Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1960-12-10

Leadership
The school integration crisis in New Orleans again
emphasizes what have pointed out again and again
that the NAACP switch from it's campaign for equal-
cation of educational opportunity for Negroes in the
South to its campaign for inegraton of education in
the South to date the greatest mistake in the
history of the struggles of the American Negro for full
recognition American citizen
To see as a great mistake the NAACP change from
its campaign for equalization to it's campaign for nte
grafton of Negro education in the South is necessary
to have knowledge individuals and forces at work
among the tuar Negro leaders of the nation beginning
with the mid 194Os that lead to such change and to
have still deeper understanding of the history and
tradition of the nation. Many of those nonNegro nd
viduals well their better known converts who be-
came well known to us met the national scene
who refrain from naming here has since been iden
fled members of the Communist Party their motive
to create racial dscord discomfort and tension in the
United States for the benefit of the drive for world
munism. The New Orleans crisis is simple evidence of
their great
First let take brief look at American history
and tradition. Almost simultaneous with the establish
ment of the United States nation and the opening
up of it's vast unsettled territory the call and invitation
went out to people of every nation and creed to
and settle the land with the simple guarantee of
equal protection of the law under the Constitution and
it's bill of rights People from everywhere came to find
the Negro already here both slaves and free Ishmen
Italians Germans, Frenchmen, Jews Japanese Chinese,
Hugenots, Quakers, peoples of many more sects and
attracted here by the guarantee of equal
protection of the law.
AS they came to this country under the guarantee
of equal protection of the law the American scene
came dotted with their churches, synagoges, clubs,
other organizations, towns and communities, China
town in New York and San Francisco, Japanese Viii
age In California, Croatian Club in Pennsylvania, and
the recently completed Greek Community in Jackson,
Mississippi.
In viewing the contemporary scene it is to be SER
ousy doubted that the great hordes of people of various
racial ethnc national and religious backgrounds would
have this country in its early history had the
call been for Indignation instead the guarantee of equal
protection under the law.
In every case, while maintaining their separate in
lean citizens.
Despite the intervention of the period of slavery,
under the constitution and the American tradition the
Negroes like all other groups that make up the Ameri
can population, are American citizens.
In spite of the contention of those who would force
of kind another to support racial segregation in
the schools say again that the Negro an American
citizen that school with nothing in but Negro stu
dents anywhere in the South is just much Ameri
can school al-white school mixed school in
the South any where else in the nation.
This brings us to what equally great
mistake as that of the NAACP, made by southern
white leadership both political and otherwise, in meet
ing the impact of the demand for school integration
That mistake is the threat and of economic polti
CAL police judicial and other forms of intimidation and
pressure against Negroes, along with the loudly pro-
claimed archaic ideas of Negro nferiorty instead of
vigorous campaign to expose the forces at work
Negroes and their motive, along with more vigorous
campaign to convince the southern Negro that he is
American and while his schools in particular grew up
under segregation they in fact the outgrowth of
American history and tradition and exist in reality
because of the great Democratic tradition of equality
under the law r.
The alienation of racial tension in the South in
opinion poses neither the question of school nte
grafton nor school segregation but the question what
be done in getting together responsible white and
Negro citizens at the state and local levels in every
city, town and community in the South workable
solution to this great national problem.
1t should be evident to every responsible and inteli
gent Negro that the drive to force Negroes
their schools and churches as well as every other
ganzaon is not being directed and urged other
groups and to ask why expose the faacy of the lead
ershp of the Martin Luther Kings the sit-in kneen,
and boycott advocates should be further evident that
in the atmosphere they create real progress is be-
ing made by the Negro masses
The crisis in relations calls for New Negro
leadership with the courage to openly point out the
faacy of the Martin Luther King leadership the sit
ns the knee ms, and the boycott, and with equal
courage tell the masses of Negroes that whether alone
with Others and regardless to what others may say
he is American.
The greater responsibility, because they control
all the instruments of power upon the shoulders
Of the responsible white leaders of the South with