Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1942-08-21
"REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR"

Remember Pearl Harbor' is phrase used as slo-
gan in America to awaken America to her plight This
familiar phrase has been used with two different meanings
by white Americans to bring America into conscient-
ious motive Of battle by American blacks to call Ameri
cas- attention to the fact that she is maintaining to
sot.. MIN % nor Of the es two Peep
being black you MUST be born American) "Remem-
Der Pearl Harbor fast becoming word of inspiration
as well as determination for the Negro to fight, for he
will soon have the thing to fight for that every
other man in America has. ;. Equal rights.
For once, about to theory put into prac-
tce, the hand writing the wall has been seen and de-
mocracy is about to be displayed,
AT last the unconquered south, birthplace and
what we have held hope would become the garden
the black mans paradise for the home of practical
ly seventyfive percent of them At last the South is
about to be conquered Democracy is about to be wit
messed The Negro is about to know the meaning of the
word freedom We feel that will be able to walk
thru the shadows of mob infested sections and feel no
fear for thou art with the Federal Government with
America i,
Down in unconquered Texas last week, the strong
arm OF Francis Bddes department caught two Texas
police officers charged with shooting Negro soldier the
alteration resulted from the arrest of Chas j. Reco
charged with violating the Texas Jim Grow Law These
face Federal Court action and will be charged with
violation of the Civil Code which provides that no citizen
shall be deprived of his civil rights Uncle Sam put these
men in uniform and has made up his mind that he is go
ing to protect these Thanks to Uncle SAM 1t is
gretabo that took the ravng hounds of foreign shores
to awaken America to her responsibilities. It's i'll wind
that blows nobody good
In our own city where agitation has been carried
on for sometime for Negro Police only to fall deaf
came an announcement last week from our Chief of Police
gentleman we have the highest respect stating, follow
Ing a mandate of military authorities plan to hire ten
Negro police to patrol the truck thoroare' called West
Ninth Street where most of Little Rocks Negro business
is housed. God works in mysterious ways.
The intervention of the military authorities in bring
ing the south into the union at time when the Ne
gros morale was at its lowest The thought of
dito in the south undergoing changes for the better is
great boost to the morale of the Negro civilians as well
as that of those in the service This is no boquet
in behalf of the southern bosses, for they working
overtime like hell to still keep the Negro in his place.
But rather, to the big Wigs of the military department
who have realized that if Japan and Germany are to be
conquered, the south first must be conquered The full
realization has been evidenced that if justice is limited
it is soon destroyed.
The fact is realized more every day that our men in
uniform who have laid down their lives their soil
at the hands of brutal southern police officers have not
given them in vain And to these men, their like
Gandhis will be recorded in history centuries to
Conditions are changing in the south. REMEMBER
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