St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-07-24
Friends Needed In Congress For
Human Rig hits

Clarence NJ MITCHELL Jr. Washington Bureau chief of the
NAACP made striking statements designed to show the
congressional picture regard the civil rights issue in
his address before the annual national convention of the NCP
in New York.
spared neither party and stuck pin in the balloon
of COP Democratic charges that the civil rights
failure the Congress all be blamed the southern Dem
by asserting I'm the seth Congress q northern Repub
cans joined in the Senate maintain
the busr In other words their votes indicate that they
think is more important preserve endless pontess frus
trang talk the Senate than stop Faubus from wreck
ing public schools halt lynch mobs in Mississippi
Mitchell keeps close tab the individual views votes and
performances and congressman the civil rights
widely respected that Washington observers have
ncknamed him 1.-THE Fifth Congressman since there four
other Negroes who represent congressional districts in Illinois,
New York Michigan and Pennsylvania With many friends in
both parties made because of his integrity and fortnight hon
approach the things the NAACP seeks bring about
the federal legislative halls Mitchell both feared and respect
ed.
Mitchell also told the NAACP penary workshop: politics
and Civil Rights" which Senator Hubert H. Humphrey of
Minnesota made the principal address, that:
In Congress, group of southern Democrats and
southern Republicans noursh segregation by bringing the
groceries through the front door the form of outright
opposition civil rights legislation.
They currently fighting to kill any kind of civil
rights BILL if it just repeats the Lords Prayer.
Another group of northern Republicans and northern
Democrats slip their supplies through the servants
in the form of efforts to weaken the US Supreme
Court or underwrite racial discrimination with Federal
funds.
They currently working to kill the most vital part
of the 1859 civil rights bill Both groups
purposehey keep segregation alive healthy fat and
sassy
Mitchell feels the House passed r.
passed support from northern states illustrates his
charge civil rights advocates closely watch the
northern of both parties He cites the fact that in
the bill aimed reducing the and effectiveness of the
US Supreme Court effort get event. with the Court
school deegregaon ruling, 100 Republicans and II
Democrats all from outside the South wrapped themselves
us. Constitution
The NAACP Washington bureau chief urges the politically
active civil rights advocates both Negro and white in the north
that the state political organizations of both
major parties refuse to endorse support candidate for
Congress who not pledged to work and vote for civil rights
The first step in this direction is this newspaper believes
that Negroes everywhere and especially in the northern and
border tier of states drop their ehargy and interest
themselves fully in politics In this they will be
able the support of white persons in the poca
parties who feel that human rights this country must be
tected by the necessary legislation
In this party action at the state level may be OBJ
tanned that will insure that the members from Congress from the
north will stick closer the ideals of freedom and equality fol
ALL which generally has dominated the culture of the northern
states and the people of the
No meanngul human rights legislation will be passed
the federal level until those represent Washington
definitely told what the people and what needed