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Dr. W. E. B. DuBois
A Prophet with Honor
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RECEIVING THE HIGHEST HONOR of the National Association for the Advance-
ment of Colored People, Dr. W. £. B. Du B ois makes his acceptance speech at Atlan-
ta
Jijf Hubert T. D flung
(Thi following in the fourth
and Mat installmint nf a series
an the life and Works of Dr. Du¬
ff oin ft;/ Judge Hubert T. Dilang.
noted Vric York jurist and figbti >
for civil liberties anil civil rights.)
• Th 1944, when Dr. DuBois re¬
turned to the NAAC’I’ as director
of special research, it had been
understood that he would con¬
centrate on international proh-
]<bW«, specifically colonialism. This
WA.4 po. new interest for Dr.
DuBois, although until that time
he had been unable to arouse
support for his early conviction
that the problems of people of
color in a white-dominated world
must be unified. The conviction
was completely upheld by what
he saw wherever he went.
As early as 1911 he had or¬
ganized a Congress of Races in
London. This was followed later
by several Pan - African Con¬
gresses in Paris, lie had repre¬
sented the United States povevn-
ment “.s minister to Liberia and
had organized a gioup in Geneva
to keep the rights of Africans
before the world.
As Edwin R. Embree wrote
in 1944, “Oil the question of color
bars around the world, he was
as far ahead of current thinking
as he was on Negro rights within
America.”
“The disinherited darker peo¬
ples,” DuBois said, “must either
share in the future industrial j
democracy or o v e r t u r n the |
world." It was a statement, which
was to become increasingly pro¬ |
phetic. I
Writing of the period, Dr. Clark
Foreman, director of the Emer¬ j
gency Civil Liberties Committee, I
echoed a similar judgment.
“There is little question in my
mind,” Foreman wrote in 1955,
“that if Dr. Dull. 4,- had died
ing for fifty years ... it would 1
have to disparage taken as him, much courage it does then j
as now
soon after his return from At- !
lanta would 1 nivei be sitv hallowed in 1944, the he |
now as j
greatest Negro of the first half ;
of the 20th century. With the
bursting idealism of the Second
World War, the times were al¬
most catching up with the ideas
which DuBois had been preach-
to support him, and the coura¬
geous were then, as they are
now, his admirers.”
Dr. DuBois went on to con-
tinue the battle that was hi?
commitment to life, but the
times were not allowed to catch
up with the idealism of the
American people. It 1 ad beep
well and good to talk about civil
rights and equality and the com-
mon man when we were in the
midst of war, but with the war
Over, the forces which have noth¬
ing to win and all to lose from
change .resumed control.
The period that follows a war
is born in war, and there were
Strong and powerful forces every¬
where who realized intuitively
fhat the movements essential to
(lie conduct of a great popular
effort—such as war. must he de¬
flected or they may go “too far.”
The original Un-American Ac¬
tivities Committee, Anown as the
“Dies Committee,” had been
Ihughed into oblivion when the
crowding achievement of their
Hollywood investigations pointed
an accusing finger at the then
infant actress, Shirley Temple,
and Dies decided not to run for
re-election. But what Martin Dies
had been unable to accomplish,
ties Committee, made into a
standing committee under the
leadership of Rankin of Missis¬
sippi, did accomplish. lie was
aided by what, is euphemistical¬
ly referred to as the “MeCar-
thy era," which ushered into
American thinking one of the
longest and most dangerous
periods of reaction and know-
nothingism to befall the country.
W. E. B. DuBois was only one
of the victims of this new thought
control, but his victimization was
nerhaps among the most shame¬
ful.
Dr. DuBois had served as
consultant at the 1945 San Fran¬
cisco Conference which founded
the United Nations. In vain he
fought there to include specifi¬
cally the 750 million people who
live in colonial areas in the UN’s
Bill of Rights. Later he urged
the NAACP to bring the condition
of Negroes in America to the
attention of the UN's Commis¬
sion on Human Rights, DuBois
wrote a Brilliant and scholarly
“Appeal” which the NAACP ac-
eepted. The political climate of
the nation had changed radical¬
ly by 1947. The Cold War was on.
Militancy and dissent suddenly
became synonymous with subver¬
sion.
Technically the “Appeal” was
presented to the UN Commission
but actually the method of pres-
ontation was so “delicate” that
-j d j,,,| almost quietly and tin-
not. 1. The nation had begun to
go backward rather than forward
">nd the spirit of cold war settled
like a gray fog over the minds
■ f men everywhere. DuBois had
never confused popularity with
The work he had set his
life to was far from done, and
he coul 1 not spare the time to
“sit it out” in safe respectabil¬
ity until a more comfortable mo-
By u , 10 DuBois had become
convinced that the greatest
threat to men regardless of color
was another great war. The
possibility that the cold war
wou)(J become a a hot hot one was
great.. DuBois became chairman
of the Peace Information Center,
iti.t pence, like civil liberties,
had become suspect. The Depart¬
ment of Justice demanded that
the Information Center register
as “agents of a foreign princi¬
pal.” Dr. DuBois refused. He de-
, d to accept the American
Labor Party’s nomination for the
,j. S . Rennte inst#ad . , Iis cam .
im ign would be his defense and
offense as well.
“The roost sinister evil of this
, !av is the widespread conviction
that war is inevitable and that
therf , ^ no tin)e | eft {(iT (iisc , us .
ion," DuBois told
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throughout the nation.
Elaborate plans were b e i n g
made for Dr. DuBois’ 84th
birthday on February 23, 1951,
but by the time the day arrived,
the atmosphere was one of
shock rather than celebration.
A Grand Jury in Washington in¬
dicted Dr. DuBois for refusal to
register as a foreign agent — a
charge growing out of the origi¬
nal accusations against the Peace
Information Center which by
1951 was no longer in existence.
To advocate peace became in¬
creasingly suspect. In 1955 the
Post Office had banned the fa¬
mous Greek anti-war comery,
“LySistrata." But in 1951 it was
difficult to believe that the
government would prosecute one
of our most distinguished schol¬
ars, at the age of 84, for his ef¬
forts in behalf of world peace.
Immediately following his in¬
dictment, Dr. DuBois married
the well-known author, Shirley
Graham. In the event he had to-
go to prison, she could visit him
as his wife. Meanwhile he and
his wife engaged on a nation¬
wide to"get speaking tour "peace""issue""before in a last ef-
fori the
the American people. Ex-Con-
1 sumed charge of Dr. DuBois’ de .
^
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The case finally came to court,
I and the principal witness against
I Dr. DuBois turned out to be O.
j John Rogge, the very same man
who had originally invited Dr.
I DuBois to his home for the pre-
liminary discussions on the Peace
I Information Center whioh led to
i Dr. DuBois becoming its ehair-
man.
j On November 20, 1951, the
judge directed a verdict of ac¬
quittal, without waiting to hear
the case for the defense. In the
atmosphere of those days, to be
accused was for many to be
guilty. When Dr. DuBois asked
for a passport to attend a peace
conference in South America, he
was denied permission to leave
the country. His wife’s passport
was confiscated. When the long
j court fight Civil conducted Liberties Committee by Emer¬
gency
restored the American right
to travel, Dr. DuBois immediate¬
ly got his passport, and embarked
on an around-the-woi Id- tout.
Wherever he went he Was greet¬
ed with ovations that few private
personages have ever won. In
the U.S.S.R. he was given the
Lenin Prize for Peace. Wher¬
ever he stopped to speak, he spoke
of peace and of the necessity for
equality between men of all rac.es.
It was not an easy task to at¬
tempt to summarize in four short
articles a life which has been
THE SAVANNAH TRIRrNE SAVANNaH, GFORGIA
SHOWN WITH MEMBERS of the Portugese Parlia-
nenf representing Angola, Mozambique, Islands of
Principe, is Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois (seaed, center) at the
Pan African Congress in Lisbon in 1922.
and continues to be a monument
to the goals of humanism.
best, this syapV review may
spire others to study” this man’s
life in the detail it deserves. Some
’ of his books ■were kieiu#ed ir\
National Council of Churches of
Christ in America’s reading list
on Negro history. are the
same books which were used as ev¬
idence by the ranking Republican
on the House Un-American Activi-
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>Cont,mueO Trom Paste One 1
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DESERVES, whenever he
LEARNS how to use the BAL¬
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tjjves/ bankers, businessmen and
women to the street sweepers and
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Siting the lawyers the Negro
press; in fact the Americans of
our race will become American
citizens when we learn the proper
use of our voting powers.”
The Crusade for Voters needs
help. Help, HELP of all kind,
Telephone committees, typing,
mimeographing, processing of block
workers surveys and most of all,
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charge of subversion against
National Council of Churches.
History will be a better
of who is and who is not a
American. Meanwhile,
would be heaped upon
if the American people were
lose knowledge of this great
and distinguished scholar who
still, happily, in their midst
the age of 92.
( for every citizen to help,
j Mrs. Catherine Brown, head of
I finance, has the responsibility of
j keeping enough funds on hand
| to operate this worthwhile organi-
I zation. Mrs. Brown is asking all
of us to join the dollar-per-month
club of the Ciusade for Voters.
It will take a lot of doing to
finance this movement. If Ne¬
groes want the job done, we MUST
join together and pay. Our of-
, fice ,ies runnin about
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week ' Mrs ' Brown i3
asking every freedom-loving Ne-
gfOrite stop by the headquarters
office, Oil West Broad Street, be-
, tikepq . , T? tlje figat and fifth, of , every
L, month -R' and , leave , at , leas* , $1.00 for ,
the sake . of . registration .... and , vot-
ling for our people, ,
Rev. Holmes is requesting the
residents of the West Side to
meet with their precinct chair¬
men this Thursday night at 8:00.
The precincts of the first district
(west side of Montgomery Street
out to DeRenne Avenue) will
meet at the following places:
Precinct II, N. B. Wilson, chair¬
man, Bethlehem Baptist Church;
Precinct 111-A, chaired by Rev.
P. A. Patterson, Palen Methodist
Church; Precinct III, Miss Mil-
dred Andrews, chairman, 1410
Cloverdale Drive; Precinct IV, G.
Robeson, chairman, Butler Pres-
byterian Church; Precinct V, Mrs.
H. Simmons, chairman, Butler
Presbyterian Church.
Blind
Musician
(Continued from Haze one)
than he expected.
Gregory can now' read print,
with the aid of magnification
and is told that his vision
should improve with time.
It is about 20-30 now, he re¬
ports. In addition, his diabetes
i is under control.
Roy Wilkins
Honored
tContinuer* from Page One)
Men and women of not only good
will, but of conviction, determina- '
tion, ingenuity and courage will
nlay the deciding role.”
He ouoted a reeent speech by
Mark Fthridge of the Louisville *
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Courier-Journal on “the pattern
of insularity and isolationism . . .
and secession from the moral con-
rieree of the rest of the country”
which prevails in the South. This,
Mr. Wilkins asserted, is “one of
the tragedies .of this fateful time
in our history." Southern white
men and women “who could lead
toward a solution have been si¬
lenced and immobilized,” he said.
The long struggle for civil
rights, the NAACP leader de-
dared, "has been given a fresh
impetus by the Negro college stu¬
dents in the South who sat down
at variety store counters so they
could stand up elsewhere in dig¬
nity. . . . We are proud of them,
our own NAACP youth who pi¬
oneered sit-ins in 1958, and those
who belong elsewhere or to no or¬
ganization. This convention has
pledged anew to them and to all
the embattled a continuation of
the full support of the NAACP.”
Evaluating the presidential can-
didates of both parties, Mr.
kins said all “with one exception ! >
have what may be described
good records on the civil rights is¬
sue. These could be better; but
none is bad.”
The exception, Senate Majority
Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, suc¬
ceeded in getting through the Sen¬
ate the Civil Rights Act of 1957
.
and 1960, “but on most aspects
of civil rights his votes have been
I nega ^' ve-
“Finally, unfair though it may
seem to be, the Majority Leader,
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