The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-09-09
Negro Editor Sees The South

Davis Lee a Negro publishes the Newark Telegram a
Newark New Jersey 1t is publication for Negroes and the bes
Southern states
Lee is Northern-born Negro and short time ago h
Faons % Se du fe % to do @ OF
sonay Last Sunday he reported to his readers in
sive article the editorial Some excerpts which reec
his objective approach to the problem are as follows:
81 have Just returned from an extensive South
In addition meeting and talking with agents and dstrbu
get newspapers than readers
in South both Negroes Whites the urban and
rural centers.
personal observations studies and
acts feel that speak with degree of authority
am certainly in better position to voice an opinion than the
Negro leader who occupies suite in downtown New York and
in the Negro press and in the Daily Worker
1.-THE racial lines South clearly and de-
fined there confusion When Virginia South
Carolina don't wonder if will be served if walk into a
White restaurant know the score However have walked in
to several right here in New Jersey where we have cvrghts
law, and have been refused service.
1.-THE Whites in the South stay with their and the
M gro likewise rms one iac has been the economic
Newark in size and population Negroes there and control
millions of dollars worth of business All of the Negro business
city in Georgia This also in South Carolina and Virginia
New Jersey today boasts of cvlrights legislation
than other State in the Union and State itself
practices discrimination than Virginia North Carolina
Georgia New Jersey employs Negro the motor vehicle de-
parnen All of the States aforementioned employ plenty
matter what Negro wants do he can do it in the
South In spartanburg c., Ernest Collins young Negro
La.es lee lueIM hom lAcao BUSINESS d lining s'atolt
club arGee' S'''e has See' 'usSS runs ~ A'n anu NS"
Mr.. Collins couldn't do all that in New Jersey New
York The only bus line operated by Negroes the South The
Safe Bus Co. in WnstonSaem N Co. and operates
hundred If Negro New Jersey had money
and attempted obtain franchise operate line he would
only be turned down. he would be lucky he didn't get
a bullet in the back.
he attitude of the Southerners toward natu
raj psychological reaction aftermath of the Civil Negro
were the properties of these people.
csrs you would snd expect the he's South this
from generation another but is of hatred for the
Negro The South just doesn't believe that the Negro
No section of the country has progress
Naturally Souheners resenul when the North
to ram a Civl-Rights program down their threats.
The entire program in America is wrong. Our ap-
proach We expend all energies spend millions
OF dollars trying to convince White people that
as they that equal Joe Louis is looked upon
Negro but the greatest fighter of all time
by whites IN South Carolina much by those Michigan
he convinced the world not by propaganda agitation
by demonstration.
"Our fight for recognition, Justice Civil Rights and
equality should be carried within the
to the world by living Standards conduct ability
intelligence that we the equal of when
nave done this the entire world including
us on our terms Our of threats agitation
makes enemies out of friends"
The findings of Publisher are just what any we-in-
formed Southener white coored all along The
only that Publisher Lee has chosen plainly
when which
er standing could not declare without subjecng
peratlon and charges of being "a white mans Negro"
Both White and Coored people the Nation must come
to understand and quickly, that much agitation aemp
ing 10 oeak up their friendship and cordial is inspired
y new at home and abroad who
In seeing Southern Whites Negroes march toward mer
economic base and to higher base and to HIGHER
$dards of living for both races. ,e Ne ~
t-sHsf6 From Jackson Daily News