Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-12-02
Something About The Southern
Governors Conference

Somewhere in the distant past most likely at "some
me out OF mind or time whereof the mind of run
meth not to the contrary to the language of great
world scholar perhaps, in period such as is now being
gone through by the Negro of Mississippi and of the
South when Illustration and bewlderment like an omnious
and forebdng cloud have hung about him to narrow his
vision and daken his hopes there born the sagacou
and inspiring adage, behind every cloud there silver
lining"
The Negroes of Mississippi and of the south NAV we'll
the silver lining behind the dark clouds of Illustration
and bewdement that have gathered and hung so mean
gy In recent months by taking look the Conference
OF Southern Governors held down the Mississippi Coast
last week
At this Southern Governors Conference on the Mis-
sIsspp Coast with nine governors present person. and
two there by able representation the Conference
as It's Number One Objective the Equalization Edi-
oaonal Opportunities for all citizens of the south: with
ernest consideration being given to proposed educational
plan for Southern Negroes including the proposal that
Southern States offer exchange scholarships outsand
ing Negro Students to attend Negro Universities in other
states.
The plan being which would make it possible for
students of state whose facilities training in GER
tain specific fields limited to attend schools which
offered the the students wanted The statement
i believe it is the only hope of America to have equal
opportunity for all believe that all the people of this
nation should be given equal opportunities whether he be
White Black by of its members being given the
most prominent space and widespread publicity in the
press Of the state and of the :ourh, manner stat
ing = conference creed
The Freight Rates Differentials which have all but
choked out its economic life and made absentee ownership
the rule rather than the exception in the industrial de-
veOpmen and financial structure the south also up for
the most serious consideration by the conference
The days of the freight differential will end only
when Southern leaders begin to them in their true
light as having result of that compromise be-
tween the north and south the Negro question The
promise in which the south bargained keep its Negroes
IN political social and cultural subsection and economic
paternalism already proven to be of the saddest
chapters in the unwrtten history of the south the
nation
Once the south becomes willing to give to all it citi-
zens, black and white, equal opportunities, there will be
no basis for the continuance of this unwren compromise
and basis for the alliance which Southern Members of
the congress of the United States forced to make with
the protectors of freight rate dffeenals and absentee
ownership in order to keep themselves politically and
socially alive in the system which gave them life
The greatest significance attached to the conference
lies in the fact that all this has happened with no I'M
favorable reaction III the State of Mssisspp long pointed
out being and not without large measure of truth
the strongest and last citadel of provncasm sectonasm
bourbonsm, Negrophobia and the strangng rancor of
the civil war.
For the Negroes of Mississippi, and of all the south
for that matter the Governors conference on the Msss
spp Coast last week potts to the silver lining which
to be slowly but surely coming from behind the once
dark, ominous and Forboding Clouds