The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1954-07-03
Gov White Meets With Negroes To Discuss School Situation

jackson. Miss According to
an Associated Press article in the
daily papers, Governor Hugh White
met with group of Negro educa-
tional leaders Wednesday of this
week to lay the groundwork for
larger. Negro committee to cooper
ate n maintaining segregation in
public schools.
The article quoted the Mississippi
Governor as saying, I'VE had very
fine discussion of the whole situa-
tion" Il am very much pleased with
matters as far as they dhe Negroes)
are concerned
Joining the governor and the Ne
groes in the meeting were state
superintendent of Education Jack
Tubb and speaer of the house, Wal
ter Sillers.
The article further stated that
the Negroes preferred to remain
anonymous, and left by the back
door.
They included, informed sources
said, E. S. Bishop. of Corinth past
president of the state Negro Teach
ers Association: J. w White. of Itta
Bena; J. D. Boyd, of Utica; J R.
Otis, president of Alcorn AIM Col
lege; Percy Green, Jackson news
paper editor; and the Rev. H. H.
HumeS.
The article stated that accord
ing TO Gov. White, list of names
Of prominent Negroes was made up
during the meeting and they will
be invited to later meeting
In closing the article it was stated
that the governor declined to dis
cuss the Negroes attitude except
that he expected they would work
together" with white leaders in the
school.
Before this meeting, Gov. White
had exchanged ideas with South
Carolina group on how to retain
separate schools.
Last Friday speaking to meme
bers of the State Municipal Officers
Association convening in Biloxi,
Dean Robert A. Farley, Dean of
the University of Mississippi Law
School warned them against trying
to "outsmart'' the Supreme Court
of the U. s., saying that white child
rem should not be sacrificed just to
keep an occasional Negro out of a
school"
Dean Farley asseter. I'm as
much against non-segregation as you
are" but when it comes to passing
laws to outsmart the Supreme Court
of the United States, and most of
the other states of the Union, then
l say, Mississippi; can't afford it"
Speaking editorially this week,
week. Editor Percy Green of the
Jackson Advocate states thusly be
ginning at the time when w. E. B.
Dubois, as a uper-intellectual Ne
gro leader began his attack on the
philosophy and teachings of Book
7. Washington the Negro has come
more and more under the influence
OF new type of leadership, includ-
ing NAACP zealots, the Negro SUI
per-intellectuals and professionals,
who give greater worship to the ideal
of White Supremacy than most
white people, who would have the
Negro desert his pride in his own
institutions, desert his pride of race,
in the search for a euphemous in
tegration."
Editor Green further states that
while here in Mississippi, and in
the rest of the south. real home
of the American Negro. White lead
ers asserting their pride :
are cryingout against hav. lelr
children attend schools with Ne
gro children, there are no Negro
leaders, with equal pride of race,
crying out against having their
children attend schools with white
children; thus in the matter of the
schools the desire to have his child
rem attend school with white child
rem is left alone as his sole AIM.
Green ended his editorial by say
ing, that Par and away above the
call of indignation. the greatest
need of the American Negro is more
individual pride and more race
pride"
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