Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-03-12
TROUBLE IN DIXIE

The threat of the national emergency South and its
en of its Negro fellow beings controversy which
flung implications if it not settled match the principles
the Four Freedoms
peuated portion of the South excited Sc
called liberals like John Temple Graves Virgnus DAB
ney kept writing articles deOrng the Negro
new attitude Center is the 16yearod Negro
which aided to extent by the realistic northern and horde
state daily press telling the of the country how the South ha
been treating Negroes all these many years
1t is surprising how many people reaz
just how inequalities the lot OF Negro Americans Is tines
people whom that portion of the South which lives in the preC wa
past fears.
The following letter appeared the New Republic lbers
weekly magazine March ISSUE reveals what Maryland white ma
of learning thinks about the situation.
Titled Trouble Dixie" the letter said:
81 suppose it that with inherited group
sciousness which would have spared
am following Thomas articles Trouble
in Dixie January l. II and 1s) devourng interest 1t
does not surprise hardly has missed issue of The
New Republic decade that it, thus far has taken an honest
position heated issue of relations Yet in view Of
many socaed liberals have fed in terror at
ing Negro pass from the defensive to the offensive
social group this position is douby commendabe
Not the among the clear points brought out in Mr.
Sanctions articles that many Southern whites
responsible upright people subject other than the
Negro This definitely brings US to Vrgnius Dabney John
Temple Graves their cohorts who only stand in the
their holding fofather but give substance
to point be found in chapter OF book
being written by Graves and printed the current issue OF The
Virginia Quarterly slyly and calmly states that
race riot broke 1906 after series of criminal
assaults on white women by Negroes Referring the
riot for by stating that crminay
irresponsible editor had out series of extras carrying
faxed accounts of assaults by Negroes white women
cannot University did or does anything
toward teaching John Temple Graveses what they could
know Negroes; and after all the ignorant not in
formed by being confirmed in a confusion.
tragic that Southern editors do not have the
integrity to discharge responsibility they have That
of New Deal does not that the term New
Dealer synonymous with liberal Virginiu Dabney has
taken the phrase South does not within the
measurable ntend allow this that the part OF
the Negro) and made chsy refrain Of it He likes to argue
for the continuance segregated education America How
else he says able avoid amagamaion? This i'm
plies that he assumes have something valid to lose
bv this process What be-acia purity? Segregation
has its evil Implications What would help Dabney about half
the spassonate intelligence of Saunders Reddng or the
late W. J. Cash.
"The charge being brought that Negro agators, and
particularly Negro press to change things over
night charge worked into reactonary slogan could
be used bury progress colored people for another
tr What is fact that Negroes have worked
far into night already The Negro printing pact
cay the type printed fifteen ago when
first started reading been able to do this because
the thing happening to Negroes for the past
fifteen has brought it to the attention OF the
nation.
However much this question is argued however much
paper the informing Negroes of how far
they have past have not this balanced
with how from theirs, cyncsm and dis
will result from the Negroes constantly asking
themselves this question: much freedom have in rea
ton TO the resources of freedom country We quite
for freedom so long see our
surrounded people The slavery does not
and venerableness it. And freedom
were not worth something would still be waiting for the
Germans and Japs to come after u.s.
Baltimore, Md Henry french "lnslow