Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-01-05
Throng Hears
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allow this situation continue? again
asked DR.. Mays, who in turn stated
that it would continue until Me-
groes are not willing to go to the
courts and pay for their share OF
freedom in Atlanta.
Some say there is more culture
GER cubic foot in Atlanta among
Negroes than there is in most any
other city of America and yet the
Negro is more enslaved in Atlanta
than he is in most cities declared
DR.. Mays. Learning patriotism and
fighting and dying on foreign soil
for your country will not give you
the ballot. We must be willing to
pay for it. just as willing to do
that as so many Negroes are willing
to go down the side alley, climb
many flights of stairs to get to the
buzzards' roost' of the jimcrow
theater.
AS he further developed his adj
dress DR.. Mays recapitulated the
status of the Negro in America
since his coming as a chattel to the
landed rich. mo race in history
started further down than the Ne
gro in the United States: no more
despicable things have been said
about any other race; everything
that Hitler did to the Jew has beer
done to the Negro here in Ameri
ca.' declared DR.. Mays.
hoe ,,pof, r1o,,o m
make the world believe that the
Negro is nobody everything to
break the backs and souls of
race has been done to the Negro
race, stated Dr. Mays as prelimi-
nary to the Recommendation Of the
point of view taken by science.
craftsmanship and pseudo-religion
toward the relative status of the
Negro and Anglo-Saxon in Ameri
/ ca. Generally one hundred years
ago, even fifty years ago opponents
! of each field believed in the in
feriority of the Negro and made
it known through the respective
media, according to the proof pre-
! sented Tuesday afternoon by PreSi-
| dent Mays. "All of this means"
continued DR.. Mays, that science
was against the Negro, leading
statesmen were against you;
pseudo-religion was against you AS
a result, the Negro had little faith
| in himself The white slave owners
! told the slaves that they occupied
/ the position that God would have
them hold" asserted the speaker
as he related the fact that these
and their descendants the white
supremacists - had to place the
blame on someone, SO God was the
logical one at the time.
Fortunately, science has seen
the light of reality and today not
a single reputable scientist can be
found who would dare put in print
that the Negro is inherently and
biologically inferior to any race"
said DR.. Mays. 1.-The reputation
has come within the last twenty
Ave years If you were to appraise
man, it is not enough to judge HIM
by the heights he has attained but
he must also be judged by the dis
NAL depths from which he came"
declared DIR. Mays as he emphasiz-
ed the fact that the Negro started
way down low" that he started
way down under" that he started
way down yonder;" that he has
come long way" but, that he
has much further to CO..
The speaker paid tribute to the
American Negro soldier who went
to foreign soil and lived in such
way that he gave the lie to the
American white soldier had said
about him.
Noteworthy is the fact that the
address ended on hopeful note
which was worded as a challenge.
He who would be free must pay
for his freedom. Eighty-three years
ago legal freedom was given to us;
we must earn moral and mental
freedom" concluded DR.. Mays. In
explaining the legal freedom DR..
Mays made it a point that Lincoln
signed the Emancipation Proclama-
ton not because of his belief and
confidence in the Negro but because
it was expedient for the nation.
DR.. Forester B. Washington,
director of the Atlanta University
School of Social Work, presided at
the celebration. Other contributors
to the program were Rev. j. w.
Thomas, Pastor, Warren Memorial
Methodist Church; Raphael A.
McIver, a veteran; Miss Mattiwilda
Dobbs; Mrs. j. S. Flipper; Mr.. G.
l.. Harper, president of Atlanta
Branch, NAACP; and Bishop w. E.
Fuller; Mrs. E. M. Groves; Miss
Mae Belle Finch; Clarence Render,
John Nelson and Mrs. B. E. Mays.
The local branch is In the midst
Of its campaign for $4,000 for legal
defense and for membership. On
Tuesday Mrs. B. E. Mays reported
that 1921 had been collected with
an additional 1855 pledged for de-
Tense. Mr.. L. d. Milton reported
that between $3.50 and $500 were
| collected Tuesday for memberships.