St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1956-03-30
EDITOR ADDRESSED
EARG0-M00RHEAD
FORUM MARCH q

Fargo, N. D.--The Fargo
Moorhead Forum Friday night
March %, listened 10 an adj
dress by Cecil Newman, Twin
City newspaper editor and
publisher.
The speaker told his audience
Americas position and prestige
among the non-white peoples OF
Asia and Africa had deterorated
because OF we'll advertised oppres-
sions OF Americans OF Negro an
cestry In certain states Of the
Union.
Newman said there we're many
other factors In the U. s. loss OF
face among non-white peoples, but
that uppermost In the minds Of
these people and nations was the
fact that Americans OF color were
In many states OF the Union sub
tocted to daily intimidation. dis
crimination and segregation be-
cause of race and color.
Russia In It's campaign to win
Asia and Africa has used the race
question In the H. 5. TO good adj
vantage, the editor told his lis
teners.
Support OF the U. s. Supreme
Court school degeneration ruling
was important to the future OF
our country. the speaker said. If
one state or a group OF states are
allowed to disobey the constitu-
ton. then other states may as
sert the same right. Then we win
have anarchy, rather than a
United States" Newman told the
forum.
Northern states and the peo-
pie Of tho north have just M
much at stake In tho AREA OF
human relations and the race
problem ~ amy other section,
the editor said.
The race problem and its In
equities, the diacord and racial
tensions which might seem remote
to the people OF Minnesota and
North Dakota, are really right ON
the doorstepa OF every citizen OF
the nation no matter where he
lives.
Newman said he felt that the
South was being poorly advised by
It's politicians, many OF whom are
afraid that extension OF the full
franchise and ballot TO the Ne
gro win mean their defeat for
public office.
Many Of the Congressman
who signed the southern Mani
fcsto have been elected for years
ON n program Of keeping the
Negro In his place. These poll
ticlans naturally fear obeying
the Constitution and allowing
the Negro 20 vote" the speaker
charged.
The Twin city editor said he
did not believe that there would
be any Civil War over the race
question and segregation. II
Americans were senseless enough
10 make war on each other In a
dispute over whether the Consu-
tuition rules cut segregation in
public and unsupported facilities
the only winner would be Russia
and those world forces which
would like to see American demo
eracy destroyed.
American Negroes have won
their right TO full citizenship, a
right guaranteed by the Consutu-
ton They have used the methods
and orderly processes within the
framework OF the Constitution
and are unwilling to walt until
others are ready to grant them
the privileges which are theirs by
right Of birth. was the view OF the
Minnesotan.
Returning 90 the separate
but equal" school theory In
vogue IN tho southern states,
Newman called II a system Of
cheating thousands OF Negro
children Of their educational
blrthriEht.
He cited 1850 figures which
showed that Mississippi spent
Slls09 In that year for educat-
ing white child and the unbe-
Heveably small sum OF S27.A5 for
a Negro child. This he said was
the separate but equal school
program which gave the white
child little enough and the Negro
child practically nothing
The speaker urged that the
north and those southerners who
realize the danger TO internal I'M
ity and the security Of the nations
people in the continued oppres-
sion OF the American Negro must
stand firm behind the supreme
Court and those elected officials,
local. state and national who rec
ognize that any type Of second
class citizenship based on race,
color, creed or national origin is
violation OF the Bin OF Rights,
and the sooner II is ended the
more secure the United states will
be.
Newman ridieuled the Jim
Crow practices in the South and
called 1t wasteful and divisive. He
said no white man or Negro would
risk hunting whites only" or a