Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-08-16
Needs OF The Time And Place
From The Christian Science Monitor

The full bench of the United States Eighth Circuit
Court of Appeals has been hearing the appeal from Dis
trict Judge Harry j. Lemley's ruling which gave the
Little Rock School Board breathing spell" of two and
a half years in program of desegregaton.
Federal District Judge Sterling Hutchinson has ruled
that the schools of Prince Edward County, Virginia. may
postpone actual desegregaon for years. but must
prepare plan and submit it in six months.
To the appeals justices in ST. Louis Thurpood
Marshall chief counsel for the National Association for
the Advancement of Coored People, declared that to up
hold Judge Lemley would be to place premium on
violence"
Of Judge Hutcheson's Virginia decision Roy Will
klns, executive secretary of the NAACP said:
This is not what we wanted but it is a ruling which
should be regarded as reasonable by thoughtful men . .
The circumstances of each and other state
ents made incident to these trials explain why the two
declarations not contradictory.
In Little Rock, relatively cosmopolitan city, the
school board preceded it's actual desegregaton by
program OF community preparation The threat of vo
ence appeared nonexstent until Governor Faubus called
out the State Guard to prevent not to protect desegre
cation Attorney Marshall saying in effect If the
Negro does not take stand here for his rights under
the Supreme Court decision where can he make
stand?
Prince Edward County, on the other hand has
population as per cent Negro and Negro children
of school age than white. 1t presents the rural and
racial aspects charerisc of the old South large seq
regaonst has been ready to attempt operation
OF system of private schools Executive Secretary Will
kins is saying in effect Without abandoning our goal
we recognize differences in local conditions and depth of
local sentiment
Judge Hutcheson said in his opinion
The Supreme Court has announced that the
exercise of right guaranteed by court of the United
States be deferred until necessary adjustments in
the public interest may be effected.
In the Little Rock appeal attorney for the school
board told the court that indicated older people
oppose desegregation violently than do younger
And that If we have little time those younger
people who do not feel strongly about segregation will
to the front
Certainly in many circumstances deferment places
premium vioence'-for the short run and if it
Is merely deferment Deferment alone become sur
render But each asks: What would the alternative
accomplish?
Surely keeping Negro children in once al-white
schools by show of official force without doing anything
to heal the embtered feelings of the white community
is no victory for progress Nor is barring Negro chill
dren by threat of the mob ignoring the Illustrations of
the Negro community and Haunting this negation of
American democracy before overwhelmingly dark
skinned world.
The goal is new modus vivendi between the races
worked out however reluctantly, by both preserving
mutual respect and the dignity of each To this end de-
ferment or nondeferment must be called to fit the
needs of the time and place.