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CRUSADE FOR VOTERS: RISING TO THE CHALLENGE
* The youthful organization, the Crusade
For Voters, wfth its positive campaign to
register every Negro in Chatham County
is a giant step on the road to complete
equality and freedom for the Negro in
Chatham County.
Under the leadership of Hosea Williams,
the Crusade For Voters has set up mach¬
inery to politically educate the Negro at
the grass roots level. The county has
been divided into precincts and further
divided on the block level with a block
worker in charge of a specific block. When
bur block leader calls at your home, it is
imperative that you listen to his vital
message on the importance of registering
and voting.
If you have a yearning to be completely
fiee by J96M, the 100th Anniversary of
Emancipation, you have an obligation to
yourself and you* children's children to
register and vote.
A. American citizens, we have the right
to choose those who make the laws and
administer them. Men and women have
fought and died in many countries in the
world tor the right to vote. Negroes have
been killed for trying to exercise this de¬
mocratic right. In Chatham County, Ne¬
groes are not killed for attempting to ex¬
ercise their shameful right to use the ballot, and
yet, it is to report the indiffer¬
ence of the Savannah Negro to his respon¬
sibility as a citizen to register and vote.
Do you know that 50,000 registered Ne¬
groes in Savannah could control any elec¬
tion? There are some who argue that the
Sit-Downs May Spark Major Racial
Southern
NEW YORK* The United
States is on the verge of a major
racial -<eata*t*V>pHe similar to the
violence and IthxxMied that erupt¬
ed itl Jitmih Africa recently, a
Southern journalist warned today.
Writing in the current issue of
bonk "Magazine, George E. Mc¬
Millan declared that “sit-down”
protests by young Southern Ne¬
groes” may hold the fuse that
ignites the explosion.”
S. Median, a resident of Aiken,
0., said he was “astonished”
during a recent trip through the
South by “how rigidly and inflex¬
ibly the ‘sides’ have lined up” in
Negro Congressmen Discuss Affect of Canceling
President's Visit to Japan
nation’s four congressmen were
not in agreement on what affect,
if any. the withdrawal of Presi¬
dent Eisenhower's irritation to
visit ippan will hay« "A the dark¬
er nations of,,the vvoiw.
Repj Robert N. C. Nix of Phil¬
adelphia and Rep. Adam C. Powell
of New York City, thought it
would.
Rep. Charles C. Diggs of De¬
troit, who recently returned from
a visit to that part of the world,
said he felt the Tokyo riots rep¬
resented only a small extremist
segment of the Japanese popula¬
tion.
Rep. William I.. Dawson of Chi¬
cago, dean- of the nation’s legis¬
lators, said: that while he was
no supporter of tjke .Eisenhower
administration "and make no
mistake about that”—Eisenhower
is still president and we must
back him up.
The four were solicited exclu¬
sively by the Associated Negro
Press for their }’4'A S jufjter, the
administration of riAna' Minister
Nobusuke Kishi was forced to
withdraw the invitation to Ike
who was scheduled to visit Japan
beginning Sunday.
Many have argued that the se¬
ries of unprecedented riots that
have threatened to topple Kishi's
administration were not anti-
American but were directed
against the now 10-year Japanese-
American security pact that was
scheduled to be ratified during Ei¬
senhower’s visit.
Nix, who is the freshman among
the Negro solons, said he didn’t
think the Japanese incident would
have any adverse affect on dark¬
er nations, or the non-committed
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Negro’s indifference is indicative of
Americans in general, for barely 60 per¬
cent of those eligible voted in the last
Presidential election. All Americans
should exercise the sacred right to vote.
The Negro cannot afford to emulate his
thousands of white brothers who do not
vote, for the vote is one of his major
weapons in the arsenal of freedom to be
used judiciously in his fight for complete
1' ItEEDOM. Voteless People Are Helpless
People!
The Crusade For Voters is telling Chat¬
ham County Negroes that they can no
longer be indifferent, that it is suicidal to
have a lack of interest in public affairs
and that they can no longer be lazy and
ignore the call to register and vote. The
( rusade For Voters is not interested in
how one votes — that is a personal deci¬
sion. However, it is more important that
the Negro vote in order to insure the
rights and privileges that he deserves in
Chatham County.
Only through the judicious use of the
ballot will the Chatham County Negro get
adequate housing, schools, recreational
facilities, right to employment and respect
as citizens. The vote is the key to hav¬
ing elected officials in office who will be
cognizant of the aspirations of Negroes.
The Crusade For Voters is rising to the
challenge of the times by encouraging
every Negro man and woman over 18
years of age to register and vote. This is
a major step to FREEDOM FOR THE NE¬
GRO PEOPLE.
the racial struggle.
“The most frightening thing
now,” he wrote, “is the air of
resignation with which Southern¬
ers of both races view the inevita¬
bility of Violence.
“It is not so much that anybody
wants violence as it is that no¬
body sees any alternative to it.”
Southern Negroes, McMillan
noted, “are infused with a new
determination, and are ready to
risk violence to get some of the
gains they believe are due them.”
The middle-class whites, he add¬
ed, seem “helplessly committed” fo
violence.
He felt that it would serve as
an awakening to the American
people that “our whole approach
to people of other races and other
countries has been completely stu¬
pid.”
As an example he cited Nixon’s
treatment in South America, the
difficulties of Sighmon Rhee
Korea and the breakdown of gov¬
ernment in Turkey, all of which
we have supported and none of
which we’ve understood enough
to actually inspire confidence of
those countries.
“We need to re-evaluate our ap¬
proach to all peoples including
the American Negro,” emphasized
Nix.
The Pennsylvanian blamed
own foreign policy, the
of our public relations system, and
the lack of understanding
our leaders, for the widespread
anti-American feeling abroad.
Powell, characteristically out¬
spoken, said:
“It is almost unbelievable
the President of the United
will not support the United
Supreme Court, yet will go all
way to Japan in face of
hysteria and possible personal
ger to sign a military pact.
“I thoroughly disagree with
violence of the fanatical
group in Japan,” he
“but it might be wise to
that this hysteria could have
stimulated by knowledge that
in the United States Mr.
hower lacks the courage to
j up for the colored minority.
“It might well be that
happened in Tokyo might be
beginning of a rejection of
United States by hitherto
“They’ve said fio long, ‘there’ll
Ik 1 trouble,’ if the old balance be¬
tween the races is disturbed, that
they now find themselves almost
counting on trouble as a solution
to their problem,” he said in the
Look article.
To prevent violence, McMillan
predicted that somebody outside of
the South will have to intervene
and that “that intervention will
almost certainly have to come from
the Federal Government.”
McMillan, a former newspaper¬
man in Knoxville, Term., and
Washington, I). (’., is presently a
free-lance magazine writer.
of America’s
neutralist attitude on segregation
within our own country.”
Congressman Diggs said calling
off of the Eisenhower visit, only
lent encouragement to the Soviet
bloc. “This will only inspire them
to conduct similar demonstrations
in other areas with perhaps big¬
ger results on this whole issue.
The. Michigan representative
felt, on the other hand, that the
Japanese government was respon¬
sible for the bloody demonstra¬
tions.
He said the cancellation of this
trip reflected more upon the Japa¬
nese government than our govern¬
ment. If the Japanese govern¬
ment had shown enough fortitude
to back up its invitation and al¬
lowed the President to visit that
country, it would have gone a
long way toward “breaking the
back” of the hostile minority. “It
would have been a dramatic vic¬
tory of the forces of the free
world.”
Dawson, who prides himself on
being a politician of positive ac¬
tion rather than empty words, sys¬
tematically steers clear of com¬
ments on controversial issues.
While he declined to give an
official statement on the Eisen¬
hower controversy, it was gleaned
through a diseussion on the mat¬
ter that he considers himself an
“American first.” And any insult
upon the President of the United
States is an insult upon all Ameri¬
cans.
“But whether or not you approve
of Mr. Eisenhower’s leadership he
is still our President and we must
back him against foreign foes,”
stated the Illinois representative
in effect.
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I Like the Ghetto
By CECIL CRAIGNE
for ANP
Yes, you read the title correctly.
I do prefer living in the ghetto as
they call the Negro section of many
large cities. I am not an Uncle
Tom, either I’m just truthful.
In the first place, let’s make it
clear what we’re talking about.
When I say living I mean my
place of residence, the place to go
to be with my family, to rest and
recreate myself for the daily strug¬
gle with men and machines to make
a living.
And when I say ghetto, T mean
the Negro residential section of
town. The impression lias'some¬
how circulated that a gVie'tifo YaVs is a i
sliTm. The dictionary tire
ghetto was originally thi* ssddtion
of certain European cities tcJ Yvhieh
the Jews were restricted':
Today it simply means a section
of a city occupied principally najif^ality. by
persons of one race or
There’s no mention of of its tjeing blit ft a
slum. It may be, course,
doesn’t have to be. In maji’y in¬
stances, the ghetto where Negroes
live is not a slum — at least not
all of it.
I don’t pretend to speak for all
Negroes. 1 don't know them all,
don’t know how they all think. In
this piece I am expressing my own
point of view.
Now, 1 repeat: I prefer living in
the ghetto. Here’s why.
For the white American, the ag¬
gravations of the work day are bad
enough. More and more are suf¬
fering with ulcers. Psychiatrists’
couches don’t get a chance to cool
so many are the persons seeking
to rid themselves of the frustra¬
tions they have., collected along
with their weekly take home pay.
If the American white man finds
himself on the brink of insanity
from the vexations he encounters
in his daily living, imagine the
tragic plight of the Negro! For on
top of and in addition to all the
problems the white man has, the
Negro has another that’s inescap¬
able: race.
The Negro, therefore, is in much
more need of a place of refuge at
the end of the day where he can
escape the tensions, irritations and
frustrations.
Where can he find such an
asylum? Certainly not in a neigh¬
borhood where he is 1 ikely to en¬
counter the same problems he seeks
to escape.
The nine plucky little Negro pio¬
neers who broke the racial harriers
at Central high school in Little
Rock would probably have gone
crazy if they hadn't had the secur¬
ity, sympathy and relation afford¬
ed by their own neighborhood
every night.
I don’t think—as game as they
were—they could have made it if
they had to go to a home every
night in Chicago’s smouldering
Mr. Randolph Clarifies Purposes Of "March on the
Conventions Movement For Freedom Now"
A. Philip Randolph announced
today that the MARCH on the
CONVENTIONS MOVEMENT—
FOR FREEDOM NOW, which he
and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
launched last week, was not in-
j tended to “block entrance” to ei-
| ther of the political conventions.
Trumbull Park or Philadelphia’s
restless Levittown after a day of
harassment at school.
As a man wants to feel that he’s
always welcome at home, where he
cap discard the figurative tight
fitting shoes he must wear all day
in the presence of strangers or
others who are not his social com¬
panions, so a man wants a neigh¬
borhood where he can be at ease.
This doesn’t mean he wants to
Walk the streets of his neighbor¬
hood in his birthday suit.. But if
he wants to take a turn around the
block, it’s so much more enjoyable
if those he encounters are friends,
especially friends with .whom he
can discuss problems common to
them all.
Re doesn't, want to go to a cor¬
ner tavern for a drink of beer
where..the atmsopheve is strained
'and up,relaxing, where he’s more
tolerated than welcome.
It’s more than one can hope that
all the persons in your community
like you. But if they don’t, you
know it’s not because of your race
if your neighborhood is colored.
I.ike many other Negroes, I have
some good white friends, some of
whom I prefer to some of the Ne¬
groes I know because we have mu¬
tual interests. I’d like them as
neighbors if I could pick my neigh¬
bors because I feel we have much
in common. But since I have no
choice of who lives next door to
me or on my street, the chances are
that my neighborhood would be
more congenial if made up com¬
pletely of Negroes.
I have no objections to inter¬
racial neighborhoods. I heartily
endorse the efforts of the NAACP
and many individuals who ave try¬
ing to break down the unwritten
restrictive covenants. I applaud
the Progress Development Corp.
that is trying to bring Christianity
to Dearfield, 111., by building homes
available to all without racial re¬
strictions.
I believe that under the consti¬
tution I have the right, as every
Negro should, to live in any neigh¬
borhood or any community my fi¬
nancial situation will permit. But
because I feel I am entitled to that
right, I don’t just have to live
there. Along with the right to
live where I please, I can still ex¬
press a preference as to where I
live.
An interracial neighborhood can
— and often does—have all the
faults, vices, filth, crim dilapida¬
tion and noise one usually associ¬
ates with only Negro neighbor¬
hoods. Some all-white neighbor¬
hoods are that way, too.
What’s so wrong in living in a
colored neighborhood? Some avid
integrationist.s—and I know I must
sound like a southern white man—
would have us feel that we’re com¬
mitting a crime against God, the
state and our race in wanting to
Mr. Randolph made his state¬
ment in response to a number of
inquiries he said he had
since the formal announcement of
the MARCH last week.
In clarifying the purposes of
the mass non-violent demonstra-
tions in Los Angeles and Chicago,
associate with ourselves.
What’s wrong with us that we
should spurn the company of each
other?
On the other hand I am in viol¬
ent disagreement with the East-
lands and Faubuses who see a fed-
i al subversive case in every mixed
marriage or a violation of God’s
holy law in any interracial asso¬
ciation unless it’s between a white
man and a Negro woman in Miss¬
issippi after midnight.
By living in a Negro neighbor¬
hood, I am not cutting myself off
from the rest of the city. My wife
and I go to shows downtown, to
restaurants and night clubs—any¬
where we please, and race is no
factor. Frequently, we find our¬
selves in places where we're the
nly Negroes.
Such association with persons of
other races is fine and is really
necessary if one wants to really
be a part of the larger community.
And we all should be.
Then, too, I want my wife, whom
I leave at home all day, to be in
a neighborhood where I feel she
has security in the type of neigh¬
bors who surround her. Aside
from a masher, a purse snatcher
or the type of anti-social charac¬
ter any woman might encounter,
anywhere, I go to work convinced
that as a Negro woman she is
safer in a decent Negro neighbor¬
hood.
That goes *or my children, too.
They, too, attend a mixed school
and under the supervision all day
of an interracial faculty, need the
■imp surcease from tension that I
do at the end of the day.
Their little playmates might call
them a lot of nasty names when
they have their little spats, includ¬
ing that very foul obscenity linked
to Negroes but there’ll he no allu¬
sions to race or insinuations from
nosey elders about the superiority
of one race over another.
Neither will there be that silly
concern that sometimes keeps
mothers awake at night when they
see their little ones getting too
friendly with youngsters of an¬
other race. * *
You may not think so much of
this, but such factors fashion a
woman’s personality. I don’t want
my wife all mixed up inside emo¬
tionally over race. I like her as
she is.
Within the ghetto, one can find
neighbors to suit every social
whim, every intellectual interest,
every economic stratification. You
can find them mum, dumb or argu¬
mentative. Some are ugly, some
are pretty. Some are cultured and
others are rowdy and “not ready.”
But they’re all Negroes and
going home to a neighborhood full
of them after a hard day on the job
is next to going home to your fami¬
ly. There’s a certain comfort there
you can’t find anywhere else.
Randolph stated that “this project
is not a picket line in the con¬
ventional sense, but a protest
march. Unlike a trade union picket
line, our objective is not to block
the entrance of any individuals or
j groups into the convention halls.
Rather our objective is dramatical-
Between The Lines
By Dean Gordon B. Hancock for ANP
NIXON GROWS IN STATURE
Many years ago this writer visit¬
ed Tuskegee while Booker T.
Washington was still living, and
chanced to visit the great educa¬
tor’s private office. Upon the wall
was a framed card bearing this
inscription: "“The more I see of
some men the better I love, my
dog.”
And the memory of this card
suggests to me the thought, that
the more I see of his hecklers, the
more highly do I regard Vice-Pres¬
ident Richard Nixon, as a presi¬
dential possibility. For • many
months this column has passed
along favorable comment with re¬
gard to Nixon’s proposed candi¬
dacy for the presidency.
In spite of the studied heckling
now currently going on, Nixon
looms larger as the man for the
White House. We predicate our
position on general and particular
principles. Among the genera!
principles is the insuppressible fact
that he is opposed by the Demo¬
cratic party studded with towering
Negro-phobes.
On general principles this writer
is for anybody and anything these
Negrophobes oppose. And while one
may be particularly wrong gener¬
ally, one is correct in taking this
position.
So long have these Negrophobes
opposed anything and everything
that timately means the liberation
of Negroes, Negroes have become
sensitive to the darts and thrusts
of these arch-apostles of the religi¬
on of the Old South, bent on eter¬
nalizing the Negroes’ sub-citizen¬
ship in this country.
These men are determined to
head off Nixon in his candidacy
and election to the presidency of
these United States. A candidate
can be judged as much by the peo¬
ple who oppose him as- by those
who favor him.
The ire that Nixon is drawing
from the Democratic party which,
has largely become a tool for the
Negrophobes of this country, com¬
mends him as candidate for the
presidency.
Another of these general prin¬
ciples is the likelihood of the
Democratic nomination going to
Kennedy a democrat from Massa¬
chusetts, and that the democrats
of the North “play ball” with the
democrats of the South is too well
known to need recounting here.
Kennedy has already paid a ges¬
ture visit to New Orleans, and
Paul Butler Says Human -Ull
Rights Most Important
Moral Problem of 20th Century
WASHINGTON—(ANP) —
“sit-in” demonstrations in the
south along with the more explo¬
sive demonstrations around the
world emprasize the urgency in
achieving equality of citizenship
for all Americans, declared Paul
M. Butler, chairman of the Demo¬
cratic National Committee.
Addressing a testimonial lunch¬
eon given in his honor by the Me¬
tropolitan Women’s Democratic
Club, the committee chairman
said:
“The question of human rights
is the most important moral prob¬
lem of the Twentieth Century. It
is a real challenge in our capacity
to live together as American citi¬
zens in peace and harmony.
“Sit-in demonstrations at home
and much more explosive demon¬
stration around the world tell us
to hurry in our march toward full
recognition of the equality of
citizenship for ail Americans.”
Among those who praised But¬
ler for his forthrightness on civil
and human rights were Cong. John
Brademas from his district in In¬
diana; Congresswoman Edith
Green; Mrs. Katie Loucheim, vice
chairman of the National Demo¬
cratic Committee; Senator Frank
Church of Idaho; Cong. Charles
C. Diggs of Michigan; Senator
William Proxmire of Wisconsin
and Mrs. Vel Phillips, national De¬
mocratic committeewoman from
ly to demonstrate to both politi¬
cal parties the dissatisfaction of |
the Negro with their demand performances specific j
to date and to a :
program that guarantees freedom
J
Mr. Randolph described the term I
picket line as a “misnomer.” “In j
none of our statements has Dr.
King or I characterized the proj¬
ect as a ‘picket line.’ Indeed, we
intended clearly to differentiate
our endeavor from picketing when
we formulated the title MARCH
ON THE CONVENTIONS
MOVEMENT FOR FREEDOM
NOW.”
Mr. Randolph also reported that
SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1960
he did .not come out with
anti-Negro statement, it can be
that he spoke the langu¬
of the Southern democrats.
Since the passing of the immort¬
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the
of democracy in this country
been changed to an anti-Negro
As one of my friends put it,
opposition to my pro-republican
the Republican party is the
party of privilege for the privi¬
But we counter that the demo¬
cratic party has become the party
of underprivilege for the Negro.
Negroes have nothing to expect
from a party dominated by the
Byrds and Eastlands and company.
Better a thousand times that a
party in power be charged with
being for the privileged, than that
such party be charged with the
serious offense of denying citizen¬
ship to a race that has fought
upon many battlefields to save our
vaunted democracy.
Better a thousand thimes that a
be accused of slighting the
interests of the underprivileged,
to stand convicted of rushing
Negro citizens to the front in
of war and to the rear in
of peace.
When the choice is made between
evils it is by far better to
the lesser. Then on par¬
principles there is Nixon’s
fine record of inter-racial fairness
and his courage, to stand up to,
and talk back to, the Russian bully
named Nikita Khrushchev, who
is trying to bulldoze him¬
self into a world dictatorship.
Nixon on his visit to Russia
showed that he is capable of hand¬
this high-handed international
bully. It is this specific honest-to-
goodness courage that marks Nix¬
as the man to direct our desti¬
nies. I cannot imagine Kennedy or
anybody the democratic party may
who would be so capable of
standing up to Khrushchev and
it out with him.
We have come upon a time wh(n
need more than an astute inter¬
politician in our White
Although faltering now and then
the way, Eisenhower has not
out to the Southern Negro¬
He has made it possible
Nixon to take an advanced step,
here is believing that Nixpn
take it!
Diggs admired Butler’s courage
to speak out boldly on civil rights
issues below the Mason-Dixon line.
He has broadened civil rights is¬
sues beyond any particular sec¬
tion of any specific race. He has
established a standard which this
party must live up to.
Butler who was elected chair¬
man of the Democrat National
Committee in New Orleans in 1955
has announced his plans to resign
after the convention in Los Ange¬
les next month. During his stint
with the Committee he has been
described as a “workhorse.”
He is proud of his career as a
politician which began as a pre¬
cinct poll tgker in his native
South Bend, Indiana.
He admitted that when he first
accepted this position he differed
with the Negro press on certain
points of view. At that time he
thought it was the responsibility of
party leaders to weld together the
different points of view of the
party and bring about a hormoni-
ous relationship so they could
win.
Now after five years, five
months and 11 days in this posi¬
tion he said he is willing to ad¬
mit that he was wrong. Now he
feels that the party must be right
even if it loses. He had rather
go down as a loser if he is right
than be wrong and win.
the local response in Los Angeles
and Chicago to the call for the
MARCH had been “most encour-
aging and impressive.” Local
committees, representing a broad
cross-section of both communities,
have been established and are
functioning effectively.
June 19, 1809 — First African
Baptist church, believed to be the
first Negro Baptist congregation,
in the United States, organized in
Philadelphia.
June 24, 1844 — M. Harriett
Bailey, mother of Paul Lawrence
Dunbar, born near Shelby ville,
Ky.