Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-03-30
More About Alcorn College And Negro
Education In Mississippi


to elicit from the responsible heads of the institution
comments regarding generally current among Ne
throughout the state the effect that all well
at the institution has been answered in letter the
Hon. j. O. Emmerich editor and publisher of The McComb
Enterprise and chairman of the Board for State nstu
tons for Higher Learning.
In his letter the chairman of the Alcon committee Of
fers the suggestion that strive cooperate and help
President Pipes land column to embarrass him
and the college,
Before saying anything further would like to make
crystal clear That critical editorial reference made
to Alcom College from time to time any embarrassment
to its president will be only coincidenta primary aim
and purpose being in the instance the beerment
of Alcom College and the beterment of opportunity for
higher education for Negro citizens of the state.
Although recognizing the fact That President Pipes
pointed in the letter by the committee chairman
have inherited trying difficulties real concern and
what should stated in the editorial here referred
to- the degree in which rumored conditions at Acon fit
into pattern for Negro education generally the
and functionng of Acom College, which recently
endorsed by the Delta Council politically and financially
powerful and influential organized group in the
state
In July 1915 the Educational Policy Committee of the
Delta Council startling conclusions respecting
Negro education The gs Of these conclusions edopted by
vote of for and four less against each ques
ton be in section 2, A. and 8, here quoted as
adopted by the council:
Section g. That the multiple adoption of textbooks be
Sxtyve per cent of the Negroes who to
school Mississippi in the first three grades yet the
same identical books are used in Negro schools the
white schools Cleveland Carksdae Islend, and other
Negro schools operated for approximately SIX
months in the State of Mississippi and are sup
schools in cities This Committee felt that there should be
school book written that could be covered in period of
six months language that could be understood by
the Negro and be adapted to instruction that it could be
covered in a period of six months
Section d. teachers training college In other words
teaching through years college, for training Negro
this college to be maintained by State appropria
We felt that the Negro teacher trained at Acorn
Tuskegee does not fit into Delta ideas We figured if
he were educated the Delta by the right type of nstitu
ton certainly he would fit into way of thinking and
way of living
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think authentic information that at Alcorn College
type instruction is not of the type that either the
Negro the white people of the Delta want The TEACHER
training department is not what it should be- We recon-
mend the Board of Trustees of Institutions OF Higher
Learning that they select ason whose duty it would
be to that the type of instruction would be given
them
In the proposals above quoted it is impossible to dis
the ultimate disposition to provide the equal
which all Americans entitled for the Negro
citizens of the State of Mississippi.
In the still freshness of DEATH blood tears and brt
of World War Ill it is to how that IN the
space generation through the medium OF edu
cation the made the German youth, and indeed
the nation into thing to horrfy and brutalize the
entire world.
By the same token it is possible by the of specal
text books limited school and special and supervised
curcua the institutions of higher learning that Negroes
in Mississippi be educated and ndoctrnaed beneath
the American Democratic Ideal and fitted only Tor klnd
of paternalistic serfdom.
There are no Negro members of the Delta Council;
there Negro members of the Board for Institutions
for Higher Learning indeed there Negroes any
where in official position to express with
any degree of independence the desires and wishes OF the
Negro citizens of the state respecting education But we
saw mere that every Negro who honest convc
ton everyone else knows that the Negro citizens OF
the state will be conened with anything less than
the equal education to which all American citizens
titled under the and evidence to the contrary is to
be found in fact with reference to Acorn that
of the proponents of the educational policy of the Delta
Council in obvious reference President Pipes stated 1--WE
have new man there now, men with the philoso
ply you and L.
Here again we state that primary aim and pur-
pose bettermen of Negro educational opportunities
and the betteent of Alcorn College, and not to embar
lass the college president
Negro citizens will have greater respect for the chair
man of Acorn Committee when they know that he de-
cned the Craftsmanship of the committee of his alma mater
Mississippi State College accept the Craftsmanship of the
Acorn Committee because Alcorn College badly needed aid
he will win and keep the undyng gratitude of the
Negro citizens of the state it. while chairman of the Al
Committee he permits nothing to be done at Alcom
by ndrecton but according to the written and settled law
of which still says that the education of its white
and Negro ctzenAshall be SEPARATE -. but EQUAL.