)
positions of more importance
for . a „ people . J lust . , out , of _ slavery. ,
In 64 years since Dr. Washing-j
ton made his notable address a
more careful analysis has been
made of the advice he gave on,
that day. Today the path he
in charted the South for Negro advancement the only j j
seems
course sure to lead to success. I
The failure of other Negro lead- ]
ers to accept Dr. Washington’s j
advice is perhaps the main a nd
most costly error Negroes have
made on the American scene.
suggested that the the work of :
CORE if well done could makq 1
Miami the model city for all
communities.
Rev. Edward T. Graham, of
Interdenominational M i nisteri-
al Alliance of Miami, warned I
that unless we are united we
will lose the fight for equal
citizenship. He pledged the
Alliance to stand behind CORE
for “CORE teaches us a means
of liberating the soul of man.
and if we follow CORE, under
God, we will gain our end.”
Susan Bodan, national board
member of Americans for De
mocratic Action and a CORE i
institute member, gave a brief j
| history of Miami CORE and I
I spoke also about the Institute j
now in Miami. She stressed the
difference between CORE'S me¬
thod of direct non-violent act¬
ion and that of other groups
also doing excellent work for
integration. She offered two
reasons for CORE'S current
action in Miami downtown res-
i taurants: 1. The humiliation
SATURDAY, SEPT. 26/ 1359 -
He wrote at mid-years exami-
nation last year that he had
passed his examinations and
that prayer had brought him
through. But I warned him
that he had better not depend
too much on prayer, to meet
those Harvard examinations,
but rather depend on hard
study.
The Irish’ ,general had the
right idea when he exhorted
his men on the eve of a de¬
cisive battle thus: “Men, trust
in the Lord, but in the last
analysis the man with the dol¬
lar is going to have charge
of things.
The Rockefeller and the Fords
are having the last word these
days; because they have the
advantages which tiie hard
work and sacrifices of their
forbears have made possible,
When ever we find those old
wealthy families—and the more
ones—with commanding
power, there is somewhere
down the line some ancestors
who worked hard and made
sacrifices.
If Negroes would become a
great financial power, somebody
must work hard and sacrifice
somewhere down the line.
Great fortunes cannot be ac¬
cumulated otherwise. Hard
work and sacrifice are the price
that must be paid by those whft
would be financially strong.
The too free spending habits
of Neeroes are not conducive to
building of ereat fortunes. Some
ago I was enroute to
Egypt and Palestine and hap¬
pened to meet a friendly
Englishman who was enroute
to Calcutta for a soiourn of
vears. We had our first
together, on one of the
finest English liners cruising
Mediterranean, with hun¬
of wealthy Englishmen
aboard.
The Englishman ordered T-
st ak for dinner. I of
followed. . _____. The onlv .
^ r0 abe.ard must not be short!
kind of thing went on un
we narted at Port Said,
But before my trip
ended and again in New
I was eating Hamburger.
Started out eating T-bone
a nd wound up eating
Somewhere down
line my English friend had
who made T-bone
possible for him. I had
such forbears.
If the Negro would have a
steak tomorrow,, some¬
must eat hamburger to¬
In order to accumulate
dollar that made the Rock¬
nuptials a world event
Negroes must save and
hard and sacrifice. The
is mighty in (today’s
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that anyone for mtegra-
is a „ Communist. , . , Commun- _
is for the subjugation of
to state and not for
individual freedom cbarac-
integration. Those
work for integration live
to the Bible and Arne-
ideals.”
After telling a bit of his ex¬
with mobs and police,
of the attempt to kill him
blowing up his house, he
his faith that God is on
side of integration and that
cannot fail.
Rev. Wendell R. Foster, chair¬
of the meeting, expressed
pleasure with the enthu¬
of the audience and his
.__.. optimism , concerning the ..
work of Miami CORE.
said he could see, in the
future, whites and Ne¬
naturally sitting down
at any of the down¬
shopping centere coun¬
to eat in peace and bro¬
the Tribune every week.
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someone, just tell ’em some¬
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