Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-12-02
EQUALITY
NOT NECRO'SCOAL
aaders OF Race Nat Chasing
Pbantoms In Effort To Secure
Real Advancement

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The following excerpts from the
3dress delivered by DR.. Motion will
l. Of interest to many Americas peo-
], dare here reproduced for their
], fosaon, as well as to give ade-
80 publicity to constructive eff
Eor+ being made by the Motion party
xer advancement of the negro Aace, a
- generally approvide &{nong
Il tie residents here:
Zone of the most interesting pages
h American history is the record of
4 zorro progress since emancipation.
fbis progress has been especially sig
a;fcant in the South, because the in
4arests of the two races have neces-
&ariIv been in state of re-adjust-
Anent. In all of the REIMBURSEMENT,
aoth the white and colored people
Have discovered that the relationship
4 the two races is so interviewer that
Aaat heIps one helps the other, and
Mat hindeEs one hinders the other.
4 Emerging from the war, the South
H., face to face with the problem
Il rehabilitating itself along eco
homic lines and adjusting itself
ao a new situation. One of our
|tOost beautiful legacies from the old
&onditions has been the devotion of
thousands Of individual members Of
Nsach race TO the other. Sometimes
Tome Of us forget that today there
a devotion on the part of thous-
fknd Ct individuals Of both races to-
hard each other, quite as sincere and
81 elpful as it was in the past. Thous-
#ads Of negroes would die to protect
HkIitf people and thousands of
#htea people would die to protect
"'2 Negroes must not permit
be moral lapses here and there on a
ul Of q few thoughtless white peo-
h pie, who frequently misrepresent
Sher own race, to befog strong, I'M
n Istakable evidences Of friendship
nd, cooperation on the part, not
niF of the leading white people, but
II Frequently of the average white per-
as well.
We want to ask the white people
Dot to allow the acts of the COM
mstiveIy few ignorant criminal
s nembers of my race who humiliate
III I'd dis grace our>race, to mar the
cod feeling that exists between us
nF TO blind them to the act that
aaltver may be said and done, the
n paro believes in the white race and
NJ Earnestly asks for just and fair
cooperation; and that the negro is
wilting to give himself to the utmost
IN cooperation with the white peo-
49, make the South all that it is
al &ibe for it to become.
'It is gratifying to me that we
Pear little nowadays of this foolish
question of social equality being
bought up to disturb the good feel
" ng on the part OF. both, races toward
bach other. When the negro asks for
peter educational facilities, adequate
NJ sanitary arrangements in his part of
A he city, good roads in his part of
a lhe county, or equal railroad accom-
hOdations, he is not seeking social
" qualify but he is asking for civic
justice, to be treated on his moral,
Il Intellectual and economic merits.
This, then, is not q question Of
N ocial equality which neither race
PANTS, but is a question of simple
utce, which is as important for
he good of the white race as it is
Or the good of the black race The
hlte race is not fair to itself, when
Is unfair and unjust to a weaker
gOup.
The black race is unfair to itself,
it permits itself to become embit-
cred or to mate the white race. The
So races in the South have lived,
ought, sacrificed, and died for each
her and for our beloved Southland.
ne relations between the races were
EVER better in spire of all that Is
ill.,
We have never had more strong,
selfish, God-fearing white friends
'Rt mere in Georgia, and in every
ate in the South, than we have
" count among my best and
ost helpful friends in Alabama and
Iuskegee the white people of
y state and community"