St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1951-07-06
Youths, White &
Block. Speak A.
NAACP Confub
Young White MIssissippian
Urges Group To Continue
Fight For Rights


Fight For Rights
Atlanta, July 1.-Two young
men-a Negro from Harvard Uni
versity and a white youth from
the University of Mississippi
shared the platform with Thur
good Marshall NAACP special
council, on the youth night pro-
gram on the NAACP And annual
convention which closed here to-
day.
THE immediate problems fac
ing youth today" Mr.. Marshall
said, ARE military service and
education. OF course, there are
other questions such as the right
to earn a living, the right to
housing, the right to vote and all
Of the general problems which we
have been facing all these years
which are in the background. But
in order to reach these issues they
must face the immediate pro-
blem of either being compelled to
serve in the military branch of
our government or to complete
their education"
To these problems, the youth
speakers, Walter Darlington,
president of the NAACP chapter
at Harvard, and Albin Krebs of
Mississippi, addressed themselves.
Both hailed the fight of the AS
ISOLATION to break down barriers
against the co-education of Negro
and white youth.
"The constant assault by this
Association upon the twin ano-
males of democracy, segregation
and second-class citizenship-has
done much to assure Negro youth
that the American dream need no
longer be the American night
mare" Mr.. Darlington asserted.
1T Is no longer true that If his
skin is black he must go to a
segregated school to receive his
education The brilliant battles
that we have won in the courts of
our land are making it an ana
chronism to speak of white"
colleges. What has been accom-
plished on the graduate school
level will inevitably be duplicated
on the undergraduate level
throughout the southland"
Mr.. Krebs told how he came to
write the editorial in the student
paper advocating the admission
of Negro students to the Univer-
sity of Mississippi. His early ex-
pericnces led him to the con-
Clusion that "all Negroes, all
white-skinned persons, all human
beings, belong to a free society
in which opportunity is unlimited
and color of skin is not that OPP
portunity's sole qualifying factor
II felt that the answer to the
problem of improving the econo-
mic and social plight Of the Ne
gro in the South was to be found
first in educational equality"
The young Mississippian COM
mended the NAACP upon its
fight to end Jim Crow education.
He recommended that the Assoc
iation continue its struggles to
have Negroes admitted into state
institutions, that it do so in the
dignified manner that it has in
the past that has won the
respect and confidence OF the
southern people, that it discour-
age and refuse the support Of left
wing organizations"
Mr., Marshall reported on find
ings of his trip TO Japan and
Korea to investigate first-hand
the courts martial Of Negro ser
vice men, His Investigations, he
said. disclosed that Negroes were
convicted of military offenses in
disproportionate number In the
25th division there were 80 convic-
tons of Negro tnfantrymcn and
only two Of white soldiers.
The NAACP counsel also told of
the new plans to extend the fight
against segregation TO the local
level in cases of transportation,
public education. public accomo-
dalton, health, housing and recrea-
tiOnal facilities.