Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-21
Probers liked
ByPIeas For
Racial Equality
Groups Findings
Are Denounced By
NAACP President

DETROIT-(A N Pr - In a
lengthy report submitted to Gov.
Harry F.. Kelly last week by his
committee investigating the June
81 race riots here, Negro leaders
who have "exhorted" gatherings to
press for racial equality" and the
Negro press that has appealed for
Justice by violence" are accused
of being partly responsible Tor
the debacle. The committees re-
port declared that N
subversive elements inspired the
riot and asserting it held no
premeditated."
Prosecutor William e. Bowling
headed the investigating group
known as the Bowling committee
He was assisted by Atty Gen. Herb
ert j. Rushton. Detroit Police
Commissioners Oscar Olander.
Pointing out that If the tension
existing between the white ana
Negro reputation were eliminated
the riots never would have occurred,
claiming the lives of 81 persons
IS of whom were Negroes-and in
juries to 700 others, the report
stated:
HIT MILITANCY
Perhaps most significant in
precipitating the racial tension
existing in Detroit is the positive
exhortation by many sc-calied re-
sponsible Negro leaders to be
militant in the struggle for racial
equality
An excerpt from q story by a
writer for the Detroit Tribune Is
cited in the paper anc charged
with clearly constituting IAN APP
peal to extract Justice by violence
The report vent on:
"Such Appeals unfortunately have
been commo nplace in the Negro
newspaper. Can it be doubted that
they played an important part In
exciting the Negro people to the
violence which resulted In Detroit
on June 81?
"Some selt-designated responsible
Negro leaders must share with the
colored newspapers responsibility
for the unfortunate attitude of GER
tain Negro elements"
Declaring itself as serving the
single purpose of letting the public
know the whole truth" about the
riot and asserting 1t held no
conclusions of a conjectural or
controversial nature" the report
continued:
NOT PREMEDITATED
''This committee is Of the firm
conviction that both white and Me-
gro rioters lacked preconoeived or
oremeditated organization. The
;pontaneity with which incide
occurred at various locations, both
within and outside the affected
area, discloses the absence of plan
ming on the part of either group"
The committee delved into past
incidents to find causes that may
rave helped explode violence between
he two racial groups here. 1t held
hat:
Certainly no criticism Is to be
made of the honest efforts of re-
sponsible leaders, both Negro and
white, who seek by lawful means
the removal of unjust barriers be-
tween the races. But it is equally
certain that vigorous criticism
should be directed to those ire
sponsible leaders, who by their
words and conduct, actively inspire
among their followers disregard
for law, order, and judicial process,
in seeking the racial equality to
which they are entitled"
MUST FACE PROBLEM
Some Negro leaders, the report
held, "have themselves demonstrate
ed an anti-social and factional out
look, which, If carried to their
followers, would account for the
militantly rebellious attitude Of
these elements" It said that all
race leaders must face the ever
mounting social problem and ex-
pressed the hope 1t can be solved
.'but only be determined, straight
forward. sociological measures"
Past reluctance to face the prob
Continued On Back Pase)