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instructive. They were a
comprehensive presentation
of how Negroes feel towards
the whites, and their views
on segregation in industry
and society. You have ably
presented one side Of the
question.
Now let's have the other
side. Let's have a series on
THE Whites in Washington. +"
Send your reporter around
to interview especially those
groups of whites who are
most affected by the Negroes
in Washington.
First. the whites who are
practicing integration, who
live surrounded on all sides
by Negroes, so that they are
a small white minority in a
Negro section.
Second, the whites who are
encountering integration. who
live on the fringes where
white and Negro sections
meet or where Negroes have
penetrated previously all
white neighborhoods.
Third. the refugees from
integration, whites who have
sold their homes usually at
sacrifice prices and moved
out into the suburbs.
Fourth, the whites who have
lost their jobs to Negroes.
This should include union
and non-union men.
Fifth, those loud liberals
who preach integration but
who do not practice it; who
live way inside Of white sec
tionS where they have no
contact with substantial
numbers of Negroes.
No social problem can be
solved equitably without full
knowledge of both sides of
the question. So let's have
the white mans side now.
&c.
The series of articles on the
Negro majority in Washing
ton has been we'll done, OBJ
jective and q service to the
community.
Would it not now be only
just and fair to hear the
opinion of the white minor
ity?
Jeanne Dixon.
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The Star has done a con-
Structive and forward look
ing service. in the best ira
ditions of journalism, by the
series on The Negro in
Washington" 1t was factual,
fair and constructive.
I write as one with almost
40 years Of closeup, Metro
politan experience, counting
among my friends Negro
leaders in Chicago, Manhat-
tan and here. One of my con-
clusions is that they could
easily do without such self
anointed and self-appointed
leadership" as the NAACP
and others.
Thomas Quinn BeesIey.
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just to express appreciation
for the splendid articles. Dur
ing my career as director of
Health and Physical Educa-
ton in the Negro schools of
Washington, I led many of
the movements that helped
change the racial picture in
Washington. For years I was
an officer in the D. C. NAACP
and at the same time an Of
ficer in the Virginia State
NAACP. I was chairman of
the Committee for Racial
Justice that spearheaded the
picketing of the National
Theater. Uline Arena and
AAU events which eventually
opened these areas.
At present. I am a State
Board member of the Vir-
ginia Council on Human Re-
lations. and the State NAACP
Board, I am told that 1 hold
the record for the number
of letters of protest appear
ing in the Washington papers.
I have nearly 1000 I have
managed to file.
E. B. Henderson,
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The D. c. Apprenticeship
Council followed with keen
interest the. series of articles
entitled "The Negro in Wash
ington" by Haynes johnson.
Mr.. johnson did a maSterful
job. and we want to con-
gratulate him and The Star
for providing such revealing
inside information on our
most trying community prob
lem.
This Council has had a