Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-09-19


have had desire that the of father dwell together
peace and happiness
porad constitutions lofty ideal brotherhood
The Christian Church the idea of Universal Brotherhood
one Of its foundation stones
peoples
and hurchmen have much lip service to the
brotherhood and little literal application of the doctrine
America, greatest democrace guilty
preaching which brotherhood of and offering
its deal less The end of this contradiction
what the Negro Press of America has occupied itself with for
years.
doubt my many listeners
this have heard of Negro
fellow citizens fully realize that of 10
Americans of Negro ancestry Every 10th and child
is member Of this racial whose ancestors torn from native
heahs brought America till the SOIL the forests and help
build the greatest nation earth
Negro Negroes.
With the Negro church. the Press the greatest force
and for these black Americans We like believe that the Negro
remains the chief free in America today.
Without regard usually for financial political other
and omes under threat of loss of % the Negro has
fought esy for equal citizenship equal opportunity for the Negro
and all the things which the Bill of Rights American
believing that final of democracy this Christian nation
is its treatment of all of its people.
campaigning vital rights brother
Negro press Negro
shoulder every responsibility OF citizenship including service the
military forces it be DEATH land for America
The Negro with America Negro lost his life in the
blow American freedom the
ITO 100000 of Negro descent served in the
last official World War No honest authority questions the patriotism
of the American Negro Considering Americas treatment of its
most loyal minority has less to be patriotic
There edited published by Negroes
the Negroes of America The combined circulation of these
based 1880 figures 2 millions The first founded
and published in 1927 had circulation of 1000 founded by
free Negro because the New York daily in 1926 would not
sell him attacks the Negro human
being.
daily press America period years ago.
did consider Negroes sufficient public inter-
much The conspicuous exception this policy has
always been Negro crime alleged which has usually
received the daily question this fact
check daily week and will find that
may $3.50 of the items about Negroes criminal activity
enlightened Negroes
NIT than other racial of the economic and
social background
majority Negroes, abiding paying
building church family raising and Industrious almost
py ignored by the daily This the chief for
the rise of the Negro press.
One hundred Negro 1910 reported
monthly payroll Of 100000 with 1900 utme employees Equipment
is valued at 100000.
This press against all types racial
and religious prescription campaigns increasingly for civil rights
equal educational facilities for ALL aboshg of all crimes against
democracy such lynchng housing job dmina
ton all JCrow discriminatory ills which make America
the chief of Democracy the butt of due from the tota
powers.
Negro recognizes country not yet
complete democracy but feels that real democracy beyond the
hope of the American people
tries to keep fresh the hearts of all who read it the glorious
part American played development
try emphasizes this history
are singay and strangely free of mention of the real contribution
which the Negro has made the wealth and culture of this
of
Doing for the Negro community that which no other medium Does
the Negro newspapers close relation the actual life struggles
the people impulses
and ambitions moving within this group
America today facing crisis Every listener the
this crisis touched
MANY contradictions present in this as it prepa to defend
country The peculiar and illogical of these contradictions
the fact that the Negro alone the only racial which has
fgratvey beg his him prepare defend
try The Negro the only whose skilled workers have i'm
pore Bonded knee opportunity his talents into the build
ing pane tanks and munitions defend America The
is that America needs skilled man it can obtain
Many racial group Disguised, disheartened embed
the long prevailing discrimination segregation general
mnt would shk responsibility of defending the country which
does not live to its boosted Christian and democratic
cpes
Not of the Negro Led by the press pulpit
other forces fights for rights of all
dens which all Americans should shoulder this
inherent faith the theory taught
would forever blot the enguf
the mire mud murder and disease of war-Cec
Editors Note:
This address given three months before the Presidents
order
several holding defense