Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-07-24
Friends Needed In Congress For
Human RIGHTS

Clarence NJ Mitchell Jr Washington Bureau chief of the
NAACP made striking designed show the
real congressional picture regard to the civil rights issue in
his address before the annual national convention of the NAACP
in New York
Mitchell spared neither party and stuck pin in the balloon
of COP and northern Democratic charges that the civil rights
failure in the Congress all be blamed the southern Dem
by asserting I'm the seth Congress q northern Repub
cans joined Is northern Democrats in the Senate maintain
the buster In other words their indicate that they
think it is important preserve endless pOnesS frus
trang talk in the Senate than stop Faubus from wreck
ing the public schools halt lynch mobs in Mississippi"
Mitchell keeps close tab the individual views and
performances of senators and the civil rights
issue He widely respected that Washington observers have
ncknamed him th Fifth Congressman since there four
other Negroes who represent congressional districts 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 in
the federal legislative halls Mitchell both feared respect
ed
Mitchell also told the NAACP penay workshop: Politics
and Civil Rights to which Senator Hubert H Humphrey of
Minnesota made the principal address, that:
lin Congress, a group of southern Democrats and
southern Republicans noursh segregation by bringing the
groceries in through the front the form of outright
opposition civil rights legislation.
They currently fighting to kill any kind of civil
rights BILL if it just repeats the Lord Prayer
Another group of northern Republicans and northern
Democrats slip their supplies in through the servants
in the form of efforts weaken the US Supreme
funds.
They currently working kill the vital part
of the 1859 civil rights bill Both groups
purpose-hey keep segregation alive healthy, fat and
sassy
Mitchell feels that the current House passed H.
passed by large support from northern illustrates his
charge that 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 in effort get the Court
for its school deegrgaon ruling 100 Republicans and
Democrats all from outside the South wrapped themselves
in the Confederate flag marched with against the
us. Constitution
The NAACP Washington bureau chief urges the politically
active civil rights advocates both Negro and white the north
major parties refuse to endorse support any candidate for
Congress who is not pledged work and for civil rights
The first step in this direction this newspaper believes
that Negroes everywhere and especially in the northern
border tier of states drop their lehargy and
themselves fully in politics In this they will be
able to the support of white persons in the political
parties who feel that human rights in this country pro-
tected by the necessary legislation.
In this party action at the may be OBJ
tanned that will insure that the members from Congress the
north will stick closer to the ideals of freedom equality
all which generally has dominated the culture of northern
states and the people of the
No meaningfu human rights legislation will be passed on
the federal level until those represent Washington
definitely told what the people and needed