Arkansas State press., 1949-12-02

in Latin and Spanish Started this year since e sui was
fled and the minimum of other while the white
school contained everything possible to be taught in the hgh
school of modern day trends and practices II was iufe
alleged that Lincoln is the scholastic equal OF the white
school, and the high school is Sc years DID, the walls are
cracking from the roof to ground the floors and stair
ways walls crumblng decent toilet facilities no
cafeteria and of the cultural courses contained IN ue
white senior high school.
The school board defended in the MAN, the showing
that they had the filing of the suit erected new ee
mentary school, small home economic building small
metal shops building and were planning to renoVate te
high school building.
At the time attorneys for the NAACP were able
to show by the pictures that the Lincoln high school,
coored unsanitary unsafe outmoded firerap and
wholly inadequate meet the demands that the elementary
schools we'll overcrowded unsafe unsantary that
the Negroes graduating from Lincoln high school had no
junior college advantages in the city, while at the same me
high school, high school elementary schools
for white children of the finest type of construction far
beyond the facilities offered Negroes both in physical aci
ties and curcuums and that such constituted discrimination
account denial to the Negroes Of their rights
under the 4th amendment to the Constitution of the United
States.
The Fort Smith is important in that it points up
the vany among Negroes How under high heaven could
any Fort Smith Negro the outside Of an insane asylum
testify such alleged facts exposed in this trial. which he
knows against the best interests Of his group? The
that these individuals selling their souls for
thirty pieces of silver" OF their testimony be
characterized dlaoy tactic for the thinking OF the
Chinese. picture is worth ten thousand words When
the exhibits presented in this trial offered the high court
1t will in fell sweep all the false fixed tes-
mony of black Judases.
Once before the NAACp has had to defeat prejudice in
Fort Smith with pictures. When the Fort Smith Housing
Authority several years sought to Dust Negroes from
their homes and property effort to erect Stun clear
project for whites II made representations to Nathan
Straus then head of the United States Housing Authority
that all of the homes in the substandard II
only when this writer went to Fort Smith and organized
branch of the NAACP and subsequently forwarded pictures
to Washington showing the nicely terraced lawns and homes
the splendid churches and business places in the banned
than order to desist from condemnation proceedings
issued to the Fort Smith Housing Authority.
We think the Fort Smith lesson Is sufficient warning to
Negroes that they certainly not meeting the challenge Of
first class citizenship until they rid their ranks of Uncle Tom
leadership. One of the participants In discussion in Okla
homa City Sunday said Negroes in slavery In many
specs ahead of the present generation Of American blacks
No ruer words spoken The Uncle Tom crea.
ure fashioned out of than three centuries oppes-
sion He has lost all of serespect and like a crow
feeds upon the dead flesh Of his fellows The 18th century
Negro Fuzzy Wuzzie. and Kpng described him.
first class fighting Before he'd be slave he'd rather be
buried in his and he proved II by his will
ngness die before he would his freedom Not
only in Fort Smith, but Oklahoma City everywhere we
must isolate the Uncle Toms from leadership.
--Bark