Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-07-31
About The Negro And Social Equality

- over III south Carolina where old fashioned Southern
democrat fourlshes to dgree less vigorous than in
mississippi Governor DIN D. Johnston has recently been
lnduglng IN energetic tanning of the flames of
race hatred bgory and ignorance In his rent re-
marks Gov Johnston makes the implication that the Ne
groes OF his state seeking the mixing of the races in
our schools churches and dwelling places asserted that
am tired of people agitang social equality of races in
our state and in address to the State Guard said that f
any outsiders come into state and agate soa eoua
ty among shall deem my duty to call upon Won
men to expel them.
Replying to the Governors address to the State Guard
the Negro Citizens Committee in letter to him said cine
negroes OF South Carolina not mpugning the motives
OF his exceency in his address, but references made can
serve no good of either race that Negroes
not seeking Sociaity Equality but did seek "Eual Ed
ucationa Facilities and the right to participate in the
state government.
Joining the Negro Citizens Committee in replying to
The Governors address to the state guard the Columbia
Record and the Charleston News and Courier two the
leading white daily papers of the state.
The Charleston News and Courier, agreeing with the
Governors segregation platform denounced his threats to
the state guard to Suppress Free Speech and held
that there is advocacy of Social Equality and mixing
of races by Negroes Of the state.
The Columbia Record most influential of the states
evening papers, further in its criticism and charged
both Mr. Johnston and Gov Johnston with using the
question for political observing that Negroes had
used fair and sensible methods to solve their problems and
the Equal Pay Case had been driven to the courts by
unsympathetc legislature; observing further that "Ne
goes asking equality under the law to which they
entitled and to talk about calling out the state guard
resist agitation which threatens resort to violence is
nonsense
With clarity and force unequaled by any American of
like statute in contemporary American of like statute
contemporary American life and history, Mr. Wendell Will
kie among the greatest of the great of the world states
diplomat private citizen number of the United
States tuar head of the Republican Party by virtue of
his 1910 candidacy for President and by far the able
and outstanding candidate for the 1914 nomination in
radio address the nation and the world last Saturday
night denying their aspirations for Social Equality
called gave expression the hopes and desires of Ne
groes contained in the Negro question
Observing the long history of the Negro Question in
South Carolina and throughout the SOUTH is apt
question why it took Negro leaders such long to make
open denial to the accusation that Negroes seeking
Social Equality, such claim being the most potent and
powerful the of those who would forever hold the
ond class citizenship The such question might
well lie within the psychological patterns long existing
among Southern Negroes that made easier to bear
the burden placed upon him by those who charged him with
seeking Social Equality than to give expression to his
true desires, hopes and aspirations.
What said by Mr.. Wilkie, what was said by the
Negro Citizens Committee of South Carolina what was said
by the two leading newspapers of South Carolina is
statement of the only real and undenabe aspirations
and desires of Negroes in the south and throughout the
United States; and from Mr. Wilkes address, from the
letter of the Negro Citizens Committee South Carolina
and from what said by the two leading South Carolina
papers, great of light has been let into the darker
of the Negro question: and Negroes throughout the
South and the nation well lock forward to the time
when aided by honest and courageous Negro leadership
question Of Social Equality and the Negro question: will
be brought before the bar of enlightened Public Opinion
for its last and final judgment