Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-06-19
AS Mississippi Goes So Goes The Nation

One of the most disturbing questions now weighing
upon the minds and hearts of Negroes in Mississippi and in
every state and section of the nation the treatment of
Negroes the Armed Services of the nation That this
true may be from the action of The National Assoca
ton for the Advancement of Colored People, which, few
days ago. in Detroit Mich during Emergency Confer
called to consider the position of the Negro the
ton at with five hundred delegates, represent
ing every section and practically every state in its unan
mousy adopted Statement to the Nation made the treat
ment of Negroes in the Armed Services the question of first
consideration.
Regarding the treatment of Negroes in the Armed Ser
ices needs only to refer to the statement adopted by the
NAACP from which we quote the following:
"The treatment of Negroes in the Armed Services
marked by daily subsection to the ndgnities of segre
cation and discrimination with constant recurrence of
brutaties and murders by civilian and military police
This evil condition reaches into the homes and hearts Of
every American Negro 1t constitutes serious and
tinuously existing breach in national unity and is
naturally reducing the spirit and morale the Negro
citizens 1t also furnishes material for Axis propaganda
The continued i'll treatment of Negroes in uniform both
on military reservations and in many civilian commune
ties is disgracefu Negroes in the uniform of the nation
have been beaten, mobbed, killed and lynched -
That Negroes Mississippi and elsewhere alone
IN being disturbed the treatment of Negroes in the
Armed Services stationed and being trained in the State
be from letter recently printed one Of states
leading daies in which the writer white person. suggest
ed that Northern Negro Soldiers be presented guide book
of the SOUTH similar to those being given American sol
ders III foreign lands to acquant them with the habits
TOMS and traditions of the native people Such suggestion
regarding Northern Negro Soldiers is revealing from
the standpoint that in it lies need for greater consideration
of the fact that Southern Negro soldiers also be begin
ming to feel the desire for full of the high ideals
and principles of Christian Democratic Citizenship which
they fighting and dying along with other Americans
and the need to consider and of exempyng
by example, rather than by preceps expressed faith
Returning to the treatment of Negroes the Armed
Services in the statement of the NAACP above quoted
find the assertion that such treatment furnishing
ganda for Axis Such assertion not only that the
treatment of Negroes in the Armed Services being used by
the Axis Nations to the people of conquered terri
tories and countries but also that such treatment
example, does serious harm to the rtons estimation in
the of of its most powerful allies and raises ser
Gus doubts among people, conquered and unconquered all
the world with respect universal democracy the
hope of better world While the treatment of Negroes
the Armed Services seriously affecting does the spirit
and morale of than oneenh of the nations fighting
forces and of its citizens and thereby the national unity
may be regarded purely matter of national internal
sideraon and Of states rights those who concerned
with the future of the United States must undoubtedly
have in mind its relationship with and its estimation in the
eyes of all the people of the world
1t appears absolutely certain that the people of China,
Russia India Africa, and South America of the PHILIPPINES
Burma and Malay the Islands of the Seas reaching
any opinion estimation of the people of the United States
and of the democratic IDEAL will not single them out group
them according sections states order reach such
opinion estmaon but respect to the treatment of
Negroes in the Armed Services in the the people of
China, Russia, india Africa and South America; of the
Philippines Burma and Malay and of the Islands of the
Seas To paraphrase old political adage Mississippi
goes goes the nation.