Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1956-04-06


Supreme Court" which sheds new
light on the struggle the South
Ia having with the law and It's
soul.
Tho Crisis in the South, writes
Fred Rodell Of the Yale Law
School. ls created by the defiance
81 law by millions Of s0uthsrnsrs
for whom Sen, James o. Eastland
Diviecrat. Miss. speaks
Pointing out that technically,
the Supreme Courts decision APP
piled only 10 segregation based
ON race Prof Rodeli predicts that
the South will attempt 10 bolster
aggregation by using "c0yef-up"
phrases such M scholastic apb-
tudo and availability Of trans.
portatiOn."
The Idea IL 10 keep the su-
prcBe Court busy for years with
NNtHAbbu wv AH' hob fNN"N ~"
co.cs" for segregation. bs says,
But Mr. Hodell says, SONS
day, somewhere. some Southern
officials are going Ia refuse To
obey ii specific Federal court
command
at that point, notification viii
have bccom. rebellion At that
point II viii be the duty Of the dis.
trict Judge 10 order the officials
arrested for contempt Of court,
ana II may become the duty 81 the
President OF the United states TO
effect these arrests and execute
that court command BY force, u
necessary.
AT that point. the back Of
the rebellion will be broken"
Hs concludes that. instead Of
backing down az Southerners are
wtahfuliy hoping. the Supreme
Court viii I'll In the loopholsH In
It's desegregation decision until
tho last little island OF defiance
and ~ segregation disappears
white southerners are begin.
ming 10 realize now that they
really doa't know their coiored
neighbora, William Atwood.
Looks national affairs writer.
lpciieve@.
The Montgomery bus boycott.
he concludes. has done more than
anything else. recently, TO
shatter the illusion that oolored
people In the South are docils. In
different and content"
The result 10 that the white
man has begun 20 wonder and 10
be afraid. The South also has the
dilemma Of now wanting industry,
but fears that It's coming win
raise the economic and political
status OF colored citizens
Carl Rowan, writing ON what
do colored people WANT" answers
by quoting Dr, G, J, Gillian,
Baton Rogue, La. NAACP leader
Many years age we asked for
school equalization. Then We
couldn't get e. now, We don't want
H. We want nothing leas than to-
tai indignation In all facets OF
American life. and We won't stop
until we get a."
Rowan adds. The Negro wants
q voice In the government that
shapes his life, Perhaps mos, Ut
all the Negro wants the dignity To
which free men are entitled lie
wants 90 be judged on his individ-
uai merits a. u ftrst.ciaA Amer.
can citizen and not "a a savage
whose tastes remain chae TO the
caterpillar and coekroach a.
Judge Tom =, Brady Of brook.
haven. Mias put t."
The Negro knows from more
than q century OF experience"
Rowan continues, that there can
be- either dignity nor equality OF
opportunity In n segregated So
ciety.
He knows that. despite all the
verbal gymnastics OF the white
nipremacista segregation h a
badge Of inferority tackled on the
supposedly weak by the strong,
4 was interested IN the com.
ment OF tho Rev r. stuart GriE.
Eard Of Norfolk. Va. q white
aoutherncr who does not fear 10
speak his convictions For 20
years. we have told our colored
friends to work through the
courts We asked them not TO agi.
tate outside They went 20 the