The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-02-26
OUR NEGRO HISTORY WEEK EDITION
By S. NJ. Harvey

In giving to readers this, Sixth Annual Negro
History Week Edition, we only contribute to activities
and achievements of the Negro who during short span
years has made remarkable and erorious progress
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country, with the hope that it will help them to be prouder
of their state and the part that the Negro played in it's
development and progress.
As the past years this special issue to prove to our
readers that the Negro get the hearty support prac-
eaIy every white Individual business when he brings
to them hem worthwhile program. or project
cases anxious than belle the general
belief OF people of the North and other sections that Negroes
of the South little than SAVAGES that we are all
lliterate and that we all live in poverty and want
Perhaps there are who will ask how prove
these things Our With very exceptions every
acted or solicited for advertisements to support that specal
issue readily responded giving both financial
support They all expressed themselves being delighted
and anxious to such a paper
We will admit that there are many conditions existing
IN MISSISSIPPI that are not what would have them be-
We admit that of the things that people of other
tons say about US true We admit that great
need of increased educational opportunities We admit that
our teachers poorly paid and go could
find thousands of other conditions of which complain
But sitting down complaining will bring any
OF the deplorabe conditions mentioned above Neither will
people OF other sections help to better our conditions
IL IS utterly impossible for groups hundreds OF miles
away who know absolutely nothing about who live in
world entirely different from solve our problems
We are here in Mississippi to live to die and to leave for
children heritage OF opportunities greater than those
we haVeOt better relgouS educational and political adj
vantages to be found not in foreign lands but in SSIS-
SPPL We who accommodating land in MISSISSIPPI ex-
pect children to get the benefit of this All ALL
Mississippi IS our state eufhoe and it would be well if
we would remember the words Of the great Booker Wash
ngton when he said o those my race who depend on
lettering their conditions foreign land who
estimate the Importance of cultvatng friendly relations
with the Southern white who is their nextdoor neigh
bor would say Cast down your bucket where you
cast it down in making friends every manly way of the
people of all races by whom we are surrounded"
But how can the other group in Mississippi learn to
appreciate learn to understand U.s. when all they ever
know about is what they read in the daily papers and
must confess these things often very complimentary
One of the best mediums for better racial understanding
it. is the NEGRO PRESS. We realized this when
we attempted to give all Mississippi pictures
stories the commendabe and audabe achievements of the
NEGRO over period of years.
For the most part histories show the Negro only
semi-savage slave iterate dangerous freedman
in either liability rather than asset.
1t is for the purpose of turning the picture around and
seeing there is not another side to ito inquire whether
the Negro has had any creditable part Americas
history or made worthy contribution to its progress
that we give to readers this special issue.
10 all persons who contributed in any way to this
MISSISSIPPI NEGRO HISTORY WEEK EDITION. we ex-
press sincere thanks.