St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-07-04
NAACP PLANS
TO STEP UP FIGHT
AGAINST JIM CROW

greed TO review. Both were ap-
pealed by the NAACP.
The shift Of emphasis In the
fight against segregation from
school systems to the recreation
and transportation fields came
after a meeting Of the assOcIa-
tons legal staff.
On the eve Of the convention,
White had accused both Gen.
Dwight d. Eisenhower and Sen.
Robert Taft, leading candidates
for nomination for the presi-
dency Of hedging on civil rights.
He also said that only w. Averell
Hartman Of the Democratic can
didates had taken a strong stand
on civil rights. He indicated that
Adlai Stevenson, governor Of Ill
inois might be acceptable to the
NAACP.
Reuther, In discussing civil
rights at a press conference, said
that "a presidential candidate
running on the Fair Deal Plat
form, with hard hitting civil
rights plank, can win the fall
election.
He told newsmen such a civil
rights program should provide for
federal enforcing powers that
will tell the world America be-
lieves in equal opportunities for
all of its citizens.
The union leader, a member Of
the NAACP board OF directors,
presented a $1,000 check to the
organization from a special civil
rights fund of the JAW. He also
presented 1000 from a commit
tee Of 100, a group which aids the
NAACP financially in court cases.
At a session devoted TO an
swering questions by persons
working against segregation at
the community level, four race re-
lation specialists were kept busy.
Kenneth Morland, told dele
gates that:
The argument that separation
Of races is natural, that people
like to be with those Of their own
kind can be refuted. II is refuted
by children, among others, who
have not as yet adopted some of
the racial attitudes held gy their
parents, They are free Of pre-
judice in their choice of play
mates.
But some children. see the
division OF the races and they
adopt the attitudes that the child
is different who is kept apart and
perhaps should be summed"
In discussing racial barriers In
the South, wilkins, the keynoter.
said outposts have been establish
ed In every southern state where
race relations are marked by
hatred and violence.
But the legal war for equal
rights Is not confined solely to
the south, Wilkins asserted. He
added:
"NAACP voices a united de-
mand from South, North, East
and West for first-class citizen
ship and an end to discrimination
and segregation based on race and
color"
In other news from the confer
ence, which saw more than $50
delegates from As states and
Alaska in attendance. Daniel
Byrd Of New Orleans, field secre-
tary of the NAACP legal de-
partment, said that four suits will
be filed within the next so days
in Louisiana, seeking the entrance
of colored persons into elemen-
tary and secondary schools in
New Orleans. st. Helena Parish.
jackson Parish and Grant Parish,
Another question up for dis
cussion at the convention was
that of housing and the manner in
which 1t affects minority groups.
Loren Miller. Los Angeles at
torney, NAACP specialist on
housing and restrictive covenant
laws, said that housing repre-
sents the No. 1 problem in Ameri-
ca today. He termed It deadly
and insidious problem"
Soldier Students
The school bell has runR for q
significant number Of soldiers, Il
was revealed by q recent compila-
ton Of results Of the Army's Troop
Education Program. Consolidation
Of statistics for the first three
months Of 1881 revealed that Army
personnel earned 5.25I fifth grade
and l.l47 eighth grade certificates;
9,205 high school diplomas. and
l,7S6 competitions OF the first year
Of college. In addition. Il Army
officers completed two-yeAr college
requirements and "a officers re-
csived baccalaursate degrees dur.
ing the quarter-year period. Sub
Stantial increases were noted In
the education activity program. par
ticularly In the continental United
States. with the Fifth Army record
Ing a 200 per cent gain over par
ticipation during the previous quar-
tsr-year. October December. 1880.