St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-05-26
Bill of Rights, Supreme Court
And Negroes Civil Rights
By Max Lerner in P NJ

a man. but still
thousands of who held in virtual working
under the threat of violence land belonging Others The 18th
Amendment protected the Negro against state that
strip him of his civil rights 1t the basis which
the being carried for the right land
and and live where he chooses his right take
belong union equal right job
pay his job carries; equal right
share judicial procedure the equal right of his children schooling
to immunity humiliation living as
inferior citizens in civilian life Army.
How difficult is all these the distance between
the Bill of Rights the practice of wrong shown in the history
primary" protects Negro
from discrimination of his The constu
ona test tube of this clause has been Texas For more than half
century the Civil War, quietly
fanchsed the Negroes by poll taxes grandfather clauses fantastic
voting tests In 1929 however thew made the mistake of nassing
state law excluding Negroes from the primaries Negro from Paso
called Nixon brought suit and 1927 the Court unanimously held
by
did fool himself about the practical of the decision After
reading in he added of his
brethren Negroes Texas will rejoice they
at the primary the rights which heretofore they have
joyed at the general elections"
The proved right skepcism
of Indignation job getting
around the decision The Legislature repealed the
giving the executive committee the decide
ones surprise they chose restrict primary hte
Again brought suit again 1882 upheld Justice
Cardozo writing the opinion This time the Texans
They repealed the law and nothing its place Thus
re took not to be involved and the Democratic convention
the dirty
CGOvey Townsend the white primary
unanimous opinion written by Justice Roberts The idea that the
Democratic Party acting private club you
nothing about clubs
the 18th Amendment
But those who rejod at this did with
New Deal The membership of the Court changed dasy
1887 The American people they engaged
against and the
When Louisiana 1941 involving fraud
in the primaries W S. Classic the ruled
primary integral of the election
set for Lonne Smith, another Texas Negro who wanted
whether the Classic should apply the Texas primary
must be free from fraud then why from the color barr
The Supreme Court has agreed that in the
unanimously except for Justice Roberts The denter
wept judicial tears about the failure precedent
Perhaps also his pride involved since
decision that overud he wpt
not freedom and justice but blindness the legal conceament
OF injustice has been done in the the
Court under the duty of correcting rather than compoundn
Suppose however, that after reading the Courts opinion
Stanley Reed had added the earlier
to what the Negroes could Would
American Congress alone that
fight the poax law And the American
what they feel in their Utmost hearts about Negroes
Bill of Rights parchment stronger or more
enduring than the human heart.
UNFAITHFUL NORTHERNERS
And finally let all remember that Rankins
and their m Congress nearly dangerous
groes of this country
of the Northern states who either boldly back their
dent Roosevelt and the Negroes secretly support
by allowing such tactics Fhbuster Estates Rights"
constitutional" ETC., all of which could be stopped
willing put the welfare of the country personal
poitics-St. Louis Argus. ........