Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-04-12
WHLTER WHITE PRO.
TESTS CONFIRMATION
OF JUDGE Parker
Senate Committee Hear. Walter
White Protest Confirmation of
Judge Parker

New York, April Waiter
White, Acting Secretary of the
National Association for the AID.
vancement of Colored People ap-
peared before the subcommittee Of
the Senate Committee in the Judi
CARY on Saturday, to voice the
Associations protest against the ele-
walton to the U. S. Supreme Court
OF Judge John J. Parker of North
Carolina.
Mr.. White read prepared state.
ment, which set forth that Judge
Parker, while candidate for Gov
ernor Of North Carolina in 1920.
delivered an address in the course
OF which he characterized the Negro
as unfit to participate in political
life and said the Republican party
did not desire the Negro to enter
politics. In his address, according
to the N. A. A. C. P. brief read
by Mr.. White, Judge Parker also
clearly indicated that measures to
dlsfranchise the Negro embodied in
the North Carolina State constitu-
ton, had his approval.
Judge Parker's utterances of 1920
we're characterized by the N. A. A.
c. P. as shameless flouting" of
the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments to the Federal Com
stitution. The statement continues:
IF Judge Parker, for political
advantage, can flout two amend
ments to the Federal Constitution
to pander to base race prejudice.
we respectively submit that he il
not OF the calibre which loyal, in.
telligent Americans have the right
to expect of justices of the nations
highest Court.
Attached is a memorandum of
some of the important cases in.
yolving the enforcement of the
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amend.
ments so far as the citizenship
rights of Negroes are concerned,
which have been presented to the
U. s. Supreme Court within the
past fifteen years. With the econ
omic, educational, political and 9TH
er progress which the Negro is
making, and with the growing con-
seriousness on the part of intelligent
Americans as to the Importance of
the settlement of the race problem
upon a basis of even-handed justice,
it seems probable that even more
cases of similar nature and equal
importance will be presented to the
Supreme Court for decision in the
near future.
Entertaining such views as he
expressed in 1920 when he sought
election to the governorship of
North Carolina, we are strongly
convinced that it would be improper
to place such man as Judge Par
ker upon the bench of the U. s.
Supreme Court"
Upon request Of Senator Borah,
a member of the subcommittee,
Mr.. White read for the record the
names of officers and members Of
the Board of Directors of the N.
A. A. C. P. Questioned by Senator
Overman, of North Carolina, con-
corning the disfranchisement Of
Negroes in the South, Mr.. White
offered to procure for the record
of this hearing, instances of such
Acknowledgement in Senator Over.
mans own State Of North Carolina.
This offer Senator Overman de-
clined to avail himself of.
On his return to New York, Mr..
White said Of the hearing:
"The protest on behalf of Me-
groes against the confirmation of
Judge Parker, registered in Wash
ington. It helped to crystalline the
opposition to Judge Parker in the
Senate. Moreover, the fact that an
utterance made ten years ago was
recalled and used by the N. A. A.
C. p, emphasized its long memory;
and will make other southerners
with political aspirations, more
guarded in their utterances in fu-
ture than was Judge Parker in the
past.
ut is to be regretted that
North Carolina Negro educator saw
fit to write fulsome letter Of
praise Of Judge Parker in the face
of Parker's derogatory and insult
ing statement concerning colored
people"