Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1960-02-27

.Double Standard of Racism" Hit
Justice Polier-an authority on
child welfare and Juvenile delin-
quency-said the 'NOW for Equal
ity" conference was the result OF
growing awareness on the part
Of American women that the de-
NAL of equal education to all chill
dren is casting a terrible blight
on the inner welfare of all chill
dren.
NEGRO mothers have suffered
for their children as they saw the
denial of education that would
make it possible for their chii- !.
dren to fulfill their potential,
she declared. "They have been
anguished as they saw their chill
dfen forced to experience the hui
Mutations that are heaped upon
them by the double standard OF
racism in the United States.
Mothers of white children have
also begun to realize, she con-
tinued, "that the apparent benefits
of preferred treatment based on
color, with its false assumptions
of superiority, its demands 1or
wrongful treatment of other chill
dren and its alienation from chill
dren of other races was creating
moral conflicts, insensitivity and
deterioration of the personal NOR
atty of their own children"
Challenge To North Seen In y.
Southern Student Protests
In her address closing the meet
ing, Justice Polier made reference
to the protests by Southern Negro
college students against the Gin
sulting, humiliating and destruct-
i've pattern of segregation in
Southern stores.
'The conduct and actions of the
young boys and girls who with
courage and dignity are challeng-
ing that segregation in the South
are not challenging the South
alone" the New York jurist de-
clared.
"They are challenging Northern
industrial and commercial inter
ests who continue to direct and
profit by segregation in the South.
"They are challenging the COM
placency of all who tolerate this
evil or who are Indifferent to the
terrible damage and hurts to our
children resulting from the dis
crimintiaon and prejudice that vi
olate all great religious teachings
and the ideals of our land"
Justice Polier continued:
eve salute young and cid Amer
leans who are committed to Grad
icating racial injustices that have
marred the ideal of equality for
all.
1--WE pledge that we shall as in
dividuals and as participants IN
our organizations do all that lies
within our power to eradicate pref
udice from our hearts and dis
elimination from our practices.
We shall continue our pilgrimage
in the firm belief that understand
ing of and respect for all men
must become the basic reality in
our relations with our fellow men"
Formation -'Ofs NOW For
Equality Recalled
The "NOW for Equality" group
was formed last March following
a call from Mrs. Thelma Richman
of Philadelphia, president of the
nation Women's Division of the
American Jewish Congress, to
other national women's groups
urging that they "join hands in
the struggle against school seq
regation."
Ways and means of working to-
gether ito promote positive COM
munity attitudes toward integra-
tion" were developed during the
summer and fall months and plans
completed for a national confer
ence at which ideas could be
shared and experiences exchanged.
The national "NOW for Equal
ity" conference that ended today
was the result. 1t was the first