Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1954-11-05
Times, Things. People Have Changed
BY S. S. Taylor

Why get so excited about the indignation decision?
writer asks The Pesy decision handed down 6 years ago
has Separate but equal has never
been taken seriously Why should expect the recent de-
cision and the to be enforced?
The that things times and people have chang
ed AS we'll ask why should jet run faster than Kitty
Hawk? AS well ask why should be fought with tanks?
Cavalry good enough As well ask why use electric
bulbs? read by oil lamps As well ask why be
worried about Abraham Lincoln Fred Douglass
go school, and look what they did, AS well ask why
about the Emancipation Proclamation? The Negro was
200 years. As well ask why air conditoneS
radios teevson sets? Them things were not popular IN
1896
Things change, brother; things change.
The Supreme Court decision needs be taken serious
because changed The Supreme Court hand
the decision, Presidents Roosevelt Truman
Eisenhower who appointed the nine judges and the
Immediately affected by the decision all symptoms
effects world far removed in its full front and pro-
lie from the world of the Plessy decision
Pessy decision handed down, England was
he worlds policeman. Today the policeman wouldn't take
tand unless he had first eaoed Uncle Sam into backing him
p When the Pessy decision handed down. Russia was
enghed unpogressive and exploited by its despoe rulers
still has learned the democracy of democracy but oh
has learned its industrial progress Its armies air
lanes have been remade to match the and
eapons the west 1t has equipped the hordes of China
nee the nightmare of Eurasia; it is the night
of the world England Germany, France, SPAIN Ho
md, Italy all the great colonzng powers have lost
er colonies in process of losing them The doctrine
communism has been invented rallying cry offset
democracy The United the hordes
billion communists armed by the arsenal of communism
did the Plessy days The world has changed brother
When the Plessy decision handed down, Peter Jack
the kngpn of Negro athletes far fame
neerned, and he couldn't get matched with the champion
hen he in his prime This the day of Joe Louis in
izefghting of Jackie Robinson in baseball of Negro
ympc game winners, and Negro topnoteh eonenders in
arly all phases of athletics A PHI D. a rarity among
egroes then; it is almost commonplace The Negro
his great constitutional lawyers and host of young
iant beginners He has present statue based achieve
and recognitions in world and the Korean
'oce jobs and varied achievements in all the arts
iences professions The Negro longer the simple
sophisticated figure of 1896 He has learned how the
ocedures by which democratic people hold their rights The
egro has changed
Finally the white has changed Forty years
TO- Negro physically assaulted because he took his
in line of customers Now in every place except the
gregated railway and bus depos white and Negro
irons take their place in line without resentment APP
white Returning white soldiers feel comradeshp
Negro their foebears may have felt but
dare manifest The unheard of phenomenon of Presi
mt Truman daring make major issue of the Negro in
presidents message symbol of the deep change that
sweeping the white today There egions of Amert
n white ashamed of segregation and dscrimi
/, ton Even the white has changed
And because there has been tremendous change in
things of today the world of today the Negro of today
even the American white man of today there will be
in the reception of the Supreme Court decision
ILL be change The clock is ticking off a new hour We
living in epoch The present development an inevi-
Die outcome of national principles the
ions and peoples of the world today 1t the birth
mocracy these United States America 1t cannot 90
ok to the racenderfoot-ph philosophy of the days of the
essy decision.