Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-07-18
The Southern Negro Wants Equality
Under The Law Mr.. Marshall

Up in Nashville Tennessee, at Fisk University the
Annual Institute Race Relations which held there
last week. has become highly respected barometer of
the progress and conditions affecting relations
throughout the nation; and in its proceedings there is
dscoverable often times sense of reality not often
found in the proceedings of other organizations and
groups dealing with the subject.
kt the Institute last year delegate who could in
Iay be classed among the starry-eyed dreamers
looking toward hurried eutopa for the Negroes
of this country but giving every evidence OF well
developed of reality reminded the delegates to the
institute of the possibility of the reversal of the de-
clslon In the school desegregaton case
Last week. Thurgood Marshall the distinguished
Chief Counsel of the NAACP, who has been able
to conceal his high of reality told the Institute of
the lag in the demand for Indignation from Southern
Negroes; adding however that Indignation is something
that Southern Negro wants despite the lag in de-
mand for Indignation the part of Southern Negroes
At just about the time Mr.. Marsha's statement
reached the newspapers the report of petition filed by
group of Negroes in Augusta, Georgia. in the matter
of an inegrated Urban Housing project, in which the
Negroes stated that they did not want be ntegrated
with members of the white also reached the
papers, becoming as it were, an immediate refutaton
of Mr. Marshas conclusion in the matter of the desire
of all southern Negroes for Indignation.
In cold truth the subject of Indignation of schools
submitted to the NAACP Branches for con-
sideration, discussion study and adoption in accord
with NAACP rules before it allowed to become
the number objective of TIE NAACP and a causa
ceeba OF the current crop of Negro leaders and spokes
men for the
In recognition here again of Mr. Marshal's un-
concealed of reality would point out that is
the contention of the NAACP that ntegraton and
equality under the law mean one and the same thing
and that therefore in asserting that all southern Ne
groes want Indignation what Mr. Marshall really means
is that all southern Negroes want equality under the
law.
We would point out here that there those, par
tcuarly III the south just much interested in first
class citizenship for the Neg the south as are the
NAACP or any groups, individuals now prominently
posed champions of Indignation who do not believe
that indignation and equality under the law means one
ana the same thing and they support their position by
asking the simple question if Indignation and equality
under the law mean and the thing, with so
much progress then being made in the south towards
equality in education for Negroes and whites why did
the NAACP change from its demand for equalization of
education to its demand for ntegraton of education
and thus bring about the chaos and confusion
In spite of Mr.. Marshafs remarks, and in spite of
all the tension and heat and in spite of any interpreted
ton OF the word integraton what the south
ern Negro wants and needs most in reality is equality
under the law