Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-09-05
Does The Negro Really Want
Integration OF The Public Schools


corng to the New York Times of the nations great
est and most reliable newspapers that Negro parents of
New York City, where relations have all but reached
the explosive point result of the controversy over
school ntegraton sending their children to schools
in the South where there has been Indignation and
where there is less Likelihood of the development of such
conditions in the matter of relations exist in
New York City.
In most recent newspaper reports Negro group
in Alabama has sent telegram to President Eisen
hover stating that Negroes along with white people
of the South unateraby opposed to the Indignation
of the races In public schools.
These two incidents arising from places where the
environment and historic conditions they effect the
Negro are so widely divergent appears to to raise
the immediate question, DOES THE NEGRO REALLY
WANT 1NTEGRATION OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
to which our answer in the light of what would refer
too here the contemporary and current history of the
Indignation drive is emphatic, NO.
In the first place would point out that despite all
efforts of the NAACP and other organizations and ind
vduas, the Negro has been unable to under
stand that after all the of their contribution to his
educational, cultural and community life, the Negro
School SUCH has all of sudden become disgrace to
the Negro and to the nation conclusion that if
it were true would make every Irish-American Japa
nese-Amercan, ChneseAmerican, and every other hy-
phenated American school, church, club society," other
organization equally disgrace to the represented
and to the nation.
In the second place our answer to the ouestion is
NO because there has been not single instance re-
corded OF spontaneous effort the part of single Ne
gro family anywhere in the South to put their children
IN white school, but the contrary, every movement
70 put Negro children in white schools in the South
has been urged by the NAACP, and usually with some
financial guarantee to the family of the child children
involved with all of the accompanying newspaper state
ments, predictions, and agitation being done by highly
PAID NAACP professionals with and then paid rep
reSentatves of other organizations, and publicity seek
ing individuals, mostly certain kind of Negro preach
er, joining in the affair to snare the spotlight
We think it also important that look further
into the statement of the Alabama Negro group in regard
to our northern Negro brothers who do live in the
South and therefore do not understand Southern BIZ
cultural society"
1t is to of the saddest developments in Ne
gro leadership of this country that such leadership in
the north has fallen into the hands of what we will
refer to here as the second generation of so-caled
northern Negro who in reality the children of the
Negro migrants from the South who were recruited by
labor agents and sent to the north at the beginning of the
first world war to fill the manpower needs of the then
rapidly expanding northern industry.
Under the impact and psychology of the efforts to
WIN for the Negro equality and and frst-cass citizen
snip, these migrant Negro workers from the South
nave pictured themselves to their children as fleeing
from MODS, persecution lynchngs and violence in the
South, and result this second generation northern
Negro has developed bitter hatred for the Southern
whte man, and little or respect for the Southern
negro regardless of his education ability efforts or
reputation AS result of the decision of the United
sa!es supreme Court the support of certain political
gamzatons the support of certain politicians of the mo-
ment and the support of certain sections of the white
press and the almost solid backing of the Negro press
this second generation northern Negro leadership map
ines themselves in position to heap vengeance on the
Southern white people for all the wrongs which thew
nave peen told that drove their parents from the South
Onuei 'iiese circumstances we are therefore
hundred percent with the Negro group from Alabama
In asking that "our northern Negro brothers" be ex
GUIDED from any poll of opinion in the matter of inte
grafton OF the public schools and from any other matter
regarding the future progress of the Southern NEGRO
which must have as its basis confidence cooperation
and goodwill of both Negro and white people working to-
gether for the same end W.
In answer to what as the immediate question
arlsed by contemporary revelations in New York Ctv
and IN Alabama, we again say, NO, is the only logical
answer an yer TO the question, Do THE NEGRO REALLY
WANT INIEGRAIION OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
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