Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-12-27
White Reviews NEGRO
And Supreme Court.

New York, Dec. 49, The United
States Bupreme Court offers fhe
surest means of obtaining justice for
the Negro in this Country, according
to Walter White, Acting Secretary
of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, who
writes in January Harper's Magazine
on "The Negro and the Supreme
Court.
In his article Mr.. White tells al
length of the successful fight to pre-
vent confirmation to the Court Of jill
dye John ]. Parker of North Carolina,
who as "lily white" Republican had
PUBLICLY expressed opposition to the
Negroes participation in politics.
The struggle, which resulted in
Senate vote Of Al to 80 against the
Parker nomination, stirred Negro pc.
litical consciousness and solidarity,
says Mr.. White in the article. More
than that, he continues, it marked
in stirling fashion not only resent
ment by eleven million Negroes again
st rapidly growing disregard OF
their political rights but signalised as
well that the Negro no longer intends
supinely to permit the whiting down
little by little, of the constitutional
rights which, theoretically, belong to
him as an American citizen"
On no issue have Negroes worked
0 unitedly since the Civil War, says
Nj. White of the Parker Fight, citing
the united front presented by colored
editors, by the N. A. A. C. P, by the
National Association of Colored Wo-
men, by church groups, faternal or
ders and hosts of individuals. And
the victory, it is universally conceded,
was won by the Negro.
The Importance of keeping off the
Supreme Court such men as Judge
Parker, is emphasized by Mr.. White
who lists the important cases affect
ing the Negroes civil status which the
Supreme Court has had to pass on
and which the Supreme Court will
have to continue hearing. These cas-
es include the celebrated Grandfather
Clause case, in which the late Presi-
dent of the N. A. A. C. P, Mr..
Moorfield Storey, presented brief,
and cases on residential segregation,
"white primary, and other essential
issues. Says Mr.. White;
Negroes and their friends know
that within the next few years cases
testing other forms of disfranchise-
ment, cases challenging unequal APP
portionment as to race, Of public
funds, state and federal, for educa-
ton, issues of the Jim Crow car sus-
tenn and of segregation by means of
private property holders covenante
will be carried for decision to the
upreme Court. Negroes have noted
le considerable number of five to
our decisions within recent years by
the Court. And they know that one
vote by a justice holding Parker's
anti-Negro views might easily mean
an appreciate increment to their al
ready heavy load.
Immediately, Parker's rejection
menas number of things. 1t has gil
ven hope to Negro voters in demon
strating that intelligent, sustained
struggle for principle can be sue
cessful. 1t has created a new and
wholesome respect for the Negro a.
mong infirmed, fairminded whites. 1t
has forcibly reminded Americans that
the 18th and 18th Amendments to the
federal Constitution are not yet Who'll
lydead. And it has served notice
convincingly upon politicians that it
is no longer wise to attempt to climb
TO high office on the backs of help
less blacks through violent Negroph-
ohio attacks"