Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-02-23
CAPT. MUL FAC WANTS COAST
GUARD AP0L 0cY FOR SMEAR
Statewide Mass Meeting
Petitions Legislature For
Better Negro Education

after our moral COde, ana DOaSt
of our democracy and Christianity
as nation. All white children
ride 20 and from school, in rural
sections paid for by whites and Ne
groes, while all Negro children, as
a rule, walk to and from, how
ever far, except in 2 or 3 OF the
50 counties Of the state.
This state maintains, state col
leges including law and medicine.
for whites, and only Two wOefully
inadequate make-shifts, by COM
parsion; jackson College and Al
corn, for Negroes, and Alcorn be-
ing 10 or Is miles from the rail-
road, over behind the worst dirt
road in the state, and being not
only miserably situated school in
all America. it's polyglot curricu-
ltlm makes it neither liberal arts
nor an agricultural school. but a
kind of cross or hermorphordite In
EDUCATION, serves as kind OF
mother hubbard. covers every
thing, and touches nothing"
It's location alone makes 1t i'm
possible. 100 years behind times
and the state Of Mississippi paid
not dollar for the construction
of either, neither Alcorn nor
jackson College, both of said
schools having been donated to the
state, Alcorn by the federal govern
ment. and Jackson College by the
Baptist Missionary Society, though
about equal, but both Negroes and
whites were taxed for construction
of said white colleges.
Mississippi has about 1900 high
schools for whites, while it hasn't
got an "A Grade" high school in
this state for Negroes, and there Is
not one Negro high school in the
state with a standard class high
chool course, completion OF which
would permit their pupils to enter
an "A Grade" College. Could we
imagine q more chaotic state Of at
fairs In Christian state? Which
way may we not ask did democracy
go?
Now therefore, we the Negroes
of Mississippi in state mass meet
ing assembled realizing that Missis
sippi is the state of all people,
your Mississippi and our Mississip-
pi, and that her problems are the
problems of all, whether II the
streets In the furrow, or in legis-
lative halls, we all have rights or
rather should have rights, but one
of Mississippi's greatest short com
ing before the world today is its
failure to accord to all its citizens
Just SO long as this is true, SO long
will she fail to occupy that lofty
position in the eyes and hearts of
the world, which should be hers.
until her lawmakers and execu-
tives see to it that every man, wo-
man and child get their just laws
just rights under the laws
in all things, without regard to
race, color or creed.
The Negro is opposed to the re-
commentator of the legislative
Study Committee and the Delta
Council wherein a special tax is to
be levied for Negro schools, the
Negro wants no special tax levied
for him. He feels that he Is just
common citizen and wants no
special laws but wants his just
and rightful, yea. equal pro rata
share of all monies levied by the
states, counties and municipali-
ties, for educational purposes.
The Negro has had sad ex-
perience in all special levies for
education purposes in this state.
For example. in the setting up OF
special school districts. where the
whites always got, as rule, $25,
600 to a $4,000 or above, CONSOLE
dated Rural School and the Me-
groes got nothing as rule but q
tax bill to help pay for the white
folks school, and list to beg
money to put up little $500 or
$500 shack for Negroes, or pay for
| it out of their own pockets, or go
without.
That has been the sad expert
ence of Negroes in this state In
the matter of special levies, left to
he counties. Such laws heretofore
have always meant nothing.
No State no nation, can be look