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EDITORIAL OPINION OF THE NATION’S PRESS
Compiled Associated
Here is editorial reaction to several
events of current interest as expressed by
leading American newspapers:
NEW HAMPTON PRESIDENT
MORNING NEWS, Wilmington, Del.
“Coming to Dover “on loan” from Cor¬
nell University, Dr. Holland stayed be¬
yond the original two-year period he was
expected to serve. During his adminis¬
tration the college has made tremendous
strides.”
VIRGINIA PILOT, Norfolk, Va.
“Dr. Holland may bring to Hampton
the desired objective view of the profes¬
sional educator who was educated at uni¬
versities of predominantly white student
bodies, yet who is fully aware of the needs
and values in Negro education today.
Hampton has produced grpat Negro edu¬
cators (Booker T. Washington and Robert
R. Morton among them) and greatly in¬
fluenced Negro education. Dr. Holland
will have the opportunity to help the in¬
stitution meet the challenges it faces in
a time of change for Negro education
and Negro life.”
SCHOOL DECISION
POST DISPATCH, St. Louis
“While integration advances slowly in
THE NEGRO VOTE RE-EXAMINED
(Cleveland Call Post)
“We believe that all men tire created
by Gtxl as equals in His sight and are
called by him to sonship and brotherhood
through Christ,”
The above pronouncement was jointly
authored by a New York Negro and a
Georgia white man, and because both of
them are practicing Christiana, there may
be those who will not place great signifi¬
cance on the pronouncement, taking the
position that the equality of men under
God is widely accepted tenent among all
professed Christians.
This does not always hold true. To the
contrary, this nation contains far too
many so-called Christians who deliberate¬
ly distort the Holy Scriptures to maintain
that God has willed that his dark-skinned
children occupy a position of inferiority.
As a consequence, the number of inte¬
grated Christian churches in the United
States are ever fewer than the number of
integrated schools, and until recent years
the great mass of Protestant membership
THE VERDICT IN THE KING CASE NO SURPRISE
Prom the Carolina Times
The verdict of “not guilty” rendered in
the case against Dr. Martin Luther King
surprises no one who knows the great
Negro leader, although it may be disap¬
pointing to that segment of southerners
who resent the type of leadership that Dr.
King represents. Members of this parti¬
cular group are still living in the past and
cannot seem to realize that there is a new
Negro on the scene and that he will not
be satisfied with less in America than is
accorded other citizens.
The charges brought against Dr. King
were evidently of a malicious nature and
are in line with what any Negro leader
in the South will suffer when he assumes
an uncompromising attitude on the ques¬
tion of civil rights. The unsuccessful at¬
tempt to smear one of the top Negro lead¬
ers is a slap at a majority of the daily
press of the South. The story announcing
the verdict in the cast, unlike that which
carried the announcement of his arrest
on a charge of “falsely, willingly and cor¬
ruptly” listing his 1956 taxable income,
was conspicuous by its absence from the
front page of a majority of southern
Truman Sees End of U. S. Troubles
When South Its
NEW YORK — Former Presi¬
dent Harry S. Truman declared
today that the United States
“won’t have any ^trouble” when
Southerners come to the conclu¬
sion that “race and creed and color
don’t make any difference in
what’s in a.man’s keart.”
Writing in the current issue of
Look ?'.,;gazine, Truman insisted
that Southerners are “ju:t as fine
six other states between the two groups,
it is a fact that more states have acceded
than have resisted. Would that much pro¬
gress have been possible without the
court decision? The answer impiles a
salute to the Supreme Court.”
NORTHERN PRESS
NEWS AND COURIER, Charleston, S.C.
“Additional criticism of The Times for
its treatment of Birmingham, Ala., by
reporter Harrison Salisbury—was voiced
the same week that the newspaper re¬
tracted statements regarding police action
in Montgomery. One of the critics was
Time magazine, itself a notorious offen¬
der against fair journalistic coverage of
the South. This was a case of pot call¬
ing kettle black. Time said The Times
was guilty of omisions in reporting racial
tension in Birmingham.”
RINGGOLD BOMBING
CONSTITUTION, Atlanta
“The bombing of a Ringgold home, in
which a mother of six children was kill¬
ed, is a shameful and shocking act of vio¬
lence in its worst form.
“Let it again he said that violence solves
nothing. Decent citizens of Georgia must
make it clear that atrocities will not be
tolerated in this state.”
has had little concern about its image of
jim-crowism.
1
1 hus the meeting in Cleveland last week
ot the halt-million-member Presbyterian
Church in the U.S.A., highlighted by the
spirited competition between a Negro and
a white man for the top post of Modera¬
tor, provides a refreshing and heartening
development in the otherwise dismal pic¬
ture presented the world by this nation’s
segregated Christian churches.
of .To Atlanta, both the the winner, Rev. Herman Lee Turner
and the Rev. Elder
G. Hawkins of New York, the loser by a
scant two votes, go our sincere congratu¬
lations for the challenge their contest pre¬
sented to their widespread constituency,
•Did to the sterling example of progressive
( hristianity their joint pronouncement
gives the still recalcitrant Protestant
clargy of this country whose lack of cour.
age still makes 11 o'clock Sunday morn¬
ings America's most segregated hour.
newspapers. The
jury which freed Dr. King was
composed of twelve southern white men
of Alabama. It is a known fact that if
there had been even an essence of guilt
they would have rendered a verdict ac¬
cordingly. Thus the South is once again
held up before the eyes of the world as
a region in which the way is certain to
be made hard and rough for any Negro
who takes the lead in demanding equal
rights for his race. Dr. King emerges
in a stronger position and the South in a
much weaker one.
Me salute Judge Hubert T. Delaney of
New York, a former North Carolinian,
who took time out to assist in the de¬
fense of Dr. King. The action of Judge
Delaney represents the. kind of coopera¬
tion that should be assumed by all mem¬
bers of the race when one is'so malici¬
ously attacked as was Dr. King. Instead
of talking sympathy and cooperation we
have got to begin acting it. That is what
Judge Delaney did and we feel he has
set a fine example for others to follow
when similar situations
a people as you will find anywhere
in the nation” and said there is
no doubt in his mind that the
South has an important future.
“You will recall that I left no
doubt where I stood on the im¬
portant issues involving the South
in my campaign of 1948,” Tru¬
man wrote, adding:
“I took a stand that involved
serious political riAs, and soni6
of the Southern states
from the Democratic party. But
there was no other course that
could follow and keep the Bill
Rights a living thing.
“Despite the recent
of stubborn sectionalism and
ism on the part of some
mists, I bcliev« th» South >
ing in the right direction.”
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
A Prophet Honor
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is the first installment of four articles on Dr. W. E. B. DuBois
written by Judge Hubert T. Delaney, noted New York jurist, fighter for civil liberties and civil rights.
Judge Delaney is a member of the National Board of NAACP; a member of the National Executive
Committee of the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, arid at the present time chief defense counsel
for Dr. Martin Luther King in Montgomery, Ala.
By JUDGE II. T. DELANEY
On June 15 at 8 p.m. at the
Hotel New Yorker Grand Ball¬
room in New York City, the
Emergency Civil Liberties Commit¬
tee will honor Dr. W. E. B. Du¬
Bois with a dramatic review of
the highlights of his first 92 years.
The review, ‘under the direction of
Luther James; will effectively ; Re¬
monstrate that one of the'world’s
most eminent scholars, educators,
writers and courageous fighters
for human rights continues tofbd.a
“prophet with honor” among all
familiar with his militant role in
the advancement of the Negfo
people towards first class citizen- '
ship. M itloa
This despite the efforts of not,
many,
including the House Un-American
Activities Committee, to discredit
his achievements.
Outstanding among Dr. DuBois’
many achievements is, of course,
his part in the organization of the
NAAGP, It was the culmination
of years of work with the Nia¬
gara Movement and other efforts
by Dr. DuBois for full citizenship
as guaranteed by the 14th Amend¬
ment.
Large numbers of young people
in the south today are continuing
the fight which Dr. DuBois a* a
lone militant intellectual in the
sotith, started sixty years ago.
Militancy has always boon the key¬
note of his approach to Negro
rights. It .is his militancy which
has cost him the “seal of appro-
val” of the supporters of the rac¬
ial status quo. Unfortunately it
has also cost him the support of
the faint hearted among many who
should have been his friends.
By no means a “prophet with¬
out honor,” it is nonetheless a
source of same to the nation that!
Dr. DuBois, is not at least as well
known in his own country as he
is abroad.
That this situation exists, how¬
MISSISSIPPI BEACHES CHALLENGED BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
(From the Birmingham World)
The federal government has moved to
end segregation on Mississippi Gulf Coast
beaches with the Justice Department fil¬
ing suit in federal court at Vicksburg.
The suit was filed against Harrison
County and the City of Biloxi, where last
month a near race riot resulted from
groups of Negroes attempting to use the
beaches.
The government’s suit charges that
local authorities had agreed to public use
of beaches in return for federal aid to re¬
pair hurricane damage in 194S.
Negroes had planned a suit of their own
as a follow up of the eai'lier demonstra¬
tions, but we are happy to see the Justice
Department intervene with its suit. This
takes some of the fire of racial emotion
from it. Attorney General Rogers is to
be commended for his attitude in these
civil rights matters. Through his de¬
partment. the federal government may
move to erase many of the injustices Ne¬
groes have suffered by discriminatory
leral barrier:.
Ths matter is now in the hands of the
first steps in the subjugation of
one people or group by another
is the denial to the repressed of
their own history; the denial of
examples of their own courage;
the evidence of their own man¬
hood and thus, a glimpse of their
own future.
The current Un-American Acti¬
vities; Cpmmittee is not the first
that Dr. DuBois has lived through,
nor is it the first to designate his
militant .activities as evidence of
,“Un r American ism.” The state of
Dr. PuBojs’ health at 92 is far
better, (.hap that of the Committee
at a qiere 22. Likewise is his re¬
putatipn.
This, then, is the first install¬
ment of a four-part biography of
Dr. William Edward Burghardt
DuBois, born in Great Barrington,
Mask, on February 23rd, 1868. Tn-|
evitably it will also be an outline I
of the struggle for Negro liberty.
No more report of dates and
places and statistical honors can
give more than a hint of the mean¬
ing of this man’s life and work.
To graduate from Harvard with
honors will never be commonplace,
hut in 1890, William DuBois, 22, |
received his A. B. from that in-!
stitution ‘cum laude.’ A year
later he won his M. A.. In 1895
he received his Ph.D, the first
granted by Harvard to a Negro
He had previously been graduated
from Fisk University and before
that from the Great Barrington
public school system.
He was a Slater Fund Fellow¬
ship student in Germany, and up¬
on his .return, became a professor
of Latin and Greek at Wilberforce
College. In 1896 he was appointed
assistant instructor at the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania and two
years later published his “The
-----------,----- Philadelphia Negro,” the study
which was to establish his repu¬
tation as a sociologist. This was
the first scientific study of the
family to be made in the United' j
courts where it properly belongs, and
where legal decisions will determine the
right of Negroes to use the public re¬
creation facilities. This is far better than
the use of the pressure tactics and demon¬
strations that could set off race riots and
get many innocent persons injured or
killed.
The present national administration has
demonstrated many times that it is giving
full backing to the civil efforts. Every
division of the federal government is en¬
listed in the efforts to make the rights
and privileges as spelled out in the reality
for all citizens. The President, the Con¬
gress and the courts, are all hacking the
cause of equality for America’s greatest
minority group.
This is a notable development of recent
years of the Eisenhower administration.
Should we not seek more use of these long
respected techniques with demonstrated
results, and less use of the emotionally
charged demonstrations and pressure me¬
thod: that "enerate more ill will than
good results? _ ______ . .
real sociologist in this country.)
That same year Dr. DuBois pub¬
lished his Ph.D thesis on the su-
pression of the African Slave
Trade. This became Volume I of
the Harvard University Historical
Series.
From 1897 to 1910 Dr. DuBois
was professor of Economics and
History at Atlanta University.
Writing of that period, Edwin R.
Embree said: “During the first
decade of this century Burghardt
DuBois was probably the most
thoroughly educated man, the
deepest scholar and the most gift¬
ed writer in the city of Atlanta.”
Yet in those years the white peo¬
ple of Atlanta never exchanged
views with his scholar in their
midst. The penalties of prejudice
fall unequally, but fall they do on j
both Negro and white,
At Atlanta, against a back¬
ground of lynchings to be count¬
ed in the hundreds, Dr. DuBois
developed the Atlanta studies
which remain landmarks in socio¬
logical literature to this day. In
1903 he wrote the hauntingly beau-
lifu1 and reVealinfJ book ab ” ut
whipb H ® nry Jame ? Wa .? t0
The American . Scene” in 1907
—“How can everything have so
gone that the only Southern book
of any distinction published for
many a year is ‘The Souls of
Black Folk’.”
Dr. DuBois’ early years had been
ones of study. He had prepared
himself carefully and well for the
day when he would he ready to say
what he had long felt must be
said, namely , that the Negro „ could
not accept second class citizenship
anywhere in the world. As a stu-
dent, as an educator, as a social j |
scientist and as a literary man, 1
T Dr. , no- DuBois , had , added ,, , to . ,. h,s un- .
demanding of the world in which I
the Negro people lived. Now he |
would begin the long, always un¬
finished task of helping to change
Letters to
ifieEdiior •••
L. SYKES
Editor’s Note ; The editor of the
Savannah Tribune, along with
many other citizens, was shocked is
and deeply moved by the sudden
death of Dr. James L. Sykes on
Monday morning, June 6, 1060.
The true character of this man
can be found in the following let¬
ter that he wrote the editor of
this newspaper less than two
months ago. At the time of his
death, Dr. Sykes and other in¬
terested parties had a 30-day sales
contract pending for the purchase
of the Savannah Tribune.
April 12, 1960
Mrs. Willa Ayers Johnson
Editor and Publisher
Savannah Tribune
1009 W. Broad Street
Savannah, Georgia.
Dear Mrs. Johnson:
I saw an advertisement in the
April 9 issue of the Savannah
Tribune relative to the placing of
the paper for sale.
This paper has been the lead¬
ing Negro newspaper in Savan¬
for 85 years. During this
period of time it has rendered
sterling service to the commu¬
To see it for sale came as a
surprise and shock to me.
is difficult to imagine Savan¬ to
without the Tribune; it is
painful to contemplate the
of the paper in the to
of anyone who is not vi¬
interested in Savannah and
problems relative to it.
Upon my first trip South in
I swore that I would never
The Army changed that.
was not too long before it be¬
apparent that the future in
the American Negro and per¬
the future of America and
civilization lay in the
of the Negro in the South.
in no part of our coun¬
could be free without the free¬
Between The Lines
By Dean Gordon B. Hancock for ANP
THE STORY IN PART
“There is one glory of the sun,
another glory of the moon, and
glory of the stars; for
star differeth from another
in glory,” thus readeth the
verse of the fifteenth
of First Corinthians.
The Great Apostle must have
in comparative mood even as
was when he wrote in the
verse of the thirteenth
of the same epistle thus,
abideth faith, hope, charity,
three: hut the greatest of
is eharity.”
The foregoing is suggested by
graduation season when thou¬
and thousands are being
from the schools and
and universities of this
other lands.
Like a great assembly line, our
are producing gradu¬
of diverse description. That
is power cannot be de-
but power for what? raises
serious questions .
He who said that the mind is
measure of the man could
have been farther from the
except those who hold that
is a measure of prog .
amonj , men _ The heart and
the mind is the measure of
man.
The great output of graduates
itself is not a guarantee that
world is better off by reason
these graduates, who fare forth
thousands into a hapless world.
as there is one glory of the
and another glory of the moon
another glory of the stars,
there is a knowledge of the
and another knowledge of
heart.
The measure of the worth of
is not shown by the
relates of quality.
There is no modern sage who
say with definiteness that
are better now than they
in the ox-cart days. Educa¬
has added quantity to life,
just whether it has improved
quality of life is another
Jet propulsion is no
that men of today are better
those of ox-cart days.
This is in no way written to
education; it is written
a caution against our assump¬
that quality is an accompani¬
of quantity. Unless we have
improvement to go along
head Improvement, we have
to boast of, but much to
SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1960
of the Southern Negro.
The tremendous potential which
confined within the American
must needs find some ex¬
other than protest. But
gain the basic rights it is evi¬
that protest may be in or¬
for some time to come.
The surging awakening of'the
to freedom is something
than a word, but a dream, a
within itself, and an
of human dignity, of
divine origin of man and can¬
be catalogued as to time, place
event. Many, many things went
what is apparently a spon¬
movement. But the mo¬
which has been attained
be continued. Freedom is
which must be fought
it lacks real meaning if con¬
The duties and obligations of a
must be spelled out. The
to vote must be considered
integral part of citizenship.
The newspaper can and must
out these things. It is the
important medium of mass
Its impact can
must be felt. The Negroes
Savannah should be able to
to the paper as a means of
intellectually honest,
militant, dedicated
that which is right for people
a people.
This is a plea for this paper
remain a Savannah-owned and
enterprise. Owned and
by black men, standing
marching, shoulder to shoul¬
with freedom and dignity for
as the ultimate goal.
Would you hold in abeyance the
of the paper in the hope that
a very short time the criteria
you desire and we the read¬
of the Tribune desire, can be
and the needs of the com¬
served?
Sincerely,
JAMES L. SYKES, M.D.
fear.
There is a head knowledge and
there is a heart knowledge, but
the greater of these is heart knowl¬
edge. Unless somewhere along the
line our graduates come upon a
heart knowledge, to match their
head knowledge, the world is, just
so much nearer destruction by rea-
son of our large output of gradu¬
ates.
Heart knowledge and not head
knowledge will determine whether
humans will survive upon this
earth. The sad and sombre fact
remains, the Sword of Damocles
was never more threatening than
the impending doom of mankind.
What does it matter if we have
all the earthly knowledge imagina¬
ble, if we are to be wiped from
the earth in a warfare of atom
bombs? Will head knowledge save
man from this fatal disaster? We
do not think so. Rather we be¬
lieve that heart knowledge will
save the dangerous and critical
situation that confronts the mod¬
ern world.
The seriousness of the situation
cannot be ignored or dismissed.
There is the danger that a certain
complacency will steal upon man¬
kind by reason of the strides cur¬
rently being made in education—
of the head; but it must somehow
be driven home to the heart of
mankind that unless our hearts
are educated in matters of right¬
eousness, we are destined to go
the way of Sodom and Gomorroh
and Jerusalem and Capernaum.
It has been written that right¬
eousness exalteth a nation, but sin
is a reproach to any people. The
hope for human survival upon the
earth is not a matter of educa¬
tion but of righteousness.
So unless we have an education
of the heart to go along with the
education of the head, we are
lost. The staggering output of
graduates with an education of the
head, is but a part of the story.
Then, too, the happiness of man¬
kind no less than its survival is
a matter of the education of the
heart. It is true we have had
quantity added to life by reason
of science which accompanies the
education of the head, but he
would be rash indeed to conclude
that human happiness has kept
pace with the advance of science.
The most that can he said of
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