Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-07-27

national church organizations,
meeting on the national level, they
openly state that they are not
ready to abolish segregation in
their churches, which means they
do not want to abolish the Negro
church because they want to keep
on being Negro preachers.
"On his last visit to Mississippi,
in press conference following a
speech in jackson, Roy Wilkins,
its Executive Secretary said, the
NAACP is mud in Mississippi, and
in the rest of the South. In short,
what Mr.. Wilkins meant is that the
NAACP, as far as Negro rights
are concerned, and as far as it's
being able to evoke Negro and
white cooperation at the local level,
the NAACP has lost is usefulness
in Mississippi, and in the rest of
the South.
Looking at the role of Medger
Evers, Field Secretary for the
NAACP in Mississippi in the Hat
tiesburg meeting, it should be OBJ
vious readily to any one, that Mr..
Evers, in the light of Mr.. wilkins
remarks referred to above, is seek
ing to transfer his Juvenile talents
and youthful energy, along with
the policy and program of the
NAACP, to some other organiza-
ton, not yet branded as mud in
the state.
"In their libelous resolution one
sees at first glance Mr.. Evers eff
| fort to carry on the announced pol
icy of the NAACP to malign, brand,
and destroy anybody who has the
courage and intelligence to point
out some NAACP failings, and
not follow blindly its practices and
preachments.
GAS we pointed out at the first
nationwide Civil Rights Mobiliza-
ton sponsored by the NAACP in
January, 1850, held in the Depart
ment of Labor Auditorium in Wash
ington, in a speech before some
5000 or more delegates, in urging
that the NAACP adopt the Negro
! right to vote as it's number one
aim, we still believe that the great
mass of the Negro in Mississippi,
and in the rest of the South, would
be satisfied with working out his
own economic and political future,
which could we'll be based upon in
telligent political responsibility
and intelligent use of the ballot.
GAS we predicted in that speech,
the NAACP adoption of : FEPC,
mainly to try and take over the
work of the National Urban
League, and the frontal attack on
segregation in the public schools
below the college level, as its main
objective, in lieu of the right to
vote, has already proven to be the
greatest mistake in the entire his
tory of the Negro struggle, and the
attack on segregation in the
schools, particularly, is serving
only to defer and delay rather
than hasten, the attainment of full
civil rights and first class citizen
ship for the Negro in Mississippi,
and in the rest of the South.
"In regard to the public schools,
we say that the Negro in the South
was, and is, suffering more from
discrimination and lack of equali-
zation in the allotment and alloca-
ton of education money, than from
the established right and privilege
to have and operate his own
schools.
"For the same reason that Negro
church organizations say they are
net ready to abolish the Negro
church, we say that given equal
pay and equal qualification for
teachers, equal books and circula,
the time need never come for the
abolition of Negro schools.
"In regard to the Sovereignty
Commission, their resolution re-
vealed a totally naive view of the
nature of politics, and the work OF
politically created commissions. We
would point out here for the bene-
! fit of the great mass of intelligent
and thinking Negroes of the state,
that in providing for the land to
build a non-segregated Veterans
Hospital in Jackson, despite its po-
litically stated purpose, the State
Sovereignty Commission made the
first and most progressive step to-
wards first class citizenship for
all in Mississippi since the 1854
decision of the U. S. Supreme
Court.
perhaps the worst implication
for Negroes in the resolution
adopted by the group, and the linn
| tied understanding of the democ-
racy which they claim to seek, is
that they would challenge and deny
freedom of speech, and the right
to express an opinion, to those
who dare to point in another d.
rection.
"The statement concerning me
as leader in the state is just an
other example Of the worst in the
thinking of most of the new Negro
leaders, so-called, based on the
idea that you can make yourself
look big by trying to belittle other
people.
Finally, in regard to the Negro
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