Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-02-13

Sometime it is necessary for newspaper editor to
Clarity or throw more light on opinion already
pressed which what doing here in regard to
editorial under the title in the last edition of
paper.
Here in Jackson Saturday before last now accord
ing to the most reliable sources there meeting of
the Executive Board of the State Negro Teachers AS
ISOLATION convened for the purpose of transmitting
money to the state NAACP for the purpose of aiding in
legal action that may become necessary in connection
with the recent application of Acorn College graduate
for admission to the Law School of the University of
Mississippi.
1t is opinion in spite of the noise of the oppos-
ton that the overwhelming weight of public opinion
throughout the South favors the admission of Negro
students to state supported college and universities and
it is opinion that the conclusion will be permitted in
all quarters that the state of Mississippi is at least
part and parcel of the South and therefore subject to
the weight of Southern opinion although resisting any
opinion from outside the South for what Mssissppians
refer as outside influences and outside interference
The matter and right of Negro students in Missis-
sppi to attend the state supported institutions of high
education such the University of Mississippi at Ok
ford, and Mississippi College at Starksvie reach
es over and above the argument in regard to the abo
ton of segregation in the public primary elementary
and high schools and with the difficult if not impossible
task OF raising the money necessary to finance and
provide equalization of the public schools at these levels
there can hardly be not absolutely blinded
by prejudice who will contend that Mississippi
should try to provide separate but equal educational
opportunities for Negro and white students at the Uni
versity level.
That Negro students of Mississippi have the right
to aspire to become not only DOCTORS lawyers dentist
and teachers but also to seek to become engineers and
techncians of the various sorts being called for by
American industry the training for which is not to be
found in the socaed Negro colleges of the state is not
to be denied except by those who have become blinded
by udce should the Negro students of Mis-
sissp be forced to outside of the state search of
such educational opportunities.
Everywhere, everybody, including the state Negro
Teachers Association and the National Association for
the Advancement of Coored People, in viewing the past
history of the state looking for the most strenuous and
noisy opposition to the right of Negro students to at
tend the University of Mississippi brought fore by
the recent application of Negro student for admission
to its Law School,
In view of the above and in the light of developing
world opinion and conditions they relate to the future
regard for the United States in the community of
tons, everybody including the Mississippi Negro Teach
ers Association and the National Association for the
Advancement of Coored People, should be disappointed
in regard to the recent application admission to the
Law School of the University of Mississippi by the
cepance of the application upon the basis and quafca
tons OF any other student seeking admission to the
University.