St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-11-22
Two Ways to
Lynch Negro,
Sneaker Ayers

WA0tlNO IOEN, ~. y. NOV.
21.-Lynching cannot be elm
mated in the south until its
blood brothers, segregation
and discrimination, are elm
mated in the north, the Rev.
Thomas Hart Of Catholic Univer-
sity told the Catholic Interracial
Conference here last Tuesday.
Rev. Hart addressed a panel at
St. Patrick's Academy as the Inter
racial Conference met and drafted
a resolution urging President Tru-
man to recommend passage of an
anti-lynch bill to the Eightieth
Congress when II convenes in Janu-
airy. He shared the panel with
Leslie Perry, legislative represen-
tative Of the NAACP.
Lynching, said Rev. Hart, is just
another phase of the pattern Of
segregation - another attempt to
keep the colored man in his place
in the pattern.
In a stern condemnation Of the
segregated patterns existing in the
District of Columbia and northern
cities, Rev. Hart said the leader of
a lynch mob is just as logical in
taking the life Of a colored man as
are members Of a community which
slowly strangles him by denying
him the right to full employment,
the right to gain a decent education
and the right to maintain his own
self-respect.
The only difference is one Of good
taste and etiquette rather than one
of morality, he declared.
Not q Southern Problem Alone
Rev. Hart warned against the
type Of thinking that sees lynching
as a southern problem. Lynching
is a national problem, he declared.
He scored so-called liberal people
who are content to go on record as
favoring a federal antilynch law
and then promptly dismisses the
lynch problem from their minds.
People must realize, Rev. Hart
said, that there is a vital connection
between lynching in the south and
discrimination and segregation in
the natlOn CAplIal.
Calling for more courage than
has been evidenced in the past, Rev
Hart said we have the solution to
the problem of lynchings but we
lack the courage and fortitude to
force that solution.
Segregation Basis for Lynching
His connection Of lynching with
segregation was echoed by Mr..
Perry who said that in the De-
troit riots and the Columbia Ten
nessee mob violence all the serious
trouble had begun in segregated
areas, either through an invasion
Of white" area by a colored man
or the invasion Of "colored" area
by a white group.
The primary cause Of lynching is
economic, political and racial segre-
cation, Mr.. Perry said. Very few
of the lynchings Of colored persons
result from their being accused of
serious offenses like murder, rob
berry or rape, he told the audience.
"ln most cases." he continued,
the place set aside for colored peo-
pie in the south requires the OBJ
servance on the part of the Negro
of an involved code Of racial eti-
quette in which the most worthy
Negro is subordinate to the most
worthless white person. II is not
surprising, therefore, to find that
the majority Of Negroes who have
been murdered by mobs have been
killed because they failed to stay in
their places
Mr.. Perry then quoted from
NAACP records which showed that
colored men had been lynched for
such Grimes" as quarreling with a
white man; failure to call a white
man "Mr."; resisting the unlawful
search Of his home; making "boast-
full remarks; for trying to "act
like a white man." for being "too
uppity"; for attempting to vote;
and for being too PROSPEROUS