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THE CRUSADER, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
OCTOBER 17, 1M3OCT0B
EDITORIAL
The Courts Gamble With Our Future
The future security, progress and growth of our com
munity is being gambled with by our courts. Once again,
Savannah is allowing herself to be hung up for ridicule.
Since General Oglethorpe organized Savannah, it has
maintained a national reputation for having the finest race
relationship of any Southern city. This was false. One
reason Savannah was able to create such dynamic false
race statue was due to its large foreign population. Many
of these constituents came from countries where the
mental illness (Racial segregation) did not exist. Many
others came from countries where they were a part of the
depressed : therefort, one would think those persons would
never participate in the destruction of human beings
simply because of their color. Any sane-minded person,
particularly Americans, would naturally predict these |
persons would not only condone, but join and fully par
ticipate with the Negro in their struggle for equal liberty
and justice for all.
Through the years Savannah has been able to main- j
tain her national false race relation reputation. This was
mainly due to the fact her Negroes have always accepted j
racial inequalities, inferior educational facilities in com
parison with the white, segregated public and even gov- j
ernment opportunities, inferior recreational facilities, Ne
gro leadership chosen-by the white man and the destruc- i
tion of black manhood and womanhood. Through the .
years Negroes have even allowed the white man to deny j
their children an opportunity to fully develop and culti i
vate their God-given talents. Even those that resist the
immovable force of segregation and obtain an education
have allowed the white man to deny them an equal op- j
portunity to display their God-given, cultivated talents.
Savannah’s superb national race relations reputation
was challenged .Tune 1. 19G3 when a black bov, raised by
an uneducated, poverty-stricken mother in East Liberty
Lane bv the name of Benjamin Van Glarke. coached and i
guided bv the fearful mind of TTosea L. Williams, a pro- !
duct of our segregated society, disturbed confused Ne
groes and demanded that the white man preach and prac
tice the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man
and live bv those laws he constituted. Tt was a svnonvm
of Tpivwl and Goliath. Tim Giant (Savannah’s Race Re
lations) was fallen with momentum that agitated the
earth.
Once the tmth was known retrogression became a
1ivim r reality. Industrialists who had to plant their dol
lar Bi'ls in Oh a 1 n a m fount'’’ withdrew; sightseers and
tourists sliunnod the cifv as thou "’ll there wore a plague: |
Wall Q< rect investors, holding Savannah Bonds, began!
snipping; national news releases defined Savannah as the
second most raciallv-torn eitv in our nation : a local judge
committed an act of atrocitv; the right of the individual
became a thing of tlio nast and the white power structure
was shocked to their senses.
A temporary settlement was reached. A neriod of
tranquility ensued and Savannah began to tumble from a
national ridiculous state of affairs.
On October 2. 19f>3. Savannah began to regain her
long lost ground when National and International news
media highly publicized the integration of certain facili
ties. Wall Street financiers holding her bonds began to
regain consciousness, industrialists once again became in
terested in her Dollar Bill plantation and Savannah’s Race
Relation reputation began to iet upward nationally at su
personic speed. News commentators throughout the na
tion, not only praised Savannah, but advised the Birming
ham’s, the Jackson. Mississippians, the Danville. Virgin-!
ians, and the Cambridge, Maryland’s to go to Savannah '
and learn the secret of her miracle.
The COURTS of Savannah kept pushing. Negro
demonstrators continue to he tried, found guiltv and pun
ished for a crime thev did not commit. Tt is the hope of
those concerned that the Federal Courts will free Dio
demonstrators, but this is a ganfhle. A gamble that the
future of our citv cannot afford. At the present rat'’,
the Court is mending out its justice. Demonstrators will
have to make from two mouths to six and one-half years j
in prison or nav fines from SI00 to $4,500 and servo pro
bated sentences ranging from four months to twelve
years. Tf these sentences stand, the future progress o^
Savannah will be damned. We can all pack our bags and
find oi-ncri'Mc-ivo cities to live in. The damnation of Sa
vannah will forever lie at the door-steos of an uniust court
house. created and perpetuated by the office of the Soli
citor General and the Courtroom attendant who sits up
high in the swivel chair.
THEY WINE AND DINE LIKE AMERICANS
These are Ex-Jail Birds, well rested and showing the sign of victory after checking
out of Savannah’s newly desegregated Hotels, Motels and Theaters. Each of these
Freedom Fighters were arrested several times during the Crusade For Voter’s Recent
Non-Violent protest demonstrations. The DESEGREGATORS thrilled the audience at
one of the Crusade For Voters Mass Meetings by sharing their experiences while liv
ing at the previously all-white establishment. Hosea (Their Leader) Williams said
“I kept my promise. At our first Sunday Mass Meeting down town in Johnson Square,
I promised you we would be served at these places before Christ had another Birthday.
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A VOTELESS PEOPLE
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ISTER AND VOTE !
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