Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1955-04-01
The Next Step
sys. S. Taylor

Well pubczed has been the fact that the trend toward
Indignation been accompanied by economic threat to the
teacher Negro business professional and
to any Negro negraonist who needs credit The Negro
with of job and the Negro business
professional and the Negro negraonist in general
threatened with loss of credit in many places IN TIE
deep The threat felt by white persons as
evidenced by the experience of white editor and OF two
white ministers, who lost their churches because OF e e
pressed agreement with the May 18th Supreme Court decision
threat credit materiaized almost Immediately after
the decision and in one least is said be acute
been by the initiative of the NAACP and
the response of Negro church organizations and bust
in deposing In Negro bank for use by
reputable deprived of credit because OF their stand on
indignation.
= major portion the publicity essential both to o.
defense has been executed by the Negro press me
financial the protection of credit has been assumed
bv organizations Two hundred persons have joined
the NAACP, with life memberships costing $500 each
What more be done2
"a The teacher can study ways make herself more
efficient Attacks already being made the Negro teach
er Those attacks alleged weakness in the uHda-
menals and irrelevant factory higher degrees AT all
times good of the child well as for her own reaa
ton in the profession the teacher should review and make
perfect knowledge of the fundamentals IN English uneua
ING reading pe ling grammar rheore) and III numbers
Her graduate work should be chosen to be strictly rel
teaching job and should b justified both by nm
proved teaching by her published studies relative to her
field This procedure not responsibility ot the Negro tea
further responsibility OF the Negro teacher conrr
organizations which have bated Tor the pro-
fesson, including the NAACP.
(2) The responsibility of Negro press is just what it
has mostly been doing much publicity other profess
sional and public functions interests permit.
(3) The responsibility Of Negro business the Negro
church independent local and national Negro organ-
cations is largely what started already connec-
ton with deposits previously mentioned in this article
() What the responsibility of the small Negro, or the
integraonist of any who wants to small
business purchase farm machinery, buy au-
tomoble or a furniture take any action which re-
uuires Obviously he should paronze those firms
should take membership in the
organization o which he looks for protection.
1t S not advocated that the Negro should boycott
There white firms which practice modicum
the Negro and they should be encouraged in
the tendency by his patronage.
There other white firms and all of them Anglo
Saxon which humiate Negro customers and boycott Negro
papers the reliance If the small Negro for publicity
a bulWark of racial defense
these hostile firms carry products which not
elsewhere the community. The ntcg@Houist Shout.
not let resentment carry him far that he should fail
purchase essential products But he should BIZ certain
that business professional and firms who stan
by get a large part Of his spendngs lie should llE
er part of hls spendHEs go ughmmacd Negro bust
and professional including 0n churches "1Nn dis
charge their civic functions. lie should buy and read Ne
paper as well AS white daily And he should closely
observe the management teaching the school his o
dren attend
Tacs lines Of action. always desirable ami r.ara aa.
become. In the present crisis. indispensable