Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-08-21
EDITORIAL PAGE

to five. The anti-lynching bill
was passed on April II by a sub
committee of the Senate Judici-
airy Committee. The anti--poll tax
bill passed the House 290-112.
True, these bills were not present,
but they went farther in Congress
than they ever had before.
The Army has not discarded Sc
gregation, but it yields to New
Jersey when the State ruled a.
gainst segregation in it's militia.
Negro press representatives were
admitted to the Senate press gal
lery for the first time this year.
The Borah decision decreed equal
pay for teachers, regardless of
race. Negro internes have been
admitted to Washington hospitals.
The Kentucky Medical Association
took a thrashing fro mthe public
and its own members when it at
tempted to exclude Negro doctors
from local cancer clinic. 1t
withdrew the offeding regulation.
The American Association Of Uni
versity Women unanimously rul-
ed that failure of the Washington
branch to amend it's bylaws to
admit Negroes to membership was
grounds for dismissal of the Chap
ter.
While churches still practice
segregation, the Methodist Gener-
al Conference went on record in
favor of full participation of all
races in church affairs. Previous
ly the conference had made man
datory the election of a Negro to
the judicial Council
Insports, the barriers are crumb-
ling, Jackie Robinson and Satchel
Paige are hailed by playeds, fans
and writer's. Barney Ewell, Nal
Whitfield, and billiard Harrigson
Ito mention just three( are Amer
lean college students who are
breaking Olympic records daily.
All are Negroes
In the field of employment, 40
Southern cities now employ Neg
TO police. A Negro sits in Ken
tucky's General Assembly. Rich
mond, va, recent yelected a Neg
ro- to it's City Council.
Most Of the wartime gains in
factory employment of Negroes
occurred in the munition indus
tries which felt the largest cut
backs after the war. Yet the pro-
portion of Negroes employed in
industrial jobs is about the same
today as during the war. Another
point worth notice is the stricking
drop in the employment of Neg
rOes as domestics. Before 1910
over 70 percent of Negro women
employed elsewhere than on farms
6nY1onCfJnc Wv h no.
dropped to SO per cent. 1t is
even less today.
| The reconversion of industry to
peacetime work had brought no
major downgrading in the occu-
pational composition of Negro
workers. This is significant in
view of the concentration of wor-
time employment advances of Neg
roes in those occupations and
areas in which readjustment was
most severe.
None of these things is starting
in itself. Yet the total progress
made cannot be ignored. There
are areas of our society, housing,
hospital care, the ballot, in which
the Negro is being Disseminated
against, and in which improve
ment must be made. The fight for
civil rights can never stop.
We have just lost the fight
for civil rights in shpecial ses-
sion OF Congress But this does
not mean that millions of decent
people will abate their efforts.
Nor will passage of civil rights
j bill mean that the Klanmen and
!; the white trash OF the country
will cease their demands for
], Negro semi-slayery. The matter
Of equal racial civil rights is
laways going to be . fight But
/ we must never forget that the
fight Is being won.
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