St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1953-01-16

comngs many the have given only lip service
to the idea.
Whenever mentions that southern Negroes should
be allowed attend school with their fellow whites in the
better equipped educational institutions of
northern brethern of them mOders of public opinion
start moaning about the need have problems solved
by education" Often the education they referring to
waiting until the southern white decides to all
low his black fellow American of the privileges and bene
fits of unsupported funds
said before it is all very well for white
brethren upon the need for patencesnce it's not
his house which being burned down All of humans
less be very academic and objective about the other
fellows pressing problems long such problems do not
to affect personally
When first suggested that the NAACP take action
in the state and federal courts to force southern states to
vide higher educational facilities for Negro students the
up that the wasn't ready. In effect saying
that this nation conceived in liberty and dedicated freedom
ready extend those privileges to of its
population The other cry that education" would solve
the problem The NAACP proceeded into the courts As
result there 1000 Negro students the campuses
southern schools from which they formerly barred
Our constitution interpreted by Supreme pro-
vded the education"
The take it easy boys would have been until the year
2OOO accomplishing the result by which action of nine
the t. Supreme court the number of decisions has forced
supported universities number of southern states
admit American students of color cassrooms When
NAACP instituted these suits there great hue and cry
such suits would back improvement relations
The has been true The negligible opposition from
university authorities and rather than the white
dents who in many instances of their way make
Negro students welcome Some readers will recall how white
students at the University of Oklahoma tore down several
hundred dollars worth of painted signs that campus which
read For Whites Only and For Negroes Only"
Our u S. Supreme Court has under advisemen four
suits which, if decided for the Negro plaintiffs would prac
cay end lawful segregation in schools of the elementary
and high school levels in this nation.
large proportion of editorial in the north
emphasis the
All very sympathetic with the problems of those
who up the unfair unequal segregated school systems
whereas the sympathy way of thinking should be
those who have had to suffer it, and the nation which bears
shame of a school system. parts of its As states
Admitting that there tremendous problems in bring
ing about changes and frontiers human relationships
such the adjustment of jim Crow schools when
Americans been afraid tackle the difficult prob
lemi Right engaged in expanding the lives
portions of each individuals days wages help
world problem Yet when called upon the domestic
make decisions based the rghful concept our
Constitution asked always avoid facing bravey what
is right and what is wrong.
This newspaper expects the L. decide
segregation supported schools anywhere in the
u is in violation of the constitutional rights citizens
Time history and the day problems demand highest
decide the issue which inter
national position and our national unity
Just Armed Forces found finally, with constant
proddng Jim Crow bad frustrating thing to T. s.
fighting morale in the Navy Air Force Army Mar
find that they have been living in the past abolition
such schools will day for public education for all
American children of the Southland.