Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-07-29
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BY PERCY GREENE

PARISH STREET SATURDAY.
NIGHT: One of the conversations
that you'd be most likely to hear
the most time were you to be reg
ularly amongst the Parish Street
ers as they gather up an down the
Ole Stroll as l am most want to
do on the weekly bath and shop
ping day as fixed and proclaimed
in the ritual of Amt Haggar's chill
lun will be about what's wrong
with the tribe and how come we
amt done no better'n we've done
in these seventy-five years Yves
been doin for us-self, even tho
eveybodie cept us is claiming that
we don done better'n any other
tribe in folks history since we been
had the chance to be up and adding
for us-selfs. Me, I've heard the
Parish Streeters, in all walks and
classes talking on the subject til /
was surprised at all when / heard
thin this time while l was getting
my Fish and Beer. But / was sur
prised at the final conclusion
reached before the conversation
broke. What one fellow concluded
was the reason for what / started
off to talk about was that /. WE
DON'T KNOW ENOUGH ABOUT
US-SELF meaning of course
in the language of the more crudite
that the members of the Tribe-o-
Haggar don't know enough of their
history to give them the inspira-
tiion for great achievements, even
though in my mind it amt nothing
to-matter with what we done al
ready done =. . But, when you look
at it, as l did while | listened,
there's something to US not know
ing enough about our ancestors,
and what they did, so the knowing
would make us git up and do more
With that in mind, / thought
I would pass onto you-alls here
that if you want to no more about
your ancestors git them books, en-
titled A DOCUMENTARY HIS
TORY OF THE NEGRO PEOPLE
IN THE UNITED STATES, by
Herbert Aptheker, with a preface
by DIR. w. E. B. Dubois. Here's
a sure cure if all we need is more
knowledge of our ancestors in order
for US to have more inspiration
and do more.
9ALONG THE OLE AVENUE:
Lawyer Jack Young, chaperoning
three ladies, only one a member of
Aine Haggar's Tribe, cavorting and
preening in Velma's Beauty Shop
down at the corner of Parish and
Hamilton Tuesday night with the
Parish Street yokels gawking and
gaping at the windows Mrs.
Claire Collins Harvey, of Frazier &
Collins, picking up the heavy din
ner tab of group of Freedom Rid
ers up at Stevens the other after
noon.
DO YOU REMEMBER: Rev. T.
B. Brown, pastor of Mt. Helm
Baptist Church led the group in
the Hattiesburg meeting attacking
Rev. H. H. Hume, late president of
the State Baptist Convention and
me charging US with being Uncle
Toms, selling out the race, spying
en- Negro leaders, and saying Rev.
Hume was no longer fit to preach
to his people, while Rev. Hume and
me were trying to keep open the
lines of communication of Negroes
with the top echelons of State Gov
eminent established through Gov
ernor White and Governor Cole
man, and action that split the State
Baptist Convention and sent Rev.
Hume to his grave with a broken
heart, but fell off of me like water
off ducks back Well Rev.
Brown is on the group now meet
ing with Mayor Thompson trying
to do the same thing that Rev.
Hume and me was doing Wher-
ever Rev. Hume is | know that his
only wish is that Rev. Brown is as
sincere in his efforts as he was ".
and that he's saying the same
thing in front of Mayor Thompson
that he says in front of his con-
gregation every Sunday.
WHAT THE HEP KATS ARE
SAYING: The towns latest scam
dalous gossip and rumor links two
of the highest class and best known
personalities Of Parish Street.
WORD TO THE BILL AND
DAUGHTERS: If something isn't
done to curb the kind of wild carry
ing-on that took place at the dance
at the Saturday Night the Elks
Rest is going to become "off- Limits"
for lot of folks.
WEEKLY QUOTATION: l have
but one lamp by which my feet
are guided, and that is the lamp
of Observation-Disclosures Henry.
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