The Omaha guide., 1946-08-17

savage murder of two Negro far
mers and their wives in Georgia
has aroused the wrath of think
ing people everywhere Local
branches of the NAACP have
daily sent assurances to the ma
tional office that they r carry
ing forward the fight to end such
criminal violations of the Consti-
tuition. Several branches have sent
in more than the $40 each asked
for as its share Of the $4,000
reward offered by the NAACP
for information leading to the ar
rest and conviction of the AFRO
giant Georgia lynchers.
From the Louisville, KY. branch
of the NAACP a check for $500
was contributed toward the re-
ward offered for the lynchers'
capture. The Los Angeles branch
has pledged from 500 to $1,000
toward the fund.
In Houston, Texas, on the night
of August 9Th, all Negro resid-
ences and places of business were
closed and the doors draped with
black crepe so that everyone could
attend a memorial services for the
mob victims at the Baptist Church
At the NAACP demonstration, the
first protest meeting in Texas
since the lynchings, a resolution
was passed asking for immediate
anti-lynching legislation. Texas
Negroes are well aware that the
Khan can operate against them as
in Georgia.
In Philadelphia, the local branch
of the NAACP declared August 2
a day of mourning in connection
with the lynchings. Many organi-
cations in the city ~cooperated
Their actions were publiciZed by
closing all stores for an hour at
noon, wearing black arm bands,
silencing all radios for thirty Sc
conds and by requests that all
individuals pray silently in their
homes for the two slain couples.
kilograms and letters were sent
to President Truma nand to Atty
General Tom Clark asking the
Federal Government to bring the
culprits to justice.
A man in California mailed in
his check for $25 though he could
i'll afford it to apprehend the foul
murderers.
The NAACP has received many
similar letters and kilograms ex-
pressing sympathy and indigna-
ton yer the recent wav of lynch
terror sweeping the south. Typical
of the feelings expressed in many
of them is the reproduced be-
low from a white woman in Ore
gon. "Envlosed you will find my
check for five dollars to aid in the
work of hunting down and punt
shing the lazy white savages that
rule Jul southern states.
Either the United States should
declare martial law in those out
law states where no Negro is safe
from attacks by these white beasts
or else every Negro should be
armed by the government so that
he can defend himself and his
home.
Il lived in the south once and
listening to white loafers talk Of
lazy n.-..gs' used to ~nauseate
me. Never, all the time 1 was in
the south, dbl 1 see a white man
work. He seemed to think his job
was to stand around and watch
the Negroes work, or else look
around for Negro women to at
tack. The Negro men are power
less to protect their women.
And never did / ever hear Of
a white woman attacked by a
Negro. It was always the other
way around-white men raping.
Negro women.
And, in using the word loafe'
in connection with white southern
men / do not mean the under
privileged who mthe so-calcd SOU
thern gentlemen scornfully calls
poor white trash bun the soft spo-
ken brute himself. who lives on
the labor of the Negro.
Il have travelled abroad and /
have always been ashamed Of the
south, whose savagery / couldn't
defend. If / were a southernor ia
get rid Of my accent so that no
one would know I was a native Of
such a disgraceful part of the
United States.
Il am sending o copy of this
letter to the Governor Of Georgia
50 that the white governor can
know what an Oregonian thinks
Of q Georgian. the white kind
whose hands are never soiled with
honest work..