Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-07-14
ON THE CONVENTION

on the convention circuit. In the
past few days, / have had stop
see-jumy views of three leading
organizations in convention.
Memphis was the latest stop
There Beale Street was buzzing
with reception for the National
Negro Insurance Association while
still tanning its praise to the Mem
phis World and Lewis o. Swingler
for their two decade-service to
Memphis.
When final inventory is taken
on this annual convention, it will
likely be found that it has been
the best attended session of the
30-year-old association. Led bv
Norman 0. Houston, NINA pres;y
and Golden State Mutual mead
man, more than sixty companies
had representative at this 31st
annual session.
Over at Atlanta, the city was
all dressed-up for the 42nd annual
conference of the National Asso-
citation for the Advancement of
Colored People, which brought to
the Gate City for the first time
since 1920. While up the coast at
Dover, a proud little Delaware
was entertaining the National
Congress of Colored Parents and
| Teachers.
The PTA, observing its 25th an
niversary, heard a welcome ad-
dress by Governor Ebert Carvel
IN which it was challenged to con-
tinue action on it's theme and mot
to - Every Child an Equal
Chance" Horace Mann Bond de-
livered the keynote address for
the convention.
DIR. Bond asked the nation to
capitalize on the role that the
Negro can play in counteracting
Iron Curtain propaganda inspired
by Russia to prove the U. S. in
sincere in its relations with the
colored peoples of the free world.
| The Lincoln (Penna.) u. president
feels that brown faces in high
| places abroad would assist this eff
fort.
Top action, as | saw it at Dover,
was the NCCPTA's acceptance of
af invitation to join the Women's
Joint Congressional Committee.
WJCC maintains headquarters at
Washington, where it studies and
"chaperons" federal legislation af-
fecting the national welfare. The
PTA is its first Negro member
organization.
Whenever the NAACP meets,
the fireworks are sure to be on.
Atlanta was no exception to this
rule, although most of the Asso-
cations delegates accepted it as
the most neutral spot in ''the
other mans domain" 1t was def
mite, nevertheless, that the As
ISOLATION had come to Atlanta to
sound its battle cry.
Key-noter Roy Wilkins, NAACP
administrative assistant; NAACP
chief counsel Thurgood Marshall,
Philip Willkie-son of the late
Wendell Willkie, and Benjamin
Mayes-Morehouse College presi-
dent, all pointed to the death of
segregation as the immediate goal
in the Associations drive to as
sure full citizenship rights for the
Negro.
big Chief" Marshall, fresh
from strategic conferences with
the big Forty" of the NAACP
legal staff, announced the Asso-
cations intention to Immediately
appeal the Clarendon, S. c., school
segregation suit, which was lost in
a two to one count before a fed
eral court panel at Charleston.
Then he outlined a five-point legal
program directed at segregation.
Marshall announced these legal
attacks to be in the following
areas: education; public transpor-
tation-with stress on street cars
and buses; health, housing and
recreational facilities; public gath
erings; and all places of public
accommodation These interest
areas supported Roy Wilkins de-
mand for full and complete equal
ity."
The NAACP considers it's cur
rent activities to abolish segre-
cation in schools, Kindergarten
thru university, to be it's chief de-
Tense of democracy. Likewise, it
deems its steps in the equal edu-
cation campaign to have been
taken in logical sequence. So from
Atlanta, the nation, especially the
South has been told that this drive
will continue.
Looking the record over, the
Association feels that it has met
with good success in it's effort to
equalize teacher salaries, although
many Negro teachers do not yet
get salaries equal to those re-
ceived by others in their respect
i've communities. Also, the Asso-
citation has had good success at
the higher education level.