Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-01-19
More Uncle Toms Greatest Need OF
The Southern Negro

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Negro citizen in Jackson, in Mississippi, and the rest
of the south to withhold their opinion in regard to the
issues of the greatest to the future of the
race especially if such opinion if expressed, would
be contrary to the and opinion of the crop
of Negro leaders who have forward since the 1854
decision of the Supreme Court is the fear of being called
and designated an Uncle Tom" name calculated by
this new Negro leadership to subject the designated to
all manners of ridcue dersiOn and contempt of the
Negro Community
In the minds of this new Negro leadership any Ne
gro an "Unce Tom who whatever the issues involv
ed seeks to maintain friendly and respectful attitude
toward the responsible white people of the community
Looking back at the history of the Negro in Mssis
sppi well in the rest of the south it will be found
that it those Negro leaders of the past who would
be, and being, called "Uncle Toms by the
crop of Negro leaders who, by maintaining friendly
and respectful attitude toward the responsible white
people of the community able to their help
and cooperation in laying the foundation for the great
progress of the Negro since his emancipation from
slavery.
Heading the list of the Negro leaders of the past
being designated by the Negro leadership an
Uncle Tom" because his philosophy and manner
counter to that which they have employed is Booker T.
Washington the founder Of Tu8kegee Institute
whose works and thoughts have brought him world
nown Also among their list of Uncle Toms would be
the late Mr. Spauding, founder of the North Carolina
Mutual Life Insurance Co., with its subsidiaries. in
Guiding the Farmers & Mechanics Bank, making it the
largest Negro Financial Institution in the world
giving employment to hundreds if not thousands of
Negroes and with Mr. SpauIdng would be the founders
of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company, and the other
large Negro owned financial institutions of Atlanta
which is largely responsible for its reputation the
Negro Capitol" of the United States.
Among the Mississippi Negro leaders of the past
which the Negro leaders would and do designate
"Uncle Toms the McKssacks and Walkers; founder
of the Mississippi Beneficial Life Insurance Company
the Universal Life Insurance Company, organized
at Indanola Mississippi now with headquarters in
Memphis Tennessee out Of which has come the Tri-
State Bank of Memphis. This group would also list
among its Uncle Toms the late W. H. Holtzcaw, and
J. Johnson. Founders
tute and Prenss Institute two institutions which
educational opportunities to Negroes at time and in
places when it would otherwise have been impossible
Among contemporary responsible Negro leaders in
Mississippi this group would also designate as Uncle
Toms T. j. Huddleston of Yazoo City, founder of the
Afro-American Sons and Daughters, and Sir. 7. NJ
Smith of Mound Bayou, Founder and head of the
Knights and Daughters Of Tabor and organization
operating nine states and their prime target for such
designation is Prof Laurence G. Jones. Founder and
head of the now world famous Piney Woods Country
Life School, at Piney Woods, Mississippi.
What this and brash Negro leadership has
succeeded in doing more than anything else is losing
whatever welcome they might have had in the councils
of authority by vtuperatve, Vlndlctlve caumonous
speeches and newspaper statements, directed towards
the responsible white citizens who form the councils of
authority in the community.
Where there any responsible Negro leaders in
Jackson in Mississippi any place else IN the SOUTH
who by their manners and attitude of respect towards
the responsible white leaders of the community still
finds welcome in the councils of authority they should
no longer fear being called designated an Uncle
Tom"
of the south are beginning to that they being
led precipce by the sirene calls of the New Ne
gro leadership to be repeatedly submerged in ever
maddenng whirlpool of hatred, fear, frustratlo, ana
bewilderment.
In conclusion looking backward at Negro history,
in the light of present conditions they effect the
of Negroes the greatest need of the Negro in
Jackson in Mississippi and in the rest of the SOUTH is
more and more "Uncle Toms