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


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highest couts in the land Now
some Of my people DO not want 70
accept the results
Finally, the voices Of de-
flance seek 10 convince the en-
tire nation that colored people
are diseased and immoral, and
that they suffer from AN educa-
tional and cultural lag.
Thus they argue, TO mix the
races would be an unhealthy im-
position on white children and an
unnecessary handicap 10 colored
youngsters.
Southern colored people point
out that white southerners don't
seem to worry about disease A.
mong the colored domestics they
hire TO bath and nurse their chill
dren, prepare their food and wash
their linen.
And they feel that talk about
the educational AMI cultural lag Is
part Of the argument that the
South should let alone because
whites have paid most OF the
takes for such education as col
ored children have been granted"
North Carolina's Senator Sam
J. Erwin Jr, elected as a liberal,
citing THE Case For Segrega-
ton" expresses the belief that
voluntary separation will solve the
problem.
Declaring that oolored people
hope that Federal courts win
not be inundated by the fury
and violence, Rowan asserts,
however. that ~ trouble is the
price Of Justice and freedom,
colored people say, Let ms have
trouble"
The LOOK article also tells In
text and pictures the story Of Joe
Foster, an integrated soldier but
a segregated citizen.
The Army has taught Joe the
meaning OF equality" says the
article. but when he's in Albany
(Ga.) Joe knows that equality Is
word you just don't use.
Albany Is described as "a world
OF 'colored entrance signs and a
pretty little town, cut in half by
fear. ignorance and the remains
OF dead civilization"
The article also concludes that
colored and white children feel no
sense OF contamination as they
play together, but It Is unlikely
that they will fall in love and get
married
Pupils in integrated schools
study and play together but In
their extracurricular activities,
they choose their own friends, as
everyone else does
Pointing TO the fact that ian
overwhelming majority Of Ameri-
can children are attending schools
that draw no color line" Look
finds that the areas that still
practice segregation are shrinking
all the time.
For all their buster, the die
hard segregationists know fun
well that the law, In the long run
can neither be nouted nor cir
cumvented.
"Southerners under 20 are
more tolerant, more open-minded,
More inclined to Judge a Negro
on his merits as a person,
Indignation In other fields
such as industry and the Army
is cracking the hard crust OF dis.
| elimination
Southern Negroes better ed.
ucated, better organized will nc
longer be pushed around.
People in those states which
have started 10 desegregate are
learning that compliance with the
law does not lead TO mongreliza.
tion or even enforced social mix,
ing,
III the Southern moderates
win assert themselves, writes
William Atwood in conclusion
"aud persuade their fellow ciu,
zens to lay aside their Conferedat,
flags and their clarion calls and I,
think In terms Of eventual com
pliance, then the South will fine
sympathy, understanding and pa
uence In the eyes Of the world ant
IN the nation.