Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-07-19
Alabama

to NAACP came up in court pro-
ceedings.
Judge Refuses Plea
Negro attorneys for NAACP had
asked that Judge Jones excuse
himself from the case on the
grounds that he has shown bias
and prejudice against the Negro
organization.
The judge refused to do this
stating that the Negroes conten-
tons were inadequate to justify
such action on his part.
The record of the proceedings,
however, shows that Negro at
torney Robert Carter of New York
asked Judge Jones if he had said
in his recent campaign for renomi-
nation that he would deal the
NAACP a blow from which it
would "never recover"
Question Struck Out
"That is substantially correct"
the judge said. His further ex-
PLANTATION was that during the
campaign he had come to the con-
clusion that NAACP was fighting
his candidacy, and that he was
simply saying to the people that
if they renominated him they would
deal elbow to the organization
that attempts to further its own
interest by having judges elected
who might be subservient to it's
will" "
At another point in the hearing,
the judge was asked whether he
agreed with some people that MA
ACP is communist-dominated. The
Judge said that he did, but later
struck both the question-by Mr..
Carter-and his answer from the
record. Nevertheless, the answer
indicates that, at the very least,
Judge Jones has strong feelings.
Indeed he writes a weekly column
for the Montgomery Advertiser,
and it is common knowledge that
the judges point of view is strong
ly in favor of white supremacy.
One of his articles was titled, 81
Speak for the White People"
1t is possible the NAACP may
be found in contempt by the circuit
court. Thus far, however, the Nc
gro attorneys are sitting tight,
saying they know of no additional
records such as are being demand
ed.
Attorney General Patterson is
charging that although the organ
ization has been enjoined from
continuing activity, it has carried
on its business under another
name. The reference is to a newly
organized Alabama State Coordi-
mating Association for Registra-
ton and Voting.
1t is commonly assumed that
NAACP members in Alabama are
continuing their work for the MA
ACP detectives. The Negro aspira-
ton, some Alabamians assert, is
the same whether it is under one
label or another.
Other Groups Active
For example, even after the
NAACP was barred from activity,
a Tuskegee Civic Association con-
tinued to carry on Negroes work
for registration and the right to
be included in that community's
"a gerrymander bill in
the Legislature cut them out Of
the city's limits.) In Birmingham,
the Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth
and others have carried on work
for Negro police and desegrega-
ton generally under the name OF
the Alabama Christian Movement |
for Human Rights. Of course, in
the Negro Montgom-
cry Improvement Association, un-
Ter Martin Luther King, has con-
tinued to function.
One would be naive, of course,
70 hold that there is not a common
strain of NAACP membership rum
ming through all such organiza-
ions.
Many Alabamians doubt that
federal court will uphold contempt |
action in this situation. But they
ire pleased to see the Attorney
General continuing an attack on
my Negro movements aimed at
hat objective.