Jackson advocate., 1953-02-07

and be Of good cheer, the same God
that made the white boy and girl,
made the black boy and girl and
God Is watching the destiny of his
people. What the youth of Missis-
slppi needs is more success exam
plies within the Negro race. When
l tell the Negro youth of Missis-
slppl that there is a better dav
coming, | am reminded Of that
ageless discourse of Socrates on the
Good Society. When Gloucon said.
Socrates, ! do not believe that
there is such a city of God any,
where on Earth" Socrates replied.
whether such city exists in
Heaven or ever will exist on Earth.
the wise man will live after the
manner of that city, having moth
ing to do with any other, and in
so looking upon it, will set his
own house in order"
Whether, Young people, this day
OF equality comes in my day or
yours, really does not matter but
the wise young man and woman in
Tougaloo, Jackson College and
Campbell College will set his or
her house in order by preparing
himself or herself to render the
most efficient service in his or
her chosen field that has ever been
rendered. Efficiency and service
is what the world is asking of the
youth today. When Jackie Robin
son is on Second Base, he does
the job so well that the world for
gets that his skin is black. Young
people let efficiency and service
be your watch word and making
money will take care of itself.
have not lost faith in Missis-
sippi. In fact my faith in Missis-
sippi grows each day. When | see
men who have been in power for
years IN our state, who have not
given Negro education a passing
thought, who are worried to death
today about Negro education, | say
there is bright hope right here in
Mississippi.
That there must be radical
changes made in our educational,
economic, political and social struc-
lures we must all cOncede. | do
not believe that all of the changes
which must come about in Missis-
sippi to make the Negro a first
class citizen can come over night,
yet, | have absolutely no patience
with that group of white leaders
and that large group of Uncle
Tom leaders in Mississippi, who
are saying today that eff Franklin
D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman
ard the Supreme Court would have
left us alone, we would work out
our own problems"
Ladies and Gentlemen, all of this
talk about raising one hundred and
twenty-five million dollars, an un-
heard of sum, to improve or bring
about the equalization of the Negro
schools in the state and all Of the
other changes that we see for the
good of all the people, have come
about because of the drawn lash
of the Supreme Court Of the Uni
ted States of America. We have
every chance since the days of
American slavery to make some of
these changes but we did nothing
about it until the drawn lash of
the Supreme Court of the United
States of America was upon us.
In order to prepare the Negro
people of Mississippi for the
Dignity of Equality, l wish to
advocate four things which we
must have. First, Negroes must
have equality in education in order
to attain the Dignity of Equali-
ty." Too much emphasis cannot be
put on education in our fight for
equality in this Democracy. We
must have only one educational
standard in this Country and in
this state for all the people. The
Negroes of the South's greatest
day in education is just before us.
| appeal to the young people of our
Colleges here to make the very
best use of your time. The world
that you are going into is only
interested in how efficient you
are and how well you can serve.
Negro leaders in Mississippi
must continue to fight for the
same kind of education for the
black boy in Mississippi that is
given to the white boy.
The second thing that we must