St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-09-19
Brotherhood, the Negro Press and
Democracy

democracy
aS Id s s P w1S s'aS: % 4ss
brotherhood" years by
have had desire that the of father dwell together in
poraed their varied constitutions the lofty ideal of brotherhood
man. The Christian Church the idea of Universal Brotherhood
of foundation
much of
little literal application the doctrine
America greatest democrace guilty
preaching which brotherhood offering
many people great
what the Negro Press OF America has occupied itself with for many
years.
in my many listeners
heard of
fellow citizens fully realize that every
ancestry 10th and child
member this racial whose ancestors torn from native
heah and brought to America to till the SOIL cut the forests and help
build the greatest nation earth
The Negro Press the chief voice of these 10 million Negroes
With the Negro church. the Press exercises the greatest force
these black Americans believe that
remains the chief free in America today
Without regard usually for financial political other
and oes under threat of loss of % the Negro
fought Tor equal equal opportunity for the Negro
and all the things which the Bill of Rights American
believing that the final of democracy this Christian
is its all of its people.
these vital rights brother
Negro press Negro
shoulder responsibility OF citizenship including service the
military forces it be DEATH land for America.
The Negro with America Negro lost his life the
first blow American freedom year
Negro
last official World War No authority questions patriotism
the American Negro Considering Americas it's
loyal minority group patriotic.
There 24e edited published by serving
the Negroes America The combined circulation papers,
based figures 21 millions The paper
and published 1927 had circulation of 1000 founded by
daily newspapers
sell him attacks the Negro
being
daily press America period up years ago.
did consider general Negroes public
est much The conspicuous exception this policy has
always Negro alleged usually
the daily question
check daily will find that approx
natey items about Negroes criminal activity
NIT crimes than other racial of the and
majority Negroes abiding paying
building church family raising INDUSTRIOUS
pee ignored daily papers, one for
the o the Negro press
hundred papers reported average
monthly payroll 1900 futime employees Equipment
S valued a $3yOOOOOO.
This has been vigil against all types
religious prescription campaigns INCREASINGLY rights
equal educational facilities for ALL aboshng against
democracy such ynchng housing job dmina
the JmCrow discriminatory ills which make America
the chief Democracy the butt ce
tartan powers.
Negro recognizes that this country has not yet achieved
complete democracy but feels that
hope of the
keep fresh in the hearts of all who read it the glorious
the American played development
emphasizes this America
snguary strangely free of mention of the real
which the Negro has wealth
of
Doing Negro community that which no other medium does
the Negro newspapers close relation struggles
Of the coored people make fair index of the impulses
and ambitions moving within this group
America today facing Every under the sound
knows of this
contradictions
our country The most peculiar and illogical of these
the fact that the Negro alone the group
fgurave to let him to defend the
try The Negro the only whose skilled
pore on Bonded knee opportunity his
ing of anes tanks and munitions America tragedy
is that America needs every skilled obtain
Many racial Disguised dsheartened embied
the prevailing discrimination segregation and general geat
en would hk responsibility of defending country which
does not live to boosted Christian concept democratic prn
ciples. 49,
Not of the Negro Led by the PRESS pulpit and the
other forces he fights for the rights
which all Americans should
inherent faith the theory that taught and lived
would blot out the misunderstanding that ngu world
the mife, mud, murder and disease
Editors Note:
This address given three months
tive order ordering
are several concerns holding defense