Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1948-12-24

interference.
Last month l was sitting Il
son. MiHniasippl Percy Greene n
the editor who has spanked the
fight for Negro suffrage In Mis-
aiasippi, he openly fought tho late
Senator Bllbo, and had an much
~ anybody else 10 DO with bring.
Ing down On niihO the Senatorial
Investigation which cost him hia
seat In the senate In istT. nVeFy
rOactioAAry In mississippi hnowu
Perry urCne and what he stands
for
Perry 0rreae WAS SpcaklnG IN
VlckSb1rE that eVWalRG, About
8 0'Clsch hn stopped In an aat"-
aOllle and started Acresn Mis-
ulnalppi In tho nlRht, Just the
same ~ 70 he had bera cles.n9
hls office and EOlng home 10
dlnnrF.
I am not unmindfll that In the
backwoods OF Georgia at least
two men have been lynehed this
fall because they urged Negroes
to vote, and there aay have been
more lynehiREs in other places BE-.
cause lynehinE has gone under
ground In the south,
Hut II does mean something
that Percy Greene feels secure
enough to drive AcroAa mississippi
at night, make q speech against
race discrimination. just ~ u II
significant that white citizens Of
Georgia arr taking the lead In do
mAnding that the Iynchera In the
two cases cited be brought 10 jus.
tice.
White men ana black men are
challenging segregation at places
In the South today without being
terforiEed, JehOvah's Witnesses
distributed their tracts against
violence during war time, Seventh
Day Advehtists refused ca work
In war factories on Saturdays, A
majority % the people Of this
country oppose communism and
the wrtch.hunt against eommu'
niE,a at the same tims, The record
for civil liberties in the United
states Ia not perfect. but u In
good,
This means that by ard large,
taking them a. . whole, the Amer
lean people are decent and toler-
ant. Even when they disagree with
what you say. they Yet you say H.
instinctivcly they night fair and
in the open.
col0red people ~ o minority
would be In an awful I'm n this
were not 20, n tho % per cent
white population was solldiy de-
tsFTninsd 10 crush the 10 per cent
eoIorcd population, the ten per
cent would not have much chance,
History shows there has never
been o noiId white block against
ua. skip the big names such ~
John Brown. Eiljah Loyejoy, vii
liam Lloyd oaTTison. Charles
sumner, ThAddsus Stevens and
men like them, I am thinking 81
the hundreds OF ordinary white
msn and women who served a.
conductors on the underground
railway before tho Civil War. the
throRgs Of white people who not
ID In the streets 10 prevent the
rscapturs Of fugitive slaves, the
thousands who enlisted In the TN.
Ion Army because thsy hated
slavery. and were wiling 70 dIs
10 stamp u out.
Sometimes ws react ~ violently
70 prejudice and the discrimins.
tons imposed 0n ~ by sorns white
people that We forget there are
OthsF thousands Of white church
people. organized labor people.
students and just plan citiEsns To-
day, south a. well ~ North. VIM
ere eeancIasaiy fighting every
form Of Discrimination based On
Facs, creed or national OEiEin a.
Inconsistent with Christian moral
ny and democrstic principles,
Thsrs 10 . lot 10 complain about
In this country and I Intend 70
keep on complaining 10 the very
end. But whsn think of all The
doesn't wfits people there are. !
am stun sOntsnt - take my
chances with the u. D. A.