Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-02-27
A Job for the Committee of One Hundred

The Committee of One Hundred, organized years
ago by group of outstanding Negro leaders of the state
For the General Improvement of the Condition the Col
ored People of Mississippi will hold its annual meeting
Friday, March 9Th, in Laurel, Mississippi.
In spite of the charge made in quarters that the
committee is if not reactionary, careful
appraisal of its efforts and accomplishments during the
years since its organization will some outstanding
contributions towards the economic educational civic and
religious life of the Negro citizens of the state and be-
the organization and its members have exhibited the
patience, tact and judgment characteristic the
conservative in their approach to the problems regarding
the future of the Negro in his relations to the political
civic economic educational and religious institutions of the
state rather than the extremes of the ultrabera
radical advocates of better conditions for the Negro
the Committee of One Hundred enjoys the respect and
fidence and commands the attention of white leaders and
white and Negro people OF the state.
Since the beginning of the present world war and the
subsequent entry of this nation into the conflict the wide
spread and ustfabe demands of Negro Americans north
and south for greater opportunity work and fight the
nations in equal that of all other Amer
can citizens and his equally usfable feeling often ex
pressed that he should enjoy the full rights of an Amer
can citizen including participation in the political and
civic life of the nation has evoked nationwide and contin
Gus discussion of the Negro problem
In the Congress of the United States where the Ne
problem has become matter of great Importance none
has been more outspoken against the present and future
hopes of the Negro than the members the Congressional
delegation from Mississippi their outspoken appeals TO
prejudice and bgoty and demagogc utterances despite
the tragic truth of the existence of practice in Mis-
spreading the fear among intelligent white people of
the state less the postwar period ia Mississippi the
matter of relations be than in the days Civil
War Reconstruction.
The tragedy and real danger in this situation however
hes not III the fact that members of the Mississippi
gresslona delegation choose to deogogy rather than
intelligent analysis of political and conditions of the
state as means of obtaining election, but fact that
seapponted Negro leaders advisers having no other
no other qualification but that of getting
money to put into their pockets going about the
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are actually planning kind Of post uprising That
such statements are wholly false and absolutely unfounded
seems ridiculous to mention here
The Committee Gen Hundred at its Laurel meeting
having the respect and confidence of white and Negro peo
pie and commanding the attention of the white leaders
further the prospects of better relations now and i'm
the future and render outstanding service to the state
by pointing out the absurty sure predictions and
the responsibility those socaled Negro leaders and
advisers who with hand out, predicting post war
period more turbulent than Civic War Reconstruction