Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-06-27
MIR. Wilkins Fears Reversal OF The
School Integration Decision

We see by the newspaper reports that Roy Wilkins,
the Executive Secretary of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People is becoming fear
full that the enactment into law of certain bills be-
fore the Congress of the United States may the
complete reversal of the u S. Supreme Court decision
for Indignation of the nations public schools.
There is more than the legislation pending in
the Congress of the United States to the fears of
Mr. Wilkins it. First there is the recent state
ment OF President Eisenhower and this week arti
Gle in Look Magazine by Vice President Nixon in which
ne also states that civil rights is moral and not legal
question
With Mr. Wilkins expressing fear that the United
States Supreme court decision backing school ntegra-
ton may be reversed the question Immediately arises
if not school indignation, what? question that can
be considered integenty only in the light of the
tons history
In the first place there are many instances in the
nations history where laws enacted by the congress,
and subsequently upheld by decisions of the United
States Supreme Court because of the overwhelming
lection of American public opinion, with the
quent lack of public support have been finally repealed
Notable among which, in what may be called contem-
porary American history the prohibition act which
remained on the statute books for Is years. with many
lives lost and millions of dollars spent in attempting it's
enforcement only to have it finally repealed for lack of
public support and the overwhelming rejection of pub
lie opinion
Any view study of American history and of the
American ideal of democracy, is bound to reveal that
what brought peoples of all races, nations coors and
ceeds to these shores to join in helping make the United
States the great nation is today that each group
could have their churches schools and other nsttu
tons and organization under the guarantee of equal pro-
IecClOn unQer the law.
1t was the impetus of the idea and ideal of equal pro-
lection under the law that created what became known
to history as the American Meltngpot expression
the essence of which the fact that people of all
races nations coors cultures and ceeds upon reaching
this country became merged in the American spirit
while at the same time enjoying the privilege of their
own churches, schools, and other institutions and or
CARNATIONS, with equal protection of the law
1t was under the idea and ideal of equal protection
OF the law and the right of each group to have it's own
churches schools and other institutions and organza
ons that the American Negro made his greatest pro-
gress. A progress primarily possible because racial
prlde was then powerful motivating incentive.
The idea OF Indignation in this country was born in
the minds, first OF those who in it means of Great
ing the DIVISION and stirring strife and tension in the
united States aid to the and advancement
OF world communism and later by those who think the
best way to combat Russia and Communism is to make
the United States nearly like Russia possible under
the false assumption events proving daily that
TINS could be done without injury to the great idea and
ideal of American Democracy.
Moreover, we American Democracy under it's
original idea and ideal winning the propaganda battle
with world communism
we see no reason why the aims of the Negro for
equa protection under the law would suffer as result
OF the reversal of tn u S. Supreme Court Decisions in
the pubic school Indignation Indeed the Negro
particularly those in the South might be far better off
tnan they now are by thus relieving the existing tension
ana again making race pride motivatng incentive in
negro progress and again making possible southern in
ter-raclal cooperation and goodwill