Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-05-15
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GOVERNOR WRIGHT'S SPEECH
THE MISSISSIPPI NEGRO

No speech in the history Mississippi politics profoundly
effected Negro Mississippi did the speech made
radio network the Negro Citizens OF the state by Gov
crnor Wright last Sunday
This speech by the Governor Citizens
Citizens of the state bob in what was
tualy spoken and its undlsgued hIhauohs- II igh wen
by directing attention the several assertions respecting
aspects life and opportunity the state might be
though because of the plain OBVIOUS aspects OF Negro lie
and opportunity the real attitude of the
Negro Citizens the Civil Rights Program and
the rights attention to element en-
voved in aspects problem the state the
United States not made clear to the Negroes the
Governors speech
great American Educator is having the
great Judge the Negro the United
states in such numbers that he could nothing condition
by revouon had the Negro the disposition
the of Others that the Negro
laboratory specimen by which the American
end spiritual world leadership.
Let be said again and again
Negro rights he and he
has been seeking Equality" intermingng with white
people in Mississippi anywhere else
said however that the nature Of the conditions
prompted Governors speech the Negro
should plain that only the full right OF the
Negro will eliminate the Negro Question: the
Of Mississippi politics and the greatest hnderance to
The Negroes view of the whole rights program
abolition of segregation by law in the United States is that it is
condition brought on of the
the peoples is being mpled
by frees despite Walter White the NAACP
neither help hinder He therefore and natural
fearful apphensve and increasingly bewildered
"hen it predicted that he will be made to suffer at the outcome
q struggle of forces greatly beyond his control
Mississippi something than the
political would do well to study tie results of Negroes mo
upon The hopeful of
that percentage of
produced industries be bought consumed by
fifty nearly of the states
population with other of need considered the Negro the
Greatest potential consumer group in state
leaving seriously ndustrazaen would also
greatest effect the of the state which
developed the ratio of Negro population
The aspects rights program and the
problem Mississippi the South the United States
the Negroes the state the Governors speech
bV
people O. the
great setting to
confidence goodwill cooperation the basis of auon-
of citizenship of the coored people OF the world who make up
population To reach this conclusion
only look the most recent happening the British
Having prejudice which had been
years before the United States became
nation part Of the British Imperial Policy only to be anspand
with slavery its deepest the south its abandon
rent by greatest future significance.
Churchill British War Lead
said the first article of his War Mem
ors being published ay Life Magazine with respects to
Ethiopia ussons designs Ethiopia were
Twentieth Century They belong those
ages themselves entitled yellow
Brown Black subjagate them strength
and weapons granted freedom
to accepting them the basis
of autonomy n the British family of Nations
been overlooked in this indicated
change policy world outlook recently announced
in the Colleges Scotland where they
would receive all manners ftke highest education
of the Gold Coast also recently
all the High Government post
previously Europeans and that the natives would be given
rights and participate in their government
What plainly effort last the right d
econ all the diverse people of the empire
yellow black red in political moral and spiritual
unity.
This is the clear new greatness. This
is part great challenge segregation by law and
the problem in the United States.
Mississippi and the south, than
any section preparing the nation to
great chaange the American idea and ideals Christian
Brotherhood and world democracy.