Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1941-08-30
Morale Of Negro Soldiers And Civilians

ACCORDING TO THE ASSOCIATED NEGRO PRESS,
in articles appearing in Negro newspapers throughout the
nation for the past several weeks there has developed
widespread and growing disaffecton among coored sol
ders due to the discriminatory treatment that they
ceivng in the life of the camps to large extent from the
officers commanding them and particularly because the
treatment they receiving the hands of the Military
Police of 's'e various camps.
With the number of and brutal beatngs and kill
ingS of Negro soldiers by Military Police mounting each
week there be doubt of the adverse effect upon the
minds Of the Negro soldiers these conditions are also
having growing bad effect upon the of the parents
of Negro soldiers well as the entire Negro Race
With such incidents occurring periodically since the
country entered upon the task of developing army of
citizen soldiers \ey seemed to have reached high last
week when at Fort Bragg Military Police and Negro
soldier killed each other in gun duel crowded
where several other white and Negro soldiers wounded
with another incident involving Negro soldiers and white
people In Fayetteville and when, in Arkansas, where
large number of Coored soldiers participating in the
first large scale maneuvers of the army thew were after
being charged with attempting to NEEDLE with the civilian
ppuace forced by armed State Highway Paromen off the
Public Highway and made to walk bitches the
beaten and the officers charge threatened with bodily
harm for attempting to protect the soldiers
SO bad have these conditions become in the light of the
TACT that the nation calling upon united people to
tend protect and the great principles of American
Liberty Freedom and Justice that Mr. Ira Lewis of the
Pittsburgh Courier the Countrys leading Negro paper adj
dressed an letter President Roosevelt printed on the
front page of his paper last week. in which he pointed
the condition and the growing bad effect that are hav
ing on the Negro soldier and the civilian alike
Whlle all this Is happening here to lower the morale
noticed
the charge which has been called German propaganda that
the United States planning take the Negro Republic
III Liberia Africa and ensave the natives and from other
quarters have noticed an account where Hitler has or
dered change in the Naz attitudes the Negroes in
Africa with the ultimate aim of training native African
army.
If the reports getting into the white and Negro press
spectng Liberia and the ensavement of the native Ii
peai and the new German attitude towards Negroes are
Dg circulated for propaganda purposes and to undermine
the traditional patriotism of the American Negro the re-
ports respecting the treatment and conditions affecting Ne
gro soldiers in the camps be cassed as an effective
aid to that purpose
Whatever the destiny of the world seems that in only
little While this nation will be called upon to fight for the
preservation of its most cherished ideals and victory in that
1ght VIII rest the unity of mind and heart of all the
people, black and white which will be achieved as long
as we nave these widespread and growing disaffection
among Negro soldiers ~