Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-09-21
The Mississippi Negro, Indignation,
And The Meeting OF The Arkansas
Governor And The President

Inc events OF the past few days arising out of the
drive for school Indignation confirms opinion that this
writer has held since the NAACP sponsored Civil
hghts Mobilization in Washington in 1850 that the
NAACP, moving from its successful campaign for the
equalization of Negro Educational opportunity to the
campaign for school integration thereby making in
tegraton appear as primary objective and is the
worst mistake in the history of the struggles of the
American Negro for first class citizenship.
We restate opinion not as challenge but in
spite OF the fact that every opinion express is now
being seized by certain Negro groups and ndvid
uas In the state along with the state NAACP in an in
sdlous effort to have unthnkng Negroes boycott and
destroy the Jackson Advocate because of our holiness
IN using our American right of freedom of speech and
freedom of the press refusal to regard the NAACP
and its leadership being above error and because we
would dare point to the Illustration and bewderment
OF the Negro masses resulting from the NAACP drive
Tor school Indignation.
Viewing the progress of the Negro in Mississipn
toward obtaining the right to vote and political partc
patton and the progress in equalization of education
during the period between 1916 and 1854 now at
standstill since the Communist took Tom Armstrong
the Parish Street Newsstand operator and photographer
to the Progressive Party Convention Amounted him with
the communist idea of southern Black Republic with
MIN as the Mississippi leader and later used him as
TOOL to spread the big lie that had sodout the Ne
in the Johnson White Gubernatorial election noting
the deep reservoir of nterracia goodwill in the state
during the eried honest
the beginning of the NAACP lead drive for Indignation
reveals the TACT that politically and economically, and in
ms relations with his hte neighbours which is absolute
~ essential to his continued progress the Negro in Mis-
slssppi is in the worst position and condition in his
history. sH
Ihere is way out of the present situation pointed
out by Booker l. Washington in his famous address on
race relations at the Atlanta Exposition in 1906 calling
upon the Negro to seek first to prove his worth his
own PRIDE, his own industry his manhood and in
dependence to avoid court gatons that stir UP strife
and create lwi and above all to seek the friendship
and goodwill of people of other among whom he
lives.
One thing is certain about Booker T. Washington
and that is his recognition of the fact that
at the local levels and progress depends the goodwill
existing between people at the local level regardless of
opinions and actions afar off.
Finally, after the meeting of President Eisenhower
and the Arkansas Governor it should readily appear to
the intelligent Negro in Mississippi despite the
preachments predictions and urgings of the NAACP,
and the speeches and movements of certain other Negro
groups in the state that conditions they effect the
race are not going to be changed by revolutionary
tlon but by the slower but process of evolution
based on friendly cooperation and nterracia goodwill