Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-07-15
FEPC-The Failure OF The NAACP
And Negro Leaders To See The
Most Vital Part OF The
CiviLRights Program


Lucas, of Illinois the majority leader chief spokesman
for the Democrat Party the United States Senate an
nounced that another try would be made at the passage
of the FEPC BILL Nobody with any about the work
ing of politics and the alignment of the political forces
expects anything to out Of the effort pass
age of the FEPC bill.
Since the action of the Civil Right Mobilization in
Washington, before and beyond the action Of Senator
Lucas making another try the passage of the FEPC
BILL it might be we'll for the Negro Leaders throughout
the Nation particularly the NAACP and friends of the
Negroes to take look around what has happen since
the Civil Rights Mobilization declared FEPC to be the
most vital and important part of the Presidents Civil
Rights Program; and demanded for it first consdera-
ton by the Congress of the United States.
A first look at what has happened since the Civil
Rights Mobilization demanded that congress give first
consideration to FEPC will revealed that the demand
has resulted in bringing together uniting around that
single issue every anNegro element in the South and
the entire nation; and friends of the Negro in the
North and in the South being met with greater bit
terneSs than at any other time with the exception per-
haps, OF the period Immediately preceding the Civil
War
The defeat of Senator Claude Pepper the defeat of
DR. Frank Graham the sharp reduction in the influence
and prestige of growing number of Southern liberals
and the renewed potency of the Negro issue in South
ern politics the result of the demand of the
Civil Rights Mobilization than any other of factors
Since all this effort is being made presumably to
better the lot Of the Southern Negro we here again
point out for the Negro Leaders, especially those in the
North and the NAACP, that being down here in the
South living day by day. the Negro in the South knows
more about what he needs IN order to meet the situations
ard conditions than anybody else
Looking back at more than seventy-five-years of
history and the experience of the thirteenth fourteenth
and fifteenth amendments to the Constitution of the
United States, which had their purpose the full con-
Summation OF his emancipation and freedom the Southern
Negro has sense enough to know that FEPC and
no other kind of law passed by the Congress or the
legislature Of the states is going to help him. until he
can vote and help elect those who make the law; until
he can vote and elect those who enforce the law until
he can vote and help elect those who interpret the law
The Southern Negro therefore knows that of first
and tormost Importance for his present and future well
fare is the right to his ballot in an atmosphere free
from the fear of personal violence and intimidation.
The Premiss having been stated we again say to
the Negro leaders and the NAACP particular that the
anti-pol Tax Bill and the Anti-lynchng BILL as far as
concerns the Presidents Civil Rights Program in the
beginning and still is of first and foremost Importance
as affecting the present and future welfare of the South
ern Negro.
Moreover, before the Civil Rights Mobilization took
its position regarding FEPC there was growing num-
Der OF liberals and progressive spokesman being heard
everywhere in the South who saying that the time
had for the Negro Citizens to- have the full and
free right to vote and the right of political participation
along with every other citizens look at the present
situation, will reveal that the bitterness over FEPC
has caused these Advocates to recently become silent
and everywhere the anNegro forces are dead SET and
with almost free hand upon reducing the number and
potency of Southern Negro voters developed since the
beginning of the second world war; the Southern Negro
and beWderment
In all this neither the fault nor the failure
OF President Truman nor Senator Lucas but we see it
all the fault and failure of the nations Negro Lead
ers and especially the NAACP, in being either unwilling
unable to what is of real and lasting Importance
and first and foremost in the Presidents Civil Rights
Program.