Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-02-21
Ask Governor And Legislature For By
Racial Commission To Work For Good
OF State
Presidents Civil Rights Program
Endorsed

Jackson, Miss. Feb. 16, (DSN(
In a Statewide Mass Meeting held
at Central Methodist Church here
last Wednesday, Negro citizens
from all sections of the state, the
number IN attendance being great
ly reduced by the prevailing bad
weather, put the future of Democ-
racy in the United States and in
the world, and the lasting prestige
and good will Of the nation abroad
ahead of the question of race and
sent telegram to President Har-
ry S. Truman in one hundred per-
cent endorsement Of his civil rights
program and sent a petition to Gov
ernor Fielding L. Wright and the
State Legislature requesting the
establishment of a permanent by
racial commission to work toward
the development of conditions for
the greatest good OF the State of
Mississippi.
Editor Percy Greene of the Jack
son Advocate by unanimous vote
was elected chairman of the meet
ing. C. T. Butler, of Meridian, nat
ionally known Republican leader,
and Secretary of the State Repub-
lican Central Committee was elect
ed secretary.
Editor Greene, in well temper
ed and one of the greatest speech
es ever heard here, again asserted
that the Civil Rights program
would not lead to intermarriage
and social equality. Greene said,
that the Negro not interested in
social equality and inter-marriage,
negroes were only interested in
equality under the lawand what
could best be referred to as an
autonomous society where all Am
orleans, Greeks, Italians, Negroes
and other could have equality I'M
der the law.
Turning to the right to vote he
said, Negroes in Mississippi want
ed to vote for only one reason, to
join with the intelligent christian
white people in making Mississippi
a better place and where Negro
and white people could live toge-
Their in happiness, prosperity, CO.
operation and good will.
The telegram to President Tru-
man was as follows:
We a Mass Meeting of Negro
citizens of Mississippi, knowing
that we speak the opinion and
sentiment of all the Negroes of
the State who speak without dur.
ess, and knowing that the prestige
of this nation abroad is being chal-
lenged as to the true principles of
Democracy, not only for the Neg
roes of Mississippi and the south
and the nation, but for the preser-
walton of Democracy in America
and the lasting goodwill and pres
tige of our country abroad do here
by give 100 per cent endorsement
to your Civil Rights program.
Copies of the telegram to Predi-
dent Truman was sent to Senator
Vanderburg, Taft, and Eastland; to
House Speaker Joe Martin, and
Congressman George Bender of
Ohio.
The petition recommending the
establishment of a permanent by
racial commission sent to Govern
or Fielding L. Wright, Hon. Sam
Lumpkin, President of the Senate,
and Hon. Walter Sillers, Speaker
of the House of Representatives
of the State Legislature is as fol-
lows:
We, a Statewide Mass Meeting
of Negro citizens of Mississippi
assembled at Central Methodist
Church in the city of Jackson on
Wednesday the eleventh day OF
February, 1913; knowing as we do
the great problems involved in an
equitable distribution of the resou-
rces of the State for the greatest
benefit of the State itself and all
its people; and, in cognizance of
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