Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-05-28
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BY PERCY GREENE

NIdI1 w Hlic L was SCttLlS uOWh
eating my fish and drinking my
beer could not help but think
about letter | got until | made
up my mind to let you-alls read
it this week and here tbs:
Pine Bluff, Arkansas
May 10, 1866.
Mr.. Percy Greene, Editor
Jackson Advocate
Jackson, Mississippi.
Dear Sir:
1t is with great interest that |
have read in the Arkansas Gazette
of May Is that you had sent tele-
gram to Representative c. c.
Diggs, Jr., urging him to sponsor
a resolution recognizing "volun-
tary" segregation. l am sure that
you will receive lot of uncompli-
mentary letters and kilograms from
members of your own race, especi-
ally from the NAACP. l am a
white woman, and l have studied
this matter for a long time, and
| want to be one of the first to
congratulate you on your stand on
what to me is the most important
event that has happened in the
South since the Civil War. l have
read everything that | have been
able to find, all of the literature
the NAACP has been publishing
here in Pine Bluff through their
weekly paper, "Pine Bluff Herald y
and all of the propaganda pub
lished by the Arkansas Gazette
paid for by the Ford Foundation.
For years | have watched this
/ thing develop here in the South
and I was born and reared here.
| have many friends of your race.
and they are as deeply concerned
about this as l am. Many of them
fear that it has just started, and
l. agree with them, and that the
economic pressure exerted in Mis-
sissippi will spread all over the
South. They are working now, but
the Supreme Court cannot issue
an opinion that will force white
men to continue working them, and
they know this. 1t is with great
pity that | view the plight of your
race here in the South. | actually
cried the day the Supreme Court
handed down its decision on seq
regation. | did not cry for my
people, but l cried for my friends
of your race, for | have a great
pity for them. They are hard
workers, most of them have chill
dren they are trying to educate.
We have fine schools here, a won
derful college for colored people,
and now they are wondering if
they are going to be able to con-
tinue to pay to send their children
through the grade school and col
lege. l feel that your people have
been used for a purpose, and have
the same feeling of pity for them
that l would have for a little child
who had been used by an adult to
put over some scheme for the ben
eft of the adult. In this case, it
is politicians who have brought
up influence from the political
bosses of the colored people. !
have read since this thing started
that the NAACP was started in
Russia by Stain, and that he had
big dream of causing revolu-
ton of the black people, as he
called them, in the South. This
statement was published in the
Methodist Challenge during 1858,
I do not believe that such state
ment could have been permitted in
a magazine published by large
denomination like the Methodists
if it were not well-founded. have
read in the daily papers that a
white newspaper editor had been
convicted of Communism and SEN
fenced to prison for advocating the
overthrow of the American gov
eminent. 1t was proven in court
that he had bought a house in a
white neighborhood, restricted to
whites, then signed it over to q
/ Negro man and helped him move
in. Of course, this caused race
trouble, which is what Russia
wants. This Communist was
caught, but when 1 think of all OF
those who have not been caught
my heart quakes with fear, both
for your people and mine. Oul
beloved country could be in danger
as the government is constantly
investigating the threat of Com
munism. A similar attempt wa:
made in Pine Bluff to pull rea
estate deal of this kind, and the
real estate agent told about it
The Communists are turning every
stone they can to create trouble be-
tween the races in our country. As
one of the attorneys general Of
one of the Southern states told the
Supreme Court, "This interna
trouble can be of no benefit to any
one except our enemies" That i:
true, and if we have Communists
in our government agencies, ant
this fact has often been published
they are just hard to pin down ane
catch, then surely we have then
in many organizations. have reat
that even ministers use their pull
pits to hide behind and to betra!
their country to Communists.
have heard ministers on the radio
say Russia does not make an.
class or color distinction" Tha
may be true, but neither do the!