Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1955-05-06
SoVe Some Tears
For North. MurshulI
lContInued from paRe q

New England States one tlnnS no
signs, but the feeling In there just
the same.
You are told we are all filled
up" but drive your car up the
road a ways and stop. Cars with
white occupants who come later
than you are given accomoda-
tions for the night and eat In the
restaurants while you go bedless
and hungry"
Being an NAACP unit Ia an
"aII.time. nationwide Job" Mr..
Marshall said. while we fight
segregation and prejudice in the
South. we must also fight in the
North to hold the gains we for
merly had here"
Walter White. he said. fought
all OF his adult life against seq
regration and many Thousands Of
others died waiting for the time
they could be free men and new
er saw their hopes and dreams
come true" he declared. adding:
1T In up TO us who are left
10 get up and 20 something about
IT," Mr.. Marshall then turned his
oral guns on c. Ferdinand Sy-
bert, attorney general OF his home
safe Of Maryland. asserting:
The attorney general Of Mary
land, my own state, knew he was
lying when he got up In the US.
Supreme Court during argu-
ments on the school segregation
cases. representing that border
state and said:
mo thoughtful white person or
colored person in the State Of
Maryland wants the schools in
that state migrated.
yet. In that same State Of
Maryland. colOred and white
children are attending these
seIf-sams schools and getting
along together In them.
In Baltimore, in some in
stances, they have transferred
colorrd teachers into the integral
cd schools and there have been no
incidents"
Getting back 10 the North. he
declared.
up North you make your own
segregation because nobody up
here forces you To live in "A ghetto.
Instead OF buying "A home on
the edge Of the colored district
that whites have worn our over
the last 20 years and paying In
flated prices for the house in the
bargain. buy out In the country
and unscgregate yourselves.
Harlem Is u segregated area
In ". Y. G.. where I live. II -
landlord opens up u house out
slide the Harlem area To cOlorcd
people, the realtors get together
and make him mud.
He IL unable TO get "A loan or
buy more property. thus the real
tor up North Is our enemy, The
NAACP since 1880 has broken
down some segregation in hous-
ing. In schools. restaurants. etc,
but we have only begun.
IT u not that we depreciate
property; It Is prejudice. Studies
in California and other places
have shown that we do not de-
prcciate property The u, s. SUI
prrme Court on that question
answered so do other people
Riverside Drive in N.Y.C. has
some apartment houses In which
occupants OF eight apartments
must use the same bathroom on
one floor Whites now live in this
property that has been going
down for 20 years
One day. they viii let our
our people live there. then they
viii gay We deprecated the pro-
Pcrty."
He then cited the difficulties
that forced Jackie Robinson,
brooklyn Dodgers ace, In pur.
chasing home in Now England
in the state OF Connecticut.
Who could object TO such a
world famous figure as Marian
Anderson rs n neiEhbor :" hc
asked, then answered his own
question. saying yet that was
done also In Connecticut"
Explaining the procedure fol-
lowed by real estate brokers in
breaking" white ncighborhood,
rhurgOOd said
Some smart INSCRIPTIONS
rral estate dealer will let one col
orrd person buy u piece ~ pro-
pcrty In a reiEhborhood then 80
around 90 the whites and tell them
that II u time for them to move.
lie viii tell them that the col
orrd nciEhbors jcprrciatr the
value ~ their property he buys
It from them cheaper that way --
the rrSrlls u 10 colorrd family
for twice as much as b, ~ worth.
he thus creates another ghrt-
70 and lines hts p0ckcts with a
huge prunt from the deal These
arr the real rurvryors " rrrm-
dice IN a white neighhorhOod not
the people who live their