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The Answer To Editor Holding
Carriers Article In Look Magazine

In article in the current issue of Look magazine
the distinguished Pulitzer Prize Winning Mississippi
Editor Holding Carter foresees of terror threaten
ing the South result of efforts to ntegrate the pub
lie schools unless somewhere between the vocal demands
Of certain sections of Negro leadership for immediate
Indignation, and the less vocal demands of certain
sections of white leadership for total segregation "es
the yet undetermined compromise which is the genius
of Democracy"
There is basis for compromise as far as concerns
the State of mississippi; and perhaps the rest of the
South already evident in the of ST. Louis Missouri
where segregation by law has been abolished where the
of Indignation has been loudly proclaimed by the
NAACP, but where the cities two Negro high schools
remain a-Negro because there no white children
living them.
Before the kind of compromise that is the genius
of Democracy be reached the first step responsible
White and Negro leaders in Mississippi as well as the
rest OF the South must be determined effort to dispel
and reverse the mass psychology of hate and misrust
spreading the South with Negroes perhaps worse
victims of this psychology in their thinking in
regard to honesty and sincerity the part of white
people.
This illbreeding psychology both among Negroes
and white people is the result the hand of White
leaders proclaimng right the power they have to
segregate Negroes when the psychological effect upon
the Negro would be far different and wholesome if
Whte eaders were procaming their right to be sep
arate winch appears as of the guarantees to the
various racial and religious group under American
ism idea and ideal of Equality under the law
On the other hand the assertion of the power to
segregate the Negro has caused Negroes as de-
grading their being separate from White people, as re-
suit IN the drive for ntegraton the Negro leaders are
overlooking what is perhaps greater right gained by
the Negro that is the right to be separate and equal
under the law and the breedng psychology of hate
mlstrust for white people would be dispelled and
reversed If both Negro and White leaders of the South
would start telling the Negro that he would be foolish
to give his right to be separate and equal under the
law winch also great democratic right Indignation
notwithstanding.
Further the Negro in Mississippi and the rest of
the South needs to be told by his leaders that
what ne needs is spiritual rather than physical ntegra
ton and that having achieved spiritual ntegration
ne will start looking at himself American and not
as such depending whether not he is mixed with
White people.
In the ST. Louis case with segregation bv law having
oeen abolished the two high schools that remained Ne
gro, just much American schools depending
on the spiritual Indignation of the Negro parents as
any other school in st. Louis
In the matter of the compromise let it be pointed
out mere, despite all arguments to the contrary that
what the Negro in Mississippi and the of the South
was looking for before the May 18th decision equal
schools and equal educational opportunity for his chill
dren and that Is what he is looking for
Moreover, the Negro is looking for the abolition of
segregation by law, and the power of force and
pement and when the abolition of the artificial cond
lions created by segregation have been removed the Ne
gro will show greater preference for his kind just
as White folks do Build equal schools in the already
tabished Negro communities in Mississippi and the
of the South and there will be mad rush of Negroes
to go to White schools and the Negro will become less
concerned about integration year by year.
Certainly, threat of wave of terror, as far as
Mississippi is concerned would result in the admission
OF Negro students to the State Universities for graduate
and professional training.
Finally system of educational equality can be es-
tabshed in Mississippi and the rest of the South with
out the backing of the Negro vote and Negro political
participation, who will inevitably join with the best
White people in working for better community
Finally equal schools in Negro communities, adms-
sion OF Negro students to state institutions for graduate
and professional training, without the abandonment of
Negro institutions of higher education will soon dispel
the wave OF terror that the distinguished Pulitzer Prize
Winning Mississippi Editor Holding Carter sees now
threatening the South.