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DEMOCRACY IN MEM0RIAM?
From The Black Dispatch—March 18, 1960
Any Negro person living in these
United States today who says he doesn’t
appreciate as well as approve of the
youth protest activities avainst segrega¬
tion throughout our nation should he
placed in a padded cell for the remainder
of his natural life. Holy Writ says in
essence, “If you denv me before man, I
will denv vou before Mv Father which is
in Heaven ” Tf we cal] ourselves Chris¬
tians and believe in the democratic pro¬
cesses. how in the name of goodness
could we at this time do less than give
Cl support, financial and moral, to our chil¬
o: dren ?
w Our weakness ihrowhoiM the aces has
8 been that we fail to let others know our
tme feelirv on the ones!ion of segrega¬
tion and discrimination according to race.
P We have far too long told the maiority
f race “what thev wanted to hear” ra¬
s ther than “what we actually think” on
E the miestion of segregation. It was far
I easier to say “I’m satisfied’, and feel that
F we were accepted 1>v others rather than
I sav “its wrong” and risk the thought of
d being rejected. For ”11 years here in
t America the blacks have been brain*
washed into believing thev were inferior
and the whites have been fooled into be¬
lieving thev we*'e superior. Both races
are guilty of living a lie and till these kids
are doing today is bringing out the truth.
Somewhere and somehow the false im¬
pression has been t’irmlv misplaced in
white folks’ minds that, the southern Ne¬
gro was satisfied with his second-class
status and that all of the protest and
agitation comes from north of the Mason
and Dixon line. W° have news for them.
Most of the satisfied Negroes, as well as
those not willing to face reality and try
to correct injustice, have moved elsewhere
from the South. Those Negroes still
here are dissatisfied with our second-
class status,'unafraid of threats and va¬
rious forms of intimidation, and plan to
support, work for and enhance any non-
communist movement within the demo¬
cratic process toward the granting of
first-class citizenship to all Americans,
whether it is led bv youth, red-haired
white folks, cotton-picking Negroes or the
EDITORIAL OPINIONS
Compiled by the
Here are further editorial comments
from daily papers on the student sit-down
demonstrations against jim crow lunch coun¬
ters in the South:
THE DEMOCRAT. Tallahassee. Fla.
“It is true that the Negro sit-downers
were in the provocative role by their in¬
sistence on declaring their desires to he
right superior to private property rights
given to the restaurant owners by law.
“But the duty to turn them back be¬
longed to officers of the law, and the
crowd which came to stop them with
sticks was just as guilty of disregard of
law and order and disturbing the public
peace as the demonstrators.”
THE GAZETTE, Little Rock. Ark.
“THIS MOYEMENT has served no pur¬
pose except to antagonize the white ma¬
jority. The resentment against “sit-ins”
is increased, moreover, by the knowledge
that some of the exhibitions elsewhere
were inspired and organized in the
North.”
THE DAILY NEWS, Chicago
"It just doesn’t occur to the Southern
traditionalist that a “Special counter” in
a variety store might not leave free
American citizens happy and content.”
THE POS I'-HERALI), Birmingham. Ala.
‘ Lawmakers of Alabama will havelittl®
inclination to appropriate money for a
school whose students show so little inter¬
est in their own institution. This money
could be diverted to other schools.”
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR. Boston
“Some of them certainly understand
that in any movement where they are
thought to be demanding social equality—
as distinct from equal protection of law—
they tread on dangerous ground.”
Congress of the United States.
These kids want some of that freedom
they have been reading about through¬
out their lifetime in American historv
hooks. The Boston Tea Party, the
Minute Men, Prisons Attneks’ death at
Boston Commons, Patrick TTonrv’s speech
at Williamsburg. 174-40 or Fight,, Bomem-
ber the Maine. Make the World Safe for
Democracy, and the Four Freedoms are
symbols of the American wav of life
taught to these voungsters throughout
their lifetime. Whv shouldn’t thev de¬
sire to eniov some of the fruits of such
a rich heritage which their fathers n-M
forefathers helped to earn for THEIR
native land?
These youngsters are not violent, nor
has one of their moves to date suggested
violence. If violence has been used, it
was by the other side. Tf our news re¬
leases are correct, in every instance their
protests have been carried out in a very
orderly manner. We are
proud of them and ashamed of the
“Storm Trooper" tactics used bv tbeir
opposition, in some cases, to defeat their
efforts. Fortunately, C,od is not dead,
nor can the prophets of hate jail an idea.
Their cause is inst and the ends which
thev seek shall become a reality in the
lives of them and many of us.
Finally, we sav to our youth, don’t be
misguided by those who say “The time
isn’t ripe” or “It will come to pass if vou
wait.” You are law-abiding citizens. You
and your parents have waited nearly 100
years for a right which the Congress of
these United States granted you imme-
diate’v following slavery. You have been
taught in vour schools that the Constitu¬
tion and the decisions of the Supreme
Court were the law of the land. You
have waited patiently nearly six years
after that court stated unanimously that
spirregatinn in our native land is uncon-,
stitutinnal. Generally we consider the
span of human life to he three score and
ten. When you are told to “wait” or
“go slow.” just ask vourself the miestion
of whether or not the Law of the Land
applies to you now or in memoriam?
THE NATION'S PRESS
Negro Press
THE BANNER. Nashville. Tenn.
“No institution with commensurate re¬
gard I'm* the fundamental concepts of law
and order—the very framework of orderly
government. and public security innate to
it—can condone deliberate civil disobedi¬
ence. Nor can it abut bv sufferance or
bv silence eccentric interpretations seek¬
ing to justify that, on 1he part of an
enrollee bv a wresting of either law or
scripture to suit bis own apotheosis.”
THE SEN-TIMES. Chicago
“This is the real key to the Negro’s
Twentieth Century emancipation in the
South. Negro leaders shoidd be prepar¬
ing Negro citizens to use the vote when
the South’s artificial restrictions on it
are shucked off by federal action.”
THE DAILY NEWS. Jackson. Aliss.
“Militant young people of both races
who are shoving one another in public
places are marking off the dividing line.
Each race, should learn to stay on its
own side and avoid hurting anybody.”
THE ADVERTISER, Montgomery. Ala.
“Instead of diplomas and teacher cer¬
tificates. they can mount in a frame upon
the wall a picture of Dr. Abernathy jazz¬
ing around in his Gandhi impersonation
for the TV and Life Magazine cameras,
using them as potted palms in his act of
aggrandizement.”
THE JOl RNAL. Winston-Salem
“W hat Winston-Salem needs now is a
cooling-off period rather than fut^her
open controversy. Such periods are in
effect in Greensboro and Charlotte,
where lunch counters are closed and pro¬
testing groups have suspended their dem¬
onstrations. The way has thereby been
opened for calm discussions between the
store managers and those customers who
object to the pattern of lunch counter
service.”
If you have something to do
that Is worth while doing, don’t
talk about it, but do it. Alter
you have done it vour friends
and enemies will talk about it.
Did you know' Democracy
based upon the conviction
there are extraordinary
bilitieo m ordinary people?
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
SEGREGATIONIST AND HATE GROUPS
NEGRO EDITORS-
EDUCATE FOR
“The Atlanta Daily World”
Owned by The Scott Family Is
Oldest Daily Negro Newspaper
The Atlanta Daily World
Scott Newspaper Syndicate have
set an unprecedented mark in Ne¬
gro journalism, beginning in de¬
pression days and continuing suc¬
cessfully to influence the develop¬
ment of the Southeast, both raci¬
ally and generally.
Pounded in August, 1928, by
William A. Scott II, the
World was published as a weekly
until the Spring of 1930, when jt
became a semi-weekly, in early
January of 1931, the Southern
Newspaper Syndicate was form¬
ed and semi-weeklies established
in Birmingham, Ala.;
Ga. and Chattanooga, Tenn. On
April 20, 1931, the Atlanta
and affiliated papers were tri¬
weeklies and in June a full
of comics by Negro artists
begun, leading later to weekly
lication of the first and only
gravure section published
by Negroes and distributed
ally. In June of 1931, the
phis (Tenn.) World was
ed. i
Then in 1932, the Atlanta
changed from a tri-weekly to
daily, publishing five weekly
one Sunday edition for six
It then became a seven-day
and continues as the first
fully daily Negro newspaper
lished and owned by Negroes
the United States, a tribute to
founding genius of
born W. A. Scott and the
family which owns the
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By H. YV. Gadsden
It is gratifying to note that the
young people who are engaging in
the “sit ins” are for the most part
behaving courteously, and are
clean and neat in apparel, and are
not law-breakers, so the newspap-
I ers report. Perhaps in the begin-
I fling of the “sit ins” some of the
I youth were ill-advised and jittery,
| as were some of the store manag¬
ers and policemen.
Presently, this column is not con-
I cerned with whether the “sit ins”
are justified, but is concerned with
how the youth deported themselves,
how they behaved and how they
were attired. Courteous behavior
and neat appearance tend to dilute,
if not to dissolve, much of the
hostility store managers, patrons
and policemen are apt to exhibit.
This example of neatness, courtesy
and obedience may well be emulat¬
ed by other young people, and old
people, too, in the less exciting
everyday life everywhere: on the
streets, on buses, on playground,
in school, in movies and even at
home. As far back as when "mem¬
ory runneth not to the contrary”
good manners (the old folk used
l/l Cyfl if) pt>(PeileSS, held af* °x-
j alted pldte 1U the admonitions of
| C. A. SCOTT
Upon the death of W. A. Scott
| in 1934, a younger brother, Corry-
j Hus A. Scott took helm of the
World and the Scott Newspaper
Syndicate, 5 comprising an affilia¬
tion of newspapers published in
other cities. He has built the
Atlanta World and the SNS nine-
newspaper MV w r-j;.i! Ml chain umni into iihu widely Wiucijr known ivi/v/.v,,
and respected institution, co-own-
ed by eleven members of me Scott
family . All of the SNS papers
are printed in the World’s plant in
Atlanta and represent the largest
Negro newspaper Organization in
the Southeast.
i Like his brother C. A. Scott was
mothers and fathers to their young
hopefuls, and within the last thirty
years schools have placed a lot of
emphasis on learning to respect
the rights of others. This .was at
the top of the list in the code of
citizenship, which the children
] themselves helped to form. This,
like many other essential ideals
of human relations, Is like a two
way street, a giving and a receiv¬
ing sort of thing.
Aside from Biblical injunctions
and admonitions, Amy Vanderbilt
| and Emily Post (and the ancient
j Gow’s. Morals and Manners) are
| easily available resources of direc-
i tion, which tell when and how to
behave, and actual practice in the
social graces which is the subject-
matter of these sources, is offer¬
ed in the classrooms and in the
schools’ lunchrooms, where teach¬
ers supplement the home training
in matters of public behavior and
table or dining room manners.
Here are involved some of the
simple things entirely within our
control, things we can do some-
thing about, things that have a
great deal to do with social ac-
rentability. We can do these
things, if we want to.
born in Edwards, Mississippi
ceiving his college training
Morehouse and Morris Brown
leges in Atlanta and the
sity of Kansas. Their father,
late W. A. Scott I, was a
publisher. In 1928, W. A.
C. A. and other members of
Scott family published a
Directory for Atlanta./
In 1957, Editor Scott received
citation from Lincoln
I Jefferson City, JVIo., for his
vements in the field of
In 1958, tinder his guidance,
Daily World received the
Press Club award as
of the year” for valiant service
the cause of human rights. He is
active in Civic and political affairs
of Atlanta and Georgia and is a
member of several boards of var¬
ious organizations, including the
Mutual Federal Savings and Loan
Association of Atlanta.
The World papers under Editor
Scott’s 26 year’ administration
have grown steadily in both cir-
culation and advertising
and the papers have pursued a
j policy in opposition to racial dis¬
crimination.
, loco r-ij-, 0 ,, eo-chair- ,
01 .
' 1 ’ co
ed , in . Atlanta a citizens committee
which successfully financed and de¬
fended a' 21-year-old father who
had been convicted for a capital
offenge of which he was innocent.
Mr. Scott is married to the for¬
mer Miss Ruth Perry and the
couple has two daughters.
t GTEA to Hold
42nd Annual
Convention
(Continued front Page On*)
Housing, Willie Reid, chairman;
Registration, Miss Barbara Burke,
chairman and Mrs. Virginia Bla¬
lock, co-chairman; Arrangements,
Miss Lola Dixon, chairman and
William Blake, co-chairman; Soc¬
ial, Mrs. Carolyn Kirkland, chair¬
man and Mrs. Mary Edith Stiles,
co-chairman; Transportation and
Parking, Benjamin Densler, chair¬
man and Robert ~Voung, .co-chair¬
man; Courtesies, Mrs. Janie Blake
and Mrs. Eunice Washington, co-
chairman; Hostesses and Ushers,
Mrs. Olivip Golden, chairman and
Mrs. Lucille Bryant, co-chairman;
Classroom. Teachers, Miss Margu-
rite Wright, chairman, Mrs. Mary
Council, co-chairman; Souvenirs,
Mrs. Ellen Wilson, chairman and
Mrs. Julia Skrine, co-chairman;
Public Relations, Daniel Y\ r .
Wright; Program, Mrs. Nancy H.
Walker and Mrs. Thelma T. Lee.
j j
Mrs. Ola B. Dingle, president of
| the Chatham County Teachers As-
.
sociation is ex-officio member of
all committees.
SATURDAY, ArRIL 2, 1£S9
> Y
Letters to
the Editor
TO ALI. LOCAL NEWSPAPERS:
Kindly give space in your col¬
umns to the Policy and Aims of
the Southern Regional Council as
outlined in its February 1960 issue,
entitled “The Changing South,”
submitted in part as follows:
“The Changing South” has been
a phrase much in use since the
inception of the Southern Reg¬
ional Council in 1944. Its month¬
ly magazine, NEW SOUTH, and
its frequent reports, pamphlets,
and materials have recorded the
significant events of a region in
change.
A history of the Council, which
has a heritage dating back to
its forerunner (the
' Commission on Interracial Co-
| operation), would in itself mirror
the important events and changes
of the modern-day South.
The Southern Regional Council
now consists of a board of some
80 Southerners, drawn from major
religious faiths, both races, and
the 13 states of the region. It is
non-profit, non-political, and non-
denominational.
A portion from “A Statement of
I’olicy Anti Aims of the Southern
Regional »Council” aptly
the Council’s goal. It is: “The
South of the future toward which
our efforts are directed is a South
freed of stultifying
from the past. It is a South where
the measure of a man will be his
ability, not his race; where a com-
Between The Lines
By Dean Gordon B. Hancock for ANP
NEGRO LEADERSHIP; GREAT RESPONSIBILITY
The late Kelly Miller, who head¬
ed the department of mathematics
at Howard University for more
than thirty years, was easily one
of the finest characters this na¬
tion has known. He was not only
an eminent scholar, but one of the
nations topmost writers and rhe¬
toricians of his generation.
Without doubt he and Dr. Du¬
bois were the most facile* writers
the Negro race has produced. Kelly
Miller for many years, espoused
the notion of a Negro Sanhedrin
which would be directive force in
Negro life.
He contended that there was
great ndbd for a body of Negro
leaders to give direction to Negro
life and aspirations. He saw the
danger that would vex too much
individual leadership, which has
many dangers, toils and snares.
With a Sanhedrin, thought Kel¬
ly Miller, Negro leadership coaid
be channeled in such a way that
j aH would be saying the same
I thing.
Just as it is said that “too many
cooks spoil the broth,” it may be
said with equal truth that too
many leaders spoil a plan of action.
Today’s crisis calls for a unified
leadership. It is true that the main
objective, full liberation, is clearly
outlined in all that is said and
| done, but we wonder if more could
^ accomplished if some defi-
^ nite plan were, being followed
wherever the struggle is going on.
It is all the more marvelous
that our Negro students have stood
up and offered themselves on the
altar in such fashion that the
world’s attention is dramatically
called to the Negro’s plight as a
second rate citizen of his country.
With Dr. Martin Luther King’s
idea of non-violent resistance the
Negro student caught on fire, and
a wondering world looked on.
Dr. King set forth the idea that
the jails could be honorably filled
with students fighting for freedom
and so the jails in Orangeburg,
South Carolina are filled.
This shows that the new Negro
is ready to follow wise leadership
in ways that have not been true
heretofore. It means that if a
blue print were given to the Negro
race with directions spelled out,
the race would follow in good or¬
der. Negroes are responding to
constructive leadership.
The critical nature of impending
events makes it imperative that
special care must be exercised if
the current movement is to achieve '
Omegas To
jLtaCCI/ IVT/AiAL in
Birmingham
j (Continued frorn Pas# One)
j bastiens: Clarence Williams, keep-
w of records and seal; Calvin ’
man citizenship' will work in de¬
mocratic understanding for the
common good; where all who labor
will be rewarded in proportion to
their skill and achievement; where
all can feel confident of personal
safety and equalty before the law;
where there will exist no double
standard in housing, health, edu¬
cation, or other public services;
where segregation will be recogni¬
zed as a cruel and needless pen-
1 alty oil the human spirit, and will
no longer be imposed; where,
above all, every individual will en-
j joy a full share of dignity and
self-respect, in recognition of his
creation in the image of God.”
These Aims clearly stated in tiie
goal of the Southern Regional
Council constitute a good course to
steer by for the new Bi-Racial
Group in process of being organi¬
zed in Savannah. With the wave
of rising expectations sweeping
the globe, the time has come for us
I to get out of the shadow of state’s
! rights and work together for hu-
' man rights. Let us begin to face
| our problem in the South with
j love, mercy and suspicion compassion and fear. in-
I stead of hate,
We need to apply a high degree of
| j common sense and simple justice
and develop, in Jefferson’s words:
j “worth and genius in every condi-
tion of life.”
Frank W. Spencer
Savannah, Georgia
March 22, 19(10
the desired ends without violence.
Non-violence has been one of the
most powerful weapons in the
struggle for freedom currently go¬
ing on and dramatized by the sit-
down movement. It is going to
take a lot of good leading to keep
the movement non-violent.
Sight must never be lost of the
fact that there are those of our
enemies who are itching for the
opportunity to see violence to the
and that the fury of the Old South
will be loosed against defenseless
Negroes.
It is the moral force of non¬
violence that has stayed bloody
hands. President Truman has in¬
dicated that if a bloody crisis de¬
velops the nation will play hands
off. The Negro leader must ad¬
vise with this fact in mind.
Some one remarked recently that
Russia was making much of the
situation in the South, hut Russia
is not much after helping the Ne¬
gro as in propagandizing for the
spread of communism. The sym¬
pathy of a godless communism is
always of questionable importance.
The situation is too critical to
be met without a unified leader¬
ship. Men like Martin Luther
King and Roy Wilkins and a few
others should go into a huddle.
We need a Negro Sanhedrin,
Many years ago this writer was
visiting with friends in the rural
districts. With dramatic sudden¬
ness my host sprang the question
as to which needs his mother’s care
moie, the infant in the cradle or
the older child running here and
there? He had already found the
answer and said that the child
tunning around needed a mother’s
care more than the infant in the
cradle for the reason, the child
running around could get into trou¬
ble, whereas the infant child could
not.
The Negro race is a growing
child now and needs special atten¬
tion in a way it did not seventy-
five years ago. A scattered lead¬
ership might have been sufficient
in the early years of our strug¬
gles, but today we need a unified
leadership.
During World War 1, the allied
armies were on the defensive and
the Germans were threatening to
drive them into the sea. But when
General Foeh was made gener¬
alissimo, the fortunes of the allies
changed.
YY e aie in sad need of a general¬
issimo at the present critical mom-
ent.
Smith, assistant keeper of records
and seal; YY\ Arnett Bryant keep¬
er lain; of finance; James Stone’ chap¬
Woodie Ligon, keeper of
peace; Mr. Thomas, chapter edi¬
tor and Mr. Blissett, chapter his¬
torian.
Theme of the meeting i s “To-
rd Free «1om Fulfillment
Through Business and Job Op-
P°rtunities.”