Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-07-23


Times:
the real point democracy does allow for the
and ought to make minds to what and then
peoples change
people sn rather RsR
The % H T let US Sy SO F the 9 f G
the eoOEed people will know where they are" --.
Los Angeles Mobile Beaumont and Detroit within period of thirty
days We doubt that Axis agents. suh planned organized and
staged the riots and realistic that the rioters
followed the Axis line.
The part
groups people in every stratum of social political and
Negro be permitted to share as citizen
equality with other citizens privileges
democracy some who believe differently
but although their number has they still
minority.
belief nurtured and buttressed with all manner of material
disseminated through every available
deeply planted Negro person apart
that he does not deserve be
other Americans.
&c. when he himself inevitably beng nothing
less than American reared the American tradon
he breaks violently through the pattern repression
becomes ntolerabe, have riots or better, pogroms.
These riots would matter what
ton the vast majority the population including
not the law officers and machinery did not share varying
degrees the belief that Negroes and be kept secOnds @
zens.
stranger unaquand with the American would be puzzled
by casual reading of the accounts of the
fourhs of the Negroes killed shot single
was shot by police More than 80 cent of those arrested
otng Negroes Yet all the people chasing
kicking and beating coored people There many graphic
horrible pictures OF the riot but the most meanng the theme
this piece the showing Negro being
white rioter he being by policemen!
Governor Harry Kelly after calling federal troops quiet
the giant factory nsgators of the riot
would be sought out and brought justice Governor
ing he nor the State of Michigan will ever annrbenj the
nstga of the orgy June 2O22 when
CIT Negroes and Whitley
institutions that laid the finder lighted bv fake ane in
and fist fight in Detroit nowhere bloody
streets of the Michigan city during the
What made the riot possible? What up
that at times is all right for hundred
killing nggers is not but dragging
people from oey buses and private beating
to bloody pulp with bricks bottles iron pipes clubs
order? That burning whole district stomping into the
ground Ito quote description Beaumon service
to humanity? Who plants seed which bring Towering?
The daily carry holy nterracal e
toas inside and cruelty Negroes treatment
back brutes fends ers rapsts muggers" "goria" etc
textbooks in schools where the babes pgas
pants ndoctrnated with the Negroes are bf
happy cotton field workers who
g 70 America but instead brought Tragic Era during
some OF them held office took graft chewed tobacco split
English language open.
The industrial their backs on Negroes
seeking jobs above the even Detroit specifically Cen
era Motors Chser Packard Murray Briggs and the
The public utilities which generally that gas meter
reader and electrician telephone OPERATOR trolley
bus driver had to be white.
commercial houses which shudder at the bouobt If N
clerk, bookkeeper, typist.
The banks building and loan associations and finance
with their hardbargan hgh-nterest-r black gheos
Our landlords and their cabins bookkeeping in
the rural South and their tenement shacks
the North "
The scholars and public shoddy statistics their
their learned lectures published papers
their preudices.
Our government which not only Ranns Bbos
Connay Starnes ct al las democracy to them
las no democracy should) all matters affecting Negroes
fabulous films spreading carcatures sereotypes cal
cuaed to freeze status for minds of
millions of people -
The RADIO spreading like the films conception status
The dual school system the South children in
country are separated not united and where get little
ninth as much money spent on them on whites.
These the and institutions riots Thew
the atmospheres which made the grin with sad
as they welded their lead bugeons
Not the police who has always of the system
MOI ne powerful rulers of Detroit whose the system
Ihere Will be Investigations recommendations Some
spchc and palliative corrections instituted Rt
the Dig basic problem has been stated by Until
decides whether the Negro is to be full citizen eruptons will
take place. For unless told otherwise and unless theory
completely discarded the Negro will continue and
prescription bang his actions the the federal
laws The determination the methods the Negroes
attain their goal is second STEP The first decide that thew
must nave u and complete equality This Negro not it should he
noted the Negro OF 1865 yet the Negro 1917 The formu
vogue IN those times simply will situation in 1919 ond
the people who to impose them at some time and
precpate Baumonts and Deros-and worseupon the nation
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