The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-07-01
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q Negro. Does cot seem pos
s,O.e. does L?
VIVA: did YOU say these arc
ISOLATED examples yoI dare nc
70 give you more? Nov. draw up
your chair, brother. and wipe Your
glasses You nave read.as . 90. !:
Is composing -. ever near Of s..
Louis Blues? W c Handy
wrote that. Are YOU interested in
education. poetry. BOOKS vel,
-esd James Weldon Johnson o"
Booker T. Washington
In Science. sports
You're biologist? Take gande!
az the experiments Of Ernes, Everett
Just Now. II sports is your meat
and you think al Negroe. are shut
Ain, lazy slow-moving creatures
ask anyone who has raced against
Jesse Owens what he IS up against
Or. will you go round or two
with Joe Louis? You say you re-
spect business achievements?
Well, find cut about John Merrick.
who founded the North Carolina
Mu:Ia. Life Insurance company
Lax is too complicated to- the Ne
gro mind? Ever Try 4 case before
Jane BOln, Niles A. Paige?
Ever hear Of Hastie'
Dane ~. music and rhythm:
Vel, you can tell me better than |
can ell YOU you danced to
:heir bands you sought out
their hldeouts you aped their
dances.
Did you ever resd The Three
Musketeers." The Count OF Monte
Cr!sto?" You know that Alexander
Dumas wrote those books and many
more. And do you know that he
was colored Amazing, isn't
X" The father OF al Russian poetry
was Alexander Pushk!n and he
you guessed /. was a Negro!
A-e you intrigued by electricity
Subways railroads? Granville
7. Woods. a Negro. perfected the
third rail Did you think that
at: was too advanced for them?
/ Look az the paintings Of Henry
Ossawa Tanner
In Medicine
II you think the Negro has made
! no contribution 20 medicine
vnat would you call Dr.. DAME! H.
/ Williams, surgeon. the first man.
white or colored, 10 operate sue
cessful.y or the human heart? II
you enjoy reading. get hold OF
book by Richard Wrish, Che has
written many things besides Native
Som; and oy Sterling Brown
Charles S. Johnson, D. Hercules
Armstrong. II you are unsteady
inclined and appreciate fine orches-
tration and conducting-watch Dean
Dixon.
Negroes can't ada yes, some
Garland some whites can't either
-. But some Negroes can
Benjamin Banneker Q73l-l800 wa:
quite a mathematician and inventor
too-my goodness. weren't they sup
: posed to be slaves then.
In the Arts
Is sculpturing too fine an art for
their clumsy hands, Look at the
works Of Richmond Barthin and
Augusta Savage They can't talk
well? Read the speeches Of Fred
erick Douglas Too crude for poetry?
Read Paul Laurence Dunbar.
They lack pioneering blood? Don't
be shocked. but Jean Pointe Du
! Sable was one of the founders Of
Chicago. . . And IL your interest
/ is architecture you probably
studied the technique Of Paul r.
Williams, never dreaming he is a
Negro.
Have you had enough I can give
you more. Whatever the held, I
Z ekall chA...
exceiled. All / suggest is, read up
on the Negro in YOUR own field
. /. learn little more about him
. . have facts, not rumorx
Live and Help Live
In conclusion. lev ME say, II you
are convinced that the Negro is here
20 stay and there are 1000, 900
OF them il you think you can
deport them 4. and you are con-
WINGED that they are making prog
ress in every field then. brother
wipe your glasses and start reading
up on them D.. talk 10 them
work with them . don't be afraid
10 come too close. the color won't
come OF. honestly /. won't they
really are swell people good
friends they laugh az Jokes,
and cry when they are hurt
ev ~ as you and I. Let's really
believe in the Constitution. and
when We say al people are
born free and equal with certain
inaliensble rights" let's mean ALL
people. not all white or only white
and black bui ALL people
lets mean Il and practice i; ans
by all means let's settle down one.
for al and live and help livel