The Omaha guide., 1943-11-13
Brown Asks Custer Of White

you dismissed from all further
connection with the NAACP.,
Dean William Pickens, after
some 20 odd years of service
with the Association, even
though he was on leave of alb
Sence at the time, selling war
bonds for the u. S. Treasury
in Washington. The circum-
stances closed the door of any
appeal from his public and
personal Endorsement of the Sc
gregated Air Corps training
center of the u. S. army at
Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee,
Alabama. Dean Pickens was
denounced for this act Of here
Sy and held up to the entire
Race, in the same category Of
a traitor to his country. In
view of this fortnight. prompt
and emphatic reputation of a
former faithful employe, if ap-
pears all the more imperative
that the NAACP. board must
extricate itself from the un-
tenable, Teprehensible and
compromising dilemma, in
which position it now finds it.
self, as a result of the teIe-
gram sent by Walter White
! to Senator William LANCER,
(Rep.l North Dakota, sponsor
of The a~nti-diScrimination a.
mendment of the $500, 900, 900
federal aid to public education
bill. He urged Senator Ian
ger, during the course of the
debate on the u. S. Senate
floor, to withdraw this equal
rights proposal and let the
Southern Senators and south
eTn state educational directors
continue spending the federal
funds as they do the present
! state funds. namely, S. for the
education of a cOlored child in
Alabama and S35 for a white
child. Senator Hill (Dem.)
Alabama, chief sponsor of the
ill so advocated and immed-
'ately voted to kill the whole
! legislation, when the LANCER
1nti- discrimination amend
nent was voted in by the Sen
tie, 40 to 81. Only Walter
Whites speedy and dishonor-
7ble dismissal by the NAACP.
board is my judgement and
whatever other amends are vet
possible can wipe out this NOR
flying blow dealt by him in
the telegram read before the
Senate to kill the Just and per-
SiStent fight of 100000 pa
triotic and LOYAL cOlored Am
orleans for their constitutional
rights and equal education OBJ
Dortunities at home, with a
million of their sons giving
their last full measure Of de-
votion, abroad for democracy.
All this Uncle Tom and ap-
peaSement business, presents
a sorry spectacle right at the
height of the Races all out
| militant mobilization program
to stop lin Crow and to speed
lid the demands for Justice,
NOW. as DR.. Mordecai John
son. president of Howard Uni
verSity, so eloquently and cour
ageOuSly declared before the
National Baptist Convention in
Chicago. 1t takes on the pro-
portions of a major scandal,
wen coupled with the story 60
ing the rounds of Washington
alleging that Walter White.
is interested only in making
his peace at any costs with the
Southern Senators and Demo-
cratic administration leaders,
headed by Jimmie BYrnes Of
South Carolina, the Nc. / adj
visor of the President, . with
offices in the White House. It
is said to be the only way he
could get the clearance from
the War Department to visit
the battle fronts around the
globe in an Army bomber. lust
like Mrs. Roosevelt. Bishop
Gregg and the late DR.. Moten,
in World War l.. Has the N
AACP- board approved Of Wal
ter White capitaliZing on the
organizations 80 year fight
for full constitutional rights TO
become a special writer for a
national publication, which up
to this time has been on the
fence. Are they going to
countenance this SubverSive eff
fort to sell out the cause and
cOcVer up by showing pictures
of colored soldiers. who are de
MED almost entirely combat
service as everyone knows,
without Mr.. White going on a
paid out of colored peoples
money. contributed to the MA
ACP and as reported in the
rumored story to be paid a.
cain on return by the bio mao
aZine for the SCOOP. What is
this? Mr.. White can read the
cOlOTed newspapers each week
and learn what the lob is a.
head as far as colored soldiers
sailors, nurses and WAVES be
ing barred by the Army and
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