Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-04-03
The Mississippi Council On Interracia,
Cooperation

Last week the Mississippi Council Interracial Coon
GRAFTON held It's annual meeting jackson and elected as
It's chairman Hon c. Wilcoxon of Vcksburg to succeed
the late bishop VIM Mercer Green who served as chair
man of the Council for number of years
According to well informed sources the newly e,ected
chairman has high conception of the work and posi-
bhtes OF the Mississippi Council erracial Cooperation
and had expressed himself before being elected to ifs chair
manshp as being willing to make the necessary effort To
put INTO practice the aim and purpose the Council
From Lncon's signing of the Emancipation Procama
Co through the period Of Reconstruction that
nme the Negro Problem designated has been of mr
Importance IN Mississippi Today the Negro Problem the
question OF nterracia cooperation and goodwill is one of
the most vitality important questions confronting the state
the seriousness OF which affecting alike the thought and
concern of intelligent white and Negro citizens
The question of nterIacal cooperation and goodwill de-
ves most OF It's present seriousness and Importance
political developments in the south months when
leading politicians and students of politics. for the first time
in recent history of the south discussing the possibility
that the south will desert its time honored tradition of soil
darty and bolt the Democratic Party
In recent article appearing in the New Republic en-
TITLED The Christian American Caba the writer pointed
that number of Southern Political leaders, backed by
Texas of great wealth. with the hope drawing many
other wealthy southerner to their banner organized the
Christian Americans organization with the avowed BUR
pose of splitting the democratic party alternating the
south in such an election of the Pres
1dent Of the United States.
The writer also pointed out that the Christian Ameri-
planned base their campaign appeals to ignorance
bgotry and the traditional Negro prejudice of the south
and that the organization has engaged services Of an
expert along such lines to conduct the campaign.
More recently increasing of southern politi
cal leaders and writer's expressing sympathy with point
ing out the views of the Christian Americans because Of the
consistent demands of Negroes everywhere the rights
OF American Citizenship and their expressed desires to
see democracy made to work home while fighting
tend to the rest of the word of the socaed
concessions made by the democratic party to Negro Citizens
picture and predict the of being among
Negroes Tor generations and postwar period of
Interracia dsuny and unrest worst than that of the Re-
construction Era of the Civil War
There is absolutely basis for asserting that Negroes
VIII engage IN rotng and awessness means of obtain
ing full citizenship rights in Mississippi there absolutely
no basis for asserting supposng that the Negroes of
social ntermngng at the expense south in exchange
Tor his contribution towards The effort What beco
ing OF the greatest concern to all Negroes the state and
what should be of the greatest to white of
the state IS less certain and groups having poiti
cal and civic advantages becoming victmzed by the anti
New Deal antlDemocratc party propaganda spread
ing throughout the south should visit their reaction ron
the Negroes of the state
Governor Sam JONES' of Louisiana his recent article in
the Saturday Evening Post while pointing the race issue
as one OF the reasons why the south should bolt New
Deal admitted that it possible everyday the Negro
question
What the Race Question needs in Mississippi from
those III whose hands rest the power and authority spr
1t of liberalism
Under existing conditions. there seems every reason
and need that those who look forward to better future
nterracal cooperation good within the state should
JON with the chairman in greater effort to larger
measure OF the aims and purpose of the Mississippi Council
on interracial cooperation