Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-11-29

by the composition of the gathering which consisted of
publishers educators politicians, Judges minister's labor
and government leaders.
Why this gathering was called Summit Confer
ence by the sponsoring National Publishers Association
is hard to understand The itself has to be
associated in the public mind meeting of the heads
of those states representing the Free World the
hand and the "Slave World" the other. Moreover
such conferences called the insistence of the
reds because they have found them to be good eff
fective sounding board for red propaganda.
The selection of the name to say the least reflects
lack of originality and bad taste And too may
easily conclude in view of the name that the prime
objective to embarrass the government and pro-
vide propaganda material for the of the Communists
in Asia and Africa
grafton there general agreement with few excep-
tons Maybe that explains why the Negro community
and it's services were bypassed. guess "integra
ZIONIST is not ION the beam" unless he takes his
ferences and conventions to hotel owned and operated
by white persons and in white neighborhood." AS
Negro businessman said IF it was left to the integra
ZIONIST Negroes would be forced to close up and that
goes for everything, including Negro schools colleges
and churches"
Ironically the only head of State attending the
Summit Conference President Eisenhower. In his
message, he counseed patience and forbearance and
warned that claws themselves will solve problems
that have their roots in the human heart and human
emotions It would have been far better for the Pres-
dent to have stood in bed than to advocate such pol
icy to rabid and dedicated gathering of ntegraton
lists.
After ALL it must be borne in mind that the delegates
to this Summit Conference" only because they
dissatisfied with the tempo Of race mixing The
basic problems of the Negro be damned Is there any
wonder then that the Presidents advice "dsappon
ing" to Roy Wilkins, Executive Secretary of the MA
ACP? His view swelled into chorus as Thurgood Mar
shal NAACP chief counsel, Federal Judge Hastie Rev.
erend Martin Luther King and others joined in sharp
denuncation of the Presidents patience and forbear
ance" message.
Roy wilkins, Thurgood Marshal and the other
NAACP leaders set up the situation which precptated
the violence at Little Rock AS result the NAACP had
the greatest financial year it's history according to
Row Thocn tn ror1it
Conference either to put the President on the spot or to
get from him package that they could sell to the peo
ple Above ALL they needed the Presidents assurance
that he would continue to Federal troops he had
at Little Rock and that he would the FB1 the JUS
tice Department and the courts to arrest jail and
cute all opponents of Indignation. This would
Little Rocks The failure the President to make such
commitments lost for him the hero status Since the
NAACP does not have basic and realistic policy for
Negro Americans it needs package deal from the Pres
iden other authority to justify it's existence
Reverend Martin Luther King is no amateur when
it to setting up situations which erupt in VOL
bohngs, boycotts racial bitterness hostility and
reprsal One has only to recall his heinously wicked
advice when he made the following appeal:
IF they bomb one of our homes, let them know
they will have to bomb hundred thousand"
Any fool knows the stark tragedy that such a
showdown would bring to Negro Americans. Is there
wonder that the reds everywhere prasing and
supporting Reverend King?
Pyhc Victory They feel that relations have been
set back 40 so years The rapidly deterorating
cial situation is deemed positive proof:
The NAACP and the reds follow the same policy of
demanding forthwith solutions of problems that have
their roots in the shades of antiquity All the combined
efforts of the great religions still have to reckon with
the will OF man. Those persons who begged in the
swamps of eftst theology oathe to admit this fact
Evidently, those who gathered at the Summit
Conference" were in the main sold NAACP leader
ship that any program contrary 'Uncle Tomism
The tragedy of the socaed leadership of the Negroes
is that it follows the eftst pattern Of trying to ode
stroy all those who disagree The logical end of such al
n a
get into power.
The Statement of Policies" adopted by the dele
gates to- the Summit Conference reflects the utter
bankruptcy of the present leadership of Negro Amer
leans. read it three times, twice silently and out
loud. wanted to make certain of what read. It
sounded like the paintve wall of frustrated group of