Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1945-02-24
Mississippi And The Returning
Negro Veterans

Last Saturday the first of series of radio broadcasts
scheduled to be made at each Saturday until June
10, with their theme, when Our Warriors Return"
started with Governor Thomas L. Bailey as the initial
speaker, using his subject "Our Responsibility the
Veterans these programs statewide hook-up be-
ing sponsored by the Mississippi War Council Directed
by Governor Bailey and paid for and placed the air by
the Radio stations of Mississippi according letter
recently released by the State Seective Service Head
quarters here.
First of all we ernestly urge all parents wives other
relatives and friends of Negro and in the
vice. and of those who have been the service and
discharged to make it their special business listen
with serious attention these broadcasts each Saturday
at Five o'clock from until June 16 because the sub
jecs to be dealt with will be presented by persons we'll in
formed and qualified to reduce to clarity and
derstandng the subject matter dealt with which through
the series of boadcasts we'll designed the wide
diversity and divergence matters possible the
theme when Our Veterans Return; and thus enable the
listener to better advise and council the returning
husband brother sister when they finally discharged
from service.
1t is noted in the letter, above referred to- that Com
muny Organization has been effected and that efforts
being made to organize each community in the State
We don't know much, if anything about the Community
organization, where it springs FROM how it functions etc.
but readily appears that NOW is the time for the Negro
leaders of community the state to find out
thing about the Community Organization and organize
such group of able and intelligent Negro Citizens,
to be able to advise and assist the returning Negro
Veterans of the state and not have them having depend
the White people organizations whose hands will be
full with advising and assisting their
There are about 10000 Negro and women in the
armed service from Mississippi constituting approximately
oryeght percent of the total Approximately 5000 Mis-
slsslpn Negroes have been discharged.
In the of recently discharged Negro Veteran,
who upon being denied compensation for disabilities in
Cured in aggravated during his military service there
appealed his date being set for the Hearing
the Appeal where he first to have appeared before
The board in person. he subsequently advised by the
local Veterans Administration that the appeal had been
heard by the Appeal Board and that his interests had
been represented by whom he did not know had
never who had been to his home, who had
never questioned relative to his condition.
In order that returning Negro Veterans get better
consideration than appears possible in the above cited
case and behalf of the 10000 Negro and Women
called into service from the state the 5000 already dis
charged and behalf of the mothers, wives, fathers,
children and other relatives respectfully urge
Governor Thomas L. Bailey the need of appointing Negro
Member to the State Service Commission the official body
created by the state legislature to advise and assist return
rr veterans in order to coordinate the efforts of Negro
Citizens of the state behalf of the returning Negro
Veterans