The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-03-21
BOSTON BAKED
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ACAAo viii pASNBt u44AtSu SuppUIl
to Uncle Sam against the Axis.
This was the stirring message of
a brilliant radio address by
Claude A. Barnett, militant di-
rector and chief editor of the
Associated Press of America.
Sharing the fifteen minute
colored Newspaper Week pro-
gram with Mr.. Barnett was Will
liam I. Gibson, managing edi-
tor Of the Afro publications, who
traced the history of the Col
ored Press and revealed that
.colored newspapers are, and al
ways have been. ''one hundred
per cent Loyal to America. We
are still united as one" said
Mr.. Gibson.
Next to the Church, the COL
ored newspapers are the most
influential power within the
colore6 race, said editor Bar
nett. Mr.. Barnett then explain
ed that the Colored Press was
originated only because the
white publications and school /
histories failed to give credit to
race men and women Of achi-
evement. For striking examples,
Mr., Barnett pointed to two pa
triotS from Massachusetts,, Girls
puS Attacks and Lemuel Hayes.
Reviewing the brilliant record +
of colored patriots who fought
under Gen. George Washington,
Mr.. Barnett went to the Civil
War in which he revealed that
$4,000 colored soldiers fought
for the Union. Commenting on
the Navy color bar, which he
blasted as undemocratic, Mr..
Barnett made a surprising reve-
lation pertaining to the War of
1912 in which he stated that col
.ored seamen composed one sixth f.
OF the entire U. S. Navy at that
time. Protests against the Jim
rrow military organization was
aired by Mr.. Barnett during the
conclusion of the program,
which, in the daily newspapers,
was titled Public Affairs"
A bean in liberty is better than
a comfort in prison.
The Detroit Housing riot and
the Tennessee slugging of Dean
Leon A. Ransom occurred Just in
time to spoil the effectiveness Of
last weeks public letter from
Pearl S. Buck.
Pearl Bucks plea for Colored /
citizens to remain patient and
tolerant against our RACIAL
OPPRESSORS was answered last
week by race editors who reveal
ed we had been patient and toll
Grant for the past eighty years.
It is now up to white America,
said the editors: 1T is now up
to our white fellow citizens to
turn a new leaf, and We COM
mend Miss Buck and other lib
eral whites to the prosecution of
that monumental task
Miss Buck really has under
taken a Monumental task" in
every true sense of the word. It
is interesting to note that
WHITE WOMEN like Mrs. Flea
nor Roosevelt, Nancy Cunard,
and Pearl Buck are leading the
vanguard Of white LIBERALS. ,
one might well pause and ask
what has happened to the
MEN especially the CONG /
RESSMEN?
A white woman, Harriet
Beecher Stowe, author Of "UN- /
Gle TOMS CABIN did com
plete a monumental task" for
Democracy. Well, perhaps, as
many have suggested, Pearl
Buck may be another H. B.
Stowe.
Honorable Lester A. Walton,
for seven years U. S. Minister TO
Liberia, has returned home for
consultations with President
Roosevelt.
Among many interesting facts
about Liberia is the fact that
the African Republic is the cen
ter Of the vitality important
Firestone Rubber interests and
tn Ell. S. needs the African rub
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