St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1956-04-06

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This issue Of Look contai
Supreme Court" which sheds new
light on the struggle the South
is having with the law and ia
soul.
The Crisis in the South, writes
Fred Roden OF the Yale Law
School, Ia created BY the defiance
Of law by millions Of southerners
for whom Sen. James O. Eastland
Diviecrat, Miss, speaks
Pointing out that technically,
the Supreme Courts decision APP
piled only to segregation based
on race. Prof Rodell predicts that
the South win attempt TO bolster
segregation by using "oover-up'
phrases such as scholastic apti-
rude and availability OF trans
portation"
The idea IL 10 keep the SUI
preme Court busy for years with
variation on the "non.racial ex-
cusesg for segregation, he says.
But Mr.. Rodell says, Some
day. somewhere, some Southern
officials are going TO refuse 10
obey a specific Federal court
command.
at that point, notification win
have become rebellion. Al that
point Il win be the duty Of the dis
trict Judge to order the officials
arrested for contempt OF court,
and Il may become the duty Of the
President Of the United states 10
effect these arrests and execute
that court command by force, II
necessary.
AT that point the back Of
the rebellion win be broken"
He concludes that, instead of
backing down as southerners are
wiahfully hoping, the Supreme
Court win fill In tho loopholes in
its desegregation decision until
the last little island OF defiance
and OF segregation disappears.
white southernera are begin.
ming 10 realize now that they
really don't know their colored
nelghborK, william Atwood,
Looks national affairs writer,
believes.
The Montgomery bus boycott,
he concludes. has done more than
anything else, recently, ito
ahatter the Illusion that colored
people in the South are docile, in
different and content"
The result Is that the white
man has begun TO wonder and to
be afraid. The South also has the
dilemma OF now wanting industry,
but fears that lis coming will
raise the economic and political
status OF colored citizens,
Carl Rowan, writing on What
do oolored people wantY" answers
by quoting Or. c. ]. Gillian. a
Baton Rogue, La, NAACP leader
Many years age we asked for
school equalization. Then we
couldn't get Il; now, we don't want
IT, We want nothing less than to-
tai Indignation in all facets OF
American life, and we won't stop
until we get IT,"
Rowan adds, the Negro wants
n voice In the government that
shapes his life. Perhaps most OF
all the Negro wants the dignity "a
which free men are entitled, He
wants 10 be judged on his individ'
uR merits as first-class Ameri,
can citizen and not as a savag,
whose tastes remain close TO IN,
caterpillar and cockroaeh a,
Judge Tom r. Brady OF Brook
haven, Miss, put H."
THE Negro knows from NOR,
than century OF experience,
Rowan continues, chat there car
be either dignity nor equality o
opportunity In a segregated so
ciety
HE knows that, despite all IN,
verbal gymnastics OF the whit,
supremacists segregation Is
badge OF interiority tackled on IN,
supposedly weak by the strong.
Il was interested In the com
mcnt OF the Rev. f. Stuart Griz
zard of Norfolk, Va, whit,
Southerner who does not fear 4
speak mis- convictions; For a
years, We have told our colore,
friends 10 work through TN
courts We asked them not 10 agi
tate outside They went 10 tn
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