Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-08-18
Critical Times
Expected After
War-FraZier
Critical Times for Negroes
in Peace Forecast at
N. Y. u. Interview
DIR. Frazier of Howard Says
They Will Fight to Retain
Gains Made During War

Gains Made During War
New York-Social problems of
the Negroes are being improved, if
not solved, by conditions arising
from the war, but the end of the
war will see tense, crucial times in
America if their gains are not re-
tanned, DR.. E. Franklin Frazier,
Negro author and sociologist, be-
lieves.
DR.. Frazier, head of the Depart
ment of Sociology at Howard Uni
versity, interviewed yesterday in
his office in East Building of New
York University's Washington
Square College, where he is visit
ing professor this summer, said
that "the fate of the Negro in
American society is tied up with
the fate of all American Society"
DR.. Frazier, recognized as an
authority on Negro sociological
problems, predicted that Negro
soldiers who return from the
war and don't receive all the
rights of other citizens "are going
to be mad"
Likely to Join Radicals
IF they come back and can see
no fruits of their sacrifices" he
said, their reaction won't be resig-
nation and cynicism, as it was after
the last war. They'll probably join
militant or radical forces if neces-
sary.
We'll face a generally serious
situation after this war. If the
democratic forces don't maintain
control and don't act courageously
with imagination, it is possible
reaction will hit, especially in the
South. If America goes Fascist, it
means the end of democracy in the
world"
GAS a result of the war, which
stimulated the Negro to assert him
self and demand his citizenship
rights, larger number are seeking
to register and use the ballot than
ordinarily" he said. "The war has
overcome the general apathy of the
Negro toward his right to vote"
Comedies Great Progress
DIR. Frazier, who was a member
of the Mayors committee that in
vestigated the 1885 riot in Harlem,
comedies that great progress has
been made in improving the social
conditions of the Negroes.
AS a result of the demand for
skilled workers better jobs are open
now, DR.. Frazier said. Also, Ne
groes have been integrated into
the armed forces to a greater ex-
tent than in the last war, he added.
white and Negro officers are
trained together and Negroes have
been taken into the Navy and
Marine Corps at last" he pointed
out. "On the other hand, there have
been a lot of changes we can't
measure. The whole concept of the
Negro has been changing and not
just a result of the war"
Typifying this trend, he said, are
the use of pictures of Negroes in
magazines and newspapers and
recognition of Negroes in the artis-
tic and theatrical world. '"The Ne
gro is no longer just clown in
the theatre" he said.
Must Acknowledge Revolution"
Retaining advances already made
and continuing them will be an i'm
portant problem after the war, not
only for the Negroes but for all of
America, DR.. Frazier maintains.
"If the leaders of America will
acknowledge that a tremendous
revolution is taking place, that
social planning is necessary, that
full employment is necessary, then
the Negro will benefit" he said.
"But if we have a depression, or
imitation, it is possible that the Ne
gro will be made the scapegoat, be
thrown out of jobs, and that compe-
tition between whites and Negroes
will be set up, defined in racial
terms"
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