Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-05-15

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Up in Mound Bayou last Friday, The Regional
Council of Negro leadership organization apparent
ly having it's purpose the bringing of all Negroes
having the capacity, ability, courage, and willingness
to accept the responsibility of leadership together in
organization their membership the organization from
the beginning and always thereafter, being predicated
on the acceptance of every proposition and proposal,
and the endorsement Of and Qualification Of the one
man. who would thus become the leader of leaders, and
therefore the ndispuabe all powerful SuperLeader of
the Negroes of the state.
From its first meeting, three years ago when sew
era thousand Negroes from all the state and from
adjoining states, came to Mound Bayou, both to
and hear the Justly famed and honored Negro Congress
man from Illinois, Representative William L. Dawson
then and ViceChairman of the Democratic Nation
al Committee, the leader of the Regional Council of
Negro Leadership discovered, and have successfully,
and successfully used Negro whose and fame is
in the hearts and minds of the Negroes of the state and
nation the comeon prop and color, for it's annual
meeting the results being because of the great crowds
that the organization, only three years DID, is being
magnifed far out of proportion to it's actual and
tentia accomplishments and worth the organization
to carry forward the hopes and desires of the Negro
Citizens of the state.
1t was Thurgood Marshall whose name and fame
has made of him an idolzed hero and name known and
honored in every NEGRO household making his first an
pearance in Mississippi since becoming recognized
the nations leading constitutional lawyers, and
leading exponent of the rights of members of his
Chief Counsel for the National Association for the
Advancement of Coored People that brought the
cord breaking crowd to Mound Bayou last Friday.
The great political philosopher, lawyer statesman
and historian, Edmund Burke finds vast difference
in type in the two men who thus became the principal
actors in the that unfoded at Mound Bayou last
Friday, one, Thurgood Marshall the lawyer, trained
in what Burke calls the science of Jurisprudence
which he defines as the collected wisdom of the ages
the perfection of reasoning the combining of the prn
cpes of ordinary justice and the boundess variety of
human concern and DR.. T. R. NJ Howard, founder, pres
dent and moving spirit of the Regional Council of Ne
gro Leadership, presiding the meeting physician
educated and trained according to Burke preside and
administer at the sides of sick beds
1t Burke in his essay the French Revolu-
ton who after pointing out that the reforms at
which the bloody French Revolution aimed, had been
brought about in England by orderly parliamentary pro-
which he said due to the fact that the English
Parliament and the English people being lead by
men trained in the science of Jurisprudence also says
that the bloody and needless revolution brought
about in France because the leadership of the Assembly
and of the people had been takenover by small prac-
ttioners in medicine and dentistry after they had
CURED superior economic status by preyng upon the
miseries of the French peope-observing in conclusion
that the sides of sick beds and the of dentist chairs
are nothe places to train statesmen and leaders of
the people
In his speech accepting the Man-of the Year Award
the who had done in 1854 than any other
in the state behalf of Negro rights from his
organization, while admitting that there ten
hundred men in the state more deserving to the &C
COMPARTMENT of the raised eyebrows and snde remarks
of the platform guest Dr. Howard launched out into what
has become fashionable among those seeking recogn-
ton leaders, the charge that the Negroes of the state
have been solddownheriver by the old Negro leaders,
condemned "Uncle Toms and Handkerchief
state just eight ago, had abored in the heat of
the day. when there had been forerunners to clear
away the fears of the tmd and loosen the tongues of
the mute, to bring the thus far it's way while
establishing the base for its survival in the state.
1t is tragic fact that there very few, if any,
Negroes in Mississippi of statute who understands and
appreciates the fact that gets big by helping to
make others big and thus of the sad facts about the
Negro leaders that have up in Mississippi,
since the beginning of the New Emancipation in 1948 is
that they have adopted Of the worst traits brought
up from slavery by the Negro that of trying to condemn
and belittle everyone else in order to appear big
themselves.
Returning to the fashionable habit of the New Ne
gro Leaders of charging others with having sold the
Negro down the river, we say here that it should be
understood in the first place that this canard is
edged sword cutting among responsible, sincere, and
able Negroes Of the state well among the response
BILE white people who realize that Negroes and white peo
pie must work together finally before there be any
changes for the better in the state Therefore since the
white people are in the position to call the meetings
where is the wisdom in attempting to brand all Negroes