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Negroes Undaunted by KKK Notes
Two prominent Negro families were
victims of bricks covered with threaten¬
ing notes signed K. K. K. thrown into
their homes during the past weekend. A
Savannah Morning News columnist re¬
ferred to the notes as being “stupid.”
All law abiding citizens of Savannah, no
doubt, characterize the notes as not only
“stupid” hut the work of small-minded
men who hope that their act will frighten
Negroes from working toward full jus¬
tice and human dignity for the Negro
in Savannah.
The Negro community refuses to be
intimidated bv men who parade under
the disguise of hoods on Broughton
Street. The Negro community refuses
to be frightened by little men who are
not contented \uith spreading hate among
themselves but have now embarked up¬
on a disgraceful program of including
Mr. ‘KKK’ Could Learn From Mr. ‘K’
Here and there, as an added deferent
to the process of integration, the Ku Klux
Klan, symbol of religious and racial bigo¬
try and separation, instituted almost a
century ago, remains unaltered.
We look to Mr. “K", the big bad wolf
from Russia by far a much greater threat
than this decadent body of a dying era,
and we perceive that Mr. “K” has a lot
to offer in the matter of wisdom that
the Kluxer could profit from.
In a recent summit conference with
Communist countries, in the town of
Bucharest, Mr. “K” is quoted as making
the following pronouncements:
“We live in a time when we have
neither Marx, nor Engles, nor Lenin with
us. If we act like children who, studying
the alphabet, compile words from letters,
we shall not go very far.
“One cannot ignore the specific situa¬
tion, the changes in the correlation of
forces in the world and repeat what the
great Lenin said in quite different his¬
torical cpnditions.”
Crushed Truth and The Congo
(From The Oklahoma Eagle)
Around the world the news has been
heralded that at last the Belgian Congo
has snatched the sceptre of authority
from Leopold of Belgium and launched
out on the untried venture of self govern¬
ment and independence.
Of course this new experience coming
to the people of Belgian Congo is not
singular, for with increasing frequency
the rotting foundations of an unrighteous
system of Colonialism are giving away
before the tidal wave of human freedom
and human dignity everywhere.
The event of the Congo coming into
the status of a free state looms larger
than most, for the history of Belgian
Colonialism in this section is perhaps one
of the crue’est, bloodiest chapters in all
the history of power-mad, wealth-drunk
nations in the day when colonial exploita¬
tion was at its height.
The record tells a tale of horror that
in many ways* puts the efforts of the
Spaniards in the days of the Spanish
inquisition to shame.
It is a tale of rape and murder, of
human greed and enslavement. It is a tale
of torture, inconceivable torture, engaged
in by humans who called themselves men.
It is a tale of centuries when it seemed
that justice was blind to the barbarism
in its midst and deaf to the cries of the
countless millions subjected to a living
hell by men like themselves.
For centuries it seemed that the world
was without a conscience; for the same
number of centuries it seemed that the
Editorial Opinions From The Nation s Press
Associated
The greatest week in the surge toward
freedom in Africa is over and editorial
comment throughout the nation was
spread. Here’s what happened last week
in Africa.
The most notable event came when the
Belgian Congo, the giant among the new
states, became the independent
of Congo, comprising 13,000,000
and 943.000 square miles. Earlier the in¬
dependence of Madagascar, the 228,000-
square-mile island with 5,000.000 people
off the African east coast, as the Malagasy
Republic, a member of the French Com¬
munity was proclaimed and the world saw
the creation of the Somali Republic, unit¬
ing British Somaliland and Italian
their wives and children in their hate
campaign. When little men indoctri¬
nate children in the venom of hatred,
Christian and democratic people are not
too surprised when they use “brick mes¬
sengers” to advise Negroes that white
merchants do not want their money on
Broughton Street.
The Savannah Negro is undaunted for
he knows that many freedom loving and
Christian thinking white people of the
city do not condone these undemocratic
acts.
Wo urge full police protection for not
only the two law abiding families men¬
tioned above but for all Negro citizens
of the community. We pray that Mayor
Mingledorff and Chief Sidney Barnes
will use their full power in preventing
similar incidents in the future.
Here is Mr. “K” daring to take the
teachings of the authors of Communism,
heretofore considered an inviolable dogma
—any departure from them has been con¬
sidered heresy, and cast them into their
new setting. Mr. “K,” finally becoming
aware of the fact that the plan to make
everybody a Communist is too big an
order, is smart enough to propose that it
is possible for the Communist to live
with people who are not Communists.
Mr. “KKK” could learn from Mr. “K”
that it's smart to come to the realization
that the world has been individually
different since the world began. No
force, nor threat of force can change this.
It’s a matter of historical record, that
those who have not been flexible enough
to adjust to this thinking of themselves
have been annihilated.
The smart ones, those that go on living
and sharing in the world’s bounties, learn
the wisdom of Mr. “K” — if you can’t
bent ’em join ’em!”
farce of a moral universe had spent itself
and was without the vitality to assert
itself.
But in this day with the people of the
Congo in possession of their independ¬
ence, it is evident, that though the years
knew it not, the gnawings of righteous¬
ness were ever at work and that in this
decade, the vicious system of human
exploitation a n d enslavement has of
necessity crumbled to the earth.
It is significant too, to note that simul¬
taneously with the .announcement of the
Congo’s freedom, there is also the
announcement that the Europeans are
making their exodus by wholesale airlift.
Their wholesale departures are doubtless
prefaced on the reasoning that they can
hardly expect a security for themselves
from a people whom neither they, nor
their predecessors, provided security for,
when they were in the saddle.
It is to he hoped that the people of
the Congo shall rise to the heights
necessary to keep and practice the free¬
dom they’ve won-
It is to be expected that errors and
inequities will occur as they seek to
establish the new nation. It will take
time to perfect the experiment, hut while
the new act in this new nation’s drama
unfolds, the fatalists and the diehards,
can begin at this point of its evolution,
to accept as a fact accomplished “That
Truth Crushed to the Earth will rise
again”.
lia into a new state of 1.800,000 people and
246,000 square miles. Finally Ghana cut
its umbilical cord and became the Re¬
public of Ghana. This is what the papers
had to say:
THE TIMES, New York City
“The new Africa that is emerging rep¬
resents both a challenge and an oppor¬
tunity to the free world to keep it free.”
POST DISPATCH, St. Louis
“Europeans have cut their losses and
bowed to the African passion for little un¬
derstood national freedom, yet it is clear
that Africa desperately needs European
and American help.”
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
Strong Civil Rights Law Can Remove This Blot On Our World Leadership
Islam and Africa
Hu
ISA S. WALI
(Part one of 5 Part ANP Series)
Islam, one of the three great
monotheistic religions of the world,
literally means “Peace,” “Submis¬
sion,” or “Resignation” to the Will
of God.
The adherent of Islam is desig¬
nated as Muslim or one who so
submits himself. The terms “Mo¬
hammedanism” or '‘Muhammedan" |
are resented by the adherents of
Islam, as they seem to carry the
implication of worship of Muham¬
mad.
Muhammad, the founder of the
religion, is regarded as one of the
Prophets of Allan (the Arabic
name for God). He is never to be
made an object of worship, but
should be respected as the last and
the seal of all the Prophets ipre-
ceding him. loo'
Similarly, his religion is not to
be viewed as a new religion, hut
only as a projection of the original
religion of all the Prophets from
the time of Abraham, which cul¬
minated and was perfected in him.
Followers of this religion must
therefore accept atld respect all
the revealed books and all the
Apostles of God without distinc¬
tion between them.
The quran—which is the Divine
Book for Muslims—emphasizes
this duty to all Muslims: “Say:
We believe in God and what hath
been sent down to Abraham, and
Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and
the Tribes, and in what was given
to Moses and Jesus and the Proph¬
ets from their Lord. We make no
difference between them, and to
Him we are resigned (i.e. to Him
we are Muslims).” (Chapter
111:78)
Muhanimed himself was born in
570 A. D. in Mecca Saud Arabia,
as a posthumous son of Abdullahi,
by his wife, Amina. He came from
the tribe of Quraish —- the noble
tribe of Mecca which was said to
have descended from Ishmael.
His mother died when he was
only six years old, and he was
nursed by an African maid from
Abyssinia. In his youth, he was
employed as a shepherd boy, and
in his maturity he engaged himself
largely on isolated meditations in
caves outside the town.
His divine mission started from
the age of forty, when the angel
Gabriel appeared to him with rev-
THE POST. Denver
“Worst of all the Congo’s borders were
not drawn by the Congolese but by the
Belgians. It is not now really a nation at
all, but a loose collection of regional fac¬
tions, each of which in turn is rent by
tribalism. of
“At best, its policies will be that an
uneasy coalition; but many observers pre¬
dict that the Congo w ill split up soon after
its birth.”
THE CONSTITUTION, Atlanta
“It puts us in the position of having to
with Russia for the privilege of
Our Past
This Week
July 11, 1804—Alexander
' ilton, secretary of treasury
1 desc«ndant of Negro ancesters,
from God. The Quran is
record of those formal utter¬
and discourses which were
as the Word of God,
Gabriel, from time to time.
They were sent down as portions
a Heavenly Rook in sections of
length and in relation l
the circumstances of the mom-I
Muhammad preached his mis-
with such great fervour that
encountered great opposition
from his own people.
His denunciation of all forms
social injustice and fraud, his is
of all the evil prac¬
moral delinquencies and ex¬
that were rampant in , |
brought him into direct f
With the leaders of the coun¬
who saw this new mission as
danger and threat to their social
and economic stability.
They, as a result, formed a hos¬
confederacy and hostile gangs,
which all forms of intercourse
the followers of the Prophet
banned, and large-scale moles¬
aginst them were carried
These forced the Prophet to
deserting his own
Having received encouragement
the people of Medina — 200
away—he set out on the
Hijira, or Muslim Emigra¬
of 622 A.D., from Mecca to
This event marked a turn¬
point in the history of Islam,
the year 622 was adopted as
first year of the new Muslim
In Medina, the Prophet found to
entirely different atmosphere.
found himself in complete au¬ in
and immediately set out to
a new Islamic state, in
in its framework, on reveal¬
commandments and general
7’his state, which was de¬
as unique in human history,
both the religious and
elements of statecraft.
These elements which are re¬ in
as modern in their outlook
the socialistic and consul¬
nature of the details and
application of the state rules,
well as the guarantees for
of religion which the state
not only recognize but safe¬ it
and the idea of nationhood
which there were guaranteed
rights and national duties
all races, colours, languages
ideologies existing in the coun¬
giving aid. It’s hard. Our aid comes from
taxes, with the consent of those being
taxed. Not so in Russia.
“It will be hard for us to match Russia
in providing the funds and it will be hard
for us to make the new African nations
always see the hook in the bait Russia of¬
fers.”
THE POST, Houston, Texas
“As the Congo becomes a sovereign
country and enters the world family of
nations, the United States offers it a
warm welcome and extends the hand of
friendship, that same hand which carried
a sword to win its own freedom.
fatally wounded in duel with Aaron
Burr.
July 14, 1798 — Richard Allen,
founder of the AME church, or¬
ganized city wide nursing service
during yellow fever epidemic in
Philadelphia.
July 15, 1873 — Quinn Chapel
Quran emphasised this
by pointing out that if
be any superiority at all
individuals, it should not
based upon race or colour, but
the degree of their respect for
observance of their duties to
and to mankind. “O, man-
Verily we have created you
to male and female, and made
of male and female, and
you races and tribes, that
know one another; lo! the
of you in the sight of Allah
the most pious and vigilant of
duties.” (49:13).
With a strong and skillful gov-
, fa,th „ . , to . ... its
an<1 a inspire
it was not , long
religion controlled all Western
and even after
death in 632, continued
and within less than a
swept over North
Spain and France, to the gates
Constantinople, and crossed
Asia up to the Indus river.
Islam thus emerged into the
outer world as a moral force
commanded respect and a co¬
doctrine that could
on their own ground
of East Rome and
of Persia.
The ninth and tenth centuries
the climax of
in breadth and
efforts. Industry, commerce,
and the minor arts
with immense vitality as
Mesopotamia, Syria
brought their contributions
the common stock.
Islam started to suffer reverses
W’estern Europe from the 11th
but consolidated its gains
North Africa and continued to
in Asia and the Far East.
Within these 13 centuries of its
it was able to extend into
and Central Asia, into the
Peninsula, and the chain
the East Indies, tapering away
the Philippines. It left import¬
traces in Spain and Southern
where Muslim communities
exist in most Balkan countries
in Southern Russia.
In Africa, south of the Sahara,
extended across the Central Su¬
and West Africa, and across
African coast to Zanzibar and
and continued in a
strip into the Union
Africa.
(To be Continued Next Week)
AME church, one of oldest in
cago, destroyed by fire for
time.
July 16, 1866 — Freedom’s
reau, organized to assist
emancipated Negro slaves,
tinued over veto of President
son. _i fc
___
SATURDAY, JULY 16, 196<*
letters to U-SMAH.’
the y r Editor * « rtT
Atlanta, Ga., June 30, 1960
Ga.
Sir:
Everyone is or should be in- [
in the man selected to;
for President. We, as a j
should learn to study and i
deeds not words. We
also stop being so naive
politics and politicians.
people running for office
just people, subject to great |
and pulled this way
and that. Negroes ought to be
there pulling too. Platforms
don’t mean anything—see the
Democracy Questioned?
Savannah, Ga.
Dear Editor:
While reading the local morn¬
ing paper, I marveled at sever¬
al statements contained in an
editorial.
One of the statements was:
“At this time when minds are
turned to the days when death
was not too great a sacrifice for
Americans to make to establish
individual freedom in this land,
we believe modern Americans
should ask themselves some
| very serious questions: Is This
The Kind of nation we want?”
Is this the kind of nation
we want when Americans sit at
lunch counters and ask for ser¬
vice and are arrested and are
charged heavy fines? Do we
want a nation that discrim-
mates against a people because
the pigmentation of their skin;
is not that of others? Or do:
we want a nation that is just |
in the practice of justice and fair (
play? We sihould also ask our-
selves this question. We as
Americans should re-examine the
principles for which America
stands and do everything in j
our power to live up to those I
principles. Another question contained j
in this editorial was: “Was the
United States of America es¬
tablished to allow the majori¬
ties to trample the rights of in¬
dividuals or a few, or was the
U. S. A. established to protect
and guard the rights of all,
each and everyone?”
Are not the rights of the Ne- |
gro being trampled justice, upon when equal; j
he does not receive
Negro Owned Brokerage
NEW YORK — Representatives
of some of Wall Street’s leading
brokerage and investment houses
turned out Friday at the formal
opening of the first Negro-owned
brokerage firm to be located on
Wall Street. Headed by Harry L.
Wright, the H. L. Wright & Co.,
Incorporated, began business as
brokers, dealers, and underwriters.
Key officials and representatives
from the First National City Bank
of New York, The First Boston
Corporation, Blythe & Co., Inc.,
Goldman, Sachs & Co., Smith, Bar¬
ney & Co., Wertheim & Co., and
other well-known Wall Street firms
attended the opening It. and Wright gave a { j
warm welcome to the L.
& Co. |
In addition to the representa-
tives from some of the most out- I
standing banking and investment j
houses in America, other guests i
included the Honorable David M.
Thomas, Consul General of Li- ,
beria; Samuel Oti, Nigerian Gov- j
ernment Investment Officer; J. S. J
Stewart, City Councilman of Dur- j
ham, North Carolina; J. J. Hen-j
derson, vice president and assist- 1
ant treasurer of North Carolina
Mutual Life Insurance Company, '
Honorable Bessie Buchanan, New {
York State Assemblywoman; and
John Wickliffe, Executive Secre¬
tary of the National Business
League.
Among the telegrams of congrat- !
ulations received from leading citi¬
zens and organizations were mes¬
sages of best wishes from: A.
Philip Randolph, Vice President of
AFL-CIO and President of the
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Por¬
ters; The National Council of Ne¬
gro Women, headed by Miss Doro¬
thy I. Height; and W’illiam P.
Grayson, Vice President of John¬
son Publishing Company.
The brokerage firm was char¬
tered by New York State in Janu¬
ary, registered by the Federal be-
but covering the hopefuls
and exacting promises from
them should mean something.
Mr. Nixon will need the Ne-
gro vote—Mr. Kennedy and Sen.
Lyndon Johnson will also. Sen.
Johnson has made strong state-
ments to the Phi Tribune about
his stand and he did push the
Civil Rights legislation. Ever-
body gives him that. He’ll have
a big chance to do much more
if given the opportunity Deeds
not bombast.
Very truly,
Archer Reynolds,
197 Auburn Ave.
discriminated against because
is a minority and a Negro?
Negro youth sat at lunch coun¬
ters demonstrating that they
hungry for freedom and
equality, but were they granted
rights which are theirs as
stated by our Constitution? NO,
they were thrown in jail and
treated as common criminals.
When you have seen the
committed against com¬
ponents of our free society by
the local government, can you
that we practice democra¬
cy here in our Savannah, Geor¬
gia?
Also contained in this editori¬
al was this statement: Was
America founded to jail men
who wish to exercise their Con¬
stitution-stated freedom and
rights?”
Can you not deny that the
Constitution-stated freedoms
and rights of the Negro are b°-
ing abused when he is arrested
for picketing a store that dis-
criminates against him because
he is a Negro? Was not the
right to picket guaranteed by
our greatest document and gov-
ernor, the United States Coristi-
tution? Or was this right only
granted to a few? Was not the
right to vote and voice an opin-
ion granted to the Negro too,
or was the Fifteenth Article to
the Constitution misquoted?
C-an discrimination be tbl’dt-
ated and condoned in a nation
professing democracy and ‘by
people professing Christianity?
Yours truly,
Leford Tobias, Jr.
curities Exchange Commission in
February and has obtained mem¬
bership in the National Associa¬
tion of Securities Dealers, Inc.
Mr. Wright has been engaged in
investment activities for the past
six years. The 44-year-old broker
rose from the ranks to become the
manager of the institutional in¬
vestment department of a large
Wall Street firm. In addition, he
managed a branch office of a New
York Stock Exchange member
firm. He is a graduate in Busi¬
ness Administration from Tuske-
gee Institute,-and took graduate
work at Columbia University and
the New York Institute of Finance,
At the formal opening of the 11.
L. Wright & Co., Inc. extensive
pictorial displays were exhibited
under the sponsorship of several
African countries for the purpose
0 f awakening interest in the re¬
and needs of Africa and the
opportunities for trade and invest-
ments presented by these potential-
(y r i c h countries.
~— -
TIVe Howard u jit* UniV.
ProfeSSOrS Retire
WASHINGTON, (ANP) — Dr.
E. Franklin Frazier, international¬
ly - known sociologist and author
is among the five Howard Univer¬
sity professors who retired this
yea ' ’
Another is Dr. Joseph L. John¬
son, professor of physiology and
former dean of the School of
Medicine.
The others are Atty. George
E. C. Hayes, adjunct professor of
law; Louis Vaughn Jones, associ¬
ate professor of violin and music
education; and Victor J. Tulane,
associate professor of chemistry.
Others retiring this year are
Lydia M. Barnette, maid; Edward
Russ, custodian; and Eric Wil-
liama, janitor,