Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1960-03-18


During the periods when this engaged some con-
cversy correspondent gets large number Of phone calls Some
Of them and from cracot others from
persons usually community honestly
by many question today
after Emancipation Proclamation
about the cpOts but those Of good
usually win address and often their
honest Views even when thew know we are mot IN agreement with
q meeting minds
In conversations with those perceive to have troubled
consences and really people Of good w struck most with
ignorance the Negro the
problem a whole
Usually they begin by asserting
they disturbed because they
Negro They expressions
wouldn't be better Negroes had their schools and neghbOr
hoods?"
They repeat such hOgwash as: Don't the children
marriages hard time adustngs" Why do Negroes want
thing huys "An happy" Negroes would be
happy If it wasn't for the agitatOrs up north"
Much Of what people who otherwise well informed say
about the question often based hamy emotional uni
forme notions.
Through the years
perhaps tn sput
completely of the fundamental questions
Negrowe relations todays society and almost abymaly
Negro wants what his legitimate goals
outstanding exceptions Of the scholars who the
great colleges many graduates
intellectually curious whites who discovered the Negro
Press.
More northern Negro
press celebrating 1SSrd anniversary,
information what the doing thinking and plan
ming.
reader of this press win discover that the majority of Negroes
than their industry ability citizenship
only the opportunity freely offered other
prove family the
duties of good opportunity Negroes
like their white brehern they
good bad and Indifferent depending upon training
motivaonal factors that make
champion and the other simple common plodder
white who exposed to Of the ITO
the country able to complete his education for
them he finds the truth about the aspirations of the American
Negro.
goals Negro
detail those other right to full and equal
cipaon benefits citizenship of the country in which he lives
well the responsibilities which he already has assumed to
degree unknown before for an often mistreaed people
part of responsibility educating majority group
the shoulders of the Negro himself This difficult
directly
Of except the Negro press Therefore he
Is woey Handicapped in getting over public relations program to
white majority whose knowledge about the contributions aims
and hopes Of the American Of color is 50 meagre
Until recent years the amount of
Negroes the equipped libraries limited
truth about the Negro that
seriously handicapped ignorant the subject
The daily has only the past two decades began to do its job
in this
Negro histories written by
majority group
theory that the white man was the master race and all others would
This accounts the Hbsconsous feeling
Negroes anything white better than anything feeling
that viii deny vehemeny but which nevertheless have
The saving American
Negro taught
Republic
ocracy they have built He therefore finds himself mbued with the
liberty justice
American society seeks to achieve and allowed without
cumbersome impediments and stones in his path
The problem develops when the American Negro realizes
he approaches adhOOd that white reservations
about granting Negro the freedom equality
books tell about He finds people actually day
clock to him getting
keeping
eploitatn political and giving
Negro opportunity 10
causing the problem which easily the US
prestige and respect and Of its world
things paper this attempts to
happen persons
intellectually curious about what think prob
and then point
realize that the American white
present Negro
the U.s. scheme Of tngSe feel that
water in the Pacific
problem propelled
strife bloodhed problem
this Is so-the Lord have mercy Newman