Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-03-26
Negroes Can't Have Cake
And Eat 1t Too; Says
Ebony Magazine Editorial
Negro Die Herds Die Hard

January l. 1863 centennial Of the Proclamation Of ancpa
on has been set BY the NAA the for fun Indignation
political
they fventy hope he able TO live
eat Sleep attend school and worship God anywhere his heart desires
and purse dictates.
Thngs raciay moving steadily
Abe Lincoln made that 1883 within
the decade the been considerably
leaders and United States Presidents take firm stand
against racial segregation Paced ThuEoOd Marshall and his brief
brigade intolerance the Old laws spelling out the
NsgTos rights upheld protect rights
have been enacted The walls hgotry tbng
Yet with the whole world denouncing segregation and d
alton Negroes States defend it
These the shads and handful of nts who have
10 million Negroes than Oparzs their htt Jim Crow gold
mines BY risIng composition in an intsgratsd society
Vested interests m SegEegakon
Negroes approaching
the braca system that whom SOcOlOgSt Franklin
These and their Hhood entirely from other Ne
under segregated conditions rigid
The removal of these ba they win throw
Progress
Negro politicians elected largely political
ons Negro policemen patrol largely Negro communities The Negro
church and service Negro audience
and dime stores and unhy companies have provided supervisory
and white collar jobs for Negroes where
With Indignation just around the these people
have been catued to fame and fortune much the basis of
they win not be accepted into ntegated society
numerical degree they now enjoy and that they are accepted they
not be able to compete successfully with whites training
threat to their way life
largest group caught this changing order Negro
school segregated
schools $4,000 Negroes fear the loss Of their ob They have built
shaped future based apartneAs
have given themselves unstntg to the communities which they
live And though preach
equality they quick resist affects their
books
Freedom La Not Free
Negrees co. They
hang to the spo Of segregated system and at the time
demand an end q aggregation That the price they must for
separate institutions the Negro should be the FIRST lay his racsm
fellowship
for their existence
organization Many more group" especially professional could
wen take note.
Negro fought long have
his victory warted by sfsegegaonS He cannot afford to sit
system that all peoples rspudatng Although prejudice and
bgotry n being popular
for court has ruled that to call white man Negro not hbelous
When Mdwsstsn department Negro
msr what he wants and today the customers want nsgraOn
the Negro to keep these Esns b: must unite with his friends
phAticaIly dsnOmcs those who oppose him.
Vocational Segregation
The tension surrounding the Supreme Court decision segregated
schools has produced small but vocal group OF sAndP@ss They
the socAlsd capitalize upon
panky South OlatAnty defending Unfortunately
they get for publicity the general than do the
leaders who Abtars them.
journalist widely quoted as saying tina,
the loss Of the Negro teacher income worth the privileges
that would under combined school and that
segregation insurance policy that thousands Of
from Mr. resultant
publicity that he took the road The unpopuay Of his rebel
appearance
Montgomery Aabamas city Auditorium pickeed and rs
people turned out him a 2soo capacity ha1
Editor Percy of the Miss Advocate praised
Hugh Whites statement that would continue
dual system OF segregation in pubic schools
when the NAACP entered
Jim AuantAs schools publicly by
tees Of Manchester cood Training School nAmeean morally
wrong. and socially disruptive"
Down al-Negro Mound Bayou Miss. B. A.
asked
Howard graduate Bayous
We're not Interested Were getting along fine Just
Judging from the status residents other
In the state fail such 4 would help
Shoaha Have
There for the dshArs the world OF As
the great Washington D. educator Mamie Burroughs would
They should have been gone"
Negroes smotonaIy economically
the changing adjust
The elimination harial system them
placement and discomfort but BY raeialfee
munit their children win Be equally
children their places . democratic America
Whca o. GM And Butter SupIus7
bshsld q rather statement